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+5 DJ Snake feat. Bipolar Sunshine - Middle +4 Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza +3 Zara Larsson - Lush Life +2 Calvin Harris feat. Rihanna - This Is What You Came For +1 DNCE - Cake By The Ocean -1 Sia feat. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills -2 Justin Timberlake - Can't Stop The Feeling -3 Galantis - No Money -4 Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance -5 Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home Love the whole top 8 here :o

No - I agree with streaming being included in the chart now sales are observably collapsing, but the fact is that "sales" are FAR too artificially high with streaming included to make any sense with respect to the all-time list. Even before streaming, with downloads at their peak the best selling singles of all time were beginning to be dominated by newer songs, mainly due to trickle sales. Nothing could be done about that, because a sale is still a sale, but an artificial number being added on due to people listening to a song when they didn't even have to pay for it doesn't seem right to me, even if it works in the weekly charts when all songs are on an even footing. Within the next few years we would end up with more than half the list being made up of singles post-2010. On the other hand, don't know if it's been discussed before, but I was thinking it would be interesting to see a list of best-selling singles (streaming included) with sales of each single as a proportion of total sales in the year in which it was released - i.e. songs from 2012/13 would be a lot lower, whilst those from 2005/6 would be boosted. It would be a much better indicator of the most popular singles of all time, but would probably be impossible to calculate for anything pre-1994.

+5 Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza +4 Zara Larsson - Lush Life +3 Sia feat. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills +2 Major Lazer feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light It Up +1 Tinie Tempah feat. Zara Larsson - Girls Like -1 Alan Walker - Faded (really don't want to give this negative points :( ) -2 Lukas Graham - 7 Years -3 Jonas Blue feat. Dakota - Fast Car -4 Rihanna feat. Drake - Work -5 Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home Like everything here other than the bottom two!

On a more serious note, I've been playing that Kygo/Kodaline track on repeat all morning. Hope it becomes a proper single and does big things!

1. Kygo feat. Kodaline - Raging :heart: :heart:

That makes sense, thanks! I hope it doesn't get to #1 when there are so many better songs in the top 10 that could be there.

Mike Posner is going to have to pull quite a way ahead on iTunes to make #1 on Friday, I don't see it happening this week much as I'd like it to! Looks like his only challenge next week will be Fifth Harmony though, don't know how that's taken off so much. :blink:

+5 Zara Larsson - Lush Life +4 Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza +3 Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend +2 Shawn Mendes - Stitches +1 Lukas Graham - 7 Years -1 Adele - When We Were Young -2 Zayn - Pillowtalk -3 Jonas Blue feat. Dakota - Fast Car -4 Rihanna feat. Drake - Work -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself I struggle to choose between the top 3!

Oh, I know it's unlikely, but we can always dream!

If any of Hymn For The Weekend, I Took A Pill In Ibiza or Lush Life could be the next #1 I'd be very happy! :D

Glad to see this back! Well done UV, and thanks to Leonardo for running it for so long! :D +5 Zara Larsson - Lush Life +4 Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend +3 Shawn Mendes - Stitches +2 Little Mix feat. Jason Derulo - Secret Love Song +1 Lukas Graham - 7 Years -1 Zayn - Pillowtalk -2 Justin Bieber - Sorry -3 Jonas Blue feat. Dakota - Fast Car -4 Rihanna feat. Drake - Work -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

I was just thinking, it really shows how much sales have collapsed when Lukas Graham have such a HUGE lead over #2 on iTunes, and yet are still selling well under 100k a week! :(

+5 Adele - Hello +4 Shawn Mendes - Stitches +3 99 Souls feat. Destiny's Child & Brandy - The Girl Is Mine +2 Major Lazer feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light It Up +1 Jonas Blue feat. Dakota - Fast Car -1 Snakehips feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper - All My Friends -2 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean -3 One Direction - History -4 Justin Bieber - Sorry -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

I could have sworn she'd written more massive songs for other artists too! :o Slightly off-topic but I'd love to see a similar list for Ryan Tedder, he's written a ridiculous number of popular songs!

Oh, I know, just trying to block out the fact that streaming exists for the moment :P

8. Justin Bieber - Love Yourself 15. Justin Bieber - Sorry 26. Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean? Finally going away! :yahoo: On the other hand, there's very little in the top 10 I'd really listen to right now... Zara Larsson to be massive please! :D

+5 Adele - Hello +4 Shawn Mendes - Stitches +3 99 Souls feat. Destiny's Child & Brandy - The Girl Is Mine +2 Sigala feat. Bryn Christopher - Sweet Lovin' +1 Snakehips feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper - All My Friends -1 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean -2 One Direction - History -3 Justin Bieber - Sorry -4 Major Lazer feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light It Up -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself Don't like giving a +5 to Adele at this point but there's really nothing else that deserves it for me!

Originally joined on 7th July 2012 (was lurking for over a year before that I believe) UK: will.i.am feat. Eva Simons - This Is Love US: Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

Lorde for me too - until she came along I don't think any #1s had been by artists even close to my age, but now there have been several younger than me :(

So nice to see a top 5 made of mostly new songs at last! :D

+5 Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime +4 Adele - Hello +3 Shawn Mendes - Stitches +2 Sigala feat. Bryn Christopher - Sweet Lovin' +1 99 Souls feat. Destiny's Child & Brandy - The Girl Is Mine -1 Grace feat. G-Eazy - You Don't Own Me -2 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean? -3 Justin Bieber - Sorry -4 One Direction - History -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself

Interesting that Heroes could be looking at a new peak only a week after Ace of Spades did the same thing, and both for the same reason! :o

I think the system would make more sense if it wasn't made up of a total of points of specific tracks - sure it's been suggested before, haven't been following any discussions recently, but say a streaming sale of an album is only attributed if the same person listens to a certain number of tracks from it. The current system seems strange because for every stream of a song, you're contributing to both the singles and albums chart. (Unless you're streaming one of the two most popular tracks from the album, I know)

+5 Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime +4 Adele - Hello +3 Grace feat. G-Eazy - You Don't Own Me +2 Fleur East - Sax +1 Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean -1 Justin Bieber - Sorry -2 One Direction - History -3 Sigala feat. Bryn Christopher - Sweet Lovin' -4 MNEK & Zara Larsson - Never Forget You -5 Justin Bieber - Love Yourself What a terrible top 10, only like two of them :(