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Posted by: Gezza 30th January 2021, 04:33 PM

We can't guarantee these every month but this thread is designed to provide you with the best selling singles month by month throughout the year. These won't be cumulative, they will literally be official sales just for a particular month.



As it's January these are the actual YTD's




Covering W/E 14/1, 21/1, 28/1 and 4/2

1- Drivers License Olivia Rodrigo 297,700
2- Sweet Melody Little Mix 115,100
3- Blinding Lights The Weeknd 103,600
4- Afterglow Ed Sheeran 102,900
5- Without You The Kid LAROI 100,500
6 -Head & Heart Joel Corry Ft MNEK 98,700
7- Mood 24K Goldn Ft Iann Dior 97,000
8- Whoopty CJ 96,200
9- Anyone Justin Bieber 95,600
10- Paradise Meduza Ft Dermot Kennedy 93,300

11- 34+35 Ariana Grande 92,300
12- Get Out My Head Shane Codd 88,700
13- Levitating Dua Lipa 85,600
14- Positions Ariana Grande 83,700
15- You Broke Me First Tate McRae 79,000
16- Prisoner Miley Cyrus Ft Dua Lipa 75,500
17- Lemonade Internet Money/ Gunna/ Toliver 75,200
18- Midnight Sky Miley Cyrus 67,000
19- Good Days Sza 66,800
20- Don't Play Anne-Marie, KSI & Digital Farm Animals 66,200

Posted by: JosephStyles 30th January 2021, 04:39 PM

Thanks for this Gezza! Interesting in particular to see where the ACR tracks have landed - Blinding Lights #3

Posted by: dandy* 30th January 2021, 05:09 PM

This is a great idea! So great in fact that I'm tempted to drum up support to petition for a retrospective version

Posted by: jimwatts 30th January 2021, 05:21 PM

At least Dance Monkey and SYL aren't top 20 (yet)

Posted by: JulianT 30th January 2021, 05:54 PM

Thanks for this! Will compare them against my sans ACR estimates if I get chance.

Posted by: Gezza 3rd March 2021, 10:24 PM

Numbers in brackets are January placings

Covering charts 11/2, 18/2, 25/2 and 4/3

01. (1) Drivers License Olivia Rodrigo 226,500
02. (--) Wellerman Nathan Evans/ 220Kid/ Billen Ted 146,100
03. (5) Without You The Kid LAROI 121,200
04. (20) Don't Play Anne-Marie/ KSI/ Digital Farm Animals 120,500
05. (--) The Business Tiesto 108,600
06. (3) Blinding Lights The Weeknd 106,000
07. (10) Paradise Meduza Ft Dermot Kennedy 101,700
08. (12) Get Out My Head Shane Codd 92,800
09. (6) Head & Heart Joel Corry & MNEK 92,000
10. (--) Calling My Phone Lil Tjay & 6lack 88,200

11. (--) Goosebumps HVME 87,600
12. (9) Anyone Justin Bieber 86,700
13. (--) Money Talks Fredo Ft Dave 85,900
14. (2) Sweet Melody Little Mix 84,400
15. (--) Streets Doja Cat 83,500
16. (4) Afterglow Ed Sheeran 81,900
17. (11) 34+35 Ariana Grande 81,500
18 (--) Friday Riton/ Nightcrawlers/ Mufasa 79,100
19 (8) Whoopty CJ 76,100
20 (13) Levitating Dua Lipa 74,700

Posted by: Dot Branning 3rd March 2021, 10:40 PM

At this rate Blinding Lights will probably be one of the top 10 'sellers' of 2022.

Posted by: T Boy 3rd March 2021, 10:52 PM

We’re likely already looking at half of the final top ten in this one.

Posted by: Bré 3rd March 2021, 10:57 PM

Wow, Rixton really made a comeback

Posted by: JulianT 4th March 2021, 06:17 PM

Thanks for updating this Gezza. What's the deal with weekly YTDs these days - are they strictly only available to Chartsplus subscribers?

Posted by: Gezza 4th March 2021, 08:05 PM

So I believe

Posted by: JulianT 5th March 2021, 03:26 PM

I’ve done an ESTIMATED top 40 of the year so far - just using Gezza’s info and my own figures.

I don’t have access to the true top 40. I might well have made a mistake or two adding up / left a song out.

1 Drivers license 524(k)
2 Without you 222
3 Blinding lights 210
4 Sweet melody 200
5 Paradise 195
6 Head & heart 191
7 Don’t play 187
8 Afterglow 185
9 Anyone 182
10 Get out my head 182
11 Wellerman 175
12 34+35 174
13 Whoopty 172
14 Mood 170
15 The business 168
16 Levitating 160
17 You broke me first 146
18 Prisoner 143
19 Positions 143
20 Lemonade 136
21 Good days 136
22 Goosebumps 135
23 Streets 124
24 Midnight sky 119
25 Dance monkey 117
26 Someone you loved 115
27 Willow 113
28 What you know bout love 111
29 Friday 107
30 Really love 107
31 Watermelon sugar 106
32 Save your tears 106
33 See nobody 102
34 No time for tears 100
35 Loading 100
36 Therefore I am 99
37 Looking for me 99
38 Train wreck 97
39 Take you dancing 92
40 Calling my phone 88

Posted by: dan :: G 5th March 2021, 03:28 PM

If Blinding Lights does end up at #2 for the year behind Drivers License (highly likely) is that the first time ever a song's been top 2 of the year twice? or even if it's 'only' top 5, is that a first?

Posted by: Gezza 5th March 2021, 03:58 PM

Yes I think it would- I can't think of anything which has been even in the top 10 two years in a row.

Posted by: coi 5th March 2021, 04:03 PM

I don't know if any have been top two twice before, I think Blinding Lights probably would be the first. I can definitely tell you that quite a few songs have been top 10 two years in a row though, Dance Monkey and Someone You Loved being the latest examples to do that in 2019 and 2020!

Posted by: JulianT 5th March 2021, 05:35 PM

Yes and Perfect was #6 twice I believe. Don’t know of any that have been Top 5 twice.

I actually think Blinding Lights will be knocked down a bit more though.

Posted by: Gezza 8th April 2021, 07:07 PM

Posted by: Gezza 8th April 2021, 07:08 PM

Will work on the YTD top 40 as it's the end of the first quarter

Posted by: Gezza 8th April 2021, 08:28 PM

That was quick

Here's the YTD after the first quarter!

01. Driver's License Olivia Rodrigo 707,400
02. Wellerman Nathan Evans/ 220 Kid/ Billen Ted 396,200
03. Without You The Kid Laroi 355,800
04. The Business Tiesto 331,000
05. Blinding Lights The Weeknd 326,200
06. Don't Play Anne-Marie, KSI & Digital Farm Animals 322,500
07. Head & Heart Joel Corry & MNEK 302,600
08. Paradise Meduza Ft Dermot Kennedy 300,400
09. Get Out My Head Shane Codd 281,400
10. Sweet Melody Little Mix 278,300

11. Anyone Justin Bieber 270,900
12. Goosebumps HVME 263,000
13. Levitating Dua Lipa 255,900
14. Friday Riton/ Nightcrawlers Ft Medusa & Hypeman 252,700
15. Afterglow Ed Sheeran 248,800
16. Mood 24KGoldn Ft Iann Dior 244,400
17. 34 + 35 Ariana Grande 243,800
18. Whoopty CJ 237,300
19. Calling My Phone Lil Tjay & 6LACK 233,400
20. Streets Doja Cat 228,400

21. Latest Trends A1 & J1 221,000
22. Save Your Tears The Weeknd 218,700
23. You Broke Me First Tate McRae 208,100
24. Prisoner Miley Cyrus Ft Dua Lipa 203,800
25. Good Days SZA 199,800
26. Positions Ariana Grande 193,800
27. Lemonade Internet Money & Gunna Ft Don Toliver & Nav 190,200
28. Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 184,400
29. Dance Monkey Tones & I 183,800
30. Your Love (9PM) ATB/Topic & A7S 181,600

31. Midnight Sky Miley Cyrus 176,300
32. Willow Taylor Swift 166,100
33. Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles 163,000
34. What You Know About Love Pop Smoke 161,600
35. Heat Waves Glass Animals 158,400
36. Loading Central Cee 158,000
37. My Head & My Heart Ava Max 151,900
38. See Nobody Wes Nelson & Hardy Caprio 146,100
39. Really Love KSI Ft Craig David & Digital Farm Animals 145,800
40. Looking For Me Paul Woodford & Diplo Ft Kareen Lomax 145,000

Posted by: JulianT 8th April 2021, 08:42 PM

Thanks Gezza! Amazing how Levitating has held up. Drivers License still has an enormous lead but doesn’t feel totally unassailable.

Posted by: Robbie 8th April 2021, 08:45 PM

Looking at the oldies (5+ years) in the YTD's (thanks to ChartsPlus)...

48 Mr. Brightside - Killers
57 Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
82 Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
84 Wonderwall - Oasis
85 Why'd You Only Call Me When Your High - Arctic Monkeys
93 Riptide - Vance Joy
97 Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
99 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston

Gezza, do you have any estimates for the above for sales this year?

Posted by: Maestro 8th April 2021, 09:03 PM

Is Sweater Weather not in the YTD top 100 then?

Posted by: Robbie 8th April 2021, 09:15 PM

Oops, I overlooked that one. It's at #81. I don't think there's anything else which is 5+ years although 'Say You Won't Let Go' by James Arthur (#83) isn't far off.

Posted by: jszmiles 8th April 2021, 09:24 PM

93 Riptide - Vance Joy
99 I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston

I think I haven't seen those 2 in top 100 this year. wow

Posted by: Maestro 8th April 2021, 09:33 PM

Wonderwall and Everywhere haven’t been in it either, even though they have made mid week updates.

I also think there’s a possibility that Shape of You could be top 100 but I may well be wrong on that.

Posted by: Robbie 8th April 2021, 09:51 PM

It is, at #87. At least I didn't overlook that one (as it's from 4 years ago).

Posted by: Bré 8th April 2021, 11:41 PM

Central Lee

Posted by: WhoOdyssey 8th April 2021, 11:43 PM

Wellerman coming for that BRIT Award next year

(I imagine Don't Play will be locked on for a nom by now as well)

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2021, 09:16 AM

The OCC article helpfully gives 117,963 for Don’t Start Now at #64. So Mr Brightside must be around 135k (total about 3.5m) and Dreams around 125k. I’d guess maybe 80 or 90k for the lower ones.

Posted by: Gezza 9th April 2021, 12:22 PM

MB 135K
D 126K
DIWK 100.8 K
W 98.6K
WYOCMWYD 97.9K
R 92.6K
E 91K
IWDWS 90.7K

Posted by: JulianT 9th April 2021, 01:02 PM

So many oldies doing around 7k per week, with ACR just doing enough to keep most of them out of the weekly Top 100s.

Posted by: themodereviews 9th April 2021, 02:54 PM

Do you have info on the positions of any other songs that made last years YE list? Sunflower? Roses? Mood Swings? Lighter? ROCKSTAR? Before You Go? Shotgun? Perfect? Shallow? Location?

And did Martin & Gina make it as well?

Posted by: themodereviews 9th April 2021, 03:07 PM

Also I'm guessing Afterglow (Wilkinson) hasn't done enough to get on it yet. Would be pretty funny to see if it made the Year End list considering it just missed the 2013 one.

Posted by: Sour Candy 10th April 2021, 07:23 PM

Thank you for compiling the list, much appreciated!!!

Posted by: JulianT 3rd May 2021, 01:42 PM

I’ve done an updated estimated Top 40 of the year - anyone with Chartsplus can let me know if I’ve got anything dramatically wrong.

Was hoping everything would be over 200k but not quite! Edit: I’d forgotten about Commitment Issues so in fact everything is over 200k!

April position (March position) Sales (k)

1 (1) Drivers license 812
2 (2) Wellerman 537
3 (4) The business 453
4 (3) Without you 442
5 (5) Blinding lights 412
6 (6) Don’t play 409
7 (14) Friday 393
8 (7) Head & heart 384
9 (8) Paradise 365
10 (13) Levitating 363

11 (21) Latest trends 346
12 (12) Goosebumps 345
13 (9) Get out my head 344
14 (10) Sweet melody 326
15 (22) Save your tears 315
16 (19) Calling my phone 315
17 (11) Anyone 313
18 (16) Mood 294
19 (20) Streets 290
20 (-) Montero 289

21 (17) 34+35 283
22 (15) Afterglow 282
23 (30) Your love 282
24 (-) Bed 273
25 (18) Whoopty 271
26 (-) Peaches 248
27 (23) You broke me first 245
28 (-) Little bit of love 244
29 (24) Prisoner 240
30 (25) Good days 236

31 (35) Heat waves 236
32 (29) Dance monkey 236
33 (28) Someone you loved 235
34 (37) My head & my heart 233
35 (27) Lemonade 225
36 (26) Positions 225
37 (-) Up 217
38 (31) Midnight sky 217
39 (-) Commitment issues 216
40 (33) Watermelon sugar 213

Posted by: Warwick Avenue 4th May 2021, 07:25 AM

Thanks for posting JulianT, it’s looking pretty close for a lot of this list.

Posted by: Gezza 4th May 2021, 10:14 AM

I'll do the top 20 for April tonight

Posted by: Gezza 4th May 2021, 04:00 PM

Posted by: JulianT 4th May 2021, 07:16 PM

Tweaked my Top 40 above following Gezza’s figures and the BPI update. I reckon Masked Wolf is #41 as it’s just gone silver.

Posted by: jimwatts 5th May 2021, 09:55 AM

So, Levitating went from an average weekly sale (without ACR) of 19,320 during March to 26,725 during April - that's a month-on-month increase of 38%... extraordinary.

Posted by: Gezza 3rd June 2021, 06:36 PM

Posted by: JulianT 3rd June 2021, 10:29 PM

Estimated YTD Top 40 update:
DL looking pretty safe at the top but there’s definitely a possibility of Good 4 u or Body reaching #2 in the next few months.

May position (April position) Sales (k)

1 (1) Drivers license 914
2 (2) Wellerman 631
3 (3) The business 548
4 (4) Without you 534
5 (7) Friday 510
6 (5) Blinding lights 489
7 (9) Levitating 487
8 (6) Don’t play 466
9 (20) Montero 462
10 (8) Head & heart 457

11 (15) Save your tears 442
12 (11) Latest trends 433
13 (-) Body 412
14 (9) Paradise 410
15 (12) Goosebumps 406
16 (24) Bed 399
17 (13) Get out my head 391
18 (26) Peaches 372
19 (16) Calling my phone 369
20 (14) Sweet melody 367

21 (23) Your love 364
22 (28) Little bit of love 356
23 (19) Streets 337
24 (17) Anyone 335
25 (18) Mood 334
26 (21) 34+35 311
27 (22) Afterglow 305
28 (31) Heat waves 304
29 (34) My head & my heart 297
30 (-) Astronaut in the ocean 296

31 (25) Whoopty 295
32 (-) Let’s go home together 294
33 (33) Someone you loved 287
34 (32) Dance monkey 282
35 (27) You broke me first 274
36 (29) Prisoner 269
37 (37) Up 266
38 (39) Commitment issues 265
39 (30) Good days 262
40 (40) Watermelon sugar 257

Posted by: Smint 4th June 2021, 02:39 PM

Thanks for this - ACR makes me mercifully forget the existence of 'Dance Monkey' and 'Someone You Loved' but see they're still standing strong in the YTD top 40

Posted by: JulianT 4th July 2021, 08:31 AM

Here’s my first go at the Top 40 for the first 6 months of the year - I’m sure the OCC will provide the accurate version later and Gezza some more accurate sales.

It’s incredibly tight between #3 and #8 and The Business will crash to the bottom of that group very shortly.

Good 4 u will be #2 by next month.

June position (May position) Sales (k)

1 (1) Drivers license 1,035
2 (2) Wellerman 713
3 (3) The business 642
4 (11) Save your tears 640
5 (7) Levitating 636

6 (9) Montero 635
7 (5) Friday 630
8 (13) Body 629
9 (4) Without you 614
10 (-) Good 4 u 606

11 (6) Blinding lights 588
12 (10) Head & heart 548
13 (16) Bed 539
14 (8) Don’t play 518
15 (12) Latest trends 504

16 (18) Peaches 489
17 (22) Little bit of love 476
18 (15) Goosebumps 467
19 (21) Your love 452
20 (14) Paradise 447

21 (-) Kiss me more 443
22 (17) Get out my head 439
23 (19) Calling my phone 412
24 (32) Let’s go home together 406
25 (20) Sweet melody 405

26 (30) Astronaut in the ocean 387
27 (28) Heat waves 380
28 (23) Streets 375
29 (25) Mood 374
30 (24) Anyone 360

31 (29) My head & my heart 358
32 (-) Deja vu 356
33 (33) Someone you loved 346
34 (34) Dance monkey 338
35 (26) 34+35 337

36 (27) Afterglow 330
37 (40) Watermelon sugar 325
38 (31) Whoopty 320
39 (37) Up 303
40 (-) Good without 301

Posted by: Chapman 4th July 2021, 11:34 AM

Good 4 U should be number 2 in the next few weeks thankfully! (Not a massive fan of Wellerman)

Posted by: Gezza 4th July 2021, 01:16 PM

Posted by: Gezza 4th July 2021, 01:18 PM

Will work on the TYD when the top 40 comes through later in the week.

Posted by: Gezza 6th July 2021, 03:54 PM

Here's the official Top 40 YTD as it is mid year

1 Drivers License Olivia Rodrigo 1,034,800
2 Wellerman Nathan Evans/ 220 Kid/ Billen Ted 712,500
3 The Business Tiesto 640,000
4 Montero (Call Me By Your Name) Lil Nas X 637,700
5 Save Your Tears The Weeknd 637,400
6 Levitating Dua Lipa 634,000
7 Friday Riton x Nightcrawlers Feat Mufasa & Hyperman 628,900
8 Body Russ Millions x Tion Wayne 625,600
9 Without You The Kid Laroi 612,500
10 Good 4 U Olivia Rodrigo 604,100

11 Blinding Lights The Weeknd 586,000
12 Head & Heart Joel Corry x MNEK 551,400
13 Bed Joel Corry/ RAYE/ David Guetta 538,500
14 Don't Play Anne-Marie/ KSI/ Digital Farm Animals 516,700
15 Latest Trends A1 x J1 504,000
16 Peaches Justin Beiber Feat Daniel Ceaser & GIVEON 500,600
17 Little Bit Of Love Tom Grennan 484,500
18 Goosebumps Travi$ Scott & HVME 463,900
19 Your Love (9PM) ATB/ Topic & A7S 453,600
20 Paradise Meduza Feat Dermot Kennedy 450,400

21 Kiss Me More Doja Cat Feat SZA 443,000
22 Get Out My Head Shane Codd 438,100
23 Calling My Phone Lil Tjay & 6Lack 411,000
24 Let's Go Home Together Ella Henderson & Tom Grennan 409,600
25 Sweet Melody Little Mix 406,000
26 Heat Waves Glass Animals 382,100
27 Astronaut In The Ocean Masked Wolf 380,200
28 Mood 24KGoldn Feat Iann Dior 375,800
29 Streets Doja Cat 373,000
30 Anyone Justin Bieber 364,000

31 My Head + My Heart Ava Max 357,100
32 déjà vu Olivia Rodrigo 354,200
33 Someone You Loved Lewis Capaldi 345,700
34 34+35 Ariana Grande 344,100
35 Dance Monkey Tones & I 338,500
36 Afterglow Ed Sheeran 335,500
37 Watermelon Sugar Harry Styles 326,200
38 Whoopty CJ 321,400
39 You Broke Me First Tate McRae 313,600
40 Rapstar Polo G 310,900

Posted by: Sour Candy 7th July 2021, 06:44 AM

Yay thanks!

Posted by: JulianT 7th July 2021, 09:01 AM

Thanks Gezza! Pretty pleased how close I got overall.

Posted by: JulianT 2nd August 2021, 10:23 AM

Here’s my estimated YTD Top 40 to the end of July.

I'm now pretty confident that Good 4 U will overtake Drivers License to be the year end #1. Bad Habits could end up with similar numbers to Good 4 U but is unlikely to catch the latter given its head start.

July position (June position) Sales (k)

1 (1) Drivers license 1,099
2 (10) Good 4 u 844
3 (5) Save your tears 770
4 (2) Wellerman 755
5 (4) Montero 750
6 (6) Levitating 733
7 (8) Body 719
8 (7) Friday 699
9 (3) The business 696
10 (11) Blinding lights 657

11 (9) Without you 656
12 (13) Bed 628
13 (12) Head & heart 616
14 (21) Kiss me more 566
15 (16) Peaches 563
16 (17) Little bit of love 559
17 (14) Don't play 555
18 (15) Latest trends 534
19 (19) Your love 504
20 (18) Goosebumps 497

21 (24) Let's go home together 484
22 (-) Bad habits 483
23 (20) Paradise 476
24 (22) Get out my head 469
25 (26) Heat waves 443
26 (23) Calling my phone 435
27 (25) Sweet melody 433
28 (32) Deja vu 432
29 (27) Astronaut in the ocean 430
30 (28) Mood 407

31 (29) Streets 397
32 (31) My head & my heart 389
33 (33) Someone you loved 388
34 (30) Anyone 385
35 (-) Good without 381
36 (35) Dance monkey 380
37 (37) Watermelon sugar 376
38 (34) 34 + 35 369
39 (40) Rapstar 360
40 (36) Afterglow 357

Heartbreak anthem 330

Posted by: Chapman 2nd August 2021, 10:25 AM

Good 4 U would be a fantastic end of year number 1! Much better than Drivers License

Posted by: Dot Branning 2nd August 2021, 04:33 PM

Good 4 U is far superior to Drivers License! Could Save Your Tears overtake the latter as well?

Posted by: dandy* 2nd August 2021, 04:49 PM

I thought Drivers License was a dead cert for year end #1 so I'm really surprised to see anything challenging it, albeit another song by Olivia. Also wow at The Weeknd, I would never have expected Save Your Tears to be this big but it's so deserved.

Posted by: Gezza 2nd August 2021, 08:08 PM

Posted by: Maestro 6th August 2021, 09:52 PM

I thought I'd share this on the off chance anyone is interested. It's a YTD chart for the Spotify chart, unfortunately it is not a perfect metric as I can only record streaming numbers when songs are in the weekly top 200, so songs that are big at the start of the year but then drop out (eg. positions, Sweet Melody) are at a disadvantage compared to the OCC chart. Whereas songs that hang around forever (eg. Mr. Brightside, Watermelon Sugar) are at an advantage.

Anyway here's the chart to July: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZUupRFxzIGAg-jQ9Wwckuh_KRhT8rtciQ9o7oFR0_14/edit#gid=765794611

Here are the main key points from this month:
good 4 u now #2 and will probably catch drivers license by the end of the year.
Bad Habits straight in at #26.
I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE #41 & Beggin' #55.
Heartbreak Anthem #50. Oliver Twist #98.
Olivia also has 3 album tracks in the top 100 (traitor #45, brutal #96 & happier #99) jealousy, jealousy is #110. Some of these could make the YE top 100 despite not charting officially.
Finally 3 Lions is #145 but won't make the final list.
T100 YE Cut Off: Below positions, T200 YE Cut Off: Below Don't Look Back in Anger

Any questions, feel free to ask

Posted by: jimwatts 1st September 2021, 08:30 PM

YTD Top 50 Singles from MTV last week - originally aired earlier in August, although these sales appear to be up to mid-July as there's still no Bad Habits, so even Julian's estimated YTD from 2 August above is more up to date, but as an official list, it's slightly more recent than the mid year list (whose top 40 positions are in brackets here):

1 (1) drivers license
2 (2) Wellerman
3 (10) good 4 u
4 (5) Save Your Tears
5 (4) Montero (Call Me By Your Name)
6 (6) Levitating
7 (8) Body
8 (3) The Business
9 (7) Friday
10 (9) Without You
11 (11) Blinding Lights
12 (13) Bed
13 (12) Head & Heart
14 (14) Don't Play
15 (16) Peaches
16 (15) Latest Trends
17 (17) Little Bit Of Love
18 (21) Kiss Me More
19 (18) Goosebumps
20 (19) Your Love (9pm)
21 (20) Paradise
22 (22) Get Out My Head
23 (24) Let's Go Home Together
24 (23) Calling My Phone
25 (25) Sweet Melody
26 (26) Heat Waves
27 (27) Astronaut In The Ocean
28 (32) deja vu
29 (28) Mood
30 (29) Streets
31 (30) Anyone
32 (31) My Head & My Heart
33 (33) Someone You Loved
34 (35) Dance Monkey
35 (34) 34 + 35
36 (37) Watermelon Sugar
37 (36) Afterglow
38 (-) Good Without
39 (40) Rapstar
40 (38) Whoopty
41 (39) you broke me first
42 (-) Believe Me
43 (-) Prisoner
44 (-) ? [presumably something without a video they could show]
45 (-) Up
46 (-) Mr Brightside
47 (-) Midnight Sky
48 (-) Commitment Issues
49 (-) Good Days
50 (-) Lemonade

Posted by: Robbie 1st September 2021, 08:51 PM

#44 is 'Ferrari Horses' by D-Block Europe & Raye.

The chart covers sales up to 15/07/21.

'Bad Habits' was at number 51 on this chart. The track is now at number 5.

The current YTD top 20:

1. Drivers License (1,147,670)
2. Good 4 U (1,008,168)
3. Save Your Tears (872k)
4. Montero (833.1k)
5. Bad Habits (811,818)
6. Levitating
7. Wellerman
8. Body
9. Friday
10. The Business

11. Blinding Lights
12. Without You
13. Bed
14. Head & Heart
15. Kiss Me More
16. Little Bit Of Love
17. Peaches
18. Don't Play
19. Latest Trends
20. Your Love (9PM)

Posted by: Smint 1st September 2021, 09:20 PM

Depressing how close ‘Bad Habits’ is to both of Olivia’s tracks although if he does get EOY no.1 with a track which only first charted in second half of year that will be impressive feat.

Posted by: Robbie 1st September 2021, 09:27 PM

I think he will get the EOY number 1 and I expect him to move to the top by the end of November at the latest. Olivia is heading for two double Platinum tracks but it will be interesting to see whether 'Good 4 U' or 'Bad Habits' gets there first. 'Drivers License' should pass 1.2m chart sales around late October or early November at the latest.

Posted by: JulianT 1st September 2021, 09:32 PM

Thanks Jim and Robbie. (Robbie think your SYT sales are total rather than YTD.)

My estimates to the end of August (end of July’s position in brackets):

1 (1) Drivers License 1,148
2 (2) Good 4 U 1,008
3 (3) Save your tears 872 (total 0.96m)
4 (5) Montero 833
5 (22) Bad habits 812

6 (6) Levitating 810 (total 1.20m)
7 (4) Wellerman 786
8 (7) Body 777
9 (8) Friday 747
10 (9) The business 736 (total 810k)

11 (10) Blinding lights 721 (total 3.02m)
12 (11) Without you 693 (total 790k)
13 (12) Bed 692
14 (13) Head & heart 672 (total 1.89m)
15 (14) Kiss me more 655
16 (16) Little bit of love 617
17 (15) Peaches 608
18 (17) Don’t play 585
19 (18) Latest trends 561
20 (19) Your love 533 (total 550k)

21 (21) Let’s go home together 532
22 (20) Goosebumps 522 (total 580k)
23 (23) Paradise 503 (total 650k)
24 (25) Heat waves 500 (total 620k)
25 (24) Get out my head 494 (total 630k)
26 (28) Deja vu 482
27 (29) Astronaut in the ocean 465
28 (26) Calling my phone 459
29 (27) Sweet melody 457 (total 750k)
30 (-) Heartbreak anthem 450

31 (30) Mood 437 (total 1.24m)
32 (35) Good without 432
33 (33) Someone you loved 430 (total 3.90m)
34 (31) Streets 421 (total 460k)
35 (36) Dance monkey 419 (total 3.13m)
36 (37) Watermelon sugar 416 (total 1.52m)
37 (32) My head & my heart 414 (total 430k)
38 (34) Anyone 398
39 (-) I wanna be your slave 395
40 (39) Rapstar 392

Stay 363k

Posted by: Robbie 1st September 2021, 10:01 PM

Yeah, looks like my figure for 'Save Your Tears' is the total sale so there's about 85k or so to be taken off.

Looking at the top 100, other tracks on the up and tracks of note are:

41. Mr Brightside - The Killers
44. Afterglow - Ed Sheeran
45. Black Magic - Jonasu
48. Stay - The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber
50. Perfect Ed Sheeran
54. Traitor - Olivia Rodrigo
58. Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
68. Holiday - KSI
71. Remember - Becky Hill & David Guetta
75. By Your Side - Calvin Harris ft Tom Grennan
79. Wonderwall - Oasis
81. Shape Of You - Ed Sheeran
87. Fly Away - Tones & I
96. Clash - Dave & Stormzy

On your top 40 you need to change around numbers 23 and 24, 32 and 33 and numbers 38, 39 and 40 are numbers 39, 40 and 38 respectively.

(YTD charts from UKChartsPlus)

Posted by: JulianT 1st September 2021, 10:09 PM

^Thanks! Serious danger of Mr B making the year end Top 40 then!

Posted by: Smint 1st September 2021, 10:27 PM

Cheers for that. Do you have 'Beggin' and 'Didnt Know' as a matter of interest.

Reckon 'Heat Waves' is going to chart higher on the year end chart than any weekly chart.

Posted by: Robbie 1st September 2021, 10:59 PM

'Beggin' is at #64, 'Didn't Know' is at #43.

Posted by: themodereviews 4th September 2021, 12:49 AM

Thanks for this!

Are Riptide, Don't Start Now and Before You Go also on this list?

Posted by: Robbie 4th September 2021, 08:25 AM

#86, #67, #66.

Posted by: Gezza 6th September 2021, 08:18 PM

Posted by: JulianT 19th September 2021, 10:44 AM

Updated estimated YTD Top 40 (end of August in brackets):

Top 3 will obviously reverse pretty soon.

1 (1) Drivers License 1,177
2 (2) Good 4 U 1,098
3 (5) Bad habits 1,019
4 (3) Save your tears 931 (total 1.02m)
5 (4) Montero 880

6 (6) Levitating 857 (total 1.25m)
7 (8) Body 810
8 (7) Wellerman 806
9 (9) Friday 776
10 (11) Blinding lights 763 (total 3.06m)

11 (10) The business 761 (total 840k)
12 (13) Bed 728
13 (12) Without you 718 (total 820k)
14 (14) Head & heart 710 (total 1.93m)
15 (15) Kiss me more 706
16 (16) Little bit of love 657
17 (17) Peaches 632
18 (18) Don’t play 599
19 (19) Latest trends 577
20 (23) Heat waves 571 (total 690k)

21 (21) Let’s go home together 561
22 (20) Your love 553 (total 570k)
23 (23) Goosebumps 539 (total 590k)
24 (-) Stay 525
25 (23) Paradise 516 (total 660k)
26 (30) Heartbreak anthem 515
27 (24) Get out my head 510 (total 650k)
28 (26) Deja vu 506
29 (27) Astronaut in the ocean 484
30 (28) Calling my phone 475

31 (29) Sweet melody 472 (total 770k)
32 (-) Black magic 470
33 (32) Someone you loved 460 (total 3.93m)
34 (33) Good without 457
35 (31) Mood 456 (total 1.26m)
36 (35) Dance monkey 447 (total 3.16m)
37 (40) I wanna be your slave 446
38 (36) Watermelon sugar 444 (total 1.55m)
39 (34) Streets 437 (total 480k)
40 (37) My head & my heart 428 (total 450k)

41 (41) Mr Brightside 423

Posted by: dan:G 19th September 2021, 01:12 PM

dear lord if Mr Brightside ends up top 40 for the year we’d then have to play it in our end of year top 100 countdown show

Posted by: Gezza 3rd October 2021, 01:02 PM

Posted by: Gezza 3rd October 2021, 01:03 PM

I'll do a top 40 for the YTD once chartsplus comes through this week.

Posted by: JulianT 8th October 2021, 09:13 PM

As of today Drivers License has just reached 1.2M but Bad Habits is on about 1.195M so will overtake it this coming week. Good 4 U will overtake Drivers License this month too.

Posted by: Gezza 9th October 2021, 03:30 PM

As promised- the top 40 for the year to the end of September- apologies for the delay

1. DRIVERS LICENSE- Olivia Rodrigo 1,194,200
2. GOOD 4 U- Olivia Rodrigo 1,151,900
3. BAD HABITS- Ed Sheeran 1,142,600
4. SAVE YOUR TEARS- The Weeknd 964,000
5. MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME)- Lil Nas X 917,200
6. LEVITATING- Dua Lipa 887,700
7. BODY- Russ Millions x Tion Wayne 832,000
8. WELLERMAN (220 KID X BILLEN TED REMIX)- Nathan Evans 823,700
9. FRIDAY- Riton x Nightcrawlers Feat Mufasa & Hypeman 794,500
10. BLINDING LIGHTS- The Weeknd 789,700

11. THE BUSINESS- Tiesto 776,600
12. BED- Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta 747,100
13. WITHOUT YOU- The Kid Laroi 739,500
14. KISS ME MORE- Doja Cat Feat SZA 736,900
15. HEAD & HEART- Joel Corry x MNEK 731,700
16. LITTLE BIT OF LOVE- Tom Grennan 678,800
17. PEACHES- Justin Bieber Feat Daniel Caesar & GIVEON 643,800
18. HEAT WAVES- Glass Animals 632,100
19. STAY- The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber 616,400
20. DON’T PLAY- Anne-Marie, KSI & Digital Farm Animals 611,300

21. LATEST TRENDS- A1 x J1 602,100
22. LET’S GO HOME TOGETHER- Tom Grennan & Ella Henderson 583,800
23. YOUR LOVE- ATB, Topic & A7S 562,000
24. HEARTBREAK ANTHEM- Galantis, David Guetta & Little Mix 552,900
25. GOOSEBUMPS- Travis Scott & HVME 537,800
26. BLACK MAGIC- Jonasu 526,200
27. PARADISE- Meduza Feat Dermot Kennedy 524,100
28. GET OUT MY HEAD- Shane Codd 519,800
29. DÉJÀ VU- Olivia Rodrigo 517,200
30. ASTRONAUT IN THE OCEAN- Masked Wolf 500,800

31. SOMEONE YOU LOVED- Lewis Capaldi 484,000
32. SWEET MELODY- Little Mix 480,200
33. GOOD WITHOUT- Mimi Webb 476,000
34. CALLING MY PHONE- Lil TJay & 6LACK 473,300
35. I WANNA BE YOUR SLAVE- Maneskin 469,100
36. MOOD- 24KGoldn Feat Iann Dior 467,000
37. DANCE MONKEY- Tones & I 466,100
38. WATERMELON SUGAR- Harry Styles 462,200
39. REMEMBER- Becky Hill & David Guetta 455,300
40. STREETS- Doja Cat 454,800

Posted by: Maestro 9th October 2021, 03:42 PM

Mr Brightside still #41?

Posted by: Gezza 9th October 2021, 03:47 PM

yes it is (Or was- the above list obviously doesn't include last week's sales)

Posted by: jimwatts 9th October 2021, 06:16 PM

Looks like Blinding Lights will end the year in the top 10 - it should overtake Friday and Wellerman at least, while I can only see 1 or 2 songs with a realistic chance of overtaking it (and even those still have some way to go).

Posted by: steve201 10th October 2021, 12:14 AM

Those two being most likely ‘Heatwaves’ and ‘Stay’. Love that ‘I Wanna Be Your Slave’ is top 40! ❤️

Posted by: adrianreavill83 10th October 2021, 08:23 AM

Has Lil Nas X sold a million yet with MONTERO?

Posted by: JulianT 10th October 2021, 08:54 AM

No ~934k

Posted by: Sour Candy 10th October 2021, 02:52 PM

Good to see Wellermand dropping fast - maybe out of top ten even by new year

Posted by: JulianT 2nd November 2021, 11:25 PM

Top 40 YTD update!

Positions are courtesy of ChartsPlus so are accurate this time; sales estimated.

1 3 Bad habits 1,350
2 2 Good 4 u 1,246
3 1 Drivers license 1,226
4 4 Save your tears 1,022 (total 1.10m)
5 5 Montero 973
6 6 Levitating 939 (total 1.33m)
7 7 Body 865
8 8 Wellerman 845
9 10 Blinding lights 840 (total 3.14m)
10 9 Friday 826

11 11 The business 805 (total 900k)
12 14 Kiss me more 786
13 12 Bed 782
14 15 Head & heart 775 (total 2.00m)
15 19 Stay 770
16 13 Without you 769 (total 870k)
17 18 Heat waves 758 (total 880k)
18 16 Little bit of love 724
19 17 Peaches 668
20 21 Latest trends 630

21 20 Don’t play 629
22 22 Let’s go home together 622
23 26 Black magic 611
24 24 Heartbreak anthem 610
25 23 Your love 582 (total 600k)
26 25 Goosebumps 562 (total 640k)
27 39 Remember 550
28 29 Deja vu 545
29 27 Paradise 544
30 28 Get out my head 540

31 31 Someone you loved 528 (total 4.03m)
32 30 Astronaut in the ocean 521
33 33 I wanna be your slave 513
34 34 Good without 506
35 37 Dance monkey 502 (total 3.22m)
36 32 Sweet melody 500 (total 790k)
37 38 Watermelon sugar 494 (total 1.60m)
38 34 Calling my phone 493
39 36 Mood 491 (total 1.29m)
40 41 Mr Brightside 490 (total 3.93m)

48 Cold heart 423
50 Shivers 421
91 Easy on me 321

The expected reversal at the top has happened.

Mr B’s Top 40 position is looking pretty solid. Calling My Phone, Mood and Sweet Melody will likely be facing the chop though.

Posted by: Smint 2nd November 2021, 11:54 PM

Love these updates - I'm one of the few here that prefer 'Drivers License' to 'Good 4 U' but it didnt last the distance that I thought it would in January.

Is 'Happier than Ever' in the top 100 or close?

Posted by: Envoirment 3rd November 2021, 12:04 AM

Thanks for the update!

I wonder where "Easy On Me" will end up. I hope it has a chance for top 10. It should get boosts from physical release/TV performance and then the album release in the next few weeks. The album release could give it an insane boost potentially.

I also wonder if any of Adele's older tracks might sneak in the top 100. "Someone Like You"/"Rolling In The Deep"/"When We Were Young" being the most likely.

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 12:16 AM

#80 337k

Posted by: Maestro 3rd November 2021, 12:18 AM

These may seem like v random questions but are any of these top 100, if you have the necessary data:

Wonderwall
Riptide
Shape of You
Another Love
Sweater Weather
Yellow

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 12:19 AM

If any of them make it it will definitely be Someone Like You I reckon as that was a strong legacy streamer even before she announced her comeback.

Posted by: Bré 3rd November 2021, 12:49 AM

Safe to assume something will knock 'Friday' out of the top 10 by the end of the year right? x

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 08:48 AM

Definitely - Stay will come to the rescue on that one. Heat Waves should replace Wellerman too.

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 09:05 AM

79, 81, 73, 78, nowhere, nowhere

Posted by: steve201 3rd November 2021, 11:30 AM

I do think Wellerman deserves to be top 10 as it was huge when released but ahead of ‘Heatwaves’ I’m not sure!

Posted by: jimwatts 3rd November 2021, 11:41 AM

I think all of Easy On Me, Shivers and Cold Heart will ultimately fall short of the top 10 as they would need to reach close to 1m by year end, so Adele would need to average 70k a week and the other two would need to average 60k a week across the whole of Nov-Dec - not impossible but a lot to ask.

Posted by: Smint 3rd November 2021, 12:08 PM

Dont think anyone expecting any of those 3 records apart from Adele maybe, to be anywhere near the EoY top 10 tbh. Released way too late in the year and sales climate last month pretty poor.

Posted by: jimwatts 3rd November 2021, 12:47 PM

Sure, only really referring to Adele's chances following an earlier comment. I think Blinding Lights will keep its place in the top 10.

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 02:21 PM

By the way last year the bar at the end of the year was 1 million for Top 10, 600k for Top 40 and 400k for Top 100. It looks like it will be slightly lower in all three categories this year despite overall consumption continuing to rise - perhaps further evidence of the changing demographics of the streaming population.

Posted by: themodereviews 3rd November 2021, 03:19 PM

Thank you so much for providing such information as always!!

Other than Own It, are there any other songs for last years Year End top 10 that are still in this years top 100? I noticed that 8 of 2019's YE top 10 carried over to the 2020 YE top 100, and was wondering if this year would see even more?

Posted by: JulianT 3rd November 2021, 03:43 PM

Song / 2020 position / 2021 position to end of Oct
Blinding lights / 1 / 9
Dance monkey / 2 / 35
Roses / 3 / 83
Before you go / 4 / 71
Head & heart / 5 / 14
Don’t start now / 6 / 72
Rockstar / 7 / -
Someone you loved / 8 / 31
Own it / 9 / -
Watermelon sugar / 10 / 37

So it could be 8 again if Roses hangs on, but not more.

Posted by: themodereviews 3rd November 2021, 04:23 PM

Thank you very much!

Posted by: steve201 3rd November 2021, 06:56 PM

‘Watermelon Sugar’ doing particularly well as a post album single!

Posted by: Smint 3rd November 2021, 11:25 PM

I personally not keen on songs from 2019 or before ending on the EoY for 2021 but that's the world we live in with streaming. And of course ACR doesn't apply to EoY charts.

Posted by: steve201 3rd November 2021, 11:34 PM

Yeh true it just shows how hits sell or are listened to for years rather than months now!

Posted by: Dancy 4th November 2021, 08:28 AM

which makes it all the more annoying that we don’t seem to ever get anything past the top 100 these days when we used to have year end top 200s

Posted by: jimwatts 4th November 2021, 10:31 AM

Is Araina Grande's 'positions' in the YTD 100? It would be unfortunate as a 6-week #1 to miss out on all EOYs, but I expect it will by now.

Posted by: JulianT 4th November 2021, 11:08 AM

It’s #77 so should just about hang on. I reckon it’s just under 750k total which is incredibly low for a 6 week #1. Not to say that it wasn’t a hugely successful single obviously but just relative to that standard. For example who’d have thought it would be outsold by Sweet Melody which released on the same week and started its chart run 8-12, or by the pretty extreme fluke #1 Lemonade which it knocked off?

Posted by: steve201 4th November 2021, 01:21 PM

True, last years sales at number one on the build up to xmas were quite low.

Posted by: GTH 4th November 2021, 05:00 PM

Agreed. A top 100 simply isn’t reflective enough for the whole year in the age is streaming. Unless some mega event happens, I can’t see anything released from this point in the year making top 100.

Posted by: Maestro 4th November 2021, 05:03 PM

Maybe if Adele pushes a new single on album release week?

Posted by: Gezza 6th November 2021, 04:50 PM

Posted by: Piethro 6th November 2021, 05:47 PM

Any estimate for Miley Cyrus’ “Midnight sky”? (Total Sales)

Posted by: JulianT 6th November 2021, 06:00 PM

Around 910k

Posted by: Jingle Jules 7th December 2021, 09:12 AM

I’ve done a last YTD update showing the change in positions since the end of October. Credit to ChartsPlus for the positions; all sales are my approximate estimates.

Poor Masked Wolf is going to drop out of the Top 40 and be replaced by “Perfect”.

1 1 Bad habits 1,592
2 2 Good 4 u 1,329
3 3 Drivers license 1,263
4 4 Save your tears 1,089 (total 1.17m)
5 5 Montero 1,021
6 6 Levitating 993 (total 1.39m)
7 15 Stay 913
8 7 Body 901
9 9 Blinding lights 900 (total 3.20m)
10 17 Heat waves 893 (total 1.01m)

11 8 Wellerman 870
12 10 Friday 860
13 12 Kiss me more 831
14 11 The business 830 (total 930k)
15 14 Head & heart 829 (total 2.04m)
16 13 Bed 815
17 16 Without you 800 (total 900k)
18 18 Little bit of love 771
19 50 Shivers 715
20 91 Easy on me 704

21 19 Peaches 693
22 23 Black magic 692
23 24 Heartbreak anthem 664
24 22 Let’s go home together 663
25 48 Cold heart 662
26 20 Latest trends 660
27 21 Don’t play 650
28 27 Remember 629
29 25 Your love 602
30 26 Goosebumps 580 (total 660k)

31 31 Someone you loved 576 (total 4.08m)
32 28 Deja vu 571
33 29 Paradise 564 (total 700k)
34 30 Get out my head 562 (total 700k)
35 33 I wanna be your slave 552
36 40 Mr Brightside 546 (total 3.98m)
37 35 Dance monkey 543 (total 3.26m)
38 32 Astronaut in the ocean 541
39 34 Good without 540
40 37 Watermelon sugar 532 (total 1.64m)

41 43 Perfect 528 (total 4.20m)
42 41 Traitor 525
43 36 Sweet melody 520 (total 810k)
44 39 Mood 519 (total 1.32m)
45 38 Calling my phone 512
46 64 Industry baby 501
47 42 Streets 498 (total 540k)
48 44 My head & my heart 480 (total 500k)
49 49 Clash 471
50 46 Beggin’ 470

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 7th December 2021, 09:20 AM

I'm guessing Easy On Me would be in the top 10 by now? (end of November)

Posted by: Jingle Jules 7th December 2021, 09:37 AM

This update covers everything up to the 3 December chart. I think EOM will finish around #11.

Posted by: Run_For_Cover 7th December 2021, 09:45 AM

Ah ok thanks, I hope it can get top 10 but it probably needs a few big weeks and I think it's starting to drop a little.

Posted by: Smint 7th December 2021, 09:59 AM

Thanks for this Jules - half the EOY top 10 wouldn't have made no.1 (in 2021 that is, obvs 'Blinding Lights' had previously made no.1)

Posted by: jimwatts 7th December 2021, 10:59 PM

Heat Waves to finish 8th then *.* there's actually decent representation from songs which peaked from May onwards in that top 10 compared to recent years. Further down it looks like 3 songs will make the EOY top 40 for a 3rd time, plus newcomer Mr Brightside