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Just as pointless as BPI's one billion streams award. :D Buzzjack should have an award for every user who logs on at least once a week.

I'll just add this in here. No streaming figures given. See here The Official Top 40 most-streamed songs by female acts in the UK ever. Here's the Top 5. Pos Title Artist 1 DANCE MONKEY TONES & I 2 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU MARIAH CAREY 3 SHALLOW LADY GAGA & BRADLEY COOPER 4 ONE KISS CALVIN HARRIS & DUA LIPA 5 BAD GUY BILLIE EILISH

62 singles this week (plus 5 albums and 1 video). This is unexpected, Trashmen - Surfin' Bird - Charly - Silver - Single - 08.03.2024 - 20.03.2006 Spent 4 weeks in the Top 100. Chart run (2/5/2009) 50, 79; then a year and a half later 3, 41. Unusual. Their only hit. No albums.

OFFICIAL CHART UPDATE #ChartFact ow!) Rod Stewart and Jools Holland are currently in the lead for this week's Number 1 album. Rod Stewart's most recent Number 1 album was 2019's You're In My Heart - which has now sold over 312,000 chart units in the UK.

19 Jennifer Lopez - This Is Me...Now * Hardly a flop!

How did The Beatles ever allow their song to be in the movie? Maybe they got a huge royalty fee?

OK - I was wrong!! Probably around 3k per week for the last 7 weeks, mainly physical sales.

At last!! 'Now And Then', the single by @thebeatles, is now #BRITcertified Silver. Obviously the 25,000 or so chart ineligible singles are not included. But they were real sales!

50 Hey Jude 49 Let it be 48 I Want to hold your hand 47 Twist and shout 46 I saw her standing there 45 Help! 44 Yesterday 43 Here comes the sun 42 Eleanor Rigby 41 All you need is love 40 All my Loving 39 Penny Lane 38 In my life 37 Please please me 36 A hard day’s night 35 Strawberry fields forever 34 From me to you 33 She loves you 32 With a little help from my friends 31 Sgt Pepper 30 Nowhere man 29 Can’t buy me love 28 Back in the USSR 27 The long and winding road 26 Now and then 25 Get back 24 Come together 23 Something 22 Love me do 21 Michelle 20 Ticket to ride 19 Here there and everywhere 18 While my guitar gently weeps 17 And I love her 16 We can work it out 15 Hello Goodbye 14 Blackbird 13 Drive my car 12 I feel fine 11 Day tripper 10 Yellow submarine 9 Eight days a week 8 Norwegian wood 7 Across the universe 6 Octopus’s Garden 5 Real love 4 This boy 3 Magical Mystery Tour 2 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 1 The ballad of John & Yoko EDIT: changed some of my selections.

Sza - Sos Rca - Platinum - Album - 02.02.2024 - 19.05.2023 Just a wee mistake.

We would all like to know that! Probably still suffering from a Christmas hangover. And if you search for Taylor Swift her last certificate is way back on 24/11/23. Similar for other artists. Recent certs not yet added.

Certs for singles now available at HAVEN foruns (care of UKChartsPlus). https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...crollTo=2596848

No Silver cert last Friday so around 25,000 chart ineligible sales don't count for BPI certification, and presumably all-time sales. It might never go Silver.

Will need to see if Now And Then was certified last Friday. Counting ineligible sales, I have it at just over 200,000 sales. They may be ineligible for the chart but they are recorded on the OCC database because Alan Jones gave us the sales figures. All sales should therefore contribute to certification. I'm sure this applies to other artists. I would agree that the Beatles Thursday streams are lost forever.

Do you know whether chart ineligible sales are taken into account e.g. when there are more than 3 variants released for songs? They don't count for chart sales but what about BPI certifications?

From the OCC Noah Kahan could claim the first Official Number 1 single of 2024 this week with his enduring hit Stick Season. With festive hits flushed away, the song looks set to lift nine places to reach the summit in its 14th week on chart, having previously peaked at Number 2 in December 2023. Meanwhile, Jack Harlow’s former chart-topper Lovin On Me flies 25 places midweek to Number 2, and Tate McRae could see greedy return to its previous peak of Number 3. Following the release of a limited edition vinyl variant, Dua Lipa’s Houdini tracks for a return to the Top 5 this week (4), as Billy Gillies ft. Hannah Boleyn’s DNA (Loving You) aims to break the Top 5 for the first time (5). After featuring in London’s New Year firework celebrations broadcast on the BBC, Dua Lipa’s former chart-topper Dance the Night lifts back into the Top 40 midweek (24). Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s 2002 smash Murder on the Dancefloor eyes a return to the Top 40 for the first time in 22 years this week, tracking for a Number 27 re-entry. The song, which peaked at Number 2, sees a spike in popularity thanks to its inclusion in the (very memorable) closing scene of writer-director Emerald Fennell’s psychological thriller Saltburn, starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike, which began streaming on Amazon Prime over Christmas. See the full Official Singles Chart Update here from 5.45pm.

From BPI. Vinyl LP purchases have risen for the 16th consecutive year in the UK in 2023 and are growing at their fastest rate this decade. Following a 2.9% improvement in unit sales last year, the vinyl market in 2023 has, with just a few more days to go to year-end, increased more than four times as fast with an 11.7% rise to 5.9 million units. This is according to analysis of Official Charts data by the BPI, the association for the UK’s record companies and labels and the representative voice of British recorded music. The increase has been led by brand new releases from artists including Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, The Rolling Stones, and Taylor Swift. While more than four-fifths of recorded music consumption in the UK is now made up of streaming, demand for vinyl LPs continues to surge, with the market at its highest annual level since 1990. This includes over a quarter of a million vinyl albums having been sold during the course of last week, making it the highest sales week for the format this century. Additionally, the CD market has sustained its smallest annual decline in nearly a decade this year as it moves closer to plateauing. Nearly 11 million CDs, which remain important commercially and to Official Charts success, were sold across the year, while sales of cassettes topped 100,000 units in a calendar year for the fourth consecutive year. Chart 1 – OFFICIAL VINYL ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023* – © Official Charts Company Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version) The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Blur – The Ballad Of Darren Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon Taylor Swift – Midnights Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent *Up to Chart Week 51 2023 Chart 2 – OFFICIAL COMPACT DISC ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023* – © Official Charts Company Take That – This Life Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version) The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent Ed Sheeran – - (Subtract) P!nk – Trustfall Foo Fighters – But Here We Are Metallica – 72 Seasons Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Council Skies Kylie Minogue – Tension *Up to Chart Week 51 2023 Chart 3 – OFFICIAL CASSETTE ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023 – © Official Charts Company Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Ed Sheeran – - (Subtract) Kylie Minogue – Tension Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises Blur – The Ballad Of Darren Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent Hozier – Unreal Unearth The 1975 – Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra *Up to Chart Week 51 2023

HAVEN had the BPI list for 22nd December last Thursday. https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...cations?page=12 Care of https://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk

Simon & Garfunkel The Sounds Of Silence Columbia Silver Single 15.12.2023 21.10.2008 That should be the album. The single, The Sound Of Silence was released in 2004, and is already Platinum. There was a previous album, awarded GOLD, based on shipments. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence - Unknown - Gold - Album - 21.02.1984 - 13.03.1981

'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?', the album by @oasis, is now #BRITcertified 17x Platinum. That's 5,100,000. BPI must be using the revised OCC sales for 1994 and 1995.

+18 THE BEATLES – I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND +15 THE BEATLES – DAY TRIPPER/WE CAN WORK IT OUT +13 THE BEATLES – HELLO, GOODBYE +12 THE BEATLES – I FEEL FINE +11 WINGS – MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL +10 CLIFF RICHARD – MISTLETOE AND WINE +9 SHAKIN' STEVENS – MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE +8 CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS – I LOVE YOU +7 CLIFF RICHARD – SAVIOUR'S DAY +6 WHAM! - LAST CHRISTMAS +5 ELVIS PRESLEY – RETURN TO SENDER +4 JOHNNIE RAY – JUST WALKIN' IN THE RAIN +3 SLADE – MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY +2 BONEY M – MARY'S BOY CHILD – OH MY LORD +1 MR BLOBBY – MR BLOBBY Because I am a Beatles and Cliff fan!!

My local Asda store has started to sell again a limited range of CDs. For example, CDs by Take That, Cher, Madness, Daniel O'Donnell, Cliff, Beatles Red and Blue albums. I wonder whether Tesco and Sainsbury will follow selling CDs in the new year. This could affect the charts somewhat if more physicals are purchased.

From the BBC Christmas number one: Wham! and Sam Ryder do battle as chart race enters final day By Ian Youngs & Mark Savage BBC News Wham!, Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey are all vying for this year's Christmas number one, in one of the most open festive chart battles of recent years. Thursday is the final day for streams and sales to count before the Christmas chart is revealed on Friday. Wham!'s 1984 classic Last Christmas is leading the way, with Ryder's You're Christmas To Me the top new release. YouTubers LadBaby have been Christmas number one for the past five years, but decided not to enter the 2023 race. The Christmas chart battle "feels much more exciting than it has done for a few years", according to Martin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company. Talbot said there is "a much more open field" this year. "LadBaby have dominated for the last five years and I think by the time it reached its fifth Christmas number one last year, people were keen to see something a bit fresh and a bit new. "We've obviously got the classics that are coming back into the charts, we've got the usual run of charity records driven by ordinary people who just want to raise some money for good causes, and we've also got one or two really interesting releases as well, like Sam Ryder." The Wham! and Pogues songs have been reissued on vinyl, while Ryder's single is available on CD - with physical sales counting for more than streams in the chart formula. Streams of newer songs also carry greater weight - meaning Ryder and Sheeran/Sir Elton have a better chance of competing with classic festive tunes. And a song's placing on streaming services' Christmas playlists can be influential too. So although Ryder's song isn't on services like Spotify and Apple, it is likely to pop up for Amazon users who ask Alexa for festive tunes. "Playlists have a big part to play, and they are influential in terms of the chart when it comes to Christmas," says Talbot. "That said, particularly with a Christmas number one race, the key is not to rely on streaming - it's to generate sales, whether they be downloads or physical releases."

Brenda Lee for Christmas number 1 next year.

Another Brit Billion award. Joel Corry - Date Awarded: 13 December 2023 Joel Corry@JoelCorry · 18 Dec . @BRITs BILLION AWARD!! 🥳 Thank you to everyone out there streaming my music ❤️ This just gives me more motivation to keep working!! Happy Xmas & bring on more bangers in 2024 🚀