Just now, jimwatts said:

Its Tuesday streams are down, but every other day this week was up on last week - in total it is 28k (1.1%) ahead over Fri-Tue. Last Wednesday's streams were 504k so it could still be in deficit if today's aren't close to that.

Also to add we don't know what it's been doing elsewhere where it's been remaining strong at #1 (Amazon/Apple).

Nice to see "Illegal" going viral. It's remained in the top 100 since debuting at #48 5 weeks ago. Would be great to see it get a new peak somewhere in the top 40!

179 sales up from last week on the mids probably will beat ACR by 0.40% or something.

Random thought has a song ever hot acr and stayed number 1,

I know if Alex does (he probably wont) that a few are doing more than half his

Just now, 777666jason said:

Random thought has a song ever hot acr and stayed number 1

Despacito definitely did! Plus the old Christmas songs

Just now, gasman449 said:

Despacito definitely did! Plus the old Christmas songs

So essentially despactio Mariah and wham are the only 3 cases

Always forget christmas 🫣😂

Three Lions too

So other than very rare occasions acr does what its supposed to essentially, just some songs are better at evading it than others 😅

1 minute ago, 777666jason said:

So other than very rare occasions acr does what its supposed to essentially, just some songs are better at evading it than others 😅

Yes exactly, Despacito is the only example of a regular hit that hit ACR and stayed at #1, although I think Bad Habits was close.

There may be other examples of stuff that got close too which I can’t remember, so I’m sure someone will add to that list

Those mentioned are the only ones to be at #1 on ACR so far. 'Despacito' actually dropped to #2 the week it went to ACR, but then returned to #1 on ACR for 2 weeks. 'Blinding Lights' was a non-mover at #2 in the week it first went to ACR as it had a boost from the album release, but it was then reset to SCR (this is when automatic resets had a week's delay) and returned to #1 the following week.

On whether ACR is doing what it is supposed to, I would say removing the most consumed song from #1 prematurely is not what it should be for - it should be for songs which have already peaked to speed up their descent and give space to fresher hits. Unfortunately, it's often songs doing big numbers at the top that are more prone to falling to ACR early, as their numbers are so high they have to come down, whereas the songs which have been around so long their rates of attrition have become minimal are the ones that end up avoiding with every bank holiday or show of warm weather that affects the whole market.

Worth noting that “Despacito” was doing more than 20k pure sales per week when it was #1 on ACR, which still counted in full. So it was a completely different ball game as now almost everything is halved.

Disco Lines & Tinashe up to a new peak of #49 on Spotify!

Ordinary might get an increase of like 20 streaming units on Friday

Edited Thursday at 03:284 days by Sour Candy

Dior now #2 on YouTube and streamer speed makes an entrance

Pos	P+	Track	Streams	Streams+
1	=	Alex Warren - Ordinary	394,040	-10,502
2	+1	MK - Dior (feat. Chrystal)	343,517	+23,658
3	-1	Skye Newman - Family Matters	318,692	-2,841
4	=	Moliy - Shake It To The Max (FLY) (Remix)	304,136	-9,976
5	=	Ed Sheeran - Sapphire	274,572	+657
6	+1	Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild	245,904	-13,865
7	-1	ROSÉ - APT.	241,081	-25,139
8	=	Benson Boone - Beautiful Things	214,586	-14,634
9	+1	Teddy Swims - Lose Control (Live)	207,381	+6,280
10	-1	Lady Gaga - Die With A Smile	206,914	-12,557
11	=	Chrystal - The Days	204,352	+13,207
12	=	Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club	160,249	-15,774
13	NEW	IShowSpeed - Higher	156,346
14	-1	Skye Newman - Hairdresser	149,296	-5,012
15	NEW	Davido - With You (feat. Omah Lay)	148,371
16	NEW	Calvin Harris - Blessings (feat. Clementine Douglas)	135,352
17	-2	Afusic - Pal Pal	134,299	-2,193
18	-2	WizTheMc - Show Me Love	134,033	+6,408
19	-5	ATLXS - PASSO BEM SOLTO (Slowed)	125,868	-23,612
20	-2	Myles Smith - Stargazing	122,773	-1,912

Apple

03 MK - Dior (feat. Chrystal)

06 Skye Newman - Family Matters

08 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire

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

19 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

40 Alex Warren & Jelly Roll - Bloodline

56 Mark Ronson & RAYE - Suzanne

57 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap

62 Levi Heron - The Glen (Levi Heron Edit)

90 David Guetta & Cedric Gervais - A Better World

109 Glass Animals - Heat Waves

Over on the Big Top 40, Ordinary has NEVER been No.1, stalling at No.2 so far.

But there has been three Ed Sheeran No.1s in the meantime (amongst others)

Which would you choose?

I’d go for the one that isn’t made up.

Looking at their chart here is their #1’s this year

Apt - 5 weeks

Anxiety - 3 weeks

Blessings - 4 weeks

Ed Sheeran - 7 weeks

Lady Gaga - 3 weeks

Messy - 2 weeks

Think the official charts has had better #1’s

Although I prefer the Official Charts, the Big Top 40 has had better #1s, in my opinion

The only official number one I think is worse than a 5/10 this year is That's So True and the only Big Top 40 one I think is better than a 5/10 is Blessings 😂- shame we can't have the turnover of the Big Top 40 and the quality of the Official Chart at the same time

13 minutes ago, ChrisJK said:

Over on the Big Top 40, Ordinary has NEVER been No.1, stalling at No.2 so far.

But there has been three Ed Sheeran No.1s in the meantime (amongst others)

Which would you choose?

This is like choosing between having your toenails individually pulled out or being waterboarded.

8 minutes ago, ChrisJK said:

Although I prefer the Official Charts, the Big Top 40 has had better #1s, in my opinion

Also yes. That's So True, Not Like Us and 12 weeks of Ordinary in comparison. I really don't think so...