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I wonder if 'Cruel Summer' will fall foul of the three track rule? I'm guessing it went back to SCR on Friday and now it might be off the chart.

As Ladbaby has had 5 consecutive Christmas number 1s in a row, a record that will surely never be beaten, perhaps now is the time to call it quits rather than try for a 6th and fail miserably. Plus they no longer seem to attract (positive) media attention so would probably just encourage even more of a backlash. Don't Amazon normally reveal their exclusives around mid to late November? I think most people look back to their own Xmas era and wish for something similar to that. I still look back fondly on the Christmas 1984 chart and have happy memories of that time. The chart that year was a good mix of old Christmas classics, records that were then new Christmas songs and which have gone on to be Christmas classics, silly seasonal songs referencing frogs and elephants (in the top 5 too!). And non-seasonal songs that have gone on to be 1980s classics. Just perfect.

It was #4 and prevented Ed Sheeran from having 4 of the top 5 best sellers of the year: 1 :: Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You :: 3,265k 2 :: Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee ft Justin Bieber - Despacito :: 2,265k 3 :: Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill :: 1,850k 4 :: French Montana ft Swae Lee - Unforgettable :: 1,400k 5 :: Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl :: 1,370k 6 :: Ed Sheeran - Perfect :: 1,325k 7 :: Clean Bandit ft Zara Larsson - Symphony :: 1,265k 8 :: Rag'n'Bone Man - Human :: 1,130k 9 :: Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This :: 1,100k 10 :: Jax Jones & Raye - You Don't Know Me :: 1,050k

It's probably just a coincidence as the launch date of Spotify in the UK was 7 October 2008 https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/spot...s-europe/851655

Mr Brightside revealed as UK's most streamed song in Spotify history by Andre Paine To mark its 15th anniversary this month, Spotify has revealed the biggest artists and songs during that period in the UK. Following its launch in October 2008, streaming has gone on to become dominant in terms of music consumption with Spotify as market leader. The Swedish streaming platform was first available on an invite-only basis and became fully accessible to the public in 2009 as both an ad-funded and subscription service. According to UK data, Mr Brightside by The Killers is the most streamed song on Spotify in the UK during the past 15 years (October 2008 to August 2023). The single was first released 20 years ago (September 29, 2003) and has become a true perennial. Two decades since its release, Mr Brightside was No.27 in the biggest singles of the year (Official Charts Company) up to the end of Q3 in 2023. Although it is not the biggest hit in terms of chart position for The Killers (No.10 on debut in May 2004 – its only week inside the Top 20), Mr Brightside has had incredible staying power with 382 weeks in the Top 100, which is more than seven years. It has spent six weeks in the Top 40 and 130 weeks in the Top 75. In 2021, Mr Brightside reached five years (260 non-consecutive weeks) in the Top 100, a record-breaking result which has since been consolidated thanks to consistent streaming consumption. Mr Brightside (Vertigo/EMI) has chart sales to date of 5,146,333 (Official Charts Company), including 4,083,702 from sales-equivalent streams, 1,040,115 downloads and 22,516 physical copies. It was the lead single from The Killers’ 2004 debut album, Hot Fuss, which peaked at No.1 and has sales to date of 2,460,124. Spotify doesn’t reveal the UK-only streams for Mr Brightside, which has a global Spotify streaming count of 1,881,261,446 (as of October 9, 2023). According to OCC data, The Killers’ single has 446,450,174 audio streams across all DSPs in the UK. That puts it at No.4 in terms of the most streamed tracks ever in the UK, behind Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved at No.1 (547,203,306 audio streams), Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You at No.2 (539,804,486) and Sheeran’s Perfect at No.3 (475,746,011). However, the Official Charts Company only began counting streams as part of its charts calculations in June 2014, so Mr Brightside had several years to establish its lead on Spotify. Its main streaming rivals are more recent singles by Capaldi (2018) and Sheeran (2017). Speaking to Music Week in late 2017, The Killers’ frontman Brandon Flowers pondered whether the track would have made as big of a splash had it been released in the current era. “I just don’t think it would be as certain of a home run as it was,” said Brandon Flowers. “There’s not a home for traditional rock music - guitar, bass, drums and vocals - and I see a lot of people catering to a certain listener to try and get on the radio. “A lot of rock is getting enthused with hip-hop and urban sentiments, feelings and tones, and so I don’t know that [Mr Brightside] would have been as easily taken into people’s hearts as it was.” Even five years ago, the power of Mr Brightside on DSPs was undeniable. “The band talk about Mr Brightside taking a life of its own,” the band’s manager Robert Reynolds, of Reynolds Management, told Music Week at the time. “Mr Brightside has become an anthem for a generation and you kind of surrender a little bit of ownership and let that song do what it does. We’re all happy to have it in the catalogue.” Spotify’s 15th anniversary streaming charts While many of the most streamed Spotify songs of the last 15 years are long-running No.1 singles, there are others tracks – like Mr Brightside – which have earned their place thanks to long-term, consistent consumption over years rather than a high chart placing. Riptide by Vance Joy is the sixth biggest song in Spotify history in the UK (No.10 chart peak in January 2014 – 3,475,431 sales to date), while Arctic Monkeys’ Do I Wanna Know? didn’t even need to breach the Top 10 of the singles chart to make Spotify’s anniversary rundown at No.7. It peaked at No.11 on the weekly chart in June 2013 and has sales to date of 3,043,054. Ed Sheeran is the most streamed UK artist globally on Spotify over the last 15 years and he’s the holder of the most streamed UK track globally with Shape of You, ahead of Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved and Glass Animals’ Heat Waves. According to Spotify’s 15th birthday data drop, Dua Lipa is the most streamed female artist from the UK on Spotify. Two of her songs – Don’t Start Now and New Rules – make the Top 15 tracks by UK artists of all time on the platform. Linkin Park’s Shadow Of The Day was the most streamed track on launch day in 2008, while Coldplay became the first UK artist to reach one million monthly streams in January 2009. Spotify Top 15 Artists from the UK by global streams: 1 Ed Sheeran 2 Coldplay 3 Dua Lipa 4 Calvin Harris 5 Queen 6 Sam Smith 7 Harry Styles 8 One Direction 9 Adele 10 The Beatles 11 Arctic Monkeys 12 Elton John 13 Ellie Goulding 14 James Arthur 15 Lewis Capaldi The biggest tracks on Spotify by UK artists from the past 15 years by global streams: 1 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 2 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 3 Glass Animals - Heat Waves 4 Harry Styles - As It Was 5 Ed Sheeran - Perfect 6 James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go 7 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar 8 Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now 9 Ed Sheeran - Thinking out Loud 10 Ed Sheeran - Photograph 11 Coldplay, The Chainsmokers - Something Just Like This 12 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Remastered 2011 13 Passenger - Let Her Go 14 Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa - One Kiss 15 Dua Lipa - New Rules The UK's 15 most streamed songs of the past 15 years on Spotify: 1 The Killers - Mr Brightside 2 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 3 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 4 Drake, Kyla, Wizkid - One Dance 5 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 6 Vance Joy - Riptide 7 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 8 James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go 9 Ed Sheeran - Thinking out Loud 10 21 Savage, Post Malone - Rockstar 11 Hozier - Take Me To Church 12 Burna Boy, Dave - Location 13 Oasis - Wonderwall 14 George Ezra - Shotgun 15 French Montana, Swae Lee - Unforgettable from musicweek.com

That Petrol Emotion had 7 top 75 entries, with their biggest hit being 'Big Decision', which reached #43 in April 1987. A great act if you're into 80s music iXAfWKOgo2Q

It'll be interesting to see how close it is at the top - perhaps the Dua Lipa pink cassette release made the difference (mine arrived this morning, by the way!)

That makes it even worse! Who on earth is doing their "research"?

From reading the rest of the OCC article it is clear that by "This makes it (Barbie) the first film soundtrack in UK chart history to land three Top 5 singles simultaneously" the OCC mean "having three tracks inside the top 5 at the same time" rather than "having three tracks enter the top 5 at the same time". For example: In neither example did all three records enter the top 10 in the same week. Simply, the OCC (and Alan Jones, one of them is copying what the other wrote, even down to using the word "trifecta" in the article) got it wrong as one of them forgot that three singles from Grease were inside the to 5 for two weeks running.

I've checked this one out and it seems as if the OCC have got Shakin' Strevens mixed up with... Whitney Houston and Brandy! On the R&B chart dated 23/04/05 'The Greatest Hits' by Whitney Houston should be at #22, not 'The Collection' by Shakin' Stevens. In fact the whole chart is wrong, it appears another albums chart has been incorrectly listed as the Hip Hop and R&B Albums chart https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/offic...rt/20050417/115 The same mistake happens the following week. #29 on the R&B Albums chart should be 'The Best Of' by Brandy. Again, the OCC have listed the wrong chart under R&B https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/offic...rt/20050424/115 I don't know what chart the OCC have published for those two weeks under Hip Hop and R&B Albums. It's not the main albums chart (as it contains compilation albums), it's not the Combined Albums chart (which contains both artist and compilation albums) as the albums are in the wrong order compared to the main chart and it's not vinyl albums. I did wonder if it was a CD albums chart but the main albums charts by this point were largely a CD albums chart and again there are some differences.

It looks like 'Calm Down' by Rema might be coming to the end of its top 10 run. The track has been in the top 10 for the whole of this year and we're now in the middle of June. Or to put it another way, the last top 10 chart to not include the track had Wham! and Mariah Carey at numbers 1 and 2.

It seems that the OCC website is being relaunched, or at least revamped, next month along with the OCC itself also getting a refreshed brand identity. Other than that I don't know anything further about what this involves. I guess it's a case of "watch this space"...

It's a good article although it contains a couple of factual errors: Streaming data was first included in the album chart count in March 2015 and not June 2014 as stated in the article. The comment in the article about one physical sale equalling 150 song streams is wrong. The conversion ratio is 1 physical sale = 1,000 streams aggregated from a maximum of the 16 most streamed tracks on the album.

Same here. It suggests that sales may have been close on today's midweeks.

Radio 1 banned the record the week it climbed 35-6 so it never got played when it was at #1. The next time Radio 1 played the record, at least on a chart show, was on the best selling singles of the year chart show at the end of December 1984.

Perhaps the figures quoted yesterday were for the single and not the album and Rough edges source got things mixed up?

Very Retro Top 10 26 March 1983 1 NE 108,100 Is There Something I Should Know? Duran Duran 2 1 94,600 Total Eclipse Of The Heart Bonnie Tyler 3 2 78,600 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics 4 6 63,600 Speak Like A Child The Style Council 5 NE 45,200 Let's Dance David Bowie 6 4 43,300 Rock The Boat Forrest 7 5 41,000 Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Bananarama 8 3 36,200 Billie Jean Michael Jackson 9 10 34,100 Rip It Up Orange Juice 10 8 21,200 High Life Modern Romance 26 March 1988 1 4 48,807 Don’t Turn Around Aswad 2 17 40,300 Drop The Boy Bros 3 1 37,100 I Should Be So Lucky Kylie Minogue 4 NE 27,000 Can I Play With Madness Iron Maiden 5 22 24,200 Could’ve Been Tiffany 6 3 23,800 Joe Le Taxi Vanessa Paradis 7 5 23,700 Crash The Primitives 8 12 22,200 Never / These Dreams Heart 9 6 22,100 Ship Of Fools Erasure 10 11 21,600 I Get Weak Belinda Carlisle Sales are rounded to the nearest 100 and are based on actual chart panel sales from the weekly charts as compiled by Gallup

Sold out again!

It's a bit messy but it's the best I can do using copy and paste UK Radio Airplay Top 50 TW LW SALE POS ARTIST/TITLE/LABEL CORP GROUP PLAYS TREND STNS IMPACTS TREND 1 1 1 Miley Cyrus Flowers RCA SME 7,046 +1% 247 82.47 -1% 2 2 33 Sam Smith... I'm Not Here To Make Friends Capitol UMG 4,303 +7% 216 52.23 -9% 3 3 Lizzo Special Atlantic WMG 2,714 +81% 194 51.86 +17% 4 4 40 Lewis Capaldi Forget Me EMI UMG 4,801 +1% 212 40.52 +3% 5 5 17 Taylor Swift Anti-Hero EMI UMG 4,226 -4% 221 34.72 -4% 6 7 Freya Ridings Weekends Good Soldier IND 3,425 +9% 188 32.56 +2% 7 6 15 Mimi Webb Red Flags Epic SME 4,026 +4% 199 31.3 -5% 8 8 14 Pink Trustfall RCA SME 3,435 +11% 214 30.92 -1% 9 11 34 Meghan Trainor Made You Look RCA SME 4,139 -4% 206 30.69 +1% 10 9 Lizzo 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) Atlantic WMG 3,839 -3% 186 28.96 -5% 11 NEW 18 Niall Horan Heaven Capitol UMG 1,801 - 153 28.78 - 12 14 Ed Sheeran Celestial Asylum WMG 3,690 -3% 202 27.73 -1% 13 RE Ellie Goulding Like A Saviour Polydor UMG 1,220 +10% 102 26.9 +230% 14 16 19 Pink Never Gonna Not Dance Again RCA SME 2,947 -10% 173 26.38 +2% 15 26 Gorillaz Ft Adeleye Omotayo Silent Running Parlophone WMG 340 +52% 23 25.09 +28% 16 28 2 PinkPantheress Boy's A Liar Warner WMG 1,247 +79% 131 23.65 +30% 17 20 Sugababes Today Sugababes IND. 205 -5% 29 23.25 -1% 18 18 27 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan Lionheart (Fearless) Atlantic WMG 3,819 -3% 178 23.11 -6% 19 NEW Jake Shears Too Much Music Mute IND. 157 +202% 23 23.08 +4,501% 20 17 55 Lewis Capaldi Pointless EMI UMG 3,447 -3% 215 22.79 -10% 21 21 3 SZA Kill Bill RCA/Top Dawg SME 1,539 -2% 128 22.54 -4% 22 10 16 Cian Ducrot I'll Be Waiting Polydor UMG 2,499 +2% 195 21.53 -29% 23 27 Becky Hill & David Guetta Remember Polydor UMG 1,814 +1% 159 19.99 +7% 24 15 7 Coi Leray Players Uptown/Republic UMG 1,017 -19% 146 18.89 -28% 25 24 72 Tom Grennan Here Insanity SME 2,168 +50% 188 18.85 -8% 26 12 22 Taylor Swift Lavender Haze EMI UMG 1,872 -9% 125 18.57 -36% 27 31 10 Raye Ft 070 Shake Escapism Human Re Sources IND 2,450 +19% 151 18.4 +11% 28 29 25 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage Creepin' Republic UMG 1,334 -5% 135 18.23 +3% 29 34 45 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber Stay Def Jam/RCA SME/UMG* 1,802 -1% 148 17.77 +11% 30 19 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Easy Now Sour Mash IND. 783 +2% 82 17.64 -28% 31 22 Lady Blackbird Woman BMG IND. 311 -70% 71 16.22 -28% 32 23 Anne-Marie Sad Bitch Atlantic WMG 1,748 -4% 111 15.09 -30% 33 33 6 Harry Styles As It Was Columbia SME 2,029 -2% 224 15. -8% 34 13 8 Tiësto & Tate McRae 10:35 Atlantic/Ministry Of Sound WMG 2,710 -20% 201 14.45 -50% 35 42 Paramore Running Out Of Time Atlantic WMG 138 +103% 13 13.93 +5% 36 41 Jax Jones Ft MNEK Where Did You Go? Polydor UMG 1,967 -8% 194 13.79 +2% 37 NEW 67 Jax Jones & Calum Scott Whistle Polydor UMG 2,012 +111% 133 13.27 +52% 38 25 24 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha I'm Good (Blue) Parlophone WMG 1,944 -27% 194 13.25 -33% 39 38 Wet Leg Angelica Domino IND. 278 +17% 44 13.1 -6% 40 35 Dermot Kennedy Kiss Me Island UMG 2,433 -4% 154 12.9 -18% 41 40 Sam Ryder Put A Light On Me Parlophone WMG 597 +124% 71 12.46 -9% 42 39 Harry Styles Late Night Talking Columbia SME 2,087 -1% 205 12.39 -10% 43 NEW 13 Libianca People 5K SME 479 +19% 58 11.9 +36% 44 45 Sabrina Carpenter Nonsense Island UMG 675 +14% 70 11.51 +1% 45 37 21 Venbee & Goddard Messy In Heaven Columbia SME 1,233 -10% 122 11.34 -20% 46 NEW 26 The Kid Laroi Love Again RCA SME 895 +28% 80 11.29 +18% 47 43 Arlo Parks Weightless Transgressive IND. 296 +12% 52 11.13 -11% 48 32 73 KSI Ft Oliver Tree Voices Atlantic WMG 1,054 -29% 120 11.09 -33% 49 NEW Bruce Springsteen Nightshift Columbia SME 28 +600% 9 10.95 +224% 50 RE Joel Corry Ft MNEK Head & Heart Asylum/Perfect Havoc WMG 1,180 +15% 171 10.92 +28% UK TV Airplay Top 50 TW LW ARTIST/TITLE/LABEL CORP GROUP/PLAYS /TREND/STNS 1 1 Raye Ft 070 Shake Escapism / Human Re Sources IND 276 +10% 8 2 3 Miley Cyrus Flowers / RCA SME 221 +10% 8 3 2 SZA Kill Bill / RCA/Top Dawg SME 211 - 7 4 39 PinkPantheress Boy's a Liar / Warner WMG 197 +153% 7 5 5 Central Cee Let Go / Central Cee WMG 192 +5% 8 6 6 Mimi Webb Red Flags / Epic SME 191 +6% 7 7 7 Sigala & MNEK Radio / Ministry Of Sound SME 191 +7% 7 8 8 Stormzy Hide & Seek / 0207/Merky UMG 169 -1% 8 9 24 Pink Trustfall / RCA SME 166 +50% 8 10 19 Taylor Swift Lavender Haze / EMI UMG 165 +22% 7 11 13 Meghan Trainor Made You Look / RCA SME 164 +9% 7 12 4 Rema &... Calm Down / Jonzing Worldwide/Mavin UMG 157 -15% 7 13 11 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz Miss You / Atlantic WMG 156 -7% 8 14 9 Tiësto & Tate McRae 10:35 / Atlantic/Ministry Of Sound WMG 156 -8% 7 15 14 Lewis Capaldi Pointless / EMI UMG 153 +3% 8 16 10 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan Lionheart (Fearless) / Atlantic WMG 148 -11% 8 17 22 Freya Ridings Weekends / Good Soldier IND 148 +21% 6 18 45 The Kid Laroi Love Again / RCA SME 139 +88% 7 19 15 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha I'm Good (Blue) / Parlophone WMG 138 -3% 8 20 23 Cian Ducrot I'll Be Waiting / Polydor UMG 138 +14% 7 21 17 Taylor Swift Anti-Hero / EMI UMG 133 -6% 8 22 NEW Lizzo Special / Atlantic WMG 133 +156% 6 23 16 Sam Smith... I'm Not Here To Make Friends / Capitol UMG 127 -11% 5 24 34 Anne-Marie Sad B!tch / Atlantic WMG 118 +39% 5 25 12 Venbee & Goddard Messy In Heaven / Columbia SME 117 -28% 6 26 20 KSI Ft Oliver Tree Voices / Atlantic WMG 117 -11% 5 27 25 Alok &... Work With My Love / B1/Ministry Of Sound SME 116 +5% 6 28 29 Libianca People / 5K SME 115 +11% 6 29 21 Bugzy Malone & TeeDee Out Of Nowhere / B-Somebody IND. 109 -11% 4 30 30 Anne-Marie & Aitch Psycho / Asylum/Major Tom's WMG 108 +5% 7 31 31 Headie One Martin's Sofa / Relentless SME 102 - 7 32 26 Rita Ora You Only Love Me / BMG IND. 98 -10% 5 33 27 Sub Focus & Dimension Ready To Fly / EMI UMG 93 -15% 5 34 18 FLO Cardboard Box / Island UMG 89 -34% 5 35 38 Lewis Capaldi Forget Me / EMI UMG 87 +9% 7 36 33 Nathan Dawe & Talia Mar Sweet Lies / Atlantic WMG 86 -9% 5 37 28 Eliza Rose &... B.O.T.A. / Warner/X One House WMG 84 -22% 7 38 48 Coi Leray Players / Uptown/Republic UMG 83 +19% 3 39 44 Jvke Golden Hour / JVKE IND. 82 +11% 6 40 46 Pink Never Gonna Not Dance Again / RCA SME 81 +13% 7 41 RE Zara Larsson Can't Tame Her / Black Butter SME 81 +37% 3 42 NEW Nathan Dawe & Bru-C Ft... Oh Baby / Atlantic WMG 79 - 5 43 NEW Tom Grennan Here / Insanity SME 78 +26% 4 44 40 Miguel Sure Thing / Jive SME 75 -4% 3 45 47 OneRepublic I Ain't Worried / Interscope UMG 73 +3% 5 46 41 Sam Smith, Koffee & Jessie Reyez Gimme / Capitol UMG 72 -6% 7 47 32 Harry Styles As It Was / Columbia SME 71 -28% 7 48 50 Oxlade Ku Lo Sa / Columbia SME 71 +9% 4 49 43 Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21... Creepin' / Republic UMG 70 -7% 3 50 49 George Ezra Green Green Grass / Columbia SME 69 +6% 7 from Music Week Chart Pack

Even if the tracklisting was the same, sales of the album couldn't be combined with the studio version. From the BPI Albums Charts Rules:

It looks like there will be same top 3 for a 5th week in a row. When did that last happen? I recall it happening at the end of 1977 with 'Mull Of Kintryre', 'The Floral Dance' and 'How Deep Is Your Love' being the 1-2-3 for 5 weeks running though one of those weeks was a frozen chart due to no chart being compiled over the Christmas / New Year period.

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Well done Wham! :cheer:

'Heartbeat/Tragedy' by Steps. I recall 'Heartbeat' being the promoted side in the run-up to Christmas 1998 (along with a video with snowy scenes) with 'Tragedy' being the main side after Christmas. 'Tragedy' was the promoted side that took the record to number 1.

They flipped the single over on Boxing Day which was very clever marketing. 'Everything She Wants' was even given a remix which made it a much better track. I think it was a day or two after that when I bought the single. I know it was sometime between the Christmas and New Year. The remix was also enough to get the single to number 1 on the NME singles chart.