That Drake/Future thing is the kind of typical low-effort shit that always ends up being guaranteed to smash on Spotify. It's infuriating.

 

I suppose that explains why Future has such an expansive back catalogue of huge hits in the UK then :o :P

I think LIG can be number 2/3 this week.

Anyways xx Very happy to see 'The Box' hitting #1 today (not least because this should hopefully finally be the end of Tones' endless run at #1), it's made such a huge amount of progress in the last week. Genuinely get the sense that it's been helped out a fair bit by the free publicity surrounding the battle between it and 'Yummy' for #1 in the US last week, in a manner pretty similar to how 'Old Town Road' first blew up in response to Billboard removing it from their country charts. Cue it spending 19 weeks at #1 in the US now as well :magic: An even more massive update for 'Life Is Good' today though, closing the gap to Roddy by over 30k since yesterday so wouldn't be surprised if that actually ends up overtaking and could yet block Roddy from reaching #1 overall.

 

'SUGAR' back to making slow progress again I see but hooray for it cracking the top 50!

was fearing a big climb for FutureDrake as it was added yesterday to HH

Future has had so many better songs, why this one with Rihanna did nothing? it's a million times better than Life is Good

 

Ugh The Box finally reached no1 and Future looks like he could outshine him going forward. Least we have new music pushing for next weeks no1!

Wow, did not think I'd be seeing a Roddy Ricch & Future/Drake top two!

 

The 2020 we don't deserve x

The 2020 we don't deserve x

Truly. But are we surprised uninspired mediocre hip hop is doing well? No.

Halsey doing so well without Hot hits omg

The Box is amazing, LIG is pretty much a mess.

was fearing a big climb for FutureDrake as it was added yesterday to HH

Future has had so many better songs, why this one with Rihanna did nothing? it's a million times better than Life is Good

I think in fairness, you're comparing two very different release strategies. Life Is Good coming at the start of the year, primed to get attention as one of the first major releases of 2020, complete with Drake feature, memorable video and a novel song structure that warrants discussion. Selfish was released on the bottom end of an album that was released one week after another album that had its own huge hit in Mask Off that inevitably ate up the majority of Future attention. That and it's possible that Selfish probably doesn't make for a sufficient enough meeting point for anyone who would typically only listen to one of the two artists, so it has an uphill battle. Still, it has 200 million plays on Spotify which is not bad at all, and more than anything else on HNDRXX.

Halsey up to #51! All without any radio support or Hot Hits yet, think this could be her biggest hit from the era aside from 'Without Me' of course. I think it'll do really well in the US too due to it's more Country leaning style.

179 Power Over Me by Dermot Kennedy

 

finally top 200!!!!

179 Power Over Me by Dermot Kennedy

 

finally top 200!!!!

REALLY FINALLY!

I've never known someone so excited by a re-entry in the Spotify top 200. :D

I like The Box, one of the very rare songs of the genre that I've taken to in a big way in the last few years.

 

I don't get the Future/Drake mash-up at all. It sounds like two filler album interludes (from different albums/eras/artists/everything) badly segued together. What's the appeal?

the new Halsey has smash written all over it, hopefully will be top 10 in the near future

 

Tame Impala still floating around a week later :o maybe another charting single for them once the album's out (since ofc Hot Hits will never touch it)

 

Having heard the Tame Impala song now this one definitely sounds more like a "hit" (in as much as a Tame Impala song can ever be a hit) than the other singles from the album so not surprised it is showing a little more longevity, I hope it can at least give them a second top 100 hit (I thought it could have a chance of making it there this week but I see it wasn't there in the mids... maybe it would have if it was actually released on a Friday).

 

~

 

I like 'Life Is Good' so I'm not complaining at its success but I do have to say I don't think it really sounds any more like a big hit than any other Future song, even with the Drake attachment (not like any of Future and Drake's many previous collabs made anywhere near as much impact, although 'Jumpman' must have racked up a pretty decent number of residual streams even though it never went top 40 here). I think it just had a decent amount of hype leading up to its release because of excitement for a potential follow-up to 'What A Time To Be Alive' and now being aided by the meme-worthy music video keeping it in people's minds. There has to be something to it anyway, and not just it being a new Drake song as it's looking like it'll be a bigger hit than anything else Drake has been involved with for over a year. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Spotify Chart Update (14/01)

 

Top 40

 

01 01 Roddy Ricch – The Box 476,847

02 02 Future – Life Is Good (feat. Drake) 445,957

03 03 Stormzy – Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy) 419,167

04 04 Tones and I – Dance Monkey 418,605

05 05 Arizona Zervas – ROXANNE 372,530

06 06 Lewis Capaldi – Before You Go 362,829

07 08 Dua Lipa – Don't Start Now 319,318

08 07 Justin Bieber – Yummy 318,320

09 10 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 289,614

10 12 Billie Eilish – everything I wanted 288,169

 

11 11 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights

12 09 Harry Styles – Adore You

13 13 Meduza, Becky Hill & Goodboys – Lose Control

14 14 Trevor Daniel – Falling

15 15 Camila Cabello – My Oh My (feat. DaBaby)

16 16 Stormzy – Still Disappointed

17 21 Lewis Capaldi – Bruises

18 17 Regard – Ride It

19 18 blackbear – hot girl bummer

20 19 Post Malone – Circles

 

21 20 Selena Gomez – Lose You To Love Me

22 22 Jax Jones – This Is Real (feat. Ella Henderson)

23 28 Billie Eilish – bad guy

24 25 Maroon 5 – Memories

25 24 Stormzy – Vossi Bop

26 23 Endor – Pump It Up

27 26 Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar

28 27 Stormzy – Audacity (feat. Headie One)

29 29 Selena Gomez – Rare

30 31 Young T & Bugsey – Don't Rush (feat. Headie One)

 

31 30 Ed Sheeran – South of the Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B)

32 32 Harry Styles – Lights Up

33 34 AJ Tracey – Ladbroke Grove

34 37 Dave – Location (feat. Burna Boy)

35 33 Darkoo & One Acen – Gangsta

36 38 Lewis Capaldi – Hold Me While You Wait

37 36 Stormzy – Lessons

38 35 The Weeknd – Heartless

39 40 Juice WRLD – Lucid Dreams

40 39 Fredo – Netflix & Chill

 

Bubblin Under

 

41 42 Riton & Oliver Heldens – Turn Me On (feat. Vula)

43 41 Don Toliver – No Idea

44 43 J Hus – Must Be

47 45 Mac Miller – Good News

48 47 Travis Scott – Highest In The Room

49 50 BROCKHAMPTON – SUGAR [*NEW PEAK*]

51 54 Halsey – You Should Be Sad [*NEW PEAK*]

56 53 Doja Cat – Say So

58 56 DigDat – New Dior (feat. D-Block Europe)

59 61 Mustard & Roddy Ricch – Ballin' [*NEW PEAK*]

60 59 DaBaby – BOP

61 70 YNW Melly – Suicidal

62 63 Tom Walker – Better Half of Me

 

71 80 Khalid – Eleven

77 77 Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)

78 78 Sigala & Ella Henderson – We Got Love

80 84 Noah Cyrus – July

81 79 MIST – Savage

89 85 J Hus – No Denying

90 92 JP Saxe – If The World Was Ending (feat. Julia Michaels) [*NEW PEAK*]

91 87 D-Block Europe – No Celluar Site

93 99 Roddy Ricch – High Fashion (feat. Mustard) [*NEW PEAK*]

 

103 98 Lil Uzi Vert – Futsal Shuffle 2020

111 106 Dappy & Russ – Splash

112 107 Idina Menzel & AURORA – Into the Unknown

113 122 Becky Hill – Better Off Without You (feat. Shift K3Y) [*NEW PEAK*]

120 114 JAY1 – Million Bucks

123 123 Ant Saunders – Yellow Hearts

133 104 Khalid – Up All Night

134 139 MK & Sonny Fodera – One Night (feat. Raphaella) [*NEW PEAK*]

137 129 Stormzy – Disappointed

139 142 Koffee – W (feat. Gunna)

141 140 DaBaby – VIBEZ

146 135 Selena Gomez – Look At Her Now

148 145 Olivia Rodrigo – All I Want

150 155 Lil Baby – Woah

 

159 151 DaBaby – TOES (feat. Lil Baby & Moneybagg Yo)

164 153 M Huncho – Bando Ballads

166 141 Likybo – Kraazy

169 178 Roddy Ricch – Tip Toe (feat. A Boogie Wit da Hoodie)

173 184 Conan Gray – Maniac [*NEW PEAK*]

174 174 Lil Baby – Sum 2 Prove

179 RE Dermot Kennedy – Power Over Me

180 167 DigDat – 8 Style II

181 171 Tame Impala – Lost In Yesterday

186 186 Doja Cat – Candy

200 195 Alz X 38 – Change

 

xx 196 Lauv & Lany – Mean It

The Box now up to 481k, Dance Monkey back up to #3

'SUGAR' up another 2 places to #47, still yet to fall since it re-entered *.

 

(pretty uneventful update today)