Posted July 14, 201410 yr As the title suggests. Only songs that made the top 40 in either the sales or official chart will count towards this list. Official peak • sales peak • Performer ~ Song +2 03 • 05 • Sam Smith ~ I'm Not the Only One 09 • 11 • Sam Smith ~ Like I Can +1 04 • 05 • Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora ~ Black Widow 05 • 06 • Oliver Heldens feat. KStewart ~ Last All Night (Koala) 07 • 08 • Tom Odell ~ Real Love 08 • 09 • Wretch 32 ~ 6 Words -1 02 • 01 • Union J ~ You Got It All 03 • 02 • Nicki Minaj ~ Anaconda 03 • 02 • One Direction ~ Steal My Girl 03 • 02 • Waze & Odyssey vs. R. Kelly ~ Bump & Grind 2014 04 • 03 • Kiesza ~ Giant In My Heart 04 • 03 • Olly Murs feat. Demi Lovato ~ Up 04 • 03 • Professor Green feat. Tori Kelly ~ Lullaby 04 • 03 • The Vamps feat. Demi Lovato ~ Somebody To You 05 • 04 • Bars And Melody ~ Hopeful 05 • 04 • David Guetta feat. Sam Martin ~ Dangerous 05 • 04 • Wealdstone Raider ~ Got No Fans 06 • 05 • Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding ~ Outside 06 • 05 • George Ezra ~ Blame It On Me 07 • 06 • 5 Seconds Of Summer ~ Amnesia 07 • 06 • Labrinth ~ Jealous 08 • 07 • The Veronicas ~ You Ruin Me 10 • 09 • Chris Brown feat. Usher & Rick Ross ~ New Flame 16 • 15 • Ariana Grande feat. Zedd ~ Break Free -2 04 • 02 • Taylor Swift ~ Blank Space 05 • 03 • Jeremih feat. YG ~ Don't Tell 'Em 06 • 04 • Charli XCX ~ Boom Clap 06 • 04 • Jess Glynne ~ Right Here 06 • 04 • Parra for Cuva feat. Anna Naklab ~ Wicked Games 06 • 04 • Ten Walls ~ Walking With Elephants 07 • 05 • Blonde feat. Melissa Steel ~ I Loved You 07 • 05 • Ella Henderson ~ Glow 07 • 05 • The Magician feat. Years & Years ~ Sunlight 09 • 07 • Fuse ODG feat. Angel ~ T.I.N.A. 09 • 07 • The Vamps feat. Shawn Mendes ~ Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) 10 • 08 • Eminem feat. Sia ~ Guts Over Fear 12 • 10 • McBusted ~ Air Guitar 12 • 10 • MK feat. Alana ~ Always (Route 94 Remix) 12 • 10 • Rixton ~ Wait On Me 24 • 22 • MKTO ~ Classic -3 06 • 03 • Nicole Scherzinger ~ Your Love 09 • 06 • Union J ~ Tonight (We Live Forever) 10 • 07 • DJ Fresh vs. TC feat. Little Nikki ~ Make U Bounce 11 • 08 • Labrinth ~ Let It Be 11 • 08 • Lethal Bizzle feat. JME and Tempa T ~ RariWorkOut 12 • 09 • Ella Eyre ~ Comeback 13 • 10 • Power Music Workout ~ All About That Bass 14 • 11 • Neon Jungle ~ Louder 15 • 12 • Oliver $ & Jimi Jules ~ Pushing On -4 10 • 06 • Melissa Steel feat. Popcaan ~ Kisses For Breakfast 13 • 09 • LuvBug feat. Talay Riley ~ Resonance 16 • 12 • Usher feat. Nicki Minaj ~ She Came To Give It To You -5 11 • 06 • G.R.L ~ Ugly Heart 14 • 09 • Gorgon City feat. Jennifer Hudson ~ Go All Night 14 • 09 • James Newton Howard ~ The Hanging Tree 14 • 09 • Rizzle Kicks ~ Tell Her 15 • 10 • Bakermat ~ One Day (Vandaag) 15 • 10 • Watermat ~ Bullit 16 • 11 • Ella Eyre ~ If I Go 22 • 17 • Years & Years ~ Desire 24 • 19 • Milky Chance ~ Stolen Dance -6 16 • 10 • Ella Henderson ~ Yours 18 • 12 • X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons feat. Jay-Z ~ Jungle 19 • 13 • Gorgon City feat. Zak Abel ~ Unmissable 20 • 14 • Kendrick Lamar ~ i 22 • 16 • Jessie Ware ~ Say You Love Me 33 • 27 • Katy Perry ~ This Is How We Do 36 • 30 • Jamie T ~ Zombie -7 20 • 13 • Brian Wilson & Various Artists ~ God Only Knows 20 • 13 • Wilkinson feat. Talay Riley ~ Dirty Love 40 • 33 • Hot Natured ~ Benediction¹ 45 • 38 • Clean Bandit feat. Stylo G ~ Come Over -8 27 • 19 • Krishane feat. Melissa Steel ~ Drunk and Incapable 30 • 22 • Kove feat. Melissa Steel ~ Way We Are 37 • 29 • Vic Mensa ~ Down On My Luck 42 • 34 • Paolo Nutini ~ Iron Sky 46 • 38 • Ed Sheeran ~ All of the Stars -9 17 • 08 • Bring Me The Horizon ~ Drown 26 • 17 • Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds ~ In the Heat of the Moment 26 • 17 • The Script ~ No Good In Goodbye 38 • 29 • Matrix & Futurebound feat. Tanya Lacey ~ Don't Look Back 40 • 31 • Maroon 5 ~ It Was Always You 41 • 32 • Cher Lloyd ~ Sirens 45 • 36 • Naughty Boy feat. Sam Romans ~ Home 46 • 37 • Kid Ink feat. Usher & Tinashe ~ Body Language -10 21 • 11 • Fifth Harmony ~ Bo$$ 22 • 12 • Fall Out Boy ~ Centuries 30 • 20 • Kiesza ~ No Enemiesz 34 • 24 • Jessie Ware ~ Tough Love 35 • 25 • Charli XCX ~ Break the Rules -11 23 • 12 • Calvin Harris feat. Big Sean ~ Open Wide 25 • 14 • Shift K3Y ~ I Know 41 • 30 • George Ezra ~ Listen To The Man 49 • 38 • M.O ~ Dance On My Own -12 47 • 35 • DJ Fresh feat. Ellie Goulding ~ Flashlight 49 • 37 • The Script ~ It's Not Right For You -13 29 • 16 • OneRepublic ~ I Lived 34 • 21 • Saint Motel ~ My Type 38 • 25 • The Saturdays ~ What Are You Waiting For 45 • 32 • Chris Malinchak feat. Mikky Ekko ~ Stranger 47 • 34 • Twin Atlantic ~ Brothers And Sisters 49 • 36 • Sander van Doorn, Martin Garrix & DVBBS ~ Gold Skies -14 48 • 34 • Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Love Too Deep 49 • 35 • T.I. feat. Iggy Azalea ~ No Mediocre 53 • 39 • Alex Clare ~ War Rages On -15 35 • 20 • Nicki Minaj feat. Drake, Lil Wayne & Chris Brown ~ Only 38 • 23 • Ed Sheeran ~ Make It Rain 44 • 29 • One Direction ~ Ready To Run 44 • 29 • The Independents ~ UKIP Calypso 49 • 34 • Joss Stone feat. Jeff Beck ~ No Man's Land (Green Fields Of France) -16 43 • 27 • Mega Giants ~ Prayer In C 50 • 34 • Andy C & Fiora ~ Heartbeat Loud 53 • 37 • The 1975 ~ Medicine -17 39 • 22 • Taylor Swift ~ Welcome To New York 45 • 28 • One Direction ~ 18 -18 41 • 23 • Henry Krinkle ~ Stay 47 • 29 • One Direction ~ Where Do Broken Hearts Go 49 • 31 • Pitbull feat. John Ryan ~ Fireball 51 • 33 • Hudson Taylor ~ Chasing Rubies -19 46 • 27 • Nicole Scherzinger ~ Run -20 59 • 39 • Redlight ~ 9TS (90s Baby) -23 52 • 29 • CHVRCHES ~ Get Away ¹officially peaked at #40 before streaming was included. Its official peak from the re-release is #46, which would put it at -13 instead of -7. Notes: • A song colour-coded in green indicates that the song missed out on the top 40 due to streaming
July 20, 201410 yr Author The first post has been updated with the following inclusions and adjustments: +1 23 • 24 • Ed Sheeran ~ Thinking Out Loud -3 06 • 03 • Nicole Scherzinger ~ Your Love -5 16 • 11 • Ella Eyre ~ If I Go -8 30 • 22 • Kove feat. Melissa Steel ~ Way We Are
July 21, 201410 yr That Ella Eyre single has been streaming for ages, not enough promotion letting people know it was streaming I'm guessing.
July 21, 201410 yr That Ella Eyre single has been streaming for ages, not enough promotion letting people know it was streaming I'm guessing. It's interesting that the likes of 'If I Go' and 'Right Here' were still hit fairly hard by streaming despite being available to stream before release - and in fact even 'Classic' had a higher peak on sales alone, despite the fact it made the top 100 before being released to download. It really seems like streaming is only helping out Ed Sheeran and old songs.
July 21, 201410 yr Ugh Milky Chance would have bene top 20 this week then?! Radio 1 have it off the Alist too so its prob peaked now although its increasing in streams will stabilise it hopefully to get another few weeks top 40!
July 21, 201410 yr Interesting that Cheryl Cole's new song has enter spotify's top 100 on day of release, very unusual for a new release, suggests that could have one if the biggest first week stream sales
July 21, 201410 yr One thing is becoming very clear - new songs are at a significant disadvantage since streaming has been included - they almost invariably chart lower than they do on sales alone.
July 21, 201410 yr Interesting that Cheryl Cole's new song has enter spotify's top 100 on day of release, very unusual for a new release, suggests that could have one if the biggest first week stream sales It suggests that her record company have only just noticed that releasing to streaming 3/4 weeks before release helps to 'build' a decent base level of streaming and to reach a peak (or close to peak) to coincide with the digital release. It therefore suggests that they don't really know what they're doing! I strongly doubt she would have beat the first week streams of Daft Punk's "Get Lucky".
July 27, 201410 yr Author The first post has been updated with the following: Major victims this week are X Ambassadors/Jamie N Commons/Jay-Z and especially Cher Lloyd. -2 06 • 04 • Charli XCX ~ Boom Clap 12 • 10 • MK feat. Alana ~ Always (Route 94 Remix) -3 14 • 11 • Neon Jungle ~ Louder -6 18 • 12 • X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons feat. Jay-Z ~ Jungle -9 41 • 32 • Cher Lloyd ~ Sirens
July 27, 201410 yr 12 • X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons feat. Jay-Z ~ Jungle so it was actually #12, knew there was a mistake somewhere! Jamie slaying non-top 12 faves :cheer:
July 28, 201410 yr Basically, every song is going to be peaking lower which makes an artist look less successful, in turn decreasing their TV/Radio support, making music careers shorter than they already are. The only way to succeed is if you've got a BIG hit on your hands (or your album will be streamed heavily) and even then, it makes it tough for the follow up. Hopefully I'm proved wrong as streaming settles in but I doubt it.
July 28, 201410 yr The first post has been updated with the following: Major victims this week are X Ambassadors/Jamie N Commons/Jay-Z and especially Cher Lloyd. -2 06 • 04 • Charli XCX ~ Boom Clap 12 • 10 • MK feat. Alana ~ Always (Route 94 Remix) -3 14 • 11 • Neon Jungle ~ Louder -6 18 • 12 • X Ambassadors & Jamie N Commons feat. Jay-Z ~ Jungle -9 41 • 32 • Cher Lloyd ~ Sirens Once again, it's new releases that lose out - record companies will need to learn to release songs for streaming several weeks before download, if they want to maximise chart positions.
July 28, 201410 yr Author Once again, it's new releases that lose out - record companies will need to learn to release songs for streaming several weeks before download, if they want to maximise chart positions. A lot are already doing this. I believe Boom Clap and Always were out for streaming before download. Jungle wasn't, and I'm not sure about the other 2 as I haven't been listening to them
August 3, 201410 yr Author The opening post has been updated with the following entries and adjustments: +3 20 • 23 • Ed Sheeran ~ Thinking Out Loud -1 05 • 04 • Bars And Melody ~ Hopeful -4 10 • 06 • Melissa Steel feat. Popcaan ~ Kisses For Breakfast -5 15 • 10 • Bakermat ~ One Day (Vandaag) -8 37 • 29 • Vic Mensa ~ Down On My Luck -9 45 • 36 • Naughty Boy feat. Sam Romans ~ Home -12 49 • 37 • The Script ~ It's Not Right For You 51 • 39 • Maroon 5 ~ It Was Always You
August 5, 201410 yr tragic that a great single has been pushed out of the top 40 (Naughty Boy) by mediocre tedious streaming data. The Top 40 gets less and less worth bothering with, same thing each week - maniuplated record comapny new entry at number 1 - 2 or 3 fanbase records plummeting - 2 or 3 held-back records entering the top 10 - the rest of the chart just shuffling positions forever. Seems like an eternity that some tracks have been around. OMG its soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo dull.
August 5, 201410 yr The charts are very slow-moving atm, and all the new releases struggling doesn't help, and just keeps the old songs in the chart for even longer. Where is that Breakers chart the OCC was talking about?
August 5, 201410 yr This streaming talk is becoming rather tedious. New releases will be accepted and will chart high & long if they are popular enough tracks. Look at Rude & Am I Wrong for example. We will almost certainly see the same with Won't Look Back, Lovers On The Sun, Changing etc. in the coming months. Tracks that would have otherwise charted but for streaming are clearly not popular enough. The most popular tracks will always find a way to break through. Edited August 5, 201410 yr by Dobbo
August 5, 201410 yr This streaming talk is becoming rather tedious. New releases will be accepted and will chart high & long if they are popular enough tracks. Look at Rude & Am I Wrong for example. We will almost certainly see the same with Won't Look Back, Lovers On The Sun, Changing etc. in the coming months. Tracks that would have otherwise charted but for streaming are clearly not popular enough. The most popular tracks will always find a way to break through. That's not really the issue (at least not for me). Everybody knows the crossover adult contemporary hits will still chart high and chart for a long time. It's just that the charts are slow, but are now becoming even slower. I just wish songs were removed from the top 40 after 20 weeks or something to let new songs get in. Or at least Radio 1 should start playing new entries from the #41-#200 region, in place of songs like Let It Go, Happy, All Of Me, etc. The charts are only going to get slower and slower in the future too as streaming increases its chart ratio. It's almost at 50% already.
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