Moreover, download sales can easily be manipulated, with Rita Ora being the clearest example, a smart company can reduce the price on iTunes to 59p every 3 weeks and you avoid ACR forever.

Lowering the price of a song doesn't guarantee it will sell more copies.

not a single person agreed with you but you do you boo

It’s worked for Ava Max

I will not repeat everything again, you and everyone else have understood my points and know that the old ACR rule made the chart more varied and liquid, this is a fact, take the example I used with ROCKSTAR in my previous post, it is clear that they should return to the roots of the original ACR.

or the OCC could just let the best selling/streaming songs each week be ranked instead of having stupid rules

Hen I literally did acknowledge that example in the post you're quoting. My point is you could just as easily find examples of songs that would stay on SCR under the old rule but not under the new rule. The only fact here is you being salty about 'Rain On Me' having less of a chance of overtaking 'ROCKSTAR' in the next few weeks. xxxx

Adelita logic:

> I want downloads to count towards the ACR rule as they have an effect on things and would therefore make it more fair!

Which is it xx

Again lying about what I said and twisting my words...

I never said that pure sales have an effect on charts these days, read my previous post, it's not so hard to understand. In short, what I basically said is that they should go back to the ACR rule of the beginning, using the sum of pure sales + streaming to measure if a song is growing or if it's stable or if it's dropping, and therefore should be punished on its tenth week on the chart. ROCKSTAR is the best example for this, cuz using the sum of pure + streaming (like at the beginning of the ACR rule, back in 2017), this song would already be in DCL-2, and not in SCR as it is today, which doesn't reflect its real popularity, since in the general sum (which is what really matters for the UK Chart), this song is already in its second week of decline. It makes no sense for them to count pure sales for the Official Chart and not include them in the ACR rule. They should choose once and for all: either make the chart totally streaming based, banning pure sales once and for all, or include pure sales in the ACR rule, since they use it in the sum for the UK Chart.

But please answer this - what do pure sales actually have to do with ACR at all? Why should they be included in the calculations when they are not affected by ACR in action?

Pure sales aren't affected at the present time by ACR, but should be included in the ACR rule and should also be affected by it, but only in a symbolic way, just like when a song enters ACR, the streaming is halved on the UK Chart, but the sales from the streaming remain intact for BPI, which certifies the songs to each new mark reached. It's so simple to understand.

So pure sales should be halved too? What purpose would that have? The reason they're not already halved because pure sales don't linger on and on like streaming. The sales chart is way faster.

Yes, pure sales should also be split in half after a song goes into ACR. However, they should use the sum of pure sales + streaming to measure the rule, and not rely solely on streaming for this. This streaming basis should only be applied to the streaming chart (Audio Streaming Chart) and not to the general chart, which also encompasses pure sales.

Again lying about what I said and twisting my words...

I never said that pure sales have an effect on charts these days, read my previous post, it's not so hard to understand. In short, what I basically said is that they should go back to the ACR rule of the beginning, using the sum of pure sales + streaming to measure if a song is growing or if it's stable or if it's dropping, and therefore should be punished on its tenth week on the chart. ROCKSTAR is the best example for this, cuz using the sum of pure + streaming (like at the beginning of the ACR rule, back in 2017), this song would already be in DCL-2, and not in SCR as it is today, which doesn't reflect its real popularity, since in the general sum (which is what really matters for the UK Chart), this song is already in its second week of decline. It makes no sense for them to count pure sales for the Official Chart and not include them in the ACR rule. They should choose once and for all: either make the chart totally streaming based, banning pure sales once and for all, or include pure sales in the ACR rule, since they use it in the sum for the UK Chart.