Kylie Minogue

No NMF UK today? The US have one and some other playlists have updated.

Is it also to do with young people being less happy than they were 10-20 years ago? Instead of bopping around their bedrooms to Lady Gaga, McFly, Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears, 14 year olds now prefer to hate themselves thanks to Instagram and listen to aggressive or depressing music at the back of the school bus?

Obviously age plays a factor, I’m 33 and long for the days of pop, dance and tuneful R&B being the dominant forces in music. Music was a much happier affair. When have you been to a wedding or party and heard the DJ play anything of note from the past three years? Generally, you can’t get out on the dancefloor to anything post Uptown Funk and Can’t Stop The Feeling. I still listen to new music every single week and I love discovering new artists and songs. That said, as soon as anything by an artist such as Dave, Fredo, Post Malone et al. begins, I am ready to dislike it. There’s a few exceptions, but I generally find this mumble rap/trap/drill music that has emerged in the past few years to be utter dross - it’s depressing, tuneless and full of swearing. I feel as though Drake’s One Dance was the end of the charts as we knew them. Since that song, and subsequent rule changes, the charts are a new beast. One Dance, historically, would’ve been a four week summer chart topper at very best. Streaming has shown how our listening habits as a nation, especially young people’s, are utterly stagnant. Our listening habits had never been exposed this way before and now we are faced with a chart that barely moves, and only does so due to OCC manipulation. Spotify allows me to discover and re-discover more music than I ever dreamed of, but the charts are of no real interest to me anymore (unless Kylie is on the brink of a top 40 hit).

The charts are that bloody slow they've got no choice to include non-hits.

Huge drop for Mabel this week!

I hope Strangers by Sigrid gets some momentum but so far the Spotify playlists are ignoring it. Fingers crossed for a #1 Kylie album and top 40 single too.

98/155, could've done with two more minutes as I hadn't finished.

I wish Pep & Rash were higher, disappointed with that. They may struggle to be top 30 next weekend with streaming hindering them :( Glad for Nick Jonas, awesome track.

Are you kidding? It's one of the best songs of 2015 so far! I hope it's a huge #1.

Are Florence + The Machine instant grat?

08 Bingo Players Ft Far East Movement- Get Up 06 Cover Drive- Twilight 07 Dizzee Rascal- Dirtee Disco -1 Dizzee Rascal Ft James Cordon- Shout 09 Example- Stay Awake 06 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band featuring Military Wives- Sing 00 Helping Haiti- Everybody Hurts 05 Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band- The Official BBC Children In Need Medley 06 Sam Bailey- Skyscraper 11 Storm Queen- Look Right Through 08 The Justive Collective- He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother 03 Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West featuring Sir Tom Jones and Robin Gibb- Islands In The Stream 06 Wretch 32 Ft Josh Kumra- Don't Go 00 X-Factor Finalists 2009- You Are Not Alone 00 X-Factor Finalists 2010- Heroes 04 X-Factor Finalists 2011 Ft JLS & One Direction- Wishing On A Star

Not until next year I don't think.

Has to be #1, or there's no sense in this world. WHO is the vocalist, do we still not know?!

#3

How many streams would it take to get a song in the top 200?