Official Singles Chart on 20/11/2015

Yes, the Sales chart is the one you want. No streaming, no airplay, just people parting with their cash to buy songs.

Hi Pekka,

Seb is correct. If you go to the top of the Top 100 Singles you will see a little menu, just above the number one single. There's another just below the comments. It shows Singles and Top 100 highlighted in pink. If you want a chart without Audio Streams, click Sales. If you want Sales without Downloads, click Physical. If you want Physical sales in just vinyl format, click Vinyl.

Thank you so much! I somehow thought it would be like that but I was´t sure! I still miss listening to Radio Luxembourg with all the interruptions of white noise making it so hard to hear anything. especially during summer here in Finland it just was´t possible to listen to Radio L. Don´t know why but that´s just how it was. At he time in the beginning of the 80´s Finnish radio "stations" ( there was just 3 of them ) just played heavy music and Punk and....and through Radio L. I could get the hang of what was really going on in the music charts. Ultravox "Vienna", Visage "Fade to Gary",...well the list goes on and on and we NEVER got to hear them on Finnish radio. I´m still ...after like 30 years. Maybe I need some kinda treatment for my condition....Thank you anyway. Have very merry christmas here from me Pekka from Finland, the land of Santa Claus

very true!

Not sure it will on the figures I've seen so far. Bieber is benefiting from double streaming of the album track (ie because the whole album is streamable, every track gets a chart boost). 25 isn't available for streaming so Hello can be streamed on its own but anybody listening to the whole album is having to download it and downloaded albums don't count towards the singles chart. Sales-wise Hello and Sorry are pretty much neck and neck but I think Sorry will edge it on streams.

Aronchupa has a new song? Oh god.

I quite agree. This is an abuse of the singles chart. We can no longer expect singles to be released in physical format but I do think only the sales and plays from a separate singles listing on iTunes, Spotify and any other download or streaming source, as well as the small number of physical copies sold, should be used to compile the chart.

It's a fudge really, isn't it? If you stream an album track then it counts towards the album charts and the singles charts (double counting) but if you download an album in one go, it only counts towards the album chart. If you download an album one track at a time, it definitely counts towards the singles chart, but I don't know if it still counts towards the album chart! Surely, if albums are going to remain a 'thing' (which is far from certain) then the charts need to separate singles from albums in some way? Next week, I imagine the singles chart will be made up of mainly Adele and Bieber album tracks - stifling all those novelty Christmas singles which would normally be flooding in around now.

Better still, scrap singles altogether! I never even bother buying them
anymore. They have largely been rendered totally pointless and superfluous by
the way the charts have changed and evolved so much over the last 15 years
- since the 2000s at any rate. It's just meaningless. Keep the album
charts by all means, but time to put the singles charts - and singles in
general - to rest....... UNLESS of course, they are relased on VINYL ONLY,
that is, seeing as this format is now back with a vengeance (all traditional analogue formats always do, remember!) Then we can have a singles chart based JUST ON VINYL 7" or 12" just like the good old days. CD and download, and streaming, singles can pee right off!!! Record players and turntables rule! :)

There already is a vinyl singles chart. It's full of overpriced David Bowie re-issues.

Yeah we used to ave great singles charts back in the70s n 80s ere are remember them days.

I totally agree with the points you raised. The way the singles chart is constructed now stifles the chances of recognition and airplay for 'smaller' and breakthrough artists. This is chart-hijacking by one or two Mainstream artists (not necessarily their fault as they didn't write the new rules) but it's a distortion of what the majority of people want to hear. The authorities should disallow album tracks or, at least, cap the number of Album tracks permitted in Singles charts.

shockin juss shockin

Before streaming etc entry to the singles chart was limited to tracks that had been officially released as a single. This is now an extension of the album chart and dominated by the big selling artists, there is no variety in the singles chart any more that used to make the singles chart interesting

If Justin Bieber is represented on this singles chart with like a 100 tracks that just can´t be right. Please stop adding the streaming or whatever. It just does´t give us the real situation of what is the real seller each week. We can stream tracks as much as we like but that does´t mean that we would buy that track or download it. We just listen to it for free...