Sandcastles

that's because the Apple Music Albums Chart doesn't really rank album by raw streams, they use special multipliers for new albums. That's how a lot of artists that don't have a big Apple Music fanbase still get good peaks when it comes to albums lol

Debuts at #5 on this week's Bubbling Under

david is such a great closer

huge improvement from solar power

4/5 from Alexis Petridis in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/26/lorde-virgin-review

I can't believe she's finally coming back

i wouldn't say flopping but it's kinda stalled. like it's #23 on spotify us which is not bad, but it's not like it's really smashing like we would've wanted

their visuals are so ******* good ugh

Just finished my first listen - it's obviously good to some degree because the singles were already amazing to begin with, but I have to say I'm a little disapointed with the album Out of the new tracks, Sugar Free Venom could've been a lot better I think, even if I like the Kesha feature, the production sounds not fully fleshed out. Television is maybe my least fav track, it just sounds way too much like generic house music and you can 100% tell BloodPop produced it, the beat totally sounds like it's from Chromatica or something like that lol. Thankfully, the last 3 tracks are really cool and campy, and it's overall a really good debut, but I feel like it could've been properly stellar if it had less BloodPop in it and more A.G. or someone else.

yeah i just re-listened to the demo and it has so many cool elements i wish were present on the actual released version... the album version is still great though and it's actually becoming a hit so a win is a win ig

yeah that nylon set still lives in my heart, I remember being so scared when she said she was going to rework p4u for hifn cause I was fearing we'd get a worse version of the og demo

cautiously hyped for this

well Still is her worst album so I take it as a good thing she's moving from it too fast

#25 US Spotify!

they're still not out but I'm not expecting this to debut, at least not this week. This is performing better than any of her previous singles so far (Diet Pepsi took a long time to become a moderate hit) so they totally need to send this to radio ASAP before the streaming dies down. If they get the timing right she could have a hit single during album release week which would be really great for her