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Way to go, Pennsylvania! Still a bit nervous about Nevada though. And I’m glad to see so many election deniers lose. Hopefully we can add Kari Lake and Boebert to that list.

Looks like Disney's "payola" effort to get Lift Me Up to #1 didn't work. LMU got 48.1 million in radio audience, compared to Anti-Hero getting 37.6 million radio airplay audience impressions (up 17%). Usually on radio, songs build up week to week. Also, I wonder if Disney influenced Billboard to start using the new tracking method (that now gives more points to radio) on Monday October 31 (in the middle of the tracking week too!), because the new method was suppose to start in December. Anti-Hero becomes Taylor's first multi-week #1 since Look What You Made Me Do in 2017. Very surprised Midnight Rain did that well in the second week. It doesn't have the "at the beginning of the album" boost, and it didn't get any promotion, and it's not a top favourite among fans, from what I've seen. LOL But it's doing well on streaming. Weird.

Good luck, America! Hope the path to America's destruction won't be accelerated tonight, or later this week.

Ratings for the week October 24-28, 2022

Daemon's eager for the throne - that's what I thought for why Otto was against it. But for the King, it was the ick factor - I guess I was wrong about that. LOL

LOL Yeah, that is pretty ridiculous and awesome. I'm happy Taylor became the first to get all 10 spots. This is her 3rd number 1 as a producer. She also has the record for most #2's (7 songs) that never went to #1. Here's a rundown of what she achieved on the hot 100, from Billboard's article: - she becomes the first artist to claim the survey’s entire top 10 in a single frame. - she now boasts the most top 10s among women in the chart’s history, with 40 (surpassing Madonna’s 38). Among all acts, she trails only Drake (59 top 10s). - she ties Ariana Grande for the most No. 1 entrances (5) among women. - Swift is the first artist to have debuted atop the Billboard 200 and Hot 100 simultaneously as many as four times. With the rule change coming in November, I wonder how it's going to affect future album bombs. Will it make it harder to dominate the chart like this?

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Blasts in at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Chart With Biggest Week for an Album in 7 Years Taylor Swift achieves her 11th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Nov. 5) as Midnights arrives with the biggest week for any album in nearly seven years. The set launches with 1.578 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 27, according to Luminate. The last album to tally a larger week was the debut frame of Adele’s 25, when it bowed with 3.482 million units (Dec. 12, 2015-dated chart). Midnights was released on Oct. 21 after being announced two months earlier by Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards (Aug. 28). No music from the album was released until the set dropped on Oct. 21, when she also issued the music video for Midnights’ first single, “Anti-Hero.” Midnights is Swift’s 10th full-length studio album and initially bowed as a 13-track standard release. Three hours after Midnights’ arrival, Swift released a deluxe version of the album (its “3am Edition”) with seven bonus tracks. Swift now ties Barbra Streisand for the most No. 1 albums among women. Swift is also the sixth act with more than 10 No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 since the chart began regularly publishing on a weekly basis in 1956. She joins The Beatles (who lead with a record 19 No. 1s), Jay-Z (14), Drake, Bruce Springsteen and Streisand (each with 11). Midnights is already the year’s top-selling album by overall sales through the year, and tallies the largest sales week for an album since her own reputation debuted in 2017, the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, and the biggest sales week for a vinyl album in the modern era (since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991). Of Midnights’ 1.578 equivalent album units earned, album sales comprise 1.140 million, SEA units comprise 419,000 (equaling 549.26 million on-demand official streams of the set’s 20 total tracks) and TEA units comprise 19,000. Third-Biggest Streaming Week Ever: Midnights logs the third-largest streaming week ever for an album, by total on-demand official streams. It also captures the biggest streaming week for a non-R&B/hip-hop album and any album by a woman. The Nos. 1 and 2 biggest streaming weeks were logged by the debut frames of Drake’s Scorpion (745.92 million) and Certified Lover Boy (743.67 million), respectively. Previously, Swift’s biggest streaming week for an album was tallied by the first week of Red (Taylor’s Version), with 303.23 million in 2021. 2022’s Top-Selling Album: With 1.140 million sold, Midnights is easily 2022’s top-selling album already. Previously, 2022’s top-seller — adding up all sales generated through the year — was Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, with 633,000 copies sold through Oct. 27. (In terms of total equivalent album units, Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti is 2022’s biggest album, with 2.911 million units earned.) Breaking down Midnights’ first-week sales of 1.140 million, physical sales comprise 980,000 (575,000 on vinyl, 395,000 on CD and 10,000 on cassette) and digital album downloads comprise 161,000. Biggest Sales Week Since Swift’s Own reputation: The 1.140 million sales number for Midnights marks the largest sales week for any album since Swift’s own reputation debuted with 1.216 million copies sold (chart dated Dec. 2, 2017). Swift Has Five Albums With Million-Plus Sales Weeks: Midnights is the 22nd album to sell at least 1 million copies in a single week since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. In total, there have been 24 instances — by 22 different albums — in which an album sold at least 1 million copies in a week. One of those albums, Adele’s 25, sold more than 1 million in three separate weeks. Swift is the only artist with five different albums to each sell at least 1 million copies in a single week in the Luminate era — Midnights, reputation, 1989, Red, and Speak Now. Further, now with five, Swift remains the only act with at least three different albums that hit the million-sales weekly threshold. Three acts have a pair of albums that each managed a million-plus sales week: Backstreet Boys, Eminem and *NSYNC. New Modern-Era Vinyl Sales Record: Midnights handily breaks the modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales in the U.S. with 575,000 vinyl LPs sold. That’s the largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. It surges past the previous high, set earlier this year, when Harry’s House debuted with 182,000 vinyl copies (week ending May 26, 2021). Midnights is also already 2022’s top-seller on vinyl year-to-date. Previously, the year’s top-seller on vinyl was Harry’s House, with 377,000 sold through the year. Midnights’ 395,000 in CD sales is the largest sales week for an album on CD since reputation launched with 507,000 copies sold. -------------------- 1.578 million equivalent album and 1.14 million in pure albums!! This is Taylor's best week EVER, in units, and 4th best ever in pure albums. What a huge achievement in the streaming era and post-bundle era. Getting over 1 million in pure albums is not suppose to happen, it doesn't matter how many variants there are. That vinyls number of 575,000 is insane. The numbers are shocking because there was no massive lead single, and there wasn't a lot of promotion. All she basically did was slowly release the title tracks, and did one TV interview. There was no other TV interviews, no magazine/print interviews, no radio interviews. If she was able to get these numbers, I wonder how big it would've been if she did a ton of promo. 16 years into her career and on her 10th original album, and she's still doing incredible numbers. With making 6 albums in 3 years, there is no doubt she is the hardest working music superstar, and there's no signs of slowing down.

Ratings for the week October 17-21, 2022

Episode 1.8: "Say it." "Her children.....ARE BASTAAAARDS!!! And she is a whore." Me: 🤣.....to.... 😮 Dude got his face sliced in half! LOL Superb music for King Viserys entrance and walk to the throne. He truly loved Rhaenyra and had to be there for his daughter one last time. What a scene! Episode 1.9: "You desire not to be free but to make a window in the wall of your prison." This scene between Rhaenys and Alicent was so good! That line by Rhaenys is one of the best from the season. And then the dragon scene at the end. This episode made me like Rhaenys. Episode 1.10: Can they please stop with birthing scenes???? This was the most gruesome of all, and I had do periodically look away. What was the point of Rhaenyra losing the baby? I hope we get a Rhaenyra/Alicent showdown scene next season. They are my two favourite characters on the show. Incest question...... Earlier in the season, why did they make it seem like Rhaenyra and Daemon getting together was taboo, yet Viserys/Alicent's son and daughter married each other. I figure incest marriage is mainly for strategy, but I don't see the point of Aegon/Haelena. Why was Aegon/Haelena pairing okay?

Wow! Getting James Gunn is huge. But it's only for 4 years, at least. Can't wait to see what they're plan will be.

I love Dear Reader too! I hope people take to heart the message of the song. "Find another guiding light..." was the perfect way to put it. She's going to have her best first week EVER, however, that's in units. After four days, the album already crossed 1 million in pure sales, but I don't think I've seen the exact number yet. So, Midnights might still have a chance to beat 1989 in pure sales.

Midnights is projected to have 8-10 songs in the top 10. The record is 9 set by Drake from his Certified Lover Boy album. Let's see if Taylor can make history as she's already doing on the Billboard 200.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Off to Record-Breaking Start in U.S. - It already has the largest sales week for any album since 2017, is the top-selling album of 2022, and sets a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales. - Taylor Swift’s Midnights is off to a record-breaking start in the U.S. after its first day in release. According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. through its first day across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). It has already logged the largest sales week for any album since 2017, is the top-selling album of 2022 year-to-date, and has set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales. - 2022’s Top-Selling Album After One Day: Midnights’ initial sales sum already makes it the biggest-selling album of 2022 year-to-date. Previously, 2022’s top-selling album, year-to-date, was Harry Styles’ Harry’s House, with 620,000 copies sold through the week ending Oct. 13. - Biggest Sales Week for Any Album Since Swift’s reputation in 2017: With just one day of sales, Midnights logs the largest sales week for any album in the U.S. since Swift’s own reputation - Modern-Era Vinyl Sales Record: Further, Midnights handily breaks the modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales in the U.S., with over 400,000 copies sold so far. That’s the largest week for an album on vinyl since Luminate began tracking music sales in 1991. It surpasses the previous high, set earlier this year, when Harry’s House debuted with 182,000 vinyl copies (week ending May 26, 2021). -------------- Midnights is doing INSANE numbers after just one day of release. It sold 800,000 copies, as in pure album sales in one day?? What!?? It now has a great chance to go over 1 million units in one week, maybe 1 million pure album sales?? Wow. Didn't think 1 million pure albums sales was possible, in the post-bundles era, once Adele didn't achieve it with '30'. It also broke the Global Spotify record.

So the lettuce won! 🤣

Ratings for the week October 10-14, 2022

Gifs in signature - I'll take this one, @Errol. That's not happening.

Ratings for the week October 3-7, 2022

So after weeks of plotting, Nate decides to confess? WTF. Why does Griffith refuse to write any conflict in the show? This is the second time he's done this with someone plotting a scheme (Billy setting up Adam) but doesn't follow through and confesses.

Very stupid indeed. I just thinking earlier this week about how dumb the American legal age of 21 is.

SON can legally drink and gamble in the US now! Yay! 🤣

She's fantastic! I really like Queen Alicent now. Those family scenes after the kids' fight (which was also great, I thought someone was going to get killed) was so damn good. I loved the tension and in-fighting and accusations. "I'm not a kid anymore, uncle. Please fuck me." Ewwwww.......haha.

I was so disappointed with that news. Now that he and Pete Davidson are gone, who's going to do the taped musical elements now? I loved those.

Agreed. Ridge Forrester has got to be one of the worst characters on soaps. I don't understand why Brooke and Taylor keep taking him back. He's such a loser. And Taylor once again will look like an idiot when Ridge goes running back to Brooke.

Ratings for the week September 26-30, 2022

Just put someone on ignore and you won't have to see their posts. Recaps are okay if you're not copy/pasting it from another source. If Donna wants to type up a recap herself, she can. If you don't like, just scroll down.