BREAKTHETENSION

It’s been announced that from September the Australian singles & album charts will focus on music from the last 2 years and compilation albums will be moved out of the main album chart. The UK album chart is currently overrun with Greatest Hits albums and having a rule 2 year rule would finally remove albums which will never leave the UK chart like What’s the Story Morning Glory and Teenage Dream. Please take note OCC! Full Article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-24/aria-charts-changing-singles-albums-top-50-australian-music/105455078 From September, the ARIA Top 50 Singles and Albums charts, as well as the Top 20 Australian Artist Singles and Albums charts, will focus exclusively on music released within the past two years. Under the revisions, perennial hits such as The Killers' unkillable Mr. Brightside, which has spent 157 weeks in the top 50, and Vance Joy's Hottest 100-topping Riptide, a whopping 360 weeks in the Australian top 20, will make room for newer music and move to a new chart called ARIA On Replay. Formerly known as the Catalogue chart, On Replay will also showcase titles that have historically taken up near-permanent residence in the main charts. That includes multiple older Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran records, country stars Luke Combs and Zach Bryan, and classic Fleetwood Mac album Rumours, which has spent 403 weeks in the Top 50 Albums. Greatest hits compilations will also transition away from the main charts: everyone from Eminem (402 weeks) and Elton John (336 weeks) to Maroon 5 (321 weeks), Katy Perry (289 weeks) and The Weeknd (228 weeks).

All the music channels are now 80’s/90’s. The Box channels closed last year and MTV has one channel left playing current music.

Wow, Kylie’s first platinum album with BMG (it should have been DISCO) but we’ll take it! I wonder if there will be another greatest hits planned for 2027, since it will be 40 years.

Finally! 22 years in the making 😂

Pretty good sign that GaGa’s album tracks are rising at this stage.

After seeing Better Man, I’ve been re-listening to a lot of Robbie’s discography (for the first time in years). No Regrets is definitely a highlight. I had totally forgotten about #1 hit ‘Radio’ as well, it’s a lot worse than I remembered :lol:

20+ years for Slow to be certified is crazy, especially considering it was a #1 single, it’s a fan favourite and Slow has been performed at basically every Kylie tour/gig since it was released and received promo performances during Kylie’s most recent Greatest Hits. 2025 surely has to be the year!

I would like Kylie to lean into Christmas next year to celebrate 10 years of Kylie Christmas. Release Snow Queen on vinyl, finally give Santa Baby an official video. If she could get one of those Amazon exclusives that would also be amazing!

The Kylie Christmas songs which are doing well are all on this playlist (which has over a million followers). So that explains why Santa Claus is Coming to Town does so well, considering it’s not on any Spotify playlists. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5OP7itTh5...=e-AsC_uqiRTtKI

Thank god for the tour - this might be Kylie’s most boring era ever. I know you all say, but she got the #1!!! And yeah that’s great, but dropping out of the charts after 2 weeks and also giving us no further singles/videos or basically anything is not very exciting for the fans.

“Where a track is credited to more than one artist – streams of that track will count equally towards each artist's studio albums.” so it should count to both artists albums. However, Tension II’s streaming sales are so low, I would be truly shocked if the collabs were currently counted towards Tension II.

That’s a bold statement :lol:

Midnight Ride is the best song of the collabs, it just doesn’t fit the Tension era/vibe at all, sadly. My Oh My is the worst, by far. I would also say it’s Kylie’s joint worst single with I Was Gonna Cancel.

What else could she do in the UK, promo wise? Kylie has done every TV, radio and podcast gig that would have her in the last year. She also had 2 huge promo opportunities with An Audience With Kylie and the Brits and neither really made any difference to Tension’s sales or chart run. I would agree that the promo for Tension II was minimal especially on Tension II’s release week, which felt a bit weird. Probably 85% of Kylie’s sales at this stage in her career is fan multi buying, so no amount of promo is going to change that. Hopefully the Tension II drop this week, prompts a rethink at BMG and they come up with some strategies to prolong the chart run outside of week 1.

Well.. it is what it is. It will 100% be out of the chart next week, so RIP Tension II era.

Team Kylie really should’ve just re-issued Tension called it the ‘Tour Edition’ with Lights Camera Action, Someone for Me, Kiss Bang Bang, Good As Gone and Hello. Add Heavenly Body and Drum on the vinyl and the fans would’ve bought it. The additional songs would’ve helped with streaming numbers and got Tension a couple more weeks in the chart and a more respectable sales total. I just don’t think the #1 was worth it for Tension II, it’s been a disaster from the minute MOM was released :lol:

Ouch! In Kylie’s biggest market as well.

Agreed. Get back to GB Kylie, never mind trying to sell your profitable tour. We need Kylie back on The One Show (again) so that Shirley and Anne will go out to Tesco and buy the CD (oh wait they don’t sell CD’s anymore) :lol:

‘Let’s Get to It’ is shaking as Tension II is coming for its lowest selling Kylie album crown.

UK Midweeks: 37 (1) Tension II Sales: 1,259 (-96%) Yesterday: 306 (ranked 76) CD: 541 Digital: 145 Streaming: 428 (No 134) LP: 144​ To be honest, it’s higher than I expected.

They must just mean the USA delivers the biggest revenue, which I could believe. But no way is she a bigger artist in the USA over UK/Aus.

I would agree that Kylie is obviously a priority at BMG, as arguably their biggest artist. However, it’s clear everything is done on a shoestring budget to maximise profit for BMG & Kylie. Kylie’s art direction nose dived after Kiss Me Once, DISCO and Tension album covers were terrible, the production on most of Golden and DISCO was bad. We only get 2 music videos for the albums. Vinyl and CD packaging is poor. I just feel like Kylie needs a fresh team of creatives around her, new ideas and inspiration.

Happy for Kylie, another #1 in the bag! Those streaming sales/position are hard to ignore though, especially considering the album was clearly aimed to please the streaming market. Kylie has had great success with BMG, but I do wish she would close the chapter with them after this and resign with a major label.

The last update for Tension was 11 weeks ago, where it had sold 93,324. Current sales are 96,532, meaning it sold 3,208 copies in 11 weeks, which means it sold roughly 291 copies a week. There’s 9 weeks left this year, which if it continued selling at this rate would be another 2,624 copies by the end of the year and would bring Tensions sales to 99,156 by the end of the year. So should go Gold (finally) by the end of January. God, that’s enough maths for one day.

It’s been a super boring release week, no surprise deluxe, no UK promo and just no buzz in general. I’d like to think BMG are saving stuff for the following weeks so the album is not a one week wonder, but I really doubt it.