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Can Billie or Chappell please please please dethrone Espresso soon :cry: Edit: I believe 470,535 is the lowest streams for #1 since 1st January!

It's just frustrating that neither Billie nor Chappell seem quite able to capitalise on the low bar needed for #1 this week with Espresso on ACR. Maybe one of them can get a boost next week... On the plus side, Chappell just hit #1 on Irish Spotify :D

Yeah, I remember being so irritated every week seeing One Dance remain narrowly #1 (over, dare I say it, much better songs...) so this definitely seems like the better timeline overall :lol:

Had a quick look out of interest, and it's worth noting that when streaming was introduced, it was still normal for tracks to be held back, and therefore debut high and fall quickly. Most of them would be nowhere near #1 by the time they reached their 10th week on chart (and therefore eligible for ACR) Here is a full list of weeks between July 2014 (introduction of streaming) and July 2017 (introduction of ACR) in which the #1 was in its 10th week or later on the chart: 08/11/2014 Thinking Out Loud 13/12/2014 Thinking Out Loud 28/01/2016 Stitches 04/02/2016 Stitches 16/06/2016 One Dance 23/06/2016 One Dance 30/06/2016 One Dance 07/07/2016 One Dance 14/07/2016 One Dance 21/07/2016 One Dance 28/07/2016 One Dance 05/01/2017 Rockabye 12/01/2017 Rockabye 23/03/2017 Shape of You 30/03/2017 Shape of You 06/04/2017 Shape of You 13/04/2017 Shape of You 27/04/2017 Shape of You 06/07/2017 Despacito Thinking Out Loud is the most difficult to estimate since it spent a long time in the lower reaches of the chart before climbing to the top; it's entirely possible that it would have had 3 weeks of decline but I think it's also safe to assume the label would have asked for a reset when it was looking to reach #1. It did have 3 weeks of overall decline between its two weeks at #1, but in fact because pure sales were still so strong in 2014, even if it was on ACR by the time of its second stint, it would still have still been #1 narrowly beating Union J, so no changes here. Stitches I think we can immediately discount as it increased every week on its way to #1 and only spent two weeks there. One Dance's streaming points went 83k-75k-66k-61k during weeks 6-9 on chart (weeks 5-8 at #1), so it seems fairly safe to presume it would have fallen to ACR at the earliest opportunity. For the following 7 weeks it had a very small lead over #2 and would certainly not have remained #1 on ACR, so we would have ended up with Can't Stop The Feeling (1 week), This Girl (4 weeks), Don't Let Me Down (1 week) and Perfect Strangers (1 week). Rockabye's streaming points went 42k-40k-39k-36k during weeks 6-9 (weeks 4-7 at #1) and total streams were increasing, so again it would've hit ACR at the earliest opportunity. It had a big spike in sales on week 10 (gift card effect) but streams continued to drop, so it wouldn't have been reset. However, the big sales would have been enough to keep it at #1 even on ACR. Therefore the only change would be its final week, when we'd have had Human instead. Shape of You had a big spike when the album was released, so I think its first week on ACR would have been week 13. We would've had Galway Girl (1 week) and an extra week for Symphony. Finally, Despacito had a small increase in the week Artists for Grenfell was #1, so I think it would have gone to ACR on the same week even if ACR had existed earlier. So I think these would be the only changes if ACR had existed since the chart began: 16/06/2016 One Dance Can't Stop the Feeling 23/06/2016 One Dance This Girl 30/06/2016 One Dance This Girl 07/07/2016 One Dance This Girl 14/07/2016 One Dance This Girl 21/07/2016 One Dance Don't Let Me Down 28/07/2016 One Dance Perfect Strangers 12/01/2017 Rockabye Human 13/04/2017 Shape of You Galway Girl 27/04/2017 Shape of You Symphony Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

Really frustrating that Billie could be due to go to ACR after this week when she could otherwise be in with a shot at #1! Hopefully she dodges, streams have been slightly up on previous week Fri/Sat/Tue but significantly down Sun/Mon, so we'll see.

Good 4 U went 4x platinum a couple of months ago, so I guess the cutoff for top 100 is just over 2.4 million :o

Billie only 18k from #1 too! :o

Makes absolutely no sense for a song which has never charted to be on ACR in the first place, the OCC need to get their heads checked :lol: it should be 3 years from date of first chart rather than release.

I think Fortnight's peak may need amending :P Crazy how well Benson, Teddy and Noah are holding up here although I guess it's more a result of everything else dropping faster than them rather than them being particularly stable. Feels strange to see Hozier already dropping behind Benson given how huge the song has been! There have been so many massive hits this year, will be interesting to see how they fare in the longer term.

Overall streams are very low by 2024 standards, even for a Sunday. Could be to do with the football/Glastonbury perhaps?

Espresso peaked at 1,054,924 so not quite :) Edit: But globally yes, PPP is on 11,919,598 today compared to Espresso's peak of 11,692,253! :o

That doesn't seem likely to me, there are a lot of big hits around at the moment but overall Spotify numbers are probably only up what, 10% on last year? Xmas songs aren't like current hits, they get huge streams because virtually everyone is listening to them, including those who aren't interested in chart music. Perhaps the big numbers at the top indicate a change in the general public's listening habits but I'd be surprised if that translates to Christmas. Anyway, hopefully it means we can get a big hit in December which prevents Wham inevitably hogging the top spot for the whole month :lol:

In fairness, Espresso is also explicit (although perhaps not quite on the same level :lol: )

Just happy to see today that the UK's televote 12 points clearly wasn't representative of the general public. Anyway, as others have said, there aren't really any obvious hits this year. Nemo is #17 on the global chart, whereas Loreen reached #5.

Hard to be 100% certain (Kworb doesn't show daily totals beyond 30 days ago) but I checked Blinding Lights (3rd Feb 2020 - 27th April 2020 = 85 days) and Bad Habits (25th June 2021 - 11th September 2021 = 79 days when including combined streams from second version) So yes, I'd say Noah's 154 consecutive days is a record by a LONG distance. Ironically though it's dropped below the mark today after surviving Sunday which is usually the lowest streaming day :lol:

Stick Season survives another Sunday with over 400k streams; that's 154 consecutive days (since 4th December). Crazy when you think there were days last year where the #1 did less than 400k!

Sabrina also down on last week for the first time. Autoplay bonus wearing off? Hozier seems to have stabilised now so it seems likely she'll do the same. Good to see so many huge hits at the moment anyway!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate having four songs by different artists all over 600k outside December :o Down for Sabrina getting #1 and a faster turnover at the top!

Hozier now down more than 100k on same day last week so it's looking like he might not reclaim the top spot from Taylor after all. Still so pleased he managed to get a couple of weeks at the top! It would also be nice for Fortnight to spend two weeks at #1 because, well :lol:

Taylor has 32 of the top 50 today (with Cruel Summer also surviving the onslaught) - must surely be a record?

Hozier now only 7k up on the same day last week, but the song's still been huge even if it's stopped growing now. Will need to wait and see!

To add to this, Miracle managed 8 weeks at #1 officially without ever going above 50k weekly "sales"... Meanwhile this year we've not had a single week where the #1 was below 50k! I guess the song was aptly named after all :lol: There's an alternate universe where Stick Season is heading for a 16th consecutive week at #1 this week to equal Bryan Adams

Could actually be on course for over a million on Friday at this rate :o

Definitely doesn't seem like Hozier has peaked yet. 827k on a Monday is huge!

Noah's peak was 844,562 on 19th January, but it's far too early to compare the two. Stick Season had already been top 10 for 3 months when it peaked and it's still doing over 500k 3 months after peaking. In the streaming era longevity is much more important than how many streams you can get in a day. Over the moon for Hozier being this huge though, would love for it to hit over a million! Must be extremely rare for anything to climb to that level rather than debuting there (Xmas aside). Friday is always the biggest day though so we'll probably have to wait until next week if it does make it.