"Chris Flair Drip" :lol: Pretty sure that is a Spotify error and it should be 'Rick Flair Drip' charting tho.

Nah, not an error, there's a song on Spotify by 'Playboi Chris' named 'Chris Flair Drip' :lol: (it's a shit cover but it exists all the same)

wtf, Chris Flair Drop is literally just Rick Flair Drop but with one of the verses replaced with a guy badly rapping with a poor quality microphone. :lol:

Nah, not an error, there's a song on Spotify by 'Playboi Chris' named 'Chris Flair Drip' :lol: (it's a shit cover but it exists all the same)

I checked it out. It does exist (the transition between the well produced original song and his underproduced rapping voice/poor recording quality and lyrics is hilarious!) but I believe Spotify are somehow attributing the streams of 'Rick Flair Drip' to 'Chris Flair Drip' in the chart, because the song on actual Spotify is shown as having >1,000 plays and Playboi Chris himself only has 534 monthly listeners. There's no way the song is actually in the chart, has to be an error.

I don't really get how its illegal for labels to engage in payola yet it seems perfectly fine for them to pay for Spotify playlisting. If anything its worse than payola because it has a direct effect on charts and sales.

Playboi Chris to get a HHUK add plz *_*

Omg at ASAP Rockys rise - didn't think he would score another top 20 hit!

I checked it out. It does exist (the transition between the well produced original song and his underproduced rapping voice/poor recording quality and lyrics is hilarious!) but I believe Spotify are somehow attributing the streams of 'Rick Flair Drip' to 'Chris Flair Drip' in the chart, because the song on actual Spotify is shown as having >1,000 plays and Playboi Chris himself only has 534 monthly listeners. There's no way the song is actually in the chart, has to be an error.

To be fair, it's better than the original!

there's probably some loophole which means it's technically not payola if it's not for radio, it would be good if they updated it to make paying for a Spotify playlist addition count as payola too because the chart is literally now being dictated by how much labels are willing to spend on a good playlist spot.

Omg at ASAP Rockys rise - didn't think he would score another top 20 hit!

you say that as if he's ever had a top 20 hit before. :P 'Praise The Lord' would be his first ever in the UK!

Haha I was thinking that as I wrote but could t have been bothered checking but his first album was a huge thing (for me anyway) and it felt like there were hits off it. Still good to have more success on his part.

Haha I was thinking that as I wrote but could t have been bothered checking but his first album was a huge thing (for me anyway) and it felt like there were hits off it. Still good to have more success on his part.

well 'F**kin Problems' was massive in the US (#8) and also very big in the UK, it got certified Gold but only peaked at #50! If streaming was big back then I'm sure it'd have been a big top 20 hit here though, it's one of those songs that was more popular than its peak suggested.

Yeh always thinking that!

F**kin Problems is one of those urban songs that was culturally huge but less so in the charts

I checked it out. It does exist (the transition between the well produced original song and his underproduced rapping voice/poor recording quality and lyrics is hilarious!) but I believe Spotify are somehow attributing the streams of 'Rick Flair Drip' to 'Chris Flair Drip' in the chart, because the song on actual Spotify is shown as having >1,000 plays and Playboi Chris himself only has 534 monthly listeners. There's no way the song is actually in the chart, has to be an error.

This happens occasionally on the Spotify charts. For example:

 

22 Savage - The Race (actually by Tay-K) (22 Savage is actually a real artist though, with a song called 'Ain't No 21')

DJ Jonathan - El Farsante (actually by Ozuna)

Dj Ozuna - Ella Se Preparó (actually Ozuna - Se Preparó)

El Chacal - Hay Mi Dios (actually IAmChino - Ay Mi Dios)

and most infamously, that day in July 2017 with 'Jenny Duncan' and 'Daniel Marcy'.

 

What I've gathered is that they tend to be unofficial, illegal releases that make it through to Spotify - that are either the exact original track renamed, or a close enough variation that they still get recognised as the same track, by the system that automatically detects this and groups them together for playcounts and charts. (Close variations being combined isn't necessarily a mistake; it's necessary for clean versions for example, and occasionally remixes get combined, typically when the length is similar.) So in the eyes of Spotify's grouping system, 'Chris Flair Drip' and 'Ric Flair Drip' are different copies of the same track. Now, for the charts, it has to pick which version of each track to display - and this is where I believe it messes up. I don't know how it decides, but maybe it gives priority to newer versions (so that album versions quickly replace single versions), or versions with a big spike in activity, or something. You'd think it would be easy to fix, and that they'd have done so by now because even if it's low importance, it looks bad for Spotify. Usually the unofficial upload gets taken down within a few days or weeks at most, and the problem fixes itself until the next one pops up.

 

The fact that 'Chris Flair Drip' lists itself as having only <1,000 plays counters my theory, but I'm guessing it just hasn't updated yet and will jump to ~307 million with the original when the figures next update. If not, then I'm wrong and it must be something else.

 

Edit: it did, for the record:

 

Edited June 13, 20187 yr by Rush

Chris has been replaced to Ric

 

Must’ve been a mistake

I'm sure payola also exists on radio but we're less aware of it or it's more indirect, more like sam smith's label makes a deal that he's gonna perform at the bbc radio weekend thing but thy have to a-list Pray for 75 weeks even if it's a flop

and didn't The wanted's label own Capital?

 

02 Post Malone

04 Clean Bandit

07 Jess Glynne

08 Cardi B

 

15 David Sia

16 Y&Y

17 5SOS

 

21 Shakka

23 Maroon 5 & Cardi B

 

44 Jorja Smith

49 Tom Walker

Get that bo1 Post am alone, love the song.

Happy to see Y&Y shaping up to get a decent sized hit with this.

 

I really thought it was as good as over for them after 'Sanctify'.

Nice to see tom walker top 50