February 27, 20179 yr Stormzy here to SAVE the top 40 :yahoo: Would absolutely love Shut Up to get another Chart play! Praying he gets the #1 album, need to up my streams :kink:
February 27, 20179 yr Ed Sheeran could potentially have the Top5 when the album is released. Yep, consisting of: Shape Of You Castle On The Hill How Would You Feel (Paean) 2 random album tracks
February 27, 20179 yr Not necessarily, even “Solo Dance” would not fall foul of that rule and that was bumped a massive 25 places by streaming this week. It's a really low threshold that only knocked out long running hits, e.g. “One Dance” or really huge disparities like The Vamps “All Night” but those are the only tracks I can see that would be excluded. It would however kick out 'Weak' by AJR and 'Issues' by Julia Michaels which otherwise are top 60.
February 27, 20179 yr It would however kick out 'Weak' by AJR and 'Issues' by Julia Michaels which otherwise are top 60. which isn't fair imo
February 28, 20179 yr I think Friday's result will be Stormzy #1 officially and RNB Man #1 on sales Edited February 28, 20179 yr by Hadji
February 28, 20179 yr I think Ed will be the test. If it does clog up the whole top 40, then they might swifly implement a rule change.
February 28, 20179 yr As I said in a previous post; to allow all album tracks to chart makes a joke of the singles chart - they should be ineligible unless they are singles; which begs the question, what is a single these days and what is an album? Surely the answer is that the record company have to officially designate a track as a single, meaning albums tracks only count towards album sales? Just like in the old days. The OCC could limit the amount of singles an artist could release over a month to say 3 (with 2 months scheduled release) , meaning album tracks couldn't be switched easily.
February 28, 20179 yr Oh dear at Take That... well it's first week was a bit of a fluke anyway but still. Hope it stays in top 75
February 28, 20179 yr As I said in a previous post; to allow all album tracks to chart makes a joke of the singles chart - they should be ineligible unless they are singles; which begs the question, what is a single these days and what is an album? Surely the answer is that the record company have to officially designate a track as a single, meaning albums tracks only count towards album sales? Just like in the old days. The OCC could limit the amount of singles an artist could release over a month to say 3 (with 2 months scheduled release) , meaning album tracks couldn't be switched easily. This is my gripe, the album chart is for the album's, not piling all the album tracks into the singles chart, there should be a rule where album tracks shouldn't be eligible to chart inside the singles chart I think occ will have to rethink their strategy to stop album tracks clogging up the official singles chart. If that makes any sense, as I'm farting about on a mobile phone at the moment ha.
February 28, 20179 yr Nine new entries in yesterday's Top 40 Singles update and still no Imagine Dragons. As it is in the current Top 40 for downloads and streaming wonder whether it may have a chance to sneak in this week (or next week) after the Stormzy tornado abates...
February 28, 20179 yr Eds album comes out on Friday so if Imagine Dragons don't make it this week there's very little chance they ever will.
February 28, 20179 yr The Australian chart used to not include album tracks. It might have changed now but there was a period where it was the case. There was a strange case in 2014 with Katy's 'Dark Horse' in which it wasn't 'officially' released as a single in Australia and couldn't enter their singles chart despite being Top 5 on iTunes for many weeks!
February 28, 20179 yr Eds album comes out on Friday so if Imagine Dragons don't make it this week there's very little chance they ever will. Fair point, I may just download it tonight!
February 28, 20179 yr The problem with this album track/single thing is that there might be songs that are very popular from day 1 and then become single a month later. So when could they start charting? I believe Ed Sheeran will have six-seven songs in top ten next week. Which of them would you prevent from charting? Edited February 28, 20179 yr by SKOB
February 28, 20179 yr The problem with this album track/single thing is that there might be songs that are very popular from day 1 and then become single a month later. So when could they start charting? I believe Ed Sheeran will have six-seven songs in top ten next week. Which of them would you prevent from charting? Yeah that's precisely my issue with it too. There doesn't seem to be a fair way of doing it, whichever way you look at it!
February 28, 20179 yr I mean, a lot of difficulty comes with them retaining the name 'UK Top 40 Singles Chart'. As soon as they accepted downloads in any shape or form it should have been changed to 'Songs' or 'Tracks', because at the minute you can have a whole raft of bogging down discussion on what counts as a 'single'. Whereas what the chart as is is actually measuring is the most popular songs. Edited February 28, 20179 yr by 360Jupiter
February 28, 20179 yr it has not been a singles chart for more than years 10 now since iTunes allowed cherrypicking
February 28, 20179 yr I agree, its not really a singles chart now as any song can chart. Looking up discographies from artists these days is confusing as you just don’t know if the songs have been official singles or not.
February 28, 20179 yr It's pretty simple as I already mentioned: non singles (album tracks) should be ineligible unless they are official singles; the record company has to give a release date and the single cannot chart before then. If this doesn't happen, the singles chart will be over for good.
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