I thought LM were getting over saturated and the public would need a rest from them. Obviously not!

I think it will be released around the same time as SOTME gets US airplay so probably the 20th.

Sorry i do tend to rub things in when i get them right, but stoney silent when I am wrong.

Great to see GW still sitting at 42.

If we are wrong it never happened.

Incredible to think that 4 girls who thought they'd be gone in Week 2 are in this position today. What a success story.

Guess whats added to Columbia's flyer next week.

It is so incredible it must surely be worthy of a Hollywood film, well i can dream.

My Little Mix: Behind the Music dream is getting closer.

Metro fail

The girl group’s third album Touch has been at the top of the album charts for a cool four weeks now, the first time a girl band has done so since Destiny’s Child’s Survivor in 2001.

Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/06/little...-child-6365391

They need to capitalize while the track is still A-listed at Radio 1, though I suppose that matters less now than ever. I'd like to see the video next week and then the week after a Live Lounge and evening show appearance before they head off to the US for the impact date. But it's probably not going to happen.

UK Sales Update

Glory Days 22.000 (434.000 total)

Get Weird 4.000 (680.000 total)

Music Week left out the paragraph for the Top 10 singles so the sales are missing.

1 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 48,182 25,492 3,403,537
2 Rag'N'Bone Man 41,321
3 Zara Larsson
4 Little Mix [Touch]
5 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk
6 NEIKED feat. Dyo 26,718
7 Bruno Mars
8 James Arthur
9 Little Mix [Shout Out To My Ex]
10 Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki 21,855

41 Little Mix feat. Charlie Puth 10,305

With two of its tracks remaining in the Top 10 of the singles chart, Little Mix's fourth studio album, Glory Days, spends its fourth week in total and second week in a row atop the artist album chart, albeit on the lowest sales for a No.1 album - 24,962 including 2,956 from streams - in 13 weeks.

1 Little Mix 24,962 22,006 2,956 (434,000)
2 Pete Tong, The Heritage of Jules Buckley 21,286 (96,700)
3 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe 21,248
4 Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 15,983
5 The Rolling Stones 13,936
6 Olly Murs 13,890
7 Adele 12,399
8 Robbie Williams 11,316
9 Bruno Mars 10,869
10 Rick Astley 10,689 (259,598)

11 George Michael 10,192
14 Emeli Sande 8,549
16 Trolls OST 6,986
19 Christine & The Queens 5,813 (168,998)
27 Moana OST 5,057
31 Wham! [The Final] 4,520

42 LM Get Weird
45 George Michael [Twenty Five] 3,676
51 Adele [21] 3,214 (5,002,343; 4,938,604 pure sales)
66 Caravan Palace 2,245
79 Adele [19] 2,007

174 Michael Buble [Christmas] 866

Finally Hits DD features them again. I notice this week's article is missing the byline of a writer who seemed (to me) to downplay them a lot.

http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=304409

Edit: Leeds 2 is sold out on Ticketmaster now. Just Newcastle 4, Sheffield 3, Leeds 3 (matinee), and Glasgow 4 VIP left by my reckoning, and all of those are showing significant sales this week other than Glasgow.

To be fair to HDD, they dont mention the entire Top 10 in their weekly UK roundup. But LM have been mentioned when they were positioned high enough.

While you're at HDD there's an article on streaming increasing revenue in the UK.
http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=304395

They've had a few #1 album weeks kind of buried. I understand George Michael was the story of the week last week but a couple of sentences would be nice.

Streaming is taking over incredibly fast. Last month the industry reached the milestone of 100m paid subscriptions worldwide.
https://musicindustryblog.wordpress....world-changed/

Good thing LM's streaming performance suddenly surged - or is that a natural effect of less techie demographics joining the services?

Eh? They were mentioned last week.
http://hitsdailydouble.com/blighty_beat

Not a big fuss because it was returning.

Under the same section they were also in the 2016 Biggest Sellers article (they rated a pic)
http://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=304346

MTV top 40 just played the Xfactor Touch performance that sits at #4

From Pulse about Ed's Shape of You:

Goes for adds next week according to AllAccess.

And there you have it. Columbia didnt want to fight with Ed, smartly.

Next week is the 10th though, right? That's why I'm suspicious another artist is dropping next week, and going for adds on the 17th.

Or it could be that they want to do a bit of UK promo and want the girls here for impact, or a few big stations asked for a longer post-freeze trial period, or the label's just being messy again....

You're mixing up New Music Fridays with how radio operates, they usually change over on Monday or Tuesday, I forget which.

Edit: oops I should look at a calendar. Maybe Columbia wanted to give more clearance around Ed.

More clearance is reasonable... but they're likely to be followed by Lorde or Katy or other artists of similar size a week or two later, so not sure how much it'll matter.

One followup to streaming, in the US it's more than 1/2 of consumption now (greater than physicals and downloads combined) and driving double digit revenue growth.
http://www.billboard.com/files/pdfs/...d-bulletin.pdf

Ed Sheeran is likely to have mostly auto-adds, so his actual impact date will be immaterial.

FYI, a radio station must auto-add a song if they play it 7 or more times during a given week.

Touch down to 4 again thanks to Ed. 291,582, despite that its increased almost 20,000.

UK Itunes:
#143 Salute

Is it discounted?

Also, I think "Oops" is doing really well. I checked the airplay charts and it's not even in the Top40. Pretty sure that Heart isn't even playing it, only Capital.

HeadlinePlanet.com ‏@headlineplanet
.@LittleMix's #ShoutOutToMyEx has a good chance of ranking as Radio Disney's most played song for the January 1-7 tracking week.

Go Salute (for whatever reason)!

I'm still hazy on what the strategy is for the simultaneous debut of Touch and Oops.

Nice to see them doing well on Radio Disney, not the station they'll need eventually but at least the track is getting a good response.

I thought the strategy with Touch/Oops was basically to go for Touch but play Oops on a few HAC stations to move extra copies and get it in strong position for a third single launch in a few months.