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I'm glad Murder on the Dancefloor did so well this year, but at one point it looked certain for year-end top 10. Of course I couldn't forsee at the time that it would be taken off TikTok (it fell quick-ish after that and didn't really recover), and we had those couple of months of insanely high streams on Spotify which allowed a lot of new releases to get higher on the year-end chart this year, had those things not happened it was looking to be top 10 imo.

I reckon every artist who's been top 40 has been mentioned here. Especially Milli Vanilli who are quite notorious.

Wow really interesting list. Thanks for posting. :) Although I'm sure T.I. has many top 20 hits in the UK? Live Your Life, Dead And Gone, Blurred Lines, Change Your Life and My Love off the top of my head. Probably missed some.

One of my regrets honestly is that we didn't post the Spotify charts from the beginning. I remember first looking at the Spotify charts in 2010, it would have been great if we had an archive of them.

The Weeknd's recent slide from the top of the charts might surprise some, but it reflects the competitive and evolving nature of the music scene. While he dominated for a while, newer singles and artists have been gaining ground quickly. For instance, his track "Dancing in the Flames" hasn't been able to maintain a higher position for long. On the album charts, his older projects like Starboy and After Hours have seen significant drops. This decline could be linked to the rise of other popular artists like Zach Bryan and Noah Kahan, who are both seeing massive success. The charts are constantly shifting, so while The Weeknd is still a powerhouse, even top-tier artists face moments when they step aside for the next wave.

Do you guys think there's a reason why women are dominating the 2024 releases. Like is it because they have more fans who will buy physicals. Or is it just a coincidence? Like the top 7 2024 albums being all by women would be a 1 in 128 (???) chance if it was purely random. And actually probably less because I think there are probably more males signed to major record labels.

I think maybe Til I Collapse by Eminem could be a contender.

I think #1, although I'm surprised so many think over 50,000? If she manages it then great for her, but that's a LOT for these days.

^Ed Sheeran's entire discography seems to have fallen a lot in recurrent streams the past year or so I've noticed. It's nice the songs at the top of the list are all so close! I remember when there was almost no movement in the all-time list for years on end.

Bruno and Gaga have both probably been playlisted by Radio 2 for ages, probably as long as 10 years ago. Lots of artists are playlisted by both simulatenously, especially when they make AC-leaning music. Noah Kahan and Teddy Swims are on the Radio 2 playlist this year, I doesn't mean they aren't contemporary, it just means they're crossover artists, which is a good thing really.

Surely wouldn't the absent years hurt them though? Part of the reason Chase & Status debuted at #1 I think is because they had a load of hits last year.

I can't believe we have 3 country songs in the YTD top 10 in August in 2024. And 2 are by black people and 2 are by women. For a genre that is (was) seen as old-fashioned, almost American-exclusive and white male dominated for most of my life it's quite incredible. I do have a theory that a lot of kids have parents now who go "I like everything except country music", which might entice more younger people to want to listen to it. But that's just a guess, I would've never expected it. Maybe we'll get a heavy metal resurgence one day lol.

I guess (npi), but I'm personally looking for a UK-only #1 hit. We used to have loads which were UK and Ireland only. Now it seems every hit song has to be international, or at the very least a hit in the anglosphere or Europe. If Adele or Ed Sheeran (or Charli XCX) got a #1 soon it wouldn't be the same imo because they're international stars. With a song like The Promise by Girls Aloud for example, it was a massive hit here and felt a bit like our little secret. I guess it's the curse of English being our main language. It seems like some other European countries are still getting loads of local hits. Although when I checked Spain's charts a couple of years ago they had tons of South American songs there so maybe they have a similar issue to us. We'll always have Thee Lions so there is that. :lol: I believe Radio 1 are still sticking to their 50% UK artists on their playlist rule but they just don't impact the charts noticeably anymore.

Yeah, I think the autoplay boosts need to be more subtle so that people don't notice anything strange is happening. If a song was always in the 1st 10 songs (and genre, language and time period appropriate) most people wouldn't notice anything, but if the same song is always first up then people start thinking their Spotify is glitched or something lol. Maybe they've already worked to make it more subtle as it seems to have calmed down a bit as you said. It's really lucky Espresso is a really catchy song with broad appeal that lots of people like. Can you imagine if it was a terrible song that most people hated? I used to listen to Beg For It quite a bit so I should check if I'm getting her now.

The Spotify autoplay algorithm does take into account the listening history of each user (and it goes quite far back) so that could be natural (although it's suspicious it's coming 1st so often for you all of a sudden so I don't know).

The article is more-or-less what we've all discussed constantly for years. Since everybody can choose what music they listen to now for almost free, in addition to the fact that they can track (most of) what people listen to, it means I don't think we can get songs which are phenomenons again. People don't have limited access to entertainment, like 5 TV channels and and analogue radio anymore where everybody just has to consume what's on there and deal with it. The closest we've had in recent years is honestly the Spotify autoplay. That works a bit like radio in the past where you HAD to listen to the songs played and eventually people start to like it and learn who the artist is. I think it's been studied that most people need to hear a pop song a dozen times before it gets stuck in their head and they start liking it, which back in the day wasn't too hard to accomplish, but nowadays it's difficult because you can't force people to hear songs anymore.

Ah yeah I know what you mean. Although I think that case can be mostly attributed to streaming inflating "sales" of hits in the streaming Age.

Yeah. Thats what you'd really expect as "all time" is by definition an ever-longer period of time. The songs in the past couple of years making this list would be the equivalent of a Thursday release making the top 100 in the weekly chart

I checked the same happens for me too. Great promotion obviously, but why her? I don't have anything against her, but obviously a bunch of businessmen at her record label had meetings and were like "We have 200 female singers signed to our label, and we're going to choose Sabrina Carpenter and give her the best promotion any pop star has ever had and make sure she's the next big thing". I guess we'll never find out the truth why they chose her, but I really wish I could know, this kind of thing makes me really curious what is going on behind the scenes. But obviously they all have NDAs and that kind of stuff so they can't talk about it in public.

The first time I ever used Spotify was in 2010 and they definitely had a UK chart back then (I can't remember if it was daily or weekly). It wasn't wildly different to the official charts except for hip hop and indie/alternative songs being higher at the time. So I think all big hits since then would have charted tbh. They used to have album charts back then as well.

Didn't it have an average chart run in the US? That's not really the opposite of huge.

Its interesting that the 5 biggest 2024-released albums seem to be all female pop stars. Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande, Beyonce and Dua Lipa.

I fully understand labels want to get monoculture pop hits back, but they need to figure out a more subtle way to do it, because I think it will taint Sabrina as an artist because people will know how she became popular. Playing after Frank Sinatra and rap and rock and non-English songs is a bit extreme. And I think Espresso wouldn't have needed it anyway.

Do they have to be "people"? Because you could probably count The Teletubbies, Bob the Builder, Lady Gaga, Chef, Crazy Frog, Mr. Blobby, etc.

Yeah as a pop star it is the whole point of it to be successful. And ive listened to Espresso now in full and it is a good song. Although I do wonder why they've put so much into promoting her. Because there's loads of good pop music out there which doesn't get any promotion, I always wonder how labels choose which artists to promote over others. It's not the first time this has happened, the same happened with Dua Lipa and Zara Larsson and others. Sometimes they choose a pop star (seemingly at random) and just promote the hell out of them whilst others get ignored and I can never figure out how and why they choose which ones to do it to. Some are obvious like Harry Styles was a heartthrob from One Direction, or Duffy is a more mainstream version of Amy Winehouse, so those types or cases make sense. But some just seem to have no explanation.