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The 3 artists from 'Don't Call Me Angel' all finishing very close together!

 

Mariah is much like Whitney for me in that I think it's undeniable how technically talented she is but I don't necessarily want to actually listen to her voice a lot of the time. Also a lot of her music is pretty boring, but she has some gems.

My argument with Youtube is I pay the premium to avoid the ads not pay for the song.

 

I do feel quite peed off I streamed Kylie on Spotify all week not knowing it was a very low count rate but to counter I have watched it Padam a number of times each day so may have made up for it unless Youtube discard the same account watching a video per day.

 

If it makes you feel any better, even if you had a premium Spotify account and listened to the song the maximum number of chart eligible times, that's still only a 70% chance of you contributing even a singular sale to its weekly total.

 

The power of streaming is in a lot of people giving a song at least one stream, not so much a smaller more focused group of people streaming it to death. The volume required for a streaming push to make any dent in the charts is just not feasible compared to pure sales pushes (especially for songs with multiple versions available).

I said this about Dave last week and I am so far being proven very wrong but again I'm not sure if J Hus is likely to hold up that well given the pretty muted reception it seems to have got from fans, although that is mostly just for the Drake verse - maybe he should consider being cheeky and releasing a solo version as well :teresa: amazing to see another song going over 1 million anyway, and wow at Dave rebounding back over 1.2 million again to block it from even getting a day at #1 (at least for now)!

 

7 days and counting of over 1 million streams for 'Sprinter', does anyone have the data for how many days the previous songs that peaked over a million stayed over the mark?

 

I know the name Noah Kahan from 'Stick Season' being a pretty long lasting hit on US Spotify albeit one that never quite cracked the Hot 100 so I never listened to it - tbh I always just assumed he was a country artist but I see he's apparently more indie/folk so consider me mildly intrigued. It's interesting that we keep getting surprisingly big first day hits on Spotify from these kind of artists (see also Hozier and David Kushner) but Apple Music never seems to immediately reflect their popularity anywhere near as much.

 

Wow at Kylie now cracking the top 40, still unsure if she has much of a chance of making the top 10 after missing out last week but these are the kind of moves she needs to make if she is to have a chance.

 

Also happy to see 'Meltdown' getting a decent re-entry for Niall, wish that had done better though.

J Hus in the US Spotify top 40 :cheeseblock:

 

'Sprinter' has been hanging around and trending upwards since the EP dropped as well, up to a new peak of #117 today - that's now a new high for Dave as a lead artist ahead of his own Drake collab 'Wanna Know (Remix)' which peaked at #131, though still a way to go to beat his peak of #59 with 'Nothing On You' w/ Ed Sheeran and Paulo Londra.

 

(J Hus' only previous appearance on US Spotify was 'Feels' w/ Ed Sheeran and Young Thug, that peaked at #45 so 'Who Told You' is a new high for him)

Oh yay *.* their last album was great, feels like forever since that came out (what with it being one of the last albums to come out that could reasonably be described as 'pre-pandemic' lol).

Oh I was definitely thinking they had just abandoned the 'POST HUMAN' series after only one entry.

 

Really liked 'LosT', we stan them getting a somewhat hyperpop song into the top 40 :cheeseblock:

These were my ratings for the last two polls, again not wanting to bump the already overrunning thread ~

 

Week 20:

 

1 'Cha Cha Cha' 10/10

2 'Promise' 9/10

3 'Queen Of Kings' 8.5/10

4 'Who The Hell Is Edgar?' 8/10

5 'White Ash' 8/10

6 'Tattoo' 7.5/10

7 'Real Back In Style' 7.5/10

8 'Heart Of Steel' 7.5/10

9 'Unicorn' 7/10

10 'Mountain' 7/10

11 'Because Of You' 7/10

12 'All My Life' 6.5/10

13 'A Year Ago' 6.5/10

14 'Évidemment' 6.5/10

15 'Area Codes' 6/10

16 'Different League' 5.5/10

17 'Dance Around It' 5.5/10

18 'hotline' pleasant but completely pointless/10

19 'Side Effects' 5/10

20 'Life Goes On' 5/10 (4/10 for Luke Combs version)

21 'Break A Broken Heart' 4/10

22 'Solo' 1/10

 

Voted for the top 8, 5 of my on-the-night Eurovision top 10 being there (Finland 2nd, Australia 3rd, Norway 6th, Austria 7th, Ukraine 9th). I actually initially ranked Sweden only 19th(!) but the song has really clicked with me a lot more after the contest surprisingly! Not a lot of change in my opinions on the rest of the Eurovision songs, although I did originally rank France slightly ahead of Israel and Belgium. Cyprus has shrunk on me even more after already finding it mediocre, and Poland has just been garbage every time I've heard it and by far the worst thing in Eurovision this year, I feel like even Mabel would turn her nose up at that. Finland's has only grown on me more after the contest as well, making it my second 10/10 of the year after 'A&W', such a moment seeing a song this out there being so widely praised and successful. I think 'Mountain' sounded slightly better on stage than the studio version but then again it was a different version of the song, still it's easily my 2nd favourite thing I've heard from Sam so far behind the obvious. I need to do a full relisten of the contest and finally hear the DNQs, planning to do that tomorrow.

 

Eurovision aside, I was surprisingly really impressed by the Potter Payper tracks, found 'White Ash' in particular to be really engaging lyrically (and helps that he actually put a chorus in it) and both songs have great instrumentals especially towards the end. Not found much of his previous stuff very interesting but these are a definite improvement. Shame he's gone and got himself imprisoned again, sigh. The verses of the Durk/Cole song are good but I really don't care at all for the hook, that alone drags it out of my votes. James Arthur's song was pretty decent, maybe could be a grower, not that it's sticking around enough to have a chance to be one. Kali could definitely be a grower too as a mindless bop but it's a bit too one note and feels like it drags a bit even with its short run time. I like the hook on 'Different League' (mildly jarring lyrics aside) but a middling performance from Nines himself and Clavish's verse is maybe his worst one on a charting song so far. 'Dance Around It' is very dime a dozen but barely poking into the decent range which is a first for Caity Baser and still pretty rare for Joel Corry too. 'hotline' exists, for some reason. 'Side Effects' didn't completely make me roll my eyes which makes it on the more interesting end of Becky's releases but still mid. I guess I can see why 'Life Goes On' has been one of the more popular songs from this Ed album but it's even more of a miss than 'Eyes Closed' for me (and added shouting from Luke Combs shockingly does not make it any better), not bad per se but pretty boring unforch.

 

Week 21:

 

1 'AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM' 10/10 (9.5/10 for the original)

2 'The Narcissist' 9.5/10

3 'Little Things' 9/10

4 'HEATED' 8.5/10

5 'Mourning' 8/10

6 'Say Yes To Heaven' 8/10

7 'Voodoo' 8/10

8 'UNHEALTHY' 7/10

9 'Padam Padam' 6.5/10

10 'Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before?' 6.5/10

11 'Angel Pt. 1' 4.5/10

 

Very high quality across the board in this week, voted for the top 7! 'AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM' is an absolute banger and was already one of my top 2 from 'RENAISSANCE' but an excellent Kendrick verse pushes it over the edge to ***flawless territory (so a 3rd 10/10!), love how he totally fit the energy here, it's great to get a proper carefree banger from him again as much as I loved 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers'. Very much impressed by this Blur comeback too, sounds a bit more like Gorillaz than Blur actually but I'm not going to complain about that, immaculate vibe and dreaminess on this track (and I would probably take it over anything from the latest Gorillaz album anyway). 'Little Things' is definitely more instant and hit-sounding from Jorja than 'Try Me' was (digging the UK funky vibes) so glad that's being reflected in the charts but I've really liked both songs, she's a bit hit or miss for me most of the time but this era is off to a very promising start! 'HEATED' was more of a mid level fave from 'RENAISSANCE' for me at first but it has grown on me quite a bit, particularly like how the chanted vocals just sound more and more unhinged as the song progresses. The Posty and Lana songs are both very solid if not highlights of their careers, not a lot to say about them really. 'Voodoo' charting feels a little random especially as it's disappeared again after just one week but it is definitely one of Gorgon City's better and more distinct sounding recent releases. 'UNHEALTHY' is a huuuuge improvement on Anne-Marie's last couple of singles (thank god), not amazing but a cute mildly yeehaw bop, I do have a slight soft spot for Shania in general. 'Padam Padam' has grown on me a little bit, definitely has a bit more to it than other songs from this subgenre even if I still think it's overall fairly unremarkable. Lewis Capaldi delivered another decent Lewis Capaldi song (with another annoyingly effective emotion bait video). 'Angel Pt. 1' is definitely a case of too many cooks in the iamspamspamami (lol), there was no need to have 3 different people singing the hook, it's a pretty mediocre hook anyway but Muni Long sells it a lot better than the other two. Kodak's verse is actually surprisingly good though which bumps it up a point or two. Can take or leave NLE's.

Thanks for the heads up about the (relatively) early start, will try and make sure to be around for it. (A silver lining to the UK #2s session not being on tomorrow)

 

and yay for a full house + extra voters x (Meekul voting in a contest he didn't enter?!)

Confirmed now and hoping no one had the same idea as me x

 

Glad we've got to over 20 participants again this time!

Thanks to the 65 people who participated in last week's poll & 63 people who participated in the previous one :jump:

 

Official results from week 20:

 

[ 39 ] Loreen - Tattoo (#2)

[ 35 ] Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha (#6)

[ 32 ] Alessandra - Queen Of Kings (#10)

[ 24 ] TEYA and SALENA - Who The Hell Is Edgar? (#48)

[ 20 ] Blanka - Solo (#56)

[ 18 ] Becky Hill and Lewis Thompson - Side Effects (#53)

[ 18 ] Voyager - Promise (#79)

[ 16 ] La Zarra - Évidemment (#94)

[ 15 ] Sam Ryder - Mountain (#35)

[ 15 ] Noa Kirel - Unicorn (#45)

[ 12 ] Gustaph - Because Of You (#63)

[ 11 ] Joel Corry and Caity Baser - Dance Around It (#78)

[ 11 ] Andrew Lambrou - Break A Broken Heart (#92)

[ 8 ] Lil Durk - All My Life (feat. J. Cole) (#17)

[ 7 ] Ed Sheeran - Life Goes On (solo / feat. Luke Combs) (#29)

[ 6 ] James Arthur - A Year Ago (#91)

[ 6 ] TVORCHI - Heart Of Steel (#95)

[ 4 ] Kali - Area Codes (#66)

[ 3 ] Billie Eilish - hotline (#69)

[ 3 ] Potter Payper - Real Back In Style (#72)

[ 2 ] Nines - Different League (feat. Nafe Smallz and Clavish) (#93)

[ 1 ] Potter Payper - White Ash (#77)

 

Official results from week 21:

 

[ 46 ] Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam (#26)

[ 29 ] Lana Del Rey - Say Yes To Heaven (#9)

[ 22 ] Beyoncé - AMERICA HAS A PROBLEM (feat. Kendrick Lamar / solo) (#22)

[ 21 ] Anne-Marie - UNHEALTHY (feat. Shania Twain) (#58)

[ 21 ] Blur - The Narcissist (#81)

[ 15 ] Jorja Smith - Little Things (#57)

[ 10 ] Beyoncé - HEATED (#91)

[ 9 ] Gorgon City - Voodoo (#87)

[ 7 ] Lewis Capaldi - Haven't You Ever Been In Love Before? (#28)

[ 7 ] Post Malone - Mourning (#35)

[ 5 ] Kodak Black and NLE Choppa - Angel Pt. 1 (feat. Jimin, JVKE and Muni Long) (#82)

 

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 20 and auto-qualifying for the May monthly round is Loreen - Tattoo.

BuzzJack's favourite top 100 hit for 2023 week 21 and auto-qualifying for the May monthly round is Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam.

 

 

Probably wouldn't take a genius to predict the winner of both of these polls judging by the level of stan activity around both - Swedish 2nd time Eurovision winner (and 2nd time earning a UK top 3 hit from it) Loreen clocks up another victory as she got votes from just over 3 in 5 voters to win the week 20 poll. She did however have relatively close competition... from the runner up of Eurovision, Finland's Käärijä putting up a good fight and landing just 4 votes behind. At least Loreen can claim this victory was without any juries though :basil: insert your own discourse here. The week 21 poll was much more of a walkover with an even more obvious winner, in case you haven't been reading the chart forum at all recently here's a fun fact for you: there is quite a bit of support and excitement around the chart performance of Kylie Minogue's 'Padam Padam'. That was already the case when it debuted at #26 but of course even moreso with it continuing to climb and nearly making the top 10 last week, a big return to chart form after her not getting any top 40 hits from the last album and only barely one from the one before that. The Princess of Pop is the first Australian to win one of these polls and did so with the support of just over 7 in 10 voters (46/65) which iirc is a new record in these polls! (I should probably collate this information in one place some time). In a week where she may otherwise have notched up her third poll win of the year, Lana Del Rey settles for a distant 2nd place this time, 17 votes behind (yet still actually getting more votes than her winners, 'A&W' having topped its poll with 26 votes and 'Paris, Texas' only 19).

 

With the combined power of Eurovision and Kylie attracting a record number of participants to the poll this week, there are quite a lot of songs clearing double figures in both polls. In week 20 it is mostly the rest of the Eurovision songs (minus Ukraine's TVORCHI), Norway's Alessandra coming in 3rd (but with 32 votes which would usually be a comfortably winning score), Austria's TEYA and SALENA 4th, Poland's Bejba Blanka 5th (the latter two also getting to 20+ votes), Australia's Voyager joint 6th, France's La Zarra 8th, Israel's Noa Kirel joint 9th (alongside the new Sam Ryder song which was also released in time for a Eurovision final performance but was of course not an entry), Belgium's Gustaph 11th and Cyprus' Andrew Lambrou joint 12th. The best performing non Eurovision song was the latest Becky Hill mediocrity (alongside chart debutant Lewis Thompson) which lands joint 6th with 18 votes, with the only other non Eurovision adjacent song to clear double figures being Joel Corry and Caity Baser in joint 12th place with 11 votes. Almost as inevitable as the all Eurovision top 3 is the all UK rap bottom 3, with my own last minute as ever votes preventing Potter Payper's 'White Ash' becoming the second member of the 0 votes club, while his other song did a tad better with 3 votes and between the two is Nines, Nafe Smallz and serial vote non-getter Clavish with 2 votes this time. American rap performed a bit better with Lil Durk even coming quite close to double figures although Kali also fell short of the 5 vote mark, as did the rather baffling case of the 1 minute snippet of Billie Eilish (barely audibly) singing a little bit of Drake's 'Hotline Bling', I'd normally be shocked at a Billie Eilish song only getting 3 votes but in this case that almost seems shockingly high. Luke Combs sets a personal record of 7 votes with his latest half-inclusion.

 

The top 5 for week 21 all also got at least 20 votes, with Beyoncé (and Kendrick) coming in a fairly distant 3rd, 7 votes behind the top 2 and one vote ahead of a tie between Anne-Marie/Shania Twain and Blur. One may note Lana Del Rey has the only song in the top 5 that doesn't involve an artist whose chart career started in the 20th century. The more contemporary Jorja Smith lands in 6th place and Beyoncé's other belated entry of the week is in 7th, both also crossing double figures. Everything got to at least 5 votes in this poll, although only barely for the latest overstuffed and multicultural Fast & Furious soundtrack song.

 

Weekly winners to date:

01 // 12/01/23 // Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly

02 // 19/01/23 // Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan - Rumble

03 // 26/01/23 // Miley Cyrus - Flowers

04 // 02/02/23 // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

05 // 09/02/23 // P!nk - TRUSTFALL

06 // 16/02/23 // RAYE - Ice Cream Man.

07 // 23/02/23 // Linkin Park - Lost

08 // 02/03/23 // Lana Del Rey - A&W

09 // 09/03/23 // Gorillaz - Silent Running (feat. Adeleye Omotayo)

10 // 16/03/23 // Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her

11 // 23/03/23 // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle

12 // 30/03/23 // Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC

13 // 06/04/23 // Lana Del Rey - Paris, Texas (feat. SYML)

14 // 13/04/23 // Tyler, The Creator - DOGTOOTH

15 // 20/04/23 // David Guetta, Anne-Marie and Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me

16 // 27/04/23 // Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma

17 // 04/05/23 // The Weeknd - Double Fantasy (feat. Future) / Florence + The Machine - Mermaids

18 // 11/05/23 // The National - The Alcott (feat. Taylor Swift)

19 // 18/05/23 // Ed Sheeran - Curtains

20 // 25/05/23 // Loreen - Tattoo

21 // 01/06/23 // Kylie Minogue - Padam Padam

 

Qualified for the yearly round:

January // Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 / Miley Cyrus - Flowers / Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly

February // Freya Ridings - Weekends / Lana Del Rey - A&W / P!nk - TRUSTFALL

March // Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding - Miracle / Nothing But Thieves - Welcome To The DCC / Zara Larsson - Can't Tame Her

April // Florence + The Machine - Mermaids / Post Malone - Chemical / Taylor Swift - Karma

 

Qualified for the playoff for the yearly round:

January // Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side

February // Linkin Park - Lost

March // Miley Cyrus - River

April // Jonas Brothers - Waffle House

 

~

 

Sorry it is yet another 2 in 1 poll again this week - I partially blame the BuzzJack downtime as I was planning to put up a quick week 22 poll the night that happened ddd - but let's really try and make this the last time :ph34r: it's a less intimidating list this time anyways with 7 songs for week 22 and 14 for week 23 (so those two weeks combined still have 1 fewer song than week 20 alone!), totalling 1 hour and 11 minutes (22 minutes and 40 seconds for week 22, 49 minutes and 6 seconds for week 23). No multiple versions to worry about this time either. As I commented on during the week, both Dave/Central Cee and Metro Boomin manage 3 debuts apiece for week 23, after the previous 22 weeks did not have any artists making triple appearances. Something tells me neither DaveCee or Metro will be winning this poll with any of their songs though.

 

As with previous 2 in 1 polls there are a couple of extra options due to BuzzJack not allowing you to only vote in one of two polls. If you're only interested in voting in one poll tick 'only participating in the other poll' for the one you're not interested in. The other extra option is if you do want to count as participating in the poll but don't actually want to vote for any of the songs (so the equivalent of a null vote in that poll).

 

 

Vote for as many or as few songs as you want and would be ideal if you can make sure you've heard all the songs before voting if possible!

 

I'll intend to keep this open until Sunday (18th) evening and get up another poll then, this time for only the one chart week if I can actually stick to good timekeeping for once. Will also post the (belated) May monthly round this evening :jump:

I didn't have my spreadsheet prepared yet anyway so not gonna complain :whistle: (finishing preparing it now so I'll be ready for tomorrow)

 

(still time for any of the remaining peeps to vote now? x)

Apple newies:

 

1 J Hus/Drake

41 Nathan Dawe/Joel Corry/Ella Henderson

95 Sam Smith/Madonna

135 Fredo

 

('Sprinter' is still showing as #2 and #6 so no idea if that is a genuine #1 or not)

 

Album release has boosted Niall Horan's 'Heaven' up 112 places to #62 but no sign of any other tracks from him. There's also some fairly big boosts for a few Sam Fender songs, 'Seventeen Going Under' up 24 places to #46 and 'Will We Talk?' and 'Hypersonic Missiles' entering at #128 and #148 respectively, appears he's doing a big concert today so another touring boost I guess!

Oh yay I'm glad you could vote after all. This was your best entry for years so did not want it to get a deduction x

 

(I lied about voting yesterday but I've done it now xox I'm glad I managed to get in a full 2 listens of both semis and the final this time, almost every song has grown on me to be at least decent now, and there was a song I didn't really care about at all on first listen that's ended up in my votes!)

The OCC probably have a deal with Amazon and get paid to promote their MP3s and/or receive commission for each purchase.

 

They must earn literal pennies from that if so :kink:

🦀🦀🦀 boris is gone 🦀🦀🦀

 

 

🦀🦀🦀 dorries is gone 🦀🦀🦀

 

Nadine Dorries has also resigned, didn't see that until after making my last post!

Saw some rumours that Alok Sharma was going to be given a peerage from Boris' resignation honours which would have given me a by-election to vote in. Alas, not the case. (Apparently there aren't going to be any by-elections triggered by the list).

 

Unfortunately while researching this I've also discovered that the boundary changes for the next general election are putting me in a new seat which is expected to be more Tory leaning than my current one. I fear I've missed my only chance to ever have a non Tory MP that I voted for. Sigh. (although I don't think it's quite a 'safe' seat still)

'Sprinter' is showing at #1 on Apple again but the second version is still there at #6 so maybe not in the process of being combined after all, guess it was just a momentary glitch. Not sure why it's taking this long for the second version to disappear...

 

Nathan Dawe/Joel Corry/Ella Henderson in at #61 now and Sam Smith/Madonna at #180.

Céline being a bit more popular on BuzzJack than with Rolling Stone :basil:

 

Amy and Lana would both have ranked very highly for me too <3

Radio being so ageist... bet if Dave and Central Cee were 45 instead of 25 they'd be up at #3. Surely radio can't think it's only being streamed by under 35 year olds??

 

(:kink:)

 

Facetiousness aside, Kylie getting a little unlucky, she'd have been #1 with those audience figures last week!

Yes please x

 

(I'm guessing the win will be one of Bøtanikkä, Quintessa or St. Burbia, or maybe FARC/Kathaldazia, lots of songs this month that sound like potential big hits - as ever there are a few pop songs that I find hard to gauge as well)

 

I'll say Quintessa to win if I had to bet on just one I think. But it's also a pop song I quite like which is historically a bit of a curse so inb4 it comes like 23rd :lol:

J Hus is the only new release in the top 200 on Apple so far.

 

He is showing as #1 on Apple Music on Kworb now, but it looks like the two versions of 'Sprinter' are in the process of finally being combined and that's glitching the song out (it's showing at #5 and #101 right now) so most likely should 'only' be #2.

There is a big reason this week is very likely to be its peak (CD sales). Doesn't mean it won't continue to stick around in the charts of course but it'll probably fall next week.

Wow 2 weeks in a row with a Thursday evening release debuting top 10 on Spotify - great to see such healthy figures at the top of the chart all of a sudden after dipping so low the other week.

 

I was thinking it must be a first if we have a top 2 both doing over 1 million from 2 different artists (minus Christmas ofc), not that it's guaranteed to happen but definitely looks possible with Dave's numbers holding so well all week. Could be a record strong such top 2 either way, the strongest I can think of before is 'One Kiss'/'Nice For What' which had days of both doing over 700k (so Drake involved both times) although I'm sure there's a good chance I'm forgetting something.

 

It is indeed, although not from the main Metro Boomin album for it.

 

It is on the deluxe version of the album! (Actually none of the added tracks on the deluxe version are by Metro Boomin, he did 10/13 songs on the standard version but only barely half of the deluxe :lol:)

Surprisingly high iTunes position for J Hus for what little it's worth!

 

Wonder why Kylie didn't release the extended mix last week, could have made the difference if it narrowly misses the top 10... (I'm aware it was on her website)