December 18, 20232 yr he is really handicapped by the amazon excludive, sure alexa helps by playing him whenever she wants, but he cuts out a large active audience who WANT to hear the song, as most people use apple or spotify! and you cant even itunes campaign cos its not available there. so id day him even getting top 10 is an amazing achievement with such a handicap Is it a handicap though? Seems like more of a boost than anything - same with all the Amazon Exclusives.
December 18, 20232 yr I really doubt the Sam song would have even gone top 40 without being an Amazon exclusive but we can never really know for sure.
December 18, 20232 yr Is it a handicap though? Seems like more of a boost than anything - same with all the Amazon Exclusives. Oh no it’s definitely helping him, I was referring to the post saying he should do active promotion in terms of he can’t really tell people to go stream it when it’s only on Amazon
December 19, 20232 yr Additional midweeks information: Last Christmas (Epic/RCA) is the bookmakers’ favourite thanks in part to a new seven-inch green vinyl edition, which has so far moved 2,522 copies. Consumption overall for the festival perennial is up 21.9% week-on-week to 23,590 chart sales, including 960 downloads and 20,108 sales-equivalent streams. It has been at No.1 for two weeks already and is well placed to hold on at the top. Sam Ryder’s You’re Christmas To Me is at No.2 in the Midweeks with 21,865 chart sales, though it has stronger momentum with consumption up 45% week-on-week. There is a CD single available from Amazon with 1,734 sales so far this week, in addition to 526 downloads and 19,605 sales-equivalent streams. The track features in Amazon Prime Video's original comedy film, Your Christmas Or Mine 2. When it comes to streams logged as equivalent sales, the contest is even closer between Sam Ryder and Wham!, with just 503 chart sales between them. However, that’s not the whole story as Sam Ryder – like all the Amazon Original releases of recent years – benefits from a chart rule in favour of new releases, which could play a crucial role at this time of year. You’re Christmas To Me by Sam Ryder is subject to the Standard Chart Ratio by the Official Charts Company, which counts 100 premium streams as a single chart ‘sale’ – and will continue to do so until the track experiences three consecutive weeks of decline after its 10th week on the chart (its currently on its sixth chart week). So far this week, the track has amassed 1,896,587 premium streams on Amazon Music Unlimited, in addition to 351,183 streams on the free tier and 24,461 premium video streams. The only non-Amazon platform where Ryder’s song can be accessed is YouTube. In contrast, as a catalogue title from the 1980s and a regular chart fixture, Wham!’s Last Christmas is subject to ACR (Accelerated Chart Ratio), which means that it requires 200 premium streams for every chart sale (ie double the amount that Ryder’s Amazon original requires to register a single sale). Wham!’s single is being newly promoted with a vinyl edition but it has not been given a manual reset to SCR. Such a reset is a fairly rare occurrence for an older track, which is how Kate Bush was able to claim No.1 last year with Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God). Some catalogue tracks are allowed to reset to SCR automatically under certain chart conditions, although Christmas songs are excluded from that possibility. Wham! and Mariah Carey have both managed to score festive No.1s despite being subject to ACR. Of course, Wham!’s Last Christmas Is available across all streaming platforms, which gives it a wider potential reach compared to its festive chart rival by Sam Ryder. In terms of popularity based on raw streaming data, Last Christmas is easily outperforming Ryder so far this week with 3,838,916 premium audio streams, 568,616 ad-funded streams (such as free Spotify) and 403,396 premium video streams. So, in total, Last Christmas has amassed 4,810,928 streams already this week, compared to the tally of 2,272,231 for Sam Ryder’s You’re Christmas To Me at the same stage. While Ryder has less than half of the audio streaming consumption level of Wham!’s single, he has done all of that that on just one platform, Amazon Music. Of course, other festival perennials are still in with a chance of grabbing the Christmas No.1, including All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey (a non-mover at No.3 in the Midweeks with 18,415 chart sales – up 5.2% week-on-week) and Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl (also static, at No.5, with 15,021 sales – down 9% week-on-week). Former No.1 Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran & Elton John has the advantage of not being subject to ACR, because it is seeing increasing consumption (up 12.7% week-on-week) and is less than three years old. It has moved 6-4 with sales so far of 16,011. Stick Season, the non-festive contender by Noah Kahan, has slipped 2-6 (though chart sales are up 11.7% week-on-week to 14,867). www.musicweek.com/digital/read/how-amazon-music-became-a-christmas-no-1-contender-with-a-sam-ryder-exclusive/089030
December 19, 20232 yr There's also a CD version of 'Last Christmas' which doesn't appear to have contributed any sales looking at the breakdown of sales given above: Sales total: 23,590 7" vinyl: 2,522 Downloads: 960 Streams: 20,108
December 19, 20232 yr I wonder if the cd sales just haven’t been counted yet? Can anyone clarify if the physical releases of The Pogues/Wham/Sam Ryder are only available online or in HMV etc?
December 19, 20232 yr Sam’s "Why isn't it on (streaming platform)?" brigade wouldn't download it if they could listen to it for free. They are annoyed it’s not on their streaming platform. Sam wouldn’t stand any realistic chance of #1 on his own, and would probably be happier with top 5 and a nice cheque from Amazon. Edited December 19, 20232 yr by Chloe🎄
December 19, 20232 yr I wonder if the cd sales just haven’t been counted yet? Can anyone clarify if the physical releases of The Pogues/Wham/Sam Ryder are only available online or in HMV etc? Sam’s CDs are counted so I don’t see why not I assume they just put the CD sales in with the vinyl
December 19, 20232 yr Hoping Sam can start selling CDs on his website and pull out a few thousand fake sales to snatch #1.
December 19, 20232 yr Hoping Sam can start selling CDs on his website and pull out a few thousand fake sales to snatch #1. I am suspicious why Amazon took his cds off their website because on their you could monitor how many people bought it
December 19, 20232 yr I am suspicious why Amazon took his cds off their website because on their you could monitor how many people bought it They sold out.
December 19, 20232 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/w...-or-the-pogues/ Here is the ‘breaking news update’. It does say ‘today’, but it looks identical to yesterday’s update and there’s no sales information. Edited December 19, 20232 yr by Chloe🎄
December 19, 20232 yr Well there we have the raw numbers from Amazon for Sam Ryder - averaging 749,257 per day across Friday to Sunday (assuming all Amazon streams were counted for the Monday mids as usual). Might be slightly less than that if the free streams tally is including some from YouTube, I'm not sure about that since there's no mention of free tier video streams (although maybe they just count all video streams as premium? The premium video streams count for Wham! seems surprisingly high if not). By comparison Wham! averaged 896,286 per day on Spotify across the same days. Mariah and Brenda also averaged higher on Spotify than Sam did on Amazon (Mariah 847,130, Brenda 760,460). Appears that I was wrong about the free/premium split being in Sam's favour though - Wham! actually have a slightly higher proportion of premium streams!
December 19, 20232 yr At least we have a race this time, that's a positive note. This said, the OCC needs to have a look at the rules because we can't get to the point that Alexa decides the charts, exclusive songs are fine but there must be a voluntary action by the user to play a particular song.
December 19, 20232 yr I stumbled across a Creator Universe video showing fans how to properly support their music on iTunes and Amazon, after realising they were inadvertently telling them wrong, because they understand it either.
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