braindeadpj

If it's an artificial no.1 (ie, induced by ACR) then it's a fake no.1 no matter who the artist is. It'll be interesting to see whether that is the case. The no.1 may need to exceed 70,000 to be genuine...

RUTH's run was ACR induced (it was really 2-1) while Sophie's isn't. Still an interesting parallel though for streaming movie on Amazon Prime vs streaming series on Netflix induced tracks to potentially get the same official climb.

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 agree listening to her now..... Would be good to see Mandinka and some of her other (non)hits charting too but unless there's a movie/tv/tik tok tie in, I doubt it'll happen.....

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...

Fairytale of new York only needs the no.1 - unlikely but you never know.....

Do you know whether it has done it unadjusted (ie without applying ACR) as well?

Since streaming is the main way that people now consume music, it would be a 1,000 people deciding to stream it - which would be a maximum of 16 'sales' (assuming they listened to the whole thing and it has 16 or more tracks).

QUOTE(-Jay- @ May 19 2023, 12:23 AM) * I’m fairly sure that hits included on both a studio album and a Greatest Hits contribute to both albums - not an “either or” situation? Yes songs count for both the parent album and the (nominated) greatest hits package.

Essentially if a record charts anywhere then its not a flop, maybe an underperformer compared to prior records but not a flop.

They should also say, but don't forget streaming today makes no difference as its not counted!

I agree. At least its real rather than 'calculative' (and artifically inflated by passive playlists)

No that'd be Ed who only acheived 3 of his 14 no.1s due to the higher selling/streaming records being on ACR. Lewis has achieved the highest overall 'sales' each week he has made it.

Except for the christmas songs, Kate Bush is the only one which would've been no.1 if it had been reset prior to it actually being reset on its 3rd week on the chart as it was the biggest seller/streamer on its second week. Also technically not a rule change, as its always been said that if the record company asks for a reset due to new promotion of a record that the OCC will consider it. If its older than 3 years then it can't get an automatic reset (25% increase), but I don't think a manual reset has ever been excluded?

I would say one of the most controversial number 1s would be Please Please Me by the Beatles due to histoiry rewriting. At the time everyone knew it was no.1 as the NME, MM, Disc and BBC averaged charts attested to. However time has been rewritten as the small lowly 'for industry' RR chart has been adopted as the 'official' chart despite its considerably smaller number of contributing stores (30-85 vs 110-250) and Please Please Me was held at no.2 on that chart....

Oh yes I forgot that one and misremembered that River actually did exceed Perfect's total by a little over 1,000 even without ACR. Thanks.

Am I correct in thinking that without ACR, Ed would only have 11 no.1s? I know Merry Christmas without Ladbaby didn't make it and I don't think his one with Stormzy or Eminem did either but I could be wrong.....

Except Ed wasn't no.1 in 2022 because ACR put Adele there instead....

My bad, you're right. 1200 streams split 50:50 would give 6 and 1 sale so 7/1200 which is approx. 1/171 and not just the midpoint between 1/100 and 1/600. So at 6.67 million that would reduce the numbers as it's not as low as I thought. The Killers may still make it as Mr Brightside would get them almost halfway there.... Of course if they count album streams then its 1 million sales..... Will they count both? Or will they just count raw streams? Perhaps 'only' 30 to 50 artists reaching it?