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

Benny Benassi & Matt Sassari feat Dhany - Every Single Day

Brandon Flowers - Paradise

Caity Baser - Flaunt It

Carly Rae Jepsen - After All [GRAT]

Cedric Gervais - All Night

Chloé Caillet & Luke Alessi - Change

Clavish – Yep

Crawlers - Cool

D-Block Europe & Young Adz - Turn Off The Light

David Kushner – Electrified

Echo & The Bunnymen - Brussels Is Haunted

Elderbrook & Rules - Staring At The Sun

Gorgon City feat Jem Cooke - Oracle

Illyus Barrientos - Thinking Of You

Jessie Ware - Sauna

Jordan Rakei - Enemies

Joshua Bassett - Clouds

Kelly Clarkson - I'd Be Lyin'

Kolter - Hey Everybody (Back In The Dance)

The Lathums - Vice Versa

Lava La Rue - Prince Of Bologna

LaVelle & Queen Millz - Relegation Zone

LF System – This Way

Logic1000 feat Kucka – All In For You

Lucas and Steve - All I Know

Lukas Graham - Good Times

Malugi & Paige Cavell - Right Thing

Matt Berninger - Martini Me Fatso

Meduza & Khalid – Weekend

Nate Smith - Find Me In A Bar

Nessa Barrett - Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die

Rose Gray - Just Be Bodies

Solardo - Freedom

Sophie And The Giants - Stripped (EP)

Stand Atlantic – Lucid [GRAT]

Tinashe - Crash Out [GRAT]

Topic & Darlyy Ferreira - Aha

Yazmin Lacey - Summer Haze

Yell! feat Daniel James - Hands Up!

 

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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Oasis still at #2 on Apple ('Three Lions' still showing as high as #11 but am sure it should plummet throughout today).

Spotify:

July 15th:

New Peak:

60. Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen

63. HUGEL, Imael Angel, Ultra Nate- Movin' To The Sun

112. Fat Papi ft proudshushy- FREAKED OUT

Re-Peak:

1. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds- Three Lions

New Entries:

124. The Beatles- Hey Jude- (Remastered 2009)

Re-Entries:

4. Fat Les- Vindaloo

7. New Order- World in Motion

19. Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline

29. The Beatles- Hey Jude NEW PEAK

35. Gala- Freed From Desire

78. Ant & Dec- We're On The Ball

84. Shakira ft Freshlyground- Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)

133. The Fratellis- Chelsea Dagger

148. 442- Come On England

149. Red Hot Chili Peppers- Scar Tissue

165. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds- Three Lions '98

177. Blur- Song 2

183. Plain White T's- Hey There Delilah

185. Marvin Gaye ft Tammi Terrell- Ain't No Mountain High Enough

191. The Outfield- Your Love

198. The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army

199. Shout For England ft Dizzee Rascal & James Corden- Shout

200. Madonna- Like a Prayer

Football Related Songs:

1. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds- Three Lions

2. Oasis- Wonderwall

4. Fat Les- Vindaloo

7. New Order- World in Motion

8. The Killers- Mr Brightside

17. Shakira ft Burna Boy- Dai Dai

19. Neil Diamond- Sweet Caroline

29. The Beatles- Hey Jude

35. Gala- Freed From Desire

43. Oasis- Don't Look Back In Anger

46. The Verve- Bitter Sweet Symphony

60. Dexys Midnight Runners- Come On Eileen

64. Journey- Don't Stop Believin'

78. Ant & Dec- We're On The Ball

84. Shakira ft Freshlyground- Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)

124. The Beatles- Hey Jude- (Remastered 2009)

133. The Fratellis- Chelsea Dagger

144. Oasis- Champagne Supernova

148. 442- Come On England

165. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds- Three Lions '98

177. Blur- Song 2

198. The White Stripes- Seven Nation Army

199. Shout For England ft Dizzee Rascal & James Corden- Shout

Can we stop treating 'Rein Me In' as a football related song? There's really not much evidence that it is and I'm still not convinced.

2 hours ago, Mack. said:

Re-Entries:

78. Ant & Dec- We're On The Ball

Scholesy Gerrard!

Edited Friday at 14:502 days by TheSnake

4 minutes ago, TheSnake said:

Scholesy Gerard!

Could have done with some Scholesy-Gerrard passes at 1-0 up the other night... or indeed at any World Cup since Gerrard missed the 2002 one through injury.

Need Grandad Roberts and His Son Elvis to enter next time!

Weekly Spotify is up, however calculated Three Lions did 68K for July 16th’s daily chart so it will drop out from #1 once they update 😭😭

3 Lions out but Wonderwall still at 3 on Spotify, could it still be a number one contender?

'Three Lions' actually went 1-OUT then! First time any song has done so on Spotify.

The top 10 most streamed songs on UK Spotify between 10th and 16th July:

10 hours ago, Mack. said:

199. Shout For England ft Dizzee Rascal & James Corden- Shout

I can’t believe people actually like this, genuinely thought this was one of the those early 2010s hits that would be lost to time.

9 hours ago, Highway Unicorn said:

I can’t believe people actually like this, genuinely thought this was one of the those early 2010s hits that would be lost to time.

Playlist impact I’m guessing - it seems to be on all the main football compilations/playlists so has benefited by default potentially.

You'd think World In Motion might have shown up in the top 100 after doing that well in the lead up to Wednesday's match. Perhaps it wasn't removed from ACR.

Quite something to see the likes of Ant & Dec, 442 and the awful Shout charting on streaming, even if due to passive playlist listening.

I am a bit perplexed at New Order not charting while Neil Diamond did, they're right next to each other on the streaming chart (79 & 80) and Neil was top 200 last week while New Order weren't so they surely definitely had enough of an increase and should have been charting around the same position. Maybe it's some free/paid streaming split shenanigans that I'm not big brained enough to be able to work out but it looks like an OCC oversight to me.

3 hours ago, gooddelta said:

Quite something to see the likes of Ant & Dec, 442 and the awful Shout charting on streaming, even if due to passive playlist listening.

Love 442 - one of my favourite football songs, pleased to see it still gets some love.

10 minutes ago, Bror said:

I am a bit perplexed at New Order not charting while Neil Diamond did, they're right next to each other on the streaming chart (79 & 80) and Neil was top 200 last week while New Order weren't so they surely definitely had enough of an increase and should have been charting around the same position. Maybe it's some free/paid streaming split shenanigans that I'm not big brained enough to be able to work out but it looks like an OCC oversight to me.

Neil is 74 on audio streaming (194 last week) while New Order is 96 (not top 200 last week). Looking at other positions I'm guessing World In Motion wouldn't have made top 40 (My Body Isn't Ready is at 89) so the OCC didn't bother resetting it, that's usually the case when it comes to old songs.

Edited yesterday at 12:201 day by gasman449

I see - New Order must have a lot of video streams then I guess.

ANOTR up to a new peak of #3 now!!! Albeit still quite far from Sammy Fendz and Livvy D

Oasis (#4) and The Killers (#6) still popular as ever post-England knockout

Hugel on the verge of top 40 up +15 to #42

Nothing new besides Gracie Abrams album impact:

36 (NE) Good Reason

38 (+73) Look at My Life

50 (RE) Hit the Wall

72 (NE) Death Wish

79 (NE) The Knife

99 (NE) Daughter from Hell

131 (NE) Men Like You

141 (NE) Minibar

198 (NE) Broke My Heart

New peak for Brightside! Top 40 seemingly confirmed this week 😂