the new Calvin x Ellie song has hit written all over it, unsure when it's due to come out, though

 

Hopefully the week when all this stale stuff is going on a mass ACR trip.

It seems that MTV no longer broadcast the top 40 on Saturdays like they used to for some unknown reason

I feel like it's been going this way for a while, and though it produces the odd fun stat, it seems to show that ACR isn't working to do what it was originally set out for, as songs' streams are flattening out to the point that small fluctuations week-on-week are almost inevitable over any 3-week cycle meaning they keep avoiding ACR even if in a very slow decline over the course of months.

 

Hasn’t this been going on for years now?

Hasn’t this been going on for years now?

It has, but it seems to have worsened - 4 of this week's Top 40 are songs which have remained on SCR since first peaking 12 or more weeks ago when they were already 8 or more weeks old:

 

15 weeks ago - Scared To Start (peak #9)

13 weeks ago - Birds In The Sky (#18)

12 weeks ago - Austin (#7)

12 weeks ago - Happier (#17)

 

and that's not counting songs like 'Cruel Summer' which have had a reset and aren't anywhere near their previous peaks. Not sure whether the root cause is the decline of influence of playlists like Hot Hits or just that people's Spotify libraries have an ever-increasing number of songs for new hits to integrate with, but it seems to be more common now than when ACR was drawn up in 2017 for songs to reach their peaks and slowly fizzle out rather than to have a rapid rise and fall.