https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-so-far__25951/

 

1 SOMEONE YOU LOVED LEWIS CAPALDI 1 1.9m sales [221m streams]

2 OLD TOWN ROAD LIL NAS X 1 1.5m

3 I DON'T CARE ED SHEERAN & JUSTIN BIEBER 1 1.2m

4 GIANT CALVIN HARRIS & RAG'N'BONE MAN 2

5 SWEET BUT PSYCHO AVA MAX 1 1.45m *

6 BAD GUY BILLIE EILISH 2

7 DON'T CALL ME UP MABEL 3

8 VOSSI BOP STORMZY 1

9 7 RINGS ARIANA GRANDE 1

10 PIECE OF YOUR HEART MEDUZA FT GOODBOYS 2

11 WOW. POST MALONE 3

12 SHOTGUN GEORGE EZRA 1

13 SUNFLOWER POST MALONE FT SWAE LEE 3

14 DANCING WITH A STRANGER SAM SMITH & NORMANI 3

15 JUST YOU AND I TOM WALKER 3

16 LOCATION DAVE FT BURNA BOY 6

17 SHALLOW LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER 1

18 SENORITA SHAWN MENDES/CAMILA CABELLO 1

19 HOLD ME WHILE YOU WAIT LEWIS CAPALDI 4

20 LADBROKE GROVE AJ TRACEY 4

21 NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART MARK RONSON FT MILEY CYRUS 2

22 SUCKER JONAS BROTHERS 4

23 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ED SHEERAN FT KHALID 1

24 THANK U NEXT ARIANA GRANDE 1

25 BREAK UP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND I'M BORED ARIANA GRANDE 1

26 GRACE LEWIS CAPALDI 9

27 OPTIONS NSG FT TION WAYNE 7

28 HIGH HOPES PANIC AT THE DISCO 12

29 SOS AVICII FT ALOE BLACC 6

30 3 NIGHTS DOMINIC FIKE 3

31 BURY A FRIEND BILLIE EILISH 6

32 WITHOUT ME HALSEY 3

33 HAPPIER MARSHMELLO FT BASTILLE 2

34 TALK KHALID 9

35 KEISHA & BECKY RUSS & TION WAYNE 7

36 EASTSIDE BENNY BLANCO/HALSEY/KHALID 1

37 PROMISES CALVIN HARRIS & SAM SMITH 1

38 BOASTY WILEY/STEFFLON DON/SEAN PAUL 11

39 TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON ED SHEERAN FT STORMZY 1

40 CROSS ME ED SHEERAN/CHANCE/PNB ROCK 4

 

* presumably these are its all-time sales otherwise it'd be #3

 

great to see Meduza top 10 now and Avicii comfortably top 40.

Thought Senorita would have been top 10 considering how huge its been this summer!

It just hasn't been out long enough, these lists are extremely biased to earlier releases.

I hope '7 rings' can hold on until the end of the year! 'no tears left to cry' scraped 10th last year so it'd be cool for her to have another EOY top 10 song.

 

'Wow.' does not feel that big at all to me :lol: but yeah, early release bias of course.

It just hasn't been out long enough, these lists are extremely biased to earlier releases.

 

Yeh true, I imagine by December Ladbroke Grove/Senorita/TMBTL/3 Nights and others will be challenging.

What an awful list in general. Most of the ones I like are from last year.

Lol at Shotgun nearly in the Top 10.

it's a bit strange that Ed Sheeran's London is that low. I thought x-weeks @ #1 would fit top 20 at least.

it's a bit strange that Ed Sheeran's London is that low. I thought x-weeks @ #1 would fit top 20 at least.

 

Spending a long time at number 1 is irrelevant these days. Rockabye by Clean Bandit had 8 weeks at the top in 2016 (and a 9th in 2017) and didn't even make the YE Top 30.

it's a bit strange that Ed Sheeran's London is that low. I thought x-weeks @ #1 would fit top 20 at least.

 

The reason is the same as what bre said for senorita

The changed nature of the singles market these days means that any track released after the middle of the year doesn't really stand a chance of ending up as the top track of the year. And it would also struggle to get inside the end of year top 10 as all of the tracks in the above YTD list have passed 900,000 sales this year.

Woo Shallow top 20, even though it won't stay there.

5 SWEET BUT PSYCHO AVA MAX 1 1.45m *

6 BAD GUY BILLIE EILISH 2

7 DON'T CALL ME UP MABEL 3

9 7 RINGS ARIANA GRANDE 1

14 DANCING WITH A STRANGER SAM SMITH & NORMANI 3

17 SHALLOW LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER 1

21 NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART MARK RONSON FT MILEY CYRUS 2

24 THANK U NEXT ARIANA GRANDE 1

25 BREAK UP WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND I'M BORED ARIANA GRANDE 1

28 HIGH HOPES PANIC AT THE DISCO 12

31 BURY A FRIEND BILLIE EILISH 6

32 WITHOUT ME HALSEY 3

36 EASTSIDE BENNY BLANCO/HALSEY/KHALID 1

38 BOASTY WILEY/STEFFLON DON/SEAN PAUL 11

 

I only like the ones above, what a terrible list!

It'd be nice if they did the list with just this year's releases on there. Also, the list feels very Q1 orientated.

^ That would defeat the object of the list, if you start excluding songs like Sweet But Psycho, and it'd still be Q1 oriented. It's just the reality of the streaming era that songs have a longer tail in their consumption than before. ACR masks this a bit in the weekly charts but doesn't apply here.

It's only logical that now when the availability isn't limited, there's nothing one can do about it and why should? If a song released in March is still popular in August, shouldn't it be doing well on countdown?

Wow awful list!

^ That would defeat the object of the list, if you start excluding songs like Sweet But Psycho, and it'd still be Q1 oriented. It's just the reality of the streaming era that songs have a longer tail in their consumption than before. ACR masks this a bit in the weekly charts but doesn't apply here.

 

I didn't say that it should be replaced in any way? I just said it would be nice to see a list of this year's releases?

Then you can just take the older ones off from the list?

I didn't say that it should be replaced in any way? I just said it would be nice to see a list of this year's releases?

Fair enough, but do you then exclude Someone You Loved because it had a week in the Top 100 last year? It's a valid point, but unlike years ago we won't have a clear picture of the biggest sellers to be released in 2019 until long after the year's over.