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I also think this perhaps did well for week one when you consider Smile was four years ago now and this had higher sales despite a lower peak.

Top 10 peak potentially but possibly in week 3 (or the week the physical sales ship). I think it could do better than expected potentially and the film could help it as well I think it might fare similarly to how Cheek to Cheek did possibly? Streaming wise I don’t know what to expect but it is Gaga so people may well listen out of curiosity (also number 1 on UK iTunes but no idea of what sales are needed for that).

Had this been included within the actual movie I really think it could’ve given her another Academy Award :o This is genuinely so strong! Would love to see this do something but what a song.

Random question but there are stans here so some may know this. Any UK posters here seen the Gaga Vogue anywhere in stores? (I know it was for US vogue but are there any stores what sell the international editions?)

Any last minute voters? Going to now close this at some point next week :)

I also love her interviews with Zane! This will be quite an interesting interview actually with how she is in life right now. Her previous releases within the interviews she wasn’t in as great a place as she is in now so hearing how she is now and how her life / the movie influenced the album release. I will be watching!

I think I’m also gonna hold off until it’s officially out in the UK! Very intrigued for this track though and hoping it’s a real moment :wub:

Newcastle date secured for me as well! And at a reasonable price too (Ticketmaster selling the balcony as VIP for £300+ each) First time seeing Kylie live so very excited for this! Bit of an impulse buy but as soon as I seen Newcastle I couldn’t miss out. Ready for the campness! She’s been on my list since I did her full discography listen pre DISCOs release so I’m a fairly new stan but I’m sure the setlist will be stacked! :wub:

I see what you mean! But it’s kinda a surprise release and it could surprise by how it does too. I think her profile / the film / her streaming presence could help and I imagine she’ll nab some good pre orders too as we are a dedicated stan base. Oh Godga!

Pre ordered the CD!!! But love that there’s two different vinyl artworks. Physicals shipping 11th October. Hoping she can potentially nab #1 it would be against Coldplay’s second week that week :lol: but I think that week will be the peak. But wow! We’re really getting fed and this is like a whole new era is upon us in 3 DAYS!

For THIS Friday!!

For chart purposes here if she releases an album as the character of Harley how does that impact the three track rule here?! Will her alias be a whole new artist so she could chart as both Gaga and Harley?

Maybe it’s because I’m seeing more music to my personal tastes doing so well and the album charts in particular having real female domination with studio albums but it’s not been to boring for me to follow I’d probably say this has been my favourite chart year since 2020. I can see why some feel it’s stagnant etc but there’s definitely been worse years for me. 2016-2017 was the poorest chart period for me and I think we can be thankful in a sense that the UK has the three track rule. There is some work to be done with the albums chart I think though. Maybe it’s time to start thinking on if Greatest Hits albums really belong on the main album charts? Especially as they removed soundtracks I think the albums chart should now just be studio albums only.

Unsure on Sabrina’s acr status but if either track did increase then it’s back to waiting 3 weeks before ACR takes over. However these we’re the sales for this weeks top 5 on SCR (we’re so close top 3 that I think a physical push could do it if streaming stagnates) the US are actually getting a vinyl for this what ships on 4th October but no news for UK yet but if we get that I think it may do something to help out (the vinyl also has an instrumental which could help). It’s hard to believe this is all just on one version but if they were to play the game and drop the instrumental or sped up version etc we could push for new peaks (part of me hopes the is the plan for week 7 though :lol: ). 01 58,352 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste [673 downloads, 57,679 streaming] 02 44,896 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! 03 41,828 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 04 38,355 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please 05 36,013 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a Smile

If this site isn’t onboard with a female pop album from a major star you can sense something is amiss. This is just so faceless and devoid of… anything. It almost sounds like AI but it’s just so beneath her. I can’t see how this was approved or signed off (part of me does feel she really expected major success though like there’s certain videos going round where it definitely looks like she was expecting / ready for that major moment). Wonder is the only song I feel I could really go back to but echo what others say in that it doesn’t fit the albums theme. Dr Luke’s involvement wasn’t even needed and it’s obviously a red flag to chart followers and alienated a lot of who would’ve been fans potentially had she worked with someone else but no matter who produced this the material just isn’t good. Dated, lacklustre, bad lyrics. It’s a definite miss and up there with one of the worst campaigns / albums by a major female. Smile and Witness weren’t necessarily great but they did at least have some tracks to takeaway from them and Witness as much as it’s critiqued even showed a sense of creative growth in some ways but this doesn’t really do anything. Yeah. A tricky album to support. I’ve said it before on here that not everything needs to be deep and sometimes you can just make good upbeat music what’s fun (I mean you can argue Teenage Dream did this brilliantly) but this is just bad! In a sense I do feel for her as this has likely been a big shock for her but just where does she actually go from here? I genuinely don’t know -_- I guess she can always sell a tour based from her 2008-2013 material but creatively she’s in a rut and the other females of her peak era just blow her out the water in every way (and the new females are also already a lot more exciting / daring). It’s definitely a pretty fascinating album campaign to follow as a chart follower though. If someone like Kim Petras for example had released this it wouldn’t really feel as much of a fall from grace / talking point but like this is an album from someone who (in the US) has the most number ones from a studio album EVER like when you think of how high her power once was this is a real head f*** to get around.

11,000th post so had to be a Gaga forum one! So ready for this soundtrack. I’m gonna hazard a guess and say That’s Life could get some decent enough streams (really hard to call how this will go as I don’t think they’re necessarily gonna market a A Star Is Born esque soundtrack) but That’s Life being on the trailer is going viral :wub: :wub: Guess it also depends on what scene(s) go viral from the movie. The way we could have 3 Gaga charting tracks next month all from different projects. Oh mother!

So basically once a song goes into its 7th charting week, I believe it is then it begins to decline in sales for the next three weeks it will move to ACR for chart purposes. You can dodge ACR by having an increase within sales (so Chappell for example has dodged it with a boost as she’s actually been on a UK tour this week and had promo. Die With A Smile could potentially escape it from press from Joker possibly (I mean it won’t do it any harm right). This week I don’t think bares a difference to ACR but it’s from next week onwards where we can try and get increases to delay the ACR status! Sabrina’s Espresso and PPP were also both on ACR but they moved back to SCR because they increased when the album dropped so you potentially go back to SCR. I think Stupid Love actually had this although it didn’t boost it far enough for the top regions (but we did get extra weeks top 40 which was a win).

New peak :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: So this is now her third UK #5 (if this is to remain its peak). I still think we could push for top 3 though. We’ve seen some new Spotify peaks this week for the UK so hopefully it’s another strong week and it at least remains top 5. It’s still a little bit frustrating as silly as that sounds that it’s pulling such huge numbers WW but hasn’t yet made the UK #1 which is a major market for both Bruno and Gaga. However I didn’t expect anywhere near the level of global streams it’s getting before its debut and it’s still not fully peaked yet so I’m here for the long run this seems to be getting :heart:

UK come through and get that new peak!! It’s amazing how well it’s doing globally but I’d love a #1 in some more markets. A definite smash though and it’s showing signs it’s to be a long running success too! Hopefully the UK gets that top 5 position officially tomorrow which I thin looks likely of its streaming this week. But we need to try and get her team to push physicals again! I wonder as well if Joker press / promo may actually end up helping this track out?

This is woeful! It’s definitely too slow but even if the tempo of the song was faster it’s still woefully written and very dated. She’s completely and utterly lost the plot musically. No team with an artists best interests would’ve given her the go ahead for any of these tracks released pre album so far. Her complete and utter lack of self awareness is past even being a joke now as well but she’s truly just brought all of this on herself.

So happy to see Girls Aloud get to win. They were always for me the best pop group to come from the UK and they really deserved that love globally too. Their music i honestly feel genuinely stands the test of time it didn’t sound like anything else in the 00s and has aged so well. It’s a shame they were around at a time single sales weren’t at a high point because they almost deserved more success but you can’t argue with 20 top ten tracks in a row (and 21 in total!). What a band they were. Their music was always high camp, full of personality and never safe as well. They’ll forever remain for me the ultimate girl group and I always think of them before anyone else on that front.

Happy to see it at least climb from #7! But really wanting a top 5 peak for this (I’d also love to see New Weeknd also in the top 5 as well :lol: ) I do think this should jump ahead of Linkin Park next week though!

Can see this being quite the hit :wub: :wub: He never misses for me! Hes so overdue another UK #1 too but definitely expecting this to go top ten.

The state of Katy’s career right now and we’re supposed to believe she won a fan voted for award what Taylor was in the running for :lol: Surely that award was bought or given because she was their star attendee with getting the vanguard?!

5 is really sending me here! Quite interesting looking at this though I’ll definitely be submitting some form of answers by Sunday :)