Usually with a dance remix a la All Of Me!

Even on The Big Top 40 chart of the year George was only just in the top 20 when Shotgun should of been top 3. He was never number 1 on that chart either when he should of been. Just proves how much that chart is made up and favours certain artists.

Edited February 11, 20197 yr by darrens94

Even on The Big Top 40 chart of the year George was only just in the top 20 when Shotgun should of been top 3. He was never number 1 on that chart either when he should of been. Just proves how much that chart is made up and favours certain artists.

 

Doesn’t that chart now incorporate airplay across the network though? Will explain the lower position if Capital doesn’t play it

Doesn’t that chart now incorporate airplay across the network though? Will explain the lower position if Capital doesn’t play it

 

I think at some point the Big Top 40 (and its predecesors) were probably calculated scientifically but lately there's been some weird goings on. It looks relatively close to the sales chart (so probably based on iTunes sales), but then you'll get something like James Arthur at number 2 inexplicably, when he was only something like number 40 on the commercial airplay chart so it couldn't have just been down to airplay.

So apparently it’s airplay, iTunes and Apple Music data.

So apparently it’s airplay, iTunes and Apple Music data.

 

iTunes data would seem to be the highest weighted (Dalton Harris was #1 for example), and looking at this week's chart it looks kinda similar to the live iTunes chart but then you find

 

Dua Lipa at 10 (37 on iTunes, 25 on commercial airplay)

Sigrid at 27 (45 on iTunes, not top 40 on commercial airplay)

Lewis Capaldi is not on the top 40 at all!

 

iTunes data would seem to be the highest weighted (Dalton Harris was #1 for example), and looking at this week's chart it looks kinda similar to the live iTunes chart but then you find

 

Dua Lipa at 10 (37 on iTunes, 25 on commercial airplay)

Sigrid at 27 (45 on iTunes, not top 40 on commercial airplay)

Lewis Capaldi is not on the top 40 at all!

Their 'chart' has always been a shambles, but placing so much focus on iTunes in 2019 is an absolute farce. The fact that so many believe it be official makes it even worse.

Their 'chart' has always been a shambles, but placing so much focus on iTunes in 2019 is an absolute farce. The fact that so many believe it be official makes it even worse.

 

On the other hand, perhaps the reason they base it on downloads is because it helps the chart seem "fresher" than the official one, and the songs that do well on sales are more radio-friendly. And perhaps people who listen to Capital and Heart are more likely to be downloaders than streamers?

Edited February 12, 20197 yr by AcerBen

How Lewis Capaldi isn’t on the chart I will never know. He was top 10 on iTunes and Apple Music and top 40 on airplay last week. They have Jack Savoretti at 8 even though he’s not in the top 200 on Apple Music or top 40 on airplay and capital don’t even play the track. They just make it up as they go along I think.

Bizarre that Capital seem to be bypassing Little Mix's single, haven't they supported every song of theirs heavily in the past?

Bizarre that Capital seem to be bypassing Little Mix's single, haven't they supported every song of theirs heavily in the past?

If I'm remembering correctly, they didn't playlist 'Change Your Life', 'How Ya Doin' or 'Word Up' from their earlier eras, but from 'Black Magic' onwards they've always received heavy rotation pretty much instantly. Apparently they're snubbing it because of Capital's strong ties with Syco, but that didn't stop them hammering WLM, and they're still giving their older singles the occasional spin now and again. It's all a bit odd.

If I'm remembering correctly, they didn't playlist 'Change Your Life', 'How Ya Doin' or 'Word Up' from their earlier eras, but from 'Black Magic' onwards they've always received heavy rotation pretty much instantly. Apparently they're snubbing it because of Capital's strong ties with Syco, but that didn't stop them hammering WLM, and they're still giving their older singles the occasional spin now and again. It's all a bit odd.

 

Woman Like You was released and out for quite a while before their split from Syco though, so that is hardly a surprise. If it is label politics at play then hopefully RCA can remedy it.

Bizarre that Capital seem to be bypassing Little Mix's single, haven't they supported every song of theirs heavily in the past?

They are performing at the global awards too which capital obviously keeps banging on about and makes it even more odd

Capital followed the Jonas brothers on Twitter yesterday. Wonder if they’re supporting their music now

Are Capital playlisting P!nk- Walk me home?

Capital followed the Jonas brothers on Twitter yesterday. Wonder if they’re supporting their music now

 

I guess they are as the track was just played on the breakfast show

Capital played Sucker earlier twice in the space of 54 minutes!

 

 

I imagine Capital will playlist 11 Minutes soon - they've had Yungblud on to talk about it and the later shows have played it.

 

It does definitely make me think that they are playing Ezra for a reason other than 'he's got a guitar that isn't acoustic', as Yungblud talked about this on Capital:

 

“It’s a guitar based record which is being played on commercial radio again, so that’s wicked. That’s a win for rock and roll music and that’s what we love. We wanted to create a song that had the energy of a rock song, the swagger of a hip hop tune and the chorus of a pop song, in one big pot, mashed up.”

 

 

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed a while ago that the reason for the Ezra snub is because of some comment he made about Global Radio or something along those lines.

It was, which is so frustratingly childish of them. I mean for a company that values listeners and profits over everything else they're losing out on listeners not playing one of the biggest names in uk Pop these days.