I know it doesn't take many sales to get into the lower reaches of the charts but still, I can't see anyone else smiling in here, or flocking to the band quite so much as the Scots.

For the UK generally, the vinyl and CDs of More are selling steadily - ten weeks in and it's at number 28 in the physical UK chart (29 in all sales i.e including downloads). I imagine that's roughly between 500 and 1,000 a week.

It's only on streaming where More hasn't made a massive dent but given the ****ty payrate for streaming compared to physical sales, I imagine Rough Trade and the band won't mind that too much and will be pretty pleased how the album has performed. I think Pulp have hovered around the low 2m mark for monthly Spotify listeners from memory. I saw it go up to 3m at one stage recently, it's at 2.9m currently.


I also did a little dig to see how the singles from More are doing in terms of airplay. This nifty site gives running track-listings of the songs being played on different radio stations in real time - https://onlineradiobox.com/ so you can see all the songs getting national airplay during the day. Tina until this week I think, has been on the main playlist for BBC Radios 2 & 6 over the past month and it seemed to be getting a few plays a day across both stations. Given the fun lyrics, it would be interesting to hear the DJs introduction/outro comments on the song (i.e like Stephen gathered with his Pulp Portfolios and those painstakingly-presented snippets from old John Peel shows queueing up Pulp with the hope of a compliment or some wry critical response).

For Tina, I've only caught a couple of these recently when listening while working. I liked Lauren Laverne's best. After it finished playing on her 6Music show last week or the week before she said something like "Well if Tina reads a book on the train, she's my type of gal!".

The BBC support for Pulp/More has been strong and is kind of taken as a given, so I had a quick look at Radio X and Absolute Radio - to their credit Spike Island and Got To Have Love have been on their playlists all summer and are getting a handful of plays a day each, even now (just counted for today, GTHL has 5 plays and Spike Island has 2 so far, across both stations). Arguably, Tina is not "blokey" enough to be on their radar - their stock-in-trade is indie anthems.

I can't get the site to bring-up the list of Virgin Radio's songs played. Curious to see if Chris Evans has given any attention to Pulp this summer or whether he still holds a grudge from their last interaction...

There might yet be more PR for the album. The 2025 Mercury Prize nominees should be announced any day/week now - it's on later this year than usual, in October and being held outside of London for the first time - they're taking it to Newcastle. More has got to be a strong contender for nomination. If so, expect further coverage for the album and a massive jump up the charts on the week of the awards.

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I had a look but that facility doesn't exist, unfortunately.

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