Eric_Blob

If you're counting top 200s then I think Dog Days Are Over was top 200 in 2009 and 2011 also? I really wish they still did top 200s. I understand the OCC want the yearly chart to be the same size as the weekly chart, but we get songs that are big chart hits in the summer or later that miss the year-end chart, plus loads of old songs taking up slots, so I would really like a top 200 back for the year-end charts personally.

I knew someone who worked for a compilation album company, and apparently it was super tedious and lot more complicated than you think, because the record labels would have tons of rules and requirements for each song. Like they'd only allow you to use a song if it was in a certain position on a track list, or only if you DIDN'T use another song, or only if it came before or after a certain song or a type of song, or only if you include a certain number of seconds of a song in your TV adverts, or only if you highlight the song on the album cover. And then it becomes more of a puzzle where you have dozens of requirements and you just have to try and list the songs in an order that doesn't break anyone's rules. Which is usually impossible so you have to call everybody up again and re-negotiate. And every time you move a song to a different position on the track list then now half the other songs are now breaking their requirements so you have to move them too. It sounds more like doing an extremely hard Sudoku, rather than a job where you can simply use your music knowledge and creativity to make a nice tracklist.

Eric Prydz - Call On Me entering the top 40 of the TV chart! Nice to see something modern on there. :) I can't believe I Had Some Help is still so high on radio airplay. #11 last week. Are Radio 2 playing it every day or something?

Maybe in the future the pop stars will make the videos Spotify/Apple Music exclusive the entire week rather than for 2 days. I think that would work better, but it's the first time I've seen someone do this so obviously I get why they wouldn't want to be more radical in case it didn't work as hoped.

This feels so old school having a post-album single actually get a big boost on single release week. But I'm pretty sure Telephone was already top 40 (because radio started playing it) before the video came out? Off the top of my head the only post-album singles that jumped from outside the top 40 to #1 that I can think of are Gettin' Over You, Spectrum and Someone Like You (which technically wasn't a single yet). I think the first one to ever manage it since album tracks were allowed to chart was The Way I Are by Timbaland (which I'm pleased to see is still a mainstay in the Spotify charts even today!).

It depends on what we count as singles, but maybe a scenario where an artist scores 3 top 10s on every album release week, doesn't do any collabs and doesn't ever have any other songs from their albums manage to chart could beat Madonna one day. Maybe an artist who releases multiple albums a year and is really frontloaded or something (so they don't have to worry about a 4th track charting low as they don't last long enough to hit ACR). The other possibility is another Glee Cast situation where an artist releases 5+ singles every single week but they're so popular that the top 3 always debut top 10. I don't think it's impossible for Madonna's record to be broken but it would definitely take a very extreme, and lucky set of circumstances which are so unlikely.

Why were you expected to be sleeping during school? At my schools it was mandatory to be awake during school, the teachers would wake you up if you ever fell asleep.

How do the OCC even "miss" resets anyway? Shouldn't a computer just tell them what is reset?

This doesn't truly count because it happened in reverse but I think What's My Name by Rihanna has 100,000 sales at #2 but later climbed to #1 with 50,000 sales (or I might have just completed misremembered).

It's currently #1 in Sweden apparently. And got #1 the first time around there too.

They get their data from Kantar Milward Brown I believe? I reckon Spotify will know Arctic Monkeys' UK streaming figures for yesterday even if their charts have glitched.

I want Out of Your Mind to be back in the charts instead. It's one of the best songs of the century.

Who has the most 2 million+ albums? It must be super rare to have 5 or 6?

I was thinking about Ice Spice yesterday, coincidentally. Youtube recommended me a video about the downfall of Western civilisation and she was in the thumbnail.

That new KISS playlist is surprising. I haven't listened in years, but they would've never have played stuff like Alex Warren or Benson Boone unless they were remixes. I think they're probably going to change from a rhythmic station into a pop station. Stations usually try to transition gradually when they did that. Also, surely Girls Aloud and Kylie are fine for a station like KISS anyway? At least the ones of their songs are basically Dance songs. Just tell the audience it's "David Guetta ft. Girls Aloud" or "Calvin Harris ft. Kylie Minogue" and they wouldn't mind lol.

Well it already happened for her surely. She had a couple of years with hit after hit.

I'm being extremely pedantic here, and it doesn't make a difference really, but I think Heart is HAC and Radio 2 is AC. I have listened to it before, but I have no idea what Smooth would count as honestly because it seems different to other typical HAC and AC stations.

Poor Last Christmas only #26. 😢

Also honourary mention to Pet Shop Boys because they made the song The Loving Kind by Girls Aloud which is in the 2009 chart! :)

It's awesome that The Pogues and Bon Jovi are in both the 1989 and 2009 charts!

About Christmas songs on Radio 1, isn't there that one DJ who has a tendency to play Mariah's All I Want For Christmas is You once each summer as a joke? I can't remember who it is but someone here probably knows lol.

Me too. We should be seeing Steps, S Club 7, Drizzee Rascal, Girls Aloud, Sugababes, etc. Or songs like Make Luv, Music Sounds Better With You, Call On Me, Groovejet, Waves, etc. Just random examples. But it is really sad. Other countries which don't share their language with the US get their local hits. Oh well.

Jax Jones and Take That have a song out on Friday apparently. They're both big names here so it might scrape the top 1000 on Apple Music lol.

I heard through the grapvine that some of those white noise songs are made by Ameritz, who used to make karaoke versions of songs and were responsible for some of those "fake" cover versions that used to chart lol.

I'm surprised. I think Wear My Kiss sounds the most Christmassy, but I am pleased for them regardless. :)