Pop Smoke's Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon claims "bittersweet" Number 1 on Official UK Albums Chart

uuuuh cos otherwise the album wouldn't be released ever. Its good music. I'm in a bad mood else I wouldn't say this but I think everyone saying Ava was robbed needs to **** off cos Pop is just as good as anyone else.

Yeah but Piran, with music, it can’t all be happy happy all the time. People can have different and negative opinions and think something is rubbish when they don’t like it, and are entitled and allowed to express it.
But not to outright insult someone else for liking something that the other person doesn’t, that’s not right obviously.

I guess I'm just more the kind of person who just talks about the positives! If there's an song, album or artist that I don't like, I just tend not to talk about them, or say "I don't like it" or "It's not for me", rather than "It's horrible", for example. :)

Same! apart from the WAP incident on discord, I haven't actually said anything is horrible, and I like Pop's album, not so much Ava's but that doesn't matter. I'd still be ok if Ava went to #1

Yeah, but even then, at least you were apologetic about that incident! Unfortunately, it's not the same on most albums chart articles I've read recently. :/

such a shame :(

Agree :) i hate people downvoting everyone saying Pop deserved it cos its an opinion and they're saying Ava was "robbed" 🙄

Brenton-Lee Jones It shouldn’t be allowed in the singles chart either, it screws up the chart, makes no sense when included and allows all the most god-awful so-called, “music”, from extremely talentless people to get streamed in, especially the worst kind of music from that cancerous app, TikTok

TikTok is awful sure but most of the music in the Chart is awesome and streaming definitely should be included. Everyone streams. I'm sick of people saying it should just be sales. It should be both. Periodt.

Naw, it really isn’t. Most people might stream music but it really should NOT have been included in the chart, it has never made sense and the amount of times the OCC has had to change the rules to fit it in and it still doesn’t work. I’m actually sick of people defending it. Because of that the majority of songs that get in the chart are utter unoriginal rap that gets streamed in by teenagers and it all sounds EXACTLY. THE. SAME.
Plus artists don’t get paid from it hardly either.
Have 2 separate charts, one for sales and one for streams.
*Period.

"Have 2 separate charts, one for sales and one for streams."

They already have...

Sales Chart: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-sales-chart/

Streaming Chart: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/audio-streaming-chart/

rap is like any other genre abd i dont get why people think its "" when its not. Maybe its different, maybe its the language, maybe its the themes and yes U dont like every rap song but just because I'm not a fan of "Emotionally Scarred" by Lil Baby doesnt mean Im gonna go and call it . I respect people may dislike rap but calling it is downright disrespectful and untrue.

(also streaming is important and should be included)

(and independent artists benefit from streaming)

No no, you misunderstand me there, not rap as a whole, just this modern day variation of it. It’s all exactly the same, “Boom, baboom, trrrt, t-trrrt”, if you know what I mean, it gets so tiring hearing the same boring cack over and over again
But you are allowed to call it because some songs just are, and some rappers voices just sound horrible and there’s no effort in the lyrics or music no matter what the song, like Megan Thee Stallion, for example.
I could listen loads of excellent rap songs from years ago that are just in a different league and much better than any of the dross churned out today. Some of them even use instruments in their songs.
T.I.’s Dead And Gone, Tinie Tempah’s Pass Out and Written In The Stars, Eminem’s Darkness, The Real Slim Shady, Like Toy Soldiers, Coolio’s Gangster’s Paradise, NF’s Let You Down, P Diddy’s I’ll Be Missing You and Coming Home, Professor Green’s Read All About It, all fantastic rap songs among others, and Missy Elliot is incredible too
Also not a fan of Nicki Minaj generally but her track Freedom is one of the best things she ever did in her career
The point of rap is to rap in time with the flow and rhythm of the music and the beat, not to just talk or mumble throwaway garbage or rap too fast that no-one understands what you’re saying
Also no I don’t think streaming is important or should be included, it only makes the charts biased and focuses on one demographic instead of everyone, teenagers who stream in mostly rubbish, which is also ageist as well.
The only ones that benefit from it are the streaming companies like Spotify, the artists get paid hardly anything for it especially when compared with actual sales, which feel a lot more credible than just basically listens, which feel totally hollow and just don’t matter.

Also just to quote someone else: “It ensures the charts are 95% ageist and that artists have to constantly release music to stay relevant. There’s no let up. There’s no build up. The same songs just stick around for ages because they are constantly rotating on playlists. Music is easily consumable due to owning nothing and so the charts are a reflection of what some people are listening to but not making the conscious decision to own.”
So, yeah, I think they’re spot on.

Some modern-day rappers have a "sing flow" like Roddy Ricch for example, who raps but it flows like singing. Plus, the songs have awesome beats.

And independent artists gain money from streams on Spotify.

Good for them. It shows they're POPULAR. And besides, OCC has the ACR & 3-single rule anyway.

I agree :)

Nah Pop Smoke music is awesome and if anything he was robbed of a #1 by Paul Weller. Nothing against Ava Max but honestly even some of her fans hate the album.

Naw I think he’s pish man. Just utter with no effort, sounds exactly the same as all the rest of the throwaway rap out the now. I don’t think mumbling incoherently to a computerised drumbeat is music. I’m not a fan of Paul Weller either but at least he plays instruments. Ava Max was actually selling records all week which were credible sales though, Pop Smoke is just getting in through nothing but listens, he hasn’t sold one thing. It just makes it feel all so hollow and you just cannot compare anything now to the records held by songs and albums of years before because they actually sold and worked hard to get there. That kind of stuff does nothing for me mate.
Also some fans of every artist are gonna hate the album, but plenty will like it as well, that makes no difference.
If you like him though that’s your business nothing against you, just different opinions is all 👍

Same. I like a broad variety of music, for example I like Pop Smoke's album (which tbh doesn't sound anything like the other rap songs) but I also liked the 'folklore' album and was overjoyed with 'Head & Heart' at UK #1. Personally I dont think it should be just sales because everyone streams these days.

Also, Pop Smoke may not play an instrument but there are producers who do learn instruments and learn about the software used to create the music and it looks really confusing 😂

Yeah I do know what you mean, but real producers that do use instruments as well, for example Timbaland, he was brilliant 👍 and it does look confusing as
I just think it messes up the charts haha
But no worries though it’s all just opinions as I said :) I loved Head And Heart at number 1 as well, would rather that stayed there for longer instead of the infuriatingly awful WAP

I was Hoping it'd get another week before ACR and then Mood or something would knock it off instead of WAP ☹️

I agree :) pop smoke had it for streaming points only reason.