braindeadpj

A billion streams does seem a little low assuming they mean the currently accepted 1,000 million and not the UK's historical 1 million million definition. That's only around 2,850,000 sale units (for singles) assuming a ratio of around 1:350 (for 50% premium and 50% freemium). There'll probably be 100s of artists.... including the Killers (just for Mr Brightside)

Just because Ed appears to be behind on the streaming charts, don't forget that Spotify, Amazon and Apple charts (and even the OCC streaming charts) don't take into account premium:freemium. Ed tends to do well on premium compared with freemium....

Wasn't Kate Bush at 2 the week she really made no.1 before being reset and getting to no.1 the following week?

For any list of EPs that appeared on the "Official" charts you need to mention that between 12th March 1960 and 2nd December 1967 Record Retailer (the publisher of the "Official" chart) had their own EP chart and so they did not make the main chart (though NME and Disc as well as Melody Maker from May 1963 did include them) and that's why there is no Twist and Shout (EP), The Rolling Stones (EP), The Dave Clark 5 EP, All My Loving EP to name just a few......

U.K. Songs Week of February 4, 2023 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 1 2 Flowers - Miley Cyrus ( 1 ) 2 2 8 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 1 ) 3 3 4 Kill Bill - SZA ( 2 ) 4 4 11 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift ( 1 ) 5 5 18 I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha ( 1 ) 6 6 4 Creepin' - Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage ( 6 ) 7 11 8 Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez ( 7 ) 8 7 4 Let Go - Central Cee ( 6 ) 9 8 14 Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras ( 1 ) 10 9 10 Messy In Heaven - venbee x Goddard. ( 7 ) 11 10 11 Miss You - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz ( 3 ) 12 14 3 Sure Thing - Miguel ( 12 ) 13 NEW 1 Martin's Sofa - Headie One ( 13 ) 14 12 9 Made You Look - Meghan Trainor ( 3 ) 15 15 12 Another Love - Tom Odell ( 15 ) 16 13 37 As It Was - Harry Styles ( 1 ) 17 17 16 Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi ( 3 ) 18 19 3 Pointless - Lewis Capaldi ( 17 ) 19 16 25 I Ain't Worried - OneRepublic ( 3 ) 20 NEW 1 10:35 - Tiesto Featuring Tate McRae ( 20 ) 21 18 4 Out Of Nowhere - Bugzy Malone & TeeDee ( 11 ) 22 21 15 Psycho - Anne-Marie x Aitch ( 9 ) 23 20 20 B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal ( 1 ) 24 Re-Entry 21 Green Green Grass - George Ezra ( 4 ) 25 23 2 Golden Hour - JVKE ( 23 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (04/02/2023) at UKMIX

U.K. Songs Week of January 28, 2023 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 NEW 1 Flowers - Miley Cyrus ( 1 ) 2 1 7 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 1 ) 3 2 3 Kill Bill - SZA ( 2 ) 4 3 10 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift ( 1 ) 5 5 17 I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha ( 1 ) 6 13 3 Creepin' - Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage ( 6 ) 7 6 3 Let Go - Central Cee ( 6 ) 8 4 13 Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras ( 1 ) 9 7 9 Messy In Heaven - venbee x Goddard. ( 7 ) 10 9 10 Miss You - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz ( 3 ) 11 10 7 Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez ( 10 ) 12 8 8 Made You Look - Meghan Trainor ( 3 ) 13 12 36 As It Was - Harry Styles ( 1 ) 14 20 2 Sure Thing - Miguel ( 14 ) 15 15 11 Another Love - Tom Odell ( 15 ) 16 14 24 I Ain't Worried - OneRepublic ( 3 ) 17 16 15 Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi ( 3 ) 18 11 3 Out Of Nowhere - Bugzy Malone & TeeDee ( 11 ) 19 17 2 Pointless - Lewis Capaldi ( 17 ) 20 18 19 B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal ( 1 ) 21 19 14 Psycho - Anne-Marie x Aitch ( 9 ) 22 23 9 Hide & Seek - Stormzy ( 10 ) 23 NEW 1 Golden Hour - JVKE ( 23 ) 24 24 13 Cuff It - Beyonce ( 6 ) 25 22 21 Bad Habit - Steve Lacy ( 7 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (28/01/2023) at UKMIX

Pointless only being at 17 here shows a probable absence of any real sales being included here - exclusion of real sales would've put Pointless at 13 on the OCC chart so a slight difference in the free:premium ratio may explain the difference.

U.K. Songs Week of January 21, 2023 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 1 6 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 1 ) 2 4 2 Kill Bill - SZA ( 2 ) 3 2 9 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift ( 1 ) 4 3 12 Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras ( 1 ) 5 6 16 I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha ( 1 ) 6 10 2 Let Go - Central Cee ( 6 ) 7 7 8 Messy In Heaven - venbee x Goddard. ( 7 ) 8 5 7 Made You Look - Meghan Trainor ( 3 ) 9 9 9 Miss You - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz ( 3 ) 10 11 6 Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez ( 10 ) 11 12 2 Out Of Nowhere - Bugzy Malone & TeeDee ( 11 ) 12 8 35 As It Was - Harry Styles ( 1 ) 13 18 2 Creepin' - Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage ( 13 ) 14 13 23 I Ain't Worried - OneRepublic ( 3 ) 15 15 10 Another Love - Tom Odell ( 15 ) 16 14 14 Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi ( 3 ) 17 NEW 1 Pointless - Lewis Capaldi ( 17 ) 18 16 18 B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal ( 1 ) 19 17 13 Psycho - Anne-Marie x Aitch ( 9 ) 20 NEW 1 Sure Thing - Miguel ( 20 ) 21 NEW 1 Until I Found You - Stephen Sanchez ( 21 ) 22 22 20 Bad Habit - Steve Lacy ( 7 ) 23 Re-Entry 8 Hide & Seek - Stormzy ( 10 ) 24 20 12 Cuff It - Beyonce ( 6 ) 25 NEW 1 Rumble - Skrillex, Fred again.. & Flowdan ( 25 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (21/01/2023) at UKMIX

No surprise that everything is a re-entry/new entry this week as everything was a christmas song (or fuelled by christmas playlists) last week

U.K. Songs Week of January 14, 2023 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 Re-Entry 5 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 1 ) 2 Re-Entry 8 Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift ( 1 ) 3 Re-Entry 11 Unholy - Sam Smith & Kim Petras ( 1 ) 4 NEW 1 Kill Bill - SZA ( 4 ) 5 Re-Entry 6 Made You Look - Meghan Trainor ( 3 ) 6 Re-Entry 15 I'm Good (Blue) - David Guetta & Bebe Rexha ( 1 ) 7 Re-Entry 7 Messy In Heaven - venbee x Goddard. ( 7 ) 8 Re-Entry 34 As It Was - Harry Styles ( 1 ) 9 Re-Entry 8 Miss You - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz ( 3 ) 10 NEW 1 Let Go - Central Cee ( 10 ) 11 Re-Entry 5 Calm Down - Rema & Selena Gomez ( 11 ) 12 NEW 1 Out Of Nowhere - Bugzy Malone & TeeDee ( 12 ) 13 Re-Entry 22 I Ain't Worried - OneRepublic ( 3 ) 14 Re-Entry 13 Forget Me - Lewis Capaldi ( 3 ) 15 Re-Entry 9 Another Love - Tom Odell ( 15 ) 16 Re-Entry 17 B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) - Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal ( 1 ) 17 Re-Entry 12 Psycho - Anne-Marie x Aitch ( 9 ) 18 NEW 1 Creepin' - Metro Boomin, The Weeknd & 21 Savage ( 18 ) 19 Re-Entry 22 Afraid To Feel - LF SYSTEM ( 1 ) 20 Re-Entry 11 Cuff It - Beyonce ( 6 ) 21 Re-Entry 28 Shivers - Ed Sheeran ( 4 ) 22 Re-Entry 19 Bad Habit - Steve Lacy ( 7 ) 23 Re-Entry 36 Bad Habits - Ed Sheeran ( 2 ) 24 Re-Entry 4 Rich Flex - Drake & 21 Savage ( 3 ) 25 Re-Entry 13 Under The Influence - Chris Brown ( 8 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (14/01/2023) at UKMIX

Of course new promotion of Lavender Haze could lead to a 25% increase in streams and an automatic reset anyway without the re3cord company needing to request it....... Only time will tell....

Resets of songs older than 3 years have to be requested by the record company and linked to a new campaign a la Kate Bush and Metallica with Stranger Things/Tik Tok promotions. If the record company doesn't request it, it won't happen.....

The reset for Lavender Haze would be for a new promotion asked for by the record company, while my impression is that the reset for Anti-Hero is an automatic reset by the OCC for the primary single at the time due to suppresssion of streams as a consequence of the christmas surge. In this way both could be reset within weeks of each other. Alternatively Lavender Haze may have to wait until Anti-Hero goes back to ACR - but I doubt it.....

U.K. Songs Week of January 7, 2023 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 1 7 Last Christmas - Wham! ( 1 ) 2 2 7 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey ( 1 ) 3 3 6 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee ( 3 ) 4 4 6 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Michael Buble ( 4 ) 5 5 5 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms ( 5 ) 6 6 5 Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl ( 6 ) 7 11 5 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams ( 7 ) 8 7 5 Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid ( 7 ) 9 8 5 Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande ( 5 ) 10 10 5 Underneath The Tree - Kelly Clarkson ( 9 ) 11 9 5 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens ( 7 ) 12 12 5 Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea ( 11 ) 13 13 5 Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney ( 13 ) 14 17 4 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin ( 14 ) 15 16 4 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard ( 15 ) 16 19 4 Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes ( 16 ) 17 14 5 Step Into Christmas - Elton John ( 13 ) 18 21 3 Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano ( 18 ) 19 18 4 Holly Jolly Christmas - Michael Buble ( 18 ) 20 15 4 Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran & Elton John ( 15 ) 21 22 4 Snowman - Sia ( 21 ) 22 20 4 Firebabe - Stormzy ( 16 ) 23 24 4 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir ( 23 ) 24 NEW 1 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love ( 24 ) 25 Re-Entry 2 One More Sleep - Leona Lewis ( 25 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (07/01/2023) at UKMIX

Don't forget that Merry Christmas was starred out at 40 as Ed already had 3 tracks this time last year.....

I believe the way they did it is that only the current single is reset. We now Shivers wasn't reset last year, but i think Overpass Graffitti was - though perhaps Shivers fell to ACR before December? So Anti-Hero was the current single (until today where they start pushing Lavender Haze).

Since it is now being marketed as the next single, it'll probably be reset this week (ie for next week's chart) as Oh My God was for Adele last year.

Interesting that tracks 3-6 are essentially stepping down by the averaging value of 5,000. Of course this means that the sales difference could be anything from approx. 2,500 to 7,500 for each...

Considering equals increased the number of tracks that counted by 25%, that's actually a decrease..... (due to a change in rules and addition of multiple remixes/new tracks)

I hope you do continue as it is always good to see what the chart really looks like.

Of course, if they don't count real sales at all, that would also explain it.....

Well that is weird then. We know it was 4 without ACR at the normal 1:100/1:600 ratio. It has been suggested that the revised streaming ratio used by Billboard is something like 1:200 and 1:900 (or 1:250 and 1:1125) as they use for the Global charts, but that doesn't make sense. Maybe the ratio is lower say 1:50 and 1:300 then the amount of streams would be doubled (quadrupled compared with the "official" chart). Leona Lewis was 32 on the official chart with sales around 21,810 (so around 42,500 without ACR), so a streaming ratio of 1:50 and 1:300 would put her (and everyone else) above Food Aid (which be around 45 with that streaming ratio)!

Interesting that Food Aid doesn't appear at all in either the christmas chart or ths one. Presumably because the sales came from their website and not ituines/amazon etc and so were excluded as D2C.

U.K. Songs Week of December 31, 2022 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 1 6 Last Christmas - Wham! ( 1 ) 2 2 6 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey ( 1 ) 3 3 5 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee ( 3 ) 4 4 5 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Michael Buble ( 4 ) 5 5 4 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms ( 5 ) 6 6 4 Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl ( 6 ) 7 8 4 Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid ( 7 ) 8 7 4 Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande ( 5 ) 9 10 4 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens ( 7 ) 10 9 4 Underneath The Tree - Kelly Clarkson ( 9 ) 11 11 4 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams ( 11 ) 12 12 4 Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea ( 11 ) 13 14 4 Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney ( 13 ) 14 13 4 Step Into Christmas - Elton John ( 13 ) 15 17 3 Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran & Elton John ( 15 ) 16 15 3 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard ( 15 ) 17 18 3 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin ( 17 ) 18 19 3 Holly Jolly Christmas - Michael Buble ( 18 ) 19 20 3 Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes ( 19 ) 20 Re-Entry 3 Firebabe - Stormzy ( 16 ) 21 22 2 Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano ( 21 ) 22 21 3 Snowman - Sia ( 21 ) 23 16 4 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 14 ) 24 23 3 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir ( 23 ) 25 24 3 Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade ( 24 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (31/12/2022) at UKMIX

U.K. Songs Week of December 24, 2022 TW LW WOC Title Artist ( Peak ) 1 2 5 Last Christmas - Wham! ( 1 ) 2 1 5 All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey ( 1 ) 3 3 4 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee ( 3 ) 4 4 4 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Michael Buble ( 4 ) 5 8 3 Jingle Bell Rock - Bobby Helms ( 5 ) 6 6 3 Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacColl ( 6 ) 7 5 3 Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande ( 5 ) 8 9 3 Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid ( 8 ) 9 10 3 Underneath The Tree - Kelly Clarkson ( 9 ) 10 7 3 Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens ( 7 ) 11 12 3 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams ( 11 ) 12 11 3 Driving Home For Christmas - Chris Rea ( 11 ) 13 13 3 Step Into Christmas - Elton John ( 13 ) 14 16 3 Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney ( 14 ) 15 15 2 I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard ( 15 ) 16 14 3 Escapism - RAYE Featuring 070 Shake ( 14 ) 17 17 2 Merry Christmas - Ed Sheeran & Elton John ( 17 ) 18 19 2 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Dean Martin ( 18 ) 19 18 2 Holly Jolly Christmas - Michael Buble ( 18 ) 20 21 2 Sleigh Ride - The Ronettes ( 20 ) 21 23 2 Snowman - Sia ( 21 ) 22 NEW 1 Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano ( 22 ) 23 25 2 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) - John & Yoko/The Plastic Ono Band With The Harlem Community Choir ( 23 ) 24 24 2 Merry Christmas Everybody - Slade ( 24 ) 25 NEW 1 One More Sleep - Leona Lewis ( 25 ) from BrainDamageII post in US Billboard Charts (24/12/2022) at UKMIX