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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

9. Robbie Williams - Can't Stop Christmas

Christina Perri number 3 :o

I'm shocked there are so many iTunes users who don't own a copy of 'A Thousand Years'. Like, it's been re-entering iTunes top 100 at least once a week for almost a decade.

Thanks for the info! Honestly, it makes no sense to me that they still publish top 100 physical singles and at the same time only top 40 for vinyl albums. I wonder how long before they cut the physical chart down to top 40 only. Maybe they havn't done it so far because this chart has very long history and used to be the official chart for many years but surely it will happen someday. No one will publish full top 100 where you only need 2 copies to chart.

This day will go down in history not only because Mariah finally got to number one. Number one on the sales chart 'Live It Up' by Mental As Anything is nowhere to be found on the official singles chart. It's the first time ever the best selling single of the week failed to make the official top 100.

Yes! Finally! :cheer: Now Alexa can play whatever she wants next week, I don't Carey :D

12. Bicep - Apricots

Ugh why Amazon didn't come up with the idea of reporting fake streams when they had Katy with 'Cozy Little Christmas' :nocheer: Anyway let Mariah have this one week at number one :cheer: After that Jess Glynne can even outsell 'Candle in the Wind' on Christmas week and I won't care.

Yeah, BTS stans unliking and then liking their whole discography again every single day to keep it high in the chart was the first thing that came to my mind in terms of disadvantages. Surely there should be some limit introduced for chart purposes so you can only like something once in a lifetime from your account :lol:

I think every Spotify user knows what the heart icon is, a function that allows you to give song or album a 'like' and add it to your personal Spotify library. I was recently wondering how would the Spotify chart based on most liked songs and albums look like. Would daily chart showing most liked songs in the last 24 hours be different from the daily chart of most streamed songs. And similarly the chart of most liked albums during the week, would it be different from the most streamed albums chart that Spotify started to publish recently. I know it's only hypothetical idea but I would be very curious to see something like this one day. I think this chart could possibly be faster than normal Spotify top 50 because theoretically once you've saved a song to your library you don't do that again while you might be streaming it every day for months. So it might resemble the iTunes chart in terms of turnover speed. Another thing is you only like songs that you actually enjoy, while you might stream something only because you want to check it out and it can be something you'll hate or it can be just passive playlist/algorithm based streaming of songs that are not really your faves. That would be interesting to see if being the most streamed means being the most loved by the public. There's also an option of pre-saving songs so that could possibly have an effect on new releases doing a bit better. It would be also interesting to see the list of most liked albums every week and see if the ones that get biggest number of streams would dominate. I think we could see some surprises in here. It's just something I was thinking about recently. What do you think?

28. Sara Bareilles - She Used to Be Mine

Lol I think on that week we might have a number one with less than 30k. Sales figures will look like 2005 :lol:

ACR also means Amazon Chart Ratio: 1 stream from Alexa = 1 sale :basil:

Imagine Mariah ending up at number 3 on the Official Chart while Bieber battles for number one with Santa Mince Pie

1. One Voice Children's Choir - Memories

43. Sara Bareilles - She Used to Be Mine

1. Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together At Christmas 4. Gary Barlow - Music Played By Humans (Deluxe) 5. Steps - What the Future Holds

+5 Little Mix ~ Sweet Melody +4 Miley Cyrus ~ Midnight Sky +3 Miley Cyrus feat. Dua Lipa ~ Prisoner +2 Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby ~ Levitating +1 Billie Eilish ~ Therefore I Am -1 Ariana Grande ~ positions -2 BTS ~ Life Goes On -3 Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber ~ Monster -4 Tate McRae ~ you broke me first -5 Wes Nelson & Hardy Caprio ~ See Nobody

22. Rick Astley - Love this Christmas Coming to end Amazon exclusives :cheeseblock:

Not a single album released this year will sell enough to reach platinum certification :( That's very sad. And only one album selling over 300k this year...