This is the Spotify chart thread for August 2019, the go-to topic for the discussion of Spotify playlists and charts!

 

Spotify FAQs

 

What is streaming? What are the chart rules regarding streaming?

 

For streaming and chart rules related FAQs read this thread.

 

How do I see today's Spotify chart?

 

To see the daily top 50 update on desktop, log in to Spotify, click 'Browse', then click 'Charts', then click 'United Kingdom Top 50', or click the link below. The desktop top 50 may update before anything else so is always worth checking if the website is not up to date. However recently it has been known to not to do (even when the website has), so do check all sources. Also note that the Spotify Website will update before external websites (Kworb, LivePopBars). Occasionally there will be a delay in the Spotify chart updating which could even take days.

 

Useful web links:

 

Spotify App [top 50]

Spotify Website [top 200]

Kworb [top 200 and extra data]

LivePopBars [top 200]

SponOnTrack [top 200]

 

Hot playlist links:

 

 

How often does the chart update?

 

It should update once every day, usually in the early afternoon - although this is not 100% guaranteed. Sometimes the top 200 on the website will update but without the top 50 on the app updating, and sometimes there will be no update at all.

 

How many plays on Spotify equals one download sale?

 

100 plays if you are on Spotify Premium, or 600 if you are using the ad-supported free tier. However you cannot simply play a song that many times in one day to give it one sale, you are limited to 10 plays per day in terms of what counts to the chart. (Spotify will let you play a song on repeat 600 times if you really want to).

 

The number changes to 200 or 1200 plays when a song moves to ACR. For more information on the rules of ACR see this thread. For information on what songs are currently on ACR and what songs will be moving to ACR, refer to this thread.

 

How much does Spotify contribute to the chart?

 

Streaming contributes over 90% to the singles chart as a whole, although good paid-for sales are still essential for making the very top of the chart in most cases. Spotify counts for at least half of all streaming sales (probably, we can't actually be sure on that), so doing well on Spotify is essential for doing well in the chart.

 

Why is my fave not doing well on Spotify?

 

Is it being promoted on one of Spotify's major curated playlists? If it isn't, it's unlikely to really take off! Hot Hits UK is the biggest of these playlists, with over a million followers. The playlist usually updates itself to include breaking hits once or twice a week, though there is no guarantee that your fave will get a place on the playlist. Also, the UK Top 50 is a largely followed playlist and that songs often experience a 'top 50 effect', when they enter the top 50 and get the additional exposure of being on the playlist.

 

Often sales hits don't cross over to being streaming hits, this is usually the case for songs with an older target audience, reality or campaign songs. Also keep in mind that it often takes longer for a song to take off on Spotify than it would on iTunes.

 

My fave didn't debut high and is falling already, does this mean they're flopping?

 

Not necessarily. Most songs debut relatively low as they aren't instantly well-known, and experience a sharp decline on Day 2 as they no longer have the promoted 'New Music Friday' effect. A lot of songs manage to recover through gaining popularity and additions to playlists. Exceptions to the rule of course come from massively hyped artists/releases such as Justin Bieber/Ed Sheeran/Drake who will of course enter straight at the top.

 

What do the numbers mean?

 

The streaming figures cited in the daily chart are the number of streams each song received the previous day. Unlike the iTunes chart, Spotify is not a rolling chart so the numbers will only change once per day.

 

[FAQs written by Dan]

 

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Spotify Daily Chart Update (31/07)

 

01 01 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – Señorita 476,010

02 02 Ed Sheeran – Beautiful People (feat. Khalid) 431,985

03 04 AJ Tracey – Ladbroke Grove 337,246 [*NEW PEAK*]

04 03 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber – I Don't Care 329,326

05 06 Dominic Fike – 3 Nights 324,178 [*NEW PEAK*]

06 05 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 319,073

07 08 Stormzy – Vossi Bop 281,780

08 09 Ed Sheeran – Take Me Back To London (feat. Stormzy) 279,171

09 07 Ed Sheeran – Cross Me (feat. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock) 278,857

10 12 MIST – So High (feat. Fredo) 276,894

 

11 11 Lewis Capaldi – Hold Me While You Wait

12 10 Sam Smith – How Do You Sleep?

13 13 Dave – Location (feat. Burna Boy)

14 15 Sigala & Becky Hill – Wish You Well

15 14 Post Malone – Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug)

16 16 Young T & Bugsey – Strike a Pose (feat. Aitch)

17 17 Lil Tecca – Ransom

18 19 Mabel – Mad Love

19 20 Kygo & Whitney Houston – Higher Love [*NEW PEAK*]

20 18 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Remix) (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus) {#8 combined with 298,696 streams}

 

21 21 Stormzy – Crown

22 22 Billie Eilish – bad guy {#3 combined with 343,056 streams}

23 23 MEDUZA – Piece Of Your Heart (feat. Goodboys)

24 26 Chris Brown – No Guidance (feat. Drake)

25 24 Lil Nas X – Panini

26 25 Ed Sheeran & Travis Scott – Antisocial

27 27 Dave & AJ Tracey – Thiago Silva

28 32 Drake – Money In The Grave (feat. Rick Ross)

29 28 Freya Ridings – Castles

30 30 Joel Corry – Sorry

 

31 29 Ed Sheeran – Remember The Name (feat. Eminem & 50 Cent)

32 31 Ed Sheeran – South of the Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B)

33 33 Lizzo – Good as Hell

34 34 Martin Garrix – Summer Days (feat. Macklemore & Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy)

35 36 D-Block Europe – Home P*ssy

36 35 Katy Perry – Never Really Over

37 37 Mark Ronson – Find U Again (feat. Camila Cabello)

38 38 Lizzo – Truth Hurts

39 40 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora – Ritual [*NEW PEAK*]

40 39 Avicii – SOS (feat. Aloe Blacc)

 

41 42 Y2K & bbno$ – Lalala [*NEW PEAK*]

43 43 JAY1 – Mocking It

44 44 Ellie Goulding & Juice WRLD – Hate Me

45 45 Billie Eilish & Justin Bieber – bad guy

46 47 Krept & Konan – I Spy (feat. Headie One & K-Trap)

47 50 Dermot Kennedy – Outnumbered [*NEW PEAK*]

49 48 Taylor Swift – You Need To Calm Down

53 53 Sam Feldt – Post Malone (feat. RANI)

62 62 Ali Gatie – It's You

69 73 Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha – Harder [*NEW PEAK*]

70 68 Taylor Swift – The Archer

76 79 Beyoncé, SAINt JHN & WizKid – BROWN SKIN GIRL (feat. Blue Ivy Carter)

85 49 Lil Nas X – Seoul Town Road (feat. RM of BTS)

87 81 Rick Ross – Gold Roses (feat. Drake)

89 89 Bugzy Malone – Kilos (feat. Aitch)

93 99 Remedee – Love of My Life (feat. Not3s & Young Adz)

98 110 The Chainsmokers, ILLENIUM & Lennon Stella – Takeaway [*NEW PEAK*]

 

102 103 Becky Hill & Weiss – I Could Get Used To This [*NEW PEAK*]

103 98 Marshmello – One Thing Right (feat. Kane Brown)

106 109 Zara Larsson – All the Time

108 104 The Plug – Rich (feat. D-Block Europe & Offset)

119 117 DJ Snake – Loco Contigo (feat. J Balvin & Tyga)

127 139 Wiley – My One (feat. Tory Lanez, Kranium & Dappy)

133 133 Avicii – Heaven

135 135 Gerry Cinnamon – Canter

145 125 Liam Gallagher – Once

168 170 NF – Time

180 191 NF – The Search

183 174 Beyoncé, Jay Z & Childish Gambino – MOOD 4 EVA

187 175 AJ – Bad & Boujie (feat. Geko, Ard Adz & Koomz)

195 199 CamelPhat & Jake Bugg – Be Someone

AJ snatching a #3 peak *.* I keep thinking he's already peaked but now this surely will definitely be the highest it goes (especially as Dominic Fike might overtake, great that that's still climbing so consistently as well).

Incredible how well AJ Tracey and Dominic are doing, crazy considering the limited playlist support they have

compared to Beautiful People or Senorita

It’s been amazing watching the longevity of both of them. Here for Becky Hill’s “I Could Get Used to This” getting another wave and re-peaking again.

Looks like we’re getting a new Drake album/mixtape tomorrow judging by his instagram post

 

So expect him to have a fair few songs debuting highly on Saturdays update but should have strong promo on streaming sites probably Apple being the most prominent?

It's a collection of old songs it seems

Probably won't make any more impact than 'So Far Gone' did.

 

Glad to see that 'Days In The East' will finally be available to stream though, really like that song.

New peaks for Higher Love and Ritual :wub:

NMF

 

1. Raye - Love Me Again

2. Mabel - OK (Anxiety Anthem)

3. Aitch - Taste (Make it Shake)

4. Lauv & Anne-Marie - f***, I'm lonely

5. Haim - Summer Girl

6. Yungblud - Hope for the Underrated Youth

7. Ava Max - Freaking Me Out

8. EO - Bend Low

9. Foals - Black Bull

10. Gryffin & Carly Rae Jepsen - OMG

Raye :wub:

Mabel with 3 songs on new music Friday a star

Mabel with 3 songs on new music Friday a star

And Bad Behaviour is not one of them

And Bad Behaviour is not one of them

...because it's not a new song and was on last week's NMF

new Ariana now placed as track #3 on NMF

 

no songs from Drake added (So far)

I don’t think that Ariana will debut at -#1

agree was expecting something with much more oomph, this is very flat, a bit of a non-event

 

curious to see how the Drake songs do tomorrow

agree was expecting something with much more oomph, this is very flat, a bit of a non-event

 

curious to see how the Drake songs do tomorrow

With The way it's pushed WW I won't be surprised if it is, but it's very very underwhelming for me also.

Ariana added straight to HH, track #20, also Raye - Love me again, Tones & I - Dance Monkey,

and that horrible Lauv/Anne Marie song too

 

They've moved as bit 3 Nights (track #9) but there are still a lot of great songs that are too low and have been too low for ages

and never been given a proper chance on HH (Higher love, Hate me, All the time, Find U Again, Canter etc

Freya is the cover of HH now

Edited August 2, 20195 yr by Bjork

Boyfriend is a low key bop! Love the throwback r&b vibe! Should do decently.