July 19, 20169 yr with ‘one dance’ are we not witnessing a new phenomenon of songs finding enormous popularity on a regional scale rather than a national one? there are more drake listeners in London than anywhere else on the planet, are the more globalized metropolitan areas of the UK foisting a #1 on the rest of the country that is left scratching its head at the songs level of popularity?! If so, what an appropriate soundtrack to the last 15 weeks! *.*
July 19, 20169 yr didn't realise Drake was more popular in London than everywhere else, I'd assumed his popularity would be greatest in the US
July 19, 20169 yr didn't realise Drake was more popular in London than everywhere else, I'd assumed his popularity would be greatest in the US I believe London's population is slightly higher than any US city so that might be partly why.
July 19, 20169 yr I believe London's population is slightly higher than any US city so that might be partly why. Spotify breaks Greater London down into smaller chunks e.g. Barnet, Bromley, Croydon, Enfield, Ilford, etc~
July 19, 20169 yr didn't realise Drake was more popular in London than everywhere else, I'd assumed his popularity would be greatest in the US Not forgetting he's actually Canadian.
July 20, 20169 yr I've always said it's madness to include streams and sales in the same chart. Now the chart is in a mess and that is what was predicted years ago. The two are not comparable at all and no amount of streams will ever really equate to a sale of a song. They should have kept sales and streaming charts separate but they wanted to reflect the changing tastes of music consumption. Fine. But there is a better way (IMO). If sales are dying then allow that to be reflected in it's own chart. If streams are surging then allow that to be reflected in it's own chart. For a song to truly #1 it would then have to top both the streaming and sales chart in the same week. In boxing term it would be "the undisputed champion" of the UK chart! What we currently have is a song that is topping the streaming chart but not troubling the top of the sales chart and being declared "#1" for weeks on end when in fact it isn't. The song has been added to so many playlists due to it's strong performance on the chart, particularly in the first few weeks and will no doubt be picking up many 'sales' because people can't be arsed to skip it. Sure that applies to other songs too, but this just goes to prove my point. Somebody's active choice to purchase a song, parting with their hard earned money to own a piece of music does not, and will never, be comparable with somebody streaming something for free, by accident, or through laziness just because it's on a playlist.
July 20, 20169 yr One thing I do agree on is that streaming should NOT be incorporated into the album chart - it has zero compatibility with it and is being used merely to artificially boost sales of a dying medium.
July 20, 20169 yr with ‘one dance’ are we not witnessing a new phenomenon of songs finding enormous popularity on a regional scale rather than a national one? there are more drake listeners in London than anywhere else on the planet, are the more globalized metropolitan areas of the UK foisting a #1 on the rest of the country that is left scratching its head at the songs level of popularity?! If so, what an appropriate soundtrack to the last 15 weeks! *.* Except in that case the rest of the idiotic country is foisting a terrible idea on the metropolitan areas of the UK based on some ill-founded and tired notion of Britishness. And ruining the country in the process. Anyway, Drake's song is played a lot, he's one of the biggest artists in the world right now and I think he will be remembered.
July 20, 20169 yr http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx240/MarthaJonesFan/Friday%20Chart%20Predictions%20Tuesday.png Tuesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Music Week Missing Data: Singles 1 Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (28.3k) 2 Calum Scott - Dancing On My Own (27.5k) 3 Jonas Blue feat. JP Cooper - Perfect Stangers (27.4k) 4 The Chainsmokers feat. Daya - Don't Let Me Down (26.1k) 5 Clean Bandit feat. Louisa Johnson - Tears (23.1k) 6-10 9 Shawn Mendes - Treat You Better 11-20 14 Katy Perry - Rise * 15 Ariana Grande - Into You 16 5 Seconds of Summer - Girls Talk Boys * 20 MØ - Final Song 21-30 28 Britney Spears feat. G-Eazy - Make Me... * 29 Christine and the Queens - Tilted 31-40 37 Snakehips feat. ZAYN - Cruel * 40 MK & Becky Hill - Piece of Me ^ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Top 100 Albums 1 Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate (7.2k) 2 Adele - (6.3k) 3 Christine and the Queens - Chaleur Humaine (6k) 4 Biffy Clyro - Ellipsis (5.2k) 5 Coldplay - A Head Full of Dreams (5k) 6-10 8 Good Charlotte - Youth Authority * 10 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend 11-20 15 Jeff Beck - Loud Hailer * 19 James Bay - Chaos and the Calm 21-30 28 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Greatest Hits 29 Amy Winehouse - Back to Black 31-40 31 Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit ^ 33 ABBA - Gold ^ 34 Taylor Swift - 1989 35 Queen - Greatest Hits ^ 37 Years & Years - Communion 38 Charlie Puth - Nine Track mind
July 20, 20169 yr Don't forget guys the above update is for yesterday, it will become more clearer tonight when the new update comes in from MW.
July 20, 20169 yr I think Drake paid iTunes to discount the song. In a way, I'm glad it ain't on NOW 94 otherwise it would be at the top even longer
July 20, 20169 yr Looks like we'll be lucky to get 10k for the Number 1 album this week. As this is Tuesday's update and Adele sold approx 1.5k on Monday, Adele will get more than 10k (especially as there will be streams missing as well). On a pro-rata basis Michael Kiwanuka and Christine & The Queens should make more than 10k as well. In fact Christine & The Queens may not be that far away from the top if they can get a boost from somewhere (they seem to have sold the same as Adele on Monday)...
July 20, 20169 yr Amy winehouse resurgence did i miss something ? Almost got my hopes up calm Scott creeping up on drake but drakes actually pulling away
July 20, 20169 yr Amy winehouse resurgence did i miss something ? 5th anniversary of her death this weekend.
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