+ Trifoski scoring a real life chart hit with Sunlight (aptly charting at #7)

 

The other Sunlight by Modestep making the charts in 2011 was also quite something, I know there were dubstep hits before it but it was the first chart hit of the more extreme form of dubstep.

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Bullit wasn't a top 10 hit sadly, streaming scuppered its chances.

 

Oops...why did I think it was....

Idina Menzel's tenacity in the top 20 with 'Let it go' was fun to watch/follow

The Saturdays cementing their pop royalty status by going to number 1

This was so rewarding for me as well. It really looked like they had missed their chance forever and were on a downward trajectory (again) after 30 Days flopped and the American release also went nowhere so to see them having a huge lead on iTunes, in fact just seeing their name as #1 on Kworb was bizarre. Seeing them cry with happiness at the announcement as well was so cute because they genuinely did deserve it at that point and they got their hopes up with Just Can't Get Enough, Missing You and All Fired Up only to keep losing. I know things went to shit afterwards and they never really made an impact the way Girls Aloud or Little Mix did, and it wasn't THAT big a #1 etc but just knowing that there was one week where The Saturdays were #1 with the fastest selling single of the year was what their fans always wanted.

Happy selling almost two million downloads I think for me is a highlight. Given the sales decline of the mid 00s, I honestly never thought we'd have a million selling single ever again let alone one that does almost two. I really do miss the download era. I do think the streaming sale units are way too inflated.

 

Adele 21/25 both of these are another. I doubt we'll see that level of selling power again for a long while, but I think what is more amazing is how one performance triggered all of it. Selling 100k of a single and the parent album simultaneously for three weeks is something I don't think anybody had done since the Spice Girls. Not only that, 21 selling over 100k for 12 straight weeks was nothing sort of incredible. It was a bit disheartening to see TGS overtake its run at no1 last year. Then 25 smashing 800k in a week with Hello topping every chart around the world was brilliant.

 

Drake getting 15 weeks was also fantastic to see. Again probably will never happen again but Tones and I certainly gave ACR a run for its money.

 

Finally, I think Gaga ascending to no1 with Shallow was my final big moment of the decade. She began the 10s as the biggest popstar in the world but by 2014 it felt as though everyone had tired of her. Then she grabs a no1 single out of nowhere with song that is tinged with country vibes making it all the more peculiar, with the soundtrack also being a no1 success.

The only Spice related top 20 single of this decade (and probably ever again) Loving you by Melanie C and Matt Cardle! :wub:

How many weeks would One Dance be at #1 if ACR was implemented back then? And who would've been number 1 instead?

How many weeks would One Dance be at #1 if ACR was implemented back then? And who would've been number 1 instead?

8 weeks (his first chart week was at #21 - and he declined for 3 consecutive weeks before week 10)

 

the following would have been #1:

Justin Timberlake - CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! (1 week)

Kungs vs. Cookin' on 3 Burners - This Girl (4 weeks)

The Chainsmokers feat. Daya - Don't Let Me Down (1 week)

Jonas Blue feat. JP Cooper - Perfect Strangers (1 week)

I think all of the defining moments for me have already been mentioned, but I'll add the chart week that followed the Olympics closing ceremony in 2012, for the sheer amount of classics that re-entered the chart that week. Plus 'One Day Like This' rightfully getting a new peak of #4, and George Michael getting his final top 40 hit of his lifetime (:().

Totally agree the Olympics closing ceremony week was pretty special. As well as One Day Like This reaching #4, the other song Elbow performed, Open Arms, got its only week in the UK chart, as did The Who's Baba O'Reilly and Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here - those things just wouldn't happen now with streaming so dominant.

 

Re: One Dance - ACR came in a year later in July 2017, but before that in January 2017 the streaming ratio changed from 100:1 to 150:1. Had the ratio stayed at 100:1, Shape Of You would have matched One Dance's 15-week run at #1 (and Sign Of The Times wouldn't have got there at all). Conversely, had the ratio been 150:1 in 2016, even without ACR in place, One Dance would have spent at most 8 and perhaps as few as 6 weeks at #1:

 

1st 3 weeks: #1 One Dance (unaffected as #1 on pure sales)

Weeks 4-5: #1 One Dance, but with a smaller margin (only 3,295 sales ahead of This Is What You Came For in week 5)

Weeks 6-7: #1 Can't Stop The Feeling (ahead by 8,581 and 4,435 respectively)

Week 8: can't tell from the sales data but #1 probably CSTF again

Week 9: #1 One Dance (but ahead by just 54)

Weeks 10, 12 & 13: #1 This Girl (ahead by 5,246, 2,433 and 2,402)

Week 11: can't tell for definite, but assuming This Girl's pure sales were at least 20.2k that would have been enough (more than likely since The Neales were #5 on pure sales with 18,938 that week)

Week 14: Perfect Strangers (#3 officially) ahead of One Dance by 943

Week 15: Dancing On My Own (#4 officially) ahead of One Dance by 252