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tbf, as much as I completely disagree with the 3 artist rule (& ACR) even as a base concept, 3 per artist is the only real workable way to do it. if it's 3 per album, then what happens to non-album singles? if it's 3 per era, how do you define an era objectively and definitely in a way that works for every single artist for the charts? 3 per artist at least is clear and simple with little room for loopholes.

Yeah you are correct but I still don't see the relevance lol. This is a UK charts forum. And fwiw he's definitely far more successful internationally than the vast majority of UK rappers.

I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time you've mentioned something along the lines of "Americans don't know who Dave is" but I don't understand what the context or relevance of that is here?

Love to see Dave extending the lead on Spotify today, it's still all to play for ofc but it's looking promising for Dave so far. Finally got around to listening to that Olivia song and it's pretty dreadful imo so not going to be upset if it misses #1.

No idea but ed's at least weren't that either. I think I paid about £2 - £3 for shipping on top of the £1 for the single itself.

Can't wait for everyone here to call her desperate for chart success with fake sales to get to #1 like they did with Lewis and Ed lol

That might be because dave is a UK rapper not an American rapper lol

Oh nice so it just needs to hold on for one more week, hoping it can do it.

Still praying Sprinter can hold on to #1, not sure what the longest running UK rap #1 is but if Sprinter can hold on to #1 against Olivia it's gotta be in with a chance of beating it right?

Would've loved to see an all UK rap top 3 on the Spotify figures for today but unfortunately doesn't look like that will happen given how the Stormzy x Fredo track is doing on Apple

It had 1 day under 1m last Sunday (and will almost certainly have another under 1m for today's streams) so it's only 8 days above 1m in total so far

If both Sprinter and Who Told You do over 1m tomorrow which seems likely, would it be the first time ever that 2 songs by 2 separate artists have done over 1m on the same day outside of xmas? Absolutely incredible to see UK rap (the genre, not the song lol) doing so well at the moment though!

Would love to see Dave x Cench with 3 Top 10s on Friday but I think it's more likely to be Trojan Horse low Top 10 then UK Rap somewhere in the Top 20. Next week could see them climbing though depending on how well they hold.

Sprinter now #4 globally on Spotify, definitely the highest a UK rap track has been now even including the 2 versions of Body combined reaching #6.

Dave & Central Cee have a very good chance of managing 3 Top 40 debuts despite the late release I think with the rate they're already climbing.

Is the Dave x Cench EP going to be eligible for the albums chart? Or is it too short?

Body (Remix) also got to #14 and combining both of the versions in the Top 200 on 12/05/2021 puts them at #6 (albiet with 3.5m streams so less actual streams than Sprinter despite the higher position), but I think Sprinter might be the highest for a single song.

500k in 3 hours is huge

Love that for Dave, such a talented artist he deserves all the success in the world imo. Sprinter's an absolute banger too Also not seen it mentioned here but it's made #9 globally on Spotify - when was the last time a UK rap song was Top 10 global, if ever?

I'm thinking something more similar to Starlight ~700k but would love to see a million for it. Do have to question the strategy of releasing at 9PM on a Thursday though, surely they'd have prefered for those 200k streams (+ whatever it got on other platforms, was already pushing 1m globally on YT by midnight so probably a couple hundred thousand UK streams there as well) to actually count towards the chart.

Hoping we finally get a new #1 with this

feels like any album that doesn't match ÷ on streams gets labelled a flop on here lol I can't tell if people just set their expectations too high or if they're just looking for any excuse to drag an artist they don't like (or both) fwiw I was expecting slightly higher streams from Capaldi but that still looks like very healthy streams on the whole. it should also sell well physically, will be interesting to see how much it sells first week (inb4 it gets called a flop after selling like 80k lol)

There's 1 singular Speak Now song in the Top 200 on Spotify and Apple, at #64 on the former and #173 on the latter lol

not sure why anyone expected anything different after the performance of Eyes Closed and Boat lol. even before any songs from it were released as soon as it was revealed to be an acoustic album it seemed pretty clear it wouldn't be that big on streaming. should still get a healthy amount of physical sales and probably spent multiple weeks at #1. agreed, i think he should put out a greatest hits from the mathematics era next year / late this year, if only because it might finally push OCC to banish greatest hits albums to the compilation chart (and it would be very funny to see people constantly complaining about it clogging up a spot near the top of the album chart), then take a break for 3-5 years before starting a new era.

I went with 46k - 60k but I could see 61k - 75k as well.