This is the official streaming services thread, the go-to topic for the discussion of playlists and charts from services such as Spotify, Apple & Amazon!

 

This week's new releases

courtesy of ManicKangaroo

 

Alan Walker, Putri Ariani & Peder Elias - Who I Am

Bring Me The Horizon – Kool-Aid

D-Block Europe – Skims [GRAT]

Dee C Lee - Walk Away

Don Diablo feat Echoboy - Only God Knows

EVPRO - Flip It

Goddard x Cat Burns - Wasted Youth

Green Day - One Eyed bast*rd

Jennifer Lopez - Can't Get Enough [Wednesday 10th January]

Kula Shaker - Natural Magick [GRAT]

The Last Dinner Party - Caesar on a TV Screen

Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Just Another Rainbow

Low Steppa & Tony Romera — Dance To The Music

Margaret Berger - Oblivion

Nathan Evans - Heather On The Hill

Remember Monday - Laugh About It

Smokey Bubblin' B & Alex Mills - Overpowered

Tiësto & Fast Boy - All My Life

 

FAQs

 

What is streaming? What are the chart rules regarding streaming?

For streaming and chart rules related FAQs read this thread.

 

How many streams equals one download sale?

100 plays if you are on Spotify Premium, or 600 if you are using the ad-supported free tier. However you cannot simply play a song that many times in one day to give it one sale, you are limited to 10 plays per day in terms of what counts to the chart. The number changes to 200 or 1200 plays when a song moves to ACR. For more information on the rules of ACR see this thread.

 

How much does streaming contribute to the chart?

Streaming contributes over 90% to the singles chart as a whole. Spotify counts for at least half of this, with Apple Music and Amazon also big contributors. YouTube is also big however most of YouTube's streams are at the free tier so won't count for as much.

 

Why is my fave not doing well?

Is it being promoted on a major curated playlist, and/or going viral on TikTok? If it isn't, it's unlikely to really take off! Hot Hits UK is the biggest of these playlists on Spotify from a UK standpoint. The playlist usually updates itself to include breaking hits once or twice a week, though there is no guarantee that your fave will get a place on the playlist. Also, the UK Top 50 is a largely followed playlist and that songs often experience a 'top 50 effect', when they enter the top 50 and get the additional exposure of being on the playlist. Often sales hits don't cross over to being streaming hits, this is usually the case for songs with an older target audience, reality or campaign songs. Also keep in mind that it often takes longer for a song to take off on Spotify than it would on iTunes.

 

My fave didn't debut high and is falling already, does this mean they're flopping?

Not necessarily. Most songs debut relatively low as they aren't instantly well-known, and experience a sharp decline on Day 2 as they no longer have the promoted 'New Music Friday' effect. A lot of songs manage to recover through gaining popularity and additions to playlists. Exceptions to the rule of course come from massively hyped releases, such as the recent album impacts from Drake and Taylor Swift.

 

Spotify

 

How do I see today's Spotify chart?

To see the daily top 50 update on desktop, log in to Spotify, click 'Browse', then click 'Charts', then click 'United Kingdom Top 50', or click the link below. For the full top 200, use the link below to go to Spotify's website. You can also use the Kworb website which displays the data in an easier to read format and also contains additional information, however this is often out of date.

 

Spotify App [top 50]

Spotify Website [top 200]

Kworb [top 200 and extra data]

 

What are the most influential Spotify playlists?

Links to Spotify's top playlists are as below.

 

Hot Hits UK

UK Top 50

New Music Friday

Today's Top Hits

 

How often does the Spotify chart update?

It should update once every day, usually in the early afternoon - although on occasion there will be a delay.

 

What do the numbers mean?

The streaming figures cited in the daily chart are the number of streams each song received the previous day. Unlike the iTunes chart, Spotify is not a rolling chart so the numbers will only change once per day.

 

Apple Music

 

How do I see today's Apple Music chart?

You can use the link below to view the Apple Music top 100 through Kworb. If you have Apple Music, you can also view the top 200 by going to the Charts section and clicking on See All in the Top Songs section.

 

Kworb [top 100]

 

What are the most influential Apple Music playlists?

Links to Apple Music's top playlists are as below.

 

Today's Hits

UK Top 100

 

How often does the Apple Music chart update?

It like iTunes updates on a regular basis a number of times a day. No streaming figures are provided however, unlike Spotify.

 

Amazon

 

How do I see today's Amazon Music chart?

You can use the link below to view the Amazon Music chart.

 

Amazon Music

 

How often does the Amazon Music chart update?

It like iTunes updates on a regular basis a number of times a day. No streaming figures are provided however, unlike Spotify.

 

[FAQs written by Dan]

 

Spotify/streaming discussion thread archive

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The Last Dinner Party have been given a big spot on Apple's Hot Hits UK following their BBC Sound of 2024 win so I expect they'll be a chart contender this week too - they've also added the new songs from DBE, Goddard/Cat Burns and BMTH

Sophie #5 on Apple yay!

 

NMF

1 Bring me the Horizon - Kool-aid

2 Goddard & Cat Burns - Wasted youth

3 Lewis Capaldi - Strangers

4 Last Dinner Party - Caesar on a tv screen

5 Liam Gallagher, Jon Squire - Just another rainbow

 

can't spot any adds to HH, the #1 is again Zara Larsson

Did I see correctly? Was Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten climbing the streaming charts the past week?

MOTD has been added to apple’s main playlist! (As song 21, so not too far down either).

 

Feather also has been moved up 20 places so hopefully that’ll start to properly take off on there now *.*

 

Did I see correctly? Was Natasha Bedingfield’s Unwritten climbing the streaming charts the past week?

yes!!! we love to see it! Up to #80 on Apple now

yes!!! we love to see it! Up to #80 on Apple now

 

That’s amazing! What caused it? New Year’s Eve?

That’s amazing! What caused it? New Year’s Eve?

It’s used heavily in the new film ‘Anyone But You’! It’s based on ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by Shakespeare.

It’s used heavily in the new film ‘Anyone But You’! It’s based on ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by Shakespeare.

 

Oh nice. So that’s two good 00’s pop hits in Murder on the Dancefloor and Unwritten getting good increases from movies.

The Crown used a bunch of great 90s tracks this last season, Cardigans, Natalie imbruglia, Kula Shaker, Dodgy, George Michael,

Daft Punk, Radiohead... too bad there was no effect

That’s a shame. I guess it can be really hard to know what will and won’t take off with people.

Did this change to weekly , we not in February all ready are we oh no soon be Christmas

Did this change to weekly , we not in February all ready are we oh no soon be Christmas

 

Well the thread does say w/c 5th Jan - and last weeks thread has been renamed

yes, due to popular request we are trialing out weekly streaming discussion threads

Well the thread does say w/c 5th Jan - and last weeks thread has been renamed

Bet your fun at parties :lol:

 

Cheers Dappy new year :yahoo:

Bet your fun at parties :lol:

*you're

 

(and yes I'm fun at parties too)

Spotify:

 

 

New Peak:

 

3. Sophie Ellis-Bextor- Murder On The Dancefloor :cheer:

69. Natasha Bedingfield- Unwritten

71. The Lumineers- Ophelia

88. Pitbull, Flo Rida, LunchMoney Lewis- Greenlight The Luke Littler effect, his walk-on music

179. J.Cole- Work Out

 

 

New Entries:

 

183. Lewis Capaldi- A Cure For Minds Unwell

197. Flo Milli- Never Lose Me

 

Re-Entries:

 

180. Bryan Adams- Summer of '69

184. Post Malone- Chemical

198. Rihanna, Mikky Ekko- Stay

199. Arctic Monkeys- Mardy Bum

Not a new peak, but #54 for Naive by the Kooks seems a lot higher than usual given its only spent 6 weeks in the top 100 since 2018

Not a new peak, but #54 for Naive by the Kooks seems a lot higher than usual given its only spent 6 weeks in the top 100 since 2018

 

One of those songs I'll never understand what people's obsession with it is.

MOTD was the 7th most-streamed song on Spotify in the UK during the 29th December to 4th January tracking week.