this occ boss person is pretty deluded if he 1) calls the Ed tracks "singles", all of them, and 2) thinks people are streaming those singles, not the album, and there's no double counting?

However, speaking to Music Week, Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot was quick to quash any concerns that the singles chart model may be broken.

“[÷]is a massive record,” he said. “There’s only been two albums in recent years that have been anywhere near this, Adele’s 25 and Oasis’ Be Here Now. There are so few records that have been of this scale that what we are seeing isn’t typical. We should be celebrating the fact that Ed Sheeran has followed Stormzy and Rag’N’Bone Man in doing so well on the chart. This time last year we were bemoaning the fact it was so difficult to break British talent, but we are having a bit of a purple patch at the moment.”

While ÷ may well be a one-off, it’s likely that this trend will continue to develop with every album release from a superstar artist. Still, Talbot insists that the company will not rush into taking any drastic measures, but will continue to monitor the evolution of the charts and the impact of streaming upon them.

“We’ll review the methodology and discuss it internally and with the industry as we always do," he said. "We are constantly evolving the chart rules because the industry is constantly evolving.”

Talbot also addressed any concerns that streams that appeared on both charts were being ‘double counted’.

“The two charts reflect different things,” he said. “The fact Ed Sheeran has got so many singles in the Top 20 is a reflection of the fact that people are listening to those singles, and they are also buying those singles. If none of these singles were being downloaded you could argue that this is just a reflection of album consumption, but clearly people are buying these tracks as well. [The tracks] are not getting twice the number of sales.”

At present, it looks like little will change in the way that the singles chart is compiled, and few could argue that Sheeran’s ÷ is anything but highly unusual. But with huge album releases expected later this year from the likes of Katy Perry, Sam Smith, Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, it’s unlikely this issue is going to disappear…

The problem is that his singles got so high and so many cos of double counting
He would not have had 16 tracks in the top 19
If album streams had been properly allocated

Free streams should count
Basically the ads you are forced to listen
pay for you
So you generate the same revenue
Than a subscribed user

Using that argument then Youtube videos should also count towards the chart....

I don't know how its difficult to grasp, I would have thought album tracks are album tracks that belong in the album chart, if they are singles than do away with the album chart, and instead of calling The Official Singles Chart, re-brand it to the Official Track Chart with everything thrown into it, including the iamspamspamamisink. Its hardly rocket science to figure it out.
Just imagine Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Drake releasing new albums in the same week, same day, the Singles Top 40 chart are completely awashed with 3 artists, which most likely won't happen, bearing in mind its worth thinking about.

Using that argument then Youtube videos should also count towards the chart....

Ffs they are not singles they are album tracks and double counting is incorporated.