-Jay-

InstagramLouise Redknapp on Instagram: "A weekend well spent… sign...louiseredknapp on April 6, 2025: "A weekend well spent… signing all your Confessions slipcase CD’s ☎️❤️🎶 🖊️ xxx Pre-order yours now exclusively on Amazon, link in bio 💿".Throw Louise a sale if you are able to! Currently £10.46 on Amazon!

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/the-official-best-selling-new-vinyl-releases-of-the-last-10-years The Official best-selling new vinyl releases of the last 10 years (2015-2025)Revealed by the Official Charts Company, in celebration of 10 years of the vinyl chart, with focus on new releases that happened within these 10 years (so no classics!) POS TITLE ARTIST 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 5 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 7 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 8 BLACKSTAR DAVID BOWIE 9 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 10 CURRENTS TAME IMPALA 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 12 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS 13 25 ADELE 14 30 ADELE 15 AS YOU WERE LIAM GALLAGHER 16 HYPERSONIC MISSILES SAM FENDER 17 HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 20 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 21 ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF ELO 22 HACKNEY DIAMONDS ROLLING STONES 23 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER SAM FENDER 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 26 ROMANCE FONTAINES DC 27 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO 30 LOVER (LIVE FROM PARIS) TAYLOR SWIFT 31 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 32 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT BILLIE EILISH 33 VOYAGE ABBA 34 IGOR TYLER THE CREATOR 35 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 36 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 37 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 38 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 39 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR 40 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN How many of these titles do you guys own? Here's a copy/paste list: POS TITLE ARTIST 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT (Nearly 130,000 vinyl sales) 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT (115,000 vinyl sales) 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 5 LEGACY DAVID BOWIE 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 7 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 8 BLACKSTAR DAVID BOWIE 9 WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP WHERE DO WE GO BILLIE EILISH 10 CURRENTS TAME IMPALA 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 12 THE CAR ARCTIC MONKEYS 13 25 ADELE 14 30 ADELE 15 AS YOU WERE LIAM GALLAGHER 16 HYPERSONIC MISSILES SAM FENDER 17 HARRY STYLES HARRY STYLES 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 20 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 21 ALL OVER THE WORLD - THE VERY BEST OF ELO 22 HACKNEY DIAMONDS ROLLING STONES 23 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER SAM FENDER 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 26 ROMANCE FONTAINES DC 27 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO 30 LOVER (LIVE FROM PARIS) TAYLOR SWIFT (Over 48,000 vinyl sales) 31 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 32 HIT ME HARD AND SOFT BILLIE EILISH 33 VOYAGE ABBA 34 IGOR TYLER THE CREATOR 35 A MOON SHAPED POOL RADIOHEAD 36 HUMAN RAG'N'BONE MAN 37 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 38 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 39 TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY KENDRICK LAMAR 40 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN I own... 1 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT 2 THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT TAYLOR SWIFT 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 4 1989 (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 6 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 11 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 18 SHORT N' SWEET SABRINA CARPENTER 19 THE RISE AND FALL OF A MIDWEST PRINCESS CHAPPELL ROAN 24 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 25 EVERMORE TAYLOR SWIFT 28 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 29 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO (A little surprised to see that GUTS has sold more on vinyl than SOUR!)

This is what I do too, but this is only a recent development! I invested in the protective outer sleeves at the end of 2023. I wish I'd done that a lot sooner. Before that... I stuck the hype stickers directly on the front cover! Which I slightly regret now, but never mind. I doubt I'll ever sell my collection, so no worries about putting off buyers with that! 😎

Apparently I'm Older Now is going to be one of the songs released on her Rosie Frost website to coincide with this book's release.

This will be no surprise coming from one of BuzzJack’s Spice Girls forum mods, but I still find Bag It Up to be enjoyable! A highly camp disco-tinged pop song, full of the bravado and cheekiness that Geri had in bucketloads back then. She really sold the heck out of this song in the performances of it. Overall, I think it’s a fun pop package! I genuinely think it’s well produced, even though I’d concede that her vocals are… well, they’re Geri vocals! 80s music fans / fans of Wham! might be interested to know that Pepsi and Shirlie perform backing vocals on this track. In the grand scheme of things, clearly All the Small Things has considerably more of a legacy, and on those grounds it feels like it would be more fitting that it made it to #1. However at the time I don’t think it felt out of place that Geri beat Blink-182. Bag It Up sold 255k within the year 2000 (42nd best seller) while All the Small Things sold 196k (67th). All the Small Things on paper is not my cup of tea, but I will say that the power of nostalgia is strong, to the point I have some affection for it, I wouldn’t skip it if it played. Side note: my favourite Blink-182 song is I Miss You.

In that era, a lot more importance was placed on the Top 75 specifically though. From my perspective the singles chart operated in a similar fashion until at least 2015; I wouldn’t say things changed drastically directly after 2006 to the point of classifying 94-06 as a distinct period. The “pent up demand with held back releases resulting in high debuts” thing, that was still very much happening throughout the download era (for singles released before an album). Ultimately it was a solid 20 years of the chart working like that, with high debuts not just possible, but normal. A significant chunk of the chart’s history! So I wouldn’t say it was an exception. It’s not like today’s charts are all that comparable to pre-1994. They’re all very distinct from each other!

Thanks tris.tan, just moving your posts here because we already have a thread!

I do miss when new artists could come charging out the gate with their first release and reach #1 (or even Top 10)! It was an exciting aspect of the chart, pre-this decade. A new boy band going straight to #1, such as The Wanted in 2010, seems like an impossibility now. If they had launched in 2025, would they have had the industry support/traction to even go Top 100 with their debut? Pixie Lott - how many songs would she have needed to release before eventually striking lucky? As Joseph said, nowadays it feels more the case that new artists release a string of songs that likely don't bother the charts, but nevertheless they gradually build up a fanbase. Then that leads to being able to tour academy/theatre venues, and achieving a charting album (that's frontloaded to the first week). It feels like some artists' measure of success is through social media engagement & stream/view counts, rather than chart positions. Of course there's moments when the stars align for artists and TikTok virality suddenly triggers a song into becoming a charting hit, maybe their very first to chart. It seems hard for some artists to sustain this. If their next song doesn't make waves on TikTok, then Spotify don't extend their support past that flash-in-the-pan moment. I suppose it's a good thing that artists these days can have long careers which aren't reliant on any singles success - that the pressure to have singles success likely just isn't there at all now, because it would be an unrealistic expectation from their management/labels. Whereas 10-15 years ago, The Wanted/their team probably felt wary if any of their singles missed the Top 5. Very different times! To answer the question directly: I'll be very surprised if any artist manages to get to #1 with their very first release in the future! Never say never. It just seems that it would require a remarkable stroke of a luck to be possible.

Sports car, Abracadabra and twilight zone ❤️

Well, I really like it! Let's see how long this lasts for me until it feels horribly overplayed x

Loving this. It's so instant! There's a part of the instrumental which sounds rather ABBA to me.

Seems impressive to me!

The time between 'Melanie C' (self-titled album) to now, is Melanie's longest gap between album releases: Album to album: 177 weeks - Northern Star to Reason 108 weeks - Reason to Beautiful Intentions 103 weeks - Beautiful Intentions to This Time 231 weeks - This Time to The Sea 53 weeks - The Sea to Stages 215 weeks - Stages to Version of Me 206 weeks - Version of Me to Melanie C 236 weeks (and counting) - Melanie C to 9th Album Shortest gap to longest gap: 53 weeks - The Sea to Stages 103 weeks - Beautiful Intentions to This Time 108 weeks - Reason to Beautiful Intentions 177 weeks - Northern Star to Reason 206 weeks - Version of Me to Melanie C 215 weeks - Stages to Version of Me 231 weeks - This Time to The Sea 236 weeks (and counting) - Melanie C to 9th Album

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I like both although they're my clear two least favourites on the album. I slightly prefer Blade of Grass!

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January 2025 Squid Game (Netflix) [Season 2: Episodes 1-7 / completed] XO, Kitty (Netflix) [Season 2: Episodes 1-8 / completed] Other: Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Series 2: Episodes 1-2 / ongoing] Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Celebrity Special / completed] The Traitors (BBC One) [Series 3: Episodes 1-12 / completed] The Traitors: Uncloaked (BBC Two) [Series 2: Episodes 2-3, 5-7, 10-12 / partially completed] -------------------- February 2025 Big Boys (Channel 4) [Series 3: Episodes 1-6 / completed] Other: Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Series 2: Episodes 3-5 / ongoing] -------------------- March 2025 Abbott Elementary (Disney+) [Season 3: Episodes 1-8 / ongoing] Adolescence (Netflix) [Mini-series: Episodes 1-4 / completed] Doctor Who (iPlayer) [Series 1 (2005): Episode 1 / completed] [Note: Rewatched this episode to celebrate its 20th anniversary - I'm unlikely to keep going with the series] Doctor Who (iPlayer) [Special Episode (2022): "Eve of the Daleks" / completed] Yellowjackets (Paramount+) [Season 3: Episode 1-7 / ongoing] Other: The Brit Awards (ITV1) [2025 Ceremony / completed] Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Series 2: Episodes 6-9 / ongoing] The Great Celebrity British Bake Off for SU2C (Channel 4) [Season 8: Episode 1 / ongoing] Melodifestivalen (Online) [2025 Contest: Final / completed] ---------------------------------------- 2025 - Main List Abbott Elementary (Disney+) [Season 3: Episodes 1-8 / ongoing] Adolescence (Netflix) [Mini-series: Episodes 1-4 / completed] Big Boys (Channel 4) [Series 3: Episodes 1-6 / completed] Doctor Who (iPlayer) [Series 1 (2005): Episode 1 / completed] [Note: Rewatched this episode to celebrate its 20th anniversary - I'm unlikely to keep going with the series] Doctor Who (iPlayer) [Special Episode (2022): "Eve of the Daleks" / completed] Squid Game (Netflix) [Season 2: Episodes 1-7 / completed] XO, Kitty (Netflix) [Season 2: Episodes 1-8 / completed] Yellowjackets (Paramount+) [Season 3: Episode 1-7 / ongoing] Other: The Brit Awards (ITV1) [2025 Ceremony / completed] Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Series 2: Episodes 1-9 / ongoing] Gladiators (2024) (BBC One) [Celebrity Special / completed] The Great Celebrity British Bake Off for SU2C (Channel 4) [Season 8: Episode 1 / ongoing] Melodifestivalen (Online) [2025 Contest: Final / completed] The Traitors (BBC One) [Series 3: Episodes 1-12 / completed] The Traitors: Uncloaked (BBC Two) [Series 2: Episodes 2-3, 5-7, 10-12 / partially completed]

Up to and including 31st March - Artists: 1 - 648 - Lady Gaga 2 - 251 - Tate McRae 3 - 174 - Ariana Grande 4 - 152 - dearALICE 5 - 146 - Louise 6 - 98 - Griff 7 - 90 - Sabrina Carpenter 8 - 86 - Rosé =9 - 80 - Kylie Minogue =9 - 80 - Sugababes 11 - 76 - Jade 12 - 74 - Madonna 13 - 70 - Carly Rae Jepsen =14 - 67 - Chappell Roan =14 - 67 - Charli xcx 16 - 65 - Conan Gray 17 - 56 - Troye Sivan 18 - 55 - Britney Spears 19 - 54 - Doechii 20 - 49 - Jennie Songs: 1 - 94 - Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 2 - 90 - Tate McRae - Sports car 3 - 76 - dearALICE - Ariana 4 - 59 - Louise - Confession 5 - 48 - Lady Gaga - Disease 6 - 43 - Rosé - toxci till the end 7 - 42 - Sexyy Red - Fat Juicy & Wet 8 - 40 - Jade - IT girl =9 - 39 - Griff - Last Night's Mascara =9 - 39 - Sugababes - Jungle 11 - 38 - SZA - BMF =12 - 37 - Doechii - DENIAL IS A RIVER =12 - 37 - Tate McRae - 2 hands =12 - 37 - Tyla - Push 2 Start 15 - 35 - Mette - Bet 16 - 34 - Rosé - APT. 17 - 27 - Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me =18 - 25 - Lola Young - MESSY =18 - 25 - Tate McRae Revolving Door =20 - 24 - Alok - last night i dreamt i fell in love =20 - 24 - Kylie Minogue - Someone for Me (with YouNot Us) =20 - 24 - Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem Albums: 1 - 312 - Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 2 - 245 - Tate McRae - So Close to What 3 - 133 - Louise - Confessions 4 - 89 - dearALICE - Ariana (Single) 5 - 86 - Rosé - rosie 6 - 69 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way 7 - 65 - Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days 8 - 63 - dearALICE - Made in Korea: The K-Pop Exeperience (Original TV Soundtrack) 9 - 61 - Lady Gaga - The Fame =10 - 53 - Lady Gaga - Chromatica =10 - 53 - Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet March only - Artists: 1 - 278 - Lady Gaga 2 - 85 - Ariana Grande =3 - 79 - Sugababes =3 - 79 - Tate McRae 5 - 73 - Madonna 6 - 52 - dearALICE 7 - 43 - Jennie 8 - 42 - Conan Gray 9 - 41 - Griff 10 - 38 - METTE Songs: 1 - 39 - Sugababes - Jungle 2 - 35 - METTE - Bet 3 - 30 - dearALICE - Ariana 4 - 27 - Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me 5 - 25 - Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 6 - 21 - Lady Gaga - Garden of Eden 7 - 20 - Tate McRae - Revolving Door 8 - 17 - Ariana Grande - Twilight Zone =9 - 16 - Jennie - like JENNIE =9 - 16 - Lady Gaga - Killah (feat. Gesaffelstein) =9 - 16 - Lady Gaga - Shadow of Man =9 - 16 - Tate McRae - Sports car Albums: 1 - 209 - Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 2 - 76 - Tate McRae - So Close to What 3 - 65 - Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days 4 - 43 - Jennie - Ruby 5 - 39 - Sugababes - Jungle (Single)

My Top 5s every year: 2012 1 - 563 - Girls Aloud 2 - 522 - Nicki Minaj 3 - 491 - Cheryl 4 - 451 - Rihanna 5 - 249 - Lana Del Rey 1 - 228 - Cheryl - Call My Name 2 - 178 - Nicki Minaj - Starships 3 - 166 - Girls Aloud - Something New 4 - 93 - Rihanna - Where Have You Been 5 - 90 - Nicki Minaj - Where Have You Been 1 - 456 - Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded 2 - 452 - Cheryl - A Million Lights 3 - 301 - Girls Aloud - Ten 4 - 221 - Rihanna - Talk That Talk 5 - 218 - Lana Del Rey - Born to Die 2013 1 - 491 - The Saturdays 2 - 353 - Mariah Carey 3 - 344 - Rihanna 4 - 339 - Girls Aloud 5 - 341 - Britney Spears 1 - 148 - Mariah Carey - #Beautiful (feat. Miguel) 2 - 100 - Girls Aloud - Something New 3 - 92 - Rihanna - Work Bitch 4 - 86 - The Saturdays - Gentleman 5 - 85 - Katy Perry - Roar 1 - 188 - Lady Gaga - ARTPOP 2 - 175 - One Direction - Midnight Memories 3 - 172 - Katy Perry - PRISM 4 - 171 - Girls Aloud - Ten 5 - 168 - Ciara - Ciara 2014 1 - 551 - One Direction 2 - 542 - The Saturdays 3 - 540 - Cheryl 4 - 445 - Britney Spears 5 - 398 - Girls Aloud 1 - 162 - The Saturdays - What Are You Waiting For? 2 - 151 - Cheryl - I Don't Care 3 - 149 - Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down 4 - 133 - Cheryl - Crazy Stupid Love (feat. Tinie Tempah) 5 - 126 - Iggy Azalea - Fancy (feat. Charli XCX) 1 - 382 - Cheryl - Only Human 2 - 313 - Taylor Swift - 1989 3 - 268 - Ariana Grande - My Everything 4 - 256 - One Direction - FOUR 5 - 230 - Iggy Azalea - The New Classic 2015 1 - 758 - Mariah Carey 2 - 497 - Spice Girls 3 - 387 - Carly Rae Jepsen 4 - 374 - Little Mix 5 - 297 - Girls Aloud 1 - 157 - Natalie La Rose - Somebody (feat. Jeremih) 2 - 125 - Little Mix - Love Me Like You 3 - 108 - Galantis - Runaway (U & I) 4 - 93 - Nick Jonas - Jealous 5 - 92 - Little Mix - Black Magic 1 - 327 - Carly Rae Jepsen - EMOTION 2 - 222 - Little Mix - Get WEIRD 3 - 175 - Nick Jonas - Nick Jonas 4 - 171 - Janet Jackson - Unbreakable 5 - 170 - Taylor Swift - 1989 2016 1 - 981 - Britney Spears 2 - 496 - Little Mix 3 - 486 - Fifth Harmony 4 - 463 - Troye Sivan 5 - 427 - Ariana Grande 1 - 170 - Fifth Harmony - Work from Home (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) 2 - 131 - Rihanna - Work (feat. Drake) 3 - 110 - Ariana Grande - Into You 4 - 109 - Calvin Harris - This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna) 5 - 100 - Britney Spears - Make Me... (feat. G-Eazy) 1 - 476 - Fifth Harmony - 7/27 2 - 431 - Troye Sivan - Blue Neighbourhood 3 - 424 - Britney Spears - Glory 4 - 404 - Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 5 - 327 - Little Mix - Glory Days 2017 1 - 809 - Steps 2 - 486 - Ariana Grande 3 - 473 - Little Mix 4 - 323 - Dua Lipa 5 - 314 - Katy Perry 1 - 135 - Steps - Scared of the DARK 2 - 115 - Little Mix - Touch 3 - 107 - Dua Lipa - New Rules 4 - 93 - Katy Perry - Swish Swish (feat. Nicki Minaj) 5 - 90 - Katy Perry - Chained to the Rhythm (feat. Skip Marley) 1 - 410 - Steps - Tears on the Dancefloor 2 - 334 - Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman 3 - 295 - Little Mix - Glory Days 4 - 288 - Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa 5 - 203 - Paramore - After Laughter 2018 1 - 1,511 - Kylie Minogue 2 - 816 - Ariana Grande 3 - 654 - Troye Sivan 4 - 415 - Shawn Mendes 5 - 348 - Rita Ora 1 - 167 - Kylie Minogue - Dancing 2 - 140 - Troye Sivan - My My My! 3 - 135 - Ariana Grande - no tears left to ry 4 - 87 - Troye Sivan - Dance to This (feat. Ariana Grande) =5 - 84 - Ariana Grande - breathin =5 - 84 - Kylie Minogue - Stop Me from Falling 1 - 788 - Kylie Minogue - Golden 2 - 575 - Ariana Grande - Sweetener 3 - 414 - Troye Sivan - Bloom 4 - 291 - Shawn Mendes - Shawn Mendes 5 - 206 - Camila Cabello - Camila 2019 1 - 840 - Ariana Grande 2 - 639 - Madonna 3 - 556 - Carly Rae Jepsen 4 - 527 - Kylie Minogue 5 - 482 - Spice Girls 1 - 107 - Kygo - Higher Love 2 - 95 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Too Much 3 - 93 - Louise - Stretch 4 - 85 - Katy Perry - Never Really Over 5 - 83 - Ariana Grande - 7 rings 1 - 486 - Ariana Grande - thank u, next 2 - 463 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated 3 - 360 - Taylor Swift - Lover 4 - 266 - Emma Bunton - My Happy Place 5 - 205 - MUNA - Saves the World 2020 1 - 778 - Lady Gaga 2 - 711 - Kylie Minogue 3 - 618 - Dua Lipa 4 - 584 - Mariah Carey 5 - 467 - Melanie C 1 - 110 - Lady Gaga - Rain on Me (with Ariana Grande) 2 - 109 - Dua Lipa - Physical 3 - 91 - Kylie Minogue - Say Something 4 - 85 - Lady Gaga - Stupid Love 5 - 76 - The Pussycat Dolls - React 1 - 555 - Lady Gaga - Chromatica 2 - 485 - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 3 - 306 - Kylie Minogue - Disco 4 - 293 - Melanie C - Melanie C 5 - 232 - Troye Sivan - In a Dream 2021 1 - 584 - Taylor Swift 2 - 470 - Steps 3 - 464 - Kylie Minogue 4 - 274 - Griff 5 - 271 - Spice Girls 1 - 67 - Olivia Rodrigo - drivers license 2 - 60 - Griff - Black Hole 3 - 55 - Griff - One Foot in Front of the Other =4 - 50 - Galantis - Heartbreak Anthem (with David Guetta & Little Mix) =4 - 50 - Olivia Rodrigo - deja vu =4 - 50 - Steps - Heartbreak in This City (Single Mix) 1 - 213 - Griff - One Foot in Front of the Other 2 - 206 - Kylie Minogue - Disco 3 - 180 - Steps - What the Future Holds Pt. 2 4 - 172 - Taylor Swift - evermore 5 - 157 - Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR 2022 1 - 446 - Steps 2 - 356 - Carly Rae Jepsen 3 - 337 - Girls Aloud 4 - 260 - Charli xcx 5 - 249 - Kylie Minogue 1 - 69 - Harry Styles - As It Was 2 - 61 - Beyoncé - BREAK MY SOUL 3 - 59 - Carly Rae Jepsen - Talking to Yourself 4 - 57 - Alesso - When I'm Gone (with Katy Perry) 5 - 56 - Rina Sawayama - This Hell 1 - 252 - Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time 2 - 234 - Charli xcx - Crash 3 - 196 - Rina Sawayama - Hold the Girl 4 - 180 - MUNA - MUNA 5 - 136 - Harry Styles - Harry's House 2023 1 - 695 - Kylie Minogue 2 - 376 - Taylor Swift 3 - 333 - Carly Rae Jepsen 4 - 322 - Troye Sivan 5 - 320 - Girls Aloud 1 - 234 - Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam 2 - 122 - Loreen - Tattoo 3 - 89 - Troye Sivan - Rush 4 - 87 - Kylie Minogue - Tension 5 - 72 - Troye Sivan - Got Me Started 1 - 461 - Kylie Minogue - Tension 2 - 225 - Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other 3 - 179 - Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors 4 - 144 - Carly Rae Jepsen - The Loneliest Time 5 - 122 - Loreen - Tattoo (Single) 2024 1 - 858 - Charli xcx 2 - 710 - Ariana Grande 3 - 574 - Taylor Swift 4 - 530 - Girls Aloud 5 - 492 - Kylie Minogue 1 - 109 - Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) 2 - 103 - Ariana Grande - yes, and? 3 - 100 - Taylor Swift - Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) 4 - 92 - Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 5 - 91 - Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! 1 - 430 - Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 2 - 426 - Charli xcx - BRAT 3 - 340 - Taylor Swift - THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT 4 - 334 - Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet 5 - 267 - Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other

Hmm? Generational labels are not new terms or lowly used/known about!

Beyond thrilled that we got tickets @HausofMayhem @lotita!! It's literally all I've been thinking about all day lmao Well done everyone else who has them so far, and best of luck in the general sale for those trying then!

Oh, not too likely to make the Top 100 by Friday then. It doesn't seem like it's going to make it to 5000 sales (and it would really need 5500 to have a good chance of charting). It's interesting to see how many physicals it's sold though! 165 of the 4,525 sales this week so far are downloads and streaming. Which suggests 500-600 sales maximum digitally this week. So its digital support is like 10% of where it would need to be to be a charting hit (without physical boost).

It's such a gorgeous song, hits me in the feels. It does precisely everything for me!

Honestly I believe that all the team behind this release cares about is that they've sold copies and have made the money. That the job is done and they are not paying close focus to what these sales ends up translating to in the UK chart. With each release that happens, I just become less enthused with caring about the Top 100, particularly when it's a side project. It doesn't really mean anything to Kylie's career if it ends up at #54, #87 or misses out. It's sold what it's sold!

Geri in The Sunday Times: “We love each other. I love them, I care about them, we want the best for each other,” she says. “We shared something so monumental. We’ve always believed in each other, had trust in each other, which is beautiful.” Do the five women have a group chat? “Yes, we do.” What’s it called? “I’m not going to say.” I mention the viral video of four of them (minus Mel B) dancing together at the celebration for Geri’s 50th in November 2022. Tight-lipped silence. “My hope is we come back together as a collective. It’s more respectful to come as one.” As in all five? I can’t quite tell if she’s just eager to please or giving me the exclusive. “There will be something. We’ll come as one,” she says. She picks up her phone and waves it at me. “I’m smiling because I got a text from Mel C just this morning. She’s doing her thing out in Australia.”