January 6, 20215 yr Taylor Swift - 3,570 sales 2,149 streaming 1,118 physicals 303 downloads Little Mix - 2,670 sales [900 less than Taylor Swift] 1,467 streaming [682 less] 1,062 physicals [56 less] 141 downloads [162 less] :drama: :drama: Praying we get some surprise album releases over the coming weeks otherwise these kind of sales will be the norm.
January 6, 20215 yr Surely there will be lots of albums released "over the coming weeks", there have never been months without new releases, surprise or not. :P Edited January 6, 20215 yr by Sour Candy
January 6, 20215 yr we do have a Drake album coming this month but I’m not convinced he’ll be able to have high sales, given the mixtape last year only did 19k first week.
January 6, 20215 yr Part of the "fault" is the way album streams are being counted too - two sizeable hits don't bring much extra for album sales, so album has to have at least 3-4 big songs before we see the effect on album chart (as top 2 songs are "neutralised") That's why The Weeknd didn't even make top 20 on YE album chart despite releasing the by far biggest song of 2020. Edited January 6, 20215 yr by Sour Candy
January 6, 20215 yr That's why The Weeknd didn't even make top 20 on YE album chart despite releasing the by far biggest song of 2020. Why should he have made the YE Top 20 if the majority if his album wasn't being listened to though? Blinding Lights was the biggest hit of the year - that's reflected in the YE singles - the album was not. Edited January 6, 20215 yr by Juranamo
January 6, 20215 yr Part of the "fault" is the way album streams are being counted too - two sizeable hits don't bring much extra for album sales, so album has to have at least 3-4 big songs before we see the effect on album chart (as top 2 songs are "neutralised") That's why The Weeknd didn't even make top 20 on YE album chart despite releasing the by far biggest song of 2020. But then is that really valid to represent an album ‘sale’ if people are just listening to 1/2 singles and nothing else. I do agree the current system is not perfect and worth a review where the album market is changing very quickly.
January 6, 20215 yr If there wasn’t a pandemic going on, I’d advise you to go outside. I was simply pointing out facts and you are taking it way too personally and seem to be going out of your way to belittle All Saints whilst claiming not to. I’m not even an All Saints fan, I don’t even dislike Spice Girls but it feels now like you’re taking it too personally and getting personal about me also so I’d rather you just stopped addressing me. I have no agenda to do the Spice Girls down. What me conveniently forgetting and boasting to hype up my fave, those facts? Sure sweetie you were just stating facts and not being personal at all. :rolleyes: Funny thing is I'm not even bothered I actually found your comments hilarious. What is irritating though is how you are now trying to claim that you were oh so fair and unbiased while I'm clearly the obsessed loon. :lol: Sure whatever fits your narrative.
January 6, 20215 yr But then is that really valid to represent an album ‘sale’ if people are just listening to 1/2 singles and nothing else. I do agree the current system is not perfect and worth a review where the album market is changing very quickly. I just want to add, that I don't have a problem with the system, I think it's actually pretty good (apart from favouring GHs) but it's one reason why the sales are low in units. Other being the sales/streams ratio being maybe wrong considering the current market. Edited January 6, 20215 yr by Sour Candy
January 6, 20215 yr http://i.imgur.com/B6faj0h.png Wednesday Top 40 Update Source: Music Week Missing Data: Spotify and YouTube (both for Tuesday) Singles 1 Little Mix - Sweet Melody (20.7k) 2 Ed Sheeran - Afterglow (16.1k) 3 CJ - Whoopty (14.3k) 4 Justin Bieber - Anyone (12.7k - 5 ahead) * 5 Shane Codd - Get Out My Head (12.7k) 6 Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby - Levitating ^ 7 Ariana Grande - 34+35 8 The Kid LAROI - WITHOUT YOU 9 Meduza feat. Dermot Kennedy - Paradise 10 Tate McRae - you broke me first ^ 11 Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa - Prisoner 12 Taylor Swift - willow 13 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights ^ 14 KSI feat. Craig David & Digital Farm Animals - Really Love 15 Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am 16 BTS - Dynamite ^ 17 24kGoldn feat. iann dior - Mood ^ 18 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart ^ 19 James Arthur - Train Wreck ^ 20 Justin Bieber feat. Chance the Rapper - Holy ^ 21 Ariana Grande - positions ^ 22 Central Cee - Loading ^ 23 Lil Nas X - HOLIDAY * 24 Nathan Dawe & Little Mix - No Time for Tears * 25 Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber - Monster ^ 26 Harry Styles - Golden ^ 27 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky ^ 28 Internet Money & Gunna feat. Don Toliver & NAV - Lemonade ^ 29 Jason Derulo & Nuka - Love Not War (The Tampa Beat) * 30 Becky Hill - Forever Young * 31 SZA - Good Days * 32 Justin Bieber & benny blanco - Lonely ^ 33 Tiësto - The Business * 34 Wes Nelson & Hardy Caprio - See Nobody ^ 35 Jax Jones & Au/Ra - i miss u ^ 36 Tones and I - Dance Monkey ^ 37 Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love ^ 38 Paul Woolford, Diplo & Kareen Lomax - Looking for Me ^ 39 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar ^ 40 HVME - Goosebumps * ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Taylor Swift - evemore (4.6k) 2 Little Mix - Confetti (3.5k) 3 Harry Styles - Fine Line (3.4k) 4 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia (3.3k) 5 Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon (2.9k) 6-10 6 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent 7 Queen - Greatest Hits 8 Sam Smith - Love Goes 11-20 11 Elton John - Diamonds 12 Taylor Swift - folklore 13 Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts 14 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop 15 The Kid LAROI - F*CK LOVE 17 Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die 18 Ed Sheeran - ÷ 19 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits 20 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? 21-30 21 Arctic Monkeys - AM 22 Dermot Kennedy - Without Fear 23 Michael Kiwanuka - KIWANUKA ^ 24 Mabel - High Expectations 26 Juice WRLD - Goodbye & Good Riddance 27 The Bee Gees - Timeless: The All-Time Greatest Hits ^ 29 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Songs from the Kitchen Disco ^ 31-40 32 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 33 David Bowie - Legacy ^ 34 Michael Jackson - Number Ones 35 The Weeknd - After Hours ^ 36 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009 39 Ed Sheeran - No.6 Collaborations Project ^ 40 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa ^
January 6, 20215 yr Hope Shane can remain in the top 5 and that LM get knocked off the top next week Does it hurt seeing them at the top?
January 6, 20215 yr Does it hurt seeing them at the top? Not for this week. I say let them have it this week Edited January 6, 20215 yr by Hadji
January 6, 20215 yr #2-4 in the album charts are SO close! I'd rather Harry ended up at #2 that Little Mix. Clearly Taylor is the #1 and Harry would re-peak if he ends up at #2. Little Mix have already had it. Hope they hold on to #1 single though, it's looking more and more likely!
January 6, 20215 yr Has Harry closed the gap between him and little mix or is about the same as yesterday??
January 6, 20215 yr Part of the "fault" is the way album streams are being counted too - two sizeable hits don't bring much extra for album sales, so album has to have at least 3-4 big songs before we see the effect on album chart (as top 2 songs are "neutralised") That's why The Weeknd didn't even make top 20 on YE album chart despite releasing the by far biggest song of 2020. agree, and I know I've said this a million times but Mabel's album gets 2-3K every week from playlists while her album is not even top 1500 on Apple Music album streams, which considers proper album streams not playlists. That's so wrong. And on the other hand, lots of indie/alt albums do pretty well on proper album streams but get few streaming points cos their songs are not on playlists and the Greatest Hits are even worst, nobody is streaming or buying Elton John's Diamonds, is not on the Apple top 1500, but you go stream any random Elton John song and you give a stream to Diamonds, you stream from the This is Elton John playlist and you give a stream to Diamonds etc etc
January 6, 20215 yr Surely there will be lots of albums released "over the coming weeks", there have never been months without new releases, surprise or not. :P I’ll reword it for you then ‘Hopefully we get lots of albums released that will sell decent amounts and boost the album market’
January 6, 20215 yr Do you think it's likely that 'WITHOUT YOU' will overtake '34+35' by the end of the week? The latter has currently peaked at #8 so hoping it can squeeze a new peak.
January 6, 20215 yr Do you think it's likely that 'WITHOUT YOU' will overtake '34+35' by the end of the week? The latter has currently peaked at #8 so hoping it can squeeze a new peak. Hard to say right now, it's close! 34+35's peaked at #9 so far anyway so a new peak is looking good :heehee:
January 6, 20215 yr Get out my head is a basic song with repeated lyrics, quite annoying. Anything but that to overtake Little Mix although it deserves 2 weeks just to see everyone mad again.
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