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2 out of 3 of the pre-album singles from the Wuthering Heights soundtrack didn't chart at all!

'BAYAREA.BMP' was an 18 for me and still heavily slaps to this day (I last got it on shuffle just about a week ago). I think I liked the one from Club Bizarre too but not quite as much.

This isn't something they've 'added', it's always how the rule has worked! (I understand it in concept but I do think that a rise by less than the market should count as a decline in the same way that a decline by less than the market counts as a rise, that would probably reduce the number of songs greatly overstaying their welcomes on SCR).

Yeah its only previous chart appearance was reaching #62 right after he died.

But surely that would still be 'The Essential' every week? I'm not sure I'd believe the OCC are sophisticated enough to make the calculation you're suggesting considering they don't seem to even be able to follow the simple rule of '25% increase = reset to SCR' consistently.

The top track from Drake's last solo album did 27.7k in its first week and his name power is significantly diminished since then, he'll need to have a song go viral very quickly to get #2 even with the low bar for that right now. He hasn't had a UK #1 since 2020, I'm sure he could get there again one day with the right song but he's very far from being in the conversation for assuming he'll get #1 first week with a new release.

It doesn't, it was treated as a compilation last week. Per the Alan Jones commentary labels have the ability to nominate one compilation to have all streams count towards it regardless of pure sales, 'The Essential Michael Jackson' has clearly been the chosen album for MJ since February 2023 although it appears they've switched the streaming allocation for one week twice this year. Once in February when 'Number Ones' was given its streams for a week coinciding with a new physical release, and then again last week to give streams to the soundtrack for its release week. The fact that 'Number Ones' and 'The Essential' were both charting last week was a bit of a headscratcher but I guess it would be explained by labels only being able to lock streams to one album per artist (which was the soundtrack last week), so the streams for the songs not on the soundtrack reverted to the default of going to the compilation with the highest pure sales - that is still 'Number Ones', so that got the streams of the majority of his most popular songs that aren't on the soundtrack, but 'The Essential' still got a good chunk of streams itself as well from the tracks that are on neither the soundtrack or 'Number Ones'. But it's back to the status quo this week so 'The Essential' hoovers up all the streams while both the soundtrack and 'Number Ones' get nothing (except their pure sales) despite both continuing to have higher pure sales.

The credits are whatever the labels request them to be, not sure why people are still not understanding this.

Just the two new entries on Spotify: 29 Charli xcx - Rock Music 136 Calvin Harris and Jazzy - Satisfy 'Go' up another 11 places to #28 - a top 10 contender this week? MJ now has 4 songs in the top 10 ('Billie Jean' #4, 'Beat It' #6, 'Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough' #7 and 'Human Nature' #9).

They've had a fair few singles in the last few years that didn't chart at all. Their career trajectory is a bit odd - they were such a consistent chart presence for years leading up to the moment of getting a #1 album, and then almost immediately dropped off into near total irrelevance after that (they've not had a top 40 hit since 'Eagle' charted alongside the release of the #1 album). Not complaining of course x

Oh yas here it is

I am sitting in the car park waiting for 'Go' to come on (as I'll switch away from Radio 1 and drive home after that), did not expect to be waiting this long x Jack better not have been spreading misinformation x

First time hearing that Madonna song and to no surprise it is mid x (I actually really liked 'I Feel So Free' though!)

There has been relatively quite a lot going on this week so far though compared to a lot of other recent weeks?

Ooh of course The Jackson 5 aren't subject to Michael's 3 track rule.