in my case, never, cos streaming isnt sales, it's more like background radio, supported by the ongoing blandness and dullness of it.

Ive been criticising the american singles charts for decades for the same reason: more radiostation/record company sales-tools than a reflection of what people feel motivated enough about to buy.

 

The albums charts are real, though.

I agree, 100%.

 

I don't get how listening to music on Spotify is more "background" than listening to iTunes...

I wasn't responding to any particular post, it's just something that I've seen a lot here. I understand it happening when the change occurred, but after awhile the complaining and comparing just seems so pointless. The world has changed, a lot of people buy music subscriptions now instead of individual songs, it doesn't seem unreasonable that their spending should somehow be reflected in the charts. And at least it's not as bad as we have it here, where Lady Gaga can get a top 10 song based on buying ads on YouTube, or Harlem Shake being #1 for 5 weeks because a 30 second snippet of it became a meme.

I don't get how listening to music on Spotify is more "background" than listening to iTunes...

Listening shouldn't count at all, no matter where.

Only investing money in particular track hence I'd be inclined to accept listening from paid subscriptions but the one for free? Absurd.

Does anybody know if "Pieces" by Jessie Ware charted in the top 200 because I saw it the itunes top 200 but wondering if it made the official top 200?

Singles:

 

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

#3 Nicki Minaj - Anaconda [31^[A]]

#5 Jeremih feat. YG - Don't Tell 'Em [3; 3]

#7 Ella Henderson - Glow [2]

#13 LuvBug feat. Talay Riley - Resonance [1; 3]

#16 Usher feat. Nicki Minaj - She Came To Give It To You [30^[B]; 32^[A]]

#20 Brian Wilson and Various Artists - God Only Knows [4^[C]; N/A]

#70 Cheryl - Only Human [11^[D]]

#71 Kwabs - Walk [1]

#75 Bobby Shmurda - Hot Nigga [1]

#80 Sheridan Smith - Anyone Who Had A Heart [1]

#85 AC/DC - Play Ball [28]

#98 Alex Clare - War Rages On [4] ^[E]

 

Re-entries:

#66 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris [59p on iTunes]

#91 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars [59p on iTunes]

 

New peaks within the top 100:

#10 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud [from #13; music video premiere]

#46 The Vamps feat. Shawn Mendes - Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) [from #63]

#63 Maroon 5 - Animals [from #67]

 

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

#70 Cilla Black - Anyone Who Had A Heart

#72 Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love *

#75 The Fray - How To Save A Life

#77 Lorde - Royals

#80 Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got U *

#82 Whitney Houston - I Didn't Know My Own Strength

#87 Childish Gambino - 3005 *

#91 Disclosure feat. Sam Smith - Latch

#95 Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky

#96 Leona Lewis - Run

#97 DJ Snake and Lil Jon - Turn Down For What

#98 Kid Ink feat. Usher and Tinashe - Body Language *

#99 Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat *

#100 The Vamps feat. Demi Lovato - Somebody To You *

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Bobby Shmurda [**-75]

Brian Wilson [29-20] ^[F]

Jeremih [15-5]

Kwabs [**-71]

LuvBug [**-13]

Sheridan Smith [**-80]

YG [53-5]

 

Albums:

 

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

#5 Hozier - Hozier [1]

#8 Caribou - Our Love [2]

#9 Johnny Marr - Playland [2^[G]]

#10 Gorgon City - Sirens [1]

#11 Bryan Adams - Tracks Of My Years [17]

#12 Lady Antebellum - 747 [6]

#14 Stevie Nicks - 24 Karat Gold - Songs From The Vault [9^[H]]

#16 Lower Than Atlantis - Lower Than Atlantis [2]

#18 Ali Campbell - Silhouette - The Legendary Voice Of UB40 Reunited With Astro & Mickey [5^[I]]

#19 Jamie Cullum - Interlude [6]

#24 Flying Lotus - You're Dead! [3]

#28 Foster & Allen - Gold & Silver Days [32]

#31 Jackson Browne - Standing In The Breach [14]

#37 Weezer - Everything Will Be Alright In The End [9]

#62 The John Wilson Orchestra - Cole Porter In Hollywood [3]

#65 NehruvianDOOM - NehruvianDOOM [1]

#69 Sixx:A.M. - Modern Vintage [2]

#74 New Found Glory - Resurrection [4]

#75 Yellowcard - Lift A Sail [4]

#78 Tinashe - Aquarius [1]

#82 Flying Colors - Second Nature [1]

#98 Orange Goblin - Back From The Abyss [1]

#99 The Piano Guys - Wonders [2]

 

Re-entries:

#21 Green Day - American Idiot [99p on Google Play]

#57 Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - What Have We Become

#80 Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman [re-released]

#95 Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of [release of new Stevie Nicks solo album]

#97 Genesis - Duke [airing of documentary about Genesis]

#100 The Beach Boys - The Very Best Of [release of Children In Need cover of 'God Only Knows']

 

New peaks within the top 100:

#7 Genesis - R-Kive [from #10; full week of sales boost from documentary]

 

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

#30 ABBA - Live At Wembley Arena *

#32 Levellers - Greatest Hits *

#41 Jamie T - Panic Prevention

#53 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

#63 Holly Johnson - Europa *

#64 Marianne Faithfull - Give My Love To London *

#69 Passenger - Whispers

#70 Robin Gibb - 50 St. Catherine's Drive *

#73 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic

#74 Erasure - The Violet Flame *

#75 Michael Jackson - Number Ones

#76 Electric Wizard - Time To Die *

#77 Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland *

#81 Vance Joy - Dream Your Life Away *

#82 The Pierces - Creation *

#83 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

#84 Miss Saigon Cast - Miss Saigon - The Definitive Live Recording *

#85 Calvin Harris - 18 Months

#88 Nick Mulvey - First Mind

#90 Passenger - All The Little Lights

#91 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits

#92 Katy Perry - PRISM *

#94 Adele - 21

#95 The Script - #3

#96 The Script - The Script

#97 Queen - Live At The Rainbow '74 *

#98 Kylie Minogue - Kiss Me Once

#99 alt-J - An Awesome Wave

#100 Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Caribou [54-8]

Flying Colors [**-82]

Flying Lotus [34-24]

Gorgon City [**-10]

Hozier [**-5]

Johnny Marr [10-9] ^[F]

Lower Than Atlantis [25-16]

NehruvianDOOM [**-65]

Orange Goblin [**-98]

Tinashe [**-78]

 

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

 

Singles:

1 85wks Bastille - Pompeii

2 62wks OneRepublic - Counting Stars

3 46wks Pharrell - Happy

4 44wks Idina Menzel - Let It Go

5 38wks Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be

6 36wks John Legend - All Of Me

7 34wks Sam Smith - Money On My Mind

8 31wks Tove Lo feat. Hippie Sabotage - Stay High

9 29wks Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga - Loyal

=10 27wks Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy

=10 27wks Sigma - Nobody To Love

 

Dropping out:

Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got U [from #10]

Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love [from #8]

 

Albums:

1 105wks Ellie Goulding - Halcyon

2 84wks Bastille - Bad Blood

3 80wks Imagine Dragons - Night Visions

4 58wks The 1975 - The 1975

=5 57wks Arctic Monkeys - AM

=5 57wks London Grammar - If You Wait

7 32wks Pharrell - G I R L

8 31wks Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction

=9 26wks Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love

=9 26wks The Vamps - Meet The Vamps

 

Dropping out:

Katy Perry - PRISM [from #7]

 

Notes:

^[A] +1 as a member of Young Money

^[B] +1 as a member of Artists Against AIDS Worldwide; +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti

^[C] +32 as a member of The Beach Boys

^[D] +24 as a member of Girls Aloud; +1 as a member of Helping Haiti

^[E] Charting for the first time due to being used as the opening theme to 'Our Girl'

^[F] As a solo artist

^[G] +14 as a member of The Smiths; +3 as a member of Electronic; +3 as a member of The The; +1 as a member of The Cribs; +1 as a member of Modest Mouse

^[H] +12 as a member of Fleetwood Mac

^[I] +27 as a member of UB40