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Oh England! I really did not see that coming.

I'm glad they've been able to make a comeback.

Has she had much promo? I was completely unaware until I saw this post but I wondered how she was reaching people.

It feels strange now to think that a song would be played on the radio for two months before you could even download it, and that was happening into the 2010s as well. If anything I'm surprised it took so long to implement the whole "song is released at the same time it's heard".

In an edition of The Rest is Entertainment from last July (the podcast with Richard Osman & Marina Hyde), this came up. There have been just three weeks in the first half of the 2020s where a band was #1 in the singles chart. That compares to 141 in the first half of the 1990s. Only one of those was an active, actual band at the time and that was Little Mix. The other two were The Beatles and the Radio 1 Live Lounge Allstars. They still sell albums and tour well though, so for whatever reason (it not being as much of a sell compared with a solo artist for a record label) bands generally aren't shifting singles. If they are, they're not charting very high either.

The music video has surpassed 100 million on YouTube. That compares with 27m for Azizam (35m for the Pink Heart video) and 11m for Old Phone. Despite its charting performance (#9 in the latest frame) it seems to have gained a lot more traction for him, even if a lot of that may be from India.

The last Sunday chart was on 5th July 2015, with the first Friday chart being 10th July. How do you feel about it? Especially with it having been Sunday for so long. It definitely made life harder for X Factor's winners singles because they'd lose a few days of sales.

Whether this new party is a success remains to be seen but I admire the fact they are trying. We do need, as said above, a "progressive" party that people will actually be excited about. I'm not getting that from Labour (and, frankly, since election night last year, I haven't).

In a way I prefer his upper register to his lower, I think that's where he shines. I was worried that after 2 years away, it would have been a case of the fans having moved on (we know how fickle the music industry can be) but I'm glad that has not been the case.

I like it. I probably would have still fancied it if it was just a piano ballad but this is a bit more than that.

He's just released what I think is the second single off his new album, Fight Another Day. He released "Fight Another Day" a month ago but I don't know if that was a promotional single or not.

He's been #9 both weeks so far, but #2 in the sales chart. I suppose being higher in the sales chart than the main chart applies to most artists at this point.

It's a bit hit and miss regarding whether any of his soundtrack songs do well chart wise. Celestial (#6) and I See Fire (#13) did well commercially but I don't think any of the others did. No biggie though as these aren't like your typical single release.

I feel for Lola there with the earpiece issues there.

When someone said it sounds like "dialling on my head" I can't unhear it.

I still can't believe the other teams spotted them from the top of those towers. 😄

They've just announced that they'll be doing two nights at the Royal Albert Hall in October. https://www.instagram.com/p/DK1c0eVqzNx/?igsh=MXcwNWI2NzF6bzFvdQ

I would have liked to know exactly how much money they all had at the end. It did seem like none of them were really in dire straits. Betty and James last year only had the equivalent of a few pounds iirc.

I have a backlog of some Switch games I wanted to get through first before picking up the Switch 2, by which point they might have brought out a bit more for me to sink my teeth into. Mainly in the form of platformers, hopefully.

Looks like it'll come in at #7 tomorrow. It's hard to sniff at that although I did hope it would at least match Azizam's peak. I guess there's no reason why it couldn't climb though.

Yes, and he clearly needed more recovery time, not to return to performing so soon. That may have slowed down the recovery process.

They're not mysterious. They told us he had sepsis and an operation on his hernia and was taking time out to recover.

Some news: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKxKLeeqQCP

I think I prefer this to Azizam. I really like that but mainly for the instrumental drop, whereas I'm really liking his vocals in this.

I'd say so. If it was what you'd describe as an "instant grat" I don't think he'd be teasing it for several weeks prior to the release.