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Quite a big step down for me from the first episode, almost all my faves were in the first group With regards to the judging, I don’t really get how Daya was critiqued for not “showing who she is” when like half the girls in this group just lipsynced to songs that weren’t there’s. I don’t know who Jasmine is from that performance anymore than who Daya is. Like yes Jasmine and Jorgeous gave better performances but that critiqued didn’t really make any sense only aimed at one of them

An Adele music video that's black and white and has her sitting for most of it... revolutionary!

Wonder what The Weeknd’s top 3 songs will be, Take My Breathe is a clear 2nd place on Apple now but still only 6th on Spotify Hope we get 3 new tracks in but I feel like Take My Breathe will get back in

1) Willow 2) Kornbread 3) Bosco 4) Kerri 5) June 6) Orion 7) Alyssa

1) Taylor Swift - All Too Well 2) Gayle - abcdefu 3) Tiesto & Ava Max - The Motto 4) Enacanto Cast - We Don't Talk About Bruno 5) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 6) ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down 7) Acraze - Do It To It 8) Years & Years & Galantis - Sweet Talker 9) Adele - I Drink Wine 10) Alesso & Katy Perry – When I’m Gone 11) Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good 12) Doja Cat - Woman 13) NEIKED ft Mae Muller & Polo G - Better Days 14) Taylor Swift - Red 15) Jethro Heston & Max Marshall - Cut Me Loos 16) Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 17) THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole - Meet Me At Our Spot 18) Adele - Can I Get It 19) Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart 20) Oden & Fatzo - Lauren

Fingers Crossed down to #4 on Apple (it seems to be yo-yoing a lot there, it climbs over night a lot then drops back a bit during the day). And it’s fallen from #1 on ITunes down to #12. Really hope Sacrifice or abcdefu can hold it off #1

Just listened through it once and pretty much everything here is good. Less Than Zero and Sacrifice were the standouts It’s definitely a very cohesive album but I feel like it for sure borders on samey, but that could change with some more listens I think as a whole project I’ll prefer this to After Hours as it’s really consistent but it doesn’t have the highs of In Your Eyes or Blinding lights tbh My main complaint is that by far my favourite production on this is Every Angel is Terrifying and then it turns out just to be an ad break/interlude type thing!! So annoying

Gunna’s actually pulling ahead of The Weeknd a little now, he’s up to 8 songs top 40 and knocked one of Abel’s out Doubt his Spotify performance will be close to this impressive though

The Weeknd now with 3 songs in the top 20 and 7 top 40. 7 songs top 40 for Gunna too which is quite impressive, didn’t think he was that big of a name here

It seems like they've put a lot of the early fan favourites in this first group of queens - Kerri, Kornbread, Bosco and Willow are probably the 4 I've seen the most love for so far If someone is going home each premier I can't really see it not being Orion first unless she really surprises me

I think Hot Hits has updated now but still has Merry Christmas and LadBaby on it just lower down now

Lauren has fallen back a couple spots to #7 on Apple, maybe just an error it would be strange to see it start falling already

Fingers Crossed at #13 on Spotify

+18 Mabel - Let Them Know +15 Doja Cat - Need To Know +13 ABBA - I Still Have Faith In You +12 Doja Cat - Woman +11 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good +10 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) +09 Lorde - Solar Power +08 Shouse - Love Tonight (David Guetta Remix) +07 Kanye West - Jail +06 Billie Eilish - Lost Cause +05 Pop Smoke - Demeanor (feat. Dua Lipa) +04 Ava Max - My Head & My Heart +03 Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock +02 Taylor Swift - Love Story (Taylor's Version) +01 Doja Cat - Streets -02 Coldplay - Higher Power

Jim Carrey!? Dawn FM sounds like a radio station I'd have much preferred just The Dawn. I have very high hopes for this though I hope it lives up to the hype it has

Just finished this season and what a success it was! Such a huge step up on last year - and such a likeable cast I'd love to see pretty much all of them again. I think a huge part of why I enjoyed it was the production and editing (for once!) For the most part the queens all had fairly equal screen time, there wasn't really any main characters and whilst Pythia and Icesis always felt like the front runners, they were never forced on to us. There was also a lack of forced storylines, no unnecessary drama that we've seen 20 times by this point - they whole 3 bffs from Vancouver was only mentioned passingly and never became Rolaskatox 2.0. Obviously the judging was much better than last season and was probably fairer than most recent US seasons, and the challenges were all good as well. What a nice surprise this season was

We Don’t Talk About Bruno up to #9 now, it’s #1 in the US today

It has another version on Apple at #144 though, so when combined it’s probably in the top 40 (going by Spotify numbers for those positions)

+5 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You +4 The Kunts - Boris Johnson Is STILL A F**king C**t +3 GAYLE - abcdefu +2 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree +1 Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone -1 Wham! - Last Christmas -2 Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas -3 LadBaby feat. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Sausage Rolls For Everyone -4 George Ezra - Come On Home For Christmas -5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York

They’re all showing up on the chart for me

I actually thought Blinding Lights would go back to the top 10 on Spotify. It’s NYE playlisting must’ve been much better on Apple

1) Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 2) Taylor Swift - All Too Well 3) GAYLE - abcdefu 4) Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 5) Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree 6) Leona Lewis - One More Sleep 7) ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down 8) Tiesto & Ava Max - The Motto 9) Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good 10) Acraze - Do It To It 11) Wham! - Last Christmas 12) THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole - Meet Me At Our Spot 13) ABBA - Just a Notion 14) Years & Years & Galantis - Sweet Talker 15) Adele - I drink Wine 16) Little Mix - Between Us 17) Kelly Clarkson ft. Ariana Grande – Santa, Can't You Hear Me 18) ABBA - Little Things 19) Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT 20) Adele - Can I Get It

It always surprises me how quickly Christmas songs disappear. There’s more people listening to Xmas Music a month before Christmas Day than there is 2 days after, surely it’s still Christmas “time” just now

5 All I Want For Christmas Is You +4 Merry Christmas Everyone +3 Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree +2 abcdefu +1 It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas -1 Easy On Me -2 Merry Christmas -3 Fairytale of New York -4 Seventeen Going Under -5 Last Christmas

Globally yes they peak on what we call Xmas Eve but UK wise they definitely peak on Christmas Day? So the numbers that come out tomorrow Last year on Xmas Eve Wham for example had 1.8 million and on Xmas Day had 2.5 million