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Voted I Lay Down and Victory! I think I Lay Down is my favourite from the album, I hope it goes through, but it doesn’t seem likely :(

I’m a negative nanny but I was really expecting 200k+ for Today :lol: But happy for two more 100K+ so soon.

Yesterday 'Today' did 18,713 plays! Second best day yet. Will be beaten tomorrow most probably. I didn't do an update, as there's nothing significant there. 'Summer of '99' and maybe 'Drum' should cross 100k tomorrow! I think 'Today' has a strong chance to cross 200k tomorrow too.

I expected a tiny bit higher, but it doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. Bring on the playlisting of ‘Today’, and I’ll be happy hahaha

I think it’s up to Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan, but if they see the honorary mention fit, I’d be happy to see Heidi with them, even if just for a minute.

I know 'Flatline' wasn't supported by pretty much anyone (and that was mainly due to a bad marketing, like tommie said). But getting to #50 on release is a flop, no matter what the circumstances are. I think the key thing was the Radio 1 playlisting, which just didn't happen. But we cannot re-write the history with'what-ifs' and I'm really happy for the track. I remember how I was sitting at work, and they released it, and I felt absolutely euphoric until the end of that day!

Tbh I'd love to see the engagement stats! Like how many people "liked" the track, how many people went to the album, and then how many listened to the other tracks... Shouldn't be many, but there should be some! But given they got added to a fairly big playlist with no promo or label support must mean, the engagement must be at very least fairly good?! Also by my calculations, the album made its first million streams since the release! (not counting the pre-release figures of 'Flatline'). I expected it to take a bit longer, but thanks to 'Today's playlisting we're already there!

Also 'Today' is added to 'All New All Now' playlist, made of 532k followers! +18k more yesterday. The rest is slowly declining in daily streams, but that was expected. Still very healthy figures, with several tracks about to cross the 100,000 mark within days!

So the group A results are in! We lost: Drum - Group A, 3rd place Only You - Group A, 4th place Group B commencing. As per last time, the multiple answer option is available, but only the top-2 will manage to go into play-off! Will close the voting and move on to group C on Jan 8th at some point.

I would say I’d start with Today, then Flatline, then Summer. Flatline was a flop, like it or not, and Today would have bigger potential. Then follow with Flatline, once the audience is warmed up. And a post-album release that is Summer, given it has the best reaction on Spotify from natural plays. But I feel anything would flop in 2013 under MKS. It wasn’t time and place, and the label clearly didn’t respect them much.

'Today' had its second biggest streams gain since NMF! up 18k to 124.7k. Could it be playlisted elsewhere, or it's still the effect of NMF? All of the deluxe tracks are above 10k now. Also they're gaining hard on monthly listeners. The other day I checked, it was on 2.7m something listeners, now they're on 2,837,994!

I personally voted Drum and The Beat is Gone!

Jan 5 at around 4-5pm UK time!

In the quest of finding the holder of the Lost Tapes Cup! So I split the 16 songs from 'The Lost Tapes' by Excel randbetween into 4 groups. In the group round you can vote for as many songs as you want, but only the top-2 songs will manage to get into the play-off! If there's a tie for the 2nd place, all of the ties will go to a special round, but I'd rather not think about it now. :D I'll close the group A voting once I get up on January 5th. I thought this would be a somewhat new format to play, I hope you enjoy it!

I wanna do a 2023 Kylie Spotify overview, so I did a quick update on figures since Aug 2022! These are the tracks that gained more than a million streams on Spotify since the last update in August. Like last time, all of the versions are combined. And of course, the Christmas tracks have the seasonal advantage, due to the tracking of only 5 months, Christmas included. Overall 29 tracks gained more than a million streams. The biggest surprise for me is Chiggy Wiggy. :D It gained a quarter of its streams. Also Supernova crossed 10m streams with the main version, I Love It crossed the 10m mark with the streams from all of the versions! And now there are 7 DISCO songs above 10m: Say Something, Magic, Real Groove, A Second to Midnight (the singles) and Miss a Thing, Supernova, I Love It (the album track). Really not bad! CGYOOMH was vastly helped to stay on top by the new Peggy Gou remix. # | Song | Album | Plays since August 2022 1 | Can't Get You out of My Head | Fever | 36 713 095 2 | Santa Baby | Kylie Christmas | 32 376 507 3 | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town (feat. Frank Sinatra) | Kylie Christmas | 6 753 016 4 | A Second to Midnight | DISCO | 5 703 502 5 | In Your Eyes | Fever | 5 688 173 6 | It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year | Kylie Christmas | 5 446 530 7 | The Loco-Motion | Kylie | 5 228 792 8 | Higher | Higher | 4 918 964 9 | Love at First Sight | Fever | 4 654 177 10 | At Christmas | Kylie Christmas | 4 312 336 11 | Spinning Around | Light Years | 3 687 293 12 | Real Groove | DISCO | 3 379 218 13 | Magic | DISCO | 3 358 085 14 | Where the Wild Roses Grow | Murder Ballads | 3 223 095 15 | Supernova | DISCO | 3 213 436 16 | Get Outta My Way | Aphrodite | 2 396 051 17 | Say Something | DISCO | 2 271 582 18 | I Should Be So Lucky | Kylie | 2 190 671 19 | All the Lovers | Aphrodite | 2 124 667 20 | Kids | Light Years | 2 124 420 21 | Especially for You | Especially for You | 1 852 527 22 | Winter Wonderland | Kylie Christmas | 1 785 985 23 | On a Night Like This | Light Years | 1 596 063 24 | In My Arms | X | 1 338 941 25 | Better the Devil You Know | Rhythm of Love | 1 183 250 26 | Come into My World | Fever | 1 162 393 27 | Miss a Thing | DISCO | 1 154 595 28 | Chiggy Wiggy | Blue | 1 089 196 29 | Slow | Body Language | 1 045 311

Another good day for 'Today', not up to 80k! Overall 97k streams for yesterday, that's with the new tracks, and this is how everything fared yesterday: 1 Today 16233 2 Summer of '99 8354 3 Flatline 7771 4 Drum 7746 5 Boys 6769 6 Love Me Hard 6729 7 No Regrets 5279 8 Metal Heart 4700 9 Only You 4511 10 I'm Alright 4425 11 Breathe Me 4347 12 Back to Life 4338 13 Victory 4301 14 Beat Is Gone 4292 15 I Lay Down 3715 16 Back in the Day 3696 Also curious that 'Summer' is now above 'Flatline' and would have been higher than 'Today' if it wasn't for a playlists boost! Out of the new tracks 'Only You' fared the best right from the start, despite being the last track. But the new tracks will have a long way to reach a nice milestone.

I love all Keisha, Siobhan, Mutya and Heidi for different reasons! Keisha is a person who held and still holding the brand together — determined and with a very distinctive voice which defines Sugababes for me. Siobhan is an amazing songwriter, she started the band and she’s basically the main author of the latest era musically. Immense talent. Heidi is the essential part of the group’s heritage too, I think she exactly brought all the ingredients for the group to skyrocket to all those number ones. I’m not sure we’d see Sugababes now if it wasn’t for her input back then. But I think slightly my favourite is Mutya, as I love her chaotic vibe, which is quite similar to mine at times :lol: I love her personality and her voice is by far my favourite. I never minded Amelle and Jade. I kinda pity Jade that she got caught up in this, as I was rooting for her solo. Amelle has a good voice. I think the managers got into her head too much with making her a solo star though, which ended in a disaster for the group and her personally.

Hi, loads of tracks that would be high for me too! Head on Fire, Beg for You, Cuff It, About Damn Time among many others are ace!

So after its first full week on Spotify the Sugababes gained 634,523 streams with 'The Lost Tapes'! Not too bad! And it will defo cross 1m after the next week, with the three new tracks and a slight support of Today for NMF. 1 Flatline 64808 2 Today 63843 3 Summer of '99 59247 4 Drum 58517 5 Boys 56957 6 Love Me Hard 54798 7 No Regrets 46012 8 Metal Heart 42874 9 Beat Is Gone 40395 10 I'm Alright 39404 11 Victory 38852 12 I Lay Down 35157 13 Back in the Day 33659 My prediction is that everything is easily gonna pass 100,000 streams pretty soon, most of the tracks will do so within January. I'm very happy with the outcome, and especially all of the profits go to the girls themselves, so they can build on that / make up for all of the expenses probably involved with gaining all of the rights for using the tracks. Yesterday was their second biggest day with 96k streams added, mainly thanks to 'Today' of course.

I hadn't listened to these three new tracks before, so they were totally new to me. And tbh, while they're nice, they don't impress me much! I think they were deservedly cut from the main album / batch. Detinitely the three weakest tracks out of the whole 16.

So apparently it’s at #150 with 1,108 sales!

What I’m also eternally grateful to Sugababes for is those track lengths. Even back in 2013 the album full of 4:xx songs wouldn’t be that normal, let alone now! So many amazing songs got spoiled lately because they were cut to 2 odd minutes! And here we get the album of proper fully embraced tunes.

In Mexico it’s at #14 and the third anglophone song in the list! It’s a huge shame NMF wasn’t updated in Europe and especially the UK — it will get lost next week!

I’m dead! And the fact is I haven’t listened to the demos! So +3 completely new tracks for me. I’m even thinking of reserving them for the new year to spread the joy for longer. (But ugh, who am I kidding :kink:

Wooo! A bit of a streaming boost for it then! I'll be very surprised if there's no UK add, even if at a mediocre position.