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have to say my instant reaction to this idea was that more or less every pop star has a song on their album these days where the internet goes "is this about taylor?!" and i'm not buying it any more than with the last half dozen lol

i understand people feeling like its frustrating, unfinished and all that (i'm sure i'd prefer an easier going record) but i guess that the point of it is that if she'd wanted to release a more polished record then that's what she'd have done it doesn't mean that everyone will like it or be bothered enough to go along with it but it's that way for a reason and i guess the challenge is to get what you can from that approach? the deliberate irritations are a prod at the listener and there are times where it's just a bit tiresome but i can enjoy the playfulness of it as well

i think that when he used his magic wand, i felt that on a deep level

top 5 most emotional songs ariana grande - get well soon whitney houston - i have nothing lorde - clearblue britney spears - everytime taylor swift - wood

i remember checking this out a while ago to see how normal it was and it's reached the stage where the arts section has gone full anti-woke as well, neil mccormick still slagging off girls aloud for being "processed" and going on about how he met bono once (a surprising beyoncé stan tho)

you should ask about it in HQ, they love it when people do that

i mean, that's what you write when you work for the telegraph, no surprises there but they're the opinions her employer pays her to have

682,000 as of last week 💥

i feel like ATRL more than makes up for any supportive culture that might exist elsewhere? if you feel too happy about yrself you can always find someone here to slag you off and i think that's beautiful

every star falls off in the end, she's still a legend tho, not everyone has that

i feel like i'm going to nearly but not quite get it in the next few days, then get bored for a bit and then come back to this in a couple of months and enjoy it more? (this is more plausible than it sounds)

no, barely scraped the top 30, he has a few hits i can remember (that + TRTH, on the beach, driving home for christmas and some others) but not many of them were that big

38k to 43k, so not that far off Sales Report: W/E 30th July 2026 Source: Music Week Commentary: Alan Jones Singles 01 43,450 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In [3 7" vinyl, 608 downloads, 42,839 streaming] 02 38,192 Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 03 27,279 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You 04 26,579 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song 05 26,016 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas 06 24,202 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind 07 24,052 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me 08 23,869 Oasis - Wonderwall 09 21,454 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure 10 21,077 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You 11 20,693 HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin' to the Sun 15 16,847 STELLA LEFTY - Boston 19 14,391 SIENNA SPIRO - Great Expectation 23 11,588 Alyssa Grace - bloodstream 31 10,739 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die with a Smile 32 10,731 Gracie Abrams - Hit the Wall 36 10,138 BTS - NORMAL 37 10,116 The Killers - Mr. Brightside [SCR: 20,101] 40 9,784 Noah Kahan - Orbiter 41 9,773 Gracie Abrams - Look At My Life 42 9,670 Fat Papi & prodshushy - FREAKED OUT 49 8,997 Audrey Hobert - Sue me 55 8,535 Gracie Abrams - Good Reason 57 8,502 Cameron Whitcomb - Kingdom of Fear 59 8,496 Bruno Mars - I Just Might 61 8,316 pupsies - misery. 67 7,849 HUGEL & SOLTO (FR) - Jamaican (Bam Bam) xxx 4,779 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions Albums 01 30,897 Gracie Abrams - Daughter from Hell [10,920 CDs, 6,012 vinyl, 4,819 cassettes, 1,114 downloads, 8,032 streaming] 02 15,229 Michael Jackson - The Essential 03 14,986 Olivia Rodrigo - you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love 04 8,711 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving 05 7,989 The Rolling Stones - Foreign Tongue 06 7,774 SIENNA SPIRO - Visitor 07 7,412 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop 08 6,679 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide 09 6,582 Katy Perry - The Ones That Got the Plays 10 6,492 The Weeknd - The Highlights 14 5,120 Madonna - CONFESSIONS II 15 5,105 Yard Act - You're Gonna Need a Little Music 25 4,371 Bruno Mars - The Romantic 30 3,747 Nia Archives - Emotional Junglist 31 3,596 Motionless In White - Decades 33 3,481 Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans 50 2,737 Bella Kay - My Reckless Abandon 54 2,674 New Order - (The Best of & The Rest of) New Order 68 2,401 Loathe - A Stranger to You 105 1,835 My Chemical Romance - Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys 134 1,652 Gracie Abrams - The Secret of Us [total: 383,142] 191 1,236 December 10 - On Your Side xxx 1,236 Bring Me The Horizon - Count Your Blessings | Repented Compilations 01 3,793 KPop Demon Hunters [(248 Yoto cards, 44 downloads, 3,501 streaming] Bonus Information Single Totals 417,238 Sister Nancy - Bam Bam Album Totals 425,823 New Order - (The Best of) New Order 56,435 New Order - (The Rest of) New Order 97,472 Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance

#1 here and in 5 other countries so far, could have flopped a lot harder

most weeks at #1 since early ATRL fave frankie laine in 1953 literally no proper new entries https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/20260724/7501/ https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/20260724/7502/

it's saying harry styles - kiss all the time claire rosinkranz - my lover laura nyro - american dreamer (live) gracie abrams - daughter from hell calvin harris - ready for the weekend but honestly that's kinda bullshit, it double counts some stuff and misses other things out completely, i've listened to gracie about 3 or 4 times this week and there's no way that should be there, plus there are ariana and britney albums i've played to death which are nowhere so a more accurate count is artists, which has taylor ariana britney calvin harris laura nyro (harry is 6 and claire is 8, gracie a way off) where i know i've actually listened to all those songs

no, 'crazy' is on baby one more time

no surprises really but it's great

I just looked in to ask for a banner for Charli's flop album but this is great, carry on

wow the backlash! that's quite funny

some of them are definitely catchier than others, 2007 is very instant, card declined and i'm afraid sound like they need playing a few times (have felt this a lot with camera and rock music but am getting along with them now). i will take a bold punt: ATRL is not going to like this album

just time to listen b4 bed and honestly rock music is starting to sound good now? haven't actually heard anything idk yet tho

it's troye, guess i'm cooked?

opalite is as good a single as she's released this decade, a potential alltimer and transatlantic #1, will be fondly remembered when the smoke clears from this album (am old enough to remember when TTPD was seen as an abomination)

honestly i don't think so as long as its well received by critics and i expect it to be cos it's their sort of thing, stans on music twitter going into meltdown when it drops out of the chart after three weeks are priced in at this point