Where are Be Alright and Goodbye today please?

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Where are Be Alright and Goodbye today please?

The former is just outside the top 50, the latter is just inside it.

It's the double-counting that annoys many of us, including me. Streaming of a song should not count towards both the singles and albums chart. After all, sales only ever contributed to one chart. Any attempt to assign streams to one chart or the other will, of necessity, be a little arbitrary, but it would stop the singles chart being flooded by songs from one artist as a result of people streaming the album.

I totally agree :)

Correcting singles sales for double counting with albums would remove the need for the 3 tracks per artist/OST limit which I dislike.

 

However it’s only really an issue when album streams are high, usually in the first week or two of release. On my point from yesterday about long runners on the singles chart, I don’t think they are being given much advantage by double counting. Even for Shape Of You, if you took all the streams that count towards Divide’s current album ‘sales’ and divide them equally over the 16 tracks, then divide by 200 (as SOY is on ACR and this is assuming they’re all paid for), I think that would account for less than 1000 of its singles ‘sales’ per week. If subtracted from its total, that would push it down the chart, but perhaps not out of the Top 100 altogether just yet.

Calvin Harris at no1 again with another dull track ☹️

This will make Calvin the artist with the most #1 hits in the 2010s right? (I think he was joint with Tinie Tempah and Jess Glynne for that, already ahead if you include 'Spectrum (Say My Name)').

Tinie Tempah has 7 #1s (3 #1s as lead artist)

Jess has excatly the same (7 #1s, 3 #1s as lead)

 

Calvin has 9 #1s already in total (7 #1s as lead), so this should be his 10th,

he's not officially credited by the occ in Spectrum, so not counting that

and yes he's also on 7 #1s in the 10s, so this will be his 8 number#1 in the 10s (7th as lead, was featured on We found love)

 

 

 

Calvin would have most #1 for this decade a long while ago had one of his four consecutive #2 singles during 18 months era made #1 instead.

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by deepinside

yes he has 6 #2 hits

Calvin also of course has 'Call My Name' and 'I Will Never Let You Down' that he wrote and produced worth mentioning. 'Call My Name' in particular could've easily been Calvin Harris feat. Cheryl without sounding any different. (Edit: oh, and Dizzee Rascal's 'Holiday' too for before this decade)

 

'How Deep Is Your Love' was quite an unlucky #2 in retrospect as a 3-week streaming #1 that got stuck behind 3 of the last held-back #1s ('Marvin Gaye', 'Don't Be So Hard On Yourself', 'Fight Song'). If the list on Wikipedia is correct, the only streaming #1s since then that have never reached the official #1 are 'Work' (1 week), 'Don't Matter To Me' (1 week), and the last 2 week-after-Christmas #1s (Mariah and Wham!).

 

I think 'We'll Be Coming Back' and 'This Is What You Came For' are also 2 of the last 3 songs to sell over 100k in a week without ever reaching #1, the other being 'Castle On The Hill'. On the other hand, 'Feels' hit #1 while 'Despacito' was #1 on both streaming and sales, so that evens it out a bit.

 

(wow I forgot will.i.am's 'Feelin' Myself' sold as much as 97k first week! I think that's more than any #1 in the past year, meaningless as that comparison is)

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by Rush

and Spectrum should have been credited as Florence x Calvis Harris, his remix was the reason it went to #1

Calvin would have most #1 for this decade a long while ago had one of his four consecutive #2 singles during 18 months era made #1 instead.

 

I genuinely read this post thinking it was Hadji. :lol:

and Spectrum should have been credited as Florence x Calvis Harris, his remix was the reason it went to #1

 

So? That is 100% Florence's song

 

 

yes but calvin revamped it and thats what people bought

Still her song.

I don’t think Calvin Harris has done a song I like since about 2011.

This return to 2 back-to-back #1 singles for Calvin just makes it funny to remember people on here thinking his time in the spotlight was over when the (clearly not very commercial) PARTYNEXTDOOR song flopped. It's pretty astonishing how consistently successful he's managed to be for pretty much the last 12 years, has to be one of the longest shelf lifes for a DJ ever? A shame that 'Slide' was one of his few singles that didn't quite live up to his usual levels of success though.

'Slide' must have a cumulative total that beats some of his highest peakers though, given its mammoth chart run. Although I suppose it's all relative.