11 Weeks now!!!! - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
dragon_mutant1
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This is getting ridiculous now!!! >:( >:(
'One Dance' is now number 1 for an ELEVENTH bloody week now!!! Only reached 11 weeks due to what? Streaming!! The official charts company seriously need to do something about this, and quickly!!!
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/drake-sees-off-kungs-to-claim-longest-running-number-1-of-the-digital-age__15448/
The addition of streaming has already killed the UK charts and as a result, this dull, generic song has spent a record E-F**KING-LEVEN WEEKS at number one is just a sign that the inclusion of streaming is just not right. It's not even supposed to be number 1 based on the midweek charts AND the physical/download sales. This plague needs to be removed from the charts and stop forcing other artists to lose that number 1 spot!!!
The Official Charts Company should regret the introduction of unfair streaming as it has caused a generic song to spend ELEVEN WEEKS at number 1 and messed up the UK Charts forever!! >:( >:( >:( >:(
RANT OVER.
'One Dance' is now number 1 for an ELEVENTH bloody week now!!! Only reached 11 weeks due to what? Streaming!! The official charts company seriously need to do something about this, and quickly!!!
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/drake-sees-off-kungs-to-claim-longest-running-number-1-of-the-digital-age__15448/
The addition of streaming has already killed the UK charts and as a result, this dull, generic song has spent a record E-F**KING-LEVEN WEEKS at number one is just a sign that the inclusion of streaming is just not right. It's not even supposed to be number 1 based on the midweek charts AND the physical/download sales. This plague needs to be removed from the charts and stop forcing other artists to lose that number 1 spot!!!
The Official Charts Company should regret the introduction of unfair streaming as it has caused a generic song to spend ELEVEN WEEKS at number 1 and messed up the UK Charts forever!! >:( >:( >:( >:(
RANT OVER.
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How is it a record? Bryan Adams spent 16 weeks at No1.
I mean in the 21st century!!
Difficult to see why that's so popular..........there doesn't seem to be much there.
Bloke talk-singing, some drums, some echo girl in the background, not much of a tune
Who's buying it ?.....:o
It doesn't necessarily help in Drake's case that I find him vastly overrated and nowhere near as good as I'm told he is.
Last week there was just over 1k in sales separating Drake and Kungs. This week the sales gaps drifted to 3k between Drake and Kungs.
So really Kungs best shot at being #1 in the UK charts happened last Friday, rather than today.
You can monitor the progress of One Dance using:
http://kworb.net/popuk/
https://spotifycharts.com/regional/gb/daily/latest
On Kworb, if the figures for One Dance start increasing throughout the week, then Drake will be #1 next Friday. Right now, Drake is on 0.4559 so if by Monday that figure has gone up to 0.5000 that means Kungs' sales are dropping (not Drake's sales increasing).
On Spotify, if the figures for One Dance remain more than double the number of streams to those of This Girl, then Drake will be #1 next Friday. Right now, Drake is on 472,388 which is actually less than double those of This Girl (282,437) but if by Monday the streaming figures for One Dance are more than double that of This Girl then Drake will be #1 for a 12th week.
With sales so low right now, I'm surprised that there isn't a single new release that can take full advantage and get enough download sales and stream sales to enter at #1.
Bastille couldn't do it. Dizzee Rascal looks unlikely to do it either.
What does a new release have to do to shoot up to #1 on iTunes and Spotify within hours of release?
It is exactly why streaming should be abolished from the charts, they may aswell add YouTube views to the charts as well as stupid streaming!!! Charts should only focus on SALES and DOWNLOADS!!!
If anyone in the Official Charts Company had any sense or morals, they would disqualify this song from the charts and give other deserving artists a chance to reach number 1!!!
#StopStreamingOneDance
Oh right, I think I get it now........I was a bit slow on the uptake there !
I suppose the equivalent in the olden days would have been if everyone who bought the record had to send in a weekly return to say how many times they had played it.......and those figures were counted in the chart
As Mr Tater's said, the singles chart is irrelevant and as exciting or meaningful as some dreary government stat from the Office Of National Statistics nowadays.
Because of on air on sale, a track needs to built up plays there wont be 50000 people all waiting to play the new Bastille song, it will take a few weeks. You see the pattern now is for a song to get a highish first week, then slump and then come back up again as it gets added to playlists and more people get to hear it.
Songs used to get 8 weeks of airplay before release so people knew them when they came out of course this had the double effect of piracy as people wouldnt wait to buy them, the songs always got leaked. Now how many people heard the new Dizzee song before yesterday, I hadnt.
But some acts now like Drake and Beiber as soon as a new song is announced their hordes of fans all jump on it and there fan base is huger than Bastille.
Do you remember at school when you were young there was certain people who only liked 1 artist, these are the people screwing up the charts now. Imagine if we had streaming in 1988 Bros would have been number one for a year!! The more different music you like the less effect you have on the chart
We now also have the situation where album tracks are now charting very highly which probably isn't ideal for the artist as they can't run a proper album campaign. Again Drake ft Rihanna - Too Good is a streaming monster and in the top 5 of the charts despite it being an album track. Drake probably would've preferred to realease that with a music video after One Dance had died down but it's probably peaked already.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware of how the charts were handled right up until New Music Friday came into force almost a year ago.
Maybe artists need to release a music video before releasing the song to iTunes and Spotify. It's like when people pre-ordered singles weeks in advance of release, I never understood the concept because an mp3 will always be there - unless removed from iTunes which rarely happens (except for singles getting deleted so people just download the single off the album instead).
I'm just surprised that since they introduced New Music Friday we've seen the number of entries inside the top 40 decrease. That's what puzzles me the most about the charts now.
If more new singles went top 10 on iTunes upon release, then that might have a knock on effect. We'd probably see these songs enter the top 40 (albeit lower down) but then climb up as its streaming increases with more exposure from radio/video airplay. Most new releases that go top 40 on iTunes don't even make the top 75 by the end of the week.
At the moment we're lucky if we even get 1 new entry in the top 40 which makes for such an exciting chart. When you see a load of non movers between 21-40 you know it's time to call it a day.
No.
...but it was far more interesting to see where your favourite singles were charting each week.
Now it's a case of:
#40 - down 2 places
#39 - non mover
#38 - down 1
#37 - down 1
#36 - down 1
#35 - down 1
**ad nauseam**
How on earth is THAT exciting?
Nor me, but then again I havent followed the charts since 1994.
If this does go on to break the all time record of 16 weeks it will be a joke. Whether you like Bryan Adams song or not at least it did sell loads of records each week to keep it at number one.
Drake can't even do a Wet Wet Wet and get it deleted. Unless he gets it removed from all streaming sites after 15 weeks!