Charis

We are not the ones who will decide, just sharing opinions which will not be taken into account, and mine was to have different ratios for same people streams, playlists, maybe even for older songs. Not only in the charts but on the sales they are credited with….

There are but you might be the minority as.. again i find ridiculous for example mariah carey’s song ti be credited with millions of sales every december because 95% of the same people stream it year by year. It just doesnt make sense to me. There were singles that exist almost in every house in the country for example candle in the wind/ bohemian rhapsody etc… how fair is to compare those singles with all i want for xmas and say, hey candle in the wind sold 5 m, am AIWFC sold 20m? 20m what?

I could play fifa / football manager for free ( copying a friends’ cd or downloading illegaly) i think now there are ways to prevent this.

Am I asking people something? With all this streaming i cant enjoy music anymore, we dont pay any attention to it we are mostly encouraged and meant to stream as much as everything if possible.

Thats actually corrent, my point is that there is not easy anymore to access games free/illegally

I believe thats something that will happen in the future ( pay [more] for music) and this is based on pure logic.. whatever is wanted by many people gets more expensive. Now whether it will happen in 10-20 or 50 years we cant predict

There are a few examples in other businesses, for instance the gaming business, i think there was sometime you could play anything for free, but now you need to pay for it, steam, playstation etc… honestly i would like to see the chart a bit more similar to how it was 10-15 years ago.. now its a mess artists and music fans have no identity, lost in this chaos of overconsumption..

Can u be more specific? :P

How can streaming be replaced? It cant, unless there is an internet disaster or streaming will no longer be free, which is kind of strange to think of

The whole chart should invent a different way of counting sales… give a different ratio to older songs, songs that are being played by the same people, being played by playlists etc etc… the whole thing of a specific xmas song selling millions of copies every year by being played by 95% the same people is hilarious

There is a real fight for #2 i believe we have to make it… where are the fans? :P

Yes

1 Adele - 30 (46.2k) 2 Westlife - Wild Dreams (30.6k) * 3 Ed Sheeran - = (16.1k) 4 Gary Barlow - The Dream of Christmas (14.0k) * 5 ABBA - Voyage (11.5k) :(

yesterday's album sales 13.5k Adele 5.1k Ed 3.3k Abba 1.9k Westlife

Myxxd its no info, its just a thought which makes sense cause adele was stable on around 15k +- albums / day. I would expect westlife to open higher than this, but the silence of occ and keep releasing articles anout every record adele has broken drives me nuts…

When i say big bit i mean FWW / WOOO/ YRMU type of song :P

If they are an album act they should challenege afele 2nd week - what do u think?

After some listens this is a really good pop album. Could be successfull in europe. There are no songs to skip maybe missing the big hit but still a great one. What do u think?

2.3k sales for adele album yesterday.. Stable at around 4.5-5k from streams now.

Adele sales this week Adele – 30 (Melted Stone/Columbia) This week’s sales: 261,856 | Physical: 176,421 | Downloads: 41,246 |Streams: 44,190 Ed Sheeran 1st / 2nd week 1st week: 139,107 [94,527 physical sales, 11,644 vinyl, 19,294 downloads, 25,286 streaming sales] 2nd week: 47,758 [Estimate: Sales: 30k Streams 17k ] Decline Streams: 35% Decline sales: 75% Total Decline: 66% No.6 Collab: 1st: 125,031 73,173 49,858 2nd: 60,902 29,686 31,216 Streams decline 40% Sales decline: 60% Total decline: 48% Abba 1st week: 203,909 [148,471 CDs, 29,891 vinyl, 4,205 cassettes] 2nd week: 44,053 Decline 78% Estimate decline: Adele Sales: 70% Streams: 35% Sales: 65k Streams: 28k Estimation: 93k Not much sense above i tried to make an estimation on how much Adele will sell next week based on how other acts behaved. I think my prediction can have +- 10%. However its a very big amount of sales to even compete. Unless i am way out of my calculations. Based on spectrum release which was on pre order for 1 year or so, this year we have 4 different versions which might help if fans are there, right? what usually happens to other physical selling artists?

Adele on 2.7k album sales from spotify yesterday, must be around 5k from streams

https://www.music-news.com/news/UK/145006/W...demic-struggles The 'You Raise Me Up' singers - which comprise of Mark Feehilly, 41, Brian McFadden, 41, Shane Filan, 42, Kian Egan, 41, and Keith Duffy, 47 - have released their new album 'Wild Dreams' on 26.11.2021 This is crazy. Seriously its done on purpose

Well done Westlife. And its a very good album too

No1 in the UK itunes at the moment. No21 in Apple Music

As I said you need to be commercially strong to be get good reviews. All of them were describing adeles latest album her best ever… not even close to it for me. I deffinitely skip less songs on this album compared to spectrum ( dance, LOVE, another life) I think i only skip always with me on this one