June 10, 20169 yr Anyone who still claims streaming hasn't ruined the chart is SERIOUSLY delusional Streaming accounts for 80% of chart sales now though, anyone who claims that only 20% of music consumption should count toward the chart are the ones being delusional..
June 10, 20169 yr I wish they changed the sales to stream ratio to something like 200 streams to a sale, that would be good, not that it would happen.
June 10, 20169 yr Not really, imagine how ridiculous the chart would be if it were still sales only. yep, DJ KENNO would be spending his second week in the top 30 this week if so. A song which when you combine streaming into the equation didn't even chart in the top 75.
June 10, 20169 yr Not really, imagine how ridiculous the chart would be if it were still sales only. It is a sales only chart. The OCC make the streams up to say they are sales! The streaming element is just a mathematical figure arrived at by the people who falsely produce the chart. They have adjusted it so even the streams represent a core figure of people listening to music. It's then adjusted further, because despite advanced technology, the companies that offer streaming services can't get all their figures in on time. The Official charts are a joke. Made up by a series of commercial companies who have vested interests in keeping the public in the dark about how many records are sold each week and the BBC which is only interested in broadcasting a chart that doesn't look like a chart from just one commercial firm that of iTunes, which is what it used to look like. The Drake record is simply a clone of Bieber. Give a person a big fan base and streaming and you can keep records at number one for ages. Sales have indeed drop down, but not to 20%. If they had dropped that low albums would not be advertised on TV, it wouldn't even pay the cost of making records at 20% and streaming pays peanuts! It wouldn't even pay for the drinks and drugs that these pop stars consume.
June 10, 20169 yr Sales have indeed drop down, but not to 20%. If they had dropped that low albums would not be advertised on TV, it wouldn't even pay the cost of making records at 20% and streaming pays peanuts!incase it wasn't clear, I was referring to singles sales, which streams do make up over 80% of: Overall singles sales are up 0.44% week-on-week at 9,993,989. Streams accounted for 8,260,250 sales, 82.65% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 5.17% week-on-week at 1,733,739 - 29.94% below same week 2015 sales of 2,405,937 and below same-week, previous-year sales for the 148th week in a row. Paid-for sales are at their lowest level since week 24, 2008 (sales week-ending 14 June 2008, issue date 21 June 2008), very nearly eight years (417 weeks) ago, when 1,683,020 singles were sold, with Mint Royale's Singin' In The Rain accounting for 27,537 of them at No.1. It's a different story in the albums chart where sales still make up the majority of the amount: Overall album sales are down 5.86% week-on-week at 1,539,097. Streaming accounted for 539,810 sales - 35.07% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 9.56% week-on-week, at 999,287, 25.81% below same week 2015 sales of 1,346,916. It is the fourth time this year that paid-for sales have dipped below the million mark.
June 10, 20169 yr I thought I made it clear. Those figures are not worth the paper they are written on. If you believe in any sales figures put out by the Official Charts company then you might as well believe that nobody landed or walked on the moon.
June 10, 20169 yr What's your point then? If the Charts were still Sales only would you still be saying the same thing, that the figures aren't trustworthy??
June 17, 20169 yr Author Drake now enjoys seven extra weeks but this time Kungs are the unlucky ones.
December 23, 20168 yr Some changes which never got updated 21/07/2016: Drake gains an eleventh week and Jonas Blue loses a week 28/07/2016: Drake gains a twelfth week and Calum Scott loses a week 18/08/2016: Major Lazer gain a week and DJ Snake loses a week 25/08/2016: Major Lazer gain a second week and DJ Snake loses a second week 01/09/2016: Major Lazer gain a third week and DJ Snake loses a third week 29/09/2016: The Chainsmokers gain a week and James Arthur loses a week 22/12/2016: Clean Bandit gain a week and Matt Terry loses a week 29/12/2016: Clean Bandit gain a second week and Rag'n'Bone Man loses a week Edited December 23, 20168 yr by Hadji
January 6, 20178 yr 12/01/2017: Clean Bandit gain a third week and Rag'n'Bone Man loses a second week
April 12, 20178 yr 02/03/2017: "Shape Of You" gains a week and "How Would You Feel (Paean)" loses a week 30/03/2017: "Shape Of You" gains a second week and "Galway Girl" loses a week 06/04/2017: "Shape Of You" gains a third week and Clean Bandit lose a week 13/04/2017: "Shape Of You" gains a fourth week and Clean Bandit lose a second week
June 14, 20178 yr 27/04/2017: "Shape Of You" gains a fifth week and Harry Styles loses a week 15/06/2017: Luis Fonsi gains a week and Ariana Grande loses a week
June 14, 20178 yr Wow ed could have had 3 number 1s in that period without streaming and it was himself that blocked himself :lol:
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