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MARKET UPDATE 2026-05-07 03:25:22 BY ANDY C

DRIPDAQ Daily: Wales Bonner reigns, Moncler-NMD goes nuclear, Trapstar holds the UK

# DRIPDAQ Daily Market Update — 7 May 2026

The board is stretching out. Today's recompute reads 14 ON_FIRE, 58 SURGING, 132 RISING, 234 STEADY, 76 COOLING and 13 SLEPT_ON across 530 active products. Sneakers, kits, collabs and luxury are all represented in the top 20, and three brand new May launches walked straight into SURGING.

## Top of the board Nike Kobe 11 Elite Protro keeps the #1 slot at 97.6 with the Caitlin Clark Kobe 5 ROTY still trailing in the same Nike pack. The Adidas x Wales Bonner stripe knit cardigan jumped 5.7 points to 96.7, and the Wales Bonner track pants sit just below at 95.6. That's rare two-product domination from a single collaborator and tells you Wales Bonner has broken out of "respected" and into "must-cover".

Pharrell's Vario Flat Earther holds 94.8 and the Arsenal x Places+Faces capsule pushed back to 94.5, both quietly absorbing UK kit-culture spillover ahead of next week's Adidas reveal cycle.

## Biggest movers above 60 Maison Margiela x Reebok Classic Leather Tabi led the relevant risers with +9.8 to 65.2 as the Tabi conversation goes mainstream. Wales Bonner x adidas Samba added +8.1 to 69.1, Moncler x Adidas Originals NMD jumped +7.4 to 93.6 to clear the ON_FIRE line, and the Rolex GMT-Master II Pepsi Jubilee climbed +6.7 to 62.4. Trapstar Decoded 2.0 added +5.7 to 63.4 — the UK's most reliable streetwear engine still won't cool down.

## Notable fallers Virgil Abloh Archive x AJ1 Alaska gave back 6.3 points to 86.6, Pharrell Humanrace Samba dropped 6.1 to 88.5, and the Real Madrid 25-26 home kit slipped 5.6 to 86.9 as the season-end attention shifts toward 26-27 launches. Puma Pokemon 30th Anniversary, our recent #1, cooled 5.5 to 90.5 (still ON_FIRE, just less screaming).

## New entries Three SS26 launches arrived today. Nigo x Nike Air Force 1 Last Orgy 2 entered at 87.0 SURGING off Hypebeast and StockX coverage of the Design Museum London preview. The Arsenal 2026/27 home shirt entered at 85.5 SURGING ahead of its 14 May launch, with potential Champions League final exposure. Manchester United's 26/27 home kit entered at 82.0 SURGING — the first kit under the new £10m-a-year Adidas extension and the most commercial kit drop of the summer.

## What I'm watching Margiela Tabi crossover momentum. Wales Bonner's second-line products. The Pepsi GMT-Master II as a luxury sentiment bellwether. Whether the Loewe x On Cloudtilt cools or finds a second wave (today: -6.2). And whether next week's Arsenal and United launches push their entry scores into ON_FIRE.

— Andy C

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