Eric_Blob

Does everyone think Lewis Capaldi will drop out of the top 10 this week? I reckon so personally.

It seems quite "easy" to get a hit without radio these days (it's not a near-necessity like it used to be) so Shakira would be fine without them I reckon. She mainly needs TikTok and streaming playlists I think.

Yeah it's definitely not his worst imo. I only have heard a few of his songs but Sure Thing is one of his standouts. It was his only song that managed to be a hit in the US apart from Adorn (not counting collabs).

I think Drake is definitely in decline. He's not as successful as at his peak. But really the same could be said of Justin Bieber, Adele, maybe even Ed Sheeran. They're still successful but they used to be bigger.

I don't really like his music either but I wouldn't really care if he went to #1. I thought most people would be happy he's not doing as well as he used to, if anything. Also Taylor Swift seems to be going all out with this album so she might be doing things like this with her future singles too.

I don't understand what's going on here? Do you guys really think he can sell 30,000 CDs? That just seems completely absurd to me. Did his previous singles sell that many in one week before? I think he'll sell about 10,000 and be boosted into the top 10.

Not sure exactly but the year starts and ends in the middle of November I'm pretty sure.

Imagine a few years ago if someone told you that Kate Bush, Ashanti, Elton John and even OneRepublic would be high up the 2022 year-end charts. :lol:

I saw a jukebox with Big Top 40 Show on it and I took pictures of it, but I can't upload them here? I guess I have to upload them to Imgur first or something? I would guess that perhaps they have some more extreme version of ACR for their charts. If you look, they've have LOTS of number-ones this year. And that might explain why songs late in the year can do well on this list too. Apple Music and Global Radio move very slowly it'd most likely be much slower than the official chart if they didn't have some system to speed it up.

What is this chart calculated with now? Is it Global stations airplay + Apple Music? I can't make sense of it, like how can Anti-Hero be #2 AND Cold Heart be #6? Unholy is really high but BOTA and I'm Good are quite low. I guess they've maybe used a points system for this, that's the best explanation I can think of.

Do they really claim to be official? I haven't listened to it in like 10 years but I used to listen to it a lot and they never claimed that even though people accused them of doing so. They did make other "outrageous" claims, but those were technically true. For example they claimed to be the "most listened to/popular chart show", but that is objectively true as it is broadcast on over 100 radio stations including Capital and Heart in every region which obviously combined far surpass Radio 1's audience. Their other claim is that they're the most up-to-date chart. Which back then you could argue because their top 10 was just the current top 10 on iTunes as of 6pm on Sunday. So for example a big release that week would debut at #1 on their chart 18 hours after release whilst it would debut at #1 7 days later on the official chart. But I never heard them claiming to be THE official chart. At worst they might claim to be the "official Apple Music chart" or the "official Big Top 40 Show". The OCC would be claiming to Ofcom for sure if they ever claimed to be broadcasting their chart.

How high do you guys think Mr. Brightside is going to get for New Years? :lol:

I think if it got big at the same time as Where Are You Now, the Jax Jones, Belters Only songs, Down Under, etc, it probably could have been top 10. And it might be in next year's top 100. I think #27 is pretty good for it.

I guess we're inevitably going to have a song that spends two years at year-end #1 at some point. It was shocking that Perfect was so high up for 2 years, but then Dance Monkey and now Bad Habits being #1 then #2 is insane. I think it's already happened in some other countries.

It's odd how all the songs since the James Blunt song were really big hits. You would think so low down the chart there'd be some lesser-known songs popping up.

Funny thing is that might not even be Adele's biggest climb? I think Someone Like You might have been like 47-1 or something like that.

Me too. I've liked it since it came out I can't believe it's so high in the charts now.

If any of you didn't already know, Lil Nas X used to be a regular poster on ATRL before he became famous.

We are functionally an atheist country, as are all Western countries. We worship celebrities and corporations and money in this country so Christmas is about shopping and advertising and buying things. There's no esoteric or occult meaning to it anymore. When I was a child they used to have Epiphany on calendars, but it was so meaningless for us, I think we were normally even back at school by then. Honestly No Nut November is actually the closest thing we have to a spiritual/occult ritual that's practiced in Western countries. Christmas today is purely just about shopping and buying presents so it doesn't make sense to carry it on after Christmas day.

Can we just all agree that The Kunts and LadBaby and almost everybody else in the world are mostly good and slightly flawed people? Just like the rest of us?

Months before its release I used to hear it at raves a lot and it got a fantastic reception every time. But when it got a mainstream release it didn't surprise me that it was controversial. Not everybody likes that kind of thing and it might not have been nice for some people turning on the radio hoping to hear Pink or Kelly Clarkson and to have Jack come on. :lol:

Yeah I think it'll be in the year-end top 10 tbh. Even We Don't Talk About Bruno seems like it'll be around #11 this year (which btw is also around where Let It Go finished iirc), and Escapism will surely have more longevity.

Gotye definitely did have other songs. And one he released as a single afterwards. I remember listening to it and I remember it was in the top 1000 on iTunes for a while and I think charted on alternative charts in the US. Kimbra also had other songs.

Yes, but most of them released other songs which either failed to chart or charted at like #156. So maybe the list wouldn't be as long as we think. It must be pretty rare for someone to get a #1 hit and then just not release anymore music. I think groups made just for a charity single might make up a lot of the list.

I really thought LadBaby would be beaten this year but with 6 hours left maybe not. I honestly don't mind who's #1 I like all the contenders. If Last Christmas gets it it'd be mildly disappointing though.