Drake edges closer to Official Chart record as One Dance logs 14th week at Number 1

"The rapper is fast approaching a chart record with the song; the longest stint at Number 1 on the Official Chart is 16 weeks, a record held by Bryan Adams' 1991 hit (Everything I Do) I Do It For You."

No, he isn't.

Bryan Adams had a *consecutive* run of 16 weeks at the top of the UK *sales* chart.

Drake is currently #14 on the UK *sales* chart, down three positions from the week before.

How can he be approaching Bryan Adams' record, when he's not even #1?

I love this song, but this is wrong, the streams are way too influential, this has become a streaming chart instead of a sales chart. The chart is losing its credibility.

Can I make what seems to me to be a very sensible suggestion.
All the streaming sites that provide data for the official chart are run on either a subscription basis or at the very least on an account log-in basis. This means that the streaming services know who is playing the songs and how often. It should not be difficult for them to implement a cut off point where by the number of streams are no longer counted towards the figures.
For example, if I listened to a particular song 50 times over the course of a week, that is easily justified as classing the song as something that I like & would probably historically have purchased. If I then continue listening to that song at the same frequency for the next 14 weeks I obviously would not have gone and bought it again every week. Once I have racked up a certain amount of plays they should stop being counted. by all means keep compensating the artist for the plays that I make but stop with the abuse of the chart system.

There would need to be a system to account for re-releases that you have previously played but suddenly listened to a lot more but that would only be tweaks here and there.

The song is #14 on sales, last week was #11... yet because it's streamed to death (probably by his own record company marketing team) the song was again #01 in UK Official Charts for the past two weeks. The chart is now easy to manipulate since 88% of streaming is free. Hard is to pay to download his songs and it seems there were 13 songs that people were willing more to pay to listen to than Drake. The UK Official Singles Chart is death. The only chart that matters is The Official Sales Chart. For me The Official Sales Chart is the only one that matters since internet airplay was included (also called streaming).

Unbelievable

Can we PLEASE get back to sales based charts? This streaming nonsense is very boring. Apparently one of the weeks that Drake was at number 1 he had the ELEVENTH best selling single of the week. And let's be honest, this record is really,really rubbish. And just over two minutes so his fans can stream it more times in an hour than other songs. The singles chart which we all used to love is now a farce!

This song is absolute rubbish, maybe a couple of weeks would have been forgivable but not 14! This happened last year when Ella Henderson released Glitterball with Sigma and only reached No. 3 despite being the best selling single. It can be quite damaging to people's careers when streaming takes over because the people streaming music are doing it because it's popular and the chain ends up not breaking.

I buy all my music because I believe in supporting the music industry, I know it works out a lot more expensive than spotify but if that means I have one album out a month that I listen to then that's one album I will treasure and ensure that it's a good one instead of listening to the rubbish that artists like Drake are producing at the moment.

This year I'm relying on talent like Labrinth, Emeli Sande and Bastille to try and fix what is turning into an unmemorable year. Beyonce's new album was better than her previous, Kanye's new album wasn't bad but had release issues that Rihanna's album also had and there's a been a lot of delaying coming from other artists.

If 14 weeks are way TOO much for this basic song, a record 16 weeks is just unforgiveable. One Dance does not deserve all of this 'success', because streamings are overstimated on this chart.

Under the old chart rules,Drake would only have been no.1 for 3 weeks so he can't be compared to Bryan Adams,Wet Wet Wet etc. There are millions of songs on streaming sites for people to listen to. The people who are still streaming this mediocre song must have a very limited taste in music.

Again, this shouldn't be happening, considering it is mostly based on streaming, not actual sales. Counting them gives songs artificial monopolies & chart success. It's such idiotic logic. It's like if if you traded a CD or vinyl with a friend for them to listen to, and that counted on the charts. They're not buying the song, so why should it count?

F**k off! Looks like that s**t could break Bryan Adam's run at the top. God help us all!

You don't deserve oxygen if you're still streaming this rubbish song