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I reckon she could well easily land herself her first no.1, especially given Dua's only shifting around 40k so it wont take a huge amount to get there. She could shift 100k plus in week 1 if she comes back with an absolute smash but I don't think she will. She's never been close to the success Ed has had in the UK so thats not really a good comparison at all. All of his albums have shifted 2 million for starters. I think Ellie Goulding is a more an even match if you were to compare her to an act, but given both Ellie's no.1s were held back for several weeks they had naturally massive first week sales. Stateside though Taylor is as big there as Ed is here so she'll easily storm to no.1 with massive first week sales.s I went for her being no.1, she could do up to 60-80k maybe, but they'll be steady sales in the long run. I think she's being overestimated somewhat.

Brilliant Shape Of You Feels Good Sign Of The Times Symphony Rockabye (Took a long time for me to like) Im The One New Rules (When its gets there) Alright Wild Thoughts Awful Despacito Bridge Over Troubled Water Just realised looking back at this year I've actually liked most of this years no.1s so far which hasn't happened for a while. Think 2013 was the last time I liked more than 50% of the no.1s.

Hard to gauge without hearing what Justin's song sounds like. But Its going be pretty hard for him to miss no.1 given everything he releases seems to go there at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if he does something similar to WDYM in that he might have several stints at no.1 with perhaps Taylor, Clean Bandit, Sam Smith sneaking in a week here and there. I can see Mi Gente becoming a big hit in the coming weeks as well. I really hope this is the start of a busy Q4 with lots of blockbuster releases, its been years since we've had a nice proper busy run up to Christmas.

The turnover of new entires I think has naturally speeded up this year, ACR has just heightened it further. Whilst it is nice to see more fluid movement its rather irritating its due to older songs being penalised, it kind of takes away the achievement of being no.1 unless your song is the top seller/streamed track (and even then its not a guarantee). But I agree though compared to last year, even without ACR, the chart has improved in its pacing.

Its going to be very close but I do think both p!nk and Dua look to have the top 2 spots next Friday I reckon. She's maintaining a decent lead on iTunes with Dua Lipa only going up to 50% so far. If P!nk's sales hold up I'd estimate she's on course for 35-40k of downloads plus maybe 10-15k from streaming which thanks to ACR last weeks no.1 only had 39k of combined sales so P!nk could shift that on downloads alone. Dua Lipa I reckon will do around 40-45k, if P!nk maintains a steady lead on downloads and her streaming pulls up she may just about clinch it.

I can see Taylor Swift finally bagging herself a no.1 single now she's caved and added her stuff to Spotify again, she would have had a couple of no.1s with the 1989 era had she not removed it all. Although I think she'll only manage a week or two, she doesn't have the same fan base here as she does in the U.S where I think she will easily dominate, with the album easily shifting a million units in its first week. Sam Smith is a hard one to call, I think he'll have a couple of top tens, maybe a sixth no.1 with his album easily getting to no.1 but I don't think it will flop as bad as Emile did but it will sell less than his debut. P!nk I'm sure will score another top 10, she always comes back with a banger, and her album will go top 5. Paloma will have another top 5 album and a couple of top 20 hits by the end of the year. Clean Bandit will score another couple of big top 5 hits and a top 5 album if they release one. I have a feeling either Ed will release Perfect and it will become a slow burning hit or he may surprise with releasing more new material. His album will remain firmly in the top 10 the rest of the year. Foo Fighters will easily nab another no.1 album and will sell moderately well. Quite a potentially exciting Q3/4 lined up with loads of releases compared to last year. I think the new BBC music show may provide unexpected weekly chart boosts.

I don't like how stale the chart has been the past two years, even though it was showing signs of speeding up this year prior to these stupid ACR rules. I do miss the "good old days" where you'd have multiple new entires each week and that if a song managed to hold onto no1 for 7+ weeks it was a huge achievement and streaming has made a mockery of that. However, I hated the way record labels manipulated the chart to the extent they did to achieve that. It was fair game during the 90s ect as that's just how everything worked. But when downloads were introduced it created this unfair advantage to pre album singles that were on pre-order for 8 weeks, compared to post album releases which would have a natural progression up the charts. I think only Gaga and the BEP were the only two acts that actually managed to have post album no.1 hit without having a big tv performance to boost it there (Telephone, Pokerface & I Gotta Feeling). Streaming has brought it this wonderful new digital era that is boosting both albums and singles sales and has created a new fair level playing field once again. But I do agree with most comments on here that it just hasn't been calculated into the chart very well the past year or so. I have mentioned it before so don't want to be a stuck record (pardon the pun :P ) but removing the daily cap of streaming and setting a permanent cap is the best solution I can think of rather than forced manipulation.

Nice to see Sam Hunt back in the top 10, fallen back in love with that song again recently, proper summer tune. Its no.1 on the country singles for the 22nd week now, not far off taking the record from Cruise. Really would love it if he managed to break through over in the UK, I reckon he could if he had the right exposure. Great to see a lot of British acts in the top 40 also. Can see Calvin going top 10 with Feels.

I think you could maybe add Robbie Williams to this list. His debut was eventually a huge success and shifted 2.4 Million whilst his follow up just out edged it on around 2.5/6. Not a big increase but he didn't suffer the slump, that came with his third album and even that wasn't by much. Quite surprised Coldplay were overlooked actually. Parachutes was a huge success after Yellow and sold around the 2 million mark, but Rush Of Blood ended up selling almost three million units. Can kind of see what is meant by Rhianna though, she would have had to have had an abysmal 2nd album not to out peak the first. I don't think you really can say someones beat the slump if they already have very low sales to begin with.

I don't mind the album rules so much, as they had to do something about the Ed Sheeran fiasco as that was just plain ridiculous. But I think they could have gone about it a slightly better way than they have done, preventing previous singles from charting just because they aren't in the top 3 bestsellers is a bit harsh. But for the singles chart I just think these rules are stupid; 1) They are super confusing and makes following the chart even more difficult. 2) Don't make any sense at all as to why after 10 weeks (why 10 weeks not shorter timespan) a song should suddenly loose half of its streaming. Either have it 300:1 all the way or dont bother. 3) After all is said and done I really do not believe this is going to make a vast amount of difference. This week it has due to the amount of clutter that was eligible to be stripped of its streaming, but the next few weeks may see one or maybe two songs being penalised so really thats only going to allow maybe one or two extra songs to chart, but i suppose over time we will see. I can see them altering these rules several times before they (and certain record labels) are happy with the result. Streaming really is a doubled edged sword of acting as a new sales platform but also as airplay due to people listening to the same song over and over again without any limit on how its added to the chart, allowing songs to rack up months and months within the top 40. However, trying to enforce an artificial chart run imho is just manipulation and isn't going to solve the problems streaming creates.

Been thinking about this more today and thought of two proposed tweaks that could work; a) Only allow official singles and the most cherry picked song from an album to chart. So each time a single is released its accounted to the chart, with the old singles still being allowed to remain. Although I do agree with their method of the 3 tracks, this seems a more sensible approach. b) Removing the daily limit of streams being added and place a permanent cap of 50 or 100 streams per person. As its mostly the younger generation that use spotify ect and im sure most will easily rack up 50 to 100 streams of a song within the space of 1-2 weeks, if not days if they were particularly in love with a certain song. Thus removing large sums of streaming further down the line and you'd get a more natural and faster progression in the chart, compared to song suddenly loosing half its sales in one week at random. I don't think reducing the ratio to 1:300 is going to really improve anything, especially if they are leaving 10 weeks for it to kick in.

Well something had to be done about the farce that was Ed and Drake's chart takeover during the Spring. With Taylor potentially releasing a new album later this year it was going to happen again. But having only three songs chart sounds a bit odd, although I'm assuming this is to account for two lead singles and the most cherry picked track. Does this mean that if a 4th single is picked then that would be added additionally? All in all i think its a good move. Don't see the need to drop the ratio to 300:1 after a few weeks though on the singles chart. I can see what they are trying to achieve but the charts have picked up the pace this year compared to last year significantly. I think given another year or two it would gather further pace as people/record labels become more accustomed to the streaming market. Creating an artificial chart run just is ridiculous. Also in regards to Calvin's negative comments about albums, they are far from dead. They've actually seen a small revival the past year, which is probably why he's now along with the chainsmokers is releasing an album after saying they wouldn't. For example, Ed's last two albums have both accumulated around 300k from streaming respectively and I'm sure Drake and maybe stormzy have around 50-100k. Doesn't sound much but this is a big bump from last year, the way its progressing I think albums are about to get a new lease of life.

Been busy the past couple of weeks so haven't had chance to post my charts so though I'd do a catch up post. INDIGO SINGLES CHART 23rd April 2017 01 01 Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl / 100,000 / [15-11-01-01] 02 03 Calvin Harris Ft Young Thug, Ariana Grande & Pharrell Williams - Heatstroke / 78,000 / [01-03-02] 03 NE Royal Blood - Lights Out / 62,000 / [03] 04 05 Kasabian - Your In Love With A Psycho / 56,000 / [20-11-07-05-04] 05 02 Clean Bandit Ft Zara Larrson - Symphony / 46,000 / [18-09-02-05] 06 06 The Chainsmokers - Young / 44,000 / [15-06-06] 07 10 Lorde - Green Light / 42,000 / [02-02-01-01-02-10-07] 08 09 Calvin Harris - Slide / 40,000 / [06-09-09-07-02-03-09-08] 09 04 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You / 36,000 / [02-02-04-05-05-05-05-08-13-15-11-11-06-05-04-09] 10 08 The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming / 20,000 / [16-01-01-01-02-05-08-07-10] 11 NE Rag & Bone - Skin / 18,000 / [11] 12 NE Lady Gaga - The Cure / 16,000 / [12] 13 07 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots / 14,000 / [18-06-08-13] 14 11 Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye / 12,000 / [09-08-14-11-14] 15 14 Sam Hunt - Body Like A Backroad / 10,000 / [06-02-06-14-16-16-xx-18-14-15] 16 13 Ed Sheeran - Dive / 8,000 / [05-03-03-07-20-13-16] 17 12 Imagine Dragons - Believer / 6,000 / 18 15 Sia - House On Fire / 4,000 / 19 17 Kings Of Leon - Waste A Moment / 2,000 20 19 Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill / 1,000 / [01-01-02-03-01-01-01-04-12-14-15-16-17-19-20] INDIGO SINGLES CHART 30th April 2017 01 01 Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl / 140,000 / [15-11-01-01-01] 02 02 Calvin Harris Ft Young Thug, Ariana Grande & Pharrell Williams - Heatstroke / 98,000 / [01-03-02-02] 03 09 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You / 62,000 / [02-02-04-05-05-05-05-08-13-15-11-11-06-05-04-09-03] 04 05 Clean Bandit Ft Zara Larsson - Symphony / 60,000 / [18-09-02-05-04] 05 09 Calvin Harris Ft Frank Ocean - Slide / 56,000 / [06-09-09-07-02-03-09-08-05] 06 04 Kasabian - Your In Love With A Psycho / 48,000 / [20-11-07-05-04-06] 07 12 Lady Gaga - The Cure / 44,000 / [12-07] 08 07 Lorde - Green Light / 42,000 / [02-02-01-01-02-10-07-08] 09 06 The Chainsmokers - Young / 40,000 / [15-06-06-09] 10 03 Royal Blood - Lights Out / 36,000 / [03-10] 11 11 Rag & Bone Man - Skin / 28,000 / [11-11] 12 13 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots / 16,000 / [18-06-08-13-12] 13 08 The Weeknd Ft Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming / 14,000 / [16-01-01-01-02-05-08-07-10-13] 14 NE Katy Perry FT Migos - Bon Appetite / 12,000 / [14] 15 14 Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Maire - Rockabye / 10,000 / [09-08-14-11-14-15] 16 NE One Republic - No Vacancy / 8,000 / [16] 17 16 Ed Sheeran - Dive / 6,000 / [05-03-03-07-20-13-16-17] 18 17 Imagine Dragons - Believer / 4,000 / 19 18 Sia - House On Fire / 2,000 / 20 20 Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill / 1,000 / [01-01-02-03-01-01-01-04-12-14-15-16-17-19-20] Chart Commentary Ed Sheeran holds firm onto the top spot for a 2nd and 3rd consecutive week and retaining his streak of 100,000+ weekly point tallies. He holds off a heatwave from Calvin Harris et al who resurges back to No.2. Ed also enjoys a further rebound of Shape of You, which almost manages to equalise its original chart peak 16 weeks after it initially charted as it moves 9-3. Elsewhere, Lady Gaga scores her 5th top ten hit with The Cure 11-7, with Rag and Bone Man claiming his 2nd top 20 hit as Skin enters and holds at No.11. Further new entries last week from Katy Perry and a welcome return to One Republic who both debut at numbers 14 and 16 respectively. It becomes only Katy's second ever entry on the chart, following Chained To The Rhythm, but becomes One Republics third following Counting Stars (No.6 2013) and Love Runs Out (No.1 2014).

I've always loved the charts and although I haven't listened to the chart show for years I've followed it online with the midweeks ect. My interest has dropped massively the past two years though. The ridiculous chart manipulation in 2014 which had a new no.1 nearly every week of the year was incredibly boring and frustrating, then we switched to the exact opposite by 2016 where the charts have become like watching paint dry. However, the last few weeks I've started to gain a bit more interest, as the amount of new music has improved and also the charts have slowly started gathering a pace (aside from the Ed sheeran fiasco)

T H E / I N D I G O / S I N G L E S / C H A R T 16th April 2017 01 11 Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl / 140,000 / [15-11-01] 02 09 Clean Bandit Ft Zara Larsson - Symphony / 90,000 / [18-09-02] 03 01 Calvin Harris Ft Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande - Heatstroke / 78,000 / [01-03] 04 05 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You / 74,000 / [02-02-04-05-05-05-05-08-13-15-11-11-06-05-04] 05 07 Kasabian - Your In Love With A Psycho / 66,000 / [20-11-07-05] 06 15 The Chainsmokers - Young / 64,000 / [15-06] 07 08 The Weeknd Ft Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming / 62,000 / [16-01-01-01-02-05-08-07] 08 06 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots / 50,000 / [18-06-08] 09 03 Calvin Harris Ft Frank Ocean - Slide / 42,000 / [06-09-09-07-02-03-09] 10 02 Lorde - Green Light / 38,000 / [02-02-01-01-02-10] 11 14 Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye / 37,000 [09-08-14-11] 12 04 Imagine Dragons - Believer / 36,000 / [18-18-11-13-10-06-04-04-12] 13 20 Ed Sheeran - Dive / 34,000 / [06-03-03-07-20-13] 14 18 Sam Hunt - Body Like A Backroad / 20,000 / [06-02-06-14-16-16-xx-18-14] 15 12 Sia - House On Fire / 12,000 / [02-02-03-04-05-09-12-15] 16 10 Iggy Azalea - Mo Bounce / 8,000 / [14-03-10-16] 17 13 Kings Of Leon - Waste A Moment / 6,000 / [15-10-05-05-04-10-13] 18 16 Coldplay - Hypnotised / 4,000 / [07-07-14-13-16] 19 17 Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill / 2,000 / [01-01-02-03-01-01-04-12-14-15-16-17-19] 20 19 Maroon 5 Ft Future - Cold / 1,000 / [07-01-03-10-12-13-19-19-20] Commentary Ed Sheeran gallops to claim his 6th no.1 with Galway Girl. Ed Sheeran storms to the top of the chart, moving 11-01 with his third official single from divide, Galway Girl. In doing so he also scoops a whopping 140,000 points this week, the highest for any song this year. It becomes Sheeran's 6th chart topper following, his previous chart toppers include; Drunk (2012); Everything Has Changed (with Taylor Swift, 2013); Sing (2014); Thinking Out Loud (2014); Castle On The Hill (2016). He also see's a resurgence with two of his other tracks this week, as Shape continues to rebound 5-4 (74,000) and Dive 20-13 (34,000). Ed's steaming victory leaves Clean Bandit trailing behind a No.2 with Symphony (90,000) becoming their highest charting song on the chart, whilst it becomes Lara's second successive No.2 hit following Lush Life. Kasabian continue to climb 7-5 to claim their second top five hit, with The Chainsmokers rising 15-6 to score themselves a 4th top top entry with Young.

Where an earth has this Gaga track come from! Nice to see she's back to something more akin to her fame era but it does sound too simplistic on a first listen. Much prefer Perfect Illusion. I wonder how this will hold up, can see it being a top 10 hit for her though.

Hi PeteFromCats Cheers! glad you like the chart, its probably the most diverse its been in a long while. Yeah Heatstroke when I first heard it i thought it was awful but it rapidly grew on me through last week until I couldnt get it out of my head. That and Slide are his best two songs in a very long time imo. Glad he's given up the EDM club bangers for now. Again Big For Your Boots has really grown on me the past few weeks as well. Just realised the No.2 is missing after all this time :lol:

INDIGO SINGLES CHART NO.1S - 2017 Arizona - Oceans Away - 1 Week Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill - 2 Weeks Ryan Gosling - City Of Stars - 2 Weeks Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill - 3 Weeks Maroon 5 (Ft Future) - Cold - 1 Week The Weeknd (Ft Daft Punk) - I Feel It Coming - 3 Weeks Lorde - Green Light - 2 Weeks Calvin Harris (Ft Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande) - Heatstroke - 1 Week INDIGO ALBUM NO.1S - (From the 19th February 2017) Sia - This Is Acting - 2 Weeks Ed Sheeran - Divide - 4 Weeks The Chainsmokers - Memories Do Not Open - 1 Week

Apologies there's been no new chart for a few weeks i've been swamped with work and family stuff. But anyhow here this weeks chart. T H E / I N D I G O / S I N G L E S / C H A R T. 01 NE Calvin Harris Ft Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande - Heatstroke / 100,000 / [01] 02 01 Lorde - Green Light / 88,000 / [02-02-01-01-02] 03 02 Calvin Harris Ft Frank Ocean / 86,000 / [06-09-09-07-02-03] 04 04 Imagine Dragons - Believer / 84,000 / [18-18-11-13-10-06-04-04] 05 06 Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You / 80,000 / [02-02-04-05-05-05-05-08-13-15-11-11-06-05] 06 18 Stormzy - Big For Your Boots / 78,00 / [18-06] 07 11 Kasabian - Your In Love With A Psycho / 74,000 [20-11-07] 08 05 The Weeknd - I Feel It Coming / 64,000 [16-01-01-01-02-05-08] 09 17 Clean Bandit Ft Zara Larsson - Symphony / 64,000 [18-09] 10 03 Iggy Azalea - Mo Bounce / 60,000 [14-03-10] 11 15 Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl / 58,000 [15-11] 12 09 Sia - House On Fire / 46,000 / [02-02-03-04-05-09-12] 13 07 Kings Of Leon - Waste A Moment / 44,000 [15-10-05-05-04-10-13] 14 08 Clean Bandit Ft Sean Paul & Anne-Marie - Rockabye / 42,000 [09-08-14] 15 NE The Chainsmokers - Young / 30,000 / [15] 16 13 Coldplay - Hypnotised / 18,000 / [07-07-14-13-16] 17 16 Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill / 16,000 / [01-01-02-03-01-01-01-04-12-14-15-16-16-17] 18 RE Sam Hunt - Body Like A Backroad / 14,000 / [06-02-06-14-16-16-xx-18] 19 19 Maroon 5 Ft Future - Cold [07-01-03-10-12-13-19-19] 20 07 Ed Sheeran - Dive [06-03-03-07-20] Chart Commentary As the UK sizzled over the weekend in some early summer warmth, Calvin steams ahead to take the highest new entry along with this weeks No.1 with the aptly named, Heatstroke. Calvin Harris scores his 11th top 10 entry this week and like waiting for a bus, his wait for a top 3 hit comes to an end with two at once. His other mega star collaboration with Frank Ocean Slide, does what it says on the tin and slides 2-3. Calvin has only had one other No.1 on the chart, which occurred way back in May 2013 with I Need Your Love alongside fellow brit Ellie Goulding, which peaked for two weeks. Prior to Slide his last top 3 placing was Blame, which peaked at No.2 in Sept 2014 and has gone on to become one of his biggest point earning hit on the chart with 554,000 points. Chart topper for the last fortnight Lorde, dips 1-2 with Green Light, its 5th straight week in the top 2. Imagine Dragons hold steady at no.4 with Believer, whilst Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You is continuing to enjoy a resurgence up the chart as it climbs 6-5 after 14 weeks on the chart, having already peaked at No.2 for a fortnight in January. Elsewhere in the top ten, Stormzy lands his first top ten entry with Big For Your Boots at no.6, whilst Kasabian, Clean Bandit and Zara Larsson all claim their second at No.s 7 and 8 respectively. Finally the only new entry on the chart goes to The Chainsmokers with one of the tracks from their debut album, Young. It becomes the duo's 4th chart entry following Roses (No.4) Don't Let Me Down & Closer (No.2). I N D I G O / A L B U M S 01 NE The Chainsmokers - Memories Please Do Not Open 02 01 Ed Sheeran - Divide 03 03 The Weeknd - Starboy 04 NE Rag & Bone Man - Human 05 02 The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep....

Ah sorry but thats what I meant, its being counted but not accurately and that they need to come up with a better formula going forward so we don't have a top 10 of the same artist each time a big name releases an album. But in regards to total sales, I doubt if downloads had been included during 2002-04 it would have made much difference as they were very small when they were finally included. The total sales from last year was barbaric though, having 20 odd million sellers was just ridiculous and it was hardly a ground breaking or massive year for music. I think as streaming grows they will have to keep altering the ratios but they should, as you say, be consistent. I think a perfect middle ground is having 1:150 for both weekly and total but backdating total sales to keep in line with this, moving forward should streaming numbers go through the roof adjust it accordingly.

I can kind agree with that sentiment of artists scooping several top 10s in one go ect, although I personally don't count album tracks charting as an official hit/single unless its announced as an official single later on and i'd like to think the OCC follow a similar procedure. So out of Ed's divide onslaught I'd only count Galway Girl as its been announced as the third single but in recent years there's always one song that gets heavily cherry picked and it ends up becoming the single anyway. But I agree though that it is a mess that this sort of thing happens and in terms of streaming most, if not all of those streams from the past couple of weeks should have counted as album. Given how dire album sales are I would think the OCC would jump at the chance to revive them. The other thing that annoys me about the charts is the total sales, they are an absolute mess. Without knowing how high streaming will peak its hard to actually find a way of formatting it the right way in terms of chart units. But I can see it getting to the stage though where every top 10 hit will garner around 100 million streams with the big hits managing around 200 million, which equals 1-2 million chart units which isn't very reflective at all of download sales. They should base it off revenue that streaming brings in or put a permanent cap in place for when a song reaches a certain amount of streams, or at the very least have the same ratio for weekly and total sales.

I think SOY has another two weeks or so in it yet. Harry Styles is now looking very likely to topple it at least for a while, I wouldn't be surprised if Galway Girl eventually gets there if he picks it as the next official single. I do think it has been no.1 for far too long but then again its matched it on downloads on 9 of the 11 weeks its had so I suppose its been there rightly so, however the Brits did give the song a massive boost. I do think songs are spending longer times at no.1 but it'll get quicker during the next couple of years when the public/record labels start getting used to the market.

What I meant by the playlists was, its an attempt to rid the passive listening that is happening, especially the chart playlist. Photograph and especially One Dance are perfect examples as I remember everyone kicking off last year that it was featured on so many playlists helping it stay at no.1 be default. Perhaps only playlist that shouldn't count is the chart playlist as pushing the same songs in the top 40 week in and out doesn't really help, they could just have a chart on the homepage but not have it playable. But that aside, it seems the only way to solve the albums issue is to have system in place to determine if someone is streaming the album or playing them as individual songs. As I don't think scrapping songs that aren't official singles does any good, loads of singles have started off life as a cherry picked song in the past few years its what happens now. Scrapping streaming from the albums chart also is not a good plan as lets face it, album sales are dire they need any boost they can and with streaming i think albums might actually recover slightly in the long run compared to the download era which killed them off in the first place due to cherry picking.

I always thought limiting a stream to 150 then not being counted again on an individual basis was a good idea but I doubt many people would listen to a song 150 times and even if they did it would take weeks. So they'd have to drastically reduce that number for it to reflect peoples listening habits. That BBC article suggests adding airplay, if they think its bad now adding airplay will make it a million times worse. I think from the sounds of it they should be looking at some of the methods that are used in countries where streaming is virtually the sole contributor to the charts and how they differentiate album streaming as opposed to individual tracks. The OCC imo have been lazy about the whole streaming scenario and seems like they are scared of having weekly single sales fall to the depths they were in the 2000s and are propping them up with inflated streaming sales. If anywhere needs any extra sales being pumped into it, its the albums market. Also I think with playlists they should only be counted in two ways. Firstly individual playlists that people have created for their own personal use should be counted, Secondly the only other playlist that should count should be the Hot Hits playlist which is updated with new songs every week. All other playlists shouldn't be counted towards the chart and streaming should be merited from the artist's page/catalogue.

Yeah I was just saying thats one of the actions I can see them doing to change things. I agree though they should have counted more of those streams towards the album sales than they did. The whole streaming interaction with the chart needs a serious revision. Firstly, only songs from paid for subscriptions should be counted I'm sure its easy for Spotify to do with an algorithm. Secondly, only songs that are played in full should be counted, not this 30 second rubbish. Finally, as i've banged on about before, streaming ratio increased to 1:200 to reflect the average revenue made from streaming and reduce the inflation of chart units. In regards to albums I'm not sure what the answer is, songs only being allowed to chart if they are an official single could be one way forward but then again it's never been such a problem with most artists. Perhaps a restriction should be placed during the first few weeks, before being allowed to enter once the hype dies down.