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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

Abi Flynn x Kato - Best Thing

Alok & Something Else feat Labi Siffre - I Wonder If You Know

Appleton - Ready To Begin [Wednesday 3rd June]

Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me

Barry Can't Swim - Return To Bhibo

Basement Jaxx - Jump N' Shout (Gorgon City Remix)

Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - Sad Girls

Blood Orange – Essex_Honey.mp3

Bob Sinclar & Fireball - What I Want Is You

Cara Delevingne - I Forgot / Out Of My Head

Conducta - Soundboy Johnny (EP)

Dagny – Rain

Dasha - Mad About It

Dvbbs & Nelly Furtado - Torture Of The Heart

Elderbrook - Is It Over Now?

Eliza Rose - Morning Light

Felix - Don't You Want Me (Delta Heavy Remix)

Future & Tyla - Game Time

Jonas Blue - Girl

Ladsclub - Love On Top Of Love

Ladytron - Secret Dreams Of Thieves

Lily Allen feat Jade - Beg For Me (Remix)

Little Big Town - Over And Over [GRAT]

Mae Stephens - Earn It

Matt Dusk – Abstraction [60's Version]

Matt Pridgyn, Vikkstar & Jex - Bigger Than Dreamers

Max McNown - Something To Someone

Meek - Beautiful Freeks

Nathan Dawe & Tion Wayne - Cola

Paul Heaton feat Rianne Downey - Favourite Kind Of Idiot

Perrie - Passenger Princess

Peter Gabriel – TBA [Sunday 31st May]

PNAU feat Maleigh Zan - Crash

Ravyn Lenae – Handle [GRAT]

Role Model - High Hopes 3000 [Wednesday 3rd June]

Tiësto & Olivia Sebastianelli - Don't Lose Your Head

Tiwa Savage, Wande Coal & Mavo – Energy

Tove Styrke - Song And Dance Man + Let's Go Camping

Yannick Bovy – Faithful Friend

 

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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  • I’d imagine Ariana will get a number 1 this week but from hearing it I am starting to think it’s gonna do the same as drop dead or American girls, one week at the top before rein me in takes it back.

  • 777666jason
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    Is it possible to report Spotify to the police this is such a Hate crime against our Jade again 😫😫

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    holy crap   That’s pretty promising!!

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Rein Me In will have another week at No.1 I suppose 💔

Just now, C.O. said:

Rein Me In will have another week at No.1 I suppose 💔

Unless something drastic happens, Ariana should be able to top RMI easily

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I’d imagine Ariana will get a number 1 this week but from hearing it I am starting to think it’s gonna do the same as drop dead or American girls, one week at the top before rein me in takes it back. I can’t really see this Ariana song hanging around at the top spot for ages imo

It's the most underwhelming first single by her maybe, it's still miles better than "yes, and?" which is a bad song, but this is a nice song but it's far far far from a hit.

 

42 minutes ago, Mangø said:

Lily x JADE not even on the Spotify NMF playlist, how rude!

True, but I must say that the original is X10 better.

This is having a moment, charting on quite a few Spotify charts atm

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4 minutes ago, omrimayo said:

It's the most underwhelming first single by her maybe, it's still miles better than "yes, and?" which is a bad song, but this is a nice song but it's far far far from a hit.

Far from a hit? It has a very good chance of debuting at #1, top 3 at worst. It couldn't be more of a hit!

42 minutes ago, Mangø said:

Lily x JADE not even on the Spotify NMF playlist, how rude!

True, but I must say that the original is X10 better.

Just now, Mangø said:

Far from a hit? It has a very good chance of debuting at #1, top 3 at worst. It couldn't be more of a hit!

OK, it will be there anyway because of her and her name, but just wait and see what I'm talking about in a few weeks, and obviously I'm talking about her standards not just by nobody's. Chill. :)

7 minutes ago, omrimayo said:

It's the most underwhelming first single by her maybe, it's still miles better than "yes, and?" which is a bad song, but this is a nice song but it's far far far from a hit.

Its not really that fair off from we can't be friends... even down to the brief pause in the song in the second verse.

WCBF is (obviously) way better though. Be interesting to see what numbers it can do, even in curiosity streams

53 minutes ago, Mangø said:

Lily x JADE not even on the Spotify NMF playlist, how rude!

They’ve done Lily x Jade and Becky Hill (20th) dirty with NMF.

My first thought on hearing Ariana‘s new song is that there are so many British artists producing much better music (than her or Olivia Rodrigo) but can’t get a hit because of the way the music industry works these days.

Freya Skye has released a lot of amazing music yet has never charted in the UK singles chart, Maisie Peters has released a couple of great tracks from her album - yet has still never cracked the top 40, and after a dud album, Mimi Webb is back on form.

It sucks that they don’t get sufficient support even when their music is better than comparable American artists.

18 minutes ago, omrimayo said:

True, but I must say that the original is X10 better.

Oh hell naww , the original was a 10 , this is definitely an 11 🙄

8 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

They’ve done Lily x Jade and Becky Hill (20th) dirty with NMF.

I don’t get why Polydor threw so much behind hands on me when More x3 quite literally has so much more?? It has a whole music video & was released with an album announcement but they think 20th is a good placement. Actually hate that label so much omfg

Is it possible to report Spotify to the police this is such a Hate crime against our Jade again 😫😫

1 minute ago, blackmascara said:

I don’t get why Polydor threw so much behind hands on me when More x3 quite literally has so much more?? It has a whole music video & was released with an album announcement but they think 20th is a good placement. Actually hate that label so much omfg

I’m not convinced it’s that easy to get a high NMF placement as we think - I’m sure there is money involved but I don’t think that it’s as straightforward as ‘place this at #2 on NMF’

Is that it from ariana? Hardly feels like a lead single at all she definitely has so much better id be shocked if its a long runner from that

(It will likely still go number 1 from her name alone though)

Ariana is up to 6 on the pop chart.

Guessing the main chart just needs to update :D

But she's ahead of WHERE IS MY HUSBAND/ drop dead. so is around there

EDIT - Just updated for me - yeah up to 10

Edited by ElectroBoy

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