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

 

Adam Lambert - CVNTY

Alec Benjamin - Found You First

Alexander Stewart - Life At First Sight

Alok & Jess Glynne - Summer's Back

Ariana Grande feat Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine (Remix)

Armin van Buuren, Vize & Leony- City Lights

Asake & Central Cee – Wave

Cammy Barnes - Guiding Light

Cascada - Call Me

Charli XCX feat Lorde - Girl, So Confusing (Remix)

Coldplay – Feelslikeimfallinginlove

David Kushner - Humankind

Dillon Francis, Galantis & Arden Jones - Pretty Low

DJ Xquizit & Freddie Alva - Experiencia Religiosa

Empire Of The Sun - Cherry Blossom [GRAT]

Gavin James - All My Life

Griff – Anything [GRAT]

Headie One feat Aitch – Tipsy [GRAT]

Henry Moodie - Bad Emotions

Ice Spice - Phat Butt

Kali Uchis - Never Be Yours

Kasabian - Darkest Lullaby [GRAT]

Kungs, DJ Seinfeld & Club Azur - Please Be Mine

Lainey Wilson - Out Of Oklahoma

Less Than Jake - Broken Words

London Grammar - Into Gold [GRAT]

Maren Morris feat Julia Michaels - Cut!

Matt Terry - Boujee

Michael Marcagi - Tear It All Apart

Nathan Carter feat Tully - Listen To The Radio

Paris Hilton & Rina Sawayama - I'm Free

Paul Heaton - Fish ‘N’ Chip Supper

Perrie Edwards - Tears

Pixie Lott - Somebody's Daughter

Post Malone & Blake Shelton - Pour Me A Drink

Preston D Barnes - Country Star

Purple Disco Machine x Chromeo - Heart Breaker

Pvris & Lights - The Blob

Rudimental & Karen Harding - Bring Me Joy

Stamxa - Bouncer (Keon Hill Remix)

Stone Foundation - Everything & All I Want

Yungblud – Breakdown

Yxng Bane & D-Block Europe - City Girls/Trackstar

Zedd feat Bea Miller - Out Of Time

 

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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NMF

1 Coldplay

2 Headie One, Aitch

3 Gracie Adams ft Taylor Swift - Us

4 Jamie XX, Robyn

5 Fontaines DC

6 Griff - Anything

7 Asake, Central Cee

8 Perrie

9 Charli xcx, Lorde

 

12 Post Malone, Blake Shelton

24 Ariana Grande ft Brandi & Monica

 

HH added Coldplay and new Tommy Richman that came out last week (Devil is a Lie)

Apple's Today's Hits has added:

 

15. Coldplay - feelslikeimfallinginlove

19. Perrie - Tears

21. Headie One (feat. Aitch) - Tipsy

24. Rudimental & Karen Harding - Bring Me Joy

26. Clementine Douglas - Riddles

28. Griff - Anything

38. Asake & Central Cee - Wave

 

I don't think Riddles was there yesterday, but I could be wrong as it's been out for a couple of weeks.

Some interesting female collabs out today!

 

Gracie Abrams/Taylor Swift

Charli XCX/Lorde

Ariana/Brandy/Monica

Paris Hilton/Rina Sawayama

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by Mangø

Very low numbers today. Please down to - 878,183

'Good Luck, Babe' up to 9!

'HOT TO GO!' up to 36

'Red Wine Supernova' up to 43

'Nasty' down to 123 :drama:

Spotify

 

01. Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please (878,183)

02. Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso (754,138)

03. Billie Eilish - Birds of a Feather (593,753)

09. Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

29. Tommy Richman - Devil is a Lie

35. Baddiel & Skinner - 3 Lions

36. Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO!

41. Jordan Adetunji - KEHLANI

43. Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova

49. Teddy Swims - The Door

99. Fred again.. - Places to Be

123. Tinashe - Nasty

125. Chappell Roan - Casual

166. Will Smith - Miami

169. Pitbull - Time of our Lives

 

 

 

Very low numbers today. Please down to - 878,183

 

Not very low in the grand scheme of things. :P

 

Chappell top 10 at last! :cheeseblock:

Sabrina streamers moving on to Chappell!

Edited June 21, 20241 yr by Sour Candy

Haha if you’d said 9 months ago that in June someone would be lamenting the low daily Spoti streams when the #1 only did 878k. :P

'Good Luck, Babs' should actually be top 10 next week then. Yay!

Starting to lose hope that Tinashe is going to go top 100.

 

How annoyingly close…

I know Chapell is propelled by tiktok/virality but she could easily get 100K more if HH was on board and prioritise it instead of having it as song #67 or something on their list

 

Bit of a bizarre drop for Please Please Please today as songs usually barely change in streams from Wed to Thu

Why is Good Luck, Babe so far down on HHUK?? :huh: (It’s number 1 on TTH though - how long has it been #1 there?)

Apple:

97 NEW Gracie Abrams - us. (feat. Taylor Swift)

Shocked Charli and Lorde didn’t make an appearance yet!

Good Luck, Babe is one of my favourite songs of the year, I'd be elated to see it go top ten after it looked like it had stalled in the low top 20 previously.

 

I must start hammering it again this week.

Newies on Apple:

 

62 Asake and Central Cee - Wave

75 Gracie Abrams - us. (feat. Taylor Swift)

 

Would be great to see Asake finally getting a top 40 hit (even if just thanks to the Central Cee stimulus package), off to a promising start but he does usually do better on Apple than on Spotify.

 

Also a big upwards movement for Jordan Adetunji (up 41 to #37). I was assuming this would just be another random hip-hop/R&B act getting a viral song by naming it after a more popular artist (see also: Armani White) but after Googling the name he looks potentially more interesting, I see his own website describes his music as "merging rap and r&b post punk feels" which immediately piques my interest, must check out this song x

Coldplay are also in:

 

115 NEW

Coldplay - feelslikeimfallinginlove

Ah yes the 101-200 section hadn't updated on Kworb yet (seems to lag behind the top 100 updates for some reason).

 

Also:

 

172 Perrie - Tears

180 Rudimental and Karen Harding - Bring Me Joy

 

Karen Harding maybe coming for a second top 40 hit nearly 10 years after her first!