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I think there’s a 2 year anniversary vinyl that shipped on August 7th

First time hearing it. Why is she singing like that??

I’m leaning towards a new release too but unsure of who and what. There is nothing on the release schedule that seems to shout number 1 contender, and I’m not sure what we are still expecting this year. I presume Taylor Swift will have an anniversary edition of her debut album out before the end of the year which could throw up something, but other than that I’m curious who else is likely to release that could garner enough streams to break this Olivia Dean domination at the top of the Spotify charts.

Assuming today’s chart goes as the midweeks indicated, Rein Me In looks set yet again to be back at 0 weeks of streaming decline, whilst scoring its 20th non-consecutive week at the top of the charts There have been several singles over the past few weeks that I had considered could potentially overtake Sam Fender to be the next new number one (Dai Dai, Wonderwall, Stupid Song). I also thought a new track from Ariana’s album might do it. But with all of these so far falling short, I’m curious what will be next There’s nothing obvious on the release schedule and nothing that seems to be an obvious contender on the charts currently

Looks like Shakira’s team are encouraging UK fans to download Dai Dai for entry into a competition. I assume the no purchase necessary bit is to comply with chart rules https://www.onrpt.store/collections/shakira

I wonder if So Easy will get a default number 1 in a couple of weeks with all songs above it going on ACR (or dropping away in Harry’s case)

Definitely a flaw in the system, rather than fraudulent. I’m still amazed they haven’t found a better way of dealing with Thursday streams by now

17k vs 10k is a decent start but don’t think it will hold. I imagine 5k of that is preorders for the physicals. However, I always said that the week after the Christmas chart will be when Kylie gets number 1. Amazon will report their Christmas Day (Thursday) streams on time whilst Spotify and Apple Music will have Christmas Day streams estimated which won’t take in into consideration the massive boost in streams that day

I wonder what the Amazon Christmas song will be this year. I’m curious if it might go to number 1 on Boxing Day (week after Christmas number 1) due to the delay in other streaming services reporting Thursday streaming data from Christmas Day.

Yes they did get reset but I wonder if a manual reset could happen or if TikTok clips of the show will thrust a new favourite out there that could get reset I definitely think their streams will surge when it starts wb4.7 abd in particular on the weeks following when they are doing many dates throughout Manchester and London

I wonder if they would reset any Oasis songs when the tour kicks off. I can see them getting decent boosts

Jessie J and Jess Glynne maybe? They each had their first 2 huge hits within a few weeks of each other

There was a time that people said YouTube is very different platform than iTunes too but eventually it became almost difficult to ignore I’m not saying that TikTok should be included yet but if the charts are designed to reflect the popular songs of the moment, regardless of how they are consumed or how much money was used to consume it, then I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that there could a time and place when TikTok is incorporated some how What happened to the idea of a TikTok music streaming service? With regards to music videos, if they are becoming too expensive to make traditionally, I’d much rather have a live performance style video than just a lyric video. Something like When We Were Young by Adele for example

Brutal by Olivia Rodrigo ?

I wish Ordinary was heading to ACR sooner but at this rate it might actually stay at number 1 even on ACR, or be replaced at the top by something even older.