Kylie - Tension (Album XVI)

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Halli said:
She looked bloody knackered on Graham Norton and she's not stopped. I hope she's having a week OFF!
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Looking far more refreshed at the Grammy Museum in LA last night:

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Also according to what she said at the event, the Vegas setist has been finalised, the focus will be on newer material and she is yet to start rehearsals.
 
Everyone's broke, lads. I jumped at the £4.99 download. I bought the normal CD of Disco, I bought the deluxe book-style CD of Golden. That's yr trajectory right there.
 
Eddie said:
The comparison with Disco's progress at the same stage is quite startling though.
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ZZZZZZZ!

stop comparing with industry sales THREE YEARS AGO, do you know how fast things are moving? sales are like a third down vs. 2020.
 
Jark said:
ZZZZZZZ!

stop comparing with industry sales THREE YEARS AGO, do you know how fast things are moving? sales are like a third down vs. 2020.
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Do you have evidence of this? I want to believe it.
 
lolly said:
Do you have evidence of this? I want to believe it.
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I saw something on Popjustice a few days back but I'm not sure how I'd find it now. I believe the figure was that total UK album sales were at 2.7 million in 2022 and are currently projected at 1.9 million in 2023... which is a third down over ONE year ago, not three.
 
Jark said:
I saw something on Popjustice a few days back but I'm not sure how I'd find it now. I believe the figure was that total UK album sales were at 2.7 million in 2022 and are currently projected at 1.9 million in 2023... which is a third down over ONE year ago, not three.
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Hang on, NME are reporting this today:

The statistics were collected from the BPI (via MusicWeek) and highlighted that from the beginning of the year until the end of September, 3,952,262 vinyl LPs were sold.

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Vinyl sales up nearly 15 per cent in 2023

Artists including Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and Blur have aided the sales
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sorry, I think it was 190 million vs. 270 million :D

album equivalent sales were at 90m from Jan to June, so 190m for the year would make sense.

www.musicweek.com

2023 half-year market analysis: Growth for UK streaming and vinyl sales hits double digits

Catalogue makes up 70% of the Top 20 LPs for the first six months of the year. Lewis Capaldi has the biggest album released in 2023, as well as a strong showing for his debut. Read on for Music Week’s analysis of exclusive market figures and sales data…
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hopefully I can find the exact stat somewhere
 
Jark said:
sorry, I think it was 190 million vs. 270 million :D

album equivalent sales were at 90m from Jan to June, so 190m for the year would make sense.

www.musicweek.com

2023 half-year market analysis: Growth for UK streaming and vinyl sales hits double digits

Catalogue makes up 70% of the Top 20 LPs for the first six months of the year. Lewis Capaldi has the biggest album released in 2023, as well as a strong showing for his debut. Read on for Music Week’s analysis of exclusive market figures and sales data…
www.musicweek.com www.musicweek.com

hopefully I can find the exact stat somewhere
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But it says that's up 9.5% as consumption, and that physical sales are flat - down 0.3%.
 
And according to the BPI end of year report (via Billboard), 166m albums were streamed or purchased in 2022, an increase of 4.3% on 2021.

Within that, CD sales were down 19.3% and vinyl up 2.9%. Considering that CDs still made up 67% of the physical market and vinyl 31.7%, that's a big physical loss which streaming obviously outperformed if the total market was up.
 
Yeah I’d say streams from albums are up, but physicals seem to be down on the whole - for new albums at least, but it’d be very hard to remove all the older reissued vinyls from the stats.

So I’d guess artists that are more physical driven (Kylie, Steps, whoever) will lose out in totals, whereas streaming faves (The Weeknd, Drake) may see increases overall in totals?
 
Devil said:
Yeah I’d say streams from albums are up, but physicals seem to be down on the whole - for new albums at least, but it’d be very hard to remove all the older reissued vinyls from the stats.

So I’d guess artists that are more physical driven (Kylie, Steps, whoever) will lose out in totals, whereas streaming faves (The Weeknd, Drake) may see increases overall in totals?
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And that certainly helps explain why catalogue albums are only dominating the album chart more and more.
 
#8 in the final midweek update yesterday. Only #30 for the day (though midweek a lot ahead will be older albums from streams as numbers are so low). But may indicate a large fall next week in the absence of promotion or discounting etc.
 
bit of a drop but could have been worse.
I think with Christmas and the audience with we might have to wait a bit but should keep it selling.
I see Tension is still A-list this week at R2 its stayed longer than I thought, I am assuming they will go onto Hold on to Now soon
 
#23 in midweeks. Was the #38 seller yesterday, so should bode well to hold top 40 at least which is probably about expected.
 
Just realised that yesterday was the first day I didn't play the album :(
 
Devil said:
#23 in midweeks. Was the #38 seller yesterday, so should bode well to hold top 40 at least which is probably about expected.
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Anything else interesting? If the UK chooses now to have Roger Waters at #1, we'll be in trouble...
 
I seem to have a penchant for a lot of her one word titles. Slow, Breathe and Fine (yes, I said Fine) are amongst my ultimate favourites of hers and now Story is up there too.
 
I love Story. But is it wrong that I love it even more because she sings the words 'raging hard on'?
 
Someone, in one of those BuzzFeed type quizzes, should ask her which of her songs features that (snippet of a) lyric.
 
It is a big drop but context is important. If you take out any album that is a Greatest Hits, is brand new this week or has been in the chart a year or more then there is only about 7 albums in the top 40 that are what you would call ‘current’. And 6 of those are streaming forces (Olivia, Ed, Burna Boy whoever that is etc). I’ve just noticed Rihanna’s Good Girl Gone Bad is #57 this week - this alone sort of sums up the state of album charts in general in 2023.

It‘s actually nearly impressive to be top 40 for a third week as a fanbase/heritage artist with a studio album. Doja Cat is #78 this week as a comparison to someone else releasing the same week that has a studio album out and is popular with the masses.
 
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