-Jay-

Also voted 5x Nathan! Every time him and Baked Potato are on screen, I recoil. So insufferable. I liked Rosie to begin with :( Get him out!!

Vegas High Just Imagine

10.0 What Took You So Long? 09.5 Take My Breath Away 07.5 A World Without You 08.0 High On Love 05.0 A Girl Like Me 05.5 Spell it OUT 06.0 Sunshine on a Rainy Day 05.0 Benn There, Done That 07.5 Better Be Careful 07.0 We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight 04.0 She Was a Friend of Mine 08.5 What I Am (featuring Tin Tin Out) 10.0 Free Me 11.0 Maybe 08.0 I'll Be There 07.0 Tomorrow 08.5 Breathing 07.5 Crickets Sing for AnaMaria 08.5 No Sign of Life 07.0 Who The Hell Are You 06.0 Lay Your Love On Me 05.0 Amazing (featuring Luis Fonsi) 06.0 You Are 08.0 Something So Beautiful 10.0 All I Need To Know 07.5 Life in Mono 07.0 Mischievous 07.5 Perfect Strangers 06.5 He Loves Me Not 07.0 I Wasn't Looking (When I Found Love) 08.0 Take Me To Another Town 06.5 Undressing You 07.0 I'm Not Crying Over Yesterdays 08.0 All That You'll Be 07.0 Downtown 05.0 Something Tells Me (Something's Gonna Happen Tonight) 04.0 Por Favor 04.0 Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps 08.5 Baby Please Don't Stop 07.5 I Wish I Could Have Love You More 09.0 Too Many Teardrops 06.0 I Only Want To Be With You (featuring Will Young) 06.5 Don't Call Me Baby 4:05 06.5 You're All I Need To Get By (featuring Jade Jones) 05.5 Come Away With Me (featuring Josh Kumra) 05.0 Emotion 04.0 2 Become 1 (featuring Robbie Williams) 06.0 Here Comes The Sun 07.0 Coming Home For Christmas 04.5 Santa Baby 06.5 Merry Go-Round (b-side to What Took You So Long?) (listen on Youtube) 07.0 Free Up Your Mind (b-side to What Took You So Long?) (listen on YouTube) 07.5 Close Encounter (b-side to Take My Breath Away) (listen on YouTube) 05.5 Invincible (b-side to Take My Breath Away) (listen on YouTube) 05.0 Let Your Baby Show You How to Move (b-side to We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight) (listen on YouTube | Spotify ) 05.0 Don't Tell Me You Love Me Anymore (b-side to Maybe) (listen on YouTube) 05.0 Takin' It Easy (b-side to I'll Be There) (listen on YouTube) 08.5 So Long (b-side to I'll Be There) (listen on YouTube) 07.0 Eso Beso (b-side to Crickets Sing for AnaMaria) (listen on YouTube) 06.5 So Nice (Summer Samba) (b-side to Crickets Sing for AnaMaria) (listen on YouTube) 06.0 Midnights & Martinis (b-side to All I Need To Know) (listen on YouTube) 05.0 I Don't Know (Emma features on Damage's single) (listen on YouTube) 04.0 Sometimes (Chicken Shed charity album, 2002) (listen on YouTube) -01.0 Greatest Day (England's 2014 Official World Cup Song, also including Melanie C) (listen on YouTube) 07.0 Maybe (Latino Mix) (listen on YouTube) 08.0 We're Not Gonna Sleep Tonight (single mix) (listen on YouTube) Darlings, I was harsh in places! :teresa:

That’s a strange way of saying “it’s one of the best songs of her career”!

Fortnight going before the final... oh, BuzzJack :(

Imo Dance Alone sounds better following Shoulda Left Ya on the vinyl, than it does following Midnight Ride on the other track list. Honestly I don't think Midnight Ride really warrants a place on the album, it sticks out like a sore thumb. Take it away and I think the vinyl track list would flow quite well, better than the streaming version tbh where the collabs all feel random at the end.

I'm not sure about that because I don't have her physicals, but The Blessed Madonna's album on streaming is the usual version of the song - and that's the version that Tension II's streaming album links too. I'd assume Tension II download has the usual version. The mix sounds like a rougher version on the Tension II vinyl - it's missing elements of the production, so it sounds a bit more basic/bare. Edit: My Oh My sounds good as the album opener on the vinyl, and makes it seem less random than its Track 11 placing. Midnight Ride as Track 7 sounds completely out of place though! :lol:

Wait- Edge of Saturday Night's mix on the vinyl (and apparently the CD too) is different to the normal version :o

Hmmph, someone's given Tension II a 1 star review on Amazon because they're not happy about Amazon's shipping speed. 🤦🏻‍♂️ It's meant to be a review about the product!!

That leaves me wondering why a 2:34 song was in need of an edit! Unless it's the production that's altered :thinking: (Side note but it also reminds me of the Dancefloor Darling radio edit which never leaked :( )

So happy that Brat finally made it to UK #1 So deserved! I received my vinyl on Thursday, and I've just got around to playing it now. For the most part it sounds excellent (there's a few pops at the start of Everything is romantic original but otherwise nothing too bad). Having to split the sticker seal was not good for my OCD, but it had to be done

Charli including that controversial Apple dance push moment in that post

Oh ouch, that Guardian/Observer review is going to damage her rather nice Metacritic score of 81 so far! Rather mixed reviews so far, given that The Independent went with 5/5. The 2/5 review is the first one to mirror the general reaction to the album on Popjustice lol.

It's a lovely song, and I certainly think it deserved more attention than it got. Missing the Top 100 entirely, that was harsh... but I think it was difficult for him to get hype/support, so long after his first album era faltered. I think the song was a step in the right direction sonically. It's nice to see it as high as Top 3 on iTunes. It's not managed to make the Spotify daily charts but I'm fairly sure when I last checked his Spotify it was 7th or 8th in his popular list, it's 6th today.

At least not yet, there could be a digital exclusive!

A bad habit of mine is to vote in polls and then forget to say what I voted for lol, and weeks later I'm not 100% sure what I voted for. But I think I went with this: #1 Between 30,000 and 40,000 Top 3 Top 3

The person who shared the 26,000 info on SayHey, is also the person who shared 31,677 as Tension's first day sale and 49,735 for its Thursday midweek - so I think we can trust in the info!

Here are the daily updates for Kylie's previous BMG studio albums, just so we can compare with Tension II in the coming days: Tension 31,677 (Saturday 23rd September 2023) 35,700 (Sunday 24th September 2023) [+4,023] 40,301 (Monday 25th September 2023) [+4,601] 44,086 (Tuesday 26th September 2023) [+3,785] 46,935 (Wednesday 27th September 2023) [+2,849] 49,735 (Thursday 28th September 2023) [+2,800] 53,237 (Friday 29th September 2023 - official chart) [+3,502] Increase from Saturday to Friday: +21,560 Saturday's figure was 59.5% of its first week sales Disco 30,242 (Saturday 7th November 2020) 34,557 (Sunday 8th November 2020) [+4,315] 36,798 (Monday 9th November 2020) [+2,241] 39,111 (Tuesday 10th November 2020) [+2,313] 45,093 (Wednesday 11th November 2020) [+5,982] 50,397 (Thursday 12th November 2020) [+5,304] 54,095 (Friday 13th November 2020 - official chart) [+3,698] Increase from Saturday to Friday: +23,853 Saturday's figure was 55.9% of its first week sales Golden ~24,000 (Saturday 7th April 2018) ~31,000 (Sunday 8th April 2018) 33,737 (Monday 9th April 2018) 37,413 (Tuesday 10th April 2018) [+3,676] 40,685 (Wednesday 11th April 2018) [+3,272] 43,884 (Thursday 12th April 2018) [+3,199] 48,032 (Friday 13th April 2018 - official chart) [+4,148]

I received the CD and Cassette single! Not even the spine of the cassette has her artist name/song title on it - I'm not keen on that aspect of the design! :cry: However it does have the BMG logo, her 'K' logo, and catalogue number on the spine. The shell of the cassette looks cool though! Also very nice to have a CD single with 5 tracks. I might be mistaken but I think this is her first CD single to have more than 1 or 2 tracks on it since Into the Blue?

Remember this is released today! :wub:

Yaaas, that's fantastic! :cheer: Thanks for sharing, Dawid! I did feel confident that this would sell pretty well, particularly once the "pre-order for ticket access code" came into play. Plus, honestly... it's Kylie, and there's quite a few formats. Her fanbase has proved itself to be consistently loyal throughout her BMG era, so I didn't think that her sales would suddenly be radically down for Tension II. I had hoped for 35,000 for the first week, but it seems there could be potential to exceed 40,000 if there's some digital bonus albums still to come, or any other yet to be revealed physical formats.

I feel like some fans just aren't used to this "part 2" concept and are therefore a bit reluctant to consider it as a full album in its own right. But that's definitely what it is. It's a continuation of the era for sure, but it's still an actual album - her 17th studio album - so I think certain fans will have to try and accept that, rather than claim it to be something else. When a reissue was rumoured, I hoped instead for a new studio album - so I'm really happy that that is what has been delivered in the end. Great to have all these new songs rather than just have 3 songs at most stuck on to the previous album.

All of the messages are so heartfelt :( :heart: Liam's dad went to visit the hotel today. :( So much paparazzi there - the fans there, they tried to shield him with their hands and their bags (while he was in the hotel, the paps were trying to take pictures from outside, so the fans were blocking the view to give him some privacy), which is very thoughtful. He had a look at the shrine outside of the hotel. Just heartbreaking.

I've listened to the album a couple of times so far (once early in the morning on release day, so I was quite tired, then in the car yesterday afternoon with a friend so it wasn't fully focused on). I did enjoy the album though! Short and sweet bops, very fun. I will have another listen with headphones on sometime later today and really focus on it. Someone for Me and Kiss Bang Bang have the catchiest choruses for me, they're in my mind despite just 2 listens. I like Shoulda Left Ya's change of pace - it also put me in mind of Lost Without You like others have said - not identical by any means but certainly in that wheelhouse. I do find the 4 collabs to be quite detached from the first 9 tracks... so I'll definitely be interested to listen to the Vinyl track list version soon.

The clear vinyl of Spice for National Album Day is out today.