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^ I saw this post and thought you might be interested in some Spotify figures since I have relevant data on hand (honestly I'd have expected someone in this forum would be keeping track but seemingly not!). These are how many plays each song on their albums got within the first half of 2020 (between 1 January and 1 July): Up All Night +60,058,771 - total 337,170,018 - What Makes You Beautiful +21,282,367 - total 136,177,021 - One Thing +10,462,047 - total 82,446,552 - More Than This +8,209,912 - total 59,887,289 - Up All Night +7,516,554 - total 57,006,018 - Gotta Be You +7,434,071 - total 47,392,371 - Moments +5,941,683 - total 46,060,200 - I Wish +5,899,859 - total 44,927,487 - Taken +5,059,801 - total 21,326,763 - Na Na Na +4,730,256 - total 29,573,122 - Stand Up +4,380,669 - total 18,013,783 - I Should Have Kissed You +4,128,650 - total 39,851,207 - I Want +3,900,225 - total 14,840,274 - Another World +3,534,683 - total 38,017,424 - Same Mistakes +3,283,520 - total 32,428,204 - Stole My Heart +3,217,727 - total 34,715,849 - Tell Me a Lie +2,792,311 - total 31,039,153 - Everything About You +2,713,844 - total 29,020,730 - Save You Tonight Take Me Home +45,243,859 - total 218,287,750 - They Don't Know About Us +40,280,045 - total 296,141,335 - Little Things +25,810,973 - total 180,938,037 - Kiss You +20,439,113 - total 148,672,147 - Live While We're Young +11,295,729 - total 81,419,263 - Over Again +9,233,829 - total 71,850,773 - Last First Kiss +8,181,587 - total 75,431,309 - Rock Me +7,811,293 - total 40,336,524 - Still The One +6,584,772 - total 50,077,347 - C'mon, C'mon +6,489,038 - total 60,162,620 - I Would +5,958,185 - total 52,598,180 - She's Not Afraid +5,428,477 - total 52,864,699 - Heart Attack +4,976,163 - total 44,990,288 - Change My Mind +4,936,191 - total 44,545,403 - Nobody Compares +4,549,946 - total 47,058,811 - Summer Love +3,968,515 - total 37,777,130 - Back For You +3,767,812 - total 35,399,202 - Loved You First Midnight Memories +64,736,929 - total 475,242,107 - Story of My Life +31,782,653 - total 224,236,544 - You & I +28,096,571 - total 220,508,761 - Best Song Ever +14,250,405 - total 90,775,110 - Half a Heart +12,902,827 - total 93,498,077 - Midnight Memories +10,601,252 - total 72,213,588 - Right Now +10,165,937 - total 76,212,468 - Strong +8,819,444 - total 66,366,635 - Diana +8,231,433 - total 75,393,165 - Happily +7,071,072 - total 54,685,473 - Don't Forget Where You Belong +5,186,093 - total 46,365,652 - Through the Dark +4,892,130 - total 46,115,126 - Better Than Words +4,503,914 - total 44,648,751 - Little White Lies +4,320,950 - total 37,094,699 - Little Black Dress +4,045,666 - total 38,123,265 - Does He Know? +4,014,271 - total 34,153,155 - Why Don't We Go There +3,754,347 - total 32,281,547 - Something Great +3,400,348 - total 31,757,239 - Alive FOUR +42,071,413 - total 155,343,012 - 18 +37,467,627 - total 318,444,218 - Night Changes +33,575,430 - total 308,162,992 - Steal My Girl +16,086,303 - total 126,180,180 - No Control +11,310,355 - total 92,018,416 - Stockholm Syndrome +10,653,706 - total 91,769,150 - Where Do Broken Hearts Go +10,494,030 - total 76,052,258 - Fool's Gold +10,024,040 - total 82,113,967 - Fireproof +7,923,038 - total 64,367,031 - Ready to Run +7,850,566 - total 62,694,102 - Girl Almighty +5,643,323 - total 50,779,474 - Act My Age +4,460,846 - total 46,522,783 - Spaces +4,045,733 - total 44,903,666 - Clouds +3,753,861 - total 39,898,636 - Once in a Lifetime +3,602,576 - total 38,015,660 - Change Your Ticket +3,131,508 - total 34,316,818 - Illusion Made In The A.M. +52,648,935 - total 568,049,125 - Drag Me Down +33,218,163 - total 407,644,257 - Perfect +32,473,264 - total 322,982,482 - History +18,232,461 - total 125,719,836 - If I Could Fly +14,638,303 - total 89,024,675 - Olivia +12,519,111 - total 112,994,506 - Love You Goodbye +11,164,846 - total 132,713,195 - Infinity +10,915,501 - total 105,182,569 - A.M. +7,520,108 - total 95,179,811 - End of the Day +7,315,107 - total 62,474,655 - Wolves +7,226,024 - total 79,673,833 - What a Feeling +6,810,119 - total 65,533,335 - Never Enough +6,112,261 - total 54,640,232 - Hey Angel +5,877,050 - total 62,055,047 - I Want to Write You a Song +5,719,282 - total 59,730,898 - Temporary Fix +4,921,823 - total 50,738,111 - Walking in the Wind +4,255,604 - total 50,139,216 - Long Way Down The totals (within the first half of 2020) per album are: 241,567,962 - Made In The A.M. 230,776,242 - Midnight Memories 214,955,527 - Take Me Home 212,094,355 - FOUR 164,546,950 - Up All Night Counting only the #3-#12 most streamed tracks: 128,814,844 - Made In The A.M. 118,021,637 - FOUR 110,217,164 - Midnight Memories 107,232,996 - Take Me Home 63,763,502 - Up All Night Which sounds like it reflects the OCC situation pretty well, despite the large potential for variance (due to UK-specific streams, other services etc)! It's probably easiest to visualise the spreads as a graph (the x axis = tracks in order of streams): The last 4 albums are all pretty close together, but 'Up All Night' is significantly behind in its #2-#5 tracks, especially #3. What stands out most in their plays for me is 2 of their albums currently having non-singles as their most played tracks - that's really unusual! My assumption is that they're a rare case where a dedicated fanbase is so large that it can actually overpower the general public, particularly when the competition is songs like 'Little Things' and 'Night Changes' that aren't really huge enduring hits, but it could also just be playlists.

Thank you to the 40 people who contributed to this week's Buzzjack Reshuffle Chart! 1. Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me [79 points] [1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1] 2. Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart [77 points] [2] 3. Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar [27 points] [2-2-3-3] 4. AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten [19 points] [2-4] 5. Regard & RAYE - Secrets [14 points] [2-3-3-4-5] 6. Juice WRLD & Marshmello - Come & Go [-14 points] [6] 7. Topic feat. A7S - Breaking Me [-24 points] [2-3-3-4-5-5-7] 8. DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch - ROCKSTAR [-26 points] [7-5-5-5-4-4-5-6-6-6-8] 9. AJ Tracey feat. MoStack - Dinner Guest [-67 points] [6-6-6-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-9] 10. Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) [-85 points] [9-9-8-10] :cry: Goodbyes :cry: Pop Smoke feat. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch - The Woo [9] S1mba feat. DTG - Rover [9-9-8-9-8-8-8-10-10-10] 2020 Number 1's :whistle: 03/01 | Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now [1 wk] [8 wks total] 10/01 - 06/03 | The Weeknd - Blinding Lights [9 wks] 13/03 - 01/05 | Dua Lipa - Physical [8 wks] 08/05 | The Weeknd - Blinding Lights [1 wk] [10 wks total] 15/05 - 22/05 | Doja Cat - Say So [2 wks] 29/05 - 17/07 | Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me [8 wks] 2020 Number 10's :nono: 03/01 | Arizona Zervas - ROXANNE [1 wk] 10/01 - 17/01 | Justin Bieber - Yummy [2 wks] 24/01 | DigDat feat. Aitch - Ei8ht Mile [1 wk] 31/01 - 07/02 | Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved [2 wks] [3 wks total] 14/02 | Future feat. Drake - Life Is Good [1 wk] 21/02 | Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved [1 wk] [4 wks total] 28/02 | Future feat. Drake - Life Is Good [1 wk] [2 wks total] 06/03 - 13/03 | Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved [2 wks] [6 wks total] 20/03 - 27/03 | Eminem feat. Juice WRLD - Godzilla [2 wks] 03/04 - 10/04 | Joel Corry - Lonely [2 wks] 17/04 | Drake - Toosie Slide [1 wk] 24/04 | Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore & The NHS Voices Of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone [1 wk] 01/05 | KSI feat. Swarmz & Tion Wayne - Houdini [1 wk] 08/05 | Drake feat. Giveon - Chicago Freestyle [1 wk] 15/05 - 22/05 | 6ix9ine - GOOBA [2 wks] 29/05 - 05/06 | Drake - Toosie Slide [2 wks] [3 wks total] 12/06 - 19/06 | Tion Wayne feat. Dutchavelli & Stormzy - I Dunno [2 wks] 26/06 - 10/07 | S1mba feat. DTG - Rover [3 wks] 17/07 | Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) [1 wk] ------------------------------ The rules for this are simple; Take the current Top 10 UK singles listed below, and put them in the order of which you rank them from Most Favourite to Least Favourite. Use the following point system; 01 = +5 Points (MOST FAVOURITE) 02 = +4 Points 03 = +3 Points 04 = +2 Points 05 = +1 Points ------------------------- 06 = -1 Points 07 = -2 Points 08 = -3 Points 09 = -4 Points 10 = -5 Points (LEAST FAVOURITE) Official Top 10 Singles (W/C 24/07/2020) (03) 01 Joel Corry feat. MNEK ~ Head & Heart (01) 02 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo ~ Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) (02) 03 DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch ~ ROCKSTAR (04) 04 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande ~ Rain On Me (06) 05 Harry Styles ~ Watermelon Sugar (07) 06 AJ Tracey & Mabel ~ West Ten (08) 07 Regard & RAYE ~ Secrets (NE) 08 DJ Khaled feat. Drake ~ GREECE (NE) 09 Headie One & Drake ~ Only You Freestyle (10) 10 AJ Tracey feat. MoStack ~ Dinner Guest (Mack., you included 'Dinner Guest' twice at -1 and -3, missing 'Secrets'; I gave the latter to 'Secrets' since you had it lower the previous week.)

+5: Juice WRLD & Marshmello - Come & Go +4: Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart +3: Regard & RAYE - Secrets +2: Topic feat. A7S - Breaking Me . +1: AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten -1: DaBaby feat. Roddy Ricch - ROCKSTAR -2: Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) -3: Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me -4: AJ Tracey feat. MoStack - Dinner Guest . -5: Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar

Oh dear. Maybe, just to be truly safe, send a song that definitely does not have any high notes whatsoever:

I hope 'Honey' and 'Emotions' being #11-#12 in the poll doesn't put you off from them; 'Honey' is my favourite Mariah song, and 'Emotions' is right up there too (and I feel like it would be one of her most widely-appealing '90s hits)! I'm not certain if it would make my vote but 'Heartbreaker' is definitely my favourite of the 5 listed.

I really like 'Personal Hell' but neither of those register anywhere near my favourites either!! How about 'Sweet Spot' or 'Broken' (or 'All I Do Is Cry' or 'Blow It All') from the same era? Hopefully 'Heart To Break' is guaranteed for a later round at least :')

'Behind These Hazel Eyes' is a perfect song for the job B-)

I'd go for 'If', it's one of my favourites and I think it'd be a great one to introduce to people as it's such a unique song!

Poor Kelly Clarkson, surely she'll shoot up sooner or later! (likewise Kim Petras)

1. The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy (of course) 2. KDA feat. Tinashe - Just Say 3. Mariah Carey feat. Miguel - #Beautiful 4. Danny L Harle feat. Carly Rae Jepsen - Super Natural (I thought this was pretty much Danny L Harle's weakest single but I liked it a lot more now than I did originally!!) 5. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Jacques Lu Cont Radio Edit) 6. Coldplay feat. Rihanna - Princess Of China 7. Hailee Steinfeld & Alesso feat. Florida Georgia Line & watt - Let Me Go 8. Charli XCX feat. Kim Petras & Jay Rock - Unlock It 9. Michael Jackson & Janet Jackson - Scream 10. Rachel Stevens - Breathe In Breathe Out (Swat-Team Version) (oh wow that you had to upload this yourself Joseph :') worth the effort!) 11. Pixie Lott feat. Pusha T - What Do You Take Me For? 12. Tove Lo feat. Kylie Minogue - Really don't like u 13. Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Soulchild Remix) ^ would willingly vote all these! . 14. tyDi & Jack Novak feat. Greyson Chance - Oceans (alright enough but I hoped for better from tyDi) 15. Niall Horan & Maren Morris - Seeing Blind 16. Kelly Clarkson - Piece By Piece (Idol Version) (I've always really liked this song, but I'm not a fan of this version because it strips it of one of its strongest assets by removing the production)

It's worse in Australia - her only release available is, randomly, the 'Negotiate With Love' single :drama: 'Funky Dory' (the re-issue) and the 'Some Girls' single used to be there but disappeared around 2 years ago. This is why I'm only familiar with her 2 biggest hits :lol:

Thanks for bumping this, wasn't sure if we should use the same thread or if someone would want to create a new one ^_^ Here's mine so far:

ha, I just saw your username 'Jay Something' and my first thought was that you wanted to push Mariah's 'Say Somethin' in this game :kink:

'1,2,3 dayz up' is honestly her only single I never got into. On the other hand, my favourite eligible song is 'Homework' :wub:... which I assume doesn't rank highly for many others (but that impression is just from having lurked her Popjustice forum thread around then so I'd be happy to be proven wrong). So I'd pick 'Hills' as my next favourite! 'Unlock It' is a good choice too (and hasn't been entered; Charli's entries last time were 'Doing It', '1999', 'Focus' and 'Gone') but I too would rather see something of her own sent!

I didn't click on this thread before the first round, so I will also offer a sudden outpouring of love for 'Stylo' :kink: 'Andromeda' is my favourite of their recent stuff (followed by 'Ascension' and 'Saturnz Barz'). I'm still not actually familiar with '19-2000' (any version) though so don't take this as a discouragement of it!

You can't not go for 'Starboy' if it's an option!! If not, I'd pick 'Pray For Me' as my 2nd favourite of the songs mentioned. I'm not a fan of 'I Feel It Coming' or 'Love Me Harder'.

'#Beautiful' looks like the perfect choice! If (hypothetically) you wanted to go for something less well-known but from the same album, 'You Don't Know What To Do' would be great too *.*

Pick 'Jealous' so you can do the copypasta if she doesn't win :kink: But in seriousness, 'Just Say' for sure!

Happy with either 'Let Me Go' or 'Starving' but I will note that 'Woke Up Late' is my favourite :wub:

I'd go for 'Heroes (we could be)'! 'Stay High' (assuming it's being saved), 'Say It' and 'Jacques' are great options too.

I feel like there are a lot more options than these! How about the single/video mix of 'Black Cat' :wub: I never found 'Made For Now' particularly impressive, and it kind of feels like a waste to send a recent trend-latching song when she has decades of music to choose from, though if people like it enough then by all means don't listen to me. I think 'Scream' is much stronger but not near either artist's best.

Oh hey I didn't expect the results would match my rank so closely (apart from Carly). I'm surprised Pixie didn't benefit a little from being a cover of a well-known song.

I knew basically none of these songs - a few I'd probably heard once or so, but the only one that was somewhat familiar upon listening was The Weeknd's (which just reminded me that I'd never liked that song unfortunately lol). Somehow I'd even missed Kim Petras' song (I must not have realised an extra song was put at the end of the 2019 'TURN OFF THE LIGHT'). So I guess that put them all on an even slate at least (to some extent)? I can't say this was a particularly impressive round for me but that's probably natural for the theme. 1. Mariah Carey - Prisoner 2. Tove Lo - hey you got drugs? 3. Röyksopp - Something In My Heart 4. Tinashe - Wildfire 5. Rachel Stevens - Dumb Dumb 6. Janet Jackson - Better Days 7. Gorillaz - Demon Days 8. Maren Morris - Company You Keep 9. Kim Petras - Everybody Dies 10. Hailee Steinfeld - Hell Nos And Headphones 11. Greyson Chance - More Than Me 12. Pixie Lott - Use Somebody 13. Coldplay - Up With The Birds 14. Kelly Clarkson - Beautiful Disaster (Live) 15. Carly Rae Jepsen - When I Needed You 16. The Weeknd - Die For You

I read (in a forum post not an official article) that it is a new record, taking over from Taylor Hicks' 'Do I Make You Proud', the 2006 American Idol winner's single, which lasted only 8 weeks (1-3-14-27-39-55-78-98). It did at least make the year-end chart at #99 though, whereas the 2004 winner's single, Fantasia's 'I Believe' (which made #1 and charted for a slightly better 10 weeks), did not make it. I wonder if 'TROLLZ' would even be top 200 year-end :lol:

Most of the artists' options this round are songs I don't know, but I love 'Ghetto Boy'! It's my second favourite (non-'All My Friends') Tinashe song (after 'Company')!