BREAKTHETENSION

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.

I feel like not touring is really hurting Miley’s career. Plastic Hearts and Endless Summer Vacation felt like the perfect albums for Miley to tour (especially in the UK) with album eras being so short these days, there’s not a lot for fans to get excited about if there’s not a tour.

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!

Now that Last Christmas and All I Want For Christmas have got #1 and Santa Tell Me and Underneath the Tree have got top 10 - I’m ready for the rules to change next year :lol:

Didn’t album sales just have their biggest week since 2018?

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

Surprised Mariah’s ‘Merry Christmas’ is a no show, considering the re-issue and BBC 2 show with Rylan on Saturday. It seems to chart high every year in every country expect the UK :lol:

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.

Happy for Billie. Wildflower is incredible. Quite a feat to get another top 10 this far into the album campaign these days.

The top 40 singles feels very stale. Everything has already peaked, lots of songs on ACR hanging about. You know it’s bad when months old Teddy Swims songs are now going top 10. Hope Wildflower does make it though, it deserves a place in the top 10. Actually ready for the Christmas clear out.

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.