GreyAsh

Poor Cruel Summer and Will You? At least there is another Cruel Summer to come. Loving ‘Big Fun’ too but it just missed out on points from me. There is still only one song that nobody else gave points for except me (Suspicious Minds). But I guess generally cover versions don’t do very well in this.

The question should be: DO they decide who was the biggest artist of the year? I know they did in the late 80s - but they did the singles artists and albums artists separately.

Thank you @Julian_ ! I am intrigued to know where Wham! have fallen to! I’m guessing the other three Fleetwood Mac songs are in decline as you have not included them here.

I was thinking the same!

Interesting to see such increases for 100 Degrees, Every Day’s Like Christmas, Shocked and What Do I Have to Do. 4 great songs.

1) Hot In December ❤️ 2) XMAS ❤️ 3) This Time of Year ❤️ 4) Office Party 🤢

I assumed that the countdown would stop when there are 100 songs left - so any songs announced haven’t got through.

Again, that no longer gets streaming sales. They all go to Twenty-Five.

I never thought I’d hear myself say I want Dave to be number 1 🤷🏻‍♂️

TBF this January I have taken a break from listening to current music, and I’m listening to 80s music non-stop.

As it is no longer their newest greatest hits album, streaming will no longer contribute towards it - and it will be getting very few physical and digital sales. In fact, it might not have been added to much at all in the streaming area: streams from its 5 biggest songs contributed to Twenty-Five instead, the sales of the next two are neutralised - meaning only the 7 least streamed tracks were counted.

On Spotify they were up and down all week - and so Thursday’s bumper streaming wasn’t counted. Hence the disappointing peaks.

I thought I saw quite a few people voting for ‘Blurry’ so I’m sad to see it leave.

The first of my votes not to receive votes from anyone else.

Fascinating to see ‘The Chain’ reach another re-peak - and it will also be interesting to watch the Fleetwood Mac songs battle it out for chart status this year. Just wondering, whether this has happened for any other retro artists over an extended period of time, where songs of theirs are starred out from the chart? I guess Oasis recently.