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

 

Alex Adair - I Want You

American Authors - Come Too Far

Belters Only - Something Real

Billy Gillies feat Hannah Boleyn - Right Here All Along

Blink 182 - All In My Head

Central Cee & JRK19 – Bolide Noir

Coldplay feat Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI - We Pray [GRAT]

Dbreathe - Shall We Take A Trip? (Where Is My Mind Edit)

Eats Everything feat Stevie Appleton - Happy People

Fedde Le Grand x Todd Terry feat Rowetta - Baby Can You Reach

The Fray - Don't Look Down [GRAT]

Good Neighbours – Bloom

Janet Devlin - Daddy

Jelly Roll - Get By

Jessie Reyez & Lil Wayne - Ridin'

Kim Wilde - Trail Of Destruction

Majestic feat Ghost MC - Class Of '89

Masked Wolf - Spiderman In Space

Matt Dusk & The Lou Pomanti Orchestra - I Wanna Be Around

Myles Smith - Wait For You

Nate Smith - Fix What You Didn't Break

Nathan Dawe & Joel Corry feat Sascha – Higher

Nerina Pallot - Regrets

Nimino - I Only Smoke When I Drink

Picture This & Dean Lewis - Middle Of Love

Pixie Lott - Midnight Trash [GRAT]

R3hab & Sophie and The Giants - All Night

Rozalla / Nicholson - You & I

Tianna J - I've Let Go

Tight Fit - Own The Universe

Tracy Shield - Ashes

Txmy & Freya Ridings – Ethereal

Yung Filly - Tempted

 

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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New Sabrina @1 on NMF but not added to HH, typical of them

 

NMF

1 Sabrina

2 Fontaines random album track

3 Coldplay

 

HH added new Coldplay as track #30

Edited August 23, 2024Aug 23 by Bjork

Would love to see 3 new tracks do well but ppp being tracklistedd number 2 it's getting reset ain't it

Lady Mars #6 on Spotify :heart:

Song of the year finally entering at #200

Added to Apple's Today's Hits:

 

18. Myles Smith - Wait for You

25. Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

28. Coldplay & co. - WE PRAY

31. Fontaines D.C. - In the Modern World

44. Alex Warren (feat. Ella Henderson) - Carry You Home

55. Good Neighbours - Bloom

Sabrina at 56 with Taste, good start I think? Can literally never tell with Apple though lmao

Lady Mars #6 on Spotify :heart:

 

That's a big gain, wow this is really catching on! It's growing in the way a future No.1 single often does (unless Taste gets in the way for ages and it stalls at No.2).

Sabrina on Apple:

 

4 +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please

5 +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

56 NEW Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

Edited August 23, 2024Aug 23 by Bjork

Good start for Taste but pretty poor for the rest of the album? Like Jack said it's hard to tell on AM - songs might suddenly appear high and then stall. Like DWAS debuted at #51 but is yet to go higher than #14.

Edited August 23, 2024Aug 23 by Sour Candy

Whole album top 60 in Australia ("Taste" #9) which seems pretty respectable.

That's a big gain, wow this is really catching on! It's growing in the way a future No.1 single often does (unless Taste gets in the way for ages and it stalls at No.2).

Yeah it’s a big, kinda random gain. I wonder if it’s auto play, perhaps? :thinking:

Good start for Taste but pretty poor for the rest of the album? Like Jack said it's hard to tell on AM - songs might suddenly appear high and then stall. Like DWAS debuted at #51 but is yet to go higher than #14.

I'm sure very few new releases show up before 12pm so Taste being so high already is a very strong performance, as opposed to it being any indicator on how the rest of the album is faring. Far too soon to be making any sort of judgements.

Yeah it’s a big, kinda random gain. I wonder if it’s auto play, perhaps? :thinking:

 

Don't think it's autoplay this time it seems to be getting huge on TT and overall general hype seems to be increasing.

Taste is absolutely brilliant, I’d even go as far to say it’s her best yet? Maybe I’m just being bias but I love it, hope it can smash

on Apple:

184 NEW

Sabrina Carpenter - Sharpest Tool

been testing autoplay and never got Gaga

the one I get all the time on autopayola is Gracie Abrams-I Love you I'm sorry

 

I still get 360 - been like that for like 3 weeks lol

Sabrina on Apple - really strong showing!

 

3 Please Please Please

5 Espresso

16 Taste

28 Good Graces

32 Sharpest Tool

37 Coincidence

38 Bed Chem

48 Slim Pickins

50 Juno

52 Dumb & Poetic

71 Lie to Girls

84 Don't Smile

 

A few Fontaines D.C. songs showing up too:

 

96 In the Modern World

117 Starburster

121 Here's the Thing

190 Favourite

That’s a brilliant start. It’s a shame that none of the album songs are likely to chart as I’m guessing espresso and PPP will be reset