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Anyone who still claims streaming hasn't ruined the chart is SERIOUSLY delusional

Justin Bieber today scales new heights on the streaming front, becoming the first act in Official Chart history to hit 100 million streams of a song in the UK, the Official Charts Company can confirm. Sorry, the second of three Number 1 singles from current album Purpose, scoops the accolade of the most-streamed song in Britain since Official Charts Company records began. Spending two weeks at the top back in October, the track has remained a firm favourite with UK music fans having never left the Official Chart in the 33 weeks since its release. Co-written by Canadian superstar Bieber, with Skrillex and Blood on production duties, the tropical pop anthem smashes over the new digital threshold this week based on audio streams from chart-reporting services including the likes of Spotify, Google Play, Deezer, Apple Music, Tidal, Napster and more. Official Charts Company Chief Executive Martin Talbot comments: “It has been an extraordinary few months for Justin Bieber and this new streaming landmark really tops the lot. For Sorry to become the first track in Official Chart history to pass the 100m mark is a record which can never be taken away from Justin - it is, perhaps, the four-minute mile of music streaming. A remarkable feat, a first which will be Justin's record forever.” No stranger to record-breaking chart feats, Bieber became the first recipient of the Official Chart Record Breaker Award earlier this year (pictured) to mark his achievement of holding positions Number 1, 2, and 3 simultaneously on the Official Singles Chart, with Love Yourself, Sorry, and What Do You Mean. Both What Do You Mean and Love Yourself are also a whisker away from the 100 million streams milestone on 98.6 and 94.3 million streams, and expected to cross the line in the coming weeks.

Taylor Swift - Style/everything else she's ever written

How You Remind Me - good Everything else Nickelback have ever recorded - appalling

Is Drake even in the top 5 on sales any more? The OCC need to make some changes, just like Billboard did when streaming got out of hand in the States

Rihanna - Umbrella Rihanna - Bitch Better Have My Money (awful) or Work (even worse)

Sweet Home Alabama, Breakeven, Little Lion Man, Gold Dust and Bangarang all failed to crack the top 20 (and almost Mr Brightside too, given that it was out of the top 20 after one week in 2004 and hasn't returned since)

The latter I think might actually be Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Do you mean SFTTR? MYFML made the top 10

This may have been discussed before (and probably has), but I was just wondering what were some of the best selling songs not to make the top 10, 20 or 40 - or indeed which only spent a week or two there before disappearing into the nether regions. I know for certain that "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons is the biggest seller not to make the top 10, but it would be great to know some of the others.

Beyonce hasn't had a number 1 for six years though

Mr Brightside is the first song released in the noughties to go 2x Platinum without selling 1 million copies first. Can't Get You Out of My Head, Poker Face and Chasing Cars were all pushed over the 2x Platinum mark thanks to streaming too, but they'd all already sold 1 million first

I thought Mr Brightside could possibly become one of the last ever million sellers not to go 2x Platinum first

Actually "Heroes" had only reached number 24 before Bowie's death, then got to number 7 afterwards

Someone Like You did it after the performance at the BRITs. It wasn't even a single at the time

Iris and Don't Stop Believin'

At this rate we may get even fewer than the 17 we got in 2007. I predict 16

Put it this way, because they count YouTube views in the States as well as streams, Baby by Justin Bieber is 12x Platinum even though it has paid-for sales of less than 5 million.

I mean that songs will eventually "sell a million" in about three weeks and eventually go into the 2-3 millions. In the U.S., it was originally 1 sale per every 1,000 streams, but when streaming grew massively, it was changed to 1 sale every 1,500 streams.

Back in the 80s you'd be paying a tenner for a vinyl, and in the 90s a CD would set you back a fiver. 99p is too much? Really?

140,000? Wow, impressive!

99p is unreasonable?

Also amazing to see that Iron Maiden had a top 10 hit this century!

Absolutely, higher number of chart choppers than any other year in chart history - 42 of them. As well as 36 the year before. Looks like staying at number 1 for a second week was a monumental achievement back then.

It would have been announced as a million seller by the OCC if it had actually sold 1 million purchased copies, but I guess it's pretty close