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Emeli said in an interview with Radio 2 that the album will be released in April next year

Lol he should really go to r3hab

'Stranger' - a song from Becky Hill album (which was number 22 on album streaming chart last week) received 746 streams on Spotify yesterday. Worldwide. 'High Expectations - Outro' from Mabel album was streamed 320 times.

37. Craig Eddie - Come Waste My Time (Winner Of The Voice 2021)

So Friday has beaten Bieber to number one by just 240 streams!

I don't think anything entering any chart in 2021 not because of TikTok would've gone unnoticed :kink:

Yesterday for a moment I seriously thought that singles sales chart was discontinued. All previous charts were available but the new one wasn't showing up. And when I was viewing last week's sales chart there was no 'next' button available. And that was some 2-3 hours after the charts should be uploaded to the site.

I wonder if their comeback can be similar to what Jonas Brothers did in America

Surprisingly there is such thing as Masked Singer effect on streaming. Apple Music right now: 127. Ne-Yo - Miss Independent 129. Ne-Yo - So Sick 196. Joss Stone - Right to Be Wrong 305. Joss Stone - Super Duper Love 464. Ne-Yo - Closer 568. Ne-Yo - Because of You 1029. Ne-Yo - Sexy Love 1120. Joss Stone - You Had Me

Insignificant sales, but for the record: 8. Ne-Yo - Year of the Gentleman 17. Joss Stone - Mind, Body & Soul 19. Joss Stone - The Best of Joss Stone (2003-2009) 20. Joss Stone - Water for Your Soul 22. Joss Stone - Mind Body & Soul (Special Edition) 53. Ne-Yo - In My Own Words 56. Joss Stone - The Soul Sessions

New Foo Fighters song having bigger debut on Spotify than Cardi B is not something I ever expected to see

Very solid performance from Foo Fighters. Having whole album in top 200 on a streaming service is respectable achievement for a rock band.

Lol I'll die if the song is just titled 'Rihanna' and features someone we've never heard of :lol:

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5 versions of the same song, by the same artist, in top 20 at the same time. Crazy :lol: I don't think even BTS did that.

That's really the thing I hate about Spotify playlisting. There's a small group of artists who always get instantly added as number one and cover on all big, influential playlists that exist. Spotify people guarantee them all possible promo before they even hear the song. And at the same time there are other artists who will never get added to HH or TTH no matter what. And because big playlists are hermetic so are higher regions of the charts.

10. Coldplay - Flags

48. New Radicals - You Get What You Give

1. Becky Hill - Forever Young (From The McDonald's Christmas Advert 2020)

Now, this is a serious question. Quick stat at the beginning: on the last ever official chart based only on paid-for sales from 29th June 2014, top 10 singles were responsible for 14% of all singles sales in the UK that week. Six years later on July 2nd 2020, in the middle of streaming era, top 10 singles were responsible for...1,8% of all singles 'sales' during the week. Another stat: on the last ever sales-only official chart, top 100 songs were responsible for over 30%, about one third of all singles sales during that week. Six years later top 100 songs were responsible for about 8% of all sales. So here's the thing: 92% of music consumption in UK in 2020 happens outside of the published top 100 chart. We often hear that charts should represent what people are streaming/consuming. But the chart we see is just 8% of what's being consumed, so can we really say that it's the accurate picture of music consumption landscape? During the week of the last sales-only singles chart 2,851,548 singles sales were registered. During the chart week six years later there were 20,370,954 units 'sold'. The difference is insane: 17,5 million 'sales' more in 2020 than in 2014. Yet at the same time last sales-only number one sold 76,517 copies while the number one six years later 'sold' nearly 20,000 units less (57,105). So where are those 17,5 million 'sales'? Outside of the chart, just like 92% of music market. With streaming people have access to unlimited music catalogue which they consume and that counts towards the chart. However, there is one great paradox about the charts in the streaming era. More music is being consumed by more people in bigger amounts than ever before, but at the same time less music is appearing on the charts, less songs have a chance to reach top positions and the turnover on the charts is much slower than in the sales era. With the streaming era, charts and music consumption went in two completely opposite directions. In the download era you needed just over 2,000 copies to make top 100 and just over 1000 copies to make top 200. So songs that appeared outside of top 200 were bought mainly by just few hundred people during 7 days period. Yesterday on Spotify you needed 59,051 streams to make the UK daily top 200. Think about that: 50,000 people can listen to your song in 24 hours in UK and from the chart point of view you just... do not exist. In the sales era when the same amount of people bought your song during the whole week you would be challenging for a top 5 position. There are so many songs on Spotify that have tens of millions streams and haven't charted anywhere. So maybe in the new streaming reality we also need new formula for the music charts? For most artists nowadays we see making top 40 or even top 100 as a much bigger achievement than 10 years ago. In many cases going top 10 today is as good as reaching number one in the era of held-back releases. And also 'sales' figures: back in the day selling 900 copies meant being bought by 900 people. Today it usually means being streamed 90,000 times, so being listened to by as many people as were buying number one single in the sales era. Nowadays even single number 470 on the chart would have tens of thousands consumers behind it. On this year's 2nd of July chart, singles outside of the top 100 accumulated over 18,5 million 'sales' - figure 6,5 times bigger than the whole singles market during the week of last sales-only chart. That's what's waiting every week for its chance to chart and doesn't get it. Maybe it's time to admit that the old well-known top 100 form is simply not enough to accurately cover the extremely wide spectrum of today's music consumption. With streaming services people's music libraries have no limits. Maybe the charts also shouldn't.

Massive dance number one in form of 'Head & Heart' was definitely a nice surprise this year EDIT: Oh, and also 'Looking for Me' becoming huge chart hit was an incredibly nice surprise. I never thought a song like this can become so successful in 2020!

'Party Girl' was my 18-pointer. It's as if someone took the worst things about today's music, both musically and lyrically, and put them in one song. Good to see my points made some difference here as without them it would have the exact same score as 'Pee Pee' and 'Flowers' but thanks to them it pulled far ahead.

Robbie Williams up to number 5. Shame he has no chance of making official top 100. He's only #731 on Apple Music.

6. Robbie Williams - Can't Stop Christmas 43. Josh Groban - O Holy Night

7. Robbie Williams - Can't Stop Christmas