Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man still number 1, it will be close if it does hold on.

Pink should be safe to hold a Top 10 position.

Almost certainly. YNW Melly is just behind him at this stage and he has the streaming advantage.

From one of the best recent rap songs to one of the worst :(

Looking a lot like Calvin/RNB Man might actually do it? :o

Edited February 26, 20197 yr by Tawdry Hepburn

so looks like Calvin has increased his lead over Ariana's?

I'd be happy for either Calvin or Lewis - though it would be great to see Lewis get his first #1 single.

Cmon, Cal'n'Bone Harris!

There isn't any Talk Talk albums inside the top 100 yet, they might appear with tomorrow's update, I should imagine a few will enter by the end of the week.

 

I'm routing for Calvin & Raggy

Nice to see Calvin and Lewis extend their leads from both Ari songs. Don’t mind which of the Scots ends up at #1

Edited February 26, 20197 yr by Hadji

This is going to be close, but I'm rooting for Calvin to get his 11th #1 hit as expected.

Gwon calvin or lewis come through, she is drifting ahead on albums though shame

Come juice wrld hope just scrap in on firday

I wish they allowed songs to reset if the solo artist or the artist involved in a group dies

Calvin’s much closer to 7 Rings on Spotify than I expected. Maybe he’d probably get lucky and scrape the top spot?

Almost certainly. YNW Melly is just behind him at this stage and he has the streaming advantage.

 

I was just about to say I am surprised he's not already in the top 40... I'm finding this song becoming a hit far more disturbing than any of the XXXTENTACION and 6ix9ine hits, with those two at least you can make an argument that maybe people were discovering and liking their songs *despite* their histories rather than because of it as their most infamous controversies were both some time before they blew up, but in this case it's completely unambiguous that it's blowing up directly because of the case. It really makes you wonder just how bad publicity needs to be for an artist for it to not actually help their career, especially with rappers it seems. Like... if some random C-tier rapper was arrested for doing what Ian Watkins did, would they get a big hit single out of it as well? At this point I wouldn't rule it out. :/

 

An update on YNW Melly, he's now a suspect in a third unrelated murder as well. What a stand-up citizen. x

 

(also this song is complete trash, I listened to it before he got arrested - thankfully Radio 1 will 100% be skipping it anyway one would assume)

On a lighter note though, I'm actually hoping Calvin can stick at #1. I don't like it as much as either of the Ariana songs but it has grown on me enough that I'm now cool with it being a #1 and it'll put Calvin a step closer to the all-time greats for the most UK #1 hits. I think he's probably the only currently active artist who has any hope of eventually coming close to Elvis and The Beatles.

I was just about to say I am surprised he's not already in the top 40... I'm finding this song becoming a hit far more disturbing than any of the XXXTENTACION and 6ix9ine hits, with those two at least you can make an argument that maybe people were discovering and liking their songs *despite* their histories rather than because of it as their most infamous controversies were both some time before they blew up, but in this case it's completely unambiguous that it's blowing up directly because of the case. It really makes you wonder just how bad publicity needs to be for an artist for it to not actually help their career, especially with rappers it seems. Like... if some random C-tier rapper was arrested for doing what Ian Watkins did, would they get a big hit single out of it as well? At this point I wouldn't rule it out. :/

 

An update on YNW Melly, he's now a suspect in a third unrelated murder as well. What a stand-up citizen. x

 

(also this song is complete trash, I listened to it before he got arrested - thankfully Radio 1 will 100% be skipping it anyway one would assume)

I agree. The rap/hip-hop scene is really quite problematic at the moment. People don't seem to care about what these artists get up to even though it's established before they breakthrough. Like you say, what is it going to take for them to be abolished from the music scene? You see mainstream pop female artists get cancelled over absolutely nothing yet people out there are still happy to give certain sick individuals a platform.

Really want calvin to take the top spot.

Edited February 27, 20197 yr by Feel_The_Fever

I haven't listened to the song but I feel like with YNW Melly there's a curiosity factor to it due to the charges. Like how true crime documentaries are really popular right now, there'd surely be a lot of people listening to it out of the fascination to see if a song called "Murder On My Mind" has some sort of insight into the psyche of a killer (I don't know if it was written before or after he did anything). I don't think most people consciously listen to the song knowing that they're helping an artist's chart position or giving them a fraction of a cent (or if they are, they'll probably mentally justify it that it really is just a fraction of a cent). Unless it's really catchy or something it'll probably decline pretty quickly.

I think that there's a culture that it's 'cool' to be a felon for whatever reason. Modern gang culture.

Shallow coming for top ten despite being on ACR <3