braindeadpj

If someone is streaming just a specific song, then its not an album stream in my opinion. Album streams should only count if a person streams a certain percentage of an album otherwise its just single (or song) streams

Now that's true with the charts being announced the day after the sales week ends, but certainly in the 20th Century, when the chart was first announced on the Tuesday (or perhaps even the Wednesday/Thursday when the newspaper carrying the chart was published) the "official" Christmas no.1 can be from an older sales week. The example of 1967 given earlier - the chart dated week ending Saturday 23rd December covered sales to the 11th to the 16th December 1967 as the next chart wouldn't be published until the 26th (Tuesday) at the earliest (and as already mentioned only covered sales to the 20th), so Christmas Day would fall in the sales chart week for the w/e Saturday 6th January 1968 (or Wednesday 3rd January issue of RR). Of course newspapers may publish the chart a little earlier but almost none published what is (errenously) considered the "official" chart nowadays as almost all covered NME's or MM's chart and not the RR chart (also published in RM).

The Virgin Top 40 dates are the publication dates for RR (6th, 13th, 20th, 27th) while the 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th December refers to the Saturday after this as most of the charts from the 70s to the 2015 use this....- so RR was published on the 27th December and the 30th December is often used as the Saturday week ending date (but actually covers sales to the 20th December - instead of the "usual" (probably) 23rd December for that week (and so wold not have included Christmas Day in its sales week either even without the adjustment.

As you say, most of them are not single week no.1s, but in most cases where it changes in the 20th Century, they're just no.1s whose reign came to an end the sales week that included Christmas Day (if compiled) and so were not single week No.1s. However one thing to bear in mind is sometimes the next chart after Christmas may still not include the Christmas Day sales week. The Christmas chart for 1967 is presumably the chart dated the 23rd December as the next chart (w/e 30th December) would not have been announced until the Tuesday/Wednesday or 26th/27th December. The chart w/e 30th December 1967 actually covers the sales period from Monday 11th December to Wednesday 20th December (they added the sales data from Monday 18th to Wednesday 20th to the Monday 11th to Saturday 16th sales data -the Christmas chart). Something similar may have happened during the 70s for at least some of the Xmas no.1s....

Thanks for the explanation. I guess it make sense......

So why is Merry Christmas not on ACR? It's over 3 years old and obviously declined after Christmas last year - though I guess maybe 3 weeks of zero streams may not count as a decline??

How has the chart been compiled? Inverse points by position each week?

No worries. I did find the page jumped around a bit (scrolled up and down for no reason) so easy to miscount the rows

I only see 27 pictures.... 3 rows of 9. Weird that they had Queen twice (i guess its because they gave it to 2 different members of Queen?). Ed is the only multi-winner.... I guess one of the others is a combo too to make it 25 (rather than 26)?

Continue posting it. It is a pretty worthless 'record' as they are dishing them out as they see fit rather than giving them to everyone who has achieved it and probably not even when they achieve it, but still it's 'interesting'

But it is what they mean, the full quote is: "It is the first film in chart history to simultaneously spawn three Top 5 hits, although three films have spun off three concurrent Top 10 hits hitherto." Of course as we know Grease spun off three concurrent Top 5 hits hitherto.

Ok I obviously said it wrong as you msinterpreted it. To quote them exactly: "It is the first film in chart history to simultaneously spawn three Top 5 hits" ie have three songs enter the top 5 at the same time.

Note that what the OCC actually says is that the soundtrack is the first to simultaneously place 3 in the top 5. The week before they had none in the Top 5 and now they have 3. The other examples all had prior records in the Top 5 before they put a total of 3. While subtle this distinction does make the record unique, though of course prior to 2012 and streaming (or perhaps back to 1994 or so when downloading allowed any song to chartt) 3 songs would be very unlikely to be released at the same time to enable this record to occur.

I wonder whether its like it used to be where the record company had to request (and pay for) the certification? That might explain why so many obvious receipients haven't received it yet. Yes a 1 billion, 5 billion and 10 billion would be more meaningful (or perhaps even a 1, 10, and 50, though few or perhaps none would make that?)

OK, thanks JulianT for confirming that. I thought that was probably the case...