BOOBA GRANDE

Unfortunately didn’t do anything for me! So far not a fan of all of the three post-Tension collabs that were accidentally released, so I’m gonna be patiently waiting for KM17.

'Here Comes the Hotstepper' 15UffN8eilI She kind of lost me a bit with a sample, but still nevertheless a good song, and I definitely think this style suits her a lot!

Voted! A very strong semi to me, especially the 21-31 part! Enjoyed this contest a lot so far.

I like it! Nothing super inventive, but definitely good enough to bop to for a while!

I also get LUNCH instead of Espresso on auto play now! I use Spotify Mexico.

It got slightly less streams on Sat than on Fri, but I believe there was still a slight boost, as usually it falls on Saturdays more.

The point of autoplay is not that you personally have it on or off - but that many (majority?) of people have it on, and therefore it inflates the streaming numbers massively without the users voluntarily putting the song to play / having in their own playlist or at very least having it in the playlist they chose to stream. But it is one of many streaming manipulations we know and is the general problem with streaming determinizing the genuine popularity of the songs.

I actually understand why they pushed These Walls as a focus track. It is definitely catchy and the most diverse to the rest of the album. Agree about Falling Forever being left as an album gem would be a good decision!

Hi! :D Sorry, very late to the party, but thanks for the votes for Gibran Alcocer! He’s a very cool pianist from Yucatán, and I couldn’t really NOT send him some time hahaha. I’m on vacation holiday right now, but hopefully will find some time to participate in the next one!

French Exit has grown on me a lot! Love it too now, actually probably my second favourite behind Houdini. I also do love the fact that Dua has made the classic pop album structure — 11 tracks, the tracks aren’t too short, the whole album doesn’t end in an instant. It is not catered to inflate the streaming numbers at all. I do believe she has it in her and she will pleasantly surprise us in the future not one time, even if this album isn’t exactly up there. The statement that she’s mediocre because she doesn’t write about personal stuff is ridiculous to me. In fact, it’s the other way around (if it’s too much) that could get me off someone, if anything!

I can’t believe that an artist with such a good ear for a song and melody overlooked that they literally created an inferior version of the previous album! I do love ‘Houdini’ a lot and enjoyed a lot ‘End of an Era” and ‘Falling Forever”, as well as ‘Illusion’, but overall it’s not a strong effort. I hope for the next album she definitely changes the game and sound a lot. The girl needs it.

Can’t Get You out of My Head’s main version reaches 500m streams on Spotify. :D It has really accelerated lately, it took only 8 months for it to go from 400m to 500m. Padam Padam back up to 300k+ streams for Saturday compared to around 200k+ the previous Saturday, following the RPDR final lip sync.

I listened to ‘Tension’ a LOT and prefer it to ‘DISCO’ as a body of work. ‘Tension’ the single is defo is one of the best Kylie songs ever for me. I think what spoiled it for me a bit though is the amount of 80s-leaning songs out there. The sound should have been much more ‘Padam’-centred than it turned out to be. And it seems like ‘Padam’, ‘Tension’ and ‘10/10’ would sit much better in a future apparently “full dance” album. And ‘Padam Padam’ aside, the streams for ‘Disco’ tracks seem to hold up better than for ‘Tension’ too.

Finer Feelings has an amazing melody and is one of my favs from the PWL period. It is a shame it isn’t bigger!

Nah, she'll be totally fine on streaming lol, at very least on the first week.

Happy with the results, I actually gave points to 6 of the top-10, including all of the top-3! And big thank you for all of the big points for us to Bøtanikkä, Bronzil, Danæviia, Dobago, Fljótavík, Jadakissnia, Rolloland, Terra Avium, Pestolia :wub: I usually don't send the older songs, but it was a new discovery to me around three months ago, and I loved it. Happy you enjoyed it too!

It was doing 1-2k daily before, so yeah - a nice increase

Joel Corry can go for a re-release, as frankly I don't have high expectations from it, but I don't want them to advertise this re-release too much, as it might hinder the anticipation for the next project, which hopefully will be fruitful altogether without being a one hit wonder or being a complete underperformance.

Voted :D I don't see a clear winner this time, interesting how it's gonna shape up!

At first I found it through some tik toks and was quite annoyed by 'I'm your number one I'm your number one' part, but then Spotify played it to me in full and I was grabbed by those basslines in the end! Now totally love it!

I think it actually has a decent chance of getting certified in 2-3 years or so.

I definitely read somewhere in the media that the re-release is coming “with a string of new songs” or something like that. Tbh you don’t need to do barely anything to make a re-issue at this point — Drum and Heavenly Body already exist and were released, we have ‘Dance Alone’… 1-2 more tracks and that’s it? My biggest problem with a re-issue is that if they release another single to support it, that single must be a banger not to kill the momentum before the next album. But if it is a banger, I’d rather keep it to open the new album!

Love the title and cover! Wasn’t a fan of ‘Training Season’ but ‘Houdini’ is IT. One of my fav songs of the recent year. Very looking forward to this!

I kinda feel it means that 33 songs were bought after it in those 3 days!

Love that she acknowledged that infamous photobomb :lol: