No Sleeep

Yeah I'm so happy with how this is holding up! Tension went 1-8-36-83, so this is holding up better than that on week 3 and that had an actual hit single (2 if you count the title track).

That really explains a lot! I have wondered what they were thinking at some points this era, but ultimately seeing how the album has performed I think it makes sense. There probably isn't a smash hit single on the album, but overall it's a very strong body of work so it makes sense to push the album over any particular song. The spontaneity has probably connected with people more than a more traditional rollout would have, even though I do love a traditional rollout lol.

Amazing! She’s on 56,260 so should go silver next week. Absolutely incredible after the long slog Madame X took to get there

I’m surprised this Beyoncé song is getting so much support, it feels like a pretty random low-key release. I wish they promoted Madonna to B-list instead but I’m expecting she gets 3 weeks on the C-list and dropped like Padam

Could be the Afterhours edition of Confessions that's somehow being double counted?

Totally agree with this! We have decades of recorded music to discover, why should people restrict themselves to whatever is being pushed this week?

I think they should do it, with a few vinyl variants it would be an easy top 10 to add to her tally

I’m not sure about that, it might just hold on. It’s sold 3.5k so far just from Friday, Saturday, Sunday, it only took 6.4k to make top 10 last week. It’ll probably be close

Madonna not even top 40!?

That’s amazing! It’s only the 4th English language album to go to #1 in Spain this year.

Wow Shakira!! 17 years since her last top 10, must be one of the biggest gaps not including Xmas songs?

I reckon she could even get another week top 10, we have the Afterhours edition for this week and who knows what else. It only takes <7k for top 10. Don’t want to get my hopes up too much though, it’s done amazing already!

Would’ve been #3 in this week’s chart if we take its highest sales week (25,867 vs 25,706 for #3 this week). I know, I know! Still interesting though

The Gwen Stefani version of Moby’s ‘South Side’ isn’t available on Spotify or Apple Music or even iTunes

Pretty sure that would’ve been a sackable offence at Radio 1 10 years ago!

NC?

Came here to say this! The Afterhours edition has also been increased to £4.99, so I think it’s safe to say there’s a new minimum album price the OCC haven’t told us about for some reason

Yesss Madonna!!!

I would assume Celebration?

Omfg!! A solo Madonna song on the playlist, I never thought I’d see this

That’s 200 a day but I think the Grindr and instrumental downloads were released during that time (for £3.99) and, combined with the other versions, I’m fairly sure they would’ve generated more than 200 sales a day! Especially since she already reached 4.4k downloads from Friday, Saturday and Sunday, basically the only people downloading it would’ve been for chart purposes so I’m fairly sure they would’ve also bought the 2 new editions.

Yeah they absolutely should’ve been counted. If they changed the rules surely they would have to announce that? That’s a lot of wasted money from fans who thought they were helping her out on the charts. Digital Albums (Full Price) 3.75 or over (On Demand Audio Stream) N/A Over 25 minutes OR more than four songs where the format does not qualify as a “Maxi” single or remix single as defined by singles eligibility. https://www.officialcharts.com/sites/default/files/legacy_images/media/663227/official-uk-album-chart-rules-january-2023.pdf

The regular edition is oddly missing from the iTunes Charts. The other 3 versions are still in the top 3

I don’t think anybody downloads anything anymore for any reason besides wanting to help out charts wise!

Yeah it’s pretty incredible, there’s a good chance she’d have been top 10 with streaming numbers alone