You can only download a song once from each provider unless he buys loads of physicals but there was ways of stopping that back in the day I think!

Hi!

 

What's the criteria for crediting artists on a remix? Cause for example Ariana was never credited on Save Your Tears or DaBaby was never credited on Levitating. Meanwhile Ed Sheeran was credited for Peru. The 3 songs charted before the remix release date but only Peru got the credits changed after it.

 

My theory is that once the song enters the Top 40 the credits can't be changed but idk, I say this just cause I know OOCC loves the Top 40 and it matches the situation but I would love to know if there was ever an official statement regarding it.

The credit for 'Goosebumps' was changed from HVME to Travis Scott & HVME partway through its run (although strangely it appears they have retroactively added Travis to the credits for the earlier weeks in the archive now which they have not done for 'Peru').

 

Fairly certain it's just up to the label whether they bother to ask for credits to be changed or not, it's just that they don't most of the time.

I disagree

Sure some label would have asked in the last 4 years

Like Beyonce for Savage

 

Its just that Ed has the Occ wrapped around his finger

Just like the Brits 😂

Are you just going to ignore the example I gave that has nothing at all to do with Ed xx

Despacito's credit was changed a few weeks into its run to include Justin Bieber, and Maroon 5's Girls Like You credit was changed midweek to include Cardi B (the early mids didn't include her).

 

The OCC use whatever credit the labels give them, this was confirmed in Music Week, but obviously it fits someone's narrative better for the OCC and Ed to be in cahoots lol

Just album chart pray get new rules clog up old album and greatest hits

Can anyone answer if these retailers count for Official Charts please?

 

For streams:

- Apple Music. Not listed in the OfficialCharts FAQ under streaming. ""To date, the services contributing span Spotify, Deezer, Napster, O2 Tracks (Musicqubed), rara, Rdio, Blinkbox Music and XBox Music. " - But the website also says it catches 99% of singles sales (presumably including streams), and last month Apple Music was estimated to have up to 20% of the streaming market in the UK.

- Tidal

- Amazon Music

 

For digital downloads (again, these aren't listed as partners or accounted for in FAQ):

- Tidal

- Qobuz

 

Thank you!

Edited August 11, 20222 yr by Saaranghaeyo

^ Yes to all of the above, though I've never heard of Qobuz so I can't say for definite there. You can see the impact Apple, Tidal and Amazon have on the chart through certain songs doing well (Alesso & Zara charting right now proves the case for Apple, Beyoncé's Lemonade tracklisting charting proves Tidal and the Amazon exclusives each Christmas such as Ellie Goulding's River proves Amazon). I assume Tidal downloads will count too if Tidal streaming does.

Thank you, I'm very grateful for your response! Have a great day!

Just wondered if the OCC actually state publicly anywhere that Thursday streams are estimated for platforms that don’t report on time or whether it’s just something Buzzjack has learned through interactions with them? I was challenged on it earlier today and asked to produce evidence. :lol:

I think it has been mentioned in Music Week sales reports a few times (though I can't immediately recall any specific example).

Hello! OCC has posted one article (Jan 2021) about "Specialist #1 Award", including a trophy. I'm not allowed to post a link because I don't have enough posts, but if you google "officialcharts specialist award" you'll see the article I mean.

 

Can anyone confirm if this "Specialist #1 Award" and trophy apply to all of the charts, including things like Physical Album Sales, Video Streaming, Single Downloads, etc? eg. does Taylor Swift get the main #1 album trophy, and a Specialist #1 Award trophy for Physical Album Sales, another specialist trophy for Album Downloads, etc?

Going back to the ‘10 streams’ rule - how do we know this to be true?

 

Spotify counts all the streams of a track (I know - I experimented and found that when a song was getting ~5-20 streams a day, I could increase it to well over 100 by playing it on repeat).

 

I know OCC doesn’t like to be pinned down to an answer about the maximum number of streams - (I emailed them and they were vague) but if there is a cap of 10 streams, who removes the others? Does Spotify remove them after counting them? Or do they provide OCC with data about who has streamed what?