260. Leah McFall - Home (feat. will.i.am)

 

Leah is holding up extremely well. I expected a drop down towards the top 500 at best by now!

The 50% Ed top 10 is a MESS. Just like free songs, instant grats shouldn't show up on iTunes unless they're chart eligible.

 

No other country bans these songs from charting. I doubt it would be worth the effort for iTunes to make them not show up on UK iTunes but show up everywhere else (and anyway, it is an iTunes chart and not affiliated with the OCC so I don't see why they would do this even if they could anyway, like it or not this is reflecting what songs people are downloading from iTunes at the moment even if it is automatically).

 

This sort of situation is only ever going to happen with very major albums, in all other cases even where artists release several instant grat tracks they are only going to briefly show up in the top 40 and then quickly drop off again (see Jack White, deadmau5, Lana Del Rey, Linkin Park, Morrissey...) And in any case it's only going to 'distort' the iTunes chart for one week, just like with the three 1D tracks.

If Jason Derülo would just wiggle :kink: out of the Top ten and was replaced by Here For You, then the entire Top ten would be made up of artists whom wrote or produced their own songs.

Edited June 18, 201411 yr by CallumC97

To be honest, other than a few people on this forum, most people don't care if a song on the iTunes chart can chart or not.

#14 Demi Lovato - Neon Lights

 

Taking out the four ineligible Ed Sheeran tracks, she's actually now Top 10, right?

#14 Demi Lovato - Neon Lights

 

Taking out the four ineligible Ed Sheeran tracks, she's actually now Top 10, right?

 

There are 3 of them, so she's #11 I believe?

Kworb Combined and Weighted Popularity Bars

 

xx Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 1.1711 (ineligible)

1 Ella Henderson - Ghost 1.0000

xx Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream 0.9581 (ineligible)

xx Ed Sheeran - Afire Love 0.5610 (ineligible)

2 5 Seconds of Summer - Don't Stop 0.4691

3 Ed Sheeran - Sing 0.4413

4 George Ezra - Budapest 0.3718

xx Ed Sheeran - Don't 0.3671 (ineligible)

5 Tiësto - Wasted (feat. Matthew Koma) 0.3418

6 Sam Smith - Stay With Me 0.3372

7 Jason Derulo - Wiggle (feat. Snoop Dogg) 0.3107

8 Gorgon City - Here For You (feat. Laura Welsh) 0.3004

9 Mr. Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) 0.2450

10 John Legend - All of Me 0.2382

 

11 Demi Lovato - Neon Lights 0.1997

12 Fuse ODG - Dangerous Love (feat. Sean Paul) 0.1873

13 Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down 0.1847

14 Little Mix - Salute 0.1806

15 Calvin Harris - Summer 0.1651

16 Secondcity - I Wanna Feel (Radio Edit) 0.1647

17 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This 0.1588

18 Ed Sheeran - One 0.1425

19 Klingande - Jubel 0.1390

20 Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars 0.1278

 

21 Zedd - Clarity (feat. Foxes) 0.1170

22 Kiesza - Hideaway 0.1106

23 Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt S... 0.1081

24 Sigma - Nobody to Love 0.1077

25 Iggy Azalea - Fancy (feat. Charli XCX) 0.1048

26 Pharrell Williams - Happy (From "Despicable Me 2") 0.1036

27 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 0.1002

28 Kasabian - eez-eh 0.0891

29 Chris Brown - Loyal (feat. Lil Wayne & Tyga) 0.0872

30 Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) 0.0856

 

31 Katy Perry - Birthday 0.0786

32 Pitbull - We Are One (Ole Ola) [The Official 2014 FIFA ... 0.0781

33 The Kooks - Around Town 0.0745

34 Raleigh Ritchie - Stronger Than Ever 0.0648

35 Tove Lo - Stay High (feat. Hippie Sabotage) [Habits Rem... 0.0623

36 Faul & Wad Ad & Pnau - Changes (Radio Mix) 0.0615

xx Morrissey - The Bullfighter Dies 0.0562 (ineligible)

37 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect 0.0561

38 Duke Dumont - I Got U (feat. Jax Jones) 0.0556

39 Lana Del Rey - West Coast 0.0540

40 Clean Bandit - Extraordinary (feat. Sharna Bass) 0.0536

 

41 Lil Wayne - Believe Me (feat. Drake) 0.0479

42 Pharrell Williams - Marilyn Monroe 0.0473

43 Coldplay - Magic 0.0433

44 The Vamps - Somebody To You 0.0429

45 5 Seconds of Summer - Good Girls 0.0427

46 Paolo Nutini - Let Me Down Easy 0.0420

47 Katy Perry - Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J) 0.0420

48 Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts 0.0408

xx Ariana Grande - Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) 0.0401 (pre-order)

49 Justin Timberlake - Not a Bad Thing (Radio Edit) 0.0396

xx Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) [Radio … 0.0386 (pre-order)

50 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance 0.0386

 

51 Skepta - That's Not Me (feat. JME) [Radio Edit Explicit... 0.0378

52 Cash Cash - Take Me Home (feat. Bebe Rexha) 0.0370

53 Wilkinson - Half Light (feat. Tom Cane) 0.0369

54 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind 0.0369

55 Rik Mayall - Noble England 0.0369

56 Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions 0.0358

57 Route 94 - My Love (feat. Jess Glynne) 0.0349

58 Enrique Iglesias - There Goes My Baby (feat. Flo Rida) 0.0341

59 Pitbull - Wild Wild Love (feat. G.R.L.) 0.0337

xx Cheryl Cole - Crazy Stupid Love (feat. Tinie Tempah) 0.0333 (pre-order)

60 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody 0.0320

 

61 Twin Atlantic - Heart and Soul 0.0313

62 David Guetta & Showtek - Bad (feat. Vassy) [Radio Edit] 0.0309

63 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You (Official BBC... 0.0294

64 Pitbull - Timber (feat. Ke$ha) 0.0278

65 Arctic Monkeys - Snap Out of It 0.0278

66 Ellie Goulding - Beating Heart 0.0274

67 Avicii - Wake Me Up 0.0274

68 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence 0.0271

69 DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down for What 0.0267

70 Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez - Do You Wa… 0.0266

 

71 Nero - Satisfy 0.0263

72 America - A Horse With No Name 0.0263

73 Fred V & Grafix - Forest Fires (feat. Etherwood) 0.0261

74 MØ - Say You'll Be There 0.0258

75 5 Seconds of Summer - Try Hard 0.0258

76 Shift K3Y - Touch (Radio Edit) 0.0254

77 OneRepublic - Counting Stars 0.0254

78 Pigeon John - The Bomb 0.0253

79 One Direction - You & I 0.0251

80 Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby 0.0248

 

81 Slash - World On Fire 0.0240

82 Vance Joy - Riptide 0.0238

83 Beyoncé - Drunk in Love (feat. Jay Z) 0.0238

84 Lennon & Maisy - That's What's Up 0.0228

85 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & Lightning Seeds - Three ... 0.0225

86 Tiësto & Firebeatz - Last Train (feat. Ladyhawke) 0.0122

To be honest, other than a few people on this forum, most people don't care if a song on the iTunes chart can chart or not.

 

OTOH, wouldn't someone interested enough to check the iTunes chart in the first place, wonder why some of the songs high on there don't chart...

Oh, I was literally just about to do a combined update... :lol: Was in my plans to kill some time in my free periods ~

 

And the moaning about instant grats is quite silly IMO, they're a great promotional method and if you see that you can get x number of songs instantly when pre-ordering a brand new album, that's even more of an incentive to pre-order. Besides, anyone who really cares about them showing up when they don't chart will probably be on a forum like Buzzjack, very few outside of these communities will actually care.

There are 3 of them, so she's #11 I believe?

 

There's 4, putting her at #10. But combined, John Legend is ahead which puts her back to #11.

I agree that very few people will care about ineligible instant grats showing up on the iTunes chart. I do think however that there'll be plenty of Ed Sheeran fans annoyed by his whole release strategy/campaign thus far.

I agree that very few people will care about ineligible instant grats showing up on the iTunes chart. I do think however that there'll be plenty of Ed Sheeran fans annoyed by his whole release strategy/campaign thus far.

 

Really? I know I'd be really happy if I got a new Vamps track every day for a week. I'm purposely holding off listening to the new Ed tracks so I can hear the album in full but if it were The Vamps or Lily Allen doing this, for example, I know I'd be very excited :lol:

There's 4, putting her at #10. But combined, John Legend is ahead which puts her back to #11.

 

You're right. :blush: I completely missed 'Don't' for some reason.

 

SEE HOW CONFUSING THIS ALL IS?!

Yeah I don't think anyone other than avid iTunes chart watchers will care at all. Most people will just ignore all of these daily releases completely and wait for the album. People that want to get these tracks now will do so and just do 'complete my album' next week.

Really? I know I'd be really happy if I got a new Vamps track every day for a week. I'm purposely holding off listening to the new Ed tracks so I can hear the album in full but if it were The Vamps or Lily Allen doing this, for example, I know I'd be very excited :lol:

 

Well I'm sure there's a lot like yourself as well but I think his core fanbase and certain other demographics will be irritated by waiting so long for both the single and now the album and feel a bit manipulated by this drip feeding of songs. Ed Sheeran has a very """authentic""" singer-songwriter, sleeping-on-friends'-couches, releasing-independent-EPs type of background and I think all these delays and promotional tricks designed for commercial dominance will rub a lot of people up the wrong way. Personally, I don't care other than I would like to have heard the music sooner but I think the label should have devised a better strategy that was more suited to his target market (but then maybe I'm in disagreement with who his target market actually is, such is the scope of his appeal with '+').

These Ed tracks would be alright if Ed wasn't such a collossal piece of shite.

Oh, I was literally just about to do a combined update... :lol: Was in my plans to kill some time in my free periods ~

 

And the moaning about instant grats is quite silly IMO, they're a great promotional method and if you see that you can get x number of songs instantly when pre-ordering a brand new album, that's even more of an incentive to pre-order.

 

Personally I don't see the point of pre-ordering a download at all - are iTunes gonna run out, or something... :lol:

 

If I'm not mistaken, are these tracks all appearing because everybody who has pre-ordered the album is being given these songs automatically and thus appearing on this chart as a result?

 

(Or is this blindingly obvious and I'm only just starting to get the concept of this whole "instant grat" thing?)

Edited June 18, 201411 yr by mr_aly

Personally I don't see the point of pre-ordering a download at all - are iTunes gonna run out, or something... :lol:

 

I guess people are forgettable and just doing it in case they don't remember when something is released.

 

I would never pre-order a download myself and find it odd that pre-order singles have almost completely killed off the 'fake versions'. It's not as if pre-ordering a single will allow you to have the song available to listen to. Surely people bought fake versions so that they had a version of their favourite song to download and be able to listen to in full there and then, surely pre-ordering doesn't solve that issue? Either that or people genuinely were just that idiotic and the majority of people that bought fake versions thought that they were the real deal :lol:

I guess people are forgettable and just doing it in case they don't remember when something is released.

 

I would never pre-order a download myself and find it odd that pre-order singles have almost completely killed off the 'fake versions'. It's not as if pre-ordering a single will allow you to have the song available to listen to. Surely people bought fake versions so that they had a version of their favourite song to download and be able to listen to in full there and then, surely pre-ordering doesn't solve that issue? Either that or people genuinely were just that idiotic and the majority of people that bought fake versions thought that they were the real deal :lol:

 

 

Unfortunately, I think that's the reason most of the time.

Edited June 18, 201411 yr by JoeP