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New Drake album is listed as PartyNextDoor and Drake as opposed to Drake and PartyNextDoor so I suspect the impact will be fairly limited

The original version of Body also mentions Megan Thee Stallion. Also this is extremely tenuous and definitely doesn’t count but River by Eminem mentions Gwen Stacey who was played by Emma Stone in the Amazing Spider-Man films. You could argue that Stone had a #1 album with the La La Land soundtrack

It’s been out a week, that doesn’t count as established at the top of the chart.

This is a pretty big exaggeration, the highest Rihanna song charted at #32 after the Super Bowl. Kendrick has six songs above #32 today, think it’s fair to say this is a bigger impact by some way.

Any song by that artist is likely to be popular tbf

No surprises to see Not Like Us (#43 last year) back in with Unwritten dropping straight back out. Not Like Us has now charted on audio streaming too. Next week I expect to see Sports car, Abracadabra and probably All the Stars too. End of Beginning, Thick of It and You've Got the Love are in trouble. Don't Stop Me Now can sort of be tracked by the Rock & Metal chart, it's usually pretty useless but is an okay guide atm with The Sound of Silence and The Emptiness Machine both charting. Go Your Own Way is basically a guessing game though, I'm surprised it held on so long as it's doing a lot worse on Spotify (where it's barely charted at all) than last year where it only survived til week 3. Same goes for Don't Stop Me Now tbf.

Jimin with a not at all suspicious re-entry at #66

What are the rules in this round, how many songs qualify?

Trap Queen of course isn’t really a new entry just shown as one due to limitations of the Spotify website’s chart history Would never have thought that Alex Warren would debut top 10.

I revised these figures slightly since posting this, would now be: 20 Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2.45m) 21 Vance Joy - Riptide (2.40m) 22 Tom Odell - Another Love (2.38m) 23 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (2.37m) 24 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (2.29m) 25 Adele - Easy On Me (2.25m) A top 100 would be insanely hard to estimate, but I might give a top 50 a go. We'll see

Technically a Christmas song tho but wouldn’t have thought of it.

Top of the Pops on BBC4 tonight had Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing on which reached the top 10 in 1975, 1987 and 1997. It got me thinking as to how many other songs have done this, outside of the obvious Christmas songs I can only think of 2 others: Running Up That Hill (1985, 2012, 2022) Three Lions (1996, 1998, 2006, 2010, 2018, 2021, 2024) Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

I think Jim Watts does statistics but Disturbed must be moving up the rankings of most SCR weeks since ACR was added to the chart

Good luck predicting resets for the chart later Joseph. A huge number of potential ones based on weekly Spotify numbers

Crazy that the Grammy’s impact is still growing every day. Amazing to see Pink Pony Club top 10.

Headlock must have climbed again as well this week right? Bit of a surprise to see Unwritten (#25 in 2024) [also #111 in 2004] back which becomes the first drop out to re-enter this year. I had noticed Save Your Tears (2021: #4, 2022: #37, 2023: #55) doing quite well on the hip-hop chart so not too surprised to see that, will see if it can hang around following the Weeknd's new album. Interesting that it now seems to be more popular than Blinding Lights but I guess having two popular versions helps. It joins Another Love and The Sound of Silence as tracks yet to chart on audio streaming this year. Not Like Us will almost certainly re-enter next week along with possible appearances from CRG, Sports car and Do I Wanna Know? (Hozier) although I think the latter may have missed its chance now tbh. I also think its possible that All the Stars could enter in a few weeks.

Definite reset for Not Like Us assuming the OCC actually remember this year and it’s got the Super Bowl next weekend. Could go top 10 again next week imo.

+25 The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way +24 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army +23 Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire +22 Chris Cornell - You Know My Name +21 Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight +20 Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton – Islands in the Stream +19 Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me +18 Avril Lavigne - I'm with You +17 Queen - Another One Bites the Dust +16 Dr. Dre featuring Eminem – Forgot About Dre +15 Radiohead - Creep +14 Jade - Angel Of My Dreams +13 Chic - Le Freak +12 Wild Cherry - Play That Funky Music +11 The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up +10 Daft Punk - Da Funk / Musique

1500 consecutive days for Mr. Brightside.

Will you still release the overall ranking of the remaining songs in this round?

Turns out Spotify have been manually adjusting total streaming numbers. They’ve taken 52m streams of Who by Jimin, finally cottoning onto the fraud

Some quite big moves on Spotify, notably big climbs for Beautiful Things and Bad Dreams

Carti is now re-credited on Spotify too. I don’t get why artists do this tbh

Scenes you hate to see. Did any songs from The Weeknd’s album miss the top 200 (minus the ineligible ones of course)?

Yeah this is definitely a poor performance overall imo. We'll see if it does any better on Spotify.