October 4, 20231 yr Author I'm still holding out hope that 'I Wanna Be Yours' can last the course! I think it should hold on - it’s been very consistent and it was their most popular song last week.
October 4, 20231 yr I do actually find it really interesting watching which old songs are this year’s streaming favourites and how it’s different from last year. For example Fleetwood Mac and the Arctics are having a bumper year with their top hits, but Queen’s top songs aren’t doing so well and Ed seems more out of favour with his back catalogue. It’s also interesting how Hozier releasing new material seems to have brought Take Me To Church back into everyone’s minds, not just briefly but so that it’s still in the chart long after his new music has faded. I'd say similarly, as much as it seems like lazy coasting/the eventual direction of streaming numbers as a whole, The Weeknd is largely #1 for albums on the back of a bumper streaming year. Globally he's been #1 on monthly listeners pretty much all year, and pulling numbers well above the previous all time high, including with a renewed hit that just so happens to be on that album. The album will probably recede back in the ensuing years.
October 5, 20231 yr Author OCC article: can’t see any sales info other than 1.5m for Flowers and just shy of 1m for Escapism, which doesn’t contradict my estimates! “The Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023 so far Miley Cyrus continues to buy herself Flowers as she maintains her position as the UK’s biggest song of 2023 so far, Official Charts can reveal, as we head into the final few months of the year. The scintillating post-disco breakup anthem shares the record as the joint longest-running Number 1 of the year, completing 10 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart, equalled by Dave & Central Cee’s Sprinter. Flowers gave Miley her third UK chart-topper back in January, and first in nearly a decade, since both We Can’t Stop and Wrecking Ball in 2013. The song’s success even bolstered Miley to achieve the coveted Official Chart Double, when parent album Endless Summer Vacation summited the Official Albums Chart during Flowers’ reign at the top. According to Official Charts Company data, Flowers has racked up a total of 1.5 million UK chart units since its release in January; with over 178 million streams and over 87,000 downloads, making it the most-streamed and most-downloaded song of the year so far. Flowers also claims the biggest week of any track in 2023, pushing a mammoth 121,000 chart units during its second week at Number 1, becoming the longest-running Number 1 single by a female artist this decade. In doing so, it equals the epic runs of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You and Rihanna's Umbrella. Holding steady in second place is RAYE and 070 Shake’s jagged Escapism. The experimental electronic banger became RAYE’s first ever UK Number 1 single in January, and has so far this year shifted almost 1 million chart units. Up next, Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding’s trance eight-week chart-topper Miracle is at Number 3, while SZA’s Kill Bill coasts to Number 4. Surging into the Top 10 to-date is Dave & Central Cee’s record-breaking team-up Sprinter. Smashing several records during its time at Number 1, Sprinter achieved the biggest first week of any song in 2023 (108,000 chart units), and set an all-time record for the most weekly streams for a rap track in the UK (13.4 million), before going on to be crowned the UK’s Official song of the summer. Sprinter has also set the record as the longest-running UK rap Number 1, serendipitously celebrating its 10th week at the top during the 50th anniversary of the founding of hip-hop. Sprinter marks Dave’s third Number 1, and the first for Central Cee. 2023 has also witnessed the further rise of Afrobeats as a dominant commercial force in the UK, best exemplified by two Top 10 hits; Rema’s Calm Down (7) which peaked at Number 3 and Libianca’s People (10), which climbed all the way to Number 2 and spent a mammoth 12 weeks at Number 1 on the Official Afrobeats Chart to boot. TikTok continues to prove itself a hitmaker on the Official Chart; several of 2023’s biggest songs have found success via the video-sharing platform, and for many this success has come years after their original release. Miguel’s 2010 single Sure Thing (11), David Guetta & Bebe Rexha’s former Number 1 I’m Good (Blue) which was originally a scrapped demo recorded in 2017 (12), The Weeknd’s 2016 Starboy cut Die For You (14), Taylor Swift’s New Wave banger from 2019 Cruel Summer (2020), Tom Odell’s 2013 single Another Love (24), Meghan Trainor’s Made You Look (25) and Lizzy McAlpine’s Ceilings (26). Other 2023 Number 1 singles continue to resonate, with Ed Sheeran’s Eyes Closed (21), Olivia Rodrigo’s vampire (29) and Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night (31) all making their way into the year-to-date Top 40. Further down, Irish dance vocalist Jazzy may have earned her first UK Top 10 single with a feature on Belters Only’s Make Me Feel Good, but her debut solo single Giving Me – at Number 31 on the year-to-date list – provided her highest peak in the UK yet, reaching Number 3 on the Official Singles Chart in June. Finally, Stephen Sanchez’s Until I Found You rounds off the list at Number 39. Originally blowing up on TikTok, Stephen got a big break recently when handpicked by Elton John to perform the track live during Elton's headline set at Glastonbury. Official Top 40 Biggest Songs of 2023 so far POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK 1 FLOWERS MILEY CYRUS 1 2 ESCAPISM RAYE FT 070 SHAKE 1 3 MIRACLE CALVIN HARRIS/ELLIE GOULDING 1 4 KILL BILL SZA 3 5 SPRINTER DAVE & CENTRAL CEE 1 6 ANTI-HERO TAYLOR SWIFT 1 7 CALM DOWN REMA 3 8 BOY'S A LIAR PINKPANTHERESS 2 9 AS IT WAS HARRY STYLES 1 10 PEOPLE LIBIANCA 2 11 SURE THING MIGUEL 4 12 I'M GOOD (BLUE) DAVID GUETTA & BEBE REXHA 1 13 MESSY IN HEAVEN VENBEE & GODDARD 3 14 DIE FOR YOU WEEKND 3 15 DAYLIGHT DAVID KUSHNER 2 16 REACT SWITCH DISCO & ELLA HENDERSON 4 17 CREEPIN' METRO BOOMIN/WEEKND/21 SAVAGE 7 18 FORGET ME LEWIS CAPALDI 1 19 I AIN'T WORRIED ONEREPUBLIC 3 20 CRUEL SUMMER TAYLOR SWIFT 2 21 EYES CLOSED ED SHEERAN 1 22 UNHOLY SAM SMITH & KIM PETRAS 1 23 GREEN GREEN GRASS GEORGE EZRA 3 24 ANOTHER LOVE TOM ODELL 10 25 MADE YOU LOOK MEGHAN TRAINOR 2 26 CEILINGS LIZZY MCALPINE 6 27 MR BRIGHTSIDE KILLERS 10 28 SOMEONE YOU LOVED LEWIS CAPALDI 1 29 VAMPIRE OLIVIA RODRIGO 1 30 BAD HABITS ED SHEERAN 1 31 GIVING ME JAZZY 3 32 DANCE THE NIGHT (FROM BARBIE THE ALBUM) DUA LIPA 1 33 10:35 TIESTO & TATE MCRAE 8 34 POINTLESS LEWIS CAPALDI 1 35 CUFF IT BEYONCE 5 36 B.O.T.A. (BADDEST OF THEM ALL) ELIZA ROSE/INTERPLANETARY 1 37 PLAYERS COI LERAY 7 38 AFRAID TO FEEL LF SYSTEM 1 39 UNTIL I FOUND YOU STEPHEN SANCHEZ 14 40 SHIVERS ED SHEERAN 1 ©2023 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.”
October 5, 20231 yr Author OCC article for albums: “The Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2023 so far Lewis Capaldi claims the UK’s Official biggest new release album of 2023 so far with Broken by Desire to be Heavenly Sent, Official Charts can confirm, while The Weeknd’s The Highlights leads the pack overall. Released in May of this year and the eighth biggest LP of 2023 thus far, Lewis’s second studio album saw him clinch the biggest opening week of his career; Broken by Desire… shifted 95,000 chart units in its first seven days of release. The record, which houses Number 1 singles Forget Me, Pointless and Wish You the Best, is 2023’s most physically purchased album so far, selling 100,000 copies on physical formats since its release, and the year’s biggest seller overall when including downloads too. Lewis’s debut album, 2019’s Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent also makes the list at Number 12. Canadian singer-songwriter The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, tops the year-to-date list. His career-spanning album The Highlights, which includes Number 1 hit Blinding Lights and a selection of his 35 Top 40 singles, is the UK’s Official biggest album of the year so far. The collection peaked at Number 2 on the Official Albums Chart upon its release. The Weeknd’s 2016 record Starboy also secures a place on the year-to-date list at Number 29 thanks, in part, to the success of a 2023 remix of its single Die for You featuring Ariana Grande, which peaked at Number 3 earlier this year. Elsewhere in the Top 5 of 2023 so far, Harry Styles’ third studio release Harry’s House holds steady at (3), and Elton John’s headline Glastonbury Pyramid Stage performance in back in June ensures his 2017 Diamonds compilation upholds its Top 5 position for another quarter (4). SZA’s 2022 record SOS also retains its Top 5 placing as Q3 closes out (5). After just 12 weeks on chart, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) earns a spot on the list at Number 20. Hitting Number 1 on its release in July 2023, the fully re-recorded version of Taylor’s 2010 record Speak Now out-peaked its original release, the first issue having reached a high of Number 6. In the process, Taylor’s Version more than doubled the opening week figure of the original album. As her career-celebrating The Eras Tour gets well under way in the US, Taylor enjoys a further four entries inside the year-to-date Top 40. At Number 2 is 2022’s Midnights, which saw Taylor break Official Chart records last year as she became the female solo artist to claim nine chart-topping albums in the fastest succession ever; surpassing previous record-holder Madonna. Other Taylor appearances come courtesy of 2014 LP 1989 at Number 11 (soon to be re-released with re-recordings and previously unheard material ‘from the vault’ as 1989 (Taylor’s Version)), 2020’s folklore at Number 19 and 2017 release Reputation at Number 24. Pink earns another of 2023’s biggest new release records with TRUSTFALL at Number 21. Alicia Moore’s ninth studio album, housing Top 20 singles Never Gonna Not Dance Again, and its Fred again..-produced title track TRUSTFALL, claims the title of the UK’s most downloaded album of the year so far. Olivia Rodrigo’s second studio album GUTS is one of 2023’s biggest albums so far after just three weeks of release. The former Number 1, which contains chart-topping single vampire and Top 10 tracks bad idea, right? and get him back!, lands at Number 36 in the year-to-date Top 40. Additionally Olivia’s chart-topping debut, 2021’s SOUR, holds strong in 2023’s Top 20 so far at Number 17. Lana Del Rey’s 2023 release Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd makes the year-to-date list at Number 37. The album topped the Official Albums Chart on its release in April, providing Lana her sixth UK Number 1 record and earning her strongest opening week since 2014’s Ultraviolence. Another new 2023 release, Post Malone’s hits compilation The Diamond Collection, rounds out the list at Number 40. The New York multi-hyphenate’s collection includes 2017 Number 1 single rockstar ft. 21 Savage, plus a curated tracklist of some of his further 19 UK Top 40 songs. Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2023 so far POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK 1 THE HIGHLIGHTS WEEKND 2 2 MIDNIGHTS TAYLOR SWIFT 1 3 HARRY'S HOUSE HARRY STYLES 1 4 DIAMONDS ELTON JOHN 2 5 SOS SZA 2 6 50 YEARS - DON'T STOP FLEETWOOD MAC 5 7 CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS EMINEM 1 8 BROKEN BY DESIRE TO BE HEAVENLY SENT LEWIS CAPALDI 1 9 AM ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 10 GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA 1 11 1989 TAYLOR SWIFT 1 12 DIVINELY UNINSPIRED TO A HELLISH EXTENT LEWIS CAPALDI 1 13 - ED SHEERAN 1 14 LOVER TAYLOR SWIFT 1 15 = ED SHEERAN 1 16 TIME FLIES - 1994-2009 OASIS 1 17 SOUR OLIVIA RODRIGO 1 18 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 1 19 FOLKLORE TAYLOR SWIFT 1 20 SPEAK NOW (TAYLOR'S VERSION) TAYLOR SWIFT 1 21 TRUSTFALL PINK 1 22 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN 1 23 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC 1 24 REPUTATION TAYLOR SWIFT 1 25 THE ESSENTIAL MICHAEL JACKSON 1 26 FINE LINE HARRY STYLES 2 27 RENAISSANCE BEYONCE 1 28 BETWEEN US LITTLE MIX 2 29 STARBOY WEEKND 5 30 CURTAIN CALL 2 EMINEM 3 31 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY 1 32 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - THE BEST OF WHITNEY HOUSTON 13 33 ELV1S - 30 NUMBER 1 HITS ELVIS PRESLEY 1 34 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS 1 35 HEROES & VILLAINS METRO BOOMIN 3 36 GUTS OLIVIA RODRIGO 1 37 DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A TUNNEL UNDER LANA DEL REY 1 38 WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM THAT'S WHAT I'M ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 39 SINGLES MAROON 5 32 40 THE DIAMOND COLLECTION POST MALONE 14 ©2023 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.”
October 5, 20231 yr the cut off in albums must be close to 100k cos Lana and Olivia were certified Gold last Friday
October 5, 20231 yr Author the cut off in albums must be close to 100k cos Lana and Olivia were certified Gold last Friday 90k - vid’s figures are posted before mine on the last page.
October 5, 20231 yr oh thanks I meed that update looking at the 2023 releases we only got these in the top 50: Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent [183.2] Substract [160.6] Speak now TV [132] Trustfall [130.6] Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd [100.8] Guts [100.8] Post Malone-The Diamond Collection [90] Utopia [79]
October 5, 20231 yr I think that the top 5 biggest songs of the year will end up being: 1. Flowers 2. Miracle 3. Sprinter 4. Escapism. 5. Kill Bill
October 5, 20231 yr It's very impressive for Stephen Sanchez when I don't think either of his top 40 chart runs had much longevity (under 10 weeks and 3 due to Glastonbury respectively). Doing the same as those oldies that hang around that hadn't gone top 40 this year and are selling and streaming well to be further up!
October 5, 20231 yr Albums end of Q3 update courtesy of vidacpper: 2 2 264,200 681,200 Taylor Swift Midnights 03/11/22 1 11 11 168,000 1,709,400 Taylor Swift 1989 08/11/14 5 14 15 154,400 589,200 Taylor Swift Lover 05/09/19 8 19 19 139,200 548,200 Taylor Swift Folklore 06/08/20 11 20 21 132,000 132,000 Taylor Swift Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 20/07/23 1 24 24 127,600 695,400 Taylor Swift Reputation 23/11/17 48 48 81,200 335,600 Taylor Swift Evermore 24/12/20 34 50 49 79,000 287,800 Taylor Swift Red (Taylor's Version) 25/11/21 37 Taylor with 8 albums top 50 she really is slaying, Red TV Nd evermore probably will drop out but can see 1989 TV entering Fingers crossed Red TV can make platinum by year end
October 5, 20231 yr Some more sales in this Music Week article: Vinyl sales have surged by 13.2% year-on-year for the first nine months of 2023. According to data from the BPI, 3,952,262 vinyl LPs were sold during the year to the end of September. The year-on-year increase was ahead of the 12.4% growth for the first half of 2023. At 15.1%, the year-on-year increase was even bigger during the three months of the Q3 period. A total of 1,237,620 vinyl LPs were sold in the quarter. Vinyl sales increased by a fairly modest 2.9% in 2022, but double-digit growth for the format looks likely to return for 2023. With a potential blockbuster Q4 line-up – including albums from Take That, the Rolling Stones and Taylor Swift – vinyl is set for another strong quarter during the gifting season. Black Friday, Record Store Day’s sister event, will take place on November 24. More than 90 artists, including De La Soul, Sia, Joni Mitchell, Prince, Rilo Kiley, The Doors and Post Malone, will release limited edition vinyl editions. The indie retail sector spoke to Music Week for a feature in our current edition – you can read insights from Rough Trade, Crash Records, Banquet and Drift. Speaking about the impact of Record Store Day as part of the feature, ERA CEO Kim Bayley said that the annual event “stands alongside the invention of streaming as a landmark moment for music” and became “the single most important catalyst” for the vinyl revival. “Are there wrinkles in it? Are there challenges? Of course,” she told Music Week. “That is why we tweak the day every year and take feedback from the entire industry as to ways to shape the day. But the big picture is that it has been and continues to be a resounding success.” Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) by Taylor Swift was the biggest-selling vinyl release during Q3 with 29,649 sales (Official Charts Company), followed by Blur’s The Ballad Of Darren (26,894), Kylie Minogue’s Tension (19,160), Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (14,611) and Wham!’s The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven (10,782). The biggest vinyl release for the year to date is Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, which has sales of 33,568 on the format. With CD sales down 6.3% year-on-year so far in 2023 (to 7,270,654), physical sales are flat overall (down just 0.5% to 11,365,554). Streaming is of course the dominant means of music consumption now, taking an 88.5% share of the recorded music market. Streaming growth remains in double digits with an 11.6% increase in Streaming Equivalent Albums (SEA) to the end of Q3 (118,914,835 units), according to the BPI. Overall music consumption (AES) is up 9.8% year-on-year so far in 2023 at 133,914,835 equivalent album units. 2023’s biggest albums & singles According to Official Charts Company data, The Weeknd’s The Highlights is the most consumed album of the year so far (304,923 chart sales in 2023). It has been out in front since Q1. The Highlights is one of six catalogue titles in the Top 10 for the year to date. Taylor Swift’s Midnights is at No.2 overall (264,260 sales in 2023) for the year to date, followed by Harry Styles’ Harry’s House (230,927). The biggest week one sale so far remains the 95,882 for Lewis Capaldi’s Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. In the artist album rankings, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) was the biggest album of Q3 (131,471), followed by Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts (100,848), which achieved that gold certification in just three weeks. The biggest UK breakthrough in the album rankings so far this year is Polydor-signed Clavish, whose mixtape Rap Game Awful makes the overall Top 100 to the end of Q3 (No.94, 59,092 sales). Miley Cyrus’ Flowers, which spent 10 weeks at No.1, is the biggest single with 1,496,859 sales, followed by UK star Raye’s smash Escapism (feat. 070 Shake) on 997,024 chart sales in 2023 (the No.1 for Raye has 1,228,614 sales including those at the end of last year). During Q3, Sprinter by Dave & Central Cee – which spent 10 weeks at No.1 – emerged as the quarter’s biggest single (612,888 sales). Olivia Rodrigo was at No.2 with Vampire (498,407), followed by Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night at No.3 (402,282). Dance The Night is taken from The Barbie Album soundtrack, which would have made No.2 in Q3 (127,152 sales) but for its inclusion on the compilations chart. https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/vinyl...uster-q4/088617
October 5, 20231 yr Taylor with 8 albums top 50 she really is slaying, Red TV Nd evermore probably will drop out but can see 1989 TV entering. Has there ever been any other year in which an artist had 8 albums (or more) in the year end chart?
October 6, 20231 yr Has there ever been any other year in which an artist had 8 albums (or more) in the year end chart? By my count, Michael Jackson had 10 in the 2009 year-end album chart (but "only" 3 in the top 50).
October 17, 20231 yr Author As expected Fukumean has replaced Easy On Me in the Top 100. Sprinter now #3, Cruel Summer #17, Vampire #22, Dance The Night #26. Not much change in the albums but 1989 has knocked ABBA out of the Top 10.
October 17, 20231 yr Does Sprinter have any realistic chance of catching Flowers for #1 YE, I feel like getting #2 is now a formality
October 17, 20231 yr Author Does Sprinter have any realistic chance of catching Flowers for #1 YE, I feel like getting #2 is now a formality Sprinter has zero chance of getting anywhere near Flowers but indeed has #2 sewn up. What’s interesting is that Miracle has faded quite fast while Escapism has had a bit of a revival (thanks to Prada I’m guessing), meaning the latter might well now hang on for #3.
October 17, 20231 yr It was mentioned on here the other day that 'Escapism.' has just had a second wind of TikTok virality, don't think it has anything to do with 'Prada'. Aside, didn't someone in the 2023 chart predictions thread confidently predict 'Escapism.' wouldn't finish anywhere near the top of the EOY chart :thinking:
October 17, 20231 yr Does Sprinter have any realistic chance of catching Flowers for #1 YE, I feel like getting #2 is now a formality Flowers has such a big lead now, for anything to catch up to it it would have to be some kind of phenomenon. It's a bit boring that the year-end #1 was decided so early this year. Even in the first half of the year the chance of anything being able to overtake it was miniscule. I liked the year where it was God's Plan vs. One Kiss, it was a battle right until the end of the year.
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