Posted April 23, 20232 yr A continuation of a thread from 2022: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=257079 This thread is a list of albums released in 2023 that made it into the Top 10 (including reissues of old albums, noted in red), with a comparison of their first and second weeks in the chart. It's a way of seeing which albums held up well, and which went into freefall! Official Albums Chart Top 200 #01 01-01 Ed Sheeran - - 01-01 Lewis Capaldi - Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent 01-01 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 01-02 P!nk - Trustfall 01-02 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 01-02 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 01-03 Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation 01-03 Travis Scott - Utopia 01-03 Drake - For All the Dogs 01-03 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 01-04 J Hus - Beautiful and Brutal Yard 01-04 Burna Boy - I Told Them 01-05 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 01-05 Tom Grennan - What Ifs & Maybes 01-06 Metallica - 72 Seasons 01-06 Take That - This Life 01-08 Kylie Minogue - Tension 01-08 Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations 01-10 Blur - The Ballad of Darren 01-11 Gorillaz - Cracker Island 01-12 Shania Twain - Queen of Me 01-13 Sam Smith - Gloria 01-13 Peter Gabriel - I/O 01-14 Busted - Greatest Hits 2.0 01-16 The Killers - Rebel Diamonds 01-23 Paramore - This Is Why 01-23 Maisie Peters - The Good Witch 01-23 Hozier - Unreal Earth 01-28 Niall Horan - The Show 01-32 boygenius - the record 01-34 U2 - Songs of Surrender 01-35 Ren - Sick Boi 01-49 Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City 01-55 Cian Ducrot - Victory 01-65 The Lathums - From Nothing to a Little Bit More 01-66 The Reytons - What's Rock and Roll 01-66 Liam Gallagher - Knebworth 22 01-84 Ellie Goulding - Higher Than Heaven 01-94 Royal Blood - Back to the Water Below 01-103 The Courteeners - St. Jude [Reissue of 2008 album] 01-126 Enter Shikari - A Kiss for the Whole World 01-xxx The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy #02 02-02 Nines - Crop Circle 2 02-06 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies 02-09 The Beatles - The Beatles 1967–1970 [Reissue of 1973 album] 02-11 Melanie Martinez - PORTALS 02-14 Blink-182 - One More Time 02-15 Raye - My 21st Century Blues 02-17 Wham! - The Singles - Echoes from the Edge of Heaven 02-18 Nines - Crop Circle 3 02-21 Potter Payper - Real Back in Style 02-21 Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman 02-26 NF - HOPE 02-29 Anne-Marie - Unhealthy 02-31 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 02-51 Skindred - Smile 02-57 Slowthai - Ugly 02-57 Ateez - The World EP.Fin: Will 02-62 Inhaler - Cuts & Bruises 02-73 OMD - Bauhaus Staircase 02-102 Claire Richards - Euphoria 02-109 Rick Astley - Are We There Yet 02-128 McFly - Power to Play 02-159 The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons 02-171 Oasis - The Masterplan [Reissue of 1998 album] 02-xxx The 1975 - Live with the Philharmonic Orchestra #03 03-04 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 03-13 Post Malone - Austin 03-17 The Beatles - The Beatles 1962-1966 [Reissue of 1973 album] 03-21 Jung Kook - Golden 03-44 Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 03-45 Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 03-56 Jorja Smith - Falling or Flying 03-63 Everything but the Girl - Fuse 03-68 Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 03-72 Gabriels - Angels & Queens 03-83 The 1975 - The 1975 [Reissue of 2013 album] 03-117 Jungle - Volcano 03-122 Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM 03-163 James - Be Opened by the Wonderful 03-172 Those Damn Crows - Inhale/Exhale 03-196 Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance 03-xxx DMA'S - How Many Dreams? 03-xxx Jonas Brothers - The Album 03-xxx The Coral - Sea of Mirrors 03-xxx Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day #04 04-11 Clavish - Rap Game Awful 04-27 Chase & Status - 2 RUFF, Vol. 1 04-32 Mimi Webb - Amelia 04-45 The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein 04-47 Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other 04-52 Tunde - First Lap 04-57 Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 04-76 Headie One & K-Trap 04-78 Pet Shop Boys - Smash - The Singles 1985-2020 04-78 Olivia Dean - Messy 04-79 Duran Duran - Danse Macabre 04-89 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (Live at Wembley 1974) 04-115 Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Redux 04-121 Def Leppard - Drastic Symphonies 04-172 Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex 04-xxx You Me at Six - Truth Decay 04-xxx Taylor Swift - folklore: the long pond studio sessions 04-xxx The Sherlocks - People Like Me & You #05 05-16 Luke Combs - Gettin' Old 05-20 Tate McRae - Think Later 05-28 Joel Corry - Another Friday Night [Note: This album was charting for 12 weeks prior to its physical release] 05-36 Adam Lambert - High Drama 05-43 Doja Cat - Scarlet 05-45 James Blunt - Who We Used to Be 05-49 Cliff Richard - Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life 05-52 Måneskin - Rush 05-64 Dolly Parton - Rockstar 05-73 Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade 05-109 PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying 05-126 Far From Saints - Far From Saints 05-xxx Lovejoy - Wake Up & It's Over 05-xxx Miles Kane - One Man Band 05-xxx Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black 05-xxx Baby Queen - Quarter Life Crisis #06 06-14 Noah Kahan - Stick Season [Note: This album was charting for 22 weeks prior to reaching the Top 10 for the first time] 06-23 D-Block Europe - DBE World 06-56 Texas - The Very Best Of - 1989-2023 06-62 Digga D - Back to Square One 06-72 N-Dubz - Timeless 06-111 The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling 06-134 Slowdive - Everything Is Alive 06-179 Rita Ora - You & I 06-193 Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention 06-xxx Gaz Coombes - Turn the Car Around 06-xxx Black Star Riders - Wrong Side of Paradise 06-xxx Orbital - Optical Delusion 06-xxx Black Honey - A Fistful of Peaches 06-xxx Reverend & The Makers - Heatwave in the Cold North 06-xxx Dexys Midnight Runners - The Feminine Divine 06-xxx View - Exorcism of Youth 06-xxx Black Stone Cherry - Screamin' at the Sky #07 07-52 Lil Uzi Vert - Pink Tape 07-101 Linkin Park - Meteora [Reissue of 2003 album] 07-109 Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 07-111 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence [Reissue of 2014 album] 07-121 Freya Ridings - Blood Orange 07-153 Reneé Rapp - Snow Angel 07-199 Sparks - The Girl Is Crying in Here Latte 07-xxx Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy 07-xxx Christine and the Queens - Paranoia, Angels, True Love 07-xxx Ashnikko - Weedkiller 07-xxx The Streets - The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light 07-xxx Casisdead - Famous Last Words 07-xxx Johnny Marr - Spirit Power - The Best Of 07-xxx Passenger - All the Little Lights - Anniversary #08 08-15 Cher - Christmas [Note: This album was in its 7th week of availability when it reached the Top 10 for the first time] 08-49 Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra - Jewels of Romance [Note: This album was in its 5th week of availability when it reached the Top 10 for the first time] 08-64 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon [Reissue of 1973 album] 08-131 Simply Red - Time 08-xxx Ghost - Phantomime 08-xxx Sophie Ellis-Bextor - HANA 08-xxx Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher 08-xxx Alice Cooper - Road #09 09-28 Gunna - A Gift & A Curse 09-46 Fredo - Unfinished Business 09-104 Eva Cassidy, London Symphony Orchestra & Christopher Willis - I Can Only Be Me (Orchestral) 09-106 M Huncho - My Neighbours Don't Know 09-xxx Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) 09-xxx De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising [Reissue of 1989 album] 09-xxx The Damned - Darkadelic 09-xxx Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine 09-xxx When Rivers Meet - Aces Are High #10 10-40 Davido - Timeless 10-101 Alfie Boe - Open Arms - The Symphonic Songbook 10-138 Ateez - The World EP 2 - Outlaw 10-194 Grian Chatten - Chaos for the Fly 10-xxx Waterparks - Intellectual Property 10-xxx David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - OST [Reissue of 1983 album] 10-xxx New Order - Substance [Reissue of 1987 album] xxx = fell out of the Top 200 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 175 Top 10 Albums so far in 2023 (including reissues). Second week stats: 23 albums stayed in the Top 10 [13.14%] // 152 albums fell out of the Top 10 [86.86%] 41 albums stayed in the Top 20 [23.43%] // 134 albums fell out of the Top 20 [76.57%] 61 albums stayed in the Top 40 [34.86%] // 114 albums fell out of the Top 40 [65.14%] 94 albums stayed in the Top 75 [53.71%] // 81 albums fell out of the Top 75 [46.29%] 102 albums stayed in the Top 100 [58.29%] // 73 albums fell out of the Top 100 [41.71%] 135 albums stayed in the Top 200 [77.14%] // 40 albums fell out of the Top 200 [22.86%]
April 23, 20232 yr Author + a look at how the above albums did in the... Official Albums Sales Chart Top 100 (in the same two weeks as the Official Albums Chart Top 200 chart runs in post 1) #01 01-01 Ed Sheeran - - 01-02 P!nk - Trustfall 01-02 Olivia Rodrigo - GUTS 01-03 Shania Twain - Queen of Me 01-03 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version) 01-03 Blur - The Ballad of Darren 01-03 The Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds 01-04 Lewis Capaldi - Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent 01-04 Busted - Greatest Hits 2.0 01-04 Take That - This Life 01-05 Sam Smith - Gloria 01-05 Miley Cyrus - Endless Summer Vacation 01-05 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 01-05 Metallica - 72 Seasons 01-05 Tom Grennan - What Ifs & Maybes 01-05 Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations 01-05 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor's Version) 01-05 Peter Gabriel - I/O 01-06 The Reytons - What's Rock and Roll 01-07 Liam Gallagher - Knebworth 22 01-07 Kylie Minogue - Tension 01-08 boygenius - the record 01-08 The Beatles - The Beatles 1967–1970 [Reissue of 1973 album] 01-09 Gorillaz - Cracker Island 01-09 Skindred - Smile 01-10 Paramore - This Is Why 01-10 U2 - Songs of Surrender 01-10 Claire Richards - Euphoria 01-10 The Killers - Rebel Diamonds 01-11 Anne-Marie - Unhealthy 01-11 Ren - Sick Boi 01-13 The Courteeners - St. Jude [Reissue of 2008 album] 01-13 The Lathums - From Nothing to a Little Bit More 01-13 Ellie Goulding - Higher Than Heaven 01-15 Niall Horan - The Show 01-16 The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy 01-16 Hozier - Unreal Earth 01-16 Royal Blood - Back to the Water Below 01-18 Maisie Peters - The Good Witch 01-18 Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Redux 01-19 Sparks - The Girl Is Crying in Here Latte 01-20 Nothing But Thieves - Dead Club City 01-26 Rita Ora - You & I 01-38 Oasis - The Masterplan [Reissue of 1998 album] 01-71 The 1975 - Live with the Philharmonic Orchestra #02 02-03 Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra - Jewels of Romance 02-05 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Council Skies 02-06 Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman 02-07 Def Leppard - Drastic Symphonies 02-07 Wham! - The Singles - Echoes from the Edge of Heaven 02-08 Burna Boy - I Told Them 02-09 Sleaford Mods - UK GRIM 02-09 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori 02-09 Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 02-09 The Beatles - The Beatles 1962-1966 [Reissue of 1973 album] 02-10 Raye - My 21st Century Blues 02-11 Inhaler - Cuts & Bruises 02-12 Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex 02-15 Cian Ducrot - Victory 02-15 The Hives - The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons 02-15 Blink-182 - One More Time 02-15 OMD - Bauhaus Staircase 02-16 Simply Red - Time 02-17 Black Star Riders - Wrong Side of Paradise 02-17 Olivia Dean - Messy 02-17 Rick Astley - Are We There Yet 02-18 The Coral - Sea of Mirrors 02-19 Slowthai - Ugly 02-19 Ateez - The World EP.Fin: Will 02-20 Gaz Coombes - Turn the Car Around 02-21 Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 17: Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996–1997) 02-26 McFly - Power to Play 02-27 Sufjan Stevens - Javelin 02-30 The 1975 - The 1975 [Reissue of 2013 album] 02-37 Linkin Park - Meteora [Reissue of 2003 album] 02-40 The View - Exorcism of Youth 02-44 Enter Shikari - A Kiss for the Whole World 02-45 Dexys Midnight Runners - The Feminine Divine 02-51 You Me at Six - Truth Decay 02-54 DMA'S - How Many Dreams? 02-58 Black Honey - A Fistful of Peaches 02-83 Jonas Brothers - The Album 02-xxx Waterparks - Intellectual Property 02-xxx Tunde - First Lap #03 03-07 The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein 03-10 Gabriels - Angels & Queens 03-11 Melanie Martinez - PORTALS 03-11 Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade 03-12 Everything but the Girl - Fuse 03-12 Alice Cooper - Road 03-13 Cliff Richard - Cliff With Strings - My Kinda Life 03-14 Far From Saints - Far From Saints 03-14 Slowdive - Everything Is Alive 03-16 Those Damn Crows - Inhale/Exhale 03-16 Sleep Token - Take Me Back to Eden 03-16 Mitski - The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We 03-17 Alison Goldfrapp - The Love Invention 03-17 Dolly Parton - Rockstar 03-23 James - Be Opened by the Wonderful 03-24 Greta Van Fleet - Starcatcher 03-24 Reneé Rapp - Snow Angel 03-25 Fall Out Boy - So Much (For) Stardust 03-26 Grian Chatten - Chaos for the Fly 03-29 Måneskin - Rush 03-36 Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy 03-37 Jungle - Volcano 03-42 Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine 03-43 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - HANA 03-44 Jorja Smith - Falling or Flying 03-57 Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day 03-68 The Sherlocks - People Like Me & You 03-75 Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black 03-xxx Gracie Abrams - Good Riddance 03-xxx Nines - Crop Circle 3 03-xxx Baby Queen - Quarter Life Crisis #04 04-10 Adam Lambert - High Drama 04-12 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (Live at Wembley 1974) 04-12 PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old Year Dying 04-15 Pet Shop Boys - Smash - The Singles 1985-2020 04-15 The Chemical Brothers - For That Beautiful Feeling 04-15 Black Stone Cherry - Screamin' at the Sky 04-15 Jung Kook - Golden 04-16 Duran Duran - Danse Macabre 04-19 Ghost - Phantomime 04-21 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - OST [Reissue of 1983 album] 04-27 De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising [Reissue of 1989 album] 04-30 Post Malone - Austin 04-33 Orbital - Optical Delusion 04-34 Mimi Webb - Amelia 04-39 Miles Kane - One Man Band 04-40 Taylor Swift - folklore: the long pond studio sessions 04-40 Reverend & The Makers - Heatwave in the Cold North 04-41 Christine and the Queens - Paranoia, Angels, True Love 04-66 The Streets - The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light 04-84 NF - HOPE 04-91 Ashnikko - Weedkiller 04-xxx Lovejoy - Wake Up & It's Over 04-xxx Passenger - All the Little Lights - Anniversary #05 05-06 Cher - Christmas 05-08 Eva Cassidy, London Symphony Orchestra & Christopher Willis - I Can Only Be Me (Orchestral) 05-10 Texas - The Very Best Of - 1989-2023 05-13 James Blunt - Who We Used to Be 05-14 Freya Ridings - Blood Orange 05-17 N-Dubz - Timeless 05-22 Luke Combs - Gettin' Old 05-41 Troye Sivan - Something to Give Each Other 05-45 Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence [Reissue of 2014 album] 05-xxx Digga D - Back to Square One 05-xxx Headie One & K-Trap #06 06-17 The Damned - Darkadelic 06-17 Ateez - The World EP 2 - Outlaw 06-19 Alfie Boe - Open Arms - The Symphonic Songbook 06-41 New Order - Substance [Reissue of 1987 album] 06-62 Johnny Marr - Spirit Power - The Best Of 06-72 Joel Corry - Another Friday Night [Note: This album was charting for 12 weeks prior to its physical/download release] 06-xxx J Hus - Beautiful and Brutal Yard 06-xxx When Rivers Meet - Aces Are High #07 07-14 Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon [Reissue of 1973 album] 07-57 Chase & Status - 2 RUFF, Vol. 1 07-95 Casisdead - Famous Last Words 07-xxx Potter Payper - Real Back in Style 07-xxx M Huncho - My Neighbours Don't Know #08 N/A #09 09-94 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2 09-xxx Clavish - Rap Game Awful #10 10-57 Nines - Crop Circle 2 10-xxx Tate McRae - Think Later Lower 11-44 Noah Kahan - Stick Season 12-xxx Fredo - Unfinished Business 15-xxx Doja Cat - Scarlet 29-xxx D-Block Europe - DBE World 36-xxx Drake - For All the Dogs 87-xxx Travis Scott - Utopia xxx = fell out of the Top 100 These official Top 10 peaking albums weren't in the Top 100 sales charts in their first two weeks: Davido - Timeless Gunna - A Gift & A Curse Lil Uzi Vert - Pink Tape
April 23, 20232 yr Thank you for amazing stats, Jay! We all know why this is all happening, but this is still all sad and dire to look at. I hope at some point OCC rethink the way they compile the album chart to highlight which albums, not playlists, people are streaming during the week.
April 23, 20232 yr So far three albums that debuted in the top 10 have managed a second week there then. Dire.
April 24, 20232 yr People should start looking at the sales chart as the real album charts Since the occ is not capable of Making a realistic streaming chart Who cares if people stream This is Elton John Thats a playlist not an album
April 24, 20232 yr Maybe one of the reasons OCC doesn’t want to rethink the album chart is because without streaming playlists and with excluding compilations streams the sales will look even more dire. But then you can up-weight the remaining streams! As they (actual album streams not from playlists) clearly are worth more.
April 25, 20232 yr ^Exactly, count only album streams proper and give them more weight. Indie albums will benefit the most cos their songs are not on playlists but they are being streamed well if you look at the kworb apple album chart
May 10, 20232 yr Author Updated, including a record 01-126 fall for Enter Shikari! (In terms of the second week position of a #1 album). Can The Lottery Winners break that record after just a week? 01-71 for The 1975 in the sales-only chart is surely the biggest fall from #1 ever? It sold 363 copies!
May 11, 20232 yr Unfortunately signs are this will carry on, quite depressing indeed. Great piece of stats there, Jay.
May 11, 20232 yr Last year, a third of albums which entered in the Top 3 dropped out of the Top 40 the following week. This year so far, it's half - and with two of last week's Top 3 set to drop out, it will climb above 50%.
May 13, 20232 yr Author We have our first 1-out! Straight out of the Top 200 for The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy. On the other hand, Nines becomes the first #2 peaking album of 2023 to actually stay in the Top 10, at #2 - which also makes it the first non-mover. We're still yet to see a #6 album manage a second week in the Top 200, with Reverend & The Makers being the latest #6 to dive straight out of the chart.
May 13, 20232 yr Author Comparisons: The Lottery Winners - Anxiety Replacement Therapy 01-xxx Official Albums Chart 01-16 Official Albums Sales Chart Nines - Crop Circle 2 02-02 Official Albums Chart 10-57 Official Albums Sales Chart Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good! 03-68 Official Albums Chart 02-09 Official Albums Sales Chart The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein 04-45 Official Albums Chart 03-07 Official Albums Sales Chart Reverend & The Makers - Heatwave in the Cold North 06-xxx Official Albums Chart 04-40 Official Albums Sales Chart Freya Ridings - Blood Orange 07-121 Official Albums Chart 05-14 Official Albums Sales Chart The Damned - Darkadelic 09-xxx Official Albums Chart 06-17 Official Albums Sales Chart A sorry state of affairs that being #16 in the sales chart isn't enough to be Top 200 in the official chart. I do wonder how record labels can be satisifed with their new album releases being 1 week affairs. Can EMI honestly think "That! Feels Good!" ( :kink: ) to see Jessie Ware fall from #3 to #68? I know it boils down to people simply not buying or streaming albums in their droves beyond the first week... but you'd think record labels would want Official Charts to do something to cushion the blow, to at least make the albums appear that they're doing better than they are? It continues to amaze me that Official Charts are apparently fine with the state of the albums chart, with numerous Greatest Hits and old albums occupying roughly the same positions every week. Whereas for the singles chart, they've been concerned to make it appear as fresh as possible (although that's slipped a bit in recent times with the likes of As It Was and Green Green Grass). What makes the album chart different for them? Why do they not want to strive to make that seem fresh and current, to reflect modern music releases more so than catalogue music? I know this discussion happens every so often and it's repetitive and nothing changes, but it's frustrating.
May 13, 20232 yr I agree 1000%, the model is just wrong cos it's not reflecting album streaming properly, especially for indie artists didn't follow how Lottery Winners did on streaming this week but for instance The National's album was top 10-20 on Apple Album streams all week guess thats why they didn't do half bad in the end, but actually should be much higher if album streams were counted properly and excluding playlists streams where indie artists have zero presence but actually same applies to artists like Freya Ridings or Jessie Ware Jessie has been top 20 all week on Apple Album streams, even now she's #23 but that's not been reflected in the album streams counts cannot see how labels like, also taking into account it's mainly favouring US artists there's less and less UK artists in the Album charts every week
May 13, 20232 yr guess thats why they didn't do half bad in the end, but actually should be much higher if album streams were counted properly and excluding playlists streams where indie artists have zero presence Why does it matter what page someone is sourcing their stream from?? I don't ever understand this weird 'hmm I manually queued up my stream therefore I'm really listening to the song' elitism. I own four albums by The National but that attitude makes me want to root against them honestly.
May 13, 20232 yr I mean, streaming the album vs songs from the album that are in playlists like HH or TTH (not on people personal playlists) it's not the same searching for Miley's album and streaming it from start to finish vs giving her album streams cos she has 3 songs on HH or TTH Edited May 13, 20232 yr by Bjork
May 13, 20232 yr Is it just no one listens to new albums anymore, people only listen to various songs so they are reflected on the singles sales or people are now listening by other means that isn’t reflected?
May 13, 20232 yr It continues to amaze me that Official Charts are apparently fine with the state of the albums chart, with numerous Greatest Hits and old albums occupying roughly the same positions every week. Whereas for the singles chart, they've been concerned to make it appear as fresh as possible (although that's slipped a bit in recent times with the likes of As It Was and Green Green Grass). What makes the album chart different for them? Why do they not want to strive to make that seem fresh and current, to reflect modern music releases more so than catalogue music? I know this discussion happens every so often and it's repetitive and nothing changes, but it's frustrating. I honestly think they're not bothered so long as there's still the newsworthy moments like fresh #1s and new entries to the Top 10. People don't follow the album chart in the same way they do the singles (i.e. no Top 40 album chart for them to listen to) so they don't have to worry so much about it being 'entertaining' for people. You do raise a very good point about record labels surely not being happy with albums from their respective artists collapsing out of the chart unless they have strong streaming, I wonder if this would cause the OCC to review the way they produce the album chart but presumably something would have happened before now if record labels had that sort of sway.
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