Eric_Blob

If it did come close to the record it would start getting media coverage and probably prompt a rule change. That's what happened with Drake - One Dance. They even got someone on the OCC on Newsnight to explain how streaming changes the chart and a lot of the older generations were complaining a song they've never heard doesn't deserve to break the record, etc, which is why I think they came up with ACR.

Not consecutive but I was wondering how long Azizam and The A Team would have identical chart runs lol.

To be fair Love Story and You Belong With Me were notorious in the US at the time for having insane longevity. It was over 15 years ago though, loads has changed since then.

I think Keri Hilson - Turn My Swag On would've probably done quite well but wasn't available for download iirc.

To be completely honest, I can see why Ordinary is doing so well. I was talking with my friends about pop music and they were saying they don't make songs like they used to and how they don't know what's in the charts anymore now there's no Top of The Pops. So I played Ordinary on the Jukebox and everybody stood up and clapped. It really resonates with people. I think it will be year-end #1.

How do you know this isn't her peak though? There are a plethora of artists who peak with their breakthrough era that makes them household names and then decline after that, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, 50 Cent, Lady Gaga, Alanis Morisette, Olivia Rodrigo, Duffy, James Blunt, Ke$ha, etc. I think Dido is another example, maybe. Arguably only a very slight decline on her 2nd album but it didn't follow the logic of "my breakthrough era made me a huge star so my next one will be bigger". I'm not sure if last year was Chappell's 1st album (and i think technically it wasnt Alanis Morisette's 1st album, etc), but she broke through in the mainstream and became a household name and it's functionally hardly any different to what happened with these other artists, and why I specifically chose "breakthrough era" instead of "1st album" in the previous paragraph.

They seem to hardly ever truly snub any hit song, hits that aren't on the playlist usually seem to still manage 1 or 2 (non-chart show) spins a week at their peaks. Whether they are played in special genre shows, listener requests, a particular DJ wants to play the song, etc. Padam Padam was getting played every week on one of their dance shows before it was on the playlist, for example.

I'm gutted Give It 2 U isn't there. 2 Chainz, Robin Thicke, Dr. Luke and will.i.am made magic with that song.

I think there were two different things. There used to be a trend of putting music videos or live performances as adverts on YouTube, and those used to count to the Hot 100, which led to Soko, Lady Gaga getting some strange top 10 hits and some others lower down too. I think they stopped that mid-10s. I believe fan-made videos counted until shortly after Old Town Road was a hit. I think Kendricks Superbowl performance would still be able to count even today if it's uploaded to his own channel as it would essentially just be a "Live version", which normally are combined. If it's uploaded on a Superbowl channel I think it won't count. Not 100% sure though.

Do you know for sure it's being done manually? I don't know how happy I am with humans being able to edit Spotify streaming figures manually. Maybe it needs to be done to remove fraud, and computers doing it has its own flaws and exploits as we have all witnessed countless times, like with the suspicious behaviour of the song in question, but humans have flaws too. If one of the Spotify staff members hates manufactured pop music, for example, how can we trust they won't be biased, or even worse, just adjust their streams more to their liking? It's sad to say, but I think I'd rather a computer just count streams and a human not tamper with the numbers tbh. Sure, humans can program it to try and get the computer to ignore things like obvious spamming of a song 24/7 and things like that. But a human Spotify staff member just being able to add/subtract millions of streams to a song's figures, it doesn't sit well with me. Computers don't have emotions, beliefs, likes, dislikes, etc, so they are less biased and count the numbers.

2014 is my favorite from the list but I think that's just because of my age. I thought the pop music in 2016 was great (if you ignore all the Lean On clones), but I agree the charts were super boring to follow.

I'm honestly sure it came back in the mid/late 00's after downloads started counting for the chart. For context I found some website years ago that had PDFs of the year-end top 200 (250 for some years) and they looked like it was officially from the OCC. From the late 90s onwards. My old laptop I downloaded the PDFs on is destroyed but I used to read those charts occasionally so I have vague memories of them. So my vague memories could obviously be wrong, but I think it had a 3rd year in the top 200/250 later on. Sorry to be a pain lol. It would be cool if it makes it this year, its such a classic. And I really wish the OCC would publish longer year-end charts to the public. I understand their reasoning that they want it to be the same size as the weekly charts, but also, who really cares? A year is a pretty long time. I'd like them to go back to top 200 for year-end, if not more.

This is another one I think also made some year-end too 200s in the 00's. Or at least 1 I'm pretty sure.

I can't really answer your question unfortunately, but I did look through your playlists and Drake - Find Your Love and Eminem - No Love are there but I'm sure they made the top 40.

Chase & Status and Stormzy got a #1 in the UK last year, so obviously it is still possible for some to break through, but it's far from the norm now.