Robbie

The album isn't in the top 100. It's either very poor sales or there's a problem somewhere.

The midweek singles are up on the OCC website but the albums update is still defaulting to the midweeks update from last Monday. The new album midweeks can be viewed at https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart-update/20261005/7502u/

16 of the tracks in the First Look Top 20 (including 9 of the top 10) are by female acts and of the 4 remaining tracks, 2 feature female acts. This must be some sort of chart record? Though by Friday the lower part of the top 20 may look somewhat different.

Will Taylor Swift be number 1 in both singles and albums this week? I'm not a fan but at least her new tracks will shake up the singles chart. I expect her to have 1-2-3 on today's First Look chart. Given how poor chart sales have been in general in recent weeks, a 1-2-3 on Friday looks a possibility too. Plus a starred out track at what would otherwise have been #4.

I made an error and was looking at the first week 'Shine' was #1. For its second week, Alan Jones reported that it had sold "a little more than 27,000".

Both are rounded sales. Alan Jones usually quoted rounded sales at the time. For 'Shine', he commented that the single had sold "nearly 42,000".

The usual link to the Singles midweeks update https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart-update/ is only displaying the top 7. The full top 100 can be found at https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart-update/20260831/7501u/

Joseph, on the Retro Top 10 charts on page 1, the top 10 for 2006 lists: 4- EVERYTIME YOU TOUCH ME- Cascada (22,593) The title is Everytime We Touch.

I was about to post that it's 20 years ago this week since 'Hips Don't Lie' by Shakira climbed back to number 1 and 'Chasing Cars' first charted (at #25).

^ ah! I never thought about posters being from a different country!

I've just searched for it and it's there.

'Confessions II' is on 37,106 sales in total.

It'll be interesting to see if she can reverse the downward trend in sales. I think she will

It was. Its last top 40 week on its first top 40 run was its 52nd week inside the top 40. Edit: ignore the above - 'Blinding Lights' spent one week outside the top 40 on its 4th chart week! 'Bad Habits' by Ed Sheeran managed 52 consecutive weeks inside the top 40 in 2021/2022.

Yeah, 'Heartbeat' was the promoted side up to Christmas, with 'Tragedy' being promoted after Christmas.