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One Direction is releasing an EP at midnight with the acoustic version of Perfect, remix of Perfect, remix of Drag Me Down and a new song "Home". Will that count towards the single sales?

Yeah, but you have to consider that Spotify doesn't pay directly to the artist. They pay to rights holders and artists get a portion of that money from rights holders. Plus, that song had more than one songwriter, so everything splits again. In general websites assume Spotify pays out about $0.007 per stream. That's the number they use when they calculate how much Spotify paid out. For 178 million streams, it would be $1.246 million.

I like "Hold My Hand" and "Don't Be So Hard on Yourself". Jess' featured #1's, not so much.

Avicii's latest singles are really uninspiring, but he still gets over 100 million plays on Spotify with ease for every single. Avicii and Calvin Harris really need to re-invent themselves IMO.

There is BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation and then there is United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting (ITV, Channel 4). UKIB's primary function is to represent independent British television interests. Some countries like Belgium have two public broadcasters (Flemish, Belgian French) and each gets to pick an entry every other year. In Britain, BBC is the primary EBU member. In any case, I don't think BBC is the problem here. It's the mentality.

Eurovision is a song competition between European public broadcasters. BBC is British public broadcaster. ITV is a commercial TV channel. So suggesting ITV to take over from BBC is just not possible. The UK has a lot of great music and could easy send great entries every year. Europe knows that. Meanwhile, Eurovision isn't taken seriously in the UK and no first or second class act would consider going to Eurovision. So BBC struggles every year trying to come up with a decent act and a decent entry. They tried with has-beens and never-was' and complete newbies who just weren't ready for this event. The UK's problem is the mentality.

"Jealous" is pretty great. The Remix with Tinashe is even better.

It's only Tuesday and Stevie is dropping hard on iTunes (see Kworb). I think either Jess or Nick will be #1, which is fine by me.

The album has a title. "The Original High".

I think this is a great single choice. Actually my favorite of the three singles released so far this era.

I'm from Slovenia and Slovene is my mother tongue. English is the only foreign language I'm really good at, even though I also took German in high school. I sort of understand Serbo-Croatian. I prefer Eurovision songs in English. If I don't understand the lyrics, I just tune out, ignore the song completely and wait for the next performance. It's as simple as that. And I believe it's generally the same for most people. It's really hard to a song not in English to overcome the language barrier. We can talk about celebrating different cultures by singing in our own languages all we want, but the reality is that it's a competition and you have to get people to connect with the song.

You know, it would be better if BBC snatched a reject from some other country next year.

Time to adopt Ann Sophie, I guess.

I agree, the sales tracking week has to change with the global release day. Labels are not going to release albums just two days before the sales cut off deadline. Global release day is not a law for the record labels, they can still release albums any day of the week.

Song snippets:

Sydney 2016! :cheer: We can't pass this opportunity! :please:

Jana Šušteršič just won Slovenia's Got Talent 4 at the end of 2014. If you remember, Maja Keuc was Slovenia's Got Talent 1 runner-up. Rudi Bučar is in recent years a big favorite of the juries, so don't be surprised if he is in the TOP 2. All 8 acts will perform and then the jury will pick 2 that the audience will be voting on.

No, I don't think streaming should count towards million sellers. However, they should start a new category for songs that pass 100 million streams or something.

Here are my TOP 12 (#1 is my favorite, #12 least favorite) 1. Ella Henderson - Ghost 2. Katy B - Crying For No Reason 3. Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse 4. Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea – Problem 5. Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy 6. Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down 7. Sia – Chandelier 8. Kiesza - Hideaway 9. Beyoncé feat. Jay Z - Drunk In Love 10. Ariana Grande feat. Zedd - Break Free 11. Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass 12. Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This

I don't think One Direction's last album opened with 250K. More like, 150K?

Kworb updated. Band Aid 30 is killing it. 1. Band Aid 30 ... 1.0000 2 Clean Bandit ... 0.0781 3. Olly Murs ... 0.0739

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...tion-more-3273/

Well then however it works makes no sense. "Sing" is #1 right now because of the album preorders. And tomorrow those pre-orders turn into album sales. iTunes and OCC should know which downloads are legit and which come from album pre-orders.

"Sing" right now is in the same boat as Ed's previous instant grats. It's #1 on the iTunes singles chart because it's being automatically downloaded due to album pre-orders. Tomorrow, all those album pre-orders will be completed and all the single tracks sold will be gone. For "Sing" only actual single-song purchases should count towards the singles chart. I wouldn't worry about "Sing" going to #1 again next Saturday.

As far as I understand it, whoever pre-ordered Ed's new album gets the download instantly, as the other tracks. Tomorrow, people will be downloading the rest of the album and all those previous downloads of tracks that happened because of the pre-order will turn into downloads of digital album. So by that logic, "Sing" being at #1 now just means people are getting that download automatically. Ultimately only solo downloads (without pre-order) will count towards the single's chart. The deletion of the single version of "Sing" is just another way to send Ed Sheeran to the top of the single's iTunes chart and drive the album pre-orders.