aidan755

I’ve always found it insane that the OCC removed soundtrack albums from the chart because they were hanging around too long but are allowing Greatest Hits albums to clog the Top 40. 1/3 of the entire Top 40 is Greatest Hits albums - they should be moved to the compilation chart. The Highlights by The Weeknd has spent 3 years in the Top 10 and will probably never leave the Top 40, same with Ed Sheeran’s compilation album. The weighting rule is nice in theory but it’s also unlike the rest of the world and clearly doesn’t work that well in practice. It’s almost impossible for albums to go platinum nowadays unless they’re mega smash albums - platinum shouldn’t be completely unachievable as it is now.

They need to create a separate album chart for Greatest Hits albums. They had no problem removing soundtracks when they were dominating and the Greatest Hits problem is way bigger.

I honestly don't understand why OCC removed soundtracks from the album chart but they still let greatest hits albums clog the charts like this. They should make a rule where the songs chart towards the parent album only. What Greatest Hits albums do to the chart in the streaming era is fundamentally different from when they were released in the physical/digital eras.

Do we think the label could request an ACR reset when Christmas is over? It deserves it. The 3 year rule is stupid when it comes to songs like this.

Does anyone think Bloody Mary by Gaga could get an ACR reset if the label request it after Christmas if the song holds up? Already at 107k on Spotify with huge jumps each day so would’ve been Top 50 in literally any other month and it deserves it cause it was never a single before.

I love Rihanna but sorry she doesn’t deserve an Oscar for this given she didn’t contribute to writing the song and that’s what the Best Original Song award is for.

Why are people still so against streaming in the year of 2022? It's the most accurate charts have ever been. Once you purchase a song that's it - you could never listen to it again. Streaming shows what songs are still popular months and years later and accurately reflects consumption. And music has never been so accessible you can discover as many new songs and artists as you want. Streaming is easily the best thing ever to happen to music.

Is Believer the first song ever to peak outside the Top 40 and go 2x platinum? Huge achievement.

White Iverson is platinum, it reached it in 2019. Very surprised that it didn't chart, it's definitely known.

People are so overdramatic over playlist streams it's a bit laughable. The solution to this would be to only count premium streams because users can still skip the tracks, but even the way it is with weighing free streams down is fine. Songs like Dance Monkey etc. are still huge hits and if you took them off playlists then they would still garner lots of streams. Lots of you are just mad the music you like isn't represented in the charts. Lots of songs on Hot Hits UK and Todays Top Hits still bomb on the charts. I have a premium streaming subscription and I still put curates playlists on because I'm not sure what I'm wanting to listen to specifically and they're also a great way to discover new music. If I didn't like the song I was listening to then I would just skip it but my stream shouldn't be discounted simply because I'm listening from a curated playlist.

Yes, this is why they bring down the weighting of the 2 most streamed songs in line with the rest of the album (and they have it capped at the next 10 I think so albums like Chris Brown's can't get a big debut due to having 30+ tracks). This isn't the case in America where 1 stream from a single is equal to an album track and albums linger for months and years due to having 2 big hits. In the U.K. the album can't rely on 1 or 2 big hits to keep the album afloat, due to them streams being weighed down. An example of this is how Billie Eilish's new album "WWAFAWDWG" is currently having a lot more longevity on the album chart than Ariana Grande's "thank u, next" even although the latter produced 3 #1 hits. And the album chart clearly favours pure sales as a result of this, given that A Star Is Born OST and Jess Glynne's album are serving more longevity in the Top 10 than "thank u, next" too and the big hip-hop albums like Drake's Scorpion and Post Malone's BB&B (although they comfortably hang around the 30s for a long time which I suspect will be the same for thank u, next).

How can anyone think that streams should be removed from the chart? Streaming is easily the best thing to happen to the industry. It's never been easier to discover new music legally. I have over 5,000 songs in my music library and there's no way I could afford to buy every single one of them - the only other option would've been illegal downloading. I still buy my absolute favourite music but that's just a personal preference, I doubt the majority of people do this. It also tracks the actual popularity of a song over time - with a digital download the person could listen to it once but streaming reflects how popular #1 and Top 10 hits stay over time and goes beyond the chart peak (i.e. songs peaking in the 20s that eventually go platinum vs top 10s which barely scrape silver or gold). Barely anyone buys music anymore, it hardly reflects the popularity of a song. If the new Kylie song is #1 on iTunes and gets a couple of thousand sales but can't even chart in the Spotify Top 200 (and audio streaming accounts for 2/3 of UK music market alone, with downloads ever decreasing) then clearly that song shouldn't be high in the singles chart. Streaming is the future and desperately clinging onto digital downloads won't make the rest of the U.K. market go back to them. The only thing the OCC have messed up is ACR. It's a ridiculous rule to implement after only 10 weeks. That's not long enough to start pushing a song out and it skews the popularity of the singles chart. So what if a song is still Top 10 on the chart after 20 weeks? That just displays how much of a mega hit it is. If they have to implement it at all, they should extend it to 20 weeks at the minimum. ACR is the only thing ruining the Singles Chart, not streams themselves. And it's such a shame because I believe the OCC have got streams perfectly in the albums chart.

Justin Timberlake's Man of the Woods missing the entire Top 100...a complete disaster of an era.