Ah so close for Florence! The album is great <3 hope hunger can stay top 40 as well.

Just subscribe it for god's sake. Or Apple Music. Or Deezer. Or even Tidal.

 

No reason not to.

My radical anti-capitalist icon Florence Welch wouldn't want me subscribing to corporations

Just subscribe it for god's sake. Or Apple Music. Or Deezer. Or even Tidal.

 

No reason not to.

Jay Z, is that you? :D

Surprised how badly the BeBe Rexha album has done, apparently it's dropped all the way to 94 in the midweeks

 

In realistic terms, I can't really imagine a Bebe Rexha album having any sort of mass appeal. Especially as she hasn't really established her name.

Where's Bebe's album?

In the bargain bin

Jay Z, is that you? :D

 

99 Problems but music business ain't one

Not massively keen on the MJ feature...just doesn’t feel complete or ‘right’

I hope Florence can somehow manage to pull it out of the bag and nab the #1 come friday. But given the missing data and that pre-orders would've boosted her a bit, I doubt she'll overcome Drake.

Dappy may make the Top 30 this week.

The chart performance has surprised me since its release.

 

Well he was top 10 on the video streaming chart last week!

Wow at how close Drake and Florence are in the first update! Drake will pull ahead from this point onwards though I'm sure.

 

'Don't Matter To Me' to end up being the highest Drake track in the singles chart I'd think, although might be settling for 'only' a #2/3 debut. I've not heard that or any other Drake album tracks yet but it's nice to see George heading for a second week at #1 anyway, outlasting the single week at #1 aided by the 59p boost for the last two #1s before it! Hoping 'Hunger' can maintain a top 40 position throughout the week as well, its current #41 peak is pretty frustrating as it's another great track from them.

Can someone tell me how that AWFUL 'Get Messy' song somehow was in the top 10 iTunes chart last Friday? How does this happen? Who's buying it? Never heard of them before and it just seems so random.

Can someone tell me how that AWFUL 'Get Messy' song somehow was in the top 10 iTunes chart last Friday? How does this happen? Who's buying it? Never heard of them before and it just seems so random.

 

But it wasn't awful imo though, it was a good tune I thought! People were buying it probably a mixture of the artists being Snapchat famous apparently and the fact the song was refreshing as there are very few 'dance bangers' around these days making the charts.

 

Pity they didn't release a YouTube video at the same time, the combo of both itunes top 3 for a time and a well streamed video could have sent them low top 40.

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But it wasn't awful imo though, it was a good tune I thought! People were buying it probably a mixture of the artists being Snapchat famous apparently and the fact the song was refreshing as there are very few 'dance bangers' around these days making the charts.

It's okay just as a dance track, but the lyrics.... christ

Awww it's a shame that Three Lions doesn't look likely to crack the top 40 this year. It managed it in 2014 despite the fact England didn't even win a single match! (Yes yes I know streaming wasn't counted back then).

Get Messy was heavily aided by pre orders and being held back which is why there was an instant reaction and a quick fall, a very quick fall

I don't know if I'm being crazy or not but this Drake release has been a bit of a disappointment imo. 1) I thought the Spotify numbers were kind of on the low side for probably the craziest Spotify promo I've seen. 2) I was expecting an instant #1 debut on the singles chart, even more so after seeing the song they were pushing was an MJ collab. 3) Only 900 sales separate him and Florence? Really didn't expect that. Shocked that its going to be debut will less sales than his random mixtape last year considering this has been preceded by God's Plan and Nice For What whereas that More Life only had Fake Love.

and that's with many people streaming random songs from his album not the whole thing

imagine if the occ counted album streams properly as in only when people stream an album 75 or 90%, he'd get 3k sales I bet :D

 

but agree, if you consider the album has Gods plan and Nice for what, it's a total underperformance, and that's not even considering the spotify payola

:D Spice girls were just as manufactured as Westlife if not more FFS.

Sorry to make the thread go off topic, but I couldn’t pass up on replying because... this really isn’t the case!

 

Spice Girls were formed via auditions, so yes in that sense they were manufactured. That’s not the whole story though. Within a year they left the management that formed them. Whilst without management, they wrote their own material/recorded for their debut album. With songs ready to go and a unique image that was cultivated by the girls themselves, it was at this point that they sought new management / a record label. Once they became successful and famous, they continued to write on every song they released. Barely a year into their fame they once again left their management and opted to manage themselves. With the amount of control they had over their own act, they definitely weren’t a typical manufactured pop group.

 

Westlife were brought together by Louis Walsh, and subsequently released music that was either written for them, or presented to them (i.e. numerous cover versions).

 

I don’t think anyone with a real knowledge of these two groups could seriously claim that the Spice Girls were even more manufactured than Westlife.

 

~

 

Anyway, back to Drake / streaming discussions :cool:

I think we could be seeing the effect of the new rules coming into force quite nicely already.

 

Don't Matter To Me has had 600-700k of daily streams on Spotify since Saturday so surely he should be ahead of George but he's only on 20k. Granted George is only 4k ahead but he's been on 450k on average so I cant help but think theres a fair chunk of free subscriptions counting towards Drake's Spotify total and therefore lowering is overall sales units. Again I could be wrong and it might be Drake leaps ahead on the next update when the missing data comes through.

 

Not sure if I want DMTM to be no1, I'd love nothing more than MJ to finally get that 8th no1 but it just doesn't sound like him on that song. I don't know if its just me though.

^you realise itunes data counts for the charts and shotgun is selling 10 times more than drake/mj? it's not only spotify that counts