wow so a cool quarter of the year at #1 for drake’s ‘one dance’~ *.*

 

‘one dance’ is still the most listened to song of the moment, so arguably it’s the most valid long running blockbuster #1 we’ve ever had! download sales are well on their way to total obscurity and irrelevance, like CDs, cassettes and vinyl, and no longer resemble anything like an accurate gauge of a songs popularity~

 

Cassettes should have died out long ago, but they are still selling, and vinyls are actually increasing but not massive as back in the day. There was a report on this in one of the MW sales reports not so long ago, there is still demand for them.

Cassettes should have died out long ago, but they are still selling, and vinyls are actually increasing but not massive as back in the day. There was a report on this in one of the MW sales reports not so long ago, there is still demand for them.

 

good point there’s still a niche market for antiquated formats, but they don’t have much impact on the main chart these days~

I will hold my opinion of One Dance and its length of stay at no1 until we see if it becomes the norm in the charts so dominated by streaming - I mean 7 Years felt like just as big a hit at the start of the year but it 'only' got 5 weeks at the top so maybe OD is simply huge?!

One Dance doesn't feel even half as big as 7 Years to me though, which is strange.

Same here although I have bothered checking whether on its 6th week if we had a huge new no1 or how its sales were. But as you say 7 Years sounded huge from the moment I heard it at Xmas. Although more stations are more likely to support an artist like drake its AirPlay is probably bigger overall.

Don't Let Me Down being Top 10 is great. Roses is still better for me though.

It's funny because I so rarely hear One Dance on the radio.

Cassettes should have died out long ago, but they are still selling, and vinyls are actually increasing but not massive as back in the day. There was a report on this in one of the MW sales reports not so long ago, there is still demand for them.

 

Yep. From March:

 

Exactly two years after their first album, No Strings Attached, debuted and peaked at No.28 on sales of 2,900 copies, and a year after their eponymous second album debuted and peaked at No.27 (3,202 sales), North London pop/punk quartet Room 94's third album, Lost Youth debuts at No.33 (2,468 sales). It sold more copies on cassette (364) than on download (252), and debuts at No.2 on the cassette chart behind James' Girl At The End Of The World (549 sales). The ongoing resurgence of vinyl - with units up 61.96% year-on-year at 590,968 - is impressive but the almost moribund cassette format is also on the rise, with an admittedly still tiny 2,797 sales so far this year (1,036 of them last week alone), which represents a 321.87% leap over same stage 2015 sales of 663.

 

 

 

With "Final Song" at #23 on iTunes and #39 on Spotify, it could scrape into tomorrow's top 40

With "Final Song" at #23 on iTunes and #39 on Spotify, it could scrape into tomorrow's top 40

Hard to tell if it'll make it as it gained on both sides in the middle of the week. I'm thinking not for this week. About 47 probably. Should have no trouble going top 40 even top 25 next week if it keeps gaining the same amount!

This Girl closed the Spotify gap to One Dance by 13,000 streams yesterday alongside pushing it down to 0.45 at one point on iTunes. If we get an update today and Drake is still leading then I've bound to have missed something.

Cassettes should have died out long ago, but they are still selling, and vinyls are actually increasing but not massive as back in the day. There was a report on this in one of the MW sales reports not so long ago, there is still demand for them.

 

I remember that a Feeder single in 2012 became the first Top 75 entry to include cassettes in its total since about 2003. The MW report for that week also noted how a particular N Sync single ended up being the UK's biggest selling cassette single for 2009, 2010 and 2011 - selling around a very small number of (about 20?) copies each year and no-one knows why...