Posted December 19, 20222 yr Welcome to the ACR Status Updates thread! This is where you can find out the current streaming ratios of the songs in the official top 100. Please note - I don't receive information every single week, so if no thread materialises, there's no use nagging me - it means I genuinely don't know the status of any songs! Updates can also materialise at any point over the weekend but I'll always try to ensure I do it before the First Look chart update if I receive the necessary information. If you're wondering what ACR and SCR are, here's a quick reminder: SCR = Standard Chart Ratio. All songs enter the chart on SCR, which means their streams count at the following ratios: 100 premium streams = 1 sale (e.g. a premium Spotify account, Apple Music, Tidal, etc) 600 ad-funded streams = 1 sale (e.g. free Spotify, YouTube, etc) ACR = Accelerated Chart Ratio. Once a song has charted for at least 10 weeks, and declines in streams for three consecutive weeks, it is put onto ACR. This means its streams are HALVED, and count at the following ratios: 200 premium streams = 1 sale 1200 ad-funded streams = 1 sale Songs older than 3 years old are automatically on ACR. The terminology used in this thread will be the official terminology used by the OCC. The explanations are posted in each update to assist you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1ST 6 | Song is in its first six weeks in the chart so is not affected by ACR. Ava Max - Christmas Without You Bugzy Malone & TeeDee - Out of Nowhere Burna Boy - Alone Clavish feat. D-Block Europe - Rocket Science Drake & 21 Savage - Rich Flex Headie One - 50s Kelly Clarkson & Ariana Grande - Santa, Can't You Hear Me Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Lewis Capaldi - Pointless Lizzo - Someday at Christmas Maisie Peters - Together This Christmas Mariah Carey feat. Ariana Grande & Jennifer Hudson - Oh Santa! Metro Boomin, Future & Chris Brown - Superhero (Heroes & Villains) Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' Metro Boomin, Travis Scott & 21 Savage - Niagara Falls (Foot or 2) Michael Bublé - Let It Snow PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar Priya Ragu - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. Sam Ryder - Jingle Bells Schak feat. Kim English - Moving All Around (Jumpin') Sidemen - Christmas Drillings Stormzy - Firebabe SZA - Kill Bill SZA - Nobody Gets Me Tiësto & Tate McRae - 10:35 SCR | Song is older than six weeks but is currently on zero weeks of decline. Dean Lewis - How Do I Say Goodbye Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Merry Christmas JVKE - golden hour Lady Gaga - Bloody Mary Rema - Calm Down Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You SZA - Shirt DCL-1 | Song has declined for one week. Rihanna - Lift Me Up The Weeknd - Die for You DCL-2 | Song has declined for two consecutive weeks. Eminem - Mockingbird Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless) Lil Uzi Vert - Just Wanna Rock Meghan Trainor - Made You Look Mimi Webb - Ghost of You Stormzy - Hide & Seek Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze Taylor Swift feat. Lana Del Rey - Snow on the Beach DCL-3 | Song has declined for three consecutive weeks and will be on ACR in the next chart. Anne-Marie & Aitch - PSYCHO David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions Dermot Kennedy - Kiss Me Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You Tom Odell - Another Love venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven ACR | Song has declined for three consecutive weeks and has its streaming values halved. Andy Williams - It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Ariana Grande - Santa Tell Me Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas? Beyoncé - CUFF IT Bing Crosby - White Christmas Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock Boney M. - Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Britney Spears - My Only Wish (This Year) Burl Ives - A Holly Jolly Christmas Chris Brown - Under the Influence Chris Rea - Driving Home for Christmas Chuck Berry - Run Rudolph Run Coldplay - Christmas Lights Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue) Dean Martin - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All) Elton John - Step Into Christmas Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas Frank Sinatra - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Harry Styles - As It Was Jackson 5 - Santa Claus is Coming to Town John Lennon, Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad Justin Bieber - Mistletoe Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree Kylie Minogue - Santa Baby Leona Lewis - One More Sleep Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You Michael Bublé - Holly Jolly Christmas Michael Bublé - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Mud - Lonely This Christmas Nat "King" Cole - The Christmas Song OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra - It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone Sia - Snowman Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody Steve Lacy - Bad Habit The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York The Pretenders - 2000 Miles The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride Wham! - Last Christmas Wizzard - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday RESET | Song has seen an increase of over 25% in streams, or has been manually reset by the label, and returned to SCR immediately this week. N/A
December 19, 20222 yr Author Obviously a bit of a weird one this week with the Christmas songs, plus if the OCC do the same in January as they did this year then we'll be seeing anything going to ACR in December reset anyway, but handy to know for the next couple of weeks at least.
December 19, 20222 yr Anti-Hero set to go something like 20-80-20 over the next 3 weeks, even if it doesn't get a reset.
December 19, 20222 yr Obviously a bit of a weird one this week with the Christmas songs, plus if the OCC do the same in January as they did this year then we'll be seeing anything going to ACR in December reset anyway, but handy to know for the next couple of weeks at least. Hopefully they don't do that again, resulting in songs being blocked from the top 10 by stuff that wouldn't have been reset at any other time of year.
December 20, 20222 yr luckily even if taylor gets reset she probably wont be doing enough to get back to #1 so hopefully that means raye has it in the bag!
December 20, 20222 yr I think Raye is still looking like a lock on for the first #1 of the new year. Unless SZA or god forbid that Central Cee thing continue to grow. But the likes of Anti-Hero/Made You Look/Psycho/Miss You etc... getting reset when they wouldn't usually could block other songs from reaching certain chart milestones.
December 20, 20222 yr Author Roughly speaking I think these are the songs that would be reset: Anne-Marie & Aitch - PSYCHO Cian Ducrot - All for You David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions Dermot Kennedy - Kiss Me Ed Sheeran - Celestial Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You Tom Odell - Another Love venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven + any that go to ACR from this batch: Eminem - Mockingbird Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless) Lil Uzi Vert - Just Wanna Rock Meghan Trainor - Made You Look Mimi Webb - Ghost of You Stormzy - Hide & Seek Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze Taylor Swift feat. Lana Del Rey - Snow on the Beach I assume those in contention for top 10 spots in the first post-Xmas week would be Anti-Hero, Made You Look, messy in heaven, Miss You, PSYCHO and Hide & Seek (at the start of the week anyway). Another Love... I'm not sure whether that would qualify or not but we'll see. 3 Lions is a non-issue regardless. Either way, I don't think we're looking at a situation where Easy On Me rebounds to the top and blocks what would've been a new #1 in abcdefu, seeing how much RAYE is dominating already.
December 20, 20222 yr I agree that we're probably not looking at a lost out on #1 situation this year, like we could have got if Gayle didn't overtake Adele eventually anyway. But if we get 4/5 songs rebounded into the top 10 when they wouldn't have been reset from a natural decline in any other week, then there could still be a significant impact. To pluck some hypothetical examples out, Bugzy Malone, Metro Boomin, a SZA track etc... could potentially lose out on a top 10 placement they would have got otherwise. Sure, they would have been outsold by the reset tracks which you could say makes it fair game anyway, but that isn't how things would have played out at another time of year because the resets wouldn't have occurred without a big natural second wind. I guess it can seem a load of whataboutery to be complaining about it but it does seem one of the silliest parts of the current chart rules to me, to just make an exception and reset a load of songs arbitrarily at the expense of others. Did anything that was reset in this year's first chart week actually re-peak because of it? I can't actually remember what was reset and what just naturally climbed after the Christmas clearout but I have a feeling nothing did.
December 20, 20222 yr Author I suppose it's probably fair to say they would've all had a few more top 10 weeks during December and the market is veeery distorted during this time, so I don't have too big an issue with it and it's effectively like a reset back to the end of November, but it doesn't work in favour of the fresher music at all, I agree. Friday's chart would've looked like this (before messy in heaven, Miss You and PSYCHO went to ACR, and removing Firebabe as that is a Christmas song to all intents and purposes) 01 RAYE feat. 070 Shake - Escapism. 02 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 03 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven 04 Meghan Trainor - Made You Look 05 SZA - Kill Bill 06 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You 07 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin' 08 Bugzy Malone & TeeDee - Out Of Nowhere 09 SZA - Nobody Gets Me 10 Anne-Marie & Aitch - PSYCHO So even with the resets, we have the potential to get new top 10 hits from SZA (Kill Bill, I don't expect Nobody Gets Me to challenge), Metro Boomin and Bugzy Malone, so it's not all bad. If we didn't reset anything that's already gone to ACR, we'd have these in contention for those spots (obviously allowing for the fact songs like Anti-Hero could be top 10 even on ACR) Rema - Calm Down SZA - Shirt Drake & 21 Savage - Rich Flex Lewis Capaldi - Pointless Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy Shirt won't be holding up as well so we're only really losing out on a potential Lewis top 10, and he could still make it with physicals. Perhaps it's lucky that there aren't so many bubbling under hits right now that it won't make such a big difference!
December 20, 20222 yr 'Miss You' to stay on ACR please! Also I think RAYE should manage #1 regardless of any other resets and at the moment I'm not sure Central Cee will challenge but won't hold my breath!
December 20, 20222 yr I guess there's potential for it to have negligible impact on what would have happened either way this year then, although I can still foresee a scenario in which it does make a big difference. God there's no easy solution to the mess of December charts in the streaming era is there? Side note, did someone start a 2023 chart predictions thread already or shall I start one?
December 20, 20222 yr I have no problem with quite a few songs whose runs were cut short by Christmas having re-sets in the New Year. I just don’t think the record companies should have anything to do it and they should make some sort of objective rule instead. Even if it was that anything that was on SCR at the end of November returns to SCR at least that would be transparent. Or just suspend ACR totally during December - you don’t need it when the market is being flooded with Christmas songs anyway.
December 20, 20222 yr I'm confused..why don't they just follow the rules that they follow for rest of year? If 25%+ increase Reset, otherwise stay on ACR? The charts may not feel fresh (although you would have lost the dozens of Christmas songs which would freshen up the charts naturally) but new songs (like Encanto, 'Down Under', 'Preu' and Lauren Spencer-Smith) would have pushed through anyway?
December 20, 20222 yr Yes, I'm not sure that absolutely everything which went to ACR last December got a reset, for example Sam Fender's Spit Of You didn't, despite going to ACR after Meet Me At Our Spot and My Universe which did.
December 20, 20222 yr I'm confused..why don't they just follow the rules that they follow for rest of year? If 25%+ increase Reset, otherwise stay on ACR? The charts may not feel fresh (although you would have lost the dozens of Christmas songs which would freshen up the charts naturally) but new songs (like Encanto, 'Down Under', 'Preu' and Lauren Spencer-Smith) would have pushed through anyway? They did that in 2019/20 and it led to songs like Someone You Loved and Perfect getting a pointless re-sets which then took a long time to be reversed
December 20, 20222 yr Did anything that was reset in this year's first chart week actually re-peak because of it? I can't actually remember what was reset and what just naturally climbed after the Christmas clearout but I have a feeling nothing did. Coming For You was the only one, reaching #5 (previously peak #10) I'm confused..why don't they just follow the rules that they follow for rest of year? If 25%+ increase Reset, otherwise stay on ACR? The charts may not feel fresh (although you would have lost the dozens of Christmas songs which would freshen up the charts naturally) but new songs (like Encanto, 'Down Under', 'Preu' and Lauren Spencer-Smith) would have pushed through anyway? There would have also been one song reaching a new peak with those rules... Heat Waves getting to #4! (It would have been reset but not Easy On Me.) Not to mention Seventeen Going Under reaching #2 and abcdefu getting a 2nd week at #1. Most other songs that would have been reset were long past their peaks though.
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