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I’m not saying the labels are doing it, I’m saying that Spotify themselves are artificially inflating the streams of older songs which they can basically switch on and off as they please. You can’t argue that those movements are in any way natural.

Riptide up 56 spots on Spotify yesterday isn’t suspicious at all. Also Yellow ranking whilst all other Coldplay songs have massive gains, okay.

No new entries then?

#195 on Spotify today. Yay

Sabrina Carpenter covered Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer last night. Could that get a chart resurgence please

I don’t think Hell n Back can re-enter. It’s basically been doing the same as Calm Down the last few weeks based on the Hip Hop genre chart so would be surprised if it was able to leapfrog it. I’m only guessing Don’t Look Back in Anger is #99 because Julian confirmed On My Love at #98 and I don’t think anything else could fit in the gap. (I have Rich Baby Daddy at #96 if that helps)

I get your point but I expect the bar will increase by less than 8k next week. I’m pretty sure Calm Down is #100 doing ~5.5k a week which would take the bar up to 332.5k. Even a bumper sales week for Brown Eyed Girl (#105) would only take it to 331k, so that’s not close enough for at least one more week. I don’t perceive any of Down Bad, Daylight or Hell N Back to being doing enough to re enter above Calm Down (maybe Daylight but I doubt it). So it all comes down to if #104 is redrum or an oldie (most likely Linger), in which case that could re-enter as it’s doing around 13k a week atm. Also for the record I think Don’t Look Back in Anger is #99 and not whatever you have doing around 4k (I guess Rich Baby Daddy?)

I think it's very likely that there'll be no new/re-entries to the YTD this week for what I believe is the first time this year. The only possible re-entry I could see is Linger but it's tricky to know if that's close enough

I think there’s some Spotify funny business going on in terms of playlisting/auto-play boost. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in the top 200 on Apple but it regularly appears in the top 50 on Spotify.

I was of the impression that KEHLANI actually underperformed on Spotify but that’s clearly not the case. Thank you.

Do you have any estimates for KEHLANI, CHIHIRO and WILDFLOWER. I would’ve thought KEHLANI especially is close to entering.

Lots of re entries probably due to very low numbers making it easier for old songs to clear the #200 threshold I see Jimin’s bots are back and have found their way to Apple Music now too

As today is the 21st September, let’s guess what position September by Earth, Wind & Fire will show up on the Spotify update tomorrow. (It was #37 last year). I’ll guess #24

As of this week, Espresso has now passed 100 million Spotify streams in the UK this year. This makes 2024 the second year to have multiple songs pass 100 million streams after 2017 (Shape of You and Despacito [Combined]. I would estimate that up to 5 songs could pass 100 million by the end of the year.

Both Espresso and Please Please Please were down on Spotify ffs

Dial Drunk is also a lot bigger than the #32 peak suggests - it stands a decent chance of making the singles year end this year

Julian might have a better insight than me, but I’d say Like a Prayer has little to no chance and Bye Bye Bye isn’t massively likely either but might have an outside shot. The three oldies I think are most likely to enter/re-enter are: Linger Someone Like You Brown Eyed Girl (I’d also give Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and Don’t Stop Me Now relatively decent outside shots).

#10 is a new Spotify peak for Hot To Go! Extremely low streams yesterday even for a Sunday

Yes although as per usual with her, the hype has nothing to do with the actual quality of the song itself (because she can’t sing)

Bed Chem could overtake Please Please Please soon. 12 streams between #26 and #28. Great to see Dreams (Cranberries) re-enter

Would be very surprised if any other Oasis song made it tbh, maybe Don’t Look Back in Anger. I agree that the rest of those songs will make it but I think you underestimate how much stuff near the bottom is doing <5k a week and will be pushed out (around 15 songs I’d guess).

Someone Like You has had a decent resurgence since Adele’s recent performances so I might expect that back soon as well. Linger is also performing strongly on Spotify atm so could also make a return.

Justice for You Need Me, I Don’t Need You, Take Me Back to London and Overpass Graffiti

I’d noticed it was in the Hip Hop Genre chart this week and wondered why. Would be very onboard with it getting a resurgence, the best BEP song imo

+5 Good Luck, Babe! - Chappell Roan +4 I Had Some Help - Post Malone ft. Morgan Wallen +3 Birds of a Feather - Billie Eilish +2 Too Sweet - Hozier +1 A Bar Song (Tipsy) - Shaboozey -1 Stargazing - Myles Smith -2 Beautiful Things - Benson Boone -3 Houdini - Eminem -4 Please Please Please - Sabrina Carpenter -5 Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter