AcerBen

Agree, it sounds like it ought to be a hit

Really good song by James Blunt

He had a few top 20 hits and was nominated for a Brit in 1998. Has been mostly writing for others since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Reeves

No need to be mean. It's his first release in 12 years. Not expecting to be a hit but some people might be interested..

She's released several albums in Australia since then... though she has been away for some years now. She released her comeback single Heavy Lies The Head earlier this year. Actually her last album got a full UK physical release too, but it did nothing sadly

New single from Vanessa Amorosi out September 6 called "Hello Me" Album "Back To Love" out before Christmas https://www.auspop.com.au/2019/08/hello-van...gH4jUXwBpYc2tdM

Conner Reeves has released a new single today called Love Lead Me On https://open.spotify.com/album/2T0y2dYA6ixEjfeDTY0zKB#_=_

Conner Reeves has also released a new single today called Love Lead Me On https://open.spotify.com/album/2T0y2dYA6ixEjfeDTY0zKB#_=_

It was also on the CD single of Back In My Life

Though it's only recently been added to Kiss, so might still have a small chance?

It was the other way round. The short cut on the cassette was the one they played on the radio. Now 43 featured the longer version which was in the video. The video in the OP is the U.S. video. Here's the UK one. lHjNmyzrVvM What a record. Also really enjoyed David Guetta's Play Hard which heavily sampled it.

It is their #2 most streamed anyway https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...d-songs__26794/ Another thing that might have given Here Comes The Sun a boost was that it wasn't on their 3 million selling compilation "1".

I didn't realise until I was playing the Yesterday soundtrack the other day and my little niece knew Here Comes The Sun, that it's been featured in a couple of big kids movies in recent years apparently. Must have something to do with it.

I think you just needed to do two separate threads ;)

I'd love it to be Kygo but I feel it's moving too slowly on Spotify to get there.

Celine Dion springs to mind too - she was best known in UK for Think Twice, which bombed in the U.S... but of course then came My Heart Will Go On.

Shaggy's career is interesting but not sure how it links in with your original question? Plus he didn't disappear after Boombastic - he had a few top 20 hits in '96 and '97. The only sort-of example I can think of right now is 2 Unlimited - in Europe they are best known for No Limit, but in the States it wasn't a hit. Their Get Ready For This did well there, though of course it was also a hit in Europe too

Doing well on iTunes alone won't get you anywhere, but 5,000 sales can give you a leg up the chart to top up your streams. Like the Kygo and Whitney one. We probably should get less excited about songs only going top 40 on iTunes but even when sales are low it still means something, and sustaining a top 40 position might be an indication that a song *could* also take off on streams too.

Kelli-Leigh - and her solo stuff is really great too

I agree that removing streams from the chart is a ridiculous idea and sales are becoming increasingly irrelevant. I get your point about how streams just show the popularity of a song and so what if songs stay in the charts for months on end - that would be fine if the chart was there purely to reflect consumption. But it isn't, and never has been. It is a promotional tool for the industry, so the struggle for certain artists to get on the chart makes it harder for them to break through. It also has a direct impact on media decisions on playlisting, who to book for TV shows etc. And the chart one way or another has an effect on what people listen to, so it becomes a vicious circle. The public need to be persuaded to listen to more new music. If the chart is slow and clogged up with the same old songs, it's bad for the industry. In the sales era, the chart reflected momentum and shifts in popularity. And once they'd peaked in popularity, they'd move out of the way for new songs. In my view, that's what the official chart should still do. ACR is one way of doing that, though I don't think they've got it right yet. They should come up with a more complex formula to make the chart behave a little more like it used to, so more songs can make the top 40. You can still have a streaming chart that just reflects total streams, but the official chart should be about what's fresh and gaining in popularity. With downloads continuing to fall, of course giving them more prominence in the chart formula is not the answer, but it is frustrating that legacy artists or new artists struggling to build a fanbase who'd in the old days would've sold 10,000 copies in a week and made the top 20, now can't get anywhere near the top 100. And whilst in a way streaming does reflect popularity better than sales, I don't like how being on curated playlists or not has such a big effect on the numbers, and that it seems like the streaming chart mainly reflects the popularity of songs with a certain demographic, rather than the country as a whole. I don't know what the solution to that is. We probably just have to live with it.

just on the sales chart

There might be more people available to listen on a Sunday, but the Friday Chart gets more listeners than the Sunday one was getting before it ended. Something like 1.5 million vs. 1 million I believe, so that's surely been a success. And at least it now being on both a Friday and Sunday means more exposure to the chart and helps secure its future as something that is still considered relevant.

Toto's Africa has always been a big catalogue seller though, I just don't get why

It really frustrates me that Spotify could be doing so much to push listeners towards newer songs but they don't do it.

Any sign of JP Cooper on any playlists yet? Sing It With Me sounds like it could be a monster summer hit to me