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

 

Alan Walker, Joe Jonas & Julia Michaels - Thick Of It All

Alex Warren - Troubled Waters

Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection (Key Version) [GRAT]

Alok & Jazzy - The Heat

Armin van Buuren & Hardwell - Follow The Light

Ashnikko - Paint The Town Blue

The Blessed Madonna feat Shaun J. Wright & Kon – Secretariat [GRAT]

Central Cee x Raye - Moi

The Chainsmokers & Kim Petras - Don’t Lie

David Guetta & Alesso feat Madison Love - Never Going Home Tonight

Don Diablo & Sandro Cavazza - Young Again

Felix Jaehn feat bbyclose - Dream Come True

George Fitzgerald - Gild

Guy Sebastian - Burn For You

Halsey – Ego

James Hype feat Shamiya Battles - 7 Seconds

The James Taylor Quartet - She Dreams In Crimson

Jet - Hurry Hurry

Joss Stone feat Shaggy - Loving You

JP Cooper - Diamonds And Gold

Lee Taub - Automated

Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine

Marshmello & Viperactive - In The Cut

Maverick Sabre - Roses Ether

New Hope Club - Trouble In Paradise

Pa Salieu – Belly

Pharrell Williams - Piece By Piece

Quavo & Ty Dolla $ign - If I Fall

Queen & Megan Thee Stallion - We Will Rock You (Megan Thee Stallion Version)

Ren - Kujo Beat Down

Revival & Phebe Edwards - Ain't No Mountain

Rudimental feat Mystic Marley & Flowdan – Ram Pam

Sting - I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart)

Tiësto & Swimming Paul - VHS Rave

Tom Walker - I Am [GRAT]

Underworld - Black Poppies

The Vamps - Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) - ReVamped

 

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

See here

NMF

1 Fred again

2 Linkin Park

3 Rae & CC

4 Halsey

5 Jungle

 

Don't think HH added anything. Bizarrely HH have Teddy Pineapple Swims on the cover and has upped The Door as track #5 :o

Has Diet Pepsi been on HHUK before? It's on there now!

Yes yes couple weeks I think

New Jungle song 10/10 hoping that can do something, realistically it won't but we can hope

1- Taste - 673,640

2- Please Please Please - 447,533

3- Espresso - 443,282

4- Birds of a Feather - 442,164

5- Good Luck Babe - 434,945

6- Die with a smile - 359,081

7- Bed Chem - 355,842

8- Backbone - 322,029

9- Guess - 300,739

 

 

18 - Live Forever - 234,769

Edited September 6, 2024Sep 6 by Liam sota

BABY I'M BACK up to #114 and also on Hot Hits UK now, another top 40 hit for Laroi please :cheer:

new peak at #22 for Gracie Abrams-I Love You I'm Sorry, probably 90% due to my autopayola, I get the song at the end of every playlist like 10 times a day :D

 

also Frank Ocean - White Ferrari has been charting recently in the US due to tiktok and has finally cracked the top 200 in the UK :)

I get the feeling Gracie will be top 10 by xmas!

Spotify:

 

 

New Peak:

 

22. Gracie Abrams- I Love You, I'm Sorry

24. Gigi Perez- Sailor Song

114. The Kid LAROI- BABY I'M BACK

164. Train- Drive By

 

 

Re-Peak:

 

6. Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars- Die With A Smile

 

 

New Entries:

 

198. TOTO- Hold the Line

 

 

199. Frank Ocean- White Ferrari

 

 

 

 

 

Re-Entries:

 

170. The La's- There She Goes

177. Mitski- My Love Mine All Mine

178. Dave, Central Cee- Sprinter

183. Coldplay, Little Simz, Burna Boy, Elyanna, TINI- WE PRAY

189. Miley Cyrus- Party In The U.S.A.

196. Billie Eilish, Khalid- lovely

197. Daryl Hall & John Oates- Rich Girl

200. Coldplay- A Sky Full of Stars

 

New on Apple:

 

31. LINKIN PARK - The Emptiness Machine

76. Central Cee & RAYE - Moi

120. LINKIN PARK - In the End

166. LINKIN PARK - Numb

175. HUGEL, Topic & Arash - I Adore You (feat. Daecolm)

 

Fred again..:

 

57. Fred again.. & Obongjayar - adore u

80. Fred again.., Anderson .Paak & CHIKA - places to be

82. Fred again.. & SOAK - just stand there

112. Fred again.. & Jozzy - ten

122. Fred again.., Duskus, Four Tet & Skrillex - glow

174. Fred again.. & Sampha - fear less

194. Fred again.. & Joy Anonymous - peace u need

 

I’ve heard that Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx appears in the new Beetlejuice film. If it’s true, I hope it does a Bye Bye Bye and has a chart resurgence

The cool people say Hold The Line is the best Toto song and Hazard is the best Richard Marx song.

What's caused the resurgence for Hold The Line? That's a great song!

What's caused the resurgence for Hold The Line? That's a great song!

I don’t know but it is indeed a great song and it reminds me of GTA San Andreas. Speaking of GTA, I expect a lot of songs from GTA 6 to get chart resurgences next year

Edited September 6, 2024Sep 6 by Hadji

Linkin park 26 on Apple Music and #1 on iTunes so if it does well on Spotify potential for a top 10

From what I can see, last year Linkin Park’s Lost got to #15 on Spotify but didn’t make the Apple Top 200 (at least on release day).

Interesting that the new Linkin Park appeared at #31 on AM right away and has since then climbed only to #23. Was expecting it to challenge #1 with that debut.

 

Kind of indicates that the streaming numbers below top 50 are pretty low.

Edited September 7, 2024Sep 7 by Sour Candy

wow surprised at how well Linkin Park is doing, also Freds album

I'm obsessed with the Linkin Park song, hope it does well!