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Yeah this would be a great number 1 to follow Guess

I wonder how long they will ignore Charli XCX for this year. Her sound fits well with what they play, she’s actually having hits for a change, critically acclaimed, memeable, having a popular culture moment with this album, a collab with an artist who is played lots on their station, they have played her before when she was in the charts (eg 1999). I wonder why they haven’t played any of her top 40 hits yet this summer

I had hoped that Jade might break the curse of solo Little Mix plummeting in week 2 but judging by its Spotify position it’s set for a massive drop this week. I hope it can at least manage two weeks in the top 40

Of course streaming should be included but I’m not sure if EVERY single time you stream something it should count. I wonder what the chart would be like if streams stopped being counted by an individual after (for example) 10 plays of each song on each platform. Eg Mr Brightside - you can stream it 10 times on Spotify (however long that takes you to do naturally, whether in a day, a week or over the course of 5 years) but as soon as you’ve hit 10 streams, no further Spotify streams will count towards the chart. However, as each platform would have their own data, you’d have 10 streams on Apple, YouTube etc as well but I assume most people have only 1 or 2 main platforms they use consistently I’m sure it’s not impossible to get data like that I would also be in favour of a tiered SCR/ACR system.

Maybe 1 more reset next month around Taylor’s London shows?

Ok that’s two weeks in a row I’ve been convinced that Lunch was a certainty for number 1. Maybe next week??

Oh wow, pretty surprised Lunch didn’t get number 1, hopefully next week

Whatever happened to the TikTok Music streaming service. I was intrigued whether that could inject some life to the charts (for better or worse)

Too early to call Stick Season the year end number 1?

Haha Christ, just read the list of the year end chart. Glad I didn’t waste hours of my life listening to that. So many ancient things. I wonder why they even bothered broadcasting that? Easy schedule filling I suppose but not worth anyone’s time really. Does anyone have a top 100 of songs that were actually released this year?

I’m not sure as Spotify and Apple probably won’t playlist it as it has been an Amazon exclusive and Amazon probably won’t push it as much as irs no longer an exclusive to them. It will probably get good radio airplay though

There were rumours of something Christmassy coming from Taylor. Maybe her Christmas EP (Taylor’s Version). If true, something from that could be a contender

Ah ok thanks so this is inaccurate? https://x.com/chartupdate/status/1723838943...YUv0CmZFl6o6wpQ

This weeks sales thread implies that cassette sales are no longer eligible

Do we know if Dua has physical sales added yet?

Does the 7,837 figure for Dua include her CDs and cassettes or are they yet to be added

I wish they had combined the Taylor’s versions with the originals for this list

Finally someone said it :lol: I’ve often wondered this, so bizarre

It would be interesting to choose random chart weeks from previous years to compare how many songs of those top 40s have samples too

I read on Popjustice that Claire Richards said at her signing that she had dropped to number 2 in the charts today

Yep I’m the same, never heard it either. It’s bizarre to have 10 week number ones with so little impact on the general public nowadays

Olivia’s cassettes and CDS are now showing as being dispatched tomorrow (brought forward from 8th September) so I’m sure that may change things at the top

Olivia Rodrigo should bring her CDs and cassettes forward

Out of all the rules they could choose to change, they choose to work against the only thing that makes the singles chart vaguely exciting

I’ve definitely never even heard of Lovely. Bad Guy on the other hand was unavoidable