October 15, 201411 yr Surely the tie breaker system is pointless now anyway. Streaming data surely ensures it's almost impossible for a song to tie? Even in lower regions.
October 15, 201411 yr Surely the tie breaker system is pointless now anyway. Streaming data surely ensures it's almost impossible for a song to tie? Even in lower regions. Well, I forgot about that completely! :lol: Kind of still is fractional sales though, just in a different way. That actually makes sense. I imagine they still use the old fractional sales system on top of that anyway just to make it even more implausible for a tie to happen. They certainly still use it for albums anyway as there was a 'tie' at #6/7 a few weeks back which MW said was broken by fractional sales.
October 15, 201411 yr Well the "chart sales" get rounded - so ties can still happen, but yes, agreed that they are resolvable using fractional streaming "chart sales".
October 15, 201411 yr It's not impossible, just highly improbable :D And yet it was announced #4 was 1 copy ahead of #5 :D Ironically, it's the closest instance since Of The Night was 15 copies ahead at #1 last year.
October 15, 201411 yr Well, I forgot about that completely! :lol: Kind of still is fractional sales though, just in a different way. That actually makes sense. I imagine they still use the old fractional sales system on top of that anyway just to make it even more implausible for a tie to happen. They certainly still use it for albums anyway as there was a 'tie' at #6/7 a few weeks back which MW said was broken by fractional sales. Yeah it surely still has use for the albums. At least until streaming is introduced to the album chart :jump:
October 15, 201411 yr And yet it was announced #4 was 1 copy ahead of #5 :D Ironically, it's the closest instance since Of The Night was 15 copies ahead at #1 last year. How is that anything even close to 'ironic'? Still don't understand 'rounded' and 'fractional' sales :unsure: One stream is equivalent to 0.01 sales for chart purposes. All sales are rounded to the nearest whole number when published. The old fractional sales system is an artefact from when sales were multiplied up from a sample of a small number of shops. Yeah it surely still has use for the albums. At least until streaming is introduced to the album chart :jump: Which will never happen :jump:
October 15, 201411 yr Which will probably happen next year :P I don't see why it would, not even the USA have done that. I know it is done in some countries but the OCC are clearly very cautious about changing their methodologies, I really can't see them adding streaming to the album chart any time soon.
October 16, 201411 yr Maybe it should have been released.. I don't know, say about 3 months ago. I doubt it would have done any better at all if it had. It's not exactly been a big hit elsewhere (only charted in Belgium and, barely, the Netherlands). Realistically the number of people who have known about 'Bullit' since before it started getting airplay here is negligible.
October 16, 201411 yr So the vinyl release for Cheek to Cheek hasn't helped it much then? :nocheer: Meanwhile its US chart run is 01-04-04 which is kind
October 17, 201411 yr I do hope that Cheek to Cheek can move back into the top 40 next week after their Strictly performance, providing it doesn't fall too much this week. It's a lovely album; it's a shame to see it not performing that well.
October 17, 201411 yr Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (72.6k) 2 One Direction - Steal My Girl (41.4k) * 3 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (35.4k) 4 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (29.5k) 5 Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj - Bang Bang (29.3k) 6-10 6 The Vamps feat. Shawn Mendes - Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) * 8 Eminem feat. Sia - Guts Over Fear * 11-20 11 Watermät - Bullit * 16 Wilkinson feat. Talay Riley - Dirty Love * 18 Ella Henderson - Ghost 20 Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free 21-30 23 Krishane feat. Melissa Steel - Drunk And Incapable * 26 Sam Smith - Stay With Me 28 Charli XCX - Break The Rules * 29 Ed Sheeran - Don't 31-40 31 Hozier - Take Me To Church 34 Ed Sheeran - Sing 38 Pharrell - Happy ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Ella Henderson - Chapter One (34.1k) * 2 Ed Sheeran - x (17.7k) 3 Jessie J - Sweet Talker (13.9k) * 4 U2 - Songs Of Innocence (12.6k) * 5 George Ezra - Wanted On Voyage (11.3k) 6-10 7 Jessie Ware - Tough Love * 9 Spandau Ballet - The Story - The Very Best Of * 10 You+Me - rose ave. * 11-20 11 Jonathan Antoine - Tenore * 12 Pharrell - G I R L ^ 15 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love 17 Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators - World On Fire ^ 18 Royal Blood - Royal Blood 19 Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction 21-30 22 Leonard Cohen - Popular Problems 23 Ozzy Osbourne - Memoirs Of A Madman * 24 Si Cranstoun - Modern Life * 26 5 Seconds Of Summer - 5 Seconds Of Summer 28 The Vamps - Meet The Vamps 29 Ben Howard - Every Kingdom ^ 31-40 31 Coldplay - Ghost Stories 34 London Grammar - If You Wait 38 Ed Sheeran - + ^ 40 Madness - One Step Beyond... ^
October 17, 201411 yr Looks like by Sunday that Eminem/Sia thing will miss the top 10, and Charli will miss the top 30.
October 17, 201411 yr I'm surprised Poo Direction haven't dropped to no3 as they are currently no7 on itunes.
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