And as promised! :lol: Excuse my general awkwardness x

 

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The OCC providing Pop Smoke & Dua with a fake Top 15 hit In reality it probably should be no higher than the 41-50 area with 10k-ish sales. Woo Baby (with Chris Brown) which is completely missing from the chart would likely have been a low Top 40 hit, had this error not occurred.

 

Will anyone bother contacting the OCC to make them aware? To be honest the damage is done, and even if it is brought to their attention they’ll likely never acknowledge their mistake.

 

Congrats Dua, I guess??

 

Chris Brown being denied another relatively high chart position while Dua gets another song that peaks higher than 'We're Good' (and 21 Savage gains an ill-gotten top 100 hit)... I see that as an absolute win :whistle:

 

(mess tho x)

What's the tea with Demeanour? What happened?

I haven't closely followed what's been happening with 'Demeanor' by Pop Smoke / Dua Lipa but the ISRC (the digital catalog number) listed on the Music Week chart page (which takes its information from the OCC) for 'Demeanor' is Republic USUM72112396. The code is actually for 'Woo Baby' by Pop Smoke / Chris Brown. 'Demeanor' is Republic USUM72112397. It looks like a tracking error, presumably someone has somehow input the wrong numbers to the OCC Product Database (whatever its official name is). I notice they are next to each other on the album so someone has managed to get them mixed up. It's probably someone at the label as they are usually responsible for uploading all the codes / tracklistings to the database.

Edited July 24, 20214 yr by Robbie

'Woo Baby' wouldn't have charted that high on its own either, their sales have clearly been combined (it was kind of obvious just from observation that that was the case but I guess good to have the receipts to confirm it with the catalogue number being listed incorrectly).

It does however continue Dua's run of at least one new Top 15 hit each year since 2016 :D

I wonder what effect the error has had on album chart sales for 'Faith'? Amalgamating streams for two tracks could possibly have affected the overall chart sales figure though probably not the chart position.

I guess it would mean that the album streaming sales are a bit lower than they should be (as it'll be the 4th through 13th most streamed tracks being used for the calculation rather than the 3rd through 12th as usual). No way it'd be enough to make up the difference to #2, but given how close it was to #4 it may be counting itself lucky that the error didn't cost it a top 3 slot.