Ethan

and stream~ ;)

excellent stuff~ :heart: ps GOT IT GOOD iz a bop :dance:

sick jam ~:music:~

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :dance: :music: :dance:

week 6 ~ danny l harle DESTROYS everything else tbh~ week 7 ~ david guetta/zara larsson; mnek; mø

given the numbers they've been doing on apple music over the last fortnight, they don't have to! :P

well streaming has been hammering sales heavy/exclusive tracks over the last month~ beyoncé (hold up) 5 > 24 prince (when doves cry) 5 > 26 prince (kiss) 7 > 38 p!nk 9 > 32 disturbed 9 > 34 prince (purple rain) 19 > 88 with a slew of drake album tracks receiving a boost from spotify, it's very plausible that reggie 'n' bollie could be squeezed out if they don't pick up on streaming sharpish ;) :P

avicii ~ 'for a better day' & 'broken arrows' should've been massive top5 smashes~ :snif:

#5 on iTunes, but there’s no guarantee they'll even make the top40 as 'new girl' hasn't made the spotify top200 yet~

great tune ~ gonna be huge over the summer :music:

bigggg ~ love this song :wub: :dance: :wub:

incredible stuff :music: ~ sublime *.* what a musical journey~ *____*

Just Kiddin ~ Fall For You #Tropical House gloriously tropical~ :wub: w4TcavdRdo4 :dance:

+5 • Calvin Harris Ft Rihanna • 'This Is What You Came For' +4 • Galantis • 'No Money' +3 • DJ Snake Ft Bipolar Sunshine • 'Middle' +2 • Mike Posner • 'I Took A Pill In Ibiza' +1 • Drake Ft Kyla • 'One Dance' -1 • Zara Larsson • 'Lush Life' -2 • Fifth Harmony Ft Ty Dolla Sign • 'Work From Home' -3 • Justin Timberlake • 'Can't Stop The Feeling' -4 • Sia Ft Sean Paul • 'Cheap Thrills' -5 • DNCE • 'Cake By The Ocean'

1.0000 stone roses 0.5740 calvin harris

hmmm are the stone roses going to make the top10?! :thinking:

sick chart :music:

streaming is an absolute show of popularity ;) ~ if someone downloads a track you don’t even know if they actually listened to it :lol: we might as well go the whole hog then and scale down download sales to cater for the 37 people who bought cassettes last week~ :P

woah *.* all 4 1 ~ 1 4 all :music:

:blink: the 100:1 ratio was set by the OCC because 100 audio streams generate the same revenue as a single 99p download it'd make no sense at all to change it to some random fraction~ :unsure:

Question 1 -> Predict the Official Top 10 Singles of the week [10 points for a correct prediction, 9 points for one place out... 1 point for nine places out.] 01. Drake - One Dance (feat. Wizkid & Kyla) 02. Calvin Harris - This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna) 03. Justin Timberlake - CAN'T STOP THE FEELING! 04. The Stone Roses - All for One 05. Sia - Cheap Thrills (feat. Sean Paul) 06. Mike Posner - I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Seeb Remix) 07. Galantis - No Money 08. Fifth Harmony - Work from Home (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) 09. David Guetta - This One's For You (feat. Zara Larsson) 10. DNCE - Cake By the Ocean Question 2 -> Predict the Official Top 5 Albums of the week [10 points for a correct prediction, 9 points for one place out... 1 point for nine places out.] 01. Kygo - Cloud Nine 02. Drake - Views 03. Beyoncé - Lemonade 04. Skepta - Konnichiwa 05. Meghan Trainor - Thank You Question 3 -> Predict the sales (including streaming) of the #1 single to the nearest thousand [10 points for a correct prediction, 9 points for one place out... 1 point for nine places out.] 112k Question 4 -> Bonii [all questions worth 5 points for a correct answer and 0 points for an incorrect answer] • Predict the highest new entry in the top 40 David Guetta - This One's For You (feat. Zara Larsson) • Predict the biggest climber within the top 40 The Stone Roses - All for One • Predict the fastest faller within the top 40 Beyoncé - Hold Up • Predict the number of entries (new or re-entries) in the UK Top 40 5

it’s an emphatic yes from me B-) ~ streaming is simply replacing buying music as the preferred method of consuming music in the uk :music: any list covering 64 years is not going to be perfectly ‘fair’ or without its inconsistencies~ the population of the uk has increased somewhat since 1952; shop opening times increased from a few hours a week, through the relaxation of Sunday trading rules, to the current 24/7 on demand market we enjoy today; accuracy of the sales data has improved markedly from the very limited samples from a handful of shops, for instance a number of million sellers between 1994-1996 are under dispute and sales pre-1994 are little more than a ‘guestimate’; different formats (vinyl, cassette, cd, mini disc, mp3, lossless, streaming) and price points make comparisons between eras tenuous in terms of accuracy; the market expands and contracts cyclically ~ comparing 1992 x 1997 and 2008 x 2013 ~ higher sales in 1997 and 2013 may simply be a result of more people buying cds/downloads generally rather than songs being more popular than those of 5 years earlier; given that the all-time sales list already has a somewhat chequered past and that the chart sale, where 100x audio streams generate the same revenue as 1x 99p download, is a perfectly reasonable equivalence to allow continuity~ older songs are also being streamed and having their totals topped up, this will only accelerate as increasing numbers from older generations join the streaming party!

it's inevitable that this will happen before the end of the decade imo ~ downloads are rapidly becoming a niché market, although i do think there is a future for specialist lossless digital formats~

welcome aelandor :cheer:

uS4CvCGFyqc true :music: