Singles:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart singles for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 David Guetta feat. Sam Martin - Lovers On The Sun [38; 1]

#4 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off [20]

#5 Wankelmut and Emma Louise - My Head Is A Jungle [1; 1]

#9 Union J - Tonight (We Live Forever) [3]

#34 Saint Motel - My Type [1]

#43 The Mega Giants - Prayer In C [1] ^[A]

#45 Chris Malinchak feat. Mikky Ekko - Stranger [3^[B]; 2]

#49 T.I. feat. Iggy Azalea - No Mediocre [16; 8]

#50 Royal Blood - Figure It Out [3]

#60 Ben Howard - I Forget Where We Were [7]

#78 Royal Blood - Out Of The Black [4]

#79 Hozier - Take Me To Church [1]

#83 Klangkarussell - Netzwerk (Falls Like Rain) [2]

#85 Mallory Knox - Ghost In The Mirror [1]

#86 Troye Sivan - Happy Little Pill [1] ^[C]

#91 Nickelback - Edge Of A Revolution [14]

 

Re-entries:

#57 Cliff Richard - I Still Believe In You [Facebook campaign]

#81 Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky [now being promoted as a single]

 

New peaks within the top 100:

#8 Ed Sheeran - Don't [from #11]

#13 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud [from #16]

#15 Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - Black Widow [from #32]

#17 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One [from #40]

#58 Katy Perry - This Is How We Do [from #86]

#87 Pharrell - Come Get It Bae [from #92]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#38 The Saturdays - What Are You Waiting For? *

#54 Bars And Melody - Hopeful *

#66 Maroon 5 - It Was Always You *

#67 Neon Jungle - Louder *

#70 MK feat. Alana - Always

#72 Jessie Ware - Tough Love *

#74 Jamie T - Zombie *

#81 Katy Perry - Roar

#82 Secondcity - I Wanna Feel *

#83 Aloe Blacc - The Man *

#85 Kingsland Road - Dirty Dancer *

#87 Little Mix - Salute *

#89 FAUL and Wad Ad vs. Pnau - Changes

#93 Avicii - Hey Brother

#95 Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness

#96 Vic Mensa - Down On My Luck *

#98 Ed Sheeran - Nina *

#99 Drake - 0 To 100 / The Catch Up *

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Emma Louise [**-5]

Hozier [**-79]

Mallory Knox [**-85]

The Mega Giants [**-43]

Royal Blood [68-50]

Saint Motel [**-34]

Sam Martin [**-1]

Troye Sivan [**-86]

Wankelmut [**-5]

 

Albums:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart albums for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 Collabro - Stars [1]

#3 The Courteeners - Concrete Love [4]

#6 Twin Atlantic - Great Divide [2]

#27 Wiz Khalifa - Blacc Hollywood [2]

#35 Blackberry Smoke - Leave A Scar - Live North Carolina [2]

#40 Imogen Heap - Sparks [2]

#43 Luke Sital-Singh - The Fire Inside [1]

#44 DragonForce - Maximum Overload [4]

#57 The Magic Numbers - Alias [4]

#72 Benjamin Booker - Benjamin Booker [1]

#76 KING 810 - Memoirs Of A Murderer [1]

#85 ACCEPT - Blind Rage [5]

#96 Bernie Marsden - Shine [2^[D]]

 

Re-entries:

#29 Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love [documentary aired on TV / upcoming touring]

#82 Lily Allen - Sheezus

#83 Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow [documentary aired on TV / upcoming touring]

#84 Paul Simon - Graceland

#87 Kate Bush - The Kick Inside [documentary aired on TV / upcoming touring]

#90 Ben Howard - Every Kingdom [release of new single 'I Forget Where We Were']

#91 Nickelback - The Best Of - Volume 1 [release of new single 'Edge Of A Revolution']

#93 Kate Bush - The Sensual World [documentary aired on TV / upcoming touring]

 

New peaks within the top 100:

none

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#29 Grant Nicholas - Yorktown Heights *

#37 Loveable Rogues - This And That *

#55 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved

#60 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear *

#66 Neon Jungle - Welcome To The Jungle *

#73 Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull *

#75 Rod Stewart - Some Guys Have All The Luck

#78 George Michael - Symphonica

#81 G FrSH - Alfie *

#82 Biffy Clyro - Opposites

#83 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist

#86 Porter Robinson - Worlds *

#87 Childhood - Lacuna *

#90 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

#92 Queen - Greatest Hits

#93 Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon

#94 Pixie Lott - Pixie Lott *

#97 Little Mix - Salute *

#98 Alex Clare - Three Hearts *

#99 One Direction - Midnight Memories *

#100 Adele - 21

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Benjamin Booker [**-72]

Collabro [**-1]

The Courteeners [4-3]

KING 810 [**-76]

Luke Sital-Singh [**-43]

Twin Atlantic [37-6]

Wiz Khalifa [47-27]

 

Longest running entries (with an unbroken top 100 run since entering for the first time):

 

Singles:

1 78wks Bastille - Pompeii

2 58wks Avicii - Wake Me Up

3 55wks OneRepublic - Counting Stars

4 41wks Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You

5 39wks Pharrell - Happy

6 37wks Idina Menzel - Let It Go

=7 34wks Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn and Katie Lopez - Do You Want To Build A Snowman?

=7 34wks Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber

9 31wks Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

10 29wks John Legend - All Of Me

 

Albums:

1 98wks Ellie Goulding - Halcyon

2 77wks Bastille - Bad Blood

3 73wks Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

4 51wks The 1975 - The 1975

=5 50wks Arctic Monkeys - AM

=5 50wks London Grammar - If You Wait

7 49wks Avicii - True

8 47wks HAIM - Days Are Gone

=9 44wks James Blunt - Moon Landing

=9 44wks Katy Perry - PRISM

 

Dropping out:

Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull [from #8]

 

Notes:

^[A] Pre-release cover version of the song by Lilly Wood & The Prick and Robin Schulz

^[B] +1 as a member of Live Element

^[C] First week of being eligible to chart

^[D] +9 as a member of Whitesnake

But this is a forum specifically dedicated to the chart and the people making these comments do follow it closely. And people who don't follow it closely are very unlikely to have noticed the chart being any slower than it already was (because there are only a few changes in the top 40 songs each week).

 

And trying to discover new music via listening to the chart show is a bit of a silly way to do that. The chart show by nature plays the songs that are the most popular, i.e. the songs people are most likely to have already heard.

 

Buzzjack by definition aren't typical music fans. once upon a time, the Top 40 (with TOTP and the chart show) was the best way for non-obsessive music fans to hear new music, people enjoyed the rundown it was exciting and they tuned in especially in millions. The only reason people are likely to know the big hits is if they listen to radio one (not everyone does) or have time to catch music video channels or time to trawl the internet (not everyone does). I'm a music obsessive and I frequently have not heard some of the instant number ones that radio 1 plays for weeks in advance - the first time I hear them is on the chart show, so I say any exposure to a new act or record is preferable to not-needed exposure to a record that's been around a year already.

 

My friends, not of typical buzzjack age, still only catch current music through Top 40 shows occasionally, and the typical comment is "I don't know why I bother tuning in it's the same 20 records week after week and a few crap dance tracks". What do younger non-buzzjack mates of music fans say about the chart show? genuinely interested BTW.....

Buzzjack by definition aren't typical music fans. once upon a time, the Top 40 (with TOTP and the chart show) was the best way for non-obsessive music fans to hear new music, people enjoyed the rundown it was exciting and they tuned in especially in millions. The only reason people are likely to know the big hits is if they listen to radio one (not everyone does) or have time to catch music video channels or time to trawl the internet (not everyone does). I'm a music obsessive and I frequently have not heard some of the instant number ones that radio 1 plays for weeks in advance - the first time I hear them is on the chart show, so I say any exposure to a new act or record is preferable to not-needed exposure to a record that's been around a year already.

 

My friends, not of typical buzzjack age, still only catch current music through Top 40 shows occasionally, and the typical comment is "I don't know why I bother tuning in it's the same 20 records week after week and a few crap dance tracks". What do younger non-buzzjack mates of music fans say about the chart show? genuinely interested BTW.....

 

The first sentence is the point I was making - people complaining here about streaming 'ruining the charts' are exactly the sort of people who'd care enough to realise that the charts as they used to be are still published and they're free to ignore the 'official' chart and continue following the sales-only one. The purpose of the official chart is not to be entertaining, it is to track the most popular songs. The truth is that the most popular songs will not always provide an entertaining list.

 

'Once upon a time' is the key phrase for the rest of the first paragraph. Anyone interested in finding new music has much, much more efficient ways to do this than listen to the charts. You don't need hours and hours of free time to occasionally check blogs etc. for new music. And even if you don't have time for that your quality of life isn't impacted by the chart show playing slightly fewer of the songs that you'd likely have just heard once and never again if they had made the top 40.

 

And your second paragraph here is just yet another occurrence of people on this site using streaming as a scapegoat for everything they don't like about the charts. Do you really think your friends would react any differently if the few songs that have missed out on the top 40 due to streaming were in there instead? The charts have been 'the same 20 records week after week and a few crap dance tracks' as you put it for ages. Streaming has not changed this. The biggest hits are gaining a couple of extra weeks top 40, not months and months. You'd have to be a dedicated chart follower to notice any difference between a 16 week top 40 hit and an 18 week top 40 hit for example.

a few good points there, but any outlet promoting new music is good (and the point I make about casual music fans is they DONT go onto the net to search for it, they expect (tax-payer-paid) music stations to provide it for them). I purposely don't search out records I expect to hear in the chart show eventually, got better things to do with my life than fall for music company hype with a very limited amount of time available for leisure stuff. That's my bad luck but that's life, so yes those one or two plays on the chart show are still important, they focus on the track and publicise it, even if for one week.

 

On hearing tracks once: I (and many others) DO buy tracks based on one listen, I do it all the time, and friends buy whole albums based on one hearing of one track or TV performance, that's always been the case, why else is there a sales spike after a TV performance, advert or publicity - whether you think people should be on the net digging out music, the reality is that tends to be something young music enthusiasts do. I bought 10 singles last week based on one listen - granted I'm not typical, but the principle applies. You can't buy it if you don't hear it.

 

Quality of life not impacted by not hearing a record? :lol: That applies just as much to half the records clogging up the charts. Some might argue quality of life would be IMPROVED at not having to hear some of them ever again B-) From the BBC point of view, it's a slightly different slant as they are obligated to promote new young music, and the Chart Show isn't assisting them in that anymore (it has throughout it's history) so assuming streaming is here to stay and eventually impact more and more on the chart, they need to do something to make it interesting, as previously suggested, by highlighting the records that make the sales charts. It just makes sense and it won't affect the "Real" streaming-inclusive chart, the records will still be there in the positions announced. Just save everyone the tedium of hearing Let It Go for the 3,000th week in a row.

 

Think of poor Jameela, she is going to ACTUALLY go INSANE. That's inhuman! :lol:

a few good points there, but any outlet promoting new music is good (and the point I make about casual music fans is they DONT go onto the net to search for it, they expect (tax-payer-paid) music stations to provide it for them). I purposely don't search out records I expect to hear in the chart show eventually, got better things to do with my life than fall for music company hype with a very limited amount of time available for leisure stuff. That's my bad luck but that's life, so yes those one or two plays on the chart show are still important, they focus on the track and publicise it, even if for one week.

Most 'casual music fans' don't necessarily want to listen to new music, they wanna hear the songs they already know and love. This is why Capital and Heart are so popular.

 

Those who 'expect (tax-payer-paid) music stations to provide it for them' have radio 1, who play a mix of new and popular songs on their shows.

 

Radio 1 very much focus on promoting new music, more than any other major mainstream station. If you don't want to search for new music then it's right there on radio 1 especially on the nighttime shows!

 

The chart show is not the first place you should go to if you want to discover new music. The purpose of the chart is to document the most popular songs, not to introduce the listener to new music. It's a list of the most popular songs of the week and it should remain that way even if that means it's slow and not as interesting as it used to be. Songs that missed the top 40 due to streaming have other shows on R1 where they can be promoted (except silly Facebook campaign songs and fake versions)

 

Casual radio 1 listeners wouldn't have noticed any difference in the chart show before and after the inclusion of streaming. The charts have been slow for the last 10 years, it's not a new phenomenon.

 

Quality of life not impacted by not hearing a record? :lol: That applies just as much to half the records clogging up the charts. Some might argue quality of life would be IMPROVED at not having to hear some of them ever again B-) From the BBC point of view, it's a slightly different slant as they are obligated to promote new young music, and the Chart Show isn't assisting them in that anymore (it has throughout it's history) so assuming streaming is here to stay and eventually impact more and more on the chart, they need to do something to make it interesting, as previously suggested, by highlighting the records that make the sales charts. It just makes sense and it won't affect the "Real" streaming-inclusive chart, the records will still be there in the positions announced. Just save everyone the tedium of hearing Let It Go for the 3,000th week in a row.

Again, the point of the chart isn't to promote new fresh music.

 

They don't need to do anything to make it interesting. The target audience of the chart show are avid chart followers like us and people who enjoy popular music (mostly the latter). Radio 1 still promote new music on their other shows.

People are missing the fact that Let it Go is only ever played on the radio 1 chart and gets little airplay elsewhere on the station or other stations either so it might be in its 36th week in the chart but it's certainly not overplayed(I'm not an ave watched of Frozen although I did see it last week for the first time)!

 

 

Most 'casual music fans' don't necessarily want to listen to new music, they wanna hear the songs they already know and love. This is why Capital and Heart are so popular.

 

Those who 'expect (tax-payer-paid) music stations to provide it for them' have radio 1, who play a mix of new and popular songs on their shows.

 

Radio 1 very much focus on promoting new music, more than any other major mainstream station. If you don't want to search for new music then it's right there on radio 1 especially on the nighttime shows!

 

The chart show is not the first place you should go to if you want to discover new music. The purpose of the chart is to document the most popular songs, not to introduce the listener to new music. It's a list of the most popular songs of the week and it should remain that way even if that means it's slow and not as interesting as it used to be. Songs that missed the top 40 due to streaming have other shows on R1 where they can be promoted (except silly Facebook campaign songs and fake versions)

 

Casual radio 1 listeners wouldn't have noticed any difference in the chart show before and after the inclusion of streaming. The charts have been slow for the last 10 years, it's not a new phenomenon.

Again, the point of the chart isn't to promote new fresh music.

 

They don't need to do anything to make it interesting. The target audience of the chart show are avid chart followers like us and people who enjoy popular music (mostly the latter). Radio 1 still promote new music on their other shows.

 

agree with much of what you say, though perhaps "casual" music fan is too loose a description. People who have busy lives working, with families etc and just don't have the time to search out new music, but are still interested in it enough to continue making a point of listening to the chart show, is more how I would describe them. The BBC doesn't have a requirement to play every record in the Top 40 though, when the roadshow is on they play none of it at all (or just the top end) and as Ive said before the BBC only played the The top 20 from 1967 (when it was set up for young people) through to 1978, so for the first ten years of it's life it played new entries and risers lower down first. That saved music fans having to listen to My Way and Amazing Grace for years when they refused to leave the charts. Chart fans didn't feel at all cheated about that. Only suggesting they do that again and devote an hour of 3 hours to the same....