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Was there some sort of playlist promoted? Or perhaps Spotify's autoplay? Or is there a 2010s viral trend on TikTok? Not complaining as I'm happy to see the likes of "Since U Been Gone" and "Talking Body" re-entering.

Some great certs this week! Echoing the love for "My Delirium"! Was obsessed with it when released 18 years ago... As well as the album! Also great to see Mary J. Blige's "Real Love" certified silver - an R&B classic. Shame it only managed to peak at #68 in the UK.

It might have been as it seems to have been reverted. I think this time there were quite a lot of songs (dozens, potentially hundreds) that got combined and some jumped on a bandwagon of assuming it was an update Spotify was rolling out (I jumped on the bandwagon as well it seems!). I can't find anything official from Spotify either.

It started a couple days ago from what I can tell with select songs. It might make the chart even less fresh with songs like "Save Your Tears" being combined and popping back up. But it should make it easier to see how songs are doing that have multiple versions doing well. I believe those will stay as is as they were re-recordings and charted separately as well. Although given Taylor has her masters back she might request they be combined?

Spotify are in the middle of combining remixes of songs into a songs total streaming figures. This may affect "Rein Me In" as we might get all versions combined so don't be surprised if there's a sudden increase it its daily streams. Examples from recent days are songs like "Bring Your Love" by Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift's "Karma" remix with Ice Spice and Ariana Grande's "Supernatural" remix with Troye Sivan. It's part of them trying to clean up their data and to an extent makes sense as most remixes are combined with the originals for chart purposes. It's just a shame you won't be able to see how many streams a remix did vs the original now. The Spotify chart might start looking quite a bit different with a lot of movement lower down the chart potentially.

Oh 100%. But labels don't care as long as they make their money and for some artists it's either a residency or they won't tour at all such as Kelly Clarkson - although understandable given Kelly has children. Similar thing with Adele doing Las Vegas residency to work her life around her son with her Munich residency taking place during the US school holidays.

I think it's much easier for the artists and labels to do residencies. Less travelling involved/less taxing on the artist and cheaper as you don't need to move large amounts of equipment as much. London is the best connected city in the UK (and the world generally) too. Although hopefully with Manchester's Co-op Live arena we'll see more artists doing residencies there in future.

Oo I hope Madonna and Kylie can manage enough CDs for top 20! Although the CD release should guarantee top 40 at least.

Might as well have "Rein Me In" #1 for the rest of the year. Maybe Sam and Olivia can release a festive version for Christmas.

I believe Madonna/Kylie have physicals out in September? So they could make it top 40 then if they manage to shift 10kish? Which I think would be doable? Maybe they should release a music video around the same time for a small boost to streaming as well.

Honestly including radio would make the chart more interesting and help bridge the gap between radio audiences vs streaming audiences. It would make it relevant again to the charts. In olden times, increasing/sustained radio play would usually translate into increased sale/chart positions. But with steaming increased radio play has almost no influence there. The #1 song on radio can be almost non-existent on streaming services and vice versa. Radio playlists tends to be fresher/have a higher turnover than streaming playlists as well - particularly the larger playlists such as today's top hits where songs can spend 1+ years on them.

"Just because you are wearing the same clothes, have the same make-up and look identical doesn't mean you are family. I don't see it."

I saw the video yesterday. Plastique is amazing at making people over! For this week's makeover challenge, congratulations Plastique you are the winner.

It wasn't released as a single in the UK. Otherwise it was an easy big hit... Her 2nd album release was a mess as it didn't release in the US initially but instead they re-packaged into a completely "new" album Pocketful of Sunshine for the US market which included "Love Like This" which was released as a single in the UK. I never got my brain around why they never released "Pocketful of Sunshine" globally when it took off/became big in the US. Especially as the US market in those days was seen as the most difficult to crack/break into so any song that makes a big impact would likely be a big hit globally...

"New Religion" going silver quicker than I thought it would! Future platinum top 50 hit!

This is why ACR needs to be rid of consecutive declines and move towards something like "3 declines in the last 4 weeks" to prevent songs dodging ACR by posting minimal increases when DLC-2. Also for a decline to be counted against the market as someone suggested before such as increasing by 1% whilst the market increased by 5% counts as a decline.

It likely will get reset but it's back behind "Rein Me In" on Spotify etc so not guaranteed to climb back to #1 even it does go back to SCR.

Sadly she is. Last week she was #1 on Amazon, Apple Music + Youtube and was #1 on streaming overall. This week she's down to #3 Amazon, #4 Apple Music and her lead on youtube is slowly decreasing. Would love it if Shakira did manage a week but I fear she'll go to ACR before "Rein Me In" given what's happened so far this year

So happy to see Carole King's " I Feel The Earth Move" go silver! Tapestry is one of the best albums of the 20th century, will need to give it another listen to celebrate

Come on Shakira! Streaming on Amazon today so the streams will count for tomorrow's chart Also purchased a copy! "Dai Dai" is in part a charity song as proceeds go to the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund. So help some children and buy/stream "Dai Dai"!

My daily streaming of "Dai Dai" working *_* Come on Shakira and team, push for that #1!

Not that far from a #1 debut in the US if her team push a little more!

To be fair I would say 25 pretty much did that!

Kworb YouTube chart updated showing 966k views for Shakira on Saturday-Sunday, a small increase. Doing ~483k views/day, up slightly from the Thursday-Friday numbers of ~470k. Every little helps in the battle for #1! Also "Dai Dai" climbs to #1 on Amazon!!! Massive *_* #1 on Apple, Amazon & YouTube. ~72k streams behind on Spotify today. Come on Shakira's label, release some additional versions. Acoustic, Acapella... anything!

Shakira #3 ~61k streams behind "Rein Me In" (slightly smaller gap than yesterday). Sienna Spiro - "Great Expectation" up to a new peak of #13.