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A desperate plea video on their social media this morning, begging people to download because their sales are massively down on previous years

I imagine there’s still one more version to come with special guests

I’m hoping that Wham overtake by Friday (because I have money on them and because I’ve had enough of the Ladbaby rubbish) but I hope that the midweeks make it look like Ladbaby is safe so it doesn’t put them and their fans on alert to campaign too strongly

They would have played it as a contender surely. I haven’t listened in a few years but they used to just trail the top 3 songs as contenders

Is there a way of betting on Kunts? I think this could be their year

Heard of it yes but I have somehow managed to avoid actually hearing it

Wow just looked at the top 100 and I’m so out of touch with stuff nowadays. The first time ever I have never even heard the number 1 song of the year. And never heard 10, 18, 19, 22, 26, 31, 34, 36, 39, 46, 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 56, 61, 63, 66, 70, 77, 82, 85, 91, 96, 99 and 100 either. As if turning 30 this year wasn’t enough to make me feel old!

Yeah I’d say especially due to it being a NYE where everyone is indoors we should see much higher streams than even a normal NYE boost so I’d say tomorrow’s Spotify chart will be full of older “party” hits

Me too. I stopped following when Savage Love was number 1 and only revisited them over Christmas just out of curiosity to see if I missed much. Head & Heart, WAP and Positions were all obvious huge hits that were everywhere so no surprises they were long running number 1s. Hadn’t heard Mood or Lemonade but not missing much based on the clips I listened to on Boxing Day. And I saw on sky news that Mariah finally made it. I was pleasantly surprised to see Looking For Me did quite well and Tate McCrae was a nice discovery but it doesn’t seem like I missed out. I will find out what happens with Mariah vs Wham vs Jess on NYD but then i can see myself leaving it for another year and see if things have improved by next Christmas

Are these lists available to read anywhere? I’d like to have a browse

I wonder what a chart of songs released in 2001 would like, taking into account streams and downloads for an overall total

Could you not just post it now instead?

Wow, I think that singles chart is quite possibly the worst one ever. About 15 decent songs from the top 100 and most of them feel ancient now

Capital played Smile today too

Interesting that they talk about Steps as being on Disc 2 of Now 105 when of course they are not. I wonder if they were supposed to be on the original version, before covid19 put a halt to both Steps new material and Now 105

Remember when they tried to recreate that with God Only Knows a few years ago?

Probably not. But the “newsworthy” number 1s (like this one or something like 3 Lions) are probably good for small talk chit chat and therefore it’s no surprise media outlets would rather report a chart that’s more quick to react. Eg “Did you hear that 3 Lions is number 1 in the [big top 40] chart?” when it’s actually at its most popular is probably better than “Did you hear that 3 Lions may get to number 1 at the end of the week [ie midweek number 1]” And is definitely better than “Did you hear that 3 Lions got to number 1 in the [official] charts today?” (almost a week after it’s peak sales, and it’s actual *moment* has passed)

I think it’s number 1 on the Big Top 40 which, although not official, is a more popular chart show. The general public don’t care if it’s the real chart or not

Now 105 and Now 5 postponed confirmed

Now 105 has been postponed, along with the Now 5 re-release

Still fishy that Mariah only had about a third of Whams video views (700k to 2.2m) when all the data available throughout the week puts Mariah ahead. We already knew that the Jukebox Heaven error wouldn't put her ahead

Still fishy that Mariah only had about a third of Whams video views (700k to 2.2m) when all the data available throughout the week puts Mariah ahead. We already knew that the Jukebox Heaven error wouldn't put her ahead

And some of those were added this afternoon after the chart leaked online

Ellie has 78,000 sales so probably close

Seeing everyone on LadBaby’s Facebook showing that they have pre-ordered makes me think he may have this in the bag already