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UK Midweeks #54 Die With A Smile is still ahead 😅 but happy to see that the film release has had some impact it was #84 on the chart update last week!

I’m quite happy The Essential is the one for the chart as far as streaming goes (if that’s the case!) as it does contain more material and it’s the one I’d listen too! What surprised me was how well the studio albums of Thriller and Bad are also doing (and Off The Wall too!).

Happy to see Gaga at #1! What a year 2009 was for her and one of my favourite chart years for following the charts and for number ones! Meet me Halfway is my favourite Black Eyed Peas from their #1s of 2009 now although at the time the Leona stan in me was gutted she was blocked from another #1 a case of the X factor guest acts battling for the top spot! Leona could’ve done it had they performed on another show but we’ll never know?! Always enjoyed The Fear as well but it’s a bit of a fluke for me as far as Lily goes as there isn’t much else from her that does anything for me. Killing In The Name was a very different Christmas #1 I’ll give it that but not a track I’d opt to go for just for personal tastes more than anything. It was quite ironic how much X Factor helped to dominated singles #1s in Q4 but then the winner missed out on the Christmas #1 (I mean at least Joe got there In the end I remember that final live very well as I’m a South Shields boy and everywhere that was everywhere was live streaming that particular final and it was electric when Joe won… obviously Olly went onto much greater things as we’ll see In the coming years #1 rates)

This is growing on me I must say. For what it is, I think it’s pretty catchy enough and the music video is great!

This is my personal favourite Taylor album so a deserved record!

I’m gonna say it’s gonna be her highest peaking album but it’ll likely drop outside top 100 next week?! I’m gonna say #3 behind Noah and Kacey.

I think she could be a useless faithful who stays a good while out of being so wrong 😅

Poor Glamorous Life it’s almost too good for this soundtrack I fear. 1M for Shape of a Woman is ok I guess?! What’s the playlisting situation like for Shape and Glamorous Life?!

3X Platinum certified in the UK yesterday as per BRITS on X. Is this also now the highest selling Weeknd album in the UK (of the studio albums)? I may give it a listen to celebrate across the bank holiday weekend! It’s crazy to think it’s ten years old this November!

Madonna’s one of those artists where she doesn’t really collaborate that well with others she’s kinda much better on her own?! Its too early to place Bring Your Love just yet but the others I’d rank as 4 Minutes Me Against The Music Medellin Give All Your Luvin’ (easily one of the worst tracks she’s ever done) But none of these are what I’d call classic or essential Madonna?!

FUFN and Silent Disco are genuinely my favourite thing she’s done so far?! Idk I hope Silent Disco stays a while yet.

It should climb again this week?! Happy that it rose slightly from last week though but here for it to get a movie boost! (Although with the three track rule and Die With A Smile still starting one of the DWP tracks won’t make it and this kinda the one I’d sacrifice).

I can see this going top 10 but that could be optimistic?! I think this could so similarly to Padam Padam peak wise but with a bigger debut where as that rose / climbed I think this will drop after week one but stabilise in the lower top 40 for a few weeks.

Now this is one I’ve come to appreciate over the years! She’s really racking up those certs!

This is the album I return to the least as a whole album experience. Most of the songs are just too short and need that extra minute to really make their mark and get that “moment”. That’s almost what I feel about this as a whole album. my hair, safety net, pov, and the title track are great though! But yeah I think this might be my personal least favourite Ari album. Having said that as a whole album it does kinda work and it is cohesive but the track lengths were my issue!

Glamorous Life is THAT song! That’s the one the general public will take too and what I possibly think could be a small sized hit. Shape of a Woman is actually better than I thought too - that’s the most MAYHEM esque of the 3 (it to me is a bit like Kill for Love vocally) I think when I see that in the film it might work a bit more. Glamorous Life is gorgeous though! I almost fear it could be too good to a soundtrack song so I hope it’s not a Happy Mistake esque hidden gem but that’s the song what I think is by far the best of the 3.

I’ll be listening to these at some point today?! RUNWAY has actually grown a lot and the videos helped that too! I’d feel a lot different had it actually been on MAYHEM but for something like Devil Wears Prada I think it works fine!! Excited to hear the other two I’ve not heard any leak of Glamorous Life but what I heard of Shape of a Woman was quite MAYHEM esque!

This isn’t Confessions era esque by any means it’s more along the lines of Hard Candy or MDNA territory BUT it is pretty decent. I don’t necessarily feel Sabrina is essential to the song but its very savvy for Madonna to team up with (bar Taylor) the biggest female of the moment. I think it’ll grow too! Yeah it’s pretty decent though (I still think the actual album will potentially have stronger more intro perspective tracks what might appeal to me more) but i actually see this being a hit!

Her Academy Award campaign?!

Hoping that she can get some good first week sales for this?! There’s quite a gap between the release and the announcement/ pre orders going up (a bigger gap than the last two albums anyways). I’m hopeful this could nab some decent sales! I think her team might push for her biggest US sales to date for week one and perhaps this could be her best opening here besides thank u,next? Also wondering what the scheduling is and if we’re gonna get a lead single soon. I don’t think we’ll get the entire album without a single but it would be interesting if she did release it in that way… (Also wondering for tour dates before album release if she’ll surprise debut songs or if it’s a case of London winning as the UK shows are all after the albums out!)

Impressive sales for Noah there on albums and impressive to see the studio Michael albums doing those numbers too! Looks like this biopics impact will be big I’m seeing the film at some point over the next few days!

This is getting hard now since I voted for Stupid Love since round one?! LoveGame is the weakest but think I’m a minority on that one for now?!

I was in the barbers when I seen this was announced and had to keep my need in to scream! I love the black and white image of her smile so if that’s the cover I’m happy (but we know how the fans get her to change her mind on that one sometimes 😁) Hyped for any new music from Ariana though! I can’t guess the direction she’s going in and the title itself is pretty obsecure but I quite like it as a title if it’s fitting to her growth mentally and how she’s in a better space it kind of fits! Intrigued to see if the devil is beating his wife is a song (that was the rumoured album title of if it was total fan fiction). Both Madonna and Ariana saving July? 🏳️‍🌈

I didn’t think it was going too for a time but I think this could overtake Poker Faces weeks top 100 now!

I still can’t quite fathom how unnoticed this went in the UK! I hope it can at least chart top 100! I think it’s pretty good as an album and she managed to land in the top 10 with her previous (5!!) studio album so #117 is quite the comedown. Is there physicals with the deluxe do we know or no?