May 30, 2025May 30 From what we're gathering so far, it's mostly last year's hits.. blame the people going into "lean back" streams (i.e. those that are controlled by an automatic playlist, without user input).
May 30, 2025May 30 Author 37 | 42 | 41st weekLady Gaga and Bruno MarsDie With A Smile1st single from MAYHEMReleased: 16th August 2024Label: Interscope RecordsChart StatisticsNE (29/08/2024) | 7-7-7-6-5-4-4-3-2-3-17-14-14-18-23-43-37-32-64-8-8-8-10-12-13-19-16-18-22-18-24-22-27-24-26-30-36-36-42-42-37Sales: 1,300,000+Certification: 2x PlatinumStatus: Accelerated Chart Ratio01 Sales03 Audio Streaming02 Video StreamingVideoBiographyLady GagaSome may dismiss pop as inauthentic. But for Lady Gaga—one of popular culture’s greatest, most extravagant creations—the inauthenticity is the point. No artist has more defiantly embodied that provocation this century than the one born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (in New York in 1986). Never wedded to the same image—her most memorable looks (among many) have included a gown fashioned from raw meat, a red-carpet-appropriate pair of dish gloves, and “the world’s first flying dress”—Gaga personifies pop’s surface obsessions while simultaneously upending them. In a sense, her creative identity had crystallized by age 21; she’d been a child pianist, aspiring actor, and burlesque performer. Each of these facets powered her career’s most distinct parts: the celebrity fascination of her first two albums, 2008’s The Fame and 2009’s The Fame Monster; the subversive layering of 2011’s Born This Way and 2013’s ARTPOP; the sincere reverence of 2014’s Cheek to Cheek, her jazz standards album with Tony Bennett; the rootsier songwriting of 2016’s Joanne; and 2020’s jubilant return to her neon-hued electro roots, Chromatica. If the 2009 smash “Paparazzi” reveled in the flashes, then “Born This Way” celebrated inner light: In translating her diffuse identity into world-conquering art, Gaga has become a beacon to anyone else who’s felt like an outsider. Her loyal following of Little Monsters has affirmed a deep connection to her message of self-love and self-expression, despite pop’s fickleness and her chameleonic exterior. She played out a simpler version of her path to fame in the Oscar-worthy 2018 remake of A Star Is Born. But while her character’s ascent was abetted by her lover, Gaga’s was all her own. - Apple MusicBruno MarsBruno Mars has a good story about Prince: Mars is hanging out at an awards show, during a commercial break. The crowd is filled with celebrities. Suddenly, Mars feels the room shift, people part, and there he is, Mars told Apple Music in a 2016 interview—Prince, “just floating by, levitating by.” Prince catches Mars’ eye and gives him a thumbs-up, and Mars—stunned—gives Prince a thumbs-up back. “And that’s it,” Mars said. “What more can you ask?” More than a Prince cosign? How about a stack of multiplatinum records? The privilege of being able to entertain people the world over? Mars has those too. But you get the sense that the nod from Prince was affirmation of a higher order. Even when he was living on instant ramen noodles and trying to find his way into the industry, Mars knew he didn’t just want to be a songwriter or a singer or a producer, but—like Prince, or maybe Michael Jackson—a total pop package, the kind of artist who’s as powerful in the studio as they are onstage. Those records, though: “Uptown Funk,” “Locked Out of Heaven,” “That’s What I Like.” Fun, omnivorous, generation-bridging. The kind of stuff that Mom will be pulling you onto the dance floor for. Mars could do old-fashioned showmanship, could credibly play the crooner with a live band to boot. But he also had an ear for hip-hop and R&B, could—like all great pop—collapse the distance between then and now, Black music and white. Most of all, he knew how much retro was retro enough: Music that made you think about the past, not pine for it. Born Peter Hernandez in Honolulu in 1985, Mars took the stage early, famously doing Elvis impersonations with a family revue at a local hotel before he even hit kindergarten. (In one formative moment, young Mars wet his jumpsuit during “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” but finished without flinching.) As a teenager, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a deal with Motown Records. The deal went nowhere, but Mars kept himself afloat by writing and producing with a team called The Smeezingtons, which he helped found. In 2010, he released his debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. By 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox, the image had gotten a little grittier, the sound a little more diverse, and the retro affectations—goodbye, pompadour—a little less pronounced. Leaning on the slick bounce of ’80s and ’90s funk and R&B, 24K Magic followed in 2016, sweeping its nominations at the Grammys. A confessed perfectionist, Mars pushes on. “All the statues or Time magazine—that s**t is beautiful and made my parents and my family proud and all that,” he told Apple Music. “But there’s this battle within—that you always wanna. You got this fighter’s spirit. I still feel like I’m chasing to prove something to myself, that I got a better song in me.” - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart HistoryLady Gaga2009 01 Just Dance (feat. Colby O'Donis) -1- MILLIONAIRE2009 01 Poker Face -2- MILLION SELLER2009 04 Paparazzi -3- MILLIONAIRE2009 83 Beautiful, Dirty, Rich -AT-2009 19 LoveGame -4-2009 12 Chillin' (Wale feat. Lady Gaga)2009 01 Bad Romance -5- MILLION SELLER2009 01 Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) -6- MILLIONAIRE2009 07 Alejandro -7-2009 68 Monster -AT-2009 84 So Happy I Could Die -AT-2009 89 Dance In The Dark -AT-2009 88 Speechless -AT-2011 03 Born This Way -1*- MILLIONAIRE2011 08 Judas -2*-2011 06 The Edge Of Glory -3*- MILLIONAIRE2011 13 Hair -PS-2011 23 Yoü And I -4*-2011 16 Marry The Night -5*-2011 87 White Christmas -AT-2013 05 Applause -1-2013 09 Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) -2-2013 76 Venus -PS-2016 12 Perfect Illusion -1-2016 39 Million Reasons -2-2016 66 A-Yo -IG-2017 19 The Cure -NAS-2018 01 Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST- MILLIONAIRE2018 27 I'll Never Love Again (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) -OST-2018 25 Always Remember Us This Way -OST- MILLIONAIRE2020 05 Stupid Love -1-2020 01 Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) -2- MILLIONAIRE2020 17 Sour Candy (Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK) -IG-2020 29 Alice -AT-2022 24 Hold My Hand -OST-2022 22 Bloody Mary -6*-2024 02 Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) -1- MILLIONAIRE2024 07 Disease -2-2025 03 Abracadabra -3-2025 23 Garden Of Eden -AT-6 x #1 | 12 x Top 5 | 17 x Top 10 | 24 x Top 20 | 32 x Top 40 | 40 x Top 100Bruno Mars2010 01 Nothin' On You (B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars)2010 03 Billionaire (Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars)2010 97 It's Better If You Don't Understand -EP-2010 01 Just The Way You Are (Amazing) -1- MILLION SELLER2011 01 Grenade -2- MILLION SELLER2011 11 Marry You -4- MILLIONAIRE2011 01 The Lazy Song -3- MILLIONAIRE2011 10 Lighters (Bad Meets Evil feat. Bruno Mars)2011 78 Count On Me -AT-2011 19 Runaway Baby -AT-2011 14 It Will Rain -OST-2011 17 Mirror (Lil Wayne feat. Bruno Mars)2011 44 Young, Wild & Free (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa feat. Bruno Mars)2012 02 Locked Out Of Heaven -1- MILLIONAIRE2013 02 When I Was Your Man -2- MILLIONAIRE2013 12 Treasure -3- MILLIONAIRE2013 62 Gorilla -4-2014 83 Young Girls -5-2014 01 Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars) MILLION SELLER2016 05 24K Magic -1- MILLIONAIRE2016 79 Chunky -AT-2017 12 That's What I Like -2- MILLIONAIRE2017 59 Versace On The Floor (Bruno Mars vs. David Guetta) -3-2018 05 Finesse (feat. Cardi B) -4- MILLIONAIRE2018 65 Wake Up In The Sky (Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars & Kodak Black)2019 12 Please Me (Cardi B & Bruno Mars)2021 20 Leave The Door Open (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -1-2021 45 Skate (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -2-2021 12 Smokin Out The Window (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -3-2021 49 Fly As Me (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -AT-2024 02 Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE2024 02 APT. (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars) MILLIONAIRE2025 32 Fat Juicy & Wet (Sexyy Red & Bruno Mars)5 x #1 | 12 x Top 5 | 13 x Top 10 | 22 x Top 20 | 23 x Top 40 | 33 x Top 100Social Media Lady Gaga Bruno Mars
May 30, 2025May 30 Author 36 | 33 | 35th weekChrystalThe Days1st single from Unarchived 2015Released: 17th June 2024 / 1st October 2024Label: Chaos / Polydor RecordsChart StatisticsNE (03/10/2024) | 96-xRE (17/10/2024) | 81-60-59-60-55-39-43-50-38-24-26-49-5-6-5-4-4-4-5-6-27-26-29-32-27-29-30-31-32-32-31-32-33-36Sales: 700,000+Certification: PlatinumStatus: Accelerated Chart Ratio11 Sales05 Audio Streaming06 Video StreamingVideoBiographyChrystal Jade Ruby Opal Orchard (born late 1980s), known professionally as Chrystal, is a musician from Farnworth in Greater Manchester. Her 2017 single "Waves" attracted attention from BBC Radio 1Xtra and The Sunday Times and garnered comparison to Lily Allen and Katy B. She then released the tracks "New Shoes", "2 Real", and "Vibe". Additionally, her song "The Days" charted on the UK singles chart in 2024. - WikipediaTop 100 Chart History2024 04 The Days -1-0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100Social Media Chrystal
May 30, 2025May 30 2 minutes ago, JosephBoone said:36 | 33 | 35th weekChrystalThe Days1st single from Unarchived 2015Released: 17th June 2024 / 1st October 2024Label: Chaos / Polydor RecordsChart StatisticsNE (03/10/2024) | 96-xRE (17/10/2024) | 81-60-59-60-55-39-43-50-38-24-26-49-5-6-5-4-4-4-5-6-27-26-29-32-27-29-30-31-32-32-31-32-33-36Sales: 700,000+Certification: PlatinumStatus: Accelerated Chart Ratio11 Sales05 Audio Streaming06 Video StreamingVideoBiographyChrystal Jade Ruby Opal Orchard (born late 1980s), known professionally as Chrystal, is a musician from Farnworth in Greater Manchester. Her 2017 single "Waves" attracted attention from BBC Radio 1Xtra and The Sunday Times and garnered comparison to Lily Allen and Katy B. She then released the tracks "New Shoes", "2 Real", and "Vibe". Additionally, her song "The Days" charted on the UK singles chart in 2024. - WikipediaTop 100 Chart History2024 04 The Days -1-0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100Social Media ChrystalNo Notion remix, but the original version - always played when Jack's in the hosting seat! (That version would've been track 1 on the CD single in the old sales only era, track 2 being the Notion remix edit).
May 30, 2025May 30 Author 5 minutes ago, 777666jason said:Wait just noticed GLB isn't gonna be added to her second album then 👀Nobody knows for sure yet, but my understanding is that there wasn't really any album planned around Good Luck, Babe! - obviously not to say it won't end up on the album though (a la Die With a Smile)
May 30, 2025May 30 Author 35 | 29 | 5th weekLordeWhat Was That1st single from VirginReleased: 24th April 2025Label: Universal Music New ZealandChart StatisticsNE (08/05/2025) | 11-19-25-29-35Sales: 60,000+Certification: -Status: Standard Chart Ratio31 Sales18 Audio Streamingxx Video StreamingVideoBiographyWhere previous generations of teenagers frequently had to endure marketing managers’ ideas of what entertainment should look like, millennial teens were blessed with one of pop culture’s greatest young laureates: New Zealand’s Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (a.k.a. Lorde). After being spotted at a talent show and signing to Universal at age 12, she would experiment with a series of writing partners before meeting Joel Little, a fellow Auckland native and former pop-punk frontman. Together, they wrote “Royals”, a song that not only defined Lorde’s perspective—with its unimpressed, teenage dismissal of material obsessions—but also propelled her skeletal electro-pop debut, 2013’s Pure Heroine, to a Grammy nomination. She captured the late-night trains home, clandestine kisses, and heavy symbolism of one’s first love remembering to buy them their favourite juice—little of which, she seemed to know, lasts. But Lorde’s feel for suburban adolescent disconnect catalysed into precocious power moves—such as curating the soundtrack for the third Hunger Games movie—and an astute lens on the wider world on 2017’s Melodrama. Richer in sound and experience, the album found strength in different kinds of isolation—the temporary plight of the newly heartbroken and the lifelong fate of the writer. However, Lorde would steer that fate in a new direction with 2021’s breezy, Laurel Canyon-hued Solar Power. On the album, she basks in psych-folk, sunshine pop, and tongue-in-cheek euphoria while offering a peek into her reality. “My life is very low-key and very domestic. It's like the life of a hippie housewife,” she told Apple Music. That confession may be a jarring contrast to Lorde’s dark-pop reputation, but it only adds to her mystique. - Apple MusicTop 100 Chart History2013 01 Royals -2- MILLIONAIRE2013 78 Tennis Court -1/4-2014 29 Team -3-2014 72 Royals / White Noise (Disclosure & Lorde feat. AlunaGeorge) -NAS-2014 65 Everybody Wants To Rule The World -OST-2014 71 Yellow Flicker Beat -OST-2015 71 Magnets (Disclosure feat. Lorde)2017 20 Green Light -1-2017 84 Liability -IG-2017 95 Perfect Places -2-2017 82 Homemade Dynamite (feat. Khalid, SZA & Post Malone) -3-2021 17 Solar Power -1-2021 48 Mood Ring -2-2021 85 Stoned At The Nail Salon -IG-2024 28 Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde)2025 11 What Was That -1-1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 4 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 16 x Top 100Social Media Lorde
May 30, 2025May 30 It is really sad that we're practically in June and most of the chart is not even songs from this year.
May 30, 2025May 30 2 minutes ago, JosephBoone said:Nobody knows for sure yet, but my understanding is that there wasn't really any album planned around Good Luck, Babe! - obviously not to say it won't end up on the album though (a la Die With a Smile)Ah that makes sense the NAS threw me off thought I'd askGLB TST DWAS all fantastic songs dont mind them being back
May 30, 2025May 30 Couldn't we have Rachel Chinouriri, Passo Bem Solto, Feel It, Bluest Flame or Don't Wake Me Up entering the top 40 instead of that old stuff
May 30, 2025May 30 2 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:It is really sad that we're practically in June and most of the chart is not even songs from this year.As I said, blame the lean back streams from people choosing to stream tunes from the curated playlists by the streaming services of choice, i.e. Spotify's "Hot Hits UK" etc.
May 30, 2025May 30 2 minutes ago, N-S said:Couldn't we have Rachel Chinouriri, Passo Bem Solto, Feel It, Bluest Flame or Don't Wake Me Up entering the top 40 instead of that old stuff Well we could... tell it to the sheep playing the same sh!te songs over and over again.
May 30, 2025May 30 'What Was That' is my favourite song in the top 40 at the moment hopefully a decent rebound on the way after the new single release.
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