BOOBA GRANDE

I definitely agree with those saying that if next time Ed waits 3-4 years before the next album and gathers a lot of material, he may easily come back to long-running number ones. He definitely has a talent of writing huge approachable pop numbers.

Oliver doesn't mean a hit by any means though. His last major release 'Oops' with Karen Harding, released on 20th of Jan 2023, at the moment sits on 2.3m Spotify plays. Nothing spectacular! But it feels this one will receive a bigger Spotify push. And from that on it will depend how it will be received by the streamers, which could go both ways, judging by the snippet.

The fact that it goes to the deluxe edition kinda points out that it’s not going to be the ~main~ sound of the album! And instead it will boost some streaming for the album naturally and chart-wise!

From the preview I’d definitely say it’s a solid 8 out of 10! Has a potential to beat that, once the song is out. Why Wednesday release though!

I thought Miley was already on week 2 of decline and this week would be her 3rd? I’m not a biiig fan of Calvin/Ellie (while it’s very fun to see a trance record challenging for the top spot, I don’t feel this song is one of the best in the genre), but it would be nice for it to get to #1 next week. Especially with Ed comparatively underperforming and opening the doors for the other tracks to claim #1 in the coming weeks!

So I lost 23. FARC / Tyla - Been Thinking (5 points) 22. Danæviia / myst milano. - No Shade (2 points) Thank you guys for voting, I wanted to send a drum and bass entry for a while, and this is one of my favourites which i heard in the past year!

I'm actually having high hopes for SF1, given that many SF2 tracks weren't up to my taste (still liked my top-10 though!)

Ahhh I thought it was mixed! Sorry guys!

Where's the I between H and J? :lol: (Great results reveal, Chez!)

That's two of my big pointers our, Arctic Monkeys were on 39 points too! At this point non of my top-3 is in the contention, but #4 and #5 still are!

Is it though? How many songs got an automatic reset in the past year?

I wonder, is ‘How Will I Know’ the highest ranked wildcard, or there’s something even higher?

That said, the album chart in such a dire state that it is very hard to get what is 'album chart relevant' these days. These are the albums which have spend from 3 to 52 weeks in the top-100 as of right now: 04 05 04 P!nk ~ Trustfall 05 07 43 Harry Styles ~ Harry's House 07 06 14 SZA ~ SOS 08 08 21 Taylor Swift ~ Midnights 24 33 15 Metro Boomin ~ Heroes & Villains 27 30 32 Eminem ~ Curtain Call 2 28 11 03 Gorillaz ~ Cracker Island 46 49 33 Beyoncé ~ Renaissance 47 50 20 Foo Fighters ~ The Essential Foo Fighters 49 53 18 Ella Henderson ~ Everything I Didn't Say 54 56 40 XXXTentacion ~ Look At Me: The Album 58 55 19 Drake and 21 Savage ~ Her Loss 71 RE 05 Lizzo ~ Special 72 73 09 Clavish ~ Rap Game Awful 77 83 21 Nicki Minaj ~ Queen Radio, Vol. 1 87 RE 39 George Ezra ~ Gold Rush Kid 88 78 49 The Weeknd ~ Dawn FM 89 97 22 Madonna ~ Finally Enough Love 90 98 25 D-Block Europe ~ Lap 5 94 100 42 The Smiths ~ The Sound of The Smiths 95 91 22 The 1975 ~ Being Funny In A Foreign Language From this list some of them are compilations, the others are driven by the streaming. I think I could tell that from the acts that don't do well on the singles front, Gorillaz are still relevant from this list, but then, they'll probably fall out of the top-100 within a month, no more. P!nk and Beyonce's albums are genuine hits, but then again, they did well in the singles. There is simply next to no continued (physical) album sales success anymore. That makes me want to look at the album SALES chart. All of the top-10 is no more than 4 weeks old, with 6 new entries. Looking down, there are lingering classic albums charting for 100+ weeks and the new-ish compilations from classic artists. I see the continued album sales from the new albums from: Harry's House (#11, 43 weeks), Midnights (#23, 21 weeks), Ocean of Me (#24, 6 weeks), Only The Strong Survive by Bruce Springsteen (#32, 18 weeks), Gold Rush Kid by George Ezra (#38, 40 weeks), Gloria by Sam Smith (#41, 7 weeks) Wet Leg by Wet Leg (#43, 49 weeks) There's Nothing But Space, Man (#55, 14 weeks) Seventeen Going Under (#59, 75 weeks) - I included this, as it's his latest album = by Ed Sheeran (#66, 72 weeks) Hugo by Loyle Carner (#67, 10 weeks) Beatopia by Beebadoobee (#69, 10 weeks) So from this list I'd definitely nominate Bruce Springsteen, as he clearly continues selling albums in the long run.

With albums it is indeed tricky, but I’d say 30+k sales first week and then no less than around 10 weeks in the top-100? Or smaller initial sales but a longer tail. That should rule out the legacy acts which only sell on week 1.

You have to print the vinyls though, and it’s not such a fast thing to do. Realistically we will see the album in September at earliest.

I actually like all of the songs in the top-50, except for Sowing the Seeds of Love. I like ‘Acapella’ too, but it’s just weaker than the rest of the pack. I’m a bit surprised that Metallica and Monkees ended this high in the end!

It’s actually the first ever Kylie song I have ever heard! On a pirate collection my mom bought me back in the day. I liked it a lot, but also couldn’t really pronounce her name correctly at all at a time lolol. Loved it back then and love it now! One of my favourite Kylie songs.

Given there are 49 votes, the smallest amount of points a song could get would be 49, and the biggest amount of points would be 2450. Average amount of points would be 1250. So I'd say the results are pretty even, given the lowest song got 983 points, which is more than 40% of the maximum amount of possible points! No wonder that I didn't expect any of the bottom 3 going out so early, but when everything is that close, it is very hard to predict what is going to be placed where.

+50 Tina Turner - The Best +49 Chase and Status featuring Liam Bailey - Blind Faith +48 Texas - Summer Son +47 The Prodigy - Out Of Space +46 Dua Lipa - Levitating +45 Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird +44 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke +43 Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight +42 September - Cry For You +41 Madonna - You'll See +40 Moby - Porcelain +39 Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent +38 The Saturdays - Up +37 Katy B - Crying For No Reason +36 Daft Punk - Around The World +35 Pink - Who Knew +34 New Radicals - You Get What You Give +33 Katy B - Katy On A Mission +32 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You +31 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) +30 Lily Allen - Not Fair +29 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky +28 The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) +27 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf +26 Blur - Girls & Boys +25 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No... +24 The Kooks - Naive +23 Blondie - Rapture +22 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate +21 David Gray - Babylon +20 Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams +19 Laura Branigan - Self Control +18 The Monkees - Daydream Believer +17 Cher - Strong Enough +16 Metallica - Enter Sandman +15 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know +14 Blur – The Universal +13 Avril Lavigne – My Happy Ending +12 Will Young - Jealousy +11 Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box +10 Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone +9 Snow Patrol - Run +8 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies +7 Aaliyah – Try Again +6 Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) +5 Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy +4 Kate Bush - Babooshka +3 Kylie Minogue - Wow +2 Kelis - Acapella +1 Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love

I love the SEB interviews — the format and her way of making the dialogues put up a different angle on what they do. It feels very warm and friendly, yet raw and very sincere. I had a very nice time listening to this in a plane.

Voted! It was hard: a lot of solid tracks that stood very close to me.

^i defo agree about ‘Heat Waves’, right now it’s hurt by overkill but otherwise it’s a fantastic song

To be honest I’m happy “Chained to the Rhythm” didn’t make it. It’s a good song, but by no means I would rate it among among best ever number 5 singles

Omg i just keep admiring your effort. Will vote when I have time to listen through everything! Probably will need three takes to listen to everything.

As I expected, I lost Neneh and The Cure. Pretty sure 'Heat Waves' won't make it either, but I actually thought it would make it lower than these two.