44 [65] Sam Fender – Rein Me In

45 [43] Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

Just combine them already

Apple

02 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild

03 MK - Dior (feat. Chrystal)

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

08 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

09 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire

10 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

16 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not

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

28 Olivia Dean - Nice To Each Other

46 Ed Sheeran - Drive

52 Levi Heron - The Glen (Levi Heron Edit)

64 Cardi B - Outside

77 Rossi. & Jazzy - High On Me

79 JADE - Plastic Box

83 PinkPantheress - Illegal

101 Mark Ronson & RAYE - Suzanne

128 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

Edited Tuesday at 16:103 days by ElectroBoy

Great to see JADE back up to 79 but my god progress is slow. Praying it can become a sleeper hit for her if nothing else - it's SO GOOD.

Anyone else think Ravyn and MK had the same Spotify streams for a second there? 🤣

Nice to see Saphire top 10 at Apple!

28 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

Nice to see Saphire top 10 at Apple!

Doesn't he buy his streams there 😅

39 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Doesn't he buy his streams there 😅

🫣 no that’s only on Alexa apparently!

I actually overheard a conversation in the pub yesterday that Ed does in fact “buy his streams”...

12 minutes ago, Tafty said:

I actually overheard a conversation in the pub yesterday that Ed does in fact “buy his streams”...

Cmon Arthur we need the full tea 😂😂

Ed did learn a few things from Ellie Goulding after all :D.

not saying he's buying his streams, just saying Amazon is the outlet where he's doing best while struggling on Spotify

and all the singles this era would have done far worse if it weren't for Amazon

not sure if we're allowed to say this as this forum has become the ed sheeran facebook teenage fanclub for some reason

just look at the figures

Azizam on Spotify spent weeks at 20-30, while on Amazon it was... top 3 all that time

same for Sapphire, 20-30 these weeks on Spotify barely doing 150K, #4 currently on Amazon

even more extreme for Old Phone, the song was out of the top 200 on Spotfy on day 2, while... top 5 on Amazon

Fred up to 5 on Apple

56 minutes ago, Bjork said:

not saying he's buying his streams, just saying Amazon is the outlet where he's doing best while struggling on Spotify

and all the singles this era would have done far worse if it weren't for Amazon

not sure if we're allowed to say this as this forum has become the ed sheeran facebook teenage fanclub for some reason

just look at the figures

Azizam on Spotify spent weeks at 20-30, while on Amazon it was... top 3 all that time

same for Sapphire, 20-30 these weeks on Spotify barely doing 150K, #4 currently on Amazon

even more extreme for Old Phone, the song was out of the top 200 on Spotfy on day 2, while... top 5 on Amazon

Obviously it's not necessarily "buying streams", it's more of Amazon thinking that their demography likes Ed the most so the platform is autoplaying his songs a lot. "Alexa play new hits" --> 3 Ed Sheeran songs among the first ten tracks.

EDIT: Also adding the point that the more popular an artist is, the less likely they are completely fall out of favour. Some of the huge hits by Ed are always going to be on playlist rotation on streaming platforms and get good amount of streams which keeps his status high when the algorithms decide which artists they are pushing to the listeners.

Edited Wednesday at 09:493 days by Sour Candy

Wasn't there a discussion other week how Spotify streams had fallen to around 60 percent of the market, and the way music is consumed is more diverse theses days

Or did I dream that 🤭

If I ever come across as an ardent Ed Sheeran stan, it's only because he attracts a certain backlash that is so asinine and deranged that any level-headed approach is going to look glowing in comparison (either because he's unfathomably successful, or so antithetical to certain music discussion circles that it's shooting fish in a barrel, or both). I'd just ignore it but to leave it all unopposed is to create the illusion of unchallenged approval.

Otherwise I think an under-acknowledged aspect of the DSP wars is just how much exclusive use of one of them is going to re-shape the fundamentals of your own music taste. Normalising otherwise niche sounds, starving previously approved ones. It's a remarkably interesting aspect of national & global music consumption habits. I can't take anyone seriously who chooses to weaponise it to say 'x artist is overrepresented because y platform doesn't count'. It's always used as a detraction which just implies a self-centred approach that can't possibly comprehend people like different music to you, and are valid for doing so.

21 hours ago, Liam Sota said:

Don’t rule out Fred it’s still doing pretty well and growing

Would be pretty funny if the only two all British (sorry ‘Guess’) number one singles from the past two years are from DJs with a rapper whose name starts with “s”

11 minutes ago, Highway Unicorn said:

Would be pretty funny if the only two all British (sorry ‘Guess’) number one singles from the past two years are from DJs with a rapper whose name starts with “s”

Apart from Wham :D

And Lola Young.

Spotify

 

01 [01] Alex Warren - Ordinary (436,794)

02 [02] Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild (426,254)

03 [04] MK & Chrystal - Dior (353,461)

04 [03] Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not (352,552)

05 [05] Fred again.. - Victory Lap (348,729)

09 [09] Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

14 [16] Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

16 [14] Max Dean, Luke Dean & Lokey - Can't Decide

17 [16] Benson Boone - Mystical Magical

22 [25] Ed Sheeran – Sapphire

27 [28] Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys

41 [40] Black Eyed Peas – Rock That Body

44 [45] Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In

45 [64] Sam Fender – Rein Me In

58 [60] Pink Pantheress – Illegal

64 [69] Rossi & Jazzy - High On Me

71 [116] sombr - we never dated

94 [105] Levi Heron – The Glen

112 [106] Sammy Virji – Cops and Robbers

123 [RE] Central Cee ft Sexyy Red – GUILT TRIPPIN’

124 [89] KATSEYE – Gabriela

129 [197] Demon Hunters Cast – Golden

141 [NE] Demon Hunters Cast – Your Idol

165 [104] Mark Ronson & RAYE – Suzanne

 

Edited Wednesday at 13:342 days by ElectroBoy

Quite a few songs from a Netflix film called KPop Demon Hunters appearing today:

129. HUNTR/X - Golden (+68)

141. Saja Boys - Your Idol

183. HUNTR/X - How It's Done