When is it going to ACR ? Damn I'm bored to see it in the top 3 again & again.

Not for ages soz :lol:

The Dave song, while the acoustic cover sample it uses is rather generic, is growing on me a bit, its been in my head all day, but I would still like to see Aitch and Ashanti go to #1, its a pity that because the song is only big in the UK and not on the US Hot 100, it will be unlikely to lead to any other chart hits for Ashanti.

Hope Aitch stays at #1 and The Motto stays Top 10.

Good Friday chart still end 5.45

Say radio 1 gone off air 5.45pm to 6pm

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl86/2022/04/15

When is it going to ACR ? Damn I'm bored to see it in the top 3 again & again.

Once we have 3 consecutive weeks of declining streams. Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be starting until at least next week.....

I hate to be moaning about the charts being stale but they do seem to be this year and potentially could never improve. People are just not interested in new music as fast as they were previously- is it because of a general malaise due to cost of living/Covid/war etc or just people are more intrested in social media/Tik Tok etc? Or ideas in music done so many times nothing is really fresh? Probably combination of all 3. I don't think any more changing of chart rules can really help without charts becoming meaningless.

I'd say it's cos Spotify playlists are very stale, and as a consequence, the charts are stale too

Aitch is too far behind on spotify... he needs to close that gap... dave will definitely be #1 this week

I hate to be moaning about the charts being stale but they do seem to be this year and potentially could never improve. People are just not interested in new music as fast as they were previously- is it because of a general malaise due to cost of living/Covid/war etc or just people are more intrested in social media/Tik Tok etc? Or ideas in music done so many times nothing is really fresh? Probably combination of all 3. I don't think any more changing of chart rules can really help without charts becoming meaningless.

The lack of big names releasing has definitely had an impact. The Grammys being pushed back to May might also be a factor, but I can imagine the Ukraine war situation has impacted some planned release schedules out of respect. There are also fewer platforms for mainstream exposure. If I didn’t follow new music Fridays I wouldn’t have known Michael buble had an album release. By no means is he a ‘Rihanna/Adele’ kinda name but would expect some buzz in the form of tv/radio promo/billboards etc. Rarely see music releases get big posters at bus stops like you would 10 years ago.

 

Still the top 2 are fresh and other releases are creeping in like Cat Burns so there is some clear appetite for new music. Peru and WAYN need to go ACR stat though.

Buble def had some promo this weekend I heard of but didn’t watch, was it Ant and Dec maybe?

I don't think 4 (Dave) and 3 (Aitch) weeks on chart is stale but what do I know....

I hate to be moaning about the charts being stale but they do seem to be this year and potentially could never improve. People are just not interested in new music as fast as they were previously- is it because of a general malaise due to cost of living/Covid/war etc or just people are more intrested in social media/Tik Tok etc? Or ideas in music done so many times nothing is really fresh? Probably combination of all 3. I don't think any more changing of chart rules can really help without charts becoming meaningless.

 

I think people are interested more than ever in new music (just take a look at some of the streaming numbers for new releases) it’s just that this is outweighed by the sheer popularity of streaming and it essentially being a radio station for a lot of people that just press play on playlists.

http://i.imgur.com/zf9EQCp.png

 

Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100

Source: OCC

Missing Data: Spotify, YouTube (both for Sunday) and Amazon Home Delivery (for Friday)

 

Top 100 Singles

 

1 Dave - Starlight (18.7k)

2 Aitch & Ashanti - Baby (18.5k)

3 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran - Peru (15.2k)

4 Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott - Where Are You Now (14.2k)

5 Belters Only & Jazzy - Make Me Feel Good (14.1k)

 

6-10

6 Jax Jones & MNEK - Where Did You Go?

10 Tiësto & Ava Max - The Motto

 

11-20

13 Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran - Bam Bam

15 Tate McRae - she's all i wanna be

17 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits

18 Joel Corry, David Guetta & Bryson Tiller - What Would You Do?

19 Becky Hill & Galantis - Run

 

21-30

21 Glass Animals - Heat Waves

23 Ed Sheeran - Shivers

26 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

27 Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift - The Joker and the Queen

28 Em Beihold - Numb Little Bug

30 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart

 

31-40

31 Potter Payper feat. Tiggs Da Author - Gangsteritus *

33 Charlie Puth - Light Switch

34 Sigala - Melody *

37 Tate McRae - chaotic *

38 Diane Guerrero & Stephanie Beatriz - What Else Can I Do?

39 Mabel, Jax Jones & Galantis - Good Luck *

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Top 100 Albums

 

1 Michael Bublé - Higher (9.9k) *

2 Placebo - Never Let Me Go (9.2k) *

3 Machine Gun Kelly - mainstream sellout (8.4k) *

4 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits (3.4k) ^

5 Ed Sheeran - = (3.3k)

 

6-10

6 Koffee - Gifted *

7 Matt Goss - The Beautiful Unknown *

9 Stone Foundation - Outside Looking In *

10 Bon Iver - Bon Iver ^

 

11-20

11 Elton John - Diamonds

14 Adele - 30

18 Aldous Harding - Warm Chris *

 

21-30

27 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend

30 Jon Hopkins - Music for Psychedelic Therapy *

 

31-40

36 Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones ^

40 Loop - Sonancy *

 

Click on the above relevant links.

Album sales look close but Sunday sales tell a more interesting picture

 

2.3k Foo Fighters

2.2k Michael Bublé

1.5k Ed Sheeran

1.2k Machine Gun Kelly

400 Placebo

 

Charli 1-21

 

OCC links go live at 5:45 for your other requests :magic: I am off to fangirl over the new Harry Styles single announced for Friday x

Those numbers seem awful for Bublé. He used to be so bankable to get a huge opening sale, but looks like he'll struggle to get near 20k. For Christmas only and not for life now I guess!

 

In other news three weeks of a top five with no movement? I hope Aitch pulls something out of the bag with promotion when he sees how close it is. I far prefer Dave as an artist, but Starlight is crazy dull, while Baby has a bit of a charm from the sample and the thought of the sight of Ashanti at No.1.

Edited March 28, 20224 yr by gooddelta

Not great at all for Michael Buble considering his last album opened with 67k. He did sell 2.2k yesterday which is decent but that was probably boosted mostly from Mother's Day and I suspect he'll fall short of 20k. That said, I didn't realise Buble's last album opened anywhere near 67k so I probably would have said these were okay (although still not great) sales for him. I did say in the iTunes album thread it would be close between Buble and MGK before learning of his previous sales opening and I guess I turned out to be right after all. :lol:

I think people are interested more than ever in new music (just take a look at some of the streaming numbers for new releases) it’s just that this is outweighed by the sheer popularity of streaming and it essentially being a radio station for a lot of people that just press play on playlists.

Playlist streanms shouldn't count unless the user created the playlist. We've never had airplay in the OCC before, why did we start when streaming came along? As stated above nonuser-generated playlists are essentially radio and as such shouldn't count...

OMG, go Placebo! :o

 

Looks like they've got their highest charting album ever in the bag :D

Hope Jax, Tiesto and Tate can hold on to those positions for Friday. Lol at loads of old songs climbing back up.

OMG, go Placebo! :o

 

Looks like they've got their highest charting album ever in the bag :D

I hope so but the way Placebo's sales appear to be tailing off (only 400 on Sunday) suggests its gonna drop - though comparing with last week's total sales would expect it to end up in the top 5.