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I do think black pop girls have it harder nowadays, though....like much harder. The fact that we had more Black women in the mainstream in 2006 than in 2026 is beyond depressing and scary. It seems like no matter what Black female artists do, they will never be given a chance by music fans. And whenever you call this out, you get an influx of people berating you about "fake support" when the reality is, they do literally anything to dismiss these artists whilst embracing the same from other girls. For the white girls, it's a matter of: they'll build you up, and suddenly they'll try and belittle you for playing the game for a bit - e.g. Adela was loved by underground (trademark) music twinks, but the minute she made an album following the influences of her mainstream faves, it's been hated on and deemed bad just for it to produce her two breakout hits.

The reason why Ain't in LA barely has 100M is that streams are the lowest they've been since 2016 (if we're speaking about the top end of the chart), Billie, Olivia, Sabrina, Tate and Chappell all have songs which, when they were new, were big and massive hits that had strong streaming numbers/debuts. Also you must remember Ain't in LA only debuted with 1M streams; it's climbed its way to where it's at. Once it does 2M on a daily basis, you'll see the growth. In terms of "death of monoculture", I feel like people are using this excuse as a reason as to why the industry feels so weird atm, when the truth is 2026 has failed to produce a hit that has really gagged the public for a lengthy period of time - yeah, we've had Olivia's album and HTIMYLM, but compared to 2025 (which was also dry), this year has been lacking. Currently in the Spotify Global Top 50, there are only 18 songs that were released in 2026 - 12 of which were released since May. People have been unimpressed with new music releases for the most part, and many big hitters are MIA. 2027 may see new albums by people such as Taylor, Tate, Beyonce, SZA, Sabrina, Billie, Bad Bunny, The Weeknd, Kendrick, and that's without considering which new artists will blow up too, so we may see the chart numbers absolutely skyrocket - hopefully we will. Sorry for the paragraphs

The Classic ATRL link to any old chart discussions seems to have be deleted permanently and kworb is inaccurate sometimes.

Obviously, we're in a very conservative era and have been since 2022/23, but of course, the pendulum exists. When do you guys think it will swing back?

Since it's been rumoured that X Factor UK could be coming back in 2027, I've been thinking about whether a Dream Academy UK version or a show with a similar format to Dream Academy could work for Saturday Night TV, with the public voting at every turn. Personally, I don't think X Factor would work, but based on how popular Dream Academy was, I feel like the British public could be invested idk

Tate and Addison are both heavily inspired by the pop stars of the 2000s whether it's their sound, performance style, looks - yet despite the fact she does it better and get better results for it, Tate gets nothing but scathing attacks from Twitter gays meanwhile Addison could do the same 3x worse and get nothing but flowers and praise?

Who's winning?

COVID was an era-defining situation; the world has never been the same since, but what would the pop music landscape be like? What would the careers of our pop girls look like?

Does this mean that those snippets are 100% real

For the people who claim they read the lyrics already, do those society/empathy lyrics match?

Because hip hop and country get uplifted on Apple Music USA (To the point where I'm genuinely suspicious) . Only there would Yung Miami have a top 10

I just remembered at the end of one of her tour diary videos, a slowed instrumental played and it sounds like its in the same key as bloodline - is that a teaser for never get over me? Play the video at 1.25x speed.

@Mr.S Please say anything by Wednesday.

@Mr.S HEAR OUR CRY