POPSTAR up to #37

BMTH down to #49

Mr. Brightside #50 again

6ix9ine down to just one song in the top 200 ('GOOBA' at #188, 'LOCKED UP PT. 2' has exited entirely). I'd say there's a good chance his album misses the top 10 entirely at this rate but he did have a strong first day on iTunes so he might be saved by pure sales.

so frustrating to see Hallucinate never touched Top 50 on Spotify since it was announced a single :(

Hopefully Mr Brightside will drop back out of the top 50 tomorrow

It's going to be in and out of the top 50 constantly for as long as Spotify exists, I really don't see what the point of commenting on its every move is.

The thing is I think it’s getting more popular. Last year I’m pretty sure it was only top 50 at New Year and after they did Glastonbury. This year it’s managing to get in on a more regular basis

Mr. Brightside almost has 1B streams on Spotify! :o

Mr. Brightside almost has 1B streams on Spotify! :o

 

So does Wonderwall and Bohemian Rhapsody has been above 1B for a while now

The thing is I think it’s getting more popular. Last year I’m pretty sure it was only top 50 at New Year and after they did Glastonbury. This year it’s managing to get in on a more regular basis

 

 

Here's a quick Excel plot of its weekly Spotify positions every week from 2016 to present, make your own conclusions :P

 

 

It does look like this year has been generally its most successful (although there have been 2 weeks this year, one of which was very recently, where it was lower than it was in the corresponding week in every previous year). It's just I don't really see that the difference between it being consistently ~10 places higher than usual or whatever is something worth commenting on every week. The main takeaway here is just that it will always be present to some extent (it's consistently top 100 all the time apart from a few weeks at the end of the year, and one outlier week in mid 2018 - 2018 in general seems to have been its worst year for whatever reason).

Bre, did you just do that excel chart?!!!

Yes, it took about 2 minutes copying the positions from Kworb xx

:clap:

 

just love your statistic geek that you have in you ;P

you'd think by now people would start to actually get sick of playing that song all the time, but clearly it ain't ever going away.

at least it's actually a good song, unlike a certain other song clogging up a space in the Official top 50.

It does look like this year has been generally its most successful (although there have been 2 weeks this year, one of which was very recently, where it was lower than it was in the corresponding week in every previous year). It's just I don't really see that the difference between it being consistently ~10 places higher than usual or whatever is something worth commenting on every week. The main takeaway here is just that it will always be present to some extent (it's consistently top 100 all the time apart from a few weeks at the end of the year, and one outlier week in mid 2018 - 2018 in general seems to have been its worst year for whatever reason).

I think what helps it if anything is less about it getting more popular, but that more music being released is splitting the audience of everything else. Like, every year, X amount of people are going to listen to/add to playlist their last ever modern song, but not necessarily stop listening to music. Spotify's demographic will naturally age and it'll reach a tipping point where there just aren't enough people listening to current hits to fight off the swathes of throwback songs. You already see things like this with the OCC's rock chart, where Fall Out Boy's "Centuries" is the newest song in the top 20 (ofc Bring Me The Horizon will probably be #1 next week). This is partly due to how they categorise rock but even if they were generous, we'd still see a climate where new songs are a rarity and not only is it filled with old songs, but it's primarily the same old songs week in week out. If it can happen to rock, it can happen to every other genre (the dance chart is showing a fair few cracks already too).

 

I don't know how it is on the UK Chart, but I've been very closely monitoring the Australian Spotify chart for a while now, and I've noticed that 18 months ago, there were on average around 50 songs that were 1 year old. Possibly affected by covid, but nowadays there are on average 50 songs that are 2 years old, which is a pretty drastic shift in a short space of time. The iTunes chart in 2015 used to average around 30 songs in the top 200 that were 2+ years old, nowadays it's pretty common to have 60-70. New music is either not being heard or not being wanted by more and more people.

on Apple:

3 Mood

17 Midnight Sky

24 Conan - Heather

31 Calvin/The Wkend

 

41 Dermot - Giants

47 Sigala/James Arthur

 

sad to see the lack of interest for Paloma's new single on streaming sites, on Apple it didn't even go top 1500 :/

 

I thought that Paloma track was an old song. The title is so generic that didn't pay much attention.

Spotify Chart Update (05/09)

 

01 01 Cardi B – WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) 604,332

02 02 Joel Corry – Head & Heart (feat. MNEK) 504,772

03 03 24kGoldn – Mood (feat. Iann Dior) 473,399

04 04 Headie One – Ain't It Different (feat. AJ Tracey & Stormzy) 382,872

05 05 Nathan Dawe – Lighter (feat. KSI) 341,019

06 06 Drake – Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) 329,168

07 07 Pop Smoke – Mood Swings (feat. Lil Tjay) 313,083

08 08 DaBaby – Rockstar (feat. Roddy Ricch) 308,172

09 10 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo – Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 298,529

10 09 DJ Khaled – Greece (feat. Drake) 282,485

 

11 12 Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar

12 11 AJ Tracey & Mabel – West Ten

13 14 The Weeknd – Blinding Lights

14 13 Chris Brown & Young Thug – Go Crazy

15 15 Topic – Breaking Me (feat. A7S)

16 17 Paul Woolford & Diplo – Looking For Me (feat. Kareen Lomax) [*NEW PEAK*]

17 18 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – Rain On Me

18 16 Pop Smoke – For The Night (feat. Lil Baby & DaBaby)

19 20 Regard & Raye – Secrets

20 19 Miley Cyrus – Midnight Sky

 

21 21 Pop Smoke – The Woo (feat. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch)

22 24 S1mba – Rover (feat. DTG)

23 22 Juice WRLD – Wishing Well

24 25 Conan Gray – Heather

25 23 AJ Tracey – Dinner Guest (feat. MoStack)

26 27 Jason Derulo – Take You Dancing [*NEW PEAK*]

27 29 Becky Hill & Sigala – Heaven On My Mind

28 26 Juice WRLD & Marshmello – Come & Go

29 30 Tate McRae – You Broke Me First

30 32 Saint Jhn – Roses (Imanbek Remix)

 

31 31 Tion Wayne – I Dunno (feat. Dutchavelli & Stormzy)

32 37 Little Mix – Holiday

33 35 Clean Bandit & Mabel – Tick Tock (feat. 24kGoldn) [*NEW PEAK*]

34 36 PS1 – Fake Friends (feat. Alex Hosking)

35 33 BTS – Dynamite

36 34 Headie One & Drake – Only You Freestyle

37 44 DJ Khaled – Popstar (feat. Drake)

38 38 Nines – Airplane Mode (feat. NSG)

39 40 220 Kid & Gracey – Don't Need Love

40 42 Tones and I – Dance Monkey

 

41 39 Juice WRLD & The Weeknd – Smile

48 49 Digga D – Woi

49 28 Bring Me The Horizon & Yungblud – Obey

51 46 Calvin Harris & The Weeknd – Over Now

53 54 Internet Money – Lemonade (feat. Gunna, Don Toliver & Nav)

56 62 Dermot Kennedy – Giants [*NEW PEAK*]

60 59 Labrinth – Still Don’t Know My Name

64 67 Dua Lipa – Hallucinate

69 56 Nines – Clout

71 73 Børns – Electric Love

73 48 Frisco – Red Card (feat. Skepta, Jammer, JME & Shorty)

76 81 Saweetie – Tap In

79 77 Taylor Swift – Cardigan

89 86 Machine Gun Kelly & Blackbear – My Ex's Best Friend

91 83 Dutchavelli – Bando Diaries

92 68 SZA – Hit Different (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

93 61 Sigala & James Arthur – Lasting Lover

94 79 Nines – NIC (feat. Tiggs Da Author)

95 76 Blackpink & Selena Gomez – Ice Cream

 

103 97 WhoHeem – Lets Link

119 111 Billie Eilish – My Future

122 105 Taylor Swift – Exile (feat. Bon Iver)

126 96 Swarmz – However Do You Want It (feat. Krept & Konan & Bandokay)

150 154 Popcaan – Twist & Turn (feat. Drake & PartyNextDoor)

152 152 Kygo & Tina Turner – What's Love Got to Do With It

155 127 Rudimental – Come Over (feat. Anne-Marie & Tion Wayne)

159 198 Salem Ilese – Mad at Disney [*NEW PEAK*]

160 171 Polo G – 21

181 174 Polo G – Martin & Gina

 

xx 91 6ix9ine – Locked Up Pt. 2 (feat. Akon)

xx 166 Bryson Tiller – Inhale

xx 176 Big Sean – Lithuania (feat. Travis Scott)

xx 180 Internet Money – Blastoff (feat. Juice Wrld & Trippie Redd)

xx 182 Taylor Swift – The 1

xx 189 Burna Boy – Real Life (feat. Stormzy)

Apple Music Top 200 Chart Update (06-07/09)

 

01 01 Cardi B - WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion)

02 02 Joel Corry - Head & Heart (feat. MNEK)

03 04 24kGoldn - Mood (feat. iann dior)

04 03 Headie One - Ain't It Different (feat. AJ Tracey & Stormzy)

05 05 Pop Smoke - Mood Swings (feat. Lil Tjay)

06 06 Nathan Dawe - Lighter (feat. KSI)

07 07 Drake - Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk)

08 08 DJ Khaled - GREECE (feat. Drake)

09 09 Paul Woolford, Diplo & Kareen Lomax - Looking for Me

10 10 Nines - Airplane Mode (feat. NSG)

 

11 11 Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)

12 12 Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy

13 13 AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten

14 20 Clean Bandit & Mabel - Tick Tock (feat. 24kGoldn)

15 17 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

16 15 Jason Derulo - Take You Dancing

17 21 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky

18 14 DaBaby - ROCKSTAR (feat. Roddy Ricch)

19 16 Pop Smoke - For the Night (feat. Lil Baby & DaBaby)

20 24 Tate McRae - you broke me first

 

21 18 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar

22 19 Pop Smoke - The Woo (feat. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch)

23 22 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

24 32 Conan Gray - Heather

25 27 Becky Hill & Sigala - Heaven On My Mind

26 25 Topic & A7S - Breaking Me

27 23 PS1 - Fake Friends (feat. Alex Hosking)

28 30 Little Mix - Holiday

29 26 Jubël - Dancing in the Moonlight (feat. NEIMY)

30 29 Tones And I - Dance Monkey

 

31 33 Calvin Harris, The Weeknd - Over Now

32 28 Nines - Clout

33 37 DJ Khaled - POPSTAR (feat. Drake)

34 31 Nines - NIC (feat. Tiggs Da Author)

35 34 Nines - Energy (feat. Skrapz)

36 40 Dua Lipa - Hallucinate

37 36 Regard & RAYE - Secrets

38 38 AJ Tracey - Dinner Guest (feat. MoStack)

39 39 S1mba - Rover (feat. DTG)

40 35 SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek Remix)

 

41 58 Dermot Kennedy - Giants

42 60 Sigala & James Arthur - Lasting Lover

43 46 Dutchavelli - Bando Diaries

44 43 Topic & A7S - Why Do You Lie to Me (feat. Lil Baby)

45 41 Kygo & Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do with It

46 47 Rudimental - Come Over (feat. Anne-Marie & Tion Wayne)

53 50 Headie One & Drake - Only You Freestyle

55 53 Digga D - Woi

63 64 Aitch - Safe To Say

71 76 SZA - Hit Different (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

74 91 BTS - Dynamite

75 86 Taylor Swift - cardigan

88 84 Popcaan - TWIST & TURN (feat. Drake & PARTYNEXTDOOR)

93 149 Taylor Swift - exile (feat. Bon Iver)

96 106 Octavian, Gunna & SAINt JHN - Famous

97 96 Juice WRLD - Wishing Well

 

101 94 Jason Derulo, Puri & Jhorrmountain - Coño

102 99 Saweetie - Tap In

104 102 Big Sean - Lithuania (feat. Travis Scott)

109 130 Labrinth - Still Don't Know My Name

110 110 Juice WRLD & Marshmello - Come & Go

116 132 BLACKPINK & Selena Gomez - Ice Cream

120 127 WhoHeem - Lets Link

121 141 POUNDZ - Tik Tok

122 148 Love Regenerator, Steve Lacy, Calvin Harris - Live Without Your Love

125 124 Katy Perry - Smile

126 152 Internet Money & Gunna - Lemonade (feat. Don Toliver & NAV)

127 125 Swarmz, Krept & Konan & Bandokay - How Do You Want It

133 103 Prospa - Ecstasy (Over & Over) [Edit]

142 115 6ix9ine & Akon - LOCKED UP, PT. 2

144 117 Lil Durk - The Voice

146 139 Bryson Tiller - Inhale

147 144 Big Sean - Wolves (feat. Post Malone)

156 198 GRACEY & Alexander 23 - Like That

158 157 Dua Lipa - Levitating (The Blessed Madonna Remix) [feat. Madonna and Missy Elliott]

163 176 Snakehips & Jess Glynne - Lie for You (feat. A Boogie wit da Hoodie & Davido)

171 187 K-Trap - Whip That Work

173 179 Alok, Martin Jensen & Jason Derulo - Don't Cry For Me

177 182 London Grammar - Baby It's You

180 258 salem ilese - Mad at Disney

182 265 Holly Humberstone - Drop Dead

188 220 BØRNS - Electric Love

191 238 Polo G - Martin & Gina

198 276 flora cash - You're Somebody Else

Mood back to #2

POPSTAR up to #31 (could re enter top 40 this week with the music vid)

Lemonade in at #49

'Lemonade' coming to take advantage of the ACR exodus and enter the top 40 this week maybe ~ I like Don Toliver's hook on that song, could have done with having some slightly more interesting rappers than Gunna and particularly NAV though.