20 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Ah fair enough you could be right I was just going by Alan's write up in the sales thread

Yes, I spotted that and commented on the sales thread. His suggestion worked in this scenario (last week) - but doesn’t work in many others. It’s frustrating that the rules are so opaque that even Alan (whose work I’ve been following since the 80s) doesn’t fully understand it.

There are several compilations in the chart that are not currently the best selling compilations for those artists (Michael Jackson and probably Fleetwood Mac and George Michael to name a few).

27 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

Yes, I spotted that and commented on the sales thread. His suggestion worked in this scenario (last week) - but doesn’t work in many others. It’s frustrating that the rules are so opaque that even Alan (whose work I’ve been following since the 80s) doesn’t fully understand it.

There are several compilations in the chart that are not currently the best selling compilations for those artists (Michael Jackson and probably Fleetwood Mac and George Michael to name a few).

Yeah i dont think it helps that the OCC seem to be playing fast and loose with their own rules either

Like a song is only eligible for a reset if it would rechart top 40 and not ever song qualifies , yet nowhere have they explicitly stated whether thats the actual rule 😅

6 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Yeah i dont think it helps that the OCC seem to be playing fast and loose with their own rules either

Like a song is only eligible for a reset if it would rechart top 40 and not ever song qualifies , yet nowhere have they explicitly stated whether thats the actual rule 😅

Possibly part of it is that I haven’t seen new rules that they have published in over 3 years, so they may have changed them in the meantime.

I think things were a bit messy over Christmas, but can you think of any songs that haven’t been reset despite having a 25% increase in streams meaning they would go into the top 40 that week? From what I recall, Diana Ross was delayed but eventually got a reset.

7 minutes ago, GreyAsh said:

Possibly part of it is that I haven’t seen new rules that they have published in over 3 years, so they may have changed them in the meantime.

I think things were a bit messy over Christmas, but can you think of any songs that haven’t been reset despite having a 25% increase in streams meaning they would go into the top 40 that week? From what I recall, Diana Ross was delayed but eventually got a reset.

Radiohead's 'Let Down' would surely have been Top 40 with a reset last year, if not immediately when it last had a >25% increase then at the most a week later.

Not listened to her album yet but would be so willing for Melanie C to get that elusive solo #1 album! She’s always been my favourite Spice (though Posh gives her a run for her money these days ).

Music Week Top 40 Sales Flash

Singles

01 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In (34,175)

02 Tame Impala - Dracula (20,387)

03 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead (19,545)

04 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (18,880)

05 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM (18,166)

07 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun

12 Harry Styles - American Girls

13 Michael Jackson - Beat It

15 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

18 Alex Warren - FINE PLACE TO DIE

22 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind

23 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall in Love)

24 Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love

27 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk to You

28 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other

29 Malcolm Todd - Earrings

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

32 Sean Paul feat. Keyshia Cole - (When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me

37 STELLA LEFTY - Boston

38 Temper City - Self Aware

39 KATSEYE - PINKY UP

40 Justin Bieber feat. Ludacris - Baby

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Albums (Top 100)

01 Kneecap - FENIAN (17,237) [15,152 physicals, 897 downloads, 1,188 streaming]

02 Michael Jackson - The Essential (16,881)

03 Melanie C - Sweat (15,379)

04 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (9,693)

05 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving (9,379)

The album chart in the article is yesterday's top 40 - I'll update if it changes.

Shame this was probably Draculas last shot at number 1 for a while 😢

(Unless Billie Jeans momentum has slowed)

Ooh didnt expect Olivia D to be that close to Noah could go either way for 4th between them 2

24 Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love Yeah!!

Eww at Nice To Each Other starring out Baby Steps

So Kneecap gonna get physical num 1 and MJ offical number 1

Just now, Henessy Lake said:

So Kneecap gonna get physical num 1 and MJ offical number 1

Not necessarily i think mel is selling a lot better physically they are streaming a lot better

13 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Shame this was probably Draculas last shot at number 1 for a while 😢

It's still nowhere near #1 sales-wise so it hasn't ever really had a shot (without Rein Me In going to ACR).

3 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Not necessarily i think mel is selling a lot better physically they are streaming a lot better

The numbers were posted for Tuesday's update - both KNEECAP and Melanie are getting the large majority of their sales from physicals (with KNEECAP doing better), Melanie is doing slightly better on downloads and KNEECAP are doing slightly better on streams but pretty low numbers for both.

Great album top 5 sales this week!

Shame to see MJ back in the Top 5 but hey dawg what can you do?

 

Rein Me In still at #1 how are people not bored of it yet?

Compared with last week's Wednesday mids:

The Art Of Loving up by ~1k, so would expect it to end the week at around 16k

'FEVER DREAM' down by ~500

'Dracula' up by ~500

and...

'Rein Me In' up by ~800

So Fever dream going on acr and Dracula avoiding then?

7 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

So Fever dream going on acr and Dracula avoiding then?

They're both on only one week of decline before this week, so would need to decline next week too.

2 hours ago, 777666jason said:

Ah fair enough you could be right I was just going by Alan's write up in the sales thread

"Quote

Topping the box office chart despite a critical drubbing, Michael Jackson biopic Michael has reignited massive interest in the late ‘king of pop’, who died nearly 17 years ago. The official soundtrack set, Michael: Songs From The Motion Picture leads the way, debuting at No.4 (13,244 sales). 2003 compilation Number Ones re-enters at No.5 (9,267 sales), while 1982’s Thriller surges 65-8 (7,251 sales), and 1987’s Bad rockets 52-13 (6,302 sales).

The only Jackson album in the chart heading the wrong way is 2005 compilation The Essential, which spent six weeks at No.1 following his death in 2009, but which slides 5-14 (6,268 sales) this week. The cause of that blip is the complicated relationship between the track listings of Michael, Number Ones and The Essential, with pure sales order dictating where the streams from common tracks (both solo and Jacksons/Jackson 5 material) are directed for chart purposes. In this particular case, The Essential is the loser. For the record, with pure sales of 4,124, all of the soundtrack’s 13 tracks contributed to its streams. With 1,151 pure sales, Number Ones came next but was denied streaming points from the nine tracks the two albums share. With 388 pure sales, The Essential is the last of the three, and was not allocated streams from any tracks it shared with either of the other two"

Rather have Dracula than Rein Me In at #1.