According to the OCC, there is still a physical and even a vinyl singles chart haha - I wonder how many sales are needed to chart?

I imagine VERY few sales are needed to be in the physical singles top 100!

Sales are not relevant to ACR . Only streams. These have gone down again with the No1 only being 403k today so maybe BL won't avoid ACR?

Sales are not relevant to ACR . Only streams. These have gone down again with the No1 only being 403k today so maybe BL won't avoid ACR?

Kings & Queens is gaining once again on Spotify and Apple so hopefully it won't be affected by ACR so soon

Sales are not relevant to ACR . Only streams. These have gone down again with the No1 only being 403k today so maybe BL won't avoid ACR?

Almost every song across the chart is recording a streaming increase so far this week though. :drama:

We keep forgetting that Apple and Amazon has a big factor to streaming as well and not just Spotify!!!

If Monday's streaming info is correct, the only song likely to go onto ACR this week is The Take by Tory Lanez, which is tumbling down the chart anyway.

It is - as is every other song due to go onto ACR this week :drama:

 

Lockdown creating a slow chart :( It won't get as slow as 2016 hopefully though.

Compared to last Tuesday's figures BL is down 91k. He was down 71k week on week yesterday too. Think the increase was only on Sunday. Don't forget this update has Spotify data for yesterday missing

The Weeknd started this week doing much better than last week on Spotify, but somehow yesterday and today he's done much worst

so overall on Spotify he's 100K lower than last week considering Fri-Tue streams

I imagine VERY few sales are needed to be in the physical singles top 100!

Yummy is currently #1 and The 1975's debut EPs have been in there for an eternity :lol:

Lockdown creating a slow chart :( It won't get as slow as 2016 hopefully though.

Exactly. Without lockdown, a lot of these songs would’ve hit ACR ages ago

Yummy is currently #1 and The 1975's debut EPs have been in there for an eternity :lol:

Not forgetting Bon Iver currently at #5 with 524 weeks on the chart, sat just behind Blur's 1994 hit Girls and Boys at #4 :lol:

oh that means a reset for both Dua's track this week? LOL

They definitely should introduce another rule change this July. ACR isn't having the desired effect and that's no direct blame on the OCC (this time). A rule of this magnitude was always going to need tweaking during its lifetime.

I suppose they could put a certain % increase needed to avoid ACR, maybe 10%. So songs that are naturally falling but were helped a little by all streams going up like this week don't get to avoid

I suppose they could put a certain % increase needed to avoid ACR, maybe 10%. So songs that are naturally falling but were helped a little by all streams going up like this week don't get to avoid

Only on its final week of decline though, right? Otherwise many slow-burning tracks will never get the chance to reach anywhere near their potential peak.

Only on its final week of decline though, right? Otherwise many slow-burning tracks will never get the chance to reach anywhere near their potential peak.

 

Yeah I suppose it would have to be on the 3rd week of decline which would only solve the issue in rare cases like this week realistically

The thought of DSN and BL avoiding ACR for yet another few weeks. :w00t: I want BL to get at least 4 stints and 10 weeks at #1. :lol: DSN might fall out of the top 10 without ACR but I'm not sick of it yet. :wub:

what the OCC could put in place is that if a song declines relative to the market it should count as a decline, even if it registers a gain (ie. if it gains by 1% and the market gains by 2%).

 

for whatever reason (I think?) that rule is in place the other way around (if it declines, but not as much as the market, it still avoids ACR) but not for when it doesn't gain as much as the market gain.

 

I am glad that for the time being Blinding Lights won't go to ACR anyway, because I really don't like "fake" #1s.

Are the strokes still in top 100?thanks