Happy New Year :cheer:

 

This is the Spotify chart thread for January 2020, the go-to topic for the discussion of Spotify playlists and charts! It is the 7th year that I've opened a Spotify Chart Thread in too and hopefully not the last.

 

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 the #1 still can be decided by who has better paid-for sales. Spotify counts for a good chunk of streaming sales (although it appears to be losing some market share as Apple Music and Amazon Music gain in popularity), 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]

 

Spotify thread archive

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2015: Jan-Oct • Oct-Dec

2014: Jun-Dec

New year, new decade, new month, new thread!!

but same old songs, HH hasn't updated in forever

Friday will be the most likely day I would imagine

Dance Monkey #1 with 614k - bad guy up to #5! on 370k

Piece of Your Heart and Don't Call Me Up are the two biggest big song of the year gainers outside of bad guy

Mr Brightside back of course at #33

I need to see how well Mariah and Dliff are doing!!

ah so not quite back in the top 10 for The Killers then :P

 

Old songs (2+ years) climbing or returning due to NYE:

 

33. Killers - Mr Brightside

45. Whitney - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

46. Outkast - Hey Ya!

49. Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight

56. Avicii - Wake Me Up

70. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

73. Sean Paul - Temperature

80. Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk

81. 50 Cent - In Da Club

82. Earth Wind & Fire - September

86. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out

90. Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance

93. Drake - One Dance

98. Justin Timberlake - Senorita

99. Journey - Don't Stop Believing

 

101. Macklemore - Can't Hold Us

103. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

106. Toto - Africa

117. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

118. Steve Wonder - Superstition

119. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

123. Queen - Under Pressure

127. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor

128. Estelle - American Boy

135. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

139. Wham - Club Tropicana

144. Abba - Dancing Queen

145. George Michael - Faith

146. Hall and Oats - You Make My Dreams

148. Wham - Wake Me Up...

 

153. Chainsmokers - Closer

155. Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

160. TLC - No Scrubs

163. T2 - Heartbroken

166. Luis Fonsi - Despacito

171. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

172. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

173. Marvin Gay - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

175. Aretha Franklin - Respect

176. Usher - Yeah

177. Taio Cruz - Dynamite

178. Taylor Swift - Shake it Off

179. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

180. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

187. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers

189. Kooks - Naive

191. Spice Girls - Wannabe

196. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

198. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

200. Omi - Cheerleader

So... Tones is up 38% from this day last week. Ew. x Total this week so far on Spotify is 2.40m compared to 2.32m up to the same point last week though which is only a 3% increase. That number will probably rise by the end of the week though as I imagine it'll still be up week-on-week in at least tomorrow's update too.

 

inb4 it only has a small increase for the week but the streaming market as a whole is massively down so literally nearly every song that had any increase at all gets reset

 

Endor with a big rise up to #11, had a huge rise on Apple today as well. Will be very comfortably top 10 this week then (maybe even close to the top 5?) and can see it continuing to be massive over the next few weeks, there have quite often been huge dance hits at the very start of the year.

 

Yass at 'Mr. Brightside' being back in the top 40 on Spotify as well :cheer: x very close to the highest position it's ever had on Spotify according to Kworb (#28).

can't believe Endor - Pump It Up is #6 on Apple:/ such a bad cover of a bad song :/

 

 

A big YAY at Endor's rise on Spotify and Apple. Definitely top 10 this Friday then.

 

Such a fantastic cover version for a good song. :angel:

can't believe Endor - Pump It Up is #6 on Apple:/ such a bad cover of a bad song :/

 

You’re just a ray of sunshine aren’t you x

 

We need more dance in the charts and if it’s with Endor or some other cover then I’m here for it.

ah so not quite back in the top 10 for The Killers then :P

 

Old songs (2+ years) climbing or returning due to NYE:

 

33. Killers - Mr Brightside

45. Whitney - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)

46. Outkast - Hey Ya!

49. Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight

56. Avicii - Wake Me Up

70. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now

73. Sean Paul - Temperature

80. Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk

81. 50 Cent - In Da Club

82. Earth Wind & Fire - September

86. Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out

90. Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance

93. Drake - One Dance

98. Justin Timberlake - Senorita

99. Journey - Don't Stop Believing

 

101. Macklemore - Can't Hold Us

103. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

106. Toto - Africa

117. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

118. Steve Wonder - Superstition

119. Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling

123. Queen - Under Pressure

127. Sophie Ellis Bextor - Murder on the Dancefloor

128. Estelle - American Boy

135. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

139. Wham - Club Tropicana

144. Abba - Dancing Queen

145. George Michael - Faith

146. Hall and Oats - You Make My Dreams

148. Wham - Wake Me Up...

 

153. Chainsmokers - Closer

155. Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers

160. TLC - No Scrubs

163. T2 - Heartbroken

166. Luis Fonsi - Despacito

171. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen

172. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

173. Marvin Gay - Ain't No Mountain High Enough

175. Aretha Franklin - Respect

176. Usher - Yeah

177. Taio Cruz - Dynamite

178. Taylor Swift - Shake it Off

179. Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

180. Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

187. Dizzee Rascal - Bonkers

189. Kooks - Naive

191. Spice Girls - Wannabe

196. Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know

198. Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way

200. Omi - Cheerleader

 

Two Wham songs that aren't Last Christmas in the top 150!!

 

Spotify Chart Update (31/12)

 

Top 40

 

01 01 Tones and I – Dance Monkey 614,408

02 02 Stormzy – Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy) 481,978

03 03 Arizona Zervas – ROXANNE 470,762

04 05 Dua Lipa – Don't Start Now 407,839

05 15 Billie Eilish – bad guy 369,433

06 04 Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go 353,479

07 10 Regard – Ride It 298,855

08 09 Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys – Lose Control 295,518

09 06 Billie Eilish – everything I wanted 289,916

10 18 Stormzy – Vossi Bop 284,672

 

11 21 Endor – Pump It Up [*NEW PEAK*]

12 07 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved

13 08 Harry Styles – Adore You

14 27 AJ Tracey – Ladbroke Grove

15 14 Post Malone – Circles

16 12 blackbear – hot girl bummer

17 13 Camila Cabello – My Oh My (feat. DaBaby)

18 17 Maroon 5 – Memories

19 11 Trevor Daniel – Falling

20 19 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights

 

21 22 Ed Sheeran – South of the Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B)

22 66 Meduza & Goodboys – Piece of Your Heart

23 16 Harry Styles – Lights Up

24 51 Lizzo – Good As Hell (feat. Ariana Grande)

25 33 Ed Sheeran & Ed Sheeran – I Don't Care

26 26 Jax Jones – This Is Real (feat. Ella Henderson)

27 30 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello – Señorita

28 20 Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar

29 77 Mabel – Don't Call Me Up

30 37 Riton & Oliver Heldens – Turn Me On (feat. Vula)

 

31 69 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)

32 23 Stormzy – Audacity (feat. Headie One)

33 64 The Killers – Mr. Brightside

34 25 Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me

35 29 The Weeknd – Heartless

36 32 Dave – Location (feat. Burna Boy)

37 31 Ed Sheeran – Beautiful People (feat. Khalid)

38 24 Lewis Capaldi – Bruises

39 43 Young T & Bugsey – Strike a Pose (feat. Aitch)

40 41 Post Malone & Swae Lee – Sunflower

 

Bubblin Under

 

41 28 Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams

43 35 Young T & Bugsey – Don't Rush (feat. Headie One)

48 38 J Hus – Must Be

51 36 Roddy Ricch – The Box

52 42 Travis Scott – Highest In The Room {#16 combined}

54 34 Stormzy – Lessons

56 40 Fredo – Netflix & Chill

62 39 D-Block Europe – No Celluar Site

69 47 Don Toliver – No Idea

78 56 DigDat – New Dior (feat. D-Block Europe)

85 70 Darkoo & One Acen – Gangsta

87 50 J Hus – No Denying

91 59 Travis Scott – Highest In The Room (feat. Rosaliá & Lil Baby)

92 60 Juice WRLD – Bandit (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again)

96 68 KSI – Down Like That (feat. Rick Ross, Lil Baby & S-X)

 

102 65 Tom Walker – Better Half of Me

105 67 Idina Menzel & AURORA – Into the Unknown

109 94 Sigala & Ella Henderson – We Got Love

113 78 DaBaby – BOP

114 85 Khalid – Up All Night

116 84 PARTYNEXTDOOR – Loyal (feat. Drake)

137 95 ZieZie – French Kisses (feat. Aitch)

150 135 Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)

164 88 YNW Melly – Suicidal

170 104 Mustard & Roddy Ricch – Ballin'

174 109 JAY1 – Million Bucks

183 107 M Huncho – Bando Ballads

184 112 Lil Uzi Vert – Futsal Shuffle 2020

188 115 Ant Saunders – Yellow Hearts

194 119 Doja Cat – Say So

 

xx 96 Jackboys & Sheck Wes – Gang Gang

xx 100 Jackboys – What To Do? (feat. Don Toliver)

xx 113 Don Toliver – Had Enough (feat. Quavo & Offset)

xx 120 D-Block Europe – Creep

xx 121 Noah Cyrus – July

xx 127 Jackboys – Out West (feat. Young Thug)

xx 129 Jackboys, Pop Smoke & Travis Scott – Gatti

xx 145 Doja Cat – Candy

xx 159 JP Saxe – If The World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels)

xx 172 Lauv & Lany – Mean It

xx 177 Koffee – W (feat. Gunna)

xx 180 The Chainsmokers & Kygo – Family

xx 182 Idina Menzel & Evan Rachel Wood - Show Yourself

xx 185 Sidemen – The Gift

xx 192 Alz X 38 – Change

xx 198 Panic! At The Disco - Into the Unknown

Do ACR resets still take market share and growth into account or is it simply a 25% increase is required? Seems like bad guy will get reset either way

It's 25% of the market and the market will be significantly lower this week which is why people feel some songs will be on SCR!

We need more good dance, not bad dance like Endor

a bad dance song is still a bad song

nice to see Roddy Ricch - The Box at #18 already on Apple Music

I'm with Bjork, Pump It Up is awful x It sounds cheap in every sense, dance music can do better than that even in the realm of cover versions.

Streams for yesterday are awful! Dance Monkey on 360k, down 50k on last week (Xmas day when it wasn't even top 40)

 

On the same day 2 weeks ago, 101 songs got over 100k - today only 36 songs got over 100k

Seems to be a recurring thing though as streams are actually up from last year's NYD