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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

Alabama Shakes - Another Life

Alok & Artbat - Truth, Peace, Love, Acid

Amy Sheppard - Country Country

Ash - Give Me Back My World [GRAT]

Ashnikko - Sticky Fingers [GRAT]

Belters Only feat Karen Harding - In The Jungle

Bon Jovi - Red, White & Jersey [GRAT]

Bon Jovi feat Bruce Springsteen - Hollow Man [GRAT]

Bright Eyes - Dyslexic Palindrome [GRAT]

Conrad Sewell - Walk On

Daniel Bedingfield & Aktive - Believer

Denise Van Outen – The Glory Of Love [GRAT]

DJ Khaled feat Vybz Kartel, Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, Mavado, Rorystonelove & Kaylan Arnold - You Remind Me

DJ Snake & Don Toliver - Something Wrong

Don Broco - Hype Man

Gary Barlow & Rosa Linn - Out Here Looking

Jesse McCartney – Dulce [GRAT]

Jessie J - Believe In Magic

Jim Brickman & Ruben Studdard – Where's The Good In Goodbye?

Joe Stilgoe and The Entertainers - Mr Peanuts

The Kid Laroi - She Don't Need To Know

Matt Bianco – Wanderlust [GRAT]

Nemo - God's A Raver [GRAT]

Nicki French - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (30th Anniversary Remixes)

Rachel Platten - Stand By You (Rachel's Version) [GRAT]

Razorlight - Sugar High

Richard Ashcroft - Lovin' You [GRAT]

Ruti - If I Could Choose It Would Be You

Seafret – Love In Reverse

The Struts feat Brian May - Could Have Been Me (10th Anniversary) [Wednesday 3rd September]

Tame Impala - Loser [Wednesday 3rd September]

 

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]

 

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  • Spoiler alert: it's not.

  • ‘My Man on Willpower’ I think once people have listened to the album in full, ‘House Tour’ will be one of the ones staying around.

Sabrina-Tears @1 on NMF and @4 on HH

oh very fast appearance on Apple:

96

NEW

Sabrina Carpenter - Tears

Perrie added to HHUK! o

Hyped and excited for her but kinda confused when both FUFN and Plastic Box apparently performed better numbers wise, but didn’t get added…??

Lets go Perrie!

Sabrina on Apple:

#5 Manchild

#29 Tears

#54 My Man on Willpower

#70 Sugar Talking

#81 We Almost Broke Up Last Night

#87 Nobody's Son

#95 When Did You Get Hot?

#100 Never Getting Laid

extras:

#44 Espresso

#66 Taste

#121 Please Please Please

#143 Busy Woman

#154 Juno

#179 Bed Chem

Actually for once HH added quite a bunch of songs

besides Tears at #4 and Perrie (quite low), they added new Florence!! also finally added Sombr-12 to 12

and I think also Fredo and some random dance track

27 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Will manchild stay as on acr or will get rest or will be 3 new songs

Id say high possiblity it does 25 percent more than last week so gets reset 🫣

‘My Man on Willpower’ wub

I think once people have listened to the album in full, ‘House Tour’ will be one of the ones staying around.

Just now, Tafty said:

‘My Man on Willpower’ wub

Yeah, this was my biggest highlight from the album really. No other obvious singles.

Manchild is track #1, so think it will get reset and be part of her 3 songs

Boo I’d hoped we were rid of the awful “Manchild”, though I’m not confident that the new material will be much better.

22 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

Boo I’d hoped we were rid of the awful “Manchild”, though I’m not confident that the new material will be much better.

Spoiler alert: it's not.

Now I understand (finally) why there were no other prealbum singles

The song titles on that Sabrina album really do not give me much hope that she's dialling back the cringe any time soon.

(Having said that I heard about half of 'Tears' this morning - the first thing I heard when I turned the radio on because it's impossible to avoid her on Radio 1 - and I think it sounded decent? Although I'm conscious that I said the same thing about 'Manchild' on first listen and that ended up getting very irritating very fast so let's wait to see how I feel after having to hear 'Tears' 100 times as well x)

Apple Music:


3 Manchild

5 Tears

8 My Man on Willpower

12 Sugar Talking

16 We Almost Broke Up Again Last Night

18 Nobody’s Son

22 Never Getting Laid

23 When Did You Get Hot?

26 Go Go Juice

32 House Tour

34 Don’t Worry I’ll Make You Worry

37 Goodbye

Tears debuted on the Spotify Charts only after 1 hour of tracking omg

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