-Jay-

It's so epic to see Madonna and Kylie performing together again. 😍 Lucky Amsterdam! I'm loving the sound of the Love Sensation remix - really looking forward to its release on Thursday. Thrilled about the CD singles and that they're only £1.99 each! I've pre-ordered all three.

Sometimes when HMV mark a pre-order as having dispatched, it indicates that they've prepared the shipping labelling and that it's gone through their internal system. However it's not necessarily made it into the postal system yet. That happened with my order of Spice Girls - Wannabe Tiny Vinyl. HMV updated my order as being dispatched on Monday 6th July. It wasn't until Wednesday 8th that the tracking updated again to show that it had been received by the Royal Mail. The package arrived to me on Friday 10th (because it was 48 hour delivery). I assume this could be similar with what happens with the Kylie HMV orders - an early notification of dispatch but could arrive in line with its release date (or perhaps on Thursday). Although if it arrives earlier that would be great! I don't think the sales would be split across two separate weeks. Again with my Spice Girls example, its release date was 10th July, and indeed it entered the physical/vinyl chart on 17th July, despite the apparent 6th July dispatch.

Hopefully the non-Amazon platforms will be reasonably generous to XMAS. At the very least it has to be added to the UK Christmas #1s playlist, surely! Maybe its early release is to try and ensure it is considered for inclusion in Christmas playlists when they're eventually updated (and that can happen quite early, in advance of November anyway). I'm looking forward to listening to XMAS again! It was genuinely a major part of my Christmas last year, not just as a song to enjoy but all the excitement with the release/the charts.

Gorgeous new pictures from Melanie C's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbjZ4eWjo9b/ Including this of Geri, Mel B and Emma

^ and now the stickers are sold out! I'm glad that they seemingly printed a lot more sheets this time. Chemistry only had 250 sheets and they sold out within an hour if I remember rightly... so I'm glad their team learned from their mistakes. Available for 18 days this time!

Girls AloudTangled Up - Girls AloudThe official Girls Aloud online store. Shop exclusive Girls Aloud music.Here we go! There's also some merch this time, which was lacking for Chemistry. Seems like they've produced more sticker sheets this time, there's no mention in the mailer that they're limited to a certain amount, it's just while stocks last. Closer look at the picture disc: While I'm glad that the picture disc has used the 'fan edition' artwork for it (as well as a Call the Shots image *.* ), I do think it's a missed opportunity to not have a normal vinyl sleeve with the fan edition art. Some fans much prefer that cover to the standard art, so not providing that choice is a slight shame. Merch includes a 'tangled up' hairbrush

A message from Melanie C thanking the fans: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DagPtZJR0g6/

Closing in on 3 million

I did! Ordered mine from HMV. A little pricier than the official store, but with HMV I can spread the payment out over 3 months. Looking forward to receiving them!

Studio albums since 2000: 2000: 151,891 - Music 2003: 65,013 - American Life 2005: 217,610 - Confessions on a Dancefloor 2008: 94,655 - Hard Candy 2012: 56,335 - MDNA 2015: 37,245 - Rebel Heart 2019: 27,227 - Madame X

Happy to see 'Right Here, Right Now' so high! What a banger... one which I haven't heard it for a while, I must rectify that. 'What Kind of Fool' is enjoyable and if I was to rank her PWL era singles it would be closer to the top than the bottom! For a Greatest Hits release, it was a perfect song to sum up the sound that started everything off for her. I suppose I can understand why by 1992 she wasn't happy with this sound though. 'Tension' and 'Slow' are amongst her very best

1 Bad Romance 2 Poker Face 3 Rain On Me 4 Telephone 5 Abracadabra 6 Just Dance 7 The Edge of Glory 8 Paparazzi 9 Alejandro 10 Born This Way That was so tough

I pre-ordered this one a couple of days ago, just before it went out of stock in the UK (I wonder if it'll come back in stock eventually). Anyway, I'm so glad I secured my copy

Sombr’s body might not be ready, but mine is. Looking forward to hearing this! Potential deserved more than it got btw x

It depends on the country, Only Murders in the Building is shown through Disney+ in the UK at least! I enjoy OMITB and I’m up to date on it, so it’s a bonus that Geri’s a part of it. I’m very intrigued by what her character will be like in it and what her acting is like these days. I wonder if she had to audition or somehow prove she was up to the job? OMITB often has some big names in the show, sometimes playing themselves but sometimes a fictitious character. I’ve certainly supported them musically. I purchased a lot of Sweat formats, pretty begrudgingly I bought the Hot vinyl (which I haven’t looked at again since the day it arrived lol ) and I preordered the Tiny Vinyl copies. I happen to like Funko Pops so I’m waiting to be able to own the Spice Girls one! Otherwise the merch just isn’t doing it for me. The coins could have looked a hell of a lot better and I’m fine with not owning anything from that collection until/if they’re reduced in price. Somehow their t shirts become more uninspired as the years pass, these Wannabe 30 ones are a new low! I have no interest in their reality TV show judging stints or podcasts. 😔 I’ve seen the odd clip of Emma’s podcast and… while I will always have love for the Bunton, it’s so boring. Happy for her and the others if it’s been a success though.

These still aren’t available for preorder in the UK 🤔 How odd to officially announce them weeks ago but not let anyone buy while the attention is there. Not sure if the preorder is up anywhere else in the world.

Stop pushing this FALSE narrative!

All fan made!

All fan made!

The UK singles chart is only a Top 100 in recent years, and it takes quite a bit over 5000 sales to make it inside! Wannabe is on “ACR” (accelerated chart ratio - meaning that for weekly chart purposes, its streaming units would be halved). At one point it was selling approaching 3500 units a week. Although those sales contribute fully to its running sales total, in weekly chart terms those sales would be halved to 1750. Roughly speaking it’s possible this would mean that they’d need to sell 3500 tiny vinyl to have a shot at re-entering the Top 100. I can't imagine anywhere near that many have been produced. Maybe we’ll see it appear in the midweeks… but I think it would be highly unlikely to make the final chart. I’m not sure if this is the case but I think Wannabe is possibly the first 4” vinyl to be put on sale for the UK market? A lot of different artist tiny vinyl releases have been put on sale in the US in the last couple of years, but I’ve not been aware of it here in the UK. I would be surprised if their format catches on long term. To me, one of the major selling points of a 7”/10”/12” vinyl is that they have larger artwork than a CD or cassette. Tiny vinyl takes the size to less than a CD. I’ve also not read particularly great things about the audio quality of tiny vinyl. It seems very gimmicky. Perhaps they’re more practical for storage, or simply to be treated as merchandise you just look at and don’t intend to play. The price point being £12.99 on the Spice Girls official store, and £14.99 on hmv - but both becoming around £18 when postage costs are added - is pretty extreme for its small size. That puts it in line with the cost of 7” in recent times. I ordered them because I’m a sucker for collecting Spice Girls stuff and this is certainly a novelty - I’ve never owned anything on this format before! I’d be very surprised if I buy many more of them if the labels try to make them a widespread thing in the UK. I suppose it’s cool that the Spice Girls are perhaps the first to bring this format here. The rumours of more releases, including a box set of singles… I would be a little disappointed if it’s all done on tiny vinyl. A collection of 7” singles would be a lot nicer! I also fear what the price of an 11 singles box set would cost if they’re charging £12.99 for just one by itself! £150 perhaps?!

I think if this survivor has proved anything is that there’s some very different opinions when it comes to these songs! I feel like with a lot of her previous albums the fans are mostly on the same page about each album’s highlights and low points. Not really the case so far with Sweat!

Listen to your husband Vicky xx

Luckily I ordered the blue one in time, but I didn’t realise hmv was doing an orange one 🥺 This’ll be the first tiny vinyl I own! Interesting concept. Not so tiny when it comes to the price of it though. Edit: hmv version back in stock! Ordered one

Conan Gray is a background vocalist on ‘honeybee’! ❤️

I’m in this camp too! Very much looking forward to the EP.