No Sleeep

Wouldn’t Taylor’s own monthly listeners be a good enough indication? :lol:

Happy for Taylor fans I guess but this monopoly stranglehold she has over the industry is getting tiring

I would bet my life savings that Taylor has a plethora of tricks up her sleeve to guarantee a #1 single this week. Guarantee it

Not giving a 5 star review doesn’t make someone a hater.

I imagine 99% of people aren’t savvy/don’t care enough to seek the leak out tbh

I mean if I had to compare them single by single Single 1: Roar vs Houdini Single 2: Unconditionally vs Training Season Single 3: Dark Horse vs Illusion Katy wins by a mile

I’m sorry is there a separate chart and rules for “viral tiktok songs” that I’m unaware of :lol:

I think it’s just especially more noticeable given how high standards are for hits these past few months. We’ve had Noah Kahan, Beyoncé, Djo, Hozier, Teddy Swims etc. all getting 600-700k+ days consistently recently and Dua’s three new singles just haven’t reached those heights as I’m sure a lot of people were expecting her to after Future Nostalgia. I’d compare it to Rihanna coming back with Russian Roulette after GGGB (which also got 6 weeks top 10 in the downloads era when songs didn’t stick around as long) and it was considered a bit of a disappointment.

I still can’t get into Good Luck Babe, I’ve listened 3 or 4 times and still remember nothing about it. Red Wine Supernova was much more instant for me

Why is it a problem to have that opinion though?

If you set the bar at making the Spotify top 200 then nothing by a major artist can ever be considered an underperformance

It probably also has to do with the lack of promotion Tension has had here compared to Disco. Her focus on America this era is still pretty baffling to me

The monoculture is back!

I like Red Wine Supernova but can’t get into the rest of her music, that sounds the most like a hit to me so I don’t really get why Good Luck Babe is the one taking off!

What makes everyone think this Mark Knopfler will be #1 though? His last album only made #17 and he’s never had a #1 before.

I have literally never heard of that person in my life :lol:

Beyoncé has the physical release this week I think she has it in the bag. I can’t lie though I was hoping it’s streams would’ve held up better than they have

Looks like Perrie’s debut single is going the way of Jesy and Leigh-Anne’s

To be fair it’s pretty on par with Jesy’s debut (#12 with 244k). Much stronger than Leigh-Anne’s (#54 with 130k). We’ll see how she holds up though the rest of the girls singles pretty much freefell, I have a feeling she’ll hold up a bit better

Streams are so much higher this year. Here’s the top 10 from the same day last year, the day before this nothing was even over 300k. Only Miracle would be top 10 in today’s chart Spotify Chart Update (11/04) 01 01 Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding – Miracle (with Ellie Goulding) 342,736 02 02 PinkPantheress, Ice Spice – Boy's a liar Pt. 2 309,210 03 03 Miley Cyrus – Flowers 307,753 04 05 SZA – Kill Bill 270,405 05 04 Drake – Search & Rescue 259,337 06 06 Libianca – People 228,588 07 07 RAYE, 070 Shake – Escapism. 221,576 08 08 Taylor Swift – Anti-Hero 217,975 09 09 Lizzy McAlpine – ceilings 208,986 10 10 Ed Sheeran – Eyes Closed 206,083 They’re higher at the lower end too, #200 was only doing 59,956 last year compared to 76,785 today

The pink vinyl is down to £14.35 on Amazon. Are any variants actually rare?

Just heard this song for the first time in ages, whatever happened to the new music? It’s been almost a year

It does feel like there’s very little hype for this Amy movie even compared to the recent Bob Marley one so I wouldn’t be surprised if nothing really comes of it

The fact remains that FOR HER standards it’s a disappointment. She’s lacking a Don’t Start Now/New Rules/Levitating type hit so far this era and it’s not unreasonable to point that out

She’s been struggling to get those this era too tbf