Tuesday at 12:003 days 15 hours ago, Paramore said:They really like their Morgan Wallen. I don't get itUK have Ed Sheeran so it's pretty even18 hours ago, Jessie Where said:I can't see how that'll achieve anything other than pushing all those perennial Greatest Hits mainstays even higher week upon week. I think it's fair to say Bieber just isn't performing exceptionally well, and that's being reflected.Actually, if the Official Chart Company counted all the streams equally, the hit studio albums would benefit more than the GHs and the latter would probably chart lower than they do now as the current hits would give advantage to studio albums. It's pretty hopeless without three decent streaming hits for studio albums like we saw with Beyoncé's latest for instance: a big #1 hit (Texas Hold 'em) but only 7 weeks in top 20 for the album because the streams of that one hit didn't really count.
Tuesday at 12:573 days don't think so, it would continue benefitting GH too. The issue with the Gh is the double counting, not that.regarding Beyonce, it's her own fault really. She's the one that abandoned the album on release date. Same as Radical optimism and many others.
Tuesday at 13:193 days Including all the streams feels like stat padding for the sake of it. It's a decent system as is, GH stuff is interesting to track in its own right but I largely just don't categorise it the same way when I look at it. I'm just thinking of how you get cases like The Chainsmokers' "Collage" EP, where 95% (real number, I don't exaggerate for effect) of its streams come from two songs. In the US, it's been granted a double platinum cert and is close to triple. It makes the Electronic Albums EOY top 10 every single year while 2 of its 5 tracks generate 10,000 global streams a day. In Australia and the UK, it has a more fair, modest Gold & Silver certification respectively, and I suspect the other tracks were more popular in these countries. That feels more right to me. It's frustrating to look at album certs in the US and just see them as a sum of the hit song certifications divided by 10, because that's basically what they are.Or another example, the Spotify streaming totals of each Radiohead album, with and without the top 2 tracks included. I think the latter paints a better picture of the more popular albums (unless we're algorithmically creating a generation of Pablo Honey diehards..), and that shouldn't that be what album charts are trying to do??
Wednesday at 16:482 days On 14/07/2025 at 21:38, Paramore said:They really like their Morgan Wallen. I don't get itCome to Ireland where the country is obsessed with Zach Bryan! He sold 3 sell out nights for 180,000 fans recently in Dublin. Ireland has a population of 5M. UK approximately 13 times bigger at 65M. Imagine him filling Wembley 39 times...that's the equivalent proportion!! Ireland was previously nuts about Garth Brooks...people give out about the poor turnover of the UK charts but the Irish charts are even more static as the population follow a smaller pool of musicians fanatically and for longer!
Wednesday at 17:062 days Music Week Top 40 Sales FlashSingles 01 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior (26,658) 02 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild (22,775) 03 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings (20,848) 04 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire (19,466) 05 Justin Bieber - DAISIES 06 Fred again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax - Victory Lap 07 Alex Warren - Ordinary 09 Skye Newman - Family Matters 10 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 11 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other 13 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden 15 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical 16 Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger 17 Rossi. & Jazzy - High on Me 18 Oasis - Live Forever 19 BLACKPINK - JUMP 21 Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys 23 Lola Young - One Thing 25 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Your Idol 27 Myles Smith - Nice to Meet You 30 HUNTRX, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - How It’s Done 31 Justin Bieber - ALL I CAN TAKE 33 Morgan Seatree & Florence + the Machine - Say My Name 34 Justin Bieber - YUKON 35 Levi Heron - The Glen 36 Lola Young - Messy 38 WizTheMc & bees & honey - Show Me Love++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Albums 01 Wet Leg - moisturizer (18,472) [15,716 physicals, 1,270 downloads, 1,486 streaming] 02 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 (12,840) 03 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (9,439) 04 Justin Bieber - SWAG (9,059) 05 Amy Macdonald - Is This What You've Been Waiting For? (8,090) 07 Barry Can't Swim - Loner 10 Burna Boy - No Sign of Weakness 14 Elton John - Diamonds 15 Clipse, Pusha T & Malice - Let God Sort Em Out 29 Steve Hackett - The Lamb Stands Up Live at the Royal Albert Hall 30 GIVĒON - BELOVED 31 Stereophonics - Decade in the Sun: Best of Stereophonics 33 Queen - Greatest Hits 35 Calvin Harris - 96 Months 37 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend 40 Jethro Tull - Still Living in the Past
Wednesday at 17:182 days Ooh wonder if just can jump 1 of the Oasis and finish top 3Sapphire looking good for a repeak this week
Wednesday at 17:451 day Do you think Time Flies... can stay at #1 in the end ?Compared with first midweeks : +3k for Wet Leg, +5k for Oasis who's coming back tonight in Manchester (so probably a surge in streams today AND tomorrow).Last week, Oasis did same figures in Wednesday midweeks : 12,796 units for Time Flies... (which finished with 21,015 units), 9,868 units for Morning Glory (which finished with 15,733 units).
Wednesday at 17:501 day SWAG should finish top 3 in the end then, and I hope Amy Macdonald can hold in the top 5, it's a great album!
Wednesday at 17:521 day 2 minutes ago, Maestro said:Tomorrow’s streams don’t count so that doesn’t matterI didn't know that ! That's absurd, so Thursday streams are counted in Friday units ? lolIt may explain why Sunday streams are not included in Monday midweeks...
Wednesday at 17:591 day 5 minutes ago, D-P said:I didn't know that !That's absurd, so Thursday streams are counted in Friday units ? lolIt may explain why Sunday streams are not included in Monday midweeks...They’re “estimated” - but the way that they are estimated is terrible and doesn’t take into account any important events. This has been seen multiple times with Christmas songs, Halloween songs, Three Lions, Fleetwood Mac songs after Christine McVie’s death where the given event has no effect on the estimated streams.
Wednesday at 19:441 day 2 hours ago, Ongarboy said:Come to Ireland where the country is obsessed with Zach Bryan! He sold 3 sell out nights for 180,000 fans recently in Dublin. Ireland has a population of 5M. UK approximately 13 times bigger at 65M. Imagine him filling Wembley 39 times...that's the equivalent proportion!! Ireland was previously nuts about Garth Brooks...people give out about the poor turnover of the UK charts but the Irish charts are even more static as the population follow a smaller pool of musicians fanatically and for longer!The population is near 8m now. But yeh they love their country music shite, a lot of red necks over here!
Wednesday at 20:321 day I don’t have a problem with Greatest Hits, but a lot of the time, people aren’t even listening to these albums, it’s just they’ve streamed a ‘Hits’ playlist for that artists. Look at Madonna, her whole catalog streams were directed to a remix album? No one is actually listening to that remix album, but it’s Madonna’s highest selling album in years.
Wednesday at 20:491 day 7 minutes ago, Lukuzz said:How is Beautiful Things top 10 Again?!Everything else above it going acr and it not 😂
Yesterday at 09:031 day 13 hours ago, Steve201 said:The population is near 8m now. But yeh they love their country music shite, a lot of red necks over here!Our population is only 5.3m, even with the North included it's only over 7m.
23 hours ago23 hr 8 hours ago, Rob said:Our population is only 5.3m, even with the North included it's only over 7m.Thought I previously saw we had hit the pre famine population level but it’s 7.1m as of 2023!
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