HH updated, they added Cardi/Bruno, the new Catfish, DigDat, Julia Michaels with Nial Horan, all pretty low

 

at the top, Ariana -I'm bored it's back as track #1

with kings of payola Picture This (who?) being track #3, they've been in the top 10 since the new year I reckon

Westlife is now track #10

and Little Mix have also been moved up to #17

Go on Picture This - the HH placement is hilarious for a song that hasn't taken off, but I do quite enjoy it :lol:

Zedd being moved down on Hot Hits... :angry: This is going to be a frustratingly slow burner. #Impatient

the Picture This song has been on HH for like 3 months, always high, top 10 since January

there last Friday it was moved to track #4 and now even higher, track #3

 

just realised it's cos their album was out last Friday

 

but this has to be the biggest case of payola I've since, not even Nina Nesbitt comes closer :D :D :D

Correct me if I'm wrong but that Picture This song has been hit in Ireland so it's not so far fetched to push it in the UK.

Edited February 18, 20196 yr by SKOB

Never knew this but Hot Hits Australia only has 50 songs compared to HHUK's 70, and New Music Friday AU & NZ only has 70 songs compared to NMFUK's 100

Picture This is really pushed by their label. They are lucky they are under Republic. Their tour manager now is Shane's former tour manager. Mark retweeted one member of the band on his account before. I don't like them. One Drink is not their best song. Just looked at their discography on wiki and the highest charting single in Ireland is one of their best.

I remember they were on All Round to Mrs Brown's last year and I didn't have a clue who they were :lol:

Honestly I wish ours went back to 50, or at least 60. 70 feels too big and some songs have been on there way too long.

yes HH was much better when it was 40-50 tracks

also makes no sense to have tracks for months stuck at the very end, like the last Lana del Rey track has been like song #70 for the last month, never moving up, of course she's gonna do nothing...

 

I find HH very detached from reality, in this sense I think Today's top hits or Pop Rising are much better

 

For instance, despite Giant being pretty popular, they never had it that high on HH, think the highest it's been is around track #10

Bury a Friend has also never been high, not even top 10... and now Katy/Zedd or Bruno/Cardi are also way too low

and then songs like Picture This or Anne Marie's Perfect to Me are super high for weeks when no one is streaming them

clearly the label is paying to have them so high, but not even then they become hits cos people wisely skip them

Yeah, like Baby was low the whole time it was doing well on Radio/iTunes and they now moved it high after it under-performed(partly because of this reason) and now won't get rid of it.

Little Mix up to #89 and Zaty up to #100

Is there basically a Spotify top 50, as in the top 50 most played songs each week by stream count on a playlist. That would be better as you couldn't pay for songs to be high up they would have to genuinely be popular. Updating it each week would hopefully keep it moving faster too.

Nice climb for LM

Yay for Little Mix, thats a 40+ place climb. Surprised Zedd/Katy managed to climb given they got moved even deeper into Hot Hits.

@sammy There is a daily Spotify top 50 playlist, it doesn't have quite as many followers as Hot Hits UK but still has a fair amount of impact on the chart.

 

Spotify Daily Chart Update (18/02)

01 [01] Ariana Grande – break up with your girlfriend, I'm bored 585,294

02 [02] Ariana Grande – 7 rings 559,883

03 [04] Mabel – Don't Call Me Up 406,707

04 [03] Post Malone – Wow. 405,527

05 [05] Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 392,116

06 [06] Sam Smith & Normani – Dancing With A Stranger 342,792

07 [07] Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man – Giant 317,443

08 [09] Billie Eilish – bury a friend 307,997

09 [08] Ariana Grande – thank u, next 302,286

10 [11] NSG – Options (feat. Tion Wayne) 279,796

 

11 [10] Ava Max – Sweet but Psycho

12 [12] Post Malone & Swae Lee – Sunflower (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)

13 [13] Marshmello – Happier (feat. Bastille)

14 [14] Ariana Grande – bad idea

15 [16] Meek Mill – Going Bad (feat. Drake)

16 [15] Ariana Grande – needy

17 [17] Ariana Grande – NASA

18 [18] Mark Ronson – Nothing Breaks Like a Heart (feat. Miley Cyrus)

19 [20] Ariana Grande – bloodline

20 [19] Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow

 

21 [21] Halsey – Without Me

22 [22] Cadet & Deno Driz – Advice

23 [27] J. Cole – MIDDLE CHILD

24 [23] Ariana Grande – imagine

25 [24] Travis Scott – SICKO MODE

26 [25] Ariana Grande – fake smile

27 [28] Lauv & Troye Sivan – I'm so tired… [*NEW PEAK*]

28 [36] Khalid – Talk [*NEW PEAK*]

29 [31] Ariana Grande – ghostin

30 [30] Jax Jones & Years & Years – Play

 

31 [35] Blueface – Thotiana [*NEW PEAK*]

32 [29] D-Block Europe – Kitchen Kings

33 [34] Post Malone – Better Now

34 [33] Panic! At The Disco – High Hopes

35 [26] George Ezra – Shotgun

36 [32] benny blanco – Eastside (with Halsey & Khalid)

37 [37] Kodak Black – ZEZE (feat. Travis Scott & Offset)

38 [38] Cardi B & Bruno Mars – Please Me

39 [39] 21 Savage – a lot

40 [40] Dua Lipa – Swan Song (From the Motion Picture "Alita: Battle Angel")

 

41 [43] A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Swervin (feat. 6ix9ine) [*NEW PEAK*]

44 [44] Chris Brown – Undecided

45 [49] Juice WRLD – Robbery [*NEW PEAK*]

49 [50] AJ Tracey - Psych Out!

51 [60] YNW Melly – Murder On My Mind [*NEW PEAK*]

56 [59] Kehlani – Nights Like This (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

58 [62] Lewis Capaldi – Grace

62 [64] Swarmz – Bally (feat. Tion Wayne)

63 [79] Tom Walker – Just You and I [*NEW PEAK*]

65 [66] A Boogie Wit da Hoodie – Look Back At It

69 [85] The Chainsmokers & 5 Seconds of Summer – Who Do You Love

74 [71] Westlife – Hello My Love

82 [90] Picture This – One Drink

85 [98] YUNGBLUD & Halsey – 11 Minutes (feat. Travis Barker)

89 [132] Little Mix – Think About Us (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) [*NEW PEAK*]

90 [92] DigDat & Loski – No Cap

91 [105] Catfish and the Bottlemen – Longshot

93 [123] CamelPhat & Cristoph – Breathe (feat. Jem Cooke)

97 [102] Alec Benjamin – Let Me Down Slowly

100 [122] Zedd & Katy Perry – 365

 

114 [93] Hozier – Almost (Sweet Music)

117 [138] Lewis Capaldi – Bruises [*NEW PEAK*]

118 [130] Mustard & Migos – Pure Water [*NEW PEAK*]

121 [149] Sub Focus & Dimension – Desire

127 [156] Kygo – Think About You (feat. Valerie Broussard)

133 [142] Yungen – Comfortable (feat. Dappy)

137 [119] Marshmello – Alone

155 [196] Catfish and the Bottlemen – Fluctuate

161 [172] Galantis – Bones (feat. OneRepublic)

166 [179] Dermot Kennedy – Power Over Me

187 [RE] David Guetta, Brooks & Loote – Better When You're Gone

192 [RE] JAY1 – Becky

197 [RE] Lizzo – Juice

I know its somethinf they have supposedly never done before but if they perforn TAU on the brits maybe they have a chance of repeaking next week

Glad to see Yungblud/Halsey/Travis Barker climbing! Bringing rock back to the charts

Honestly I wish ours went back to 50, or at least 60. 70 feels too big and some songs have been on there way too long.

 

Tbf Rise was only just taken off in December/January pretty sure :lol: Yeah ik it impacted here a good 2 months later than in the UK but still it was quite funny seeing it slowly bumped down to the bottom but still hanging around - kinda the same as what’s happening to Shotgun