Yep, and if the Christmas streams don't skyrocket to outer space (which they should considering the bigger number of people allegedly streaming right now) it's very interesting. The daily streams at the top of the charts have almost doubled in a year.

 

If streaming growth stays at this pace, the charts are going to be chaos with all the Xmas songs dominating (even more than usual) from Nov 1st.

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by Rob

Hopefully the Christmas classics will just do their usual numbers and the current hits will continue to do big numbers, meaning the chart is slightly less Christmas song dominated.

Yep, and if the Christmas streams don't skyrocket to outer space (which they should considering the bigger number of people allegedly streaming right now) it's very interesting. The daily streams at the top of the charts have almost doubled in a year.

 

If they don’t then I’ll assume there’s some trickery at play here. I don’t expect them to grow very much, if they did grow in line with everything else we should be seeing Wham! and Mariah getting over 5m on Christmas Day

If they don’t then I’ll assume there’s some trickery at play here. I don’t expect them to grow very much, if they did grow in line with everything else we should be seeing Wham! and Mariah getting over 5m on Christmas Day

That doesn't seem likely to me, there are a lot of big hits around at the moment but overall Spotify numbers are probably only up what, 10% on last year? Xmas songs aren't like current hits, they get huge streams because virtually everyone is listening to them, including those who aren't interested in chart music. Perhaps the big numbers at the top indicate a change in the general public's listening habits but I'd be surprised if that translates to Christmas.

 

Anyway, hopefully it means we can get a big hit in December which prevents Wham inevitably hogging the top spot for the whole month :lol:

Is the current situation with high streams at the top end really that different from, say, 2019? Could it be that this is the norm and the 2020-2023 period was an extended anomaly beginning with Covid and not really recovering until now?

Is the current situation with high streams at the top end really that different from, say, 2019? Could it be that this is the norm and the 2020-2023 period was an extended anomaly beginning with Covid and not really recovering until now?

 

Exactly what I was thinking

Is the current situation with high streams at the top end really that different from, say, 2019? Could it be that this is the norm and the 2020-2023 period was an extended anomaly beginning with Covid and not really recovering until now?

A good way to look at this is the number of songs that surpassed 50 million streams each year on Spotify in the UK:

 

2019: 20

2020: 14

2021: 10

2022: 9

2023: 15

 

I will concede that this year the number is likely to be above 20 and probably more likely ~25 - However the size of the increase is exaggerated by the poor performance at the top of the chart across the past 4 years

what you talking about 2019? The regular #1 was doing 500K tops, and same in 2017-2018

the situation was exactly the same as in the 2020-2023

lol that's why Spotify has an archive, go check

 

this has changed and was never like this before. Now we have 2/3 songs close to 1 million, 10 songs over 500K

 

in the past we were lucky to have one song over 500K, imagine having 10 like we have now

many #1s were doing 350K daily tops on average, nowhere close to 1 million

 

OK maybe I’m thinking more in chart sales than Spotify streams but if you look at weekly #1 sales (and the sales for a typical Top 10 for that matter) they were way higher in 2019 than in most of 2020 to 2023. 2024 numbers don’t look all that dissimilar to that, especially bearing in mind that the overall streaming market has been growing for 5 years.

Why is Charli's 'Talk Talk' up 52 places to #69? Does it have playlisting somewhere?

 

Tinashe added to Hot Hits UK!

 

I think autoplay. I've had "Talk Talk" pop up for me the last day or so. Really like it so have added to my general playlist too!

 

I don’t think so but I do think it could block Birds Of A Feather from the Top 3. :arrr:

 

For the briefest of seconds somewhere along the road the thought crossed my mind that as Eminem and Espresso faded more, this might get enough of a boost to clinch a #1. Oh well. Delighted to see it still doing so well anyway.

 

Looks like Please x3 is undoubtedly going to the top now, although Espresso is more likely to get back there for this week first. As individual songs, I think Espresso is miles superior but will be nice to see the turnover at the top of the chart continue.

Edited June 12, 20241 yr by My... WAP??

It may be 'Espresso' followed by 'Please Please Please' for the Top 2 on Friday.

Spotify Chart Update (11/06)

 

01 01 Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please 1,031,787

02 02 Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso 869,525

03 04 Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER 770,830 [*PEAK*]

04 03 Eminem – Houdini 736,315

05 07 Hozier – Too Sweet 549,699

06 05 Tommy Richman – MILLION DOLLAR BABY 537,175

07 06 Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) 535,627

08 08 Central Cee, Lil Baby – BAND4BAND (feat. Lil Baby) 512,265

09 09 Billie Eilish – LUNCH 485,781

10 10 Myles Smith – Stargazing 452,260

 

11 11 Post Malone, Morgan Wallen – I Had Some Help (Feat. Morgan Wallen) 400,213

12 12 Benson Boone – Beautiful Things 387,242

13 13 Dasha – Austin (Boots Stop Workin') 383,475

14 15 Noah Kahan – Stick Season 333,037

15 14 Teddy Swims – Lose Control 329,501

16 16 Taylor Swift, Post Malone – Fortnight (feat. Post Malone) 327,477

17 18 Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! 313,413

18 17 Artemas – i like the way you kiss me 309,435

19 19 Billie Eilish – CHIHIRO 299,778

20 20 Benson Boone – Slow It Down 281,085

 

21 21 Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us 270,267

22 22 Taylor Swift – I Can Do It With a Broken Heart 262,221

23 23 Mark Ambor – Belong Together 247,794

24 25 Taylor Swift – Cruel Summer 238,983

25 24 Michael Marcagi – Scared To Start 233,572

26 26 Billie Eilish – WILDFLOWER 216,480

27 28 cassö, RAYE, D-Block Europe – Prada 214,926

28 27 Djo – End of Beginning 210,740

29 30 Ariana Grande – we can't be friends (wait for your love) 190,950

30 29 Vance Joy – Riptide 184,962

 

31 34 The Killers – Mr. Brightside 175,662

32 31 Charli xcx – 360 174,050

33 33 Taylor Swift – Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? 171,301

34 32 Zach Bryan – Pink Skies 169,125

35 35 David Guetta, OneRepublic – I Don't Wanna Wait 168,672

36 36 Billie Eilish – L’AMOUR DE MA VIE 164,132

37 37 Taylor Swift – Down Bad 162,150

38 39 The Blessed Madonna, Clementine Douglas – Happier (feat. Clementine Douglas) 162,137

39 47 Sabrina Carpenter – Feather 157,898

40 38 Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners – Evergreen 154,406

 

43 50 Gunna – one of wun 147,438

45 48 Flex (UK), Nate Dogg – 6 In the Morning (feat. Nate Dogg) 145,195 [*PEAK*]

46 46 Eminem – Without Me 143,104

48 44 Harry Styles – As It Was 142,142

49 70 Teddy Swims – The Door 139,347 [*PEAK*]

52 53 Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse – Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse) - Version Revisited 135,326

54 42 Gracie Abrams – Close To You 134,178

56 58 Fred again.., Anderson .Paak, CHIKA – places to be 129,805

57 56 Chappell Roan – HOT TO GO! 128,734

59 63 Tems – Love Me JeJe 128,460

69 121 Charli xcx – Talk talk 120,661

73 73 Chappell Roan – Red Wine Supernova 118,384

74 134 Zerb, The Chainsmokers, Ink – Addicted 117,991 [*PEAK*]

84 89 NewEra – Birds In The Sky 112,429

91 94 Dua Lipa – Illusion 109,004

92 101 Charli xcx – Von dutch 108,747

 

108 115 Tinashe – Nasty 103,874 [*PEAK*]

113 100 FloyyMenor, Cris Mj – Gata Only 102,482

116 RE Disclosure – She’s Gone, Dance On 101,017 [*PEAK*]

121 104 Lithe – Fall Back 100,080

128 126 PAWSA, Nate Dogg – PICK UP THE PHONE (feat. Nate Dogg) 97,499

137 163 Olivia Rodrigo – obsessed 95,083

143 RE BL3SS, CamrinWatsin, bbyclose – Kisses (feat. bbyclose) 94,115 [*PEAK*]

161 161 Pozer – Malicious Intentions 89,846

171 97 Royel Otis – Linger - SiriusXM Session 87,877

180 184 Kairo Keyz – GANG 86,717

182 NE Sabrina Carpenter – because i liked a boy 86,194 [*PEAK*]

192 189 Alex Warren – Carry You Home 84,462

193 199 Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Tiësto, Dido, W&W, Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike – Thank You (Not So Bad) 84,158

195 NE Dominic Fike – misses 83,575 [*PEAK*]

'Feather' coming for a reset?

'because i liked a boy' debuting :wub:

 

I'm so happy for the success Sabrina is seeing. She deserves it so much!

Can’t wait to see how well Sabrina’s Xmas songs do this December, hopefully be much higher on the playlists and get into the top 20/40!

'Feather' coming for a reset?

 

No chance. Would have to be up a lot more I think

'Feather' was actually down on its numbers from the same day last week until yesterday but it does seem to be racing ahead now (today it's up ~22% week on week). If it keeps that momentum going it might just about get a reset next week but can't see it this week. (Let's not though please, and let's even more not entertain the possibility of her godawful Christmas songs taking off x)

 

I've not listened to 'Please Please Please' yet and do not exactly have high hopes for it but really remarkable how much she's blown up in the past couple of months, so far into her career as well (I had to double take when I first read that her upcoming album is her 6th!)

Omg I didn't think of that, can't wait for "Santa doesn't know you like I do" to be a future classic 🥰🥰🥰

If Sabrina gets the top 2 next week - when was the last time this happened with 2 singles outside of an album release week?

 

I know we’re used to an influx from big albums but there can’t be that many outside of those big release weeks?

 

(There’s probably going to be something recent that’s slipped my mind :D)