Sharpshooter

Major Lazer looks he's got a reasonable shot of getting 100k+ with streaming points now approaching 600k.

Usually when one of the dies.

Not with Major Lazer about the place. In 10-12 weeks time Drake will be selling at 30-35k.

Major Lazer has had a great opening start on Spotify with 311k. If he can around 25k stream points, 35k sales will probably be enough if 60k is the likely target.

1. Major Lazer - Cold Water (feat. Justin Bieber & MØ) - 1.0000 2. Jonas Blue - Perfect Strangers (feat. JP Cooper) - 0.5791 At this rate he'll get the number 1 on sales alone. Really impressive lead.

Looking more likely with Jonas Blue back to 59p its him that Major Lazer/Bieber are going to have to beat. Solid 330k streams for him today, only 100k behind One Dance now. The 59p effect is making him extend his lead over Drake. Looking in the region of 62k-65k for him next week possibly.

Top 5 would equate to 20k-25k stream sales, meaning he would require 35k-40k digital sales.

Bryan Adams record likely to be safe?

Britney and Katy Perry rose just as fast this, if you look at the timeline by 8:30am they also were in the mid 20s, neither went anywhere in the charts this week. Mind you Justin has a massive lead on the US iTunes, nearly double lead over #2.

Its still possible for Jonas Blue to get to no.1 next week if Major Lazer fails. Now getting over 300k on Spotify. Very possible for him to get 60k+ if his iTunes lead holds.

Depends on Drake's video which is about to come out. You'd assume another boost from that? Maybe towards 70k next week?

Yeah I've noticed, we've got 6 songs above 300k?? The only two songs I normally see above 300k on a weekday are Drake's two songs. Any reason?

Well Drake's streams have rocketed again. Up at 464k which is very high for a weekday. It means by my calculation he'll get around 63k this week. But its not all down to his 59p effect, his streams have really picked up (for whatever reason). Jonas Blue holding steady though here on iTunes, his streams are up near 350k, should get around 60k himself next week if he can hold is iTunes lead.

Looks like Drake will breaking 60k this week, not only because of the 59p effect but his streams have picked up for whatever reason.

Calum Scott has a combined lead now of 1.2848. It appears Jonas Blue has digital sales of approx 30,000 or so, if CS can get to 1.33 that be around 40,000, 1.5 would be 45,000 etc. So next week if Dancing on my own can hold and even increase its lead, it might have a real shot of getting 60k+. His streams Today were around 175k, he is increasing at the moment, so if he can bring those 200k next week, which is not much, he would be on target. He doesn't need huge increases here from what he has right now to get a really good sales total next week. He could really rival Drake himself next week if Bieber fails.

Wow Calum Scotts got a big (combined) lead on ITunes now, shame his stream numbers are terrible.

Well its all about Major Lazer and Bieber next week. If they can't get to number 1, then I don't think its a stretch to suggest that Drake will be number 1 for another 5-6 weeks yet. Given he's got the video to come. Surely they'll get the 55-60k required? Or does Justin do a Katy Perry and not bother putting in Spotify?

Well he hasn't stopped climbing yet, maybe he never does, the guys immortal.

At this rate Drake might surpass Jonas on iTunes, not sure when it will top out.

What do we think Drake will do? Around 55k? He's dropped 3k on streams last week and data today showed him dropping quite a bit again. Last week it was 12.2k/42.5k ratio, this week I suspect it will something like 15k/40k. I heard some people think he'll get around 60k but I personally don't reckon that will be the case. How long does the iTunes 59p effect last? Surely he's going to top out at some point?

Its worth noting that even Drake's gone from 0.32 to 0.42, DLMD have also increased from 0.73 to 0.78 themeselves, so from their point of view the 59p effect has been negated somewhat so far.

Britney's the only one who can do it if she has streaming. She must be at what 0.7 of Jonas Blue on itunes now?

Drake's streams are struggling to stay above 400k on weekdays now.

I think Jonas Blue's more likely to get to number 1 than Chainsmokers, we'll see how the streaming fares this week, but Jonas Blue's stream numbers are beginning to rise quite rapidly.

Katy's at #11 still following her.