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HOTN only had one decent week of radio 2 plays, the rest of the time on the AList was lost amongst the Christmas releases. So the only thing really pushing any physical album sales was the ITV promo. Ideally it would have had this week too and she should have performed HOTN on SCD, Royal Variety or pre recorded it for use on a chat show. To be fair I think they did send it to radio early November but radio 2 didn’t add it for three weeks but instead played it sporadically.

As a stats fan, I’ve loved this. Thank you!

Can’t see it selling enough to trouble the top 20….but for a while it was showing as having 1000 plus sales on Amazon so if they’re UK sales that’s a good indicator.

It’s the gift that keeps on giving!

Never doubt the SK!

Ultimately only fans are buying physicals these days, a small but decent vinyl collecting market too. Otherwise even the £1 CD in Poundland aren’t bought. Streaming has taken most of the casual market share.

Poor Into the Blue, it’s declined fast since it started out well. IWGC definitely benefited long term following its use on RuPaul years ago. The PWL hits were added later to streaming and I think many of the tracks took a while to gain traction…Turn it into Love one of them, as is SBIT.

A price reduction for an act like Kylie should be more successful than for Dermot but I totally agree, after the initial rush it’ll be trickle sales thereafter. Just look at Adele’s 30…CD and Vinyl hugely reduced and whilst it helped on top of solid streaming, people still don’t want to buy it despite her stature and previous success.

I really like the album as a whole, Into the Blue is stunning and Les Sex is all deep beats and electro. I’ve never written the album off because it wasn’t popular. Her live vocals were peak level at the Maida Vale gig and she was in peak shape on the tour. Gold circle or whatever it was called, was brilliant. Much better than paying stupid amounts for a seat close to the stage.

Surprised it’s not in the mids but I guess it’s another indication of how rubbish the physical market is and how streaming favours established albums with many hits/ best of albums.

Incredible, thank you.

Come on Sophie! Watched Saltburn and l didn't think it was very good…amazed what a boost it’s provided. Is Sophie playlisted or are these streams mostly driven by the film, do we think?

It had to be Padam. A work of art!

I second that!

Over 147k streams is ace…it peaked at 171k in the summer so pretty good going! Can’t wait to see the total later.

Chosen 70m plus. Just needs to stay on some good playlists and be added to others. Santa Baby will be knocked down to 3rd sooner than usual given the big daily numbers Head and Padam are achieving.

Up to 27 on the rolling airplay chart. Only 8 non Christmas songs above it so hopefully top ten by Friday and another week on the A list please. Houdini at 1 and it’s been on the A list for longer.

Come on Padam! We love you ha ha.

Least we know it’s well inside the top 200. Probably it’s best showing outside of the vinyl repress.

Read on the chart forum that no reset to SCR are permitted next week. Though Padam’s streams generally have risen in December except for Christmas and the final run in. I’m hoping for a big rise in streams this weekend and next week.

Surprised she’s not top ten….hopefully some further sales data will be released.

That’s great!

Thank you Jay….SQ good chance this week given the strong numbers for numerous tracks not just the highest 2.

0.7 million live viewers apparently.

Surprised they haven’t reduced the standard already but nice move up for Tension Deluxe….Extended is a good deal too. Almost 4 million for SQ Christmas Day, been a good return for the whole album. Weird how Christmas Wrapping massively improved. Must have been moved up a playlist or something. In previous years it was collecting good numbers but dropped back until a few days ago.