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This is the official streaming services thread, the go-to topic for the discussion of playlists and charts from services such as Spotify, Apple & Amazon! This week's new releases courtesy of ManicKangaroo A*Teens - Merry Christmas To You Alyssa Grace - Washing Skin Big Zeeks feat Haile - System Bimini - Live My Life Brett Eldredge feat Meghan Trainor - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Cage The Elephant - Make It Easy [GRAT] Chloe - Mrs Claus Don't Have 2 Know Christine & The Queens - Rendez-vous Avec Toi / Rendez-vous In Your Arms Coi Leray - Spin Back Dasha - Something To Believe In Elton John & CMAT - Step Into Christmas (Amazon Music Original) Lizzy McAlpine - The Wheel MEEK - Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) (Amazon Music Original) Nora En Pure - Big World Olivia Rodrigo - Take Me Home (4 Christmas) Punctual & Jem Cooke - Ten Thousand Times Sheppard - Feels Like Heaven Slayyyter - Hey Boyyy [GRAT] Tegan and Sara - I Love Christmas Tegan and Sara - A December To Remember FAQs What is streaming? What are the chart rules regarding streaming? For streaming and chart rules related FAQs read the pinned thread regarding this. How many streams equals one download sale? 100 plays if you are on Spotify Premium, or 600 if you are using the ad-supported free tier. However you cannot simply play a song that many times in one day to give it one sale, you are limited to 10 plays per day in terms of what counts to the chart. The number changes to 200 or 1200 plays when a song moves to ACR. For more information on the rules of ACR see this thread. How much does streaming contribute to the chart? Streaming contributes over 90% to the singles chart as a whole. Spotify counts for at least half of this, with Apple Music and Amazon also big contributors. YouTube is also big however most of YouTube's streams are at the free tier so won't count for as much. Why is my fave not doing well? Is it being promoted on a major curated playlist, and/or going viral on TikTok? If it isn't, it's unlikely to really take off! Hot Hits UK is the biggest of these playlists on Spotify from a UK standpoint. The playlist usually updates itself to include breaking hits once or twice a week, though there is no guarantee that your fave will get a place on the playlist. Also, the UK Top 50 is a largely followed playlist and that songs often experience a 'top 50 effect', when they enter the top 50 and get the additional exposure of being on the playlist. Often sales hits don't cross over to being streaming hits, this is usually the case for songs with an older target audience, reality or campaign songs. Also keep in mind that it often takes longer for a song to take off on Spotify than it would on iTunes. My fave didn't debut high and is falling already, does this mean they're flopping? Not necessarily. Most songs debut relatively low as they aren't instantly well-known, and experience a sharp decline on Day 2 as they no longer have the promoted 'New Music Friday' effect. A lot of songs manage to recover through gaining popularity and additions to playlists. Exceptions to the rule of course come from massively hyped releases, such as the recent album impacts from Drake and Taylor Swift. Spotify How do I see today's Spotify chart? To see the daily top 50 update on desktop, log in to Spotify, click 'Browse', then click 'Charts', then click 'United Kingdom Top 50', or click the link below. For the full top 200, use the link below to go to Spotify's website. You can also use the Kworb website which displays the data in an easier to read format and also contains additional information, however this is often out of date. Spotify App [top 50] Spotify Website [top 200] Kworb [top 200 and extra data] What are the most influential Spotify playlists? Links to Spotify's top playlists are as below. Hot Hits UK UK Top 50 New Music Friday Today's Top Hits How often does the Spotify chart update? It should update once every day, usually in the early afternoon - although on occasion there will be a delay. What do the numbers mean? The streaming figures cited in the daily chart are the number of streams each song received the previous day. Unlike the iTunes chart, Spotify is not a rolling chart so the numbers will only change once per day. Apple Music How do I see today's Apple Music chart? You can use the link below to view the Apple Music top 200 through Kworb. If you have Apple Music, you can also view the top 200 by going to the Charts section and clicking on See All in the Top Songs section. Kworb [top 200] What are the most influential Apple Music playlists? Links to Apple Music's top playlists are as below. Today's Hits UK Top 100 How often does the Apple Music chart update? It like iTunes updates on a regular basis a number of times a day. No streaming figures are provided however, unlike Spotify. Amazon How do I see today's Amazon Music chart? You can use the link below to view the Amazon Music chart. Amazon Music How often does the Amazon Music chart update? It like iTunes updates on a regular basis a number of times a day. No streaming figures are provided however, unlike Spotify. [FAQs written by Dan] Spotify/streaming discussion thread archive See here

Last day to vote and break the tie we currently have - closes at 6pm!

Sam Fender could have sent this if the theme was totally restricted to EDM as it is I think 'Seventeen Going Under' perfectly fits the theme as something that would get played at a club

It won't be reset but if Alexa spams it enough along with the original it could beat Wham for a week anyway

this year's big Alexa exclusive is a duet version of Step Into Christmas with CMAT. Presumably going to be combined with the original and give Elton another #1 then.

poor old man 👨‍🦳 more the reason why Calvin should’ve been brought back but hey ho glad New Order have survived at least

Hurrah for nepotism!!! David's son releases his first track this Friday which is a remix of James Brown's 'The Boss'. Preview on Instagram

we have 13 participants so far so half way to matching the previous edition's turnout. tagging a few of you now who may not have seen this thread yet who had been in (one of) the last two editions... @leww @AllStarBySmashMouth @earthisturning @WhoOdyssey @Juan Carlos @Henessy Lake @Cody S. Kennedy @jimwatts @blacksquare @RabbitFurCoat @dhwe @Ansel @Scene @Herbs @hlavkus and perhaps some of you from Unknown Pleasures wanna have a dance too? @J00prstar @JSG @maggotsforbrains @NocheLuna @RobBot @Viper* @Jaz13music @seven. @Harve @Severin @Sabrewulf @Freeze @FrankLuck

a mixture of ACR hits and campaign songs wearing off, the five dropouts were: 45 19 10 Ariana Grande ~ Positions 60 36 20 Miley Cyrus ~ Midnight Sky 61 24 05 Liam Gallagher ~ All You're Dreaming Of 78 01 02 LadBaby ~ Don't Stop Me Eatin' xx 05 01 The K**ts ~ Boris Johnson Is A F**king C**t so we'd have had 26 Xmas songs in both weeks had Ari/Miley not been demoted

This is what the chart looked like last time Christmas fell on a Friday (28 trees, count em - up from 26 the previous week) 01 03 97 Wham! ~ Last Christmas 🎄 02 02 107 Mariah Carey ~ All I Want For Christmas Is You 🎄 03 04 06 Jess Glynne ~ This Christmas 🎄 04 08 07 Justin Bieber ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 🎄 05 06 111 The Pogues ~ Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) 🎄 06 07 78 Shakin' Stevens ~ Merry Christmas Everyone 🎄 07 09 87 Band Aid ~ Do They Know It's Christmas? 🎄 08 10 42 Elton John ~ Step Into Christmas 🎄 09 20 10 Little Mix ~ Sweet Melody 10 12 40 Michael Bublé ~ It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas 🎄 11 11 62 Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas 🎄 12 13 83 Wizzard ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 🎄 13 30 02 Ed Sheeran ~ Afterglow 14 22 10 CJ ~ Whoopty 15 16 54 Brenda Lee ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 🎄 16 14 23 Ariana Grande ~ Santa Tell Me 🎄 17 15 25 Kelly Clarkson ~ Underneath the Tree 🎄 18 17 108 Slade ~ Merry Xmas Everybody 🎄 19 21 74 John & Yoko and the Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir ~ Happy Xmas (War Is Over) 🎄 20 28 09 Ariana Grande ~ 34+35 21 18 29 Leona Lewis ~ One More Sleep 🎄 22 38 09 Shane Codd ~ Get Out My Head 23 23 41 Andy Williams ~ It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 🎄 24 25 20 Michael Bublé ~ Holly Jolly Christmas 🎄 25 26 38 Paul McCartney ~ Wonderful Christmastime 🎄 26 31 07 The Kid Laroi ~ Without You 27 27 16 Bobby Helms ~ Jingle Bell Rock 🎄 28 35 06 Miley Cyrus ~ Prisoner (feat. Dua Lipa) 29 40 09 Meduza ~ Paradise (feat. Dermot Kennedy) 30 29 28 Justin Bieber ~ Mistletoe 🎄 31 32 22 Kylie Minogue ~ Santa Baby 🎄 32 45 10 KSI ~ Really Love (feat. Craig David and Digital Farm Animals) 33 34 15 The Ronettes ~ Sleigh Ride 🎄 34 37 03 Taylor Swift ~ Willow 35 33 34 Coldplay ~ Christmas Lights 🎄 36 43 07 Billie Eilish ~ Therefore I Am 37 39 24 Dean Martin ~ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 🎄 38 54 20 24kGoldn ~ Mood (feat. Iann Dior) 39 42 12 Katy Perry ~ Cozy Little Christmas 🎄 40 44 10 José Feliciano ~ Feliz Navidad 🎄

it’ll be the chart that’s announced on new year’s day as that’ll include christmas day streams which are so insanely high it doesn’t matter that christmas songs fall completely off the face of the streaming chart before new years eve

to be pedantic it's not a Christmas song, it's a Rolling Stones cover for a Christmas advert. I expect he'll try and play the physicals game to get a Xmas #1 out of it but until then won't be a major contender.

if you’re sending a remix it is the remix that needs to have dated from the 2010s

Fontaines D.C. - Starburster Gary Numan - Intruder Kate Bush - Babooshka Bananarama - Cruel Summer Depeche Mode - People Are People Zara Larsson - All the Time Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Get Over You New Order - Ceremony MARINA - How to Be a Heartbreaker Sam Fender - Getting Started Texas - Halo Adele - Oh My God Sam Smith - Like I Can Darin - Electric Tom Grennan - Royal Highness

You've got your Sams confused, Sam Clegg is the guy who does the fake John Lewis ads, Sam Fender is the real deal