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Wow great climb for Olivia Dean, top ten on OCC by Friday?

Is this the first time since it's release that Beautiful Things hasn’t been Benson’s top song on Spotify uk?

Anyone know that the sample is in the track?

So depressing we are into June and only 7 songs released this calendar year and in the YE top 40.

So far only Love Story (#183) has reappeared in the Apple charts but she’s always been a better performer on Spotify. Excited for tomorrows update.

How many music tv channels that even play current music are active now? 4Music, Box, Kiss, Smooth are shut down, MTV is only down to four stations and only one current (Music, Club, 90s & 80s). Clubland TV is a nostalgia channel now and the same goes for the 5 Now channels (70s, 80s, 90s & 00s and Rock).

This is obviously joke post but the majority of their #1s actually held up a lot better over time than their other hits. Also if you were ask what their biggest streaming hit, I don’t think a lot of folks correctly “My Love” - 263m total, 151k daily. Their top 11 streamed (all above 100m) by daily streams My Love - 263m (151k) If I Let You Go - 197m (105k) Swear It Again - 163m (92k) Uptown Girl - 217m (69k) Fool Again - 112m (65k) I Lay My Love on You - 103m (65k) (non UK single) Flying Without Wings - 117m (50k) Against All Odds - 91m (49k) You Raise Me Up - 120m (41k) When You're Looking Like That - 100m (42k) (non-UK single) World of Our Own - 121m (33k) Their actual #1s #16 Queen of My Heart - 55m (25k) #20 Mandy - 62m (20k) #23 I Have a Dream - 25m (11k) #31 The Rose - 31m (10k) #33 Unbreakable - 31m (9k) Versus the rest of their top tens #17 When You Tell Me That You Love Me - 38m (25k) #24 Home - 34m (12k) #26 What Makes a Man - 25m (11k) #27 What About Now - 43m (11k) #28 Bop Bop Baby - 24m (10k) #29 Obvious - 24m (10k) #35 Us Against the World - 18m (7k) #37 Tonight - 9.4m (7k) #42 Amazing - 11m (6k) #43 Safe - 17m (5k) #101 Hey Whatever - 2.5m (839)

In all seriousness I shell shocked it managed to escape the #41 and almost to top ten 4 months later, sometimes the GBP shows taste.

same, terrible rapper and even worse at making country music (between him, Post Malone & MGK, I can’t believe there is now a trend of heavily tattooed white rappers going country, Kid Rock's impact I guess) - he has exactly one good song (Son of a Sinner) which the more awful things he releases I’m convinced that was just a fluke. I know it’s unfair to compare folks Beyoncé, but given how one of the biggest stories of country music last year was about the Nashville system refusing to acknowledge Beyonce at all, it really shows how low their standards are. I’m really expecting of those men to come out with an ‘Ameriican Requiem’, ‘Spaghetti, ‘Tyrant’ or ‘Ya-Ya’ but I would at least expect them to be competent enough to make their own ‘Texas Hold ‘Em’ without overcompressed and crunchy production.

You are right, I had mixed up the stats. She has had 10 top ten since streaming introduced in mid 2014, for 13 total. Not ten 10. My bad.

New Spotify peak at #19, desperately need a top ten placement for “Party 4 U” come Friday. The chart nerd in me needs this because it would xcx’s 10th top ten single and put her in the company of only two other women led British acts who have had double digit double tens in the streaming era (June 2014-onwards): • Dua Lipa - 16 top tens since 2017 • Little Mix - 13 top tens since 2015 (19 total) Jess Glynn - 11 top tens since mid 2014 (13 total) or even women with double digit top tens but the majority of which came in the streaming era • Rita Ora - 7 top tens since 2014 (13 total) • Ellie Goulding - 6 top tens since mid 2014 (12 total) • Adele - 6 top tens since 2015 (11 total) Even the popular women in British music who debuted in the streaming have surprisingly less top tens than you would think • Ella Henderson - 9 top tens • Anne Marie - 8 top tens • Becky Hill - 6 top tens (2 top tens before streaming was integrated into the charts) • Raye - 5 top tens • Mabel - 5 top tens

From what I’ve seen • untalented • nepo baby • pretending to be working class • traditionally unattractive • sing too much about s3x for being an unattractive woman • ungrateful and not a girls girl - the only evidence of this being her disappointed look when Jade when the Brit over her. It's mostly from people who were never going to be fans anyway and needed an excuse to not like her.

Despite new attempts, the 2022 UK televote winner remains the only ‘politically motivated’ winner to chart in the top 200, at #14,

"I Love You" is really popular amongst cover songs and talent show contestants in the Philippines (who just adore Celine in general). I imagine a few well seen covers of those is what's translating into overall rediscovery / love for the track. There was also a semi-viral clip from like 2019 of the song soundtracking the first dance of a gay wedding as well.

Quite the improvement from Wolf Alice. Their last lead single only managed 117 on its first day out and on album release day the highest track was only 91.

Lorde I hope so. I really don’t want to wait until August again for another #1 by a UK artist. And even that needed the featured assistance of an American (Billie on Guess).

His audition is still on the BBC's website to view, and his after show performance of “Make You Feel My Love” is still up on his Facebook too. BBCBBC One - The Voice UK, Series 5, Blind Auditions 5, Cian...Music student Cian is hoping to take his studies to the stage with ‘One More Night’.

Could we get an update on Fight For This Love and Sound of the Underground. Both tracks were certified 2xPlatinum in December 2020 and November 2024, respectively.

2008 - I was 9 years old. Buckle up for story time, lol. Like every kid at the time I was obsessed with Hannah Montana. I would watch with my aunt and she would tell me the references the older musicians I would miss - this is also how I discovered who Dolly Parton was and felt like an indie snob at primary school because I was the only kid that knew her as musician in her own right and not just ‘Miley’s aunt’. After that I started getting into movie musicals - I’m still not sure why my perhaps thought appropriate Christmas gifts for a 9 year old would be DVDs of Cabaret, Grease & Rent but hey ho. Then actual popular acts at the time - Beyoncé, Britney, Girls Aloud, The Pussycat Dolls. Because of my love for PCD, my parents would let me watch X Factor in 2007 because it was highly publicised that Nicole Scherzinger would be the guest for Sharon Osbourne's judges home that year, then started watching on my home accord was confused by how the would always mention “record sales” and “number one at Christmas” etc then would start watching the top ten chart show on The Box music channel to understand this and then just watched all the time ever since. My first time feeling disappointed in the charts was Britney’s ‘Piece of Me’ getting stuck at #2 in January 2008. Didn’t actually realise it was a chart show on radio 1 until the Christmas #1 race in 2008 and not looked back ever since.

I only knew this from airplay for years and didn’t realise it was the censored until it came in a curated playlist in 2021

Yeah the only recent example I can recall to have get five in a row (with proper singles) not album bombs is Ella Henderson. Crazy What Love Can Do - #5 React - #4 21 Reasons - #9 0800 Heaven - #9 Alibi - #10

Yeah, I was born in the late 90s so probably just a generational thing.

It has always been one of her most streamed overall charts and beloved deep cuts - kinda like the way ‘Lovely’ is just always charting for Billie Eilish. The 1-2 punch of girl so confusing and the new album cycle launching is just pushing it up even further.

Scrolling through the number ones list from 80s and 90s and some that I have absolutely no recollection of • Don McLean, ‘Crying’ • Michael Jackson, ‘One Day In Your Life’ • Bucks Fizz, ‘The Land of Make Believe’ • Shakin’ Stevens, ‘Oh Julie’ • Bucks Fizz, ‘The Camera Never Lies’ • Jim Diamond, ‘I Should Have Known Better’ • Robin Beck, ‘First Time’ • Wet Wet Wet, ‘Goodnight Girl’ • Outhere Brothers, ‘Don’t stop’ • Peter Andre, ‘I Feel You’ • Boyzone, ‘A Different Beat’ • Michael Jackson, ‘Blood on the Dancefloor’ • Bewitched, ‘To You I Belong’ • Dizzee Rascal's ‘Holiday’ and Roll Deep's ‘Good Times’ are painfully generic recession pop songs, they sound like the types of songs that a film would make about that period. • There's been talk about reality winners being too ordinary, but can anybody hum Fame Academy winner David Snedon's ‘Stop Living the Lie’

Glee Cast has two that I just cant see being broken • Most Top 40 Hits in a calendar year (17, between January and June 2010) • Fastest Time to Get 20 Top 40 Hits (12 months, their cover of Britney’s Toxic peaked at #40 in January 2011, less than one year after their chart debut with Don’t Stop Believin')