Brits will no doubt give a boost to some “phresh” music too

expecting resets for Messy,

Stargazing and Lose Control at the very least plus Espresso presuming that’s what Sabrina is doing

if we’re lucky additional resets for the not so stale on the charts Nothing Matters and Angel of My Dreams

Angel Of My Dreams for #1!

PPC needs to close the gap on NLU

Teddy pineapple get rest next week official chart then become joke

The Pitbull tour effect on Spotify has been much bigger than I would've expected:

#53 Give Me Everything

#74 DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love

#96 Timber

#150 Time of Our Lives

#189 Hotel Room Service

#194 International Love

Pitbull doing better than all the newbies really sums it all up sadly :/

Pitbull TOUR effect?

I know his GH regularly pops into the album chart, but I had no idea people cared enough about a tour (let alone for it to have an effect like this!)

5 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Very poor, poor start to the year. This time last year seems like a happy memory, although 2024 also tailed off massively in the second half. It's a bit of a worry that the industry has seemed quite stagnant for the best part of 7/8 months now, so surely there is a big flood of hits to come in the next couple of months, as many of the big international artists release in Q1 and Q2 now, but Q1 has seemed a bit subdued in that respect aside from the odd few.

Yeh it’s grim and boring, there’s plenty of new music but it’s just not breaking through in the charts.

As usual though streams are only poor at the top and increasing for the rest as more people change to streaming services 10 years in.

Edited March 1Mar 1 by Steve201

1 hour ago, Hadji said:

PPC needs to close the gap on NLU

Basically anything at the Brits that has an effect will likely ease past the current no1 as sales and streams are so low currently.

Can anyone clarify the effect the Brits had in previous years?

But did we have a lot of phresh music up the charts this time last year? I thought Stick Season had been #1 on Spotify for Jan-Feb

and the big songs doing crazy numbers on Spotify didn't arrive until April? I remember Forthnight did 1.6 millions and Espresso did huge numbers for ages but that was in April wasn't it?

Just now, Bjork said:

But did we have a lot of phresh music up the charts this time last year? I thought Stick Season had been #1 on Spotify for Jan-Feb

and the big songs doing crazy numbers on Spotify didn't arrive until April? I remember Forthnight did 1.6 millions and Espresso did huge numbers for ages but that was in April wasn't it?

Texas Hold Em, Training Season, Beautiful Things, Praise Jah In The Moonlight and Yes And were all in the top 10 this time last year, all of those were 2024 releases (except Praise Jah which was released in the last week of 2023). I get people's point but if old songs are actually reaching new peaks it's fine with me. It's not like Lose Control and Espresso are still in the top 10 with no 2025 releases, we have 4 2025 releases in the top 10 right now (despite Beautiful Things still being there)

So same as last year

Spotify Chart Update (28/02)

01 01 Lola Young – Messy 446,229

02 02 Gracie Abrams – That’s So True 409,348

03 03 Kendrick Lamar – Not Like Us 390,280

04 04 Chappell Roan – Pink Pony Club 385,887

05 05 ROSÉ, Bruno Mars – APT. 354,907

06 06 Lady Gaga, Bruno Mars – Die With A Smile 334,019

07 07 Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER 312,889

08 11 Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! 308,258

09 09 Kendrick Lamar, SZA – All The Stars (with SZA) 306,958

10 08 Tate McRae – Sports car 296,787

11 10 Gigi Perez – Sailor Song 295,109

12 13 Alex Warren – Ordinary 292,013

13 12 Kendrick Lamar, SZA – luther (with sza) 283,107

14 16 Benson Boone – Beautiful Things 267,110

15 14 Tate McRae – Revolving door 263,246

16 17 Chrystal, NOTION – The Days - NOTION Remix 249,764

17 19 Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso 243,754

18 15 Sabrina Carpenter – Taste 237,906

19 18 Doechii – DENIAL IS A RIVER 237,217

20 20 Lady Gaga – Abracadabra 232,754

21 21 Drake – NOKIA 221,121

22 23 Sabrina Carpenter – Busy Woman 219,408

23 24 Teddy Swims – Lose Control 215,101

24 22 Kendrick Lamar, Lefty Gunplay – tv off (feat. lefty gunplay) 209,358

25 25 Hozier – Too Sweet 196,577

26 28 Sam Fender – People Watching 194,257

27 45 Sleepy Hallow, Doechii – A N X I E T Y (feat. Doechii) 193,359 PEAK

28 26 Imogen Heap – Headlock 188,855

29 29 The Weeknd, Playboi Carti – Timeless (feat Playboi Carti) 183,618

30 31 The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris 176,881

31 33 The Killers – Mr. Brightside 173,385

32 36 Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) 173,124

33 27 Billie Eilish – WILDFLOWER 171,292

34 30 Gracie Abrams – I Love You, I'm Sorry 171,226

35 39 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy, D.O.D – Somedays 170,669

36 34 Chappell Roan – HOT TO GO! 167,963

37 35 Sabrina Carpenter – Please Please Please 166,397

38 43 Teddy Swims – Bad Dreams 165,973

39 32 Noah Kahan – Stick Season 164,557

40 40 Charli xcx, Billie Eilish – Guess featuring billie eilish 163,981

42 41 Sabrina Carpenter – Bed Chem 158,584

44 37 Tate McRae, The Kid LAROI – I know love (feat. The Kid LAROI) 154,099

48 44 Sam Fender – Arm's Length 147,611

49 49 Alex Warren – Carry You Home 145,499

53 63 Pitbull, AFROJACK, Ne-Yo, Nayer – Give Me Everything (feat. Nayer) 143,291 PEAK

61 NE Benson Boone – Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else 130,502 PEAK

62 67 Olivia Dean – It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be - from “Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy” Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 129,219 PEAK

63 64 PARTYNEXTDOOR, Drake, Yebba – DIE TRYING 129,133

64 66 AJ Tracey, Jorja Smith – Crush (feat. Jorja Smith) 128,500

68 65 Tyler, The Creator, Lola Young – Like Him (feat. Lola Young) 123,948

73 93 Morgan Seatree, Florence + The Machine – Say My Name - Remix 118,251 PEAK

74 112 USHER, Pitbull – DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (feat. Pitbull) 117,110 PEAK

77 110 LISA, Doja Cat, RAYE – Born Again (feat. Doja Cat & RAYE) 115,884

79 84 Ravyn Lenae – Love Me Not 113,716 PEAK

84 76 Sam Fender – Little Bit Closer 111,959

88 83 SZA, Kendrick Lamar – 30 For 30 (with Kendrick Lamar) 109,651

91 116 Selena Gomez, benny blanco, Gracie Abrams – Call Me When You Break Up (with Gracie Abrams) 109,161

92 86 Chappell Roan – Red Wine Supernova 108,138

94 108 Leon Thomas – MUTT 107,827 PEAK

110 174 Ely Oaks – Running Around 102,978 PEAK

114 126 JENNIE, Doechii – ExtraL (feat. Doechii) 101,889

129 125 Fontaines D.C. – It's Amazing To Be Young 96,644

130 189 WizTheMc, bees & honey – Show Me Love 96,099 PEAK

138 143 Central Cee, Dave – CRG (feat. Dave) 93,000

173 156 Wale, Sam Dew – LoveHate Thing (feat. Sam Dew) 86,484

179 172 Central Cee, 21 Savage – GBP (feat. 21 Savage) 85,760

185 NE Bhad Bhabie – Ms. Whitman 85,119 PEAK

195 184 Doechii – NISSAN ALTIMA 84,083

198 RE Sonny Fodera, Clementine Douglas – Tell Me 83,876

Even though his previous singles haven't done much better on entry, I still expected to see Benson arrive a little higher than that.

Fingers crossed it will climb over the next few days.

There's a graph I want to make (it'll take a while), but I feel like new music is really thriving lately?? I've been surprised at the rate in which some immovable objects have been getting booted down the charts. Also those Tate McRae & Sam Fender albums that came out only a week ago have done very well I think. If you need a constant IV drip of new hits every single week, or think a song is old news because it's a couple of months old, you're gonna run into this issue, but I'm not seeing it right now.

Unlucky for Chappel likely to pass NLU in next day or 2

not sure how this compares to last year as memory isn’t great

but it’s now march and we only have a handful of 2025 releases currently in the top 40:

sports car

ordinary

revolving door

abracadabra

nokia

busy woman

and if you add songs that only made the top 40 for the first time this year it’s still less than a quarter of the top 40!

denial is a river

anxiety

headlock

I often wonder recently why is the chart so slow is it more because of streaming playlists or radio stations or Tiktok videos using the same songs for too long?!

I mean some songs have a fast chart run like 'Born Again'.

1 minute ago, TheSnake said:

I often wonder recently why is the chart so slow is it more because of streaming playlists or radio stations or Tiktok videos using the same songs for too long?!

I mean some songs have a fast chart run like 'Born Again'.

Basically it's because songs are always available unlike the sales era (well mainly the CD era) where songs would be "deleted" or taken out the shops after a set period of time. Songs are always available, so.if you want to listen to Birds Of A Feather, you can do that - whenever, wherever.

Well that's just my guess anyway

It's definitely down to people sticking with songs they like for a long time. Radio has no bearing on the charts at all and streaming playlists' impact has lessened in the past few years. TikTok is the biggest factor out of those 3 but as shown by some songs sticking around on the charts longer than others even after peak virality it probably isn't the greatest influence on long chart runs.