WhoOdyssey

He's certainly not as big as Becky, but randomly 2017's Jamie Miller is doing pretty well for himself! 4.2m monthly listeners on Spotify, with several songs at 50m+ streams and one with 500m+. Looks like it's thanks to TikTok, he has 4m followers on there.

More votes please!

Perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re splitting up after their next tour.

It’s probably the biggest it’s been now since the 70s. You’ve got loads of contemporary country artists selling out UK arenas, if not stadiums. Modern country hits are being certified Silver/Gold/Platinum every week, even if they didn’t chart here. And we’re getting lots of actual Top 100 entries frequently now too - it was only a matter of time one properly crossed over (by someone who didn’t usually make pop music!)

‘The Crowd Was Singing Wonderwall’ is out on Friday - interesting title!

Great to see deathcore in the Spotify Top 200 thanks to BMTH! Almost certainly the heaviest song to ever make the chart?

There seems to be at least one modern country song getting certified every week these days!

Fun fact: Boston samples Stick Season and Noah Kahan is credited as a writer.

For some reason Mick Jagger sounds like Rude Ralph in the verses of this 😂

I prefer his more upbeat song, but I like it a lot more than I thought I would from the preview.

SUPER busy week - so many big names releasing!

Each week, 10 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. Last week's results: FKA twigs (feat. Lil Yachty) - On Your Mind [6] Night Tapes - Swim [4] Blossoms - Meet Me In Love [2] Crawlers - AFRAID TO DIE [1] Mystery Jets - Soul River [1] The Snuts - Defibrillator [1] Annabelle Dinda - Whatever You Wanna [0] Holding Absence - Lucid Love [0] Motionless In White (feat. Skylar Grey) - R.I.P. [0] Total votes: 16 Here are this week's contenders: beabadoobee - Sun Has Set Brandon Flowers - Plans Bring Me The Horizon - Dehumanized Charli xcx - Wink Wink Kasabian - SUPERPOWERS Muse (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Hush Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover sombr - My Body Isn't Ready Yard Act - New Beginnings 2026 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners Week 1: Ladytron - Caught in the Blink of an Eye Week 2: Mandy, Indiana - Cursive Week 3: Gorillaz (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar) - Orange County Week 4: James Blake - Death of Love Week 5: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis Week 6: sombr - Homewrecker Week 7: Charli xcx - Always Everywhere Week 8: Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter Week 9: Gorillaz (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) - The Moon Cave Week 10: Cameron Winter - Warning Week 11: beabadoobee (feat. The Marías) - All I Did Was Dream of You Week 12: Muse - Be With You Week 13: Jungle - Carry On Week 14: U2 - Song For Hal Week 15: The Strokes - Going Shopping Week 16: Lana Del Rey - First Light Week 17: Blossoms - Joke About Divorce Week 18: DMA'S - Heatin Park Week 19: Lykke Li - Happy Now Week 20: Mystery Jets - Black Sage Week 21: Lola Young - From Down Here Week 22: Jungle - The Wave Week 23: Evanescence - Tell Me When You've Had Enough Week 24: Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith - what's wrong with me Week 25: FKA twigs (feat. Lil Yachts) - On Your Mind

It's certainly very heavy! Would love it to chart:

Yeah, I’m very intrigued as to what its first day streams will be like. Top 50 on Spotify UK would be great.

final call!

True, but one of the quieter weeks for a while I’d say though. I think President could be the dark horse out of those though.

Album has been pushed back to 4th September… conveniently avoiding Gracie Abrams and now on a fairly clear release week!

They’ve been playing it every night on their tour happening right now too!

Lots of artists have done far worse than get a bit annoyed at a festival! Their fans wouldn’t care less about it.

'Hush' features Ellie Goulding - and is the song on the NMF playlists tomorrow! Very intrigued as to how that sounds.

A new song currently being performed live. Sounds good! It’s a bit more soft rock than his other singles.

Coming late 2026! No other news than that currently. I thought the last album had some good tracks but definitely their weakest so far, especially after the excellent Typhoons - so hopefully this is a return to form. It was a big drop off commercially too, so hopefully they can turn things around.

Bizarrely, this is still Bleachers most streamed song as a lead artist daily - getting over 100k streams on Spotify a day! I know it's not the most Christmassy song, but I can't imagine listening to it outside of that period.

Now confirmed! Probably makes sense to merge this with the one in the Kylie forum if you have the ability to do that @JosephStyles - don't think there needs to be two threads for it?

Last day to vote!