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Possibly a mix of a different weighting ratio, no distinction between premium and ad-funded streams and possibly fewer retailers and streaming service providers than those used by the OCC. Removing the distinction between premium and ad-funded streams does put some of the OCC chart into the order the tracks fall on the Billboard chart but again Arrdee & Aitch are far too low on the Billboard chart.

The OCC have just published the latest editions of the chart rules for both singles and albums. For singles, there appears to be no change to the rules when compared with the last chart rules edition which was published in January 2020. For albums there has been a change which could increase the amount of chart sales an album gets from streaming. The maximum amount of tracks that can contribute towards an album's streaming sales total has been increased from 12 to 16. The top 2 tracks are still neutralised down to an average, but this average is now that of the next 14 tracks (or all remaining tracks where the album has less than 16 tracks) rather than 10. One effect of this though is that averaging sales across a maximum of 14 rather than 10 tracks could lead to the average of the top 2 tracks being reduced. Singles: https://www.officialcharts.com/media/661003...es-jan-2022.pdf Albums: https://www.officialcharts.com/media/661001...es-jan-2022.pdf

Scooter sought clearance in advance and so didn't run into any legal difficulties. However Marc Cohn is listed as the sole writer of 'I'm Raving' meaning Scooter must have had to forgo any writers credit / royalties for the track.

The flashback chart is from the week before 'I Can't Break Down' entered the chart. A previous Flashback article, from February 2015, does cover the week Sinead Quinn entered the chart at number 2 https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/f...he-chart__8135/

Overnight viewing figures were only 2.7m for the programme which is possibly the lowest ever.

Excellent work, thanks for this.

Elton & Stevie Wonder's track gained in both plays and stations but lost a massive audience, from 23.74m to 15.06m. It suggests that Radio 2 must have cut back on the amount of plays it got compared to last week as it's likely Radio 2 plays accounted for much of its audience last week and presumably this week too.

It just didn't sell enough to make the top 100. It peaked at number 122 in the larger top 200 in a 13 week chart run in 2017. This was just prior to the introduction of ACR and the 3 track rule and the OCC restricted the maximum size of the main chart to a top 100 otherwise it may have re-entered the lower part of the chart once again.

I've checked the isrcsearch.ifpi.org website and can't find any version of the song by The Emotions. What is the ISRC number? You could try to look it up at https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search (using the third option, to look up by code).

There were none in UKChartsPlus so possibly the BPI made no awards?

The 2002 Christmas special wasn't very festive but the worst of all the Christmas TOTP's was the one from 25 December 1978 when industrial action not only stopped an audience being present but it also meant the programme couldn't even be filmed in a studio. It was presented from what looked like a room in the production office. Featuring video clips and performances from the weekly Top Of The Pops programmes the whole episode looks like it was put together for under a fiver! https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008p...-christmas-1978

With thanks to UKChartsPlus, the certifications for 3 December 2021 Singles P7 PERFECT 02/03/2017 Ed Sheeran Asylum ( GBAHS1700024) P5 TAKE ME TO CHURCH 17/09/2013 Hozier Rubyworks/Island ( IEACJ1300031) P3 STAN 20/11/2000 Eminem Interscope ( USIR10000594) P3 SUMMER OF '69 17/06/1985 Bryan Adams Jive ( USJI10000070) P2 THE MIDDLE 23/01/2018 Zedd, Maren Morris & Grey Interscope ( USUM71800463) P2 BEAUTIFUL GIRLS 02/08/2007 Sean Kingston Beluga Heights/Epic ( USSM10701781) P2 SANDSTORM 26/10/1999 Darude 16 Inch ( FISGC9900001) P2 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 10/12/1988 Chris Rea Elektra ( GBAHS9904091) P2 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY 07/11/1973 Slade Polydor ( GBAKW7301006) P TICK TOCK - Clean Bandit & Mabel 21/08/2020 featuring 24kGoldn Atlantic ( GBAHS2000775) P INTO THE UNKNOWN 15/11/2019 Idina Menzel & Aurora Walt Disney ( USWD11994667) P WE'LL BE COMING BACK 24/07/2012 Calvin Harris featuring Example Columbia ( GBARL1200642) P 505 22/04/2007 Arctic Monkeys Domino ( GBCEL0700074) P EVERYBODY'S CHANGING 12/05/2003 Keane Island ( GBAAN0400092) P BOHEMIAN LIKE YOU 11/07/2000 The Dandy Warhols Capitol ( USCA20000241) P SHACKLES (PRAISE YOU) 07/03/2000 Mary Mary Columbia ( USSM19931927) P LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU 16/03/1988 Robbie Williams Chrysalis ( GBAYE9701083) P BLACK BETTY 15/06/1977 Ram Jam Sony (EPC5492) P DAYDREAM BELIEVER 25/10/1967 The Monkees RCA ( USRH10125802) G TOO MUCH TO ASK 15/09/2017 Niall Horan Capitol ( USUG11701396) G PLAIN JANE 08/08/2017 A$AP Ferg A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds ( USRC11701804) G SHIP TO WRECK 08/04/2015 Florence + The Machine Island ( GBUM71500288) G WIND BENEATH MY WINGS 15/02/1989 Bette Midler Atlantic ( USAT29900553) G FELIZ NAVIDAD 09/11/1970 José Feliciano RCA/BMG Heritage ( USRC17002573) G IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS 18/09/1951 Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters with Michell Ayres & his Orchestra RCA ( USRC15106173) S W 28/11/2019 Koffee featuring Gunna Columbia ( GBARL1901308) S RABBIT HOLE 08/11/2019 Camelphat & Jem Cooke RCA ( GBARL1901206) S IDOL 24/08/2018 BTS Big Hit ( QM6MZ1886155) S MYSTERY OF LOVE 01/12/2017 Sufjan Stevens Sony Classical ( US64G1737302) S BENZ TRUCK (Гелик) 15/08/2017 Lil Peep Lil Peep ( UKELY1700026) S MAIN CHICK - Kid Ink featuring 11/03/2014 Chris Brown 88 Classic/Tha Alumni/RCA ( USRC11302090) S HIGH SCHOOL - Nicki Minaj & Lil Wayne 16/04/203 Cash Money/Island ( USCM51200750) S I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 21/10/2011 Michael Bublé Reprise ( USRE10301537) S SILENT NIGHT 21/10/2011 Michael Bublé Reprise ( USRE11100709) S MEAN 13/03/2011 Taylor Swift Universal ( USCJY1103826) S RUNAWAY 24/10/2010 Devlin featuring Yasmin Island ( GBUV71006192) S AWAY FROM HERE 16/04/2007 The Enemy Warner Bros (WEA419CD) S THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY 01/03/1973 Pink Floyd EMI ( GBAYE9200257) S HONY TONK WOMEN 04/07/1969 The Rolling Stones Abkco ( USA176910010) S I SAW HER STANDING THERE 22/03/1963 The Beatles EMI ( GBAYE0601410) Albums P 30 19/11/2021 Adele Columbia (19439937972) P VOYAGE 05/11/2021 Abba Polar (3861482) P SNACKS 06/09/2019 Jax Jones Polydor (7790350) G BECAUSE THE INTERNET 09/12/2013 Childish Gambino Glassnote/Island (3765882) S SKINS 07/12/2018 XXXTENTACION Bad Vibes Forever/Empire (ERE466) S COLLIDE WITH THE SKY 17/07/2021 Pierce The Veil Fearless (FRL301662) If anyone is curious, the  symbol before the catalogue number indicates a digital only release. The actual symbol UKChartsPlus uses (a computer mouse) doesn't display when using copy and paste.

LadBaby aim for Christmas chart record - with help from Ed Sheeran and Elton John LadBaby are going for a record fourth UK Christmas number one in a row - with help from Ed Sheeran and Elton John. YouTube stars Mark and Roxanne Hoyle have raised money for the Trussell Trust food bank charity with their sausage roll-themed singles since 2018. This year's attempt is a cheeky version of Ed and Elton's Merry Christmas, called Sausage Rolls For Everyone. LadBaby could overtake the Spice Girls and Beatles as the act with the most consecutive Christmas number ones. The Beatles had three in a row in the 1960s and the Spice Girls achieved the same feat in the 90s, with LadBaby matching the record over the past three years. Sheeran was the last artist before the Nottinghamshire couple to have a festive number one, with his 2017 love song Perfect. The star said he was "proud" to be supporting and featuring on LadBaby's single this Christmas. "All profits will be donated to The Trussell Trust, which is a very wonderful and important charity, so make sure you stream it, buy it and play it on repeat," Sheeran said. In a statement, Hoyle said: "Ed and Elton are pop royalty and they've both had huge success at Christmas, so we're honoured and excited to be coming together to help families this Christmas... with the power of sausage rolls." The charity song will be released on 17 December. Proceeds from Ed and Elton's original song are also going to charity - split between the Ed Sheeran Suffolk Music Foundation and The Elton John Aids Foundation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59591905

from musicweek.com ABBA, Adele and Ed Sheeran boost CD sales in Q4 by Andre Paine A run of big releases from superstar artists is driving a surprise revival in the CD as the format approaches its 40th anniversary, Music Week can reveal. Based on our exclusive analysis of Official Charts Company data, Q4 sales of CDs have seen a year-on-year increase of almost 15%. Music Week’s research compares total sales of the format from chart week 40 (October 8) to chart week 48 (December 3) between 2020 and 2021. The turnaround in the performance of CDs has been driven by three acts - Adele, ABBA and Ed Sheeran - as part of an impressive schedule of releases in the quarter. Of course, it also helps that stores are fully open for business and not subject to Covid restrictions like last year. “This year’s Q4 line-up is the strongest it’s been in recent memory,” said HMV & Fopp MD Phill Halliday. “There really is a huge new release that caters to everyone, with Adele, Ed Sheeran, Little Mix, Taylor Swift, Coldplay and ABBA all bringing out records that their respective fanbases are very excited for. We’re expecting a huge improvement on last Christmas in both footfall and sales.” The CD revival comes as the format is set for its 40th anniversary for music releases in 2022. ABBA, whose comeback record Voyage is one of the year’s biggest sellers, were one of the first acts to embrace CD with the release of The Visitors in 1982. It was also one of the first records to be recorded and mixed digitally. Some big albums made an impact in the first half of Q4, including No.1s for Sam Fender, Coldplay and Elton John. Meanwhile, releases from The Beatles, The Specials, Lana Del Rey and Duran Duran posted the kind of first week numbers that would have been enough for No.1 at any other time of year. Music Week research shows that for the first four weeks of Q4 (chart weeks 40-43), sales of CDs were tracking a year-on-year decline of 5.2% - still a respectable result for a declining format. But from week 44, there were year-on-year increases in CD volumes in every one of the following five chart weeks. As a result, CD sales for the five-week period (chart weeks 44-48) increased by 25.6% year-on-year. Our Q4 snapshot reveals that over the nine chart weeks so far in the quarter (weeks 40-48), CD sales are up 14.7% to 2,940, 466. The first game-changing release was Ed Sheeran’s =, which hit No.1 with sales of 139,107 (including 78,263 compact discs). CD sales then powered ahead with the release of ABBA’s Voyage in week 45. The Swedish stars’ comeback opened with staggering overall sales of 203,909, which helped lift physical albums to a 27.6% share of the overall market that week. Voyage broke a 21st century record for weekly vinyl units (29,891 copies), but its sales of CDs across multiple editions were almost five times greater - 148,471. The release of Voyage helped overall CD sales increase that week by 29.9% year-on-year to 395,360. And the Top 5 albums’ combined CD sales of 188,006 were 277.2% higher than Top 5’s volumes on CD in week 45 for 2020. Crucially, Ed Sheeran and ABBA then continued to shift significant amounts of physical units. In week 46, Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) moved 45,338 copies on CD as it debuted at the summit. Each of that week’s other Top 5 albums also posted substantial CD sales: ABBA’s Voyage (37,147), Ed Sheeran’s = (17,913), Little Mix’s Between Us (15,699) and Rod Stewart’s The Tears Of Hercules (18,009). Chart week 47 of 2021 was the big one for CDs, as physical’s market share of the album market soared to 32.8%. Adele’s 30 opened with massive consumption of 261,856. Once again, there was an impressive vinyl tally (16,700), but CD was by far the biggest format for the much-anticipated release by Adele with 158,772 compact discs sold in seven days. As a result, Adele helped to lift the overall CD market that week to 520,380, a year-on-year increase of 41.3%. The rest of the Top 5 included strong showings for the format. Sheeran’s = moved another 19,105 copies on CD, ABBA sold a further 26,470, Oasis moved 8,196 compact disc editions of their Knebworth live album and there were 17,536 sales on the format for the Alison Krauss and Robert Plant collaboration, Raise The Roof. Combined CD sales of 230,079 for that Top 5 in week 47 were 158.7% higher than the volumes for the Top 5 album in 2020. Bringing our analysis bang up to date, Adele continued to do some heavy lifting for the format’s Q4 momentum last week. In chart week 48, her 30 album posted another 102,261 sales, including 71,318 CDs. At 500,005 units, the weekly market figure for compact discs was not much down on the previous week when 30 was first released - and physical music’s market share of albums was actually higher at 34.1%. As well as Adele, those half a million CDs sold last week included almost a further combined 50,000 for the new albums from Ed Sheeran (24,556) and ABBA (24,758), as well as 33,206 copies of Westlife’s Wild Dreams and 15,652 for Gary Barlow’s The Dream Of Christmas. The positive results come at a time when the long-term future of the CD has been under scrutiny, particularly with some retailers ceasing to stock them. Up to the end of Q3, there was a 10.8% decline in year-to-date sales of CDs to 8,878,111. The Q3 year-on-year decrease for the three-month period was a steeper 15.5%. In our recent quarterly analysis, executives spoke openly about the future of the format amid the general shift to a consumption model. “It’s difficult to say definitively,” said Derek Allen, SVP, commercial at Warner Music. “However, I’ve rarely seen a better schedule, across all the majors. One thing’s for certain, we’ll have a clear picture of CD’s future coming out of Christmas.” CD sales were down 35.1% in 2021, but there are clear signs that the decline is bottoming out. "We do expect the decline in CD volume to be far lower this year – single digits - than we have seen in previous years and Q4 has a strong slate of releases that will do well on the format,” said Charles Wood, VP of market planning & media at Sony Music UK. “You could not really think of a stronger line-up.” With vinyl prices on the increase for multiple reasons, the other advantage for CD is price. Adele’s official store sells the double-vinyl edition of 30 for, appropriately, £30, compared to just £11 for the CD edition. “I really like CD,” Rough Trade director Nigel House told Music Week. “And especially with the price of vinyl at the moment, it’s a bit too early to write the CD off.”

I sent an email to UKC+ yesterday about the tracking week. I hadn't noticed it still showed Sunday to Saturday on the legend for both the radio and TV airplay charts until you mentioned it.

'Blinding Lights' is currently at number 8 on the year-to-date top singles of 2021. For year-to-date, year end and all time sales calculations no ACR calculation is applied. Gambo, the airplay chart also uses a Friday to Thursday tracking week. I've just noticed UKChartsPlus still list Sunday to Saturday but I believe that changed at the same time the singles chart changed the tracking week a few years ago.

I've ordered both!

Its highest weekly sale was 191,856 (w/e 15/11/97) http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...34288&st=20 with its second highest weekly sale being 186,000 on the chart dated 27/12/97.

Looking at the airplay chart for the week 'Shape Of You' entered' (at #5) its audience was 69.5m. In at #1 was 'Castle On The Hill' on 85.5m. That was its peak for 'Castle'. 'Shape' peaked a few weeks later at 83.3m.

Thanks. Interesting that 4 of the top 10 are from a 5 week period in February to March 2000. The only week missing is 4 March 2000 (I've just checked Music Week and note number 1 that week is 'Rise' by Gabrielle on 107.10m). Plus 7 of the top 10 are from 2000 to 2003.

Which tracks have the two largest weekly audiences?

I've gone for 250k to 299k but that's simply because I haven't a clue what its physical sales will be. It will have massive streams though.

'Stockholm Syndrome' by Muse apparently sold enough when issued as a download only single in July 2003 to have charted inside the top 20 had it been eligible. This was 10 months before iTunes launched in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/ju...5/artsfeatures8 I'm not too sure how true it was that the track would have been top 20 by the end of the sales week. Maybe top 20 in the midweeks but its sale for its first week of release was given by Music Week as being 5,000. That said it was a very low sales week, the number 3 single ('No Letting Go' by Wayne Wonder) only sold 15,784, the lowest weekly sale for a top 3 single for 10 years. It would certainly have been enough to get the track inside the top 30 though given that the average sale of a number 20 single in that period was less than 6,000 and for a top 30 single it was less than 3,500. The article in which the sale for 'Stockholm Syndrome' was given also mentions that the OCC were hoping to incorporate download sales into the singles chart in early 2004 (in the end it took a year longer than that) and, to help boost falling singles sales, it was suggested that the new chart could be published / announced on a Friday with new releases moved from a Monday to a Friday (both took a lot longer to actually happen!).

Isn't the German chart based on revenues rather than sales equivalents? If so, it makes sense to continue to release CD singles as they will generate more revenue.

It will be interesting to see if the CD single revival can grow or if it ends up like the 7" vinyl revival of the mid 00s, a fad that just doesn't last. I remember my local HMV reintroducing a top 20 display for 7" singles in 2004 or 2005 but by the end of the decade vinyl single sales had collapsed once again. I wonder how many people buy a CD single but (like cassettes now and those vinyl singles from the 00s) have no way of actually playing them.