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Still love all of Stick Season, Austin and Too Sweet but it's insane that they're all being played over newer songs!

Congrats to Noah on a consecutive year in the top... 42 :lol:

Haven't participated in years but sad to see the numbers so low so here goes :D +5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! +4 Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine +3 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso +1 Charli XCX & Billie Eilish - Guess -1 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -3 Chase & Status & Stormzy - BACKBONE -4 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D - Somedays -5 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose - Kisses ----- +5 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! +4 Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine +3 Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO! +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste +1 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso -1 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile -2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please -3 Chase & Status & Stormzy - BACKBONE -4 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D - Somedays -5 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose - Kisses

Taste potentially getting more weeks at #1 than Espresso or Stick Season feels crazy but it seems entirely possible right now :lol: Was really hoping Chappell could eventually overtake as the gap was narrowing, but this latest boost for Sabrina may have killed that dream. 120k difference on Spotify now :(

Actually quite sad to lose Stick Season, since there are likely to be quite a few ACR casualties over the next 2 weeks meaning it could quite easily have made the full year if it survived this week :( (ah well, can't really complain about the biggest song of the year underperforming haha)

I think there's a decent chance all three could kick out Texas Hold 'Em, Cruel Summer and Prada. The biggest competition is going to be Cruel Summer, but even GLB is only 140k behind and currently outselling it by 20k/week. Just hoping the former doesn't get a random boost from somewhere :lol: Echoing what others have said, it would be lovely to see a top 10 entirely made up of songs which peaked in 2024!

If I counted correctly, this week there are 9 songs on ACR in the top 40. Have there ever been more outside December?

To think Linkin Park could have had a top 3 hit if Espresso didn't get the unnecessary reset :cry:

Funny to see Live Forever ahead of the other two for one week just to grab a new peak and then drop behind again :lol:

Both Billie and Chappell could easily get a week at #1 if they released a few thousand physicals, quite surprised Billie hasn't done so already since her label were pretty on it with WWIMF last year. Hopefully both can get a turn and not just one blocking the other for a few weeks!

Hopefully, but Please Please Please seems to still have the advantage on other platforms, so it could be close.

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

Chappell could still improve on her peak next week, with Sabrina and Shaboozey (possibly even Billie too) likely going to ACR and Eminem dropping!

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: )