DanChartFan

The lead artists on Barry Islands In The Stream were Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West, aka Ruth Jones and Rob Brydon, who are also both Welsh.

Taylor Swift's Cleveland! enters at #3 to join the list this week.

ADELA's Ain't in LA drops to #15, but remains on this list for a third week.

I like this song but am always distracted by how she sings the word 'time' like she doesn;'t know how to pronounce the word, "all the toy-um".

I was out last weekend and something dawned on me. that might also be part of the problem If places like my local spoons are playing the same old hits every night on loop, and are likely using a Sporify account or youtube account or some such to play them, then could this be an underlying cause for certain old tracks never dissappearing from the charts? Could the chart be accidentally measuring what spoons and other pubs/clubs are playing as well as the personal consumption of individuals?

Back in the day we were still playing our old tapes and CDs each week, as well as buying the new ones in the chart, it's just that our continued consumption of those old tapes and CDs was not counted for the chart since it only measured what was actually being bought in the shops, not what was being played. Including streaming meant that suddenly the chart was measuring continued consumpiton of older tracks as well as initial uptake of the newest stuff. Nowadays we seem to be at a point where the newest stuff can no longer break through due to the heavy presence on the charts of the older stuff, and whether that is unfair or not is debatable. I actually checked how many new songs (those that first charted in the actual year in question) made the Top 40 in each quarter of this year and the last quarter of last year. Q4 2025 and Q1 and Q2 2026 averaged about 40 new top 40 hits, but this current quarter (the chart we're listening to is the last sales week of Q3) had only 26 new Top 40 hits up to last week, and with today's new chart we will get to about 30 or so. Here's a playlist of tracks that were actually new Top 40 hits this quarter: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uizvL4D2wu271lb2Y24qg

Would the three years start from release date or from the first week it reaches the chart?

Cloonee & Prospa ft Tristan's Good Girl makes the Top 40, and both of it's weeks on this list go instead to Olivia Rodrigo's Expectations (at #55 and #54 respectively). This week sees Kolter's Hey Everybody (Back In The Dance) reach a new peak of #49 and join this list.

I honestly would love to see Ella back at #1 tbh

Stella Lefty's Boston benefits from Movin' To The Sun's consignment to ACR by reaching a new peak of #3 and joining this list.

If one of the top 3 has moved then mathematically one of the other two has to also have moved (unless there is an official tie in the Top 3 this week).

Siella Leftley?

Oh Ok, sorry, I've never seen Mean Girls.

The failed sports network?

ADELA's Ain't in LA returns to its peak of #12 to get a second week on this list this week. Will it break the Top 10 next week?

But he made the quip in response to someone who texted in to say that Ella would be #1 today.....

When Jack made that quip about inside information did he accidentally reveal the #1, and was his next sentence an attempt to cover that up?

But do you extend it to start earlier, when the presumed target audience of teens and young adults may well still be at school/college/uni, or do you extend it to run later, and risk losing a chunk of the audience who drop away to have their tea/dinner?

Robyn's dancing on her own now, and a bit later Ella Langley will be drinking Jack all by herself....

Is that Hold My Hand by Don Cornell or Jess 2 Holidays?

I was just figuring out how many sub-40k weeks have happened only because the true most consumed song was subjected to Artificially Crap Ratio (ACR). There have been 17 sub-40k weeks so far since the middle of 2017 [and the last one before that was All Summer Long in 2008]. Of those 17 I think, from looking at the weekly sales threads, that 13 were only because of ACR, 2017: Feels (Despacito on ACR) 2018: I'll Be There (One Kiss on ACR) 2020: Lemonade (Mood and 1 other track on ACR), Positions (All I Want For Christmas Is You and up to 6 others on ACR) 2022: Easy On Me (Shivers on ACR) 2024: Sailor (Taste on ACR) 2025: Not Like Us (Messy on ACR), Pink Pony Club x2 (Messy on ACR), Dior (Ordinary on ACR) 2026: Choosing Texas (Rein Me In on ACR), Great Expectation x2 (Rein Me In on ACR) So the only 'genuine' sub-40k weeks since Mid 2017 (as long as you accept the SCR metric, or even the idea of adding streams to the chart in general) are: 2021: Sweet Melody, Driver's License 2023: Strangers x2 So without ACR we'd have 92 singles and 133 weeks on the sub-40k list. If anyone spots any mistakes there then feel free to correct me. Corrected to reflect what I's now found on JosephStyles' thread How ACR has affected the #1 spot which can be found here: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/241418-how-acr-has-affected-the-1-spot/

I've worked it out myself, based on the weekly sales at number one thread by Gezza in the chart vault, and by my reckoning there are 'only' 146 weeks in total, so not all that much more than the 103 records listed here. For the record this is all the singles/tracks that had more than one sub-40k week at number 1 since 1980: 1992: Shakespears Sisters-Stay - 4 weeks, Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy - 2 weeks, The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode - 2 weeks, Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelitte - 2 weeks 1999/2000: Westlife - I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun - 2 weeks 2003: Evanessence - Bring Me To Life - 2 weeks 2004: Eric Prydz - Call On Me - 3 weeks 2005: James Blunt - You're Beautiful - 2 weeks 2006: Notorious BIG et al - Nasty Girl - 2 weeks, Meck ft Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again - 2 weeks, Gnarls Barkley - Crazy - 2 weeks, Shakira ft Wycelf Jean - Hips Don't Lie - 5 weeks, Lily Allen - Smile - 2 weeks, McFly - Don't Stop Me Now/Please Please Please - 2 weeks, My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade - 2 weeks, Take That - Patience - 3 weeks 2007: Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This - 2 weeks, MIKA - Grace Kelly - 2 weeks, Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar - 3 weeks, Rihanna ft Jay Z - Umbrella - 8 weeks, Timbland ft Keir Hilson/DOE - The Way I Are - 2 weeks, Kanye West - Stronger - 2 weeks, Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls - 2 weeks 2008: Basshunter - Now Your'e Gone - 3 weeks, Madonna ft Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - 4 Minutes - 2 weeks 2023: Kenya Grace - Strangers - 2 weeks 2025: Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club - 2 weeks 2026: Sienna Spiro - Great Expectation - 2 weeks (so far)

Out of curiousity how many more would there be on this list if every qualifying week for each charttopper was listed?

I take it that each single can only appear once on the list, even where they have more than one qualifying week? Otherwise Sienna Spiro should have two entries here for Great Expectation.

Jamie Miller's Babydoll c;limbs into the Top 40 this week, and it's place on this list week is taken by Cloonee & Prospa ft Tristan's Good Girl, which climbed to #47 last week, and has climbed again this week to #42 to also claim this week's place. Will it crack the top 40 next week?