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Bar the Top 3 an absolutely shocking Top 10! Awful. Someone needs to release something decent and soon! +5: Aitch - Taste (Make It Shake) +4: Lil Tecca - Ransom +3: Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love +2: Dominic Fike - 3 Nights +1: Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People -1: MIST feat. Fredo - So High -2: AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove -3: Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy - Take Me Back To London -4: Joel Corry - Sorry -5: Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep?

Is there anything to compare this Album to? Ie has any other A Lister tried an album full of colabs?

Same in the US as well. Massively down on Divide’s opening sales. Think this was always going to get nowhere near Divide. His next solo release will beat this but Divide is almost surely Ed’s “peak”. Not that he will care much as there’s only a tiny number of artists who will reach that kind of peak. Must admit that if the opening quotes are correct for US and UK that’s surely lower than expected

Really rate that new Ed track with Chance and PnB. Hope that dethrones the JB collaboration.

100 - Camila Cabello - Havana 90 - Calvin Harris - Feels 80 - Post Malone - Rockstar 70 - Dua Lipa - New Rules 60 - Luis Fonsi - Despacito 50 - Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 40 - Ariana Grande - One Last Time 30 - Eminem - The River 20 - Clean Bandit - Symphony 10 - Ed Sheeran - Perfect -10 - DJ Khaled - Wild Thoughts

17 After 10/10 thought I was going to Ace it :lol:

Once on ACR there needs to be a 50% increase to return to SCR. However, before switching to ACR my understanding is that the increase just needs to be above the overall singles sales percentage?

I'm relieved not to be 2nd :D Congratulations Dan and Alpha :cheer:

>> Predict the Official Top 10 Singles of the week << 01. Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes 02. Dua Lipa - New Rules 03. Post Malone ft. 21 Savage - Rockstar 04. Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug - Havana 05. CNCO & Little Mix - Reggaetón Lento (Remix) 06. P!nk - What About Us 07. Avicii ft. Rita Ora - Lonely Together 08. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do 09. Justin Bieber & BloodPop® - Friends 10. ZAYN ft. Sia - Dusk Till Dawn >> Predict the Official Top 5 Albums of the week << 01. The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful 02. Foo Fighters - Concrete and Gold 03. Ed Sheeran - ÷ 04. Van Morrison - Roll With The Punches 05. Enter Shikari - The Spark >> Bonus predictions << 76. Anne-Marie - Heavy 101+. ALMA (feat. French Montana) - Phases 101+. DJ Snake (feat. Lauv) - A Different Way 101+. Kideko (feat. Tinie Tempah & Becky G) - Dum Dum 83. Kygo (feat. Justin Jesso) - Stargazing • Predict the sales of the #1 single to the nearest thousand (including streaming) 41k • How many entries (new/re) will there be in the singles chart top 40? 1

The rest of the content within my first post as this wasn't the main point I was looking to make. Please chill out with the 'pointless post' and 'ridiculous argument' comments. There are much more open and friendly ways of wording things. I agree that it's extremely difficult to equate streams and sales like for like, however, I applaud anyone that tries. The point I was trying to make is that based on sales only records you have songs such as the Teletubbies release showing up as more commercially successful than SOY which isn't right or accurate in real terms. It's evident that the times have moved on and things have drastically changed and will continue to change. Many of us like to measure present vs past and whilst of course there will be separate records for both sales and streaming, I for one like to see combined analysis when released. The 100:1 does seem to be flawed with the continued success of streaming and I hope they find a way of rectifying this to ensure figures are as accurate as possible. Over to the OCC.

You've completely missed the point.

So many mixed emotions with this list. Either way, I'm happy to see some decent sales information released by the OCC for the change! Rather than so and so's top 10 selling songs with limited figures nonsense. John Legend the highest ranked entry to not reach number 1 in the charts. Pretty happy with that as that's the best song from the 21st century in the Top 15 and has the best potential to become a pure classic in decades to come from those 21st century songs. Got to move away from the Million Sellers only tripe though! Since the huge shift to streaming really got underway in 2015 there wouldn't have been a single new entry to this list. With only Adele's Hello and maybe SOY looking likely to ever reach 1 million pure sales. Take a closer look at this list, you're telling me the tracks from Bob The Builder, Hear'say, Atomic Kitten, Matt Cardle and Teletubbies (just to name a few) have more of a place on this list than some of the Stream Orientated entires? Even songs I rate such as No Doubt - Don't Speak clearly weren't as big of a commercial success as SOY or Despacito. Equally though, from the other side of the coin, seeing SOY overtake Bohemian Rhapsody is painful, and One Dance at 8 is the funniest/most depressed thing I'll see today so the list isn't perfect in any shape or form. But it cannot just be about sales anymore. Times have changed. If you want a list of Million Sellers only take a photo of the current list and stick it on the mantlepiece because you won't need to update it too often. It reminds me of Frankel. A true freak of an animal who many will never see the likes of again, who has slowly but surely been granted the status of the greatest race horse of all time. Still many drag up horses from 50-60 years ago, looking for something which was better from a time when they weren't even alive. What's wrong with enjoying what we have in front of us right now? :D

>> Predict the Official Top 10 Singles of the week << 01. Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes 02. Dua Lipa - New Rules 03. P!nk - What About Us 04. Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do 05. Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug - Havana 06. Justin Bieber & BloodPop® - Friends 07. Avicii and Rita Ora - Lonely Together 08. CNCO & Little Mix - Reggaetón Lento 09. James Hype feat. Kelli-Leigh - More Than Friends 10. ZAYN feat. Sia - Dusk Till Dawn >> Predict the Official Top 5 Albums of the week << 01. Foo Fighters - Concrete & Gold 02. Sampha - Process 03. Ed Sheeran - ÷ 04. Prophets Of Rage - Prophets Of Rage 05. Gary Numa - Savage >> Bonus predictions << 22. Craig David - Heartline 100+. Jessie J - Think About That 24. Niall Horan - Too Much To Ask 16. Post Malone (feat. 21 Savage) - rockstar • Predict the sales of the #1 single to the nearest thousand (including streaming) 47k • How many entries (new/re) will there be in the singles chart top 40? 4

Takes some doing though. 50% sales increase needed to trigger SCR once on ACR. Nothings impossible though.

+5 Camila Cabello feat. Young Thug – Havana - (Favourite Song of the Year) :wub: +4 Dua Lipa – New Rules +3 Sam Smith – Too Good At Goodbyes +2 Zayn feat. Sia – Dusk Till Dawn +1 P!nk – What About Us -1 James Hype feat. Kelli-Leigh – More Than Friends -2 CNCO & Little Mix – Reggaeton Lento [Remix] -3 Justin Bieber & BloodPop® – Friends -4 Taylor Swift – Ready For It -5 Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do