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The Script, like Maroon 5, are a band I used to love but find their recent stuff quite boring... I'd still like them to get number 1 over Duke Dumont since I find Won't Look Back quite boring, but I'm pretty sure it will lose out to Prayer In C this week unless it builds up quite a big lead!

+5 Ed Sheeran - Don't +4 MAGIC! - Rude +3 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off +2 Maroon 5 - Maps +1 Nico & Vinz - Am I Wrong -1 Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One -2 Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz - Prayer In C -3 Wankelmut & Emma Louise - My Head Is A Jungle -4 David Guetta feat. Sam Martin - Lovers On The Sun -5 Iggy Azalea feat. Rita Ora - Black Widow

+5 George Ezra - Budapest +4 MAGIC! - Rude +3 Ella Henderson - Ghost +2 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem +1 Charli XCX - Boom Clap -1 Cheryl Cole feat. Tinie Tempah - Crazy Stupid Love -2 Melissa Steel feat. Popcaan - Kisses For Breakfast -3 Bars & Melody - Hopeful -4 ZHU - Faded -5 will.i.am & Cody Wise - It's My Birthday

Just noticed David Guetta's "Bad" can be added to #57 (4 weeks) :)

I may be missing the point but should this count as "bubbling under" seeing as it's been top 40 for several weeks?

+5 George Ezra - Budapest +4 Ella Henderson - Ghost +3 MAGIC! - Rude +2 Ed Sheeran - Sing +1 Jess Glynne - Right Here -1 Rixton - Me And My Broken Heart -2 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem -3 Charli XCX - Boom Clap -4 Cheryl Cole feat. Tinie Tempah - Crazy Stupid Love -5 will.i.am feat. Cody Wise - It's My Birthday

+5 George Ezra - Budapest +4 Ella Henderson - Ghost +3 Ed Sheeran - Sing +2 Jess Glynne - Right Here +1 Oliver Heldens & Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) -1 Sam Smith - Stay With Me -2 Rixton - Me And My Broken Heart -3 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem -4 Nicole Scherzinger - Your Love -5 will.i.am & Cody Wise - It's My Birthday

:o Didn't see that coming!

+5 George Ezra - Budapest +4 Ella Henderson - Ghost +3 Ed Sheeran - Sing +2 Jess Glynne - Right Here +1 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem -1 Sam Smith - Stay With Me -2 Sia - Chandelier -3 Oliver Heldens feat. Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) -4 The Vamps feat. Demi Lovato - Somebody To You -5 will.i.am feat. Cody Wise - It's My Birthday Third number one of the year which I've hated. Ah well.

Love this thread idea! I wonder what the first song will be to both gain and lose a week from streaming?

+5 Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars +4 Ella Henderson - Ghost +3 George Ezra - Budapest +2 Ed Sheeran - Sing +1 Mr. Probz - Waves -1 Sam Smith - Stay With Me -2 Sia - Chandelier -3 Ariana Grande feat. Iggy Azalea - Problem -4 Oliver Heldens feat. Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) -5 DJ Fresh vs. TC feat. Little Nikki - Make U Bounce Actually don't mind Problem or Gecko and wouldn't normally give them negative points, but this week's top ten is great overall!

Pretty much every popular song is harmless - not many of them have hate messages or anything. It doesn't mean thinking it's a terrible song is silly! ;)

Shouldn't this be: a+b*0.01 > c+d*0.01 a < c Unless I'm misunderstanding you?

+5 Ella Henderson - Ghost +4 George Ezra - Budapest +3 Ed Sheeran - Sing +2 Mr. Probz - Waves +1 Sam Smith - Stay With Me -1 John Legend - All Of Me -2 Example - One More Day (Stay With Me) -3 Oliver Heldens feat. Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) -4 Usher - Good Kisser -5 Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

Just realised that in an hour's time, streams will count towards the chart! :o Obviously iTunes will still give a great indication but I guess looking at the pop bars won't guarantee telling us who's going to be number 1.

It really makes me wonder what these people are paid for. Every single one of their articles seems to have several mistakes in it. I'm always correcting them on Facebook/Twitter and you'd assume they would get the hint and double check next time, but they never do!

+5 Ella Henderson - Ghost +4 Mr. Probz - Waves +3 Ed Sheeran - Sing +2 George Ezra - Budapest +1 Sam Smith - Stay With Me -1 Gorgon City feat. Laura Welsh - Here For You -2 John Legend - All Of Me -3 5 Seconds Of Summer - Don't Stop -4 Tiësto feat. Matthew Koma - Wasted -5 Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

I was hoping that this would be the case for those reasons, but it seems quite a complicated way of doing it, plus it would make the sales section look quite messy (not that the general public know or care). I could easily be wrong, but I assume if they want to add the streams to sales of songs for the purpose of the chart, they will also add in the streams to the total sales seeing as that's essentially what they're counting. Also, the BPI announced that it would "take streaming into account when awarding gold discs" (I read this in a news article in the Times on Monday) so I'd assume that means they are being counted towards total sales as well?

I suppose this was inevitable in the end, but I am quite sad that it's finally happening. Having said that, it will be nice to see the weekly "sales" go up a little even if they aren't true sales figures. This change will only increase the ease with which songs are selling a million copies these days too - for example if streaming had been added this time last year, Pompeii probably wouldn't have left the top 40 for more than a few weeks since release! It will be interesting to see what songs make re-entries on the week of the big change too. Also, it's going to be annoying that singles released after streaming is added will end up with higher overall sales and certifications than those released before, whilst not necessarily having been more popular, but that problem was the same when they included downloads and it isn't really a reason to justify not changing the rules, just an annoying consequence of it. I'm assuming most of this has been said before, but I'm just adding my opinion to this! :lol:

Haven't done this for a while, oops! +5 Ella Henderson - Ghost +4 Mr. Probz - Waves +3 Ed Sheeran - Sing +2 Sam Smith - Stay With Me +1 John Legend - All Of Me -1 Little Mix - Salute -2 Rik Mayall - Noble England -3 Secondcity - I Wanna Feel -4 Tiësto feat. Matthew Koma - Wasted -5 Jason Derulo feat. Snoop Dogg - Wiggle

I think Nicki debuting in the top 40 is debatable. She might just scrape it, but according to the pop bars she's selling roughly 3x what the #40 is doing. With only two days' sales, will that be enough to be top 40 this week? (Of course she will be next week anyway, I'm just observing)

+5 The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm +4 Kiesza - Hideaway +3 Mr. Probz - Waves +2 Calvin Harris - Summer +1 John Legend - All Of Me -1 Rita Ora - I Will Never Let You Down -2 Michael Jackson feat. Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good -3 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This -4 Sigma - Nobody To Love -5 Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy

+5 Tove Lo feat. Hippie Sabotage - Stay High +4 Kiesza - Hideaway +3 Mr. Probz - Waves +2 John Legend - All Of Me +1 Calvin Harris - Summer -1 Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This -2 Sigma - Nobody To Love -3 Cash Cash feat. Bebe Rexha - Take Me Home -4 Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX - Fancy -5 Pitbull feat. G.R.L - Wild Wild Love

Yeah, my point was that when it's cheaper to buy all the tracks individually, I'm sure quite a few people will do that - it doesn't really matter how long they are. Not to mention that if you listen to it first and there are one or two you don't like, you might not buy those tracks and save a couple of pounds. I know a lot of people won't care, but there are some who won't spend more than they need to if they think it's a waste. For many this might mean waiting until it goes down in price, but that will obviously harm its first week sales too...