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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

Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night
Barry Can't Swim - Chala (My Soul Is On A Loop)
Bic Runga - Ghost In Your Bed [GRAT]
Carly Pearce - Church Girl
CeCe Winans - Worthy Of It All (Worthy)
Cleo Sol - Nothing Is Impossible With You
David Guetta x Morten feat Trippie Redd - Locked In
Def Leppard - Rejoice
Disco Lines & Wes Mills feat Madeline Follin – Starlight
Dove Cameron - Do I Wanna Know?
Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Shine A Light
The Fray - A Light That Waits
George Reid – True Desire
Harry Romero - Don’t You Want Some More
Harry Styles - Aperture
Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody [GRAT]
Honey Dijon feat Bree Runway - Slight Werk (Club Mix)
James Blake - Death Of Love
Jelly Roll - I'm Good
Jessie Ware - I Could Get Used To This
Kaskade, CID & Anabel Englund - Vision Blurred
Loreen - Feels Like Heaven
M Huncho - Championship
Morgan Seatree & Carla Monroe - Beat Is Jumping
Peter Andre - Rock U Right
R+feat Amelia Fox - Out With The Girls
Tensnake feat Nadia Gattas - Come Back to Life
Thirty Seconds To Mars - God's Eye [GRAT]
Yung Bae & Moon Boots – Party Never Stops

 

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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  • Looks like it's Harry Styles vs. Vicky B for #1 next week.

  • In its release week there was hype about “Not Such An Innocent Girl” going up against “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, also in its release week. The latter sold around 10 times more in its first week a

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16 Harry Styles - Aperture

33 Arctic Monkeys & War Child Records - Opening Night

137 Victoria Beckham - Not Such an Innocent Girl

Harry feels like a given, but hoping we get Arctics debuting within the T10!

I thought it looked like a strong week for British releases, with Harry and Arctics, but a Victoria Beckham revival wasn't on my bingo card cheeseblock

23 minutes ago, ElectroBoy said:

Apple

16 Harry Styles - Aperture

33 Arctic Monkeys & War Child Records - Opening Night

137 Victoria Beckham - Not Such an Innocent Girl

Victoria omg-

Jason Derulo on new album come out today song on it call pineapple i would if song about Teddy pineapple ak teddy swims

11 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Jason Derulo on new album come out today song on it call pineapple i would if song about Teddy pineapple ak teddy swims

Knowing him, it's probably a song about the benefits of eating pineapple.

First impression of the Harry track is its not bad but im feeling its gonna do well because of Harry's name rather than being fantastic, there is just way too much instrumental and hardly any Harry, it could literally be any decent artist of the last 10 years

Also first time in a while I found myself checking if the song is over it really didnt need to be 5 minutes long , 3 would of been sufficient 🤣🤣

Apple

09 Harry Styles - Aperture

30 Arctic Monkeys & War Child Records - Opening Night

149 Victoria Beckham - Not Such an Innocent Girl

Looks like it's Harry Styles vs. Vicky B for #1 next week.

29 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

First impression of the Harry track is its not bad but im feeling its gonna do well because of Harry's name rather than being fantastic, there is just way too much instrumental and hardly any Harry, it could literally be any decent artist of the last 10 years

Also first time in a while I found myself checking if the song is over it really didnt need to be 5 minutes long , 3 would of been sufficient 🤣🤣

I commend him for being brave enough to release something like this at this stage in his career! It's certainly not commercially friendly at all.

Hoping the Thursday release doesn't hurt the Arctic's chart position too much. New Harry is pretty good.

It’s not really screaming smash hit to me after a few listens, I don’t think it’s bad but nowhere near his best. I’m sure it will grow on me though. With his name power alone I’m sure it will be a comfortable multi week number 1

1 hour ago, Jessie Where said:

Knowing him, it's probably a song about the benefits of eating pineapple.

Be a Sabrina Carpenter remix 🤣

Artic monkeys is my favourite of the newbies so far

I like both the new Arctic Monkeys track (more interesting than almost everything on The Car) and the new Harry track (I much preferred when he tried to do something different on album #1 than the poppiness of albums #2 and #3, so I'm here for a return to 5 minute lead singles with slightly odd structure)

In its release week there was hype about “Not Such An Innocent Girl” going up against “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, also in its release week. The latter sold around 10 times more in its first week and became a million seller, while the former isn’t even silver. The latter has 830 million Spotify streams to the former’s 3 million.

I wonder if this will be the first week the former has ever outperformed the latter, 25 years on.

40 minutes ago, Sour Candy said:

Wonder how many % Not Such an Innocent Girl has increased week-on-week? 60,000?

It’s been said in the spice girls forum, I might be wrong but it read it’s gone up 20,000+

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