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Beyonce is dropping off a little but it's worth noting that 573k today is still a pretty huge figure, the only reason it seems relatively poor is that Stick Season is/was such a massive hit. This could just be the initial huge hype wearing off, she may still stabilise with good playlisting and get a few weeks at #1! (having said that, I personally enjoy a faster turnover at the top and would be happy with something else taking over, preferably Djo out of the current contenders)

It's #31 in Ireland! I was checking out the top 50 yesterday and gave it a listen, quite enjoyed it.

Edit: misread :lol:

Yeah, that's what I meant. Cheers :lol:

16 seems a fitting position for MOTD given its initial run. Shame Noah's gone to ACR, I'm not really a fan of the idea of the most popular track of the week not being #1. Although it's looking like Beyonce could make it for real next week which is good!

Lovin On Me's chart run is so funny to look at. Imagine trying to explain that to someone from 15 years ago :lol: (alright it's not the worst example, look at Cruel Summer)

Forever really doesn't feel like a top 40 hit but I'm here for it... what a great album from start to finish.

Yeah you're probably both right about Taylor, had forgotten she was releasing soon. We'll see though, if it performs worse than Midnights it could still fail to make YE #1. Know this argument has been brought up many times but I really think GH albums just shouldn't get streaming points. Streams of those songs are already contributing to the parent album every week. If we remove them the album chart would look much more fresh even if sales would be horrendous. You'd still get old albums like AM and Rumours sticking around forever, but those are genuinely popular albums. Is anybody actually streaming/buying The Highlights?

Happy for Noah, what a great album. Unfortunately likely it will fade over the course of the year and the Weeknd will get it again. Still, maybe that will spur the OCC to rethink their rules on greatest hits albums and streaming :lol:

Yeah you're probably right. I was actually quite surprised when looking at tickets recently that he hadn't added more dates at the last minute following his sudden success; all the dates were sold out even when I checked back in December, so there would definitely be demand for more. But he is moving onto Europe and then US without much delay, so perhaps there just wasn't time.

With Noah's tour, it's worth noting that the dates were booked before he fully took off in the UK and so he's only playing to smaller stadiums of ~10k - still huge, but the biggest boosts we've seen were for artists like Harry and Taylor who were selling out multiple nights at Wembley, which holds nearly 100k people. Hopefully combined with the new version of the album releasing on Friday, it will still be enough of a boost for him to dodge ACR. It feels a little too soon for the track to go to ACR when Cruel Summer and Prada are on zero weeks of decline :lol: Also loving the Michael Marcagi track right now, hope it can be big here! Already top 10 in Ireland.

Thought this was a mistake since Frank Turner just released a song called Do One, but it turns out this does exist too... Lee Taub has 0 monthly listeners though :lol:

Just pitching in to show love for Caution. It's so euphoric (and that Lindsey Buckingham guitar solo!)

I guess they just decided there's no point in compiling it anymore, since they have no way of separating the streams for Scotland vs rest of UK and the sales chart is virtually meaningless these days. I imagine the #1 on the Scottish chart was only doing about 100 sales per week. :(

Yeah perhaps not the best word choice, but I think it's highly likely if his label are smart and she has the time :lol:

So happy for Noah, could be about to get even more huge if the rumoured Olivia remix gets released soon!

Thanks for compiling this as usual, always an interesting read as a (mostly) lurker on here! My only comment: I believe Starboy was certified 4x platinum in February so its total should probably be something like 2.8m now?

Yes for Noah staying top 10!

Crazy to see Anti-Hero above Calm Down when you compare their chart runs in 2023, shows how misleading ACR can be!

Wish they just played the original instead :lol:

SGU is song of the decade for me :heart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Days_of_Christmas It's a real thing, regardless of your opinion.

Probably the last time we see FONY here :heart:

I Wanna Be Yours making it in with only one week at #99 (and not even this year)... how long before we get something in the YE chart which has never charted officially at all?

For reference last year Escapism was #27 on Wednesday and #13 by Friday. With a similar rise Stick Season could be pushing top 10. However, Wednesday's update this year will be missing some Boxing Day streams while last year's Weds update would have been missing virtually nothing for the Xmas songs. So it's probably a long shot. Hope I'm wrong though, would be nice to see a long unbroken top 10 run for him even if it'll be #1 next week regardless.