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At this point, in the UK at least - a 3rd single could help keep sales going (in addition to price drops and reissues). I really doubt the Audience With will help much. Vegas definitely wont. Other than a few headlines here and there.

I'm hearing rumours that Kylie is back in London. Rehearsals for Audience With, perhaps?

I' m always hoping one day they re-release ROL and it outpeaks the original #9!

I don't think any business would be happy to see their product fall out of the chart just because there is a planned (conjecture) re-release. I guess BMG saw the signs that everyone else is referring to and didn't want to invest any more money on a product the casual buyer won't buy, and no amt of promotion will help the streaming generation. I still think they're an amazing label and right for Kylie.

I suspect it will fall out of the 75 next week...but return right after Audience With. I don't see the 3rd single having a big impact and Kylie herself doesn't seem to bothered as she's busy with Vegas.

#36 on the UK album chart, #26 on the Australian chart. On to single #3

Thanks for the response. But in your and other Kylie fans' eyes, what is a practical impressive #? we're surely not talking taylor swift or Ed sheeran numbers.

Newbie question - are these amazing or bad numbers? I'm not looking for a "Taylor does 45M streams of her songs" kind of responses because in 2023, Kylie isn't Taylor. For an artist like Kylie who began in the 80s, what numbers would make you guys go wow

I really think Kylie is peaking again at the moment, and she's learnt not to chase a theme but "service the song" - that can only mean more Kylie goodness. She might as well milk it like a Lana Del ray or Taylor do - when they're hot.

OK so will finish the week at 2500 perhaps, which is good for a 3rd week's sales in 2023.

So I presume Kylie is back in MEL now after a weekend in LA?

Exactly! Even they have been amazed by the sales of Tension in this climate and would rather make more money per record sale than drop the price down for a longer run in the charts.

PP's lack of success in Germany is shocking. Several other artists like Olivia R don't actively promote in Germany, yet their songs do very well.

In line with my expectations. I suspect #28 at end of the week.

I’d be happy to be wrong but I doubt it will. TV shows don’t have the same kind of influence as they did before. It may sneak back to the top 40 or 30, but I doubt AAW will send it back any higher. Again - praying to be proven wrong!

Not as "pretty" to whom? All a record company cares about are the profits (selling 10 albums priced 11.99 is way better than 20 at 5.00) and the label "#1 album". No one ever looks back or cares about how many weeks it spent at #1 or on the top 40/100. Same goes for sales, unless it's a really stellar performance.

for the year???

Reminds me of the UK singles chart of late 90s and early 00s. Debut high with high sales and then free fall 2nd week, or have considerably lower sales unless you're flavour of the month

Disappointing- I would’ve thought PP would be nom’ed for song, video, etc. I didn’t even know EMAs had an Aussie Artist award.

I'm in the minority but I don't think the US promo was a waste of time and effort. Any artist in the world knows that's where the money is. Not just because of how much money you can make within the US market, but also the label "US hit" which enables a song or artist to become huge elsewhere. Also, Kylie wasn't in the US just for the radio rounds. She was there prepping for the residency, shooting videos and the lyrics videos (perhaps even for a 3rd single - who knows; she shot Wow and In my arms on the same week in LA).... and she just took a few hours off her schedule for these interviews. The ones she appeared in-person were mostly in the LA area so wouldn't have been too much of a drive...others were zoom/skype. And not like she got the big ones like Z100.3 or anything, right? Most radio stations seemed very average and pedestrian. So, all in all - I strongly feel time well spent as it helped penetrate "Brand Kylie" a bit more, than just focus on Tension.

Oh my dear God lol

Has he had any recent hits besides Kylie's?

I don't think it's making her look money hungry AT ALL. Anyone knows a corporation is there to make money and the fact that its still 11.99 shows that her corporation (the label, BMG) believes there still is strong demand. Just like a Taylor swift concert ticket would sell for much more than a Dido concert in 2023.

Like I had mentioned earlier - she probably knows performing on those shows has very little ROI She performed that "seconds to midnight" song with the years&Years dude on The One Show and it had zero impact on the chart/sales. She performed Real Groove, Music's too sad without you, etc. on JR -- zero impact hell, Mae Muller did a good perf on Saturday and she's only #33 on the album chart. Goes to show the ROI on performing doesn't justify the prep work and costs that go in. She's better off just sitting on the couch and talking.

Good point - could be due to several things...perhaps more new interesting/high profile releases this week and the previous few compared to Disco's Oct/Nov release? Again, all just hypothesis.