Official Singles Chart on 19/4/2019

'Old Town Road' isn't a rap song though. It's a country song with trap influences. Sorry, just a pet peeve of mine.

Well the "Country" officials disowned it :/

OMG!! You gave a song 10/10!! Wow!! Yes, SoS deserves that

A #1 album is great for them as they are from (south) korea i presume but 26,500 album sales in a week is appalling. When the charts really mattered, albums would sell that many in a morning, not a week!

Have a Happy Easter Piran !!!

Hey Piran! I really love seeing 'Old Town Road' at #1 as well, though I definitely do wish that Billy Ray Cyrus was credited given that it's the remix getting most of the streams. I do like seeing a change at the top after 7 weeks as well, even if I still like 'Someone You Loved'. It looks like 'Old Town Road' will be staying at #1 for a little while now, though 'Piece of Your Heart' will probably be the #2 next week as it's currently #1 on Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes (though its Spotify streams can't beat the combined streams of both versions of 'Old Town Road').
I quite like the big climb for 'Keisha & Becky' to #7, as well as the much smaller climb to #10 for 'Here With Me'. I also like that 'Location' is still in the Top 10 - just 2 more weeks in the region and it'll match 'Funky Friday's run in the region, though obviously with a lower peak. I think it'll manage it, since it's been climbing on YouTube even without a video, and it's consistently Top 10 on Spotify and Top 3 on Apple Music. I'm quite surprised that it hasn't been pushed as an official single yet, though, given how well it's performed.
As for the debuts, 'SOS' is by far my favourite of the 2, and I agree with many of your points on the track. It's definitely very good to be hearing some new music from Avicii - 'SOS' would be a light-solid 9/10 for me so far. 'Boy With Luv' definitely isn't as good for me, maybe a light 6/10 at best, but then I've never really been a fan of BTS so it's not really surprising. Their fanbase is crazy though - 258 responses on the article about them getting #1 album, while there's only 38 on this chart and just 7 on the article for Lil Nas X reaching #1!
Next week I hope that 'SOS' can reach the Top 10, but other than that it doesn't seem like much will happen. Nothing really stands out as being certain to debut; the highest on Spotify right now is 'Power is Power', but that's only at #49 (I did see that you didn't mention it, did you just not know / forget about it or was there another reason?). I would've expected it to be charting higher given the huge names on it and the hype surrounding Game of Thrones Season 8 right now (the season premiere had 17.4m US viewers watching it live, beating their own record from the S7 finale, and an estimated nearly 100m worldwide viewers watching it within 24 hours of release!). Other than that, I'm really not sure what, if anything, will manage to debut.

Hey Gameskiller! :)
Yeah, OCC are really inconsistent with credited additional artists on remix versions. Like, it happened with 'Despacito', but not with 'Perfect' nor 'Old Town Road'.
I think the only song that'll have a chance at stopping 'Old Town Road' soon will probably be with whatever Taylor comes back with on Friday, since the lead single to her last album finally got her a #1 single in the UK after this time, so she might end up doing the same in two charts from now given the anticipation.
It appears that we share similar thoughts on 'SOS', although I definitely liked 'Boy With Luv' a lot more than you did, although that's perhaps unsurprising given that I've generally been more into K-Pop than you have. That said, I agree that BTS do have a huge following on social media! The albums article has even more comments than the singles chart, which probably won't happen again for a fair while.
'SOS' seems consistent enough to hit the Top 10 next week, but we'll have to see how streams go regarding 'Power Is Power'. Like you said, Spotify was the only place it seemed to get off to a decent start in back on Friday, hence why I didn't include it in my predictions.

Thanks! I hope yours was good too. ;)

I guess that's because of streaming now counting towards the album "sales" that OCC report, although in BTS' case, most of their numbers will come from physical sales or digital downloads anyway. Like you said, while 26,500 is certainly impressive for a K-Pop group, it's relatively weak compared to #1 albums in previous years.

Yeah, first time it's happened since I started doing these style of weekly OCC reviews (which there have been 110 of so far!). ;)