1. 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia

1. 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia

 

What is it?? Wasn't their new single released last week?

What is it?? Wasn't their new single released last week?

 

Probably an instant grat.

What is it?? Wasn't their new single released last week?

Another instant grat! :P

The iTunes chart is becoming increasingly irritating to monitor these days with the instant grats that don't contribute officially, and will become even less important to chart-watchers in a couple of weeks when streaming kicks in. For the first time in years we won't be able to tell almost exactly what the chart will look like on Sunday from looking at iTunes!

The iTunes chart is becoming increasingly irritating to monitor these days with the instant grats that don't contribute officially, and will become even less important to chart-watchers in a couple of weeks when streaming kicks in. For the first time in years we won't be able to tell almost exactly what the chart will look like on Sunday from looking at iTunes!

 

Which is a good thing, no?

Which is a good thing, no?

 

Definitely a good thing for chart-watchers as it will make things less predictable.

 

Just saying that the iTunes chart is such a mess now that it's not enjoyable to follow anymore. These Ed/5SOS songs aren't getting to the top of the iTunes chart on merit of their actual popularity as single tracks, but to outsiders it probably looks as though they are. The Ed songs probably sold about 5-10k each as single track downloads last week and these are the only sales that should be reflected in the live updates imo but I guess they haven't devised a way to separate the source of the sales.

Where did that 5 Seconds Of Summer track come from and there is a second version of it :blink: seriously the iTunes chart is one big mess.

 

Once you take those instant grats out, the actual singles are a hell lot higher.

Where did that 5 Seconds Of Summer track come from and there is a second version of it :blink: seriously the iTunes chart is one big mess.

 

Once you take those instant grats out, the actual singles are a hell lot higher.

 

Perhaps any album that has instant grats taken from it, should have its first week's download sales made ineligible - that'd soon end the practice... :teresa: ;)

Kworb Combined/Scaled Up Chart - as per 1.0 hours ago

x 1.1564 5 Seconds of Summer - Amnesia (ineligible)

1 1.0000 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive)

2 0.9607 Ella Henderson - Ghost

3 0.9181 Ed Sheeran - Sing

4 0.5070 Example - One More Day (Stay with Me)

5 0.4103 George Ezra - Budapest

6 0.3543 Sam Smith - Stay With Me

7 0.3424 Usher - Good Kisser

8 0.3360 Jason Derulo - Wiggle (feat. Snoop Dogg)

9 0.3198 Tiësto - Wasted (feat. Matthew Koma)

10 0.2718 Mr. Probz - Waves

 

11 0.2701 John Legend - All of Me

12 0.2664 5 Seconds of Summer - Don't Stop

13 0.2582 Gorgon City - Here For You (feat. Laura Welsh)

14 0.2560 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud

15 0.2110 Fuse ODG - Dangerous Love (feat. Sean Paul)

16 0.2106 Ed Sheeran - Photograph

17 0.2018 Ed Sheeran - Don't

18 0.1900 Calvin Harris - Summer

19 0.1859 Coldplay - A Sky Full of Stars

20 0.1748 Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down

 

21 0.1508 Klingande - Jubel

22 0.1451 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This

23 0.1434 Little Mix - Salute

24 0.1349 Kiesza - Hideaway

25 0.1328 Austin Mahone - Mmm Yeah (feat. Pitbull)

26 0.1325 Ed Sheeran - One

27 0.1301 Ed Sheeran - Afire Love

28 0.1288 Ed Sheeran - The Man

29 0.1254 Secondcity - I Wanna Feel

30 0.1215 Ed Sheeran - Bloodstream

 

31 0.1171 Iggy Azalea - Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)

32 0.1165 Idina Menzel - Let It Go

33 0.1153 Chris Brown - Loyal (feat. Lil Wayne & Tyga)

34 0.1146 Pharrell Williams - Happy

35 0.1113 Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good

36 0.1071 Zedd - Clarity (feat. Foxes)

37 0.1059 Dimitri Vegas, Martin Garrix & Like Mike - Tremor

38 0.1016 Demi Lovato - Neon Lights

39 0.0986 Sigma - Nobody to Love

40 0.0937 Clean Bandit - Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)

 

41 0.0924 Kasabian - eez-eh

42 0.0755 Katy Perry - Birthday

43 0.0676 5 Seconds of Summer - She Looks So Perfect

44 0.0665 Duke Dumont - I Got U (feat. Jax Jones)

45 0.0660 The Vamps - Somebody To You

46 0.0619 Beyoncé - Pretty Hurts

47 0.0599 David Guetta & Showtek - Bad (feat. Vassy)

48 0.0594 Tove Lo - Stay High (feat. Hippie Sabotage)

49 0.0578 DJ Snake & Lil Jon - Turn Down for What

50 0.0575 Nicki Minaj - Pills N Potions

 

51 0.0565 Paolo Nutini - Let Me Down Easy

52 0.0561 Cash Cash - Take Me Home (feat. Bebe Rexha)

xx 0.0533 Ariana Grande - Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) (pre-order)

53 0.0493 Clean Bandit - Extraordinary (feat. Sharna Bass)

54 0.0486 Lana Del Rey - West Coast

55 0.0472 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance

56 0.0465 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind

57 0.0464 5 Seconds of Summer - Good Girls

58 0.0463 Nero - Satisfy

59 0.0456 Route 94 - My Love (feat. Jess Glynne)

60 0.0451 Pitbull - We Are One (Ole Ola) [feat. Jennifer Lopez & Cláudia Leitte]

 

61 0.0445 Ed Sheeran - Tenerife Sea

62 0.0444 Coldplay - Magic

63 0.0441 Ed Sheeran - I'm a Mess

64 0.0435 Raleigh Ritchie - Stronger Than Ever

65 0.0420 alt-J - Hunger of the Pine

66 0.0408 Justin Timberlake - Not a Bad Thing

67 0.0403 Katy Perry - Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J)

68 0.0403 America - A Horse With No Name

69 0.0399 Teebone - Fly Bi (feat. Kie & Sparks)

xx 0.0394 Cheryl Cole - Crazy Stupid Love (feat. Tinie Tempah) (pre-order)

70 0.0391 Pharrell Williams - Marilyn Monroe

 

71 0.0367 Danna Richards - Forever Love (feat. Avia Butler)

72 0.0351 Lil Wayne - Believe Me (feat. Drake)

73 0.0350 Jamie xx - All Under One Roof Raving

74 0.0343 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody

75 0.0343 The Kooks - Around Town

76 0.0331 Enrique Iglesias - There Goes My Baby (feat. Flo Rida)

77 0.0331 Ed Sheeran - Take It Back

78 0.0321 Faul & Wad Ad & Pnau - Changes

79 0.0319 Eminem - Headlights (feat. Nate Ruess)

xx 0.0301 will.i.am - It’s My Birthday (feat. Cody Wise) (pre-order)

80 0.0298 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You

 

81 0.0298 Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez - Do You Want to Build a Snowman?

82 0.0292 Wilkinson - Half Light (feat. Tom Cane)

83 0.0285 Avicii - Wake Me Up

84 0.0285 Wyclef Jean - Perfect Gentleman

85 0.0282 Ed Sheeran - I See Fire

86 0.0281 Pitbull - Timber (feat. Ke$ha)

87 0.0278 OneRepublic - Counting Stars

88 0.0278 Michelle Williams - Say Yes (feat. Beyoncé & Kelly Rowland)

89 0.0274 Royal Blood - Out of the Black

90 0.0273 Vance Joy - Riptide

 

91 0.0273 Ed Sheeran - Nina

3. Ella Henderson - Ghost

4. Ed Sheeran - Sing

 

Ella coming back for #1 please!

3. Ella Henderson - Ghost

4. Ed Sheeran - Sing

 

Ella coming back for #1 please!

 

Yes please! :D Although I'm not as eager for her to get it again as I was last week, I would much prefer it.

Ouch at 'Tremor' only scraping the top 40. Of course, the Ed Sheeran chart manipulation isn't helping it, but I knew they shouldn't have released it. 'Gold Skies' can and will get Garrix another top 10 smash though

Its probably best Ghost bows out gracefully this week (rather than outstaying its welcome) and Ella can get on with sorting out a slaying single 2... Empire by all accounts...

The iTunes chart is becoming increasingly irritating to monitor these days with the instant grats that don't contribute officially, and will become even less important to chart-watchers in a couple of weeks when streaming kicks in. For the first time in years we won't be able to tell almost exactly what the chart will look like on Sunday from looking at iTunes!

 

Surely that's a good thing. "Back in the days", the midweeks and the charts were really exciting because they were full of surprises and sometimes unpredictable. Nowadays you can say where a song is going to chart by its position on Itunes by Sunday evening. :(

You just know that every 'big' artist with a strong digital fanbase coming back this year is taking notes and are gonna do this constant instant grat releasing every day up until the album or something similar :drama: I do wish iTunes could find a way to make them not appear on the feed, it would definitely make it a lot easier to read. If I wasn't on this forum, I wouldn't have a clue what's going on.

 

 

What does Michelle Williams have to do to achieve a big hit, it just seem its ever going to happen for her as a solo artist in the UK.

Morph into Beyoncé?

What does Michelle Williams have to do to achieve a big hit, it just seem its ever going to happen for her as a solo artist in the UK.

Firstly, releasing a song about praising Jesus isn't exactly going to be a chart smash and get radio on board, even with Beyoncé on it.

gecko looks likely to be the first no1 in a while not to have topped the iTunes chart~