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

5 Seconds Of Summer - Telephone Busy [GRAT]

Alex Mills – Clap Back

Anna Of The North - Call Me

Ari Lennox - Under The Moon

Bbyclose - Ego

Billy Reekie – Miracle

The Boo Radleys – Solarcide

Cast - Calling Out Your Name

Chasing Abbey - Íorónta

Cruz Beckham - Optics / Lick The Toad

David Archuleta - Christmas In California [GRAT]

Deadmau5 - Ameonna

Don Diablo & Fitz & The Tantrums - Radio Baby

Foo Fighters - Asking For A Friend

Fred again.., Caribou & MC Teteu – Facilita

Fred again.. & Floating Points - Ambery

The Happy Mondays - Step On (Paul Oakenfold Remix) [Wednesday 29th]

The James Hunter Six feat Van Morrison - Ain't That A Trip [GRAT]

Julian Lennon - because… (EP)

Lewis Capaldi - Almost

Megan Thee Stallion - Lover Girl

Miley Cyrus - Maybe It's

Mumford & Sons & Hozier - Rubber Band Man

Mura Masa - Curve +1 (EP)

Olly Murs - Run This Town [GRAT]

Pale Waves - Zombie [Tuesday 28th]

Reese – I'm Not Deep In Love

Rizzle Kicks - Time Alone

Robin Schulz x Sigala feat Zoë Wees - AM To PM

Sampha - Cumulus / Memory

Selena Gomez - In The Dark

Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing

Sports Team - Medium Machine

Tyla - Chanel

Westlife – Chariot

Will Clarke & Sharlene Hector - Raise Your Hands

The Wombats - X-Rated [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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Got lot gone on this week Dave Lilly Allen and deluxe tracks from marina to plus load other big songs so hope another out stop golden climb back number 1

Dave’s songs have started appearing on Apple Music now with James Blake collab / opening track ‘History’ the highest at #10 already *.*

That’s a great start for Dave, no sign of new Lewis Capaldi yet, I do feel this song will struggle as there was no promo or anything he kind of just surprised released it, no add to HHUK either

4 minutes ago, LiamSime said:

That’s a great start for Dave, no sign of new Lewis Capaldi yet, I do feel this song will struggle as there was no promo or anything he kind of just surprised released it, no add to HHUK either

I feel like the Lewis song will be downgraded to a promo track, if it isn't already

Oh wow really underestimated Dave, too bad this support hasn't been there for more UK rappers!

18 minutes ago, Mangø said:

I feel like the Lewis song will be downgraded to a promo track, if it isn't already

An almost single

Oh WOW Dave/James Blake - 'History' has debuted at #185 on Spotify already!! That's huge *.*

Spotify

01 [01] Olivia Dean - Man I Need (648,642)

02 [02] Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia (582,358)

03 [03] RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND (448,720)

04 [04] HUNTR/X - Golden (414,820)

05 [06] Olivia Dean - So Easy (to fall in love) (367,760)

06 [05] Taylor Swift - Opalite (360,923)

19 [18] Tate McRae - TIT FOR TAT

28 [31] EsDeeKid - Phantom

35 [35] SIENNA SPIRO - DIE ON THIS HILL

41 [40] Tame Impala - Dracula

56 [64] Sam Fender & Elton John - Talk to You

84 [94] Tame Impala - The Less I Know the Better

165 [142] Tame Impala - My Old Ways

167 [172] EsDeeKid - 4 Raws

185 [NE] Dave ft James Blake - History

199 [NE] Madison Beer - bittersweet

'Man I Need' returns to #1 on Spotify's weekly chart, spending a 6th week there.

3 minutes ago, Jade said:

Oh WOW Dave/James Blake - 'History' has debuted at #185 on Spotify already!! That's huge *.*

A couple of tracks from Dave's last album also debuted in the top 200 on the Friday update - iirc 'Verdansk' and 'We're All Alone' - from an hour's streams due to the BST-GMT difference.

Surprised to see Madison Beer appear! Can’t say this particular song is really hitting me but I’m always rooting for her to get a hit and make more of a breakthrough.

1 hour ago, Jade said:

Oh WOW Dave/James Blake - 'History' has debuted at #185 on Spotify already!! That's huge *.*

mad that Spotify haven't fixed that yet, it's not like daylight savings is a new phenomenon lol

for comparison's sake, We're All Alone did 57,941 streams in the hour after release, History has done 79,588

Edited Friday at 15:591 day by Foxes

Dave on Apple update:

#5 History (with James Blake)

#9 175 Months

#13 No Weapons (with Jim Legxacy)

#14 Chapter 16 (with Kano)

#16 Raindance (with Tems)

#26 My 27th Birthday

#28 Selfish (with James Blake)

#33 The Boy Who Played the Harp

#44 Marvellous

#45 Fairchild

Manifesting James Blake getting a #1 single

(Won't happen, but hopefully it'll be safe to be one of the 3 charting songs and place somewhere in the top 10 if not top 5 - I see the song that's on Spotify's New Music Friday is the Tems collab, Radio 1 have just given the album the 'songs from' treatment on its playlist so far so hard to tell which song is meant to be "the single" but obviously 'History' is just leading at the moment as it's track 1 on the album, just remains to).

Apple update:

5 History

6 175 Months

7 Chapter 16

9 No Weapons

11 Raindance

15 My 27th Birthday

16 Selfish

21 The Boy Who Played The Harp

28 Fairchild

29 Marvellous

Hyped to see the Spotify numbers tomorrow!

Just occurred to me if 'Chapter 16' is one of the charting songs that'd also be a (likely) first top 10 hit for Kano! Over 12 years since his last top 40 hit (a feature on a Tyler James song lmao, definitely entirely forgot that existed) and 18 years on from his current highest peak of #18 for 'This Is The Girl' (feat. Craig David).

Some Lily Allen songs are showing up on Apple now!!!

122 West End Girl

153 Pussy Palace

192 Ruminating

Nothing from No Shame made the chart so it'd be awesome if she charted anything from this.

Apple

01 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia

02 Olivia Dean - Man I Need

03 Dave & James Blake - History

04 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden

06 Dave - 175 Months

07 Dave & Tems - Raindance

08 Dave & Kano - Chapter 16

09 Dave & Jim Legxacy - No Weapons

10 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!

11 Dave - My 27th Birthday

13 Dave & James Blake - Selfish

15 Dave - The Boy Who Played the Harp

18 Dave - Fairchild

19 Dave - Marvellous

51 Skye Newman - FU & UF

60 Lily Allen - West End Girl

69 Lily Allen - Pussy Palace

100 Lily Allen - Ruminating

Really like Lily's new album at first listen - would be great if she could have a track or two chart in the top 100 on the singles chart!

Lily Allen on Apple Music:

#60 West End Girl

#69 Pussy Palace (how apt x)

#100 Ruminating

#116 Sleepwalking

#121 Madeline

#123 Tennis

#148 Relapse

#171 4chan Stan

#186 Nonmonogamummy

pleasantly surprised that this album is making some noise on streaming so far *.*

That's fantastic for Lily!

Lily Allen Apple update

#45 West End Girl

#50 Pussy Palace

#67 Ruminating

#80 Sleepwalking

#83 Madeline

#85 Tennis

#112 Relapse

#124 4chan Stan

#131 Nonmonogamummy

#168 Just Enough

#180 Dallas Major

#192 Beg for Me