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

 

Alexander 23 - Yours

American Authors - My Last Dime

Armand Van Helden x Brittles x Ghost MC - Another Dimension

AWOLnation - Panoramic View

Becky Hill – Outside Of Love

Broken Colours - Not Giving In

Camo & Krooked & Mefjus feat Joe Killington - Pray For Me

Cheat Codes x Regard - Stay Another Night

Conor Maynard - Something To Me

Dean Lewis - The Last Bit Of Us

Don Diablo & Felix Jaehn - Monster

Eliza Rose & MJ Cole - Business As Usual [Wednesday 3rd April]

Feeder – Hey You

Frankie Jay - Someone's Game

Gabrielle – Sorry [GRAT]

Gabrielle Aplin- If It Makes You Happy

Glass Animals - Creatures in Heaven [Wednesday 3rd April]

Henry Moodie - Beat Up Car

James – Life's A Shocking Miracle

James Vincent McMorrow – Give Up

Kings Of Leon - Split Screen [GRAT]

Leigh-Anne - Stealin' Love

Lorde - Take Me To The River

Matt Hodges - Make This Our Town

Maur feat Joanna Cooke - All For You

Natasha Bedingfield Unwritten (Feel The Rain) (Shirli Version)

Neiked feat Muni Long & Nile Rodgers - The Moves

Nelly Furtado & Juanes - Gala Y Dalí

Pet Shop Boys - Dancing Star [Wednesday 3rd April]

Purple Disco Machine feat Roosevelt - Higher Ground

Richard Hawley – Heavy Rain

Stand Atlantic feat PVRIS & Bruses – Girl$

SwitchOTR – Drawing Line

Take That - You And Me

Tide Lines - Homeward Bound

Tiësto x Moguai - Explode

Tom Walker – Lifeline

UB40 - Forever True

Walk Off The Earth - On The Road

X Ambassadors - Follow The Sound Of My Voice [GRAT]

Yungblud - Abyss

 

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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I didn't understand why someone thinks Texas Hold will be back at #1 next week if Beautiful Things is still ahead of it on Spotify and Apple. *confused.com*

 

I really don’t understand why it’s so confusing

I guess the person didn't realise Beyonce's album is out today

Spotify

 

01. Benson Boone - Beautiful Things (615,000)

02. Noah Kahan - Stick Season (562,573)

03. Djo - End of Beginning (519,064)

04. Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (484,244)

05. Teddy Swims - Lose Control (440,984)

06. Artemas - i like the way you kiss me (421,730)

07. Beyonce - Texas Hold 'Em (377,943)

08. Future & Metro Boomin - Like That

09. Michael Marcagi - Scared to Start

14. Dasha - Austin

15. Olivia Rodrigo - obsessed

18. Bryson Tiller - Whatever She Wants

33. Jungle - Back on 74

45. Benson Boone - Slow It Down

52. Mark Ambor - Belong Together

58. NewEra - Birds in the Sky

77. Cam Cab - I LUV IT

85. Artemas - if u think i'm pretty

89. The Blessed Madonna & Clementine Douglas - Happier

91. TLC - No Scrubs

102. goddard. & Cat Burns - Wasted Youth

109. Madison Beer - Make You Mine

123. Rudimental & Skepsis - Green & Gold

 

Hozier seems to have vanished...

Edited March 29, 20241 yr by ElectroBoy

Beyonce songs starting to show up on Apple already!

Unless I’m missing it, it seems that Hozier - Too Sweet has disappeared from the Spotify chart in today’s update?

Beyonce songs starting to show up on Apple already!

Unless I’m missing it, it seems that Hozier - Too Sweet has disappeared from the Spotify chart in today’s update?

 

MUST be a mistake, it's there on Global chart with an all time high and also up 1 spot, so how come? (3M in the US alone!)

And also now it's top 5 on TTH, get ready for the perfect storm, it's going crazy (poor him even with 3M in the US he's still 2 cuz the number 1 doing 3.9M everyday of the week.)

Edited March 29, 20241 yr by omrimayo

Beyonce songs starting to show up on Apple already!

Unless I’m missing it, it seems that Hozier - Too Sweet has disappeared from the Spotify chart in today’s update?

Yeah it’s gone, I guess it’s another glitch like Dasha.

Impressive start for Camila!

Jolene #66 on AM already

Beyonce on Apple

 

03. Texas Hold 'Em

66. Jolene

83. Ameriican Requiem

107. II Most Wanted

120. Dolly P

145. Blackbiird

167. Spaghettii

173. Bodyguard

177. Daughter

Edited March 29, 20241 yr by ElectroBoy

Camila hasn’t been Hot Hits’d has she?

 

That’s earlier than I expected for Beyoncé to enter!

Edited March 29, 20241 yr by 365

Go Jolene! Do you guys think the Bey/Miley duet is @1 material?

Go Jolene! Do you guys think the Bey/Miley duet is @1 material?

 

I thought it sounded sh!te... so will probably end up at Number 1 :lol:

Jolene sounds more likely to be a lasting hit than the Miley duet I'd think

Same

The duet doesnt seem very memorable it’s nice but not wow

I was even more wowed at the Posty duet

Same

The duet doesnt seem very memorable it’s nice but not wow

I was even more wowed at the Posty duet

Weird choice for a single. Really. It’s a very nice song but not single 100%. Post one is 10 times better.

I can’t see Jolene sticking around too long, people are far too familiar with the original.

 

Bodyguard sounds like the natural radio follow up to Texas, I’m surprised they didn’t push that instead!

Is the Miley duet confirmed as the single they're pushing?

Is the Miley duet confirmed as the single they're pushing?

It's the main "focus track", as in the song that's getting the playlist push on streaming alongside the album release, not sure there's a specific indicator of it being a proper single just yet (for someone like Beyoncé I'd usually expect a Radio 1 playlisting to confirm the single status) but it wouldn't surprise me at the moment. TEXAS HOLD 'EM is the current single still for the time being.

Bodyguard sounds like the natural radio follow up to Texas, I’m surprised they didn’t push that instead!

 

 

I've seen Bodyguard pop up A LOT on Tiktok already so I think it may be the song that just naturally takes off on its own and becomes the 2nd single kinda like Cuff It