Eric_Blob

Well, Boom Clap, Fancy and Doing It were hits shortly after that. If she ever was considered a one-hit wonder it can't have been for more than a year lol.

Yeah, true. And in this case it seems that it's copyright/plagiarism or the impersonation of another singer without their permission that is the issue? Not AI itself. I dont think they will even ever try to ban AI from the charts when they get caught. And if they do they will reverse the rules very quickly. Like, hypithetically, it turns out the Demon Hunters soundtrack used one of the new AI Compressors, and then the OCC has to remove all their songs and disqualify them from the year-end chart, then David Guetta goes on some podcast and raves about this amazing new Reverb plug-in he uses on all his songs, so now the OCC have to ban him, then a new "singer in a bedroom" Billie Eilish-type artist blows up but she reveals she wrote all her lyrics and played all the instruments but didn't know how to master her tracks so used an AI mastering app to do it, so now she's banned, then Jack Antonoff makes some YouTube tutorial on producing songs and its spotted he uses some AI plug-ins so all his songs have to be removed. It would be an absolute mess. I can pretty much guarantee the OCC won't do it.

I don't think the OCC will be able to ban songs for being AI. Firstly, I can guarantee there are songs currently charting that have used AI in some form. There are AI plug-ins and other tools for mixing, mastering, etc, which use AI, and they are bound to be being used loads already. And secondly, you're not going to be able to tell if AI is used in a song most of the titime. I think it would be a bit of a mess if they tried to do that, and if they do, they'll probably have to reverse the rules quickly.

In the download era there were a lot of cover versions of songs released before the originals which were held back. Some were allowed to chart (a few even made top 40 but most were way lower down), some charted in the mid-weeks but didn't make the final top 200 (even though they clearly had the sales to), and some weren't ever allowed to chart at all (even though, again, they definitely had the sales to).

That's wild. I remember in 2010 the Threshold was basically around 200,000 to be in the top 100 and 100,000 to be in the top 200.

It may be illegal, but I have seen first hand public places using Spotify for their music (and no, not just once before anybody says that...), so it might be more prevalent than we think, especially in restaurants, bars, corner shops, etc. If you're not part of a big chain especially.

I was expecting Smile to be back at #1 by now. It'll probably get there eventually though.

I don't remember, but Somewhere Only We Know must have been much higher than #12? When it was originally released I mean.

Stranger Things soundtrack spoilers I would love Upside Down to be back in the charts. I think Another Brick In The Wall is too ubiquitous, I'm not sure the show would be able to introduce it to new people. And I'm not sure the viewers would relate to it today (even though they should imo). A lot of people really trust the education system and mainstream media these days, so they might find the concept of the song offensive, if anything.

I haven't checked the chart in a couple of months, but since when have they started having tied positions on the TV chart? :o

I think 30-40k. Pretty good, but I think it'll be significantly lower than last time.

I might be wrong, but I think On-Demand, at least originally, referred to ALL Spotify, Apple Music, etc. streams (including playlists, radio and autoplay). The non On-Demand streams came from video streaming services like YouTube and sites like the original Pandora which apparently was more like a personalized algorithmic radio station than something like Spotify where you can just type in songs you want to listen to. YouTube Music and the new Pandora I assume would be counted in On-Demand as they seem to be more like Spotify clones rather than the video/personalized radio services the original versions were.

I'm pretty sure they could have happened, hypothetically at least. I vaguely remember threads about charts in certain weeks in the physical Era being wrong or inaccurate. I think some weeks even the #1 was in debate.

Isn't is most likely that simply nobody has listened to anything on Spotify the past few days? Like they can't exactly publish a daily chart when every song has 0 streams.

I think it will do less than subtract personally.