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Doesn't need to be especially spooky but if the artist name is the only link that might be a bit tenuous x (A vaguely spooky song title may be enough tho xo)

If there were 3 CD variants then the vinyl might not be chart eligible depending on how the OCC interpret their own rules about a maximum of 3 physical formats (But as we can't have nice things watch them count anyway and she somehow gets a third extra week at #1 leeching off the same FOMO pre-order x)

Oh wow so close between Jamie and C&S in the end! The wording of this somewhat obfuscating that nearly all of the rest of its CD total "came from" the week before. (It seems to have somehow managed to add another ~200 CD sales since then, some must have really taken their time to ship as afaia it was never restocked (and surely would have sold a lot more if it was)).

Hopefully 'Marianne' can get a new peak (top 10 please? x), guessing it's likely that'll remain their top song.

Oh that's a much higher debut than I expected for Fontalía! At least it definitely has a chart position locked in even if it gets 3 track ruled next week. ROSALÍA's 7th top 100 hit, actually currently the lowest peaking of those surprisingly (for now she's had songs peaking at #53, #55, #56 and #57)! Fingers crossed it does stay one of the top three Fontaines songs next week and jumps at least 23 places to become ROSALÍA's highest peak instead x Lol this was the first of probably many, many 'chances' for Jamie Miller.

Lewis just saying he 'wrote several hit singles' is underselling how pervasive he is in the industry in recent years - first off he's more well known as a producer than a writer (though they go hand in hand). If you've been into any mainstream-but-sort-of-vaguely-alternative music in the last few years there's a strong chance Antonoff was behind it. For better or worse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Antonoff_production_discography

I don't massively stan him tbf (I do like 'Earrings' a lot and generally enjoyed most of the other songs I've heard from him too but I accept the criticism that he's basically an off-brand Steve Lacy) but I feel the need to defend him from the constant posts insisting Audrey is so much better when I think it's her music that is pretty awful oop xx

I could imagine Iz saving 'I Trance' maybe. Think that is my favourite Agnes song besides the obvious! (I didn't vote for 'Here Comes The Night' in PFSC so maybe there's a reason I don't remember it oop, will see if it clicks with me more when I listen to these songs x)

Malcolm's 2025 album has a higher user score on Album of the Year than Audrey's btw (and the 2024 mixtape that 'Earrings' is from is higher than both). x ((His newest album not so much, but he was quite 'fan acclaimed' before that)) Don't love the timing of giving P!nk a chart revival lol but 'Just Give Me A Reason' is a song that's held up shockingly well to overplay imo, I actually probably like it more now than when it was first charting.

'Earrings' still flitting around while 'Sue me' is long gone, the public gets things right sometimes ❤️

Lol we get a little bit of 'expectations' played after all xx

It'd need to be good to be counted x

Great that Jamie T and Chase & Status held their top 2 positions! (Would have loved for C&S to get a #1 album but at the start of the week I am not sure I'd even have expected it to go top 5). Feels a bit odd that Jamie T went so long without a #1 album and now has 2 in a row quite a long time after what seemed like the peak of his relevance but I heard '3310' on R1 recently and enjoyed it so he's still putting out some good stuff.

'Good Girl' is such a ridiculous song but I'm lying if it's not a guilty pleasure, I'd definitely rather listen to it than 'Free Your Mind'. (Prospa have much, much better songs than either in their back catalogue though, shoutout to the excellent instrumental 'Boy Racer')

Maybe I can only post the dropouts section

Lol people speculating they'd play the Chappell version of 'expectations' and instead they skip it entirely 💀 (what's the betting the producers assumed it was a re-entry lol)

Never heard of Season 25, I see comparisons to PARTYNEXTDOOR from a (somewhat difficult) Google which doesn't fill me with hope, also get that apostrophe out of the title xx for another artist making a chart breakthrough though - a bit less established than last week's but I see he's been releasing singles since 2023.

As did 'stupid song'. (I will hear no rebuttal to this x)

Yes but this is even weirder because it is listed as a single but labelled as being a non-album single despite being on the album

It definitely is on 'Dogrel', no clue why Wikipedia doesn't consider it to be a single from the album (it's not listed on the album's page either). How bizarre x

'Where Is Gone?' not being the Spotify focus track is giving me fear it somehow ends up not charting at all because of the 3 track rule. It is quite deep into the tracklist as well! But hopefully the Hot Hits add will counteract that x Good to see a decent number of new releases off to a fast start for once.

'Liberty Belle' was B-Listed as well!

It's also still on most streaming services anyway - it's only Spotify that they boycotted.

All I'll say is I'm glad some of the people who have posted their alternative eliminations were not the actual judges xx

May or may not have also submitted x (Unlike in round 3 my hypothetically planned choice for if I am still in is not excluded by this theme one of the songs I may send at some point if I get the chance to is 11th on the list so cannot be swayed to it yet ~)