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surprised they went with that track instead of the Dave collab regardless of if it's the artist, the label or Spotify making the decision

I don't particularly like Carti but I see quite a bit of unnecessary hostility on here towards almost any rap song & artist that does well on the charts. If it was purely directed towards Carti I probably wouldn't have said anything lol

imagine how different the reactions on here would be if the positions were swapped and someone said "If it weren't for Carti, we'd be having some shitty country song going #1" lol

I do find it very funny that on US Spotify the thing keeping Drake from the top spot is 4 separate Kendrick songs

would be incredible to see kendrick going #1 whether it's this week or next week (hopefully both tbh). long overdue his first #1, and his tracks are absolutely miles better than everything else at the upper end of the chart currently imo lol

about what I expected from CRG, figured it would do similar to Money Talks (Fredo ft. Dave). People expecting the numbers of a Dave x Cench track when this is a Cench ft. Dave track, and that ordering does make a difference. CRG doesn't even show on Dave's Spotify page, and those following Dave on Spotify didn't get a notification for this track's release (unless they're also following Cench obvs). Dave also hasn't posted anything about it on his Twitter or IG as far as I can tell.

And because it's a better song lol. Or rather, a song that a higher portion of The Weeknd's fanbase are more likely to vibe with. More of a hip-hop/r&b style rather than a synthpop style.

hard agree on YNMIDNY. at least he still performs it at shows. think it's really just his biggest streaming hits though with maybe a couple exceptions (looking at Afterglow) and unfortunately YNMIDNY doesn't fall into that category - 184,986,840 Spotify streams currently, less than half of even the lowest on there Bloodstream (when factoring in the remix with 56m streams)

hardly any different than all the other greatest hits albums permanently lodged in the top 20 then lol. maybe because it's Ed Sheeran doing it this time they'll finally change the rules and banish them all to the compilations chart.

got curious so I added up all the current spotify streams of Ed Sheeran's Mathematics album (greatest hits compilation coming out 27/09) - 29.9bn streams in total currently. anyone know how this compares to the likes of The Highlights or Curtain Call?

Sprinter was 2 years after Dave's last album tbf but was just over 1 year after his previous #1 of Starlight

went with Labour 350-399, Conservative 100-199, Lib Dem 25-49. think current projections of Labour nearing 500 and Tories in double digits aren't very realistic, though I would love to see the Tories reduced to nothing.

will be interesting to see if Dave's (likely) album release this year does better or worse than his 2021 album

absolutely stunned at the streaming numbers at the top of the chart currently. when was the last time that the top 6 all did 700k+ or the top 9 all did 500k+ on Spotify completely independently of each other (I add that stipulation because of course album bombs and xmas are different scenarios)? has it ever happened before?

shame that when we get a great rap song doing numbers that would normally easily be enough for #1, there's another song doing even bigger numbers lol. happy for kendrick regardless, and it is cool to see all the top songs doing such big numbers at the moment

she's one of the biggest artists in the world lol i'm a big fan but she's hardly underrated

hoping the boy is mine can overtake bye to become ariana's 3rd hit either this week or next. easily my favourite from the album

Jack Harlow x Dave confirmed for release this Friday, could be a real contender for xmas #1

If Houdini does get "robbed" of #1 by another song selling & streaming more than it over the course of the week, then it wouldn't be the rightful #1

Most shops, public places etc. just seem to not or very rarely play rap music in general. At best you might get some pop-rap e.g. Drake In My Feelings or something like that but a straight up rap song being played in like a supermarket is pretty much unheard of lol. Only feels weird in this case because no other rap song has ever spent that long at #1.

Love to see Meridian at #3 on French Spotify, looks like it should be a pretty big hit there. Not to mention it being #9 in Switzerland and #10 in Belgium as well. Great to see it just about clutching Top 40 here too.

Meridian debuting at #79 on the French Spotify chart after only a few hours is very promising for its performance. Hoping it can do Top 10 there and Top 40 here.

Dave and Cench are both friends with Drake so if a remix was going to happen I'm sure it already would've lol. I can't see them doing any kind of additional promotion for the track given that they've done absolutely nothing since it released to my knowledge (bar the release of the EP a few days after release but that wasn't even specific to Sprinter).

would be great to see Central Cee x Drake and Travis Scott x Bad Bunny x The Weeknd both do big numbers (and potentially Taylor x Ariana if it does happen to exist, can't say I enjoy Taylor's music much but I do like Ariana's music generally), but personally I'm rooting for Sprinter to get 10+ weeks to become definitively the longest running rap #1.

I'm sure there's an error there, I could completely get Sprinter not doing as well on Amazon as it is on other platforms, but as far as I can tell Sprinter literally doesn't exist in the Amazon charts. I don't buy that Sprinter's doing worse on Amazon UK than the likes of Gangnam Style at #920 to give a random example lol