Catherine91

They need to get their facts right: "Rihanna's 'Umbrella' hung on at number one for eight weeks in 2008" - oh dear!

Sorry, I meant 11th extra week due to streaming!

Drake could gain his 11th week tomorrow!

Reminds me of 'In The Night' by The Weeknd.

I think Little Mix - Salute peaked just after being performed on BGT.

In order for the chart to be less stale, I think it would be a good idea to start with the 100:1 ratio when a song is first released, then reduce (or should that be increase?) the ratio after it's been in the top 40 for a certain number of weeks. At least we might get rid of the Justin Bieber-type songs faster then! :P

iTunes compilation album: "Uplifting Songs".

Over the last couple of years, I have bought several albums I probably wouldn't have bought if I hadn't been able to listen to them via streaming first. Streaming has also allowed me to rediscover songs I had forgotten about, and I often end up buying these songs. So I think I'm buying more music now than before I began using streaming. I would probably be buying less music if I had a paid streaming subscription, but I have stuck with Spotify Free as I don't spend £10 a month on music.

#7 this week - 7,276 sales including streams.

Got some 59p songs: Dire Straits - Money for Nothing George Ezra - Blame It On Me The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl

I think it was McFly - I'll Be OK in 2005.

At first I could only think of One Direction, but this reminds me that I'm almost 2 years older than Cher Lloyd. I'm older than all of One Direction and 3 of Little Mix.

Thanks for the welcome! :) Good point about the silence at the end. Another thought to add to my original post, though - if 100 people per day listen to a particular song for 30 seconds and then skip, it would add up to 7 'sales' by the end of the week, despite the fact that those people barely listened to the song.

I wonder how much the streaming proportion of the chart would decrease if only whole-song streams were counted? It seems odd that listening to a song for 30 seconds 100 times is worth as much as buying it once.