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Both said the N-word. Both apologised. Obviously neither of them are racist. According to you that's "not comparable in the slightest"? :lol: I'm sure Radio 1 will play the song at some point, especially if it becomes a big hit.

I doubt that's the reason. J-Lo said the N-word too and they used to play her all the time. :lol: According to Wikipedia the Morgan Wallen song has got to #1 in the US, #1 in Australia, #2 in Canada, #3 in New Zealand, and even #8 in Ireland?! I'm surprised at this, but if this is all true then I would expect it will probably do quite well in the UK too.

If someone asked you, "What year were Pink, Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Justin Timerlake and Sean Paul all in the top 10 together?", who would guess 2013? :lol:

I was curious where Lights would be because it "flopped" when it was a single in the UK but was massively successful in the US, so it probably gets in loads of playlists, TV shows, adverts, etc, because of that which would have helped its recurrent sales and streams.

There's actually LOADS. I watched a conspiracy theory documentary before on it lol. There's lots in music videos too. In recent years the most controversial one I can think of is Blurred Lines. It was accused of being sexist and also of promoting rape. I was at university at the time and mine didn't ban it, but a lot of others did. Which of course would just make it more popular. :lol: And it also had plagiarism accusations. And the uncensored music video too which got banned then put back on Youtube. And Miley Cyrus's performance of it on American TV. :lol: It seemed like it never ended with that song. I remember a lot of parodies of the song, lengthy opinion pieces criticising it, etc. Maybe like in the 80's or before there was a more controversial #1, but in recent times I can't think of anything. Killing In the Name certainly caused a media frenzy, but I didn't really hear anybody complaining that it was immoral or harmful. I think most people agreed with (or didn't mind) the purpose of the campaign and I actually reckon there were probably tens of thousands of people who bought both songs.

I've come across LOTS of videos of Peaches on Youtube in the past few days, but they're not the official uploads, so they would count as UGC streams, which I don't think count for the charts. So that might hurt its chance of charting a bit.

You know in a few years an AI will probably be able to make these TOTP episodes a reality.

Drake is in a similar situation to Ed Sheeran imo, where he's clearly in decline. So I think he may mass #1 tbh.

Am I understanding this correctly? The person in 200th place got over 200 million streams, whilst Queen, in 10th place, got a bit under 400 million streams? And D-Block Europe outstreamed like the likes of Adele and Elton John globally last year?!? Also, Dua Lipa is British? I genuinely thought she was a Serb for some reason.

My least favourite by far is I Don't Care. I don't really like Beautiful People much either. The favourite is hard to decide for me.

They really should not have got rid of the year-end top 200 imo. With only a list of 100, and most of it being old songs or songs leftover hits from the year before, I think a top 200 would help us see where more of the new hit songs land in comparison to each other. I know their reasoning is probably that it needs to match the size of the weekly charts (when the charts briefly became a top 250 in the mid-00s we got a year-end top 250 too, then both charts when back to 200 shortly afterwards), but I don't really understand why that HAS to be a rule.

Well, if this counts as part of the playlist then it's happened right now. :lol:

I was actually taught in junior school that it was a million million. Thinking back to what school I was in, this must've been between 1999 and 2001. So maybe around that time it was still in use, although it's possible that it was just my one particular teacher. I remember we were taught it the other way around, that a billion is really a million million but that some foreigners only mean 1,000 million when they say it. By the time I was in senior school we were told to always assume it's 1,000 million. I was actually quite reluctant to use the new definition of a billion because I thought the one I was originally taught was more logical.

I actually think the big female pop stars get far worse in the "being successful but being called a flop because previous songs were bigger" department. A lot of male artists can under-perform or actually flop with barely anyone noticing or caring. Ed Sheeran seems to be the exception to this in my opinion, but there's a lot more vitriol directed at him, with the female pop stars there's it's mostly joking/teasing or posts with an "it's a shame" vibe that I see. Also, Ed did have a borderline flop song last year, The Joker and The Queen. I don't think it even made the year-end top 100 did it? And that was with it being out for the whole year and the single version out near the beginning of the year iirc. I don't think his new single will be like that, even if it doesn't pick up later on I think it will still actually end up being a hit by normal standards.

^I agree the song isn't his best, but I agree he's in decline too, you could see it with his previous album (it was more visible in other countries). To be fair to him, you can't NOT decline from his peak lol. I'm predicting his next album opens with 70,000.

That's unusual, so I researched them, and it seems they're a fictional rock band from a book, which has now been turned into a TV show? So I would guess this album is a soundtrack album for the TV show or something like that. But if it was fictional band, and there's now an album released using that name, then isn't it now not a fictional band anymore? :lol:

I saw in the US about a week ago that it was charting lower than one of her album tracks on Spotify.

It seems the OCC have changed the credit of Summertime Sadness back to Cedric Gervais again?

I think someone said here that it got bumped up a load of Spotify playlists in the weekend. I would assume that's probably the reason for the climb. It is suspicious, the likely payola going on with playlist placements, but that's not something that's unique to Ed Sheeran to be fair.

I feel like very recently we've been seeing a LOT more "veteran" acts back in the singles chart, so I think eventually it might become more like the 90's again. The top 3 in the midweeks at the moment are Miley Cyrus, Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding and The Weeknd, all of which were famous 10+ years ago. And it's not just this week, it's happened so much in like the past 9 months that I think some kind of long-lasting shift has happened and it's not just a random fluke. A few years ago I was actually slightly annoyed at how it seemed like almost all the hit songs were by new artists but I have no reason to be annoyed about that anymore lol.

Thanks so much! Some of the posts are like works of art. I admire the passion at least. :lol:

Do any of you remember that Kylie fan from like 10+ years ago who used to always write massive essay posts which were really dramatic and ott? I wish I could remember, they made me laugh so much.

About the year-end #1, Calvin Harris got one with One Kiss that he released in April that debuted at #3 iirc. With the help of a bunch of heatwaves, it scraped past God's Plan at the very end of the year. His new one has debuted at #3 in March so it's got an advantage over One Kiss so far but I think it's very unlikely because if it was going to be such a mega-hit it would probably be #1 with a big lead by now on Spotify.

The signed CDs could easily be fake and done by a computer or staff member but they could also easily be real. It probably doesn't take as long as we think and split up into small chunks it might not be such a big chore to do. We can probably never know the truth. Probably a mixture of both happens.

Would you say that Better Off Alone is better off left alone? :lol: