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

1991, Luciana & Dave Audé - Yeah Yeah

Addison Rae - Fame Is A Gun [GRAT]

AJ Tracey - 3rd Time Lucky

Alan Walker - Me Myself And The Night

Ava Max - Lovin Myself

Blasterjaxx - The Power Of Love

Bono - Stories Of Surrender (EP)

Bruce Springsteen - Adelita [GRAT]

Chanel Yates - Shotgun Seat

Cian Ducrot - Shalalala [GRAT]

Clipse, Pusha T & No Malice - Ace Trumpets

Conan Gray - This Song [GRAT]

Conor Maynard - Runaway Man

The Cure & Daniel Avery - Drone:Nodrone (Daniel Avery Remix) [GRAT]

Dean Lewis - Truth

D.O.D feat RAHH – Sunshine

Don Diablo & Nelly Furtado - Doing Nothin'

The Entitled Sons - Listened To My Mother

Giggs - Gorgeous

Girl In Red - Hemingway

Haim – Take Me Back [GRAT]

Halestorm – Everest [GRAT]

Halsey & Amy Lee - Hand That Feeds

Hollie Wild - Dancing With The Devil

Hybrid Minds & Brodie - Heroin

Interplanetary Criminal & Original Koffee - Slow Burner

Jack & Jack - Girls Girls

James Morrison - Fight Another Day

Jax Jones & Meyy - Back In My Bed

Kojey Radical feat Bawo - Rule One

KSI - Catch Me If You Can / So Far Away

Lil Tecca - Owa Owa

Lion Babe - I Am A Star

Lorde - Man Of The Year

Lost Frequencies & The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (A Moment, A Love)

Lowi - Elixir Of Life

Luke Evans - Only One Of You

Mabel - January 19 [GRAT]

The Midnight - Digital Dreams

Moby, Blond:ish & Kiko Franco - Natural Blues

Mostack & Clavish - Banshee

Natalie Jane - Fallin

Oliver Heldens & Julia Church - Ruins

Olivia Dean - Nice To Each Other

Phil Wickham - Homesick For Heaven

Sammy Virji & Skepta - Cops & Robbers

Scissor Sisters - Night Of The Comet [GRAT]

Tate McRae - Just Keep Watching

TCTS – Waves

Trisha Yearwood - Girls Night In [GRAT]

The Tumbling Paddies - Take Me Home

XXXTentacion & Juice Wrld- Whoa (Mind In Awe) (Remix)

Yungblud – Zombie [GRAT]

 

FAQs

 

What is streaming? What are the chart rules regarding streaming?

For streaming and chart rules related FAQs read the pinned thread regarding this.

 

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 200 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 200]

 

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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Good help another week or ordinary at top Spotify still can’t see anything knowing off 3 month

Nothing added to HHUK so far

Miley Cyrus - "Easy Lover" #1 on NMF

Surprised at a lack of any Miley on TTH or HHUK given her album is now out. Really like "Easy Lover" so hoping it'll go top 40 at least. "Easy Lover" added to Today's Hits on Apple & across a number of playlists on Amazon so should at least see it climb decently there.

^miley is @1 on TTH for me

NMF

1 Miley - Easy lover

2 Lorde - Man of the year

3 Olivia Dean

4 Haim

6 Mabel

7 Wet Leg

28 Ava Max

Apple

01 Alex Warren - Ordinary

03 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings

04 Skye Newman - Family Matters

12 Skye Newman - Hairdresser

14 sombr - undressed

15 MOLIY, Silent Addy, Skillibeng & Shenseea - Shake It To The Max (FLY) [Remix]

17 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

19 Alex Warren - Bloodline (with Jelly Roll)

25 Max Dean, Luke Dean & Locky - Can't Decide

32 Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae - What I Want

45 Nathan Dawe & Shayan - Over You

47 Rudimental & Khalid - All I Know

54 Myles Smith - Gold

66 mgk - cliché

157 Jazzy & Ankhoï - Closer To The Floor

3 hours ago, Bjork said:

^miley is @1 on TTH for me

Looks like it updated whilst I was asleep, happy to see Miley #1 and the cover of TTH *_* Hopefully it'll have a good debut

I was looking out for Lorde's new song on Apple Music yesterday and I see it's now snuck in today.

61. Lorde - What Was That (+35)

193. Lorde - Man Of The Year

I don't really follow her that closely these days, but is Ava Max now no longer on a big label to be that low on NMF?

Mind you, that would explain a lot.

Tate McRae's F1 song is not on NMF?

3 minutes ago, Sour Candy said:

Tate McRae's F1 song is not on NMF?

It's at #25 for me on NMF UK.

13 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

I don't really follow her that closely these days, but is Ava Max now no longer on a big label to be that low on NMF?

Mind you, that would explain a lot.

She's still on Atlantic!

Ava Max is on Atlantic but think the budget is gone, just look at the album cover that looks like a bag of doritos

music quality has gone down with Circuit gone, songwriters gone, samples gone

she actually announced the album but don't think there's a pre-order up yet so let's see if they go ahead...

Apple:

161

NEW

Lorde - Man Of The Year

They actually added bloodline to HHUK just very low down among the riff raff

Cliche by MGK also added(assuming it’s new)

Edited May 30May 30 by Liam Sota

It's ridiculous the songs that HH still has in there,

Not like us, Dirty cash, Backbone, Kisses, that Adam Porter-Move song that was a hit like 1 year ago lol

Its ridiculous that people are still obsessed with who gets added to HH when its been proven time and time again that HH means very little nowadays 🤣🤣

Lorde on Spotify:

49. What Was That (+75)

54. Man Of The Year

70. Ribs (-2)

Family Matters up to #8, I hope it will explode as be the next number 1.

A couple of the newbies are showing up on Apple:

#93 Tate McRae - Just Keep Watching

#134 Lorde - Man Of The Year

plus 'Flowers' and 'End of the World' have resurfaced for Miley on her album release day so far.

Hopefully Addison Rae will show up soon with her new one 🤞