HurtMyHands

I adore Sugar, her tone and vibrato on the chorus’s belts are incredible, it really fits right into the strongest part of her voice.

You mention budget, do artists pay to do promo slots on shows like X Factor? I always thought the artist gets paid to appear.

I agree, Glassheart’s promo (and even sales) wasn’t bad considering A) the choice of singles, and B) the 3 year wait and delays. Leona’s visibility in 2018 has been relatively great, so I’m feeling confident in the next era.

Does anyone know CWL’s total sales now? Think it was 122K before December started, any change?

I’ve had a concept in my mind for a music app that would combine sales and streams by a very similar method to what you say, we should talk :P

Thanks for this, so is Favourite Scar her least streamed song including all collabs, remixes etc? What about B sides?

I mean technically LadBaby is indie :angel: Indie pop drives me mad though, Halsey-style singing gives me a headache.

Christmas week post-release positions for One More Sleep: 2014 #56 Radio, #40 TV 2015 #26 TV, not top 50 in radio 2016 #33 TV, not top 50 in radio can't find 2017's Ridiculous how radio's been completely snubbing OMS, thankfully things changed this year and should continue to.

It would be nice to wrap this up with some Spotify weekly chart positions (week of 20th - 27th) for comparison next year, here are some noteworthy mentions: UK #18 (2.4mil streams) Ireland #26 (180K streams) Hungary #51 (38K streams) Switzerland #75 (77K streams) Belgium #89 (77K streams) Canada #92 (420K streams) Australia #113 (341K streams) Global #117 (7.2mil streams) Japan #119 (63K streams)

So Sia probably wouldn't have made the top 75 if she was on ACR :mellow: hopefully for her the OCC doesn't adjust their "3 year" rule to 2 years. Edit: she would've barely made it then, around 70ish

Hopefully with its incredible success this year Radio 1 can’t get away with ignoring it as much next year, but they probably will.

Actually it peaked position-wise on the 17th and stream-wise on the 25th. I think the fact its about Xmas eve hinders its Christmas day surge (it doesn’t see the % increase in streams that other Xmas songs do), but it certainly didn’t affect its overall performance, streams or itunes downloads throughout December.

+5 Leona Lewis: One More Sleep +4 Ava Max: Sweet But Psycho +3 Mariah Carey: All I Want For Christmas is You +2 Michael Buble: It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas +1 Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next -1 Band Aid: Do They Know It's Christmas? -2 Wham!: Last Christmas -3 Shakin' Stevens: Merry Christmas Everyone -4 Elton John: Step Into Christmas -5 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl: Fairytale of New York

The airplay still doesn't reflect its popularity though, it climbed significantly during 21-25th Dec on every platform but didn't climb a single position on the airplay chart. I doubt people are gonna turn off the radio because One More Sleep is playing on the 23rd.

Perfect the duet version #2 with Ariana Grande, coming Christmas 2019 :angel:

Not only that but it sold more this year than 2014-2017 combined: 2014 ~30K, 2015 ~30K, 2016 45K, 2017 95K, 2018 205K (pes’ post)

everyone’ll talk about Mariah and Wham! next year but Leona will sweep in with that shocker number one :angel:

Surprised Leona didn’t climb on radio, it’s frustrating to see her still getting relatively little radio support compared to her sales/streams. Great achievement on TV though.

I really want Amazon’s One More Sleep version to be released on all platforms, it’s a travesty that it’s still Amazon exclusive

I'm sure your chuffed with Sia's new peak of #24 :yahoo:

ACR applies in Ireland too (Irish chart rules are here), so two weeks in the top 50 is still fantastic considering she only peaked at 19 even in year of release, and didn't chart at all in 2014-2016. Amazing that it's officially #8 when many of us thought it would struggle to make top 20 or even top 40. I hope her team/label are closely watching! This means that Leona officially has a top 10 hit in 2019 :cheer: Her first time in the top 10 for 5 years. #7 Streaming, #26 Sales.

OMS charts at #41 (+9) in Ireland. Doesn't quite beat its post-release peak, but it's spent two weeks in the top 50 this year compared to one week last year, and not making it all in 2014-2016's top 100. OMS chart run in Ireland: 2013: [25-19-28] 2014-2016: didn't chart. 2017: [98-70-67-33] 2018: [64-50-41] OMS is also #69 on UK Apple Music today.

It was once upon a time, it relaunched in 2012 as a legitimate streaming platform.

Sia 23 :huh: well done to her

That's fantastic, would be amazing if she stayed top 10. OMS also did very well on Apple Music yesterday considering it was Boxing Day: UK: #16 (-5) Germany: #35 (-16) Ireland: #39 (-16) Switzerland: #47 (-31) #46 on UK Spotify and #96 on Ireland Spotify. Also #51 (-41) on Deezer, and noticed it's #4 on Napster for this week (Mariah is #8).