Half year update:

1	1	Alex Warren	Ordinary	1,096,000
2	2	Lola Young	Messy	995,000	1,170,000
3	3	Rosé and Bruno Mars	APT.	937,000	1,290,000
4	4	Gracie Abrams	That's So True	824,000	1,260,000
5	5	Chappell Roan	Pink Pony Club	812,000	1,260,000
6	6	Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars	Die With A Smile	760,000	1,390,000
7	7	Chrystal	The Days	680,000	850,000
8	9	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things	650,000	2,440,000
9	8	Billie Eilish	Birds Of A Feather	646,000	1,860,000
10	10	Chappell Roan	Good Luck, Babe!	620,000	1,820,000
11	11	Gigi Perez	Sailor Song	575,000	1,170,000
12	12	Teddy Swims	Lose Control	564,000	2,400,000
13	13	Sabrina Carpenter	Espresso	563,000	2,310,000
14	14	Sabrina Carpenter	Taste	558,000	1,350,000
15	15	Teddy Swims	Bad Dreams	529,000	770,000
16	19	Ravyn Lenae	Love Me Not	518,000
17	16	Tate McRae	Sports Car	516,000
18	17	Teddy Swims	The Door	514,000	1,180,000
19	8	Myles Smith	Nice To Meet You	504,000	610,000
20	20	Myles Smith	Stargazing	476,000	1,490,000
21	21	Shaboozey	A Bar Song (Tipsy)	474,000	1,810,000
22	23	Hozier	Too Sweet	452,000	1,920,000
23	22	Kendrick Lamar	Not Like Us	446,000	1,070,000
24	24	Alex Warren	Carry You Home	440,000	740,000
25	26	Noah Kahan	Stick Season	429,000	2,950,000
26	25	Lady Gaga	Abracadabra	428,000
27	28	WizTheMc & Bees & Honey	Show Me Love	424,000
28	27	Sabrina Carpenter	Please Please Please	416,000	1,560,000
29	29	Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D.	Somedays	412,000	880,000
30	30	Sabrina Carpenter	Bed Chem	395,000	790,000
31	31	Sabrina Carpenter	Busy Woman	394,000
32	32	Doechii	Anxiety	386,000
33	34	The Killers	Mr Brightside	376,000	6,440,000
34	33	Chappell Roan	Hot To Go!	375,000	1,040,000
35	35	Kendrick Lamar & Sza	Luther	364,000	460,000
36	36	Gracie Abrams	I Love You, I'm Sorry	362,000	850,000
37	44	Ed Sheeran	Azizam	359,000
38	37	Sam Fender	People Watching	355,000	460,000
39	39	Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen	I Had Some Help	350,000	1,260,000
40	41	Goo Goo Dolls	Iris	350,000	4,160,000
41	40	Kendrick Lamar & Sza	All The Stars	347,000	2,260,000
42	42	Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose	Kisses	346,000	1,000,000
43	38	The Weeknd and Playboi Carti	Timeless	346,000	570,000
44	43	Billie Eilish	Wildflower	343,000	860,000
45	45	Fleetwood Mac	Dreams	342,000	3,560,000
46	46	Dasha	Austin	335,000	1,480,000
47	49	Sombr	Undressed	335,000
48	48	Drake	Nokia	326,000
49	47	Doechii	Denial Is A River	321,000
50	51	Tate McRae	Revolving Door	308,000
52	55	Sombr	Back To Friends	302,000
57	56	Alex Warren	Burning Down	281,000	410,000
59	58	Pawsa and The Adventures Of Stevie V	Dirty Cash (Money Talks)	276,000	340,000
60	60	Chappell Roan	The Giver	276,000
61	62	Leon Thomas	Mutt	273,000	290,000
68	68	Sabrina Carpenter	Juno	255,000	500,000
69	71	Morgan Seatree featuring Florence + The Machine	Say My Name (Remix)	254,000
70	69	Imogen Heap	Headlock	251,000	340,000
71	70	Kendrick Lamar	TV Off	248,000	340,000
74	77	Benson Boone	Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else	245,000
76	79	Sonny Fodera & Clementine Douglas	Tell Me	243,000
78	87	Moliy, Silent Addy, Skillibeng, Shenseea	Shake It To The Max (FLY) - Remix	240,000
80	78	Tyla	Push 2 Start	238,000	300,000
87	88	Disturbed	The Sound Of Silence	225,000	1,830,000
89	86	Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande	Defying Gravity	224,000	350,000
92	93	Tate McRae	It's OK I'm OK	220,000	400,000
97	-	Stereophonics	Dakota	212,000	2,520,000
98	-	Wheatus	Teenage Dirtbag	212,000	2,830,000
99	-	Tom Odell	Another Love	211,000	3,590,000
100	98	Chappell Roan	Red Wine Supernova	211,000	640,000
XXX	97	Sam Barber featuring Avery Anna	Indigo	211,000	240,000
XXX	99	Sam Fender	Arm's Length	211,000
XXX	96	Jimin	Who	208,000	480,000

I guess “Teenage Dirtbag” isn’t that surprising in the context of it being #74 on Maestro’s Spotify YTD, but that wasn’t on my radar at all.

Shame Indigo couldn't make the half-year point. Was half expecting Teenage Dirtbag as its been in and out of the overall streaming chart all year but not this early...

After a proper look at the list I have a lot of cleaning up to do at the lower end for my estimates- I have a 9k gap between 86 and 85 which can't be right

How is 'Denial is a River' on 321,000 for this year but on 320,000 including last year?

16 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

How is 'Denial is a River' on 321,000 for this year but on 320,000 including last year?

Removed the total as it’s confusing but it’s because the total is rounded to 10k and I don’t think it did anything much until this year.

3 hours ago, Jessie Where said:

How is 'Denial is a River' on 321,000 for this year but on 320,000 including last year?

Pay attention Jessie! We get this all the time 😁

Very proud of that March prediction that Dakota (previously: #40 in 2005) would make an appearance at some point - hope it manages to hold on, great song.

Teenage Dirtbag (previously: #9 in 2001) joins The Sound of Silence as the only 2 songs on the YTD that haven't charted on audio streaming this year.

Second appearance this year for Another Love (previously: 2013: #86, 2021: #75, 2022: #27, 2023: #21 and 2024: #64) having appeared between weeks 3 and 12 earlier in the year.

Starting to look very clear that Not Like Us will finish worse this year than last which is a bit of a surprise.

Next week is fairly straightforward I think - Blessings should replace Red Wine Supernova, there's some other new stuff on the way in the coming weeks too, so hopefully the chart will get a bit fresher.

Am I right in saying there’s still 5 songs on track for a second year of a million sales? I know the sales might drop off before year end but it would be unprecedented if it continued. Benson looking the most likely to achieve it, and join an exclusive club atm though.

9 minutes ago, Jaz13music said:

Am I right in saying there’s still 5 songs on track for a second year of a million sales? I know the sales might drop off before year end but it would be unprecedented if it continued. Benson looking the most likely to achieve it, and join an exclusive club atm though.

Correct!

Benson is all but guaranteed now (doing 24k per week and only needs to average 13.5k from now on).

Billie needs to average 13.6k to the end of the year and did 19k last week - pretty nailed on.

Chappell needs 14.6k per week and doing 18k - less sure but decent chance.

Teddy needs 16.8k per week and is only 1k above that so looking less likely, though the longevity so far has been crazy so you never know.

Sabrina is doing 17k and needs to average 17k so very likely to fall short, though new material could give a small boost.

What a depressing list. I’m hoping the second half of the year freshens the list up a bit

Some exact numbers from Music Week/Official Charts Company:

1,095,807 Ordinary

996,063 Messy (Total: 1,174,749)

942,000 APT.

820,000 That's So True (Total: 1.25M)

812,000 Pink Pony Club

760,000 Die With A Smile

680,923 The Days

505,924 Nice To Meet You

476,805 Stargazing (Total: 1,489,504)

I love Dakota, but I think it's an extremely worrying sign that all three of the new/re-entries have not charted on the singles chart this year. That puts the total number of non-charters on the YTD list up from 9 to 12. Compare that to only 13 songs released in 2025 that are on the actual YTD list!

Also I'm not tracking this year (or at least, yet...) but I'm surprised Belong Together and A Sky Full Of Stars haven't been mentioned on this forum as songs that could go anytime soon. Surprised they made it to the halfway mark!

Too much 2024 deadwood in the biggest songs of 2025 so far

On 10/06/2025 at 20:53, Maestro said:

Also in trouble soon:

Arm's Length

Indigo

Red Wine Supernova

Shut Up and Dance

Belong Together

Capaldi's reign of terror should continue for a while longer as I think Someone You Loved is doing better than all of the above currently.

I did mention Belong Together as being in trouble a couple of weeks ago

Interesting to see how well Sabrina's Taste has performed this year vs. Please Please Please, despite the latter having more sales overall.

1 hour ago, Rob said:

Interesting to see how well Sabrina's Taste has performed this year vs. Please Please Please, despite the latter having more sales overall.

3 months head start will do that when it had some good opening weeks, taste is definitely the more popular long runner

I did the calculations and Ordinary should surpass 2 million when is the last song to do that?

9 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

I did the calculations and Ordinary should surpass 2 million when is the last song to do that?

Blinding Lights did 2.2m in 2020

I think that "APT." will end up overtaking "Die With A Smile"'s overall units by some time in the autumn.

Blessings finally giving us another 2025 release in the YTD this week, Red Wine Supernova out. There may be potential re-entries on the cards for I Remember Everything and/or Pink Skies at the expense of Another Love and/or Teenage Dirtbag. Looks Like Someone You Loved is safe for another year now...

Edited Friday at 19:011 day by gasman449