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

 

Bebe Rexha - Chase It (Mmm Da Da Da)

Ben Platt & Brandy Clark - Treehouse [GRAT]

Body Count feat Joe Bad - Psychopath

Bon Jovi - Living Proof [GRAT]

Bru-C feat Mc Spyda, General Levy & Eksman - Ten Toes

The Decemberists - Oh No! [GRAT]

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike x Maddix x Da Hool feat Kiki Solvej - Meet Her At The Love Parade

Emily Nash - Fantasy

Empire Of The Sun - Music On The Radio

Energy 52 - Café Del Mar (Orbital Remix)

Fatboy Slim feat. Dan Diamond & Luca Guerrieri - Role Model

Florrie - Never Far From Paradise

Honne – Songs In My Head

Jake Bugg - Zombieland

JC Stewart - Hey Babe, I'm A Mess, I'm Sorry [Wednesday 22nd]

John Summit, Sub Focus & Julia Church - Go Back

Joshua Bassett - The Golden Years

Julian Velard - Money, I’m In Love with You

Leftwing : Kody & Raphi - Delirious

London Grammar - Kind Of Man [GRAT]

Luke Combs - Ain't No Love In Oklahoma

Miley Cyrus - Psycho Killer

Muni Long feat Mariah Carey - Made For Me (Remix) [Tuesday 21st]

Nate Smith feat Avril Lavigne - Bulletproof

Nathaniel Rateliff And The Night Sweats - David And Goliath [GRAT]

Nelly Furtado x Tove Lo x SG Lewis - Love Bites [Wednesday 22nd]

Nightwish - Perfume Of The Timeless [Tuesday 21st]

Omar Rudberg - Red Light

Patrick Topping & Ewan McVicar - Northern Rhythm

Peggy Gou - Lobster Telephone

Richie Sambora - Believe (In Miracles)

Russ & 6lack - Workin' On Me

Sam Fischer - Parents

Saweetie - Nani

The Script - Both Ways

Serj Tankian - A.F. Day

Skrapz & Kano - Marathon Continues

Sophie & The Giants – Shut Up And Dance

The The - Cognitive Dissident

Tones And I - Wonderful

Troye Sivan - Honey (Mura Masa Remixes)

Twinnie – Girl In Your Songs

Unkle - Only You (&Me Remix)

 

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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Bebe Rexha is 34 on NMFUK while she's 4 on NMF... I don't understand that big of a difference :huh:

Edited May 17, 20241 yr by seltinpixmile

Wow Billie - Lunch added as track @1 to HH

Gracie Adams also adder yay!! Also Beabasoobee and Gunna

 

Lunch, Birds of a feather and Chihiro on NMF for Billie

Billie already has a few album tracks charting on Apple

with these 2 being the highest:

 

140 NEW Billie Eilish - LUNCH

141 NEW Billie Eilish - CHIHIRO

 

Spotify

 

01. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (826,918)

02. Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby (811,972)

03. Post Malone - I Had Some Help (652,249)

04. Shaboozey - A Bar Song (630,300)

05. Hozier - Too Sweet (624,459)

14. Myles Smith - Stargazing

19. Benson Boone - Slow It Down

20. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

31. Nemo - The Code

32. Badger - These Words

51. Joost - Europapa

54. gunna - one of wun

57. David Guetta - I Don't Wanna Wait

59. Dua Lipa - Illusion

60. Hotvibez - One Time

64. Charli XVX- 360

65. Tems - Love Me JeJe

85. Rudimental - Green and Gold

126. Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim

128. gunna - on one tonight

151. Zerb & The Chainsmokers - Addicted

175. Teddy Swims - The Door

 

Edited May 17, 20241 yr by ElectroBoy

Why are hot hits moving Charli DOWN after such huge growth this week. Rats!

If anyone wants an early preview, Billie Eilish has 5 songs in the Australian Spotify chart today (ie 00:00->10:00am streams). "LUNCH" is the highest at #17 and 182K streams. Usually in these situations, the songs will increase roughly 3-4x in streams on Friday, which puts her roughly in the top 3 (which is no knock because the top 2 right now are breaking records).

 

(also by comparison, "bad guy" debuted at #50, quadrupled on the Friday and that set it up for an easy ARIA #1 debut, remarkable top end action the chart's getting lately).

Lunch up to @33 on Apple

Sabrina might hold the UK record for streams over 800k must be about 25 days now

If anyone wants an early preview, Billie Eilish has 5 songs in the Australian Spotify chart today (ie 00:00->10:00am streams). "LUNCH" is the highest at #17 and 182K streams. Usually in these situations, the songs will increase roughly 3-4x in streams on Friday, which puts her roughly in the top 3 (which is no knock because the top 2 right now are breaking records).

 

(also by comparison, "bad guy" debuted at #50, quadrupled on the Friday and that set it up for an easy ARIA #1 debut, remarkable top end action the chart's getting lately).

Oh and additional context, "Happier Than Ever" only had 6 songs in the top 50 on Friday, so this is looking like a much bigger impression both in numbers and chart positions.

Yeah I get the feeling she will make a fairly decent splash. I reckon a top 3 debut for lunch potentially?

Sabrina might hold the UK record for streams over 800k must be about 25 days now

 

Shape of You probably spent about 2 months or more over 800k

Shape of You probably spent about 2 months or more over 800k

 

Just checked, Seems like around 30 days

Looks like Billie is coming for a strong debut.

Spotify:

 

 

New Peak:

 

54. Gunna- one of wun

65. Tems- Love Me JeJe

 

 

New Entries:

 

60. Hotvibez- One Time

 

 

Re-Entries:

 

167. Linkin Park- In The End

179. Bruce Springsteen- Dancing In The Dark

182. Earth, Wind & Fire- September

188. Nickelback- How You Remind Me

194. Miley Cyrus- Party In The U.S.A.

196. Elley Duhe, Whethan- MONEY ON THE DASH- SPED UP

198. Outkast- Hey Ya!

(May 16th)

 

New Entries:

 

60. Hotvibez- One Time

 

Billie is 11 with Lunch now. This album is looking to be a much bigger moment than the opening week of the last one.

In one grammy year, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Billie Eillish and Ariana Grande all released an album!

In one grammy year, Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Billie Eillish and Ariana Grande all released an album!

 

And all of them flopped if you go by certain forum members on here :lol:

 

 

Billie on Apple Music:

 

11. LUNCH

14. CHIHIRO

16. SKINNY

19. BIRDS OF A FEATHER

26. WILDFLOWER

33. THE GREATEST

36. L'AMOUR DE MA VIE

40. BLUE

42. THE DINER

51. BITTERSUITE

 

Really strong start for the album on AM. Excited for the Spotify debut tomorrow.