Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee & Justin Bieber's Despacito joins Mariah Carey's One Sweet Day as the longest chart topper ever in America

There are a lot of us Mick, the OCC have lost all the proper chart followers and are just left with the people who vaguely follow and don't really understand how it's put together, which is probably what they want as it's easier to feed people their when they don't really understand. Join my Facebook group UK Top 40 Chart Chat for further discussion.

Can i say that you british people are never happy and satisfied,never?

-You don't want streaming on the chart
(Geez,we're in 2017 and this is not your personal chart or itunes chart)
-In early 2017,the changed the stream necessary to make an equivalent copy from 100 to 150.A lot of people complained about that.I don't know why lol.
-Because of what happened when Divide(especially),More Life and other albums were released,they decided that only the 3 most popular songs from the album could chart.A lot f people wanted just a chart where official singles could chart.Thousand of people complained about that,when they themselves COMPLAINED of the 16 songs in the top 20 by Ed Sheeran the week of Divide's release.Incoherence and hypocrisy.
-Despacito spent 11 non-consecutive Weeks(11,remember,not 1!)at the top.For few sales it was beaten two times by Wild Thoughts and then Feels.I celebrated all night for that because i f****in' hate Despacito.And you tell me that they were falsifying the chart?.It's hard to understand you british people.Then you say "Bryan Adam's record MUST NOT BE overcame by songs like One Dance or Despacito,it's a shame,bla bla bla.

You have made a lot of presumptions about my views and given me a lot of information I already knew, but since you took the time to write all this I will respond point by point from a personal level.

-I DO want streaming in the chart. I just want it to be fair, whatever ratio is applied should be universal, not one ratio for some songs and a different ratio for others, that is my issue. Not including streaming would be crazy, (sadly) it's the future.

-I am very aware of the change of the streaming ratio from 100:1 to 150:1 and have no issue with it if it was being used universally which it isn't.

-I had no issue with Ed's chart feat, it doesn't happen often enough to be a major issue, the OCC introducing the 3 song rule was trying to solve a problem that didn't exist.

-Despacito was not beaten by Wild Thoughts or Feels, those songs had the advantage of being on a streaming ratio of 150:1 whereas Despacito was on 300:1 ratio. How is that possibly fair? How is a chart not false when the BEST SELLING AND MOST STREAMED SONG IS AT NUMBER 4?????!!!!!! That is why these were fake Number 1's. Whether you hate Despacito or not (which I do) is irrelevant. Do you want a fake chart that says what you want it to say or a chart that actually represents what's popular??

-I have no issue with anyone beating Bryan Adams' record but it will never happen now because of accelerated streaming ratios.

I hope you get to read this before the pathetic OCC who can't handle any form of criticism delete these comments. I stopped following the Singles chart after over 30 years because it is now meaningless thanks to the ratio changes. I follow the 'Real Chart' now. I wish it included streaming but at least it gives some sort of reflection of what's popular. Thankfully the OCC haven't completely ruined the Album Chart yet.

i have to agree, so many of them complained about ed sheeran locking the top 20 and yet, that's what music charts are supposed to do...objectively and un-biasedly rank each song. it's not ed's fault he did better than that week's competition.

and watch this xmas when george michael's music will be selling like crazy they'll all complain that he'd get a max. of 6 entries, 3 for his solo work and 3 for wham.

But the chart is not unbiased or objective now when you have some songs on a 150:1 and some on a 300:1 ratio which is what I was referring to in the first place.

Uhm,i checked out the other charts.Feels was #2 for downloads and #4 in streaming the week it peaked #1.Wild Thoughts was #2 and #2.Did Sony buy the #1?It's the only thing l can imagine,since Airplay is not counted by the OCC.I remember seeing that both had beaten Despacito for like 200-300 copies.But it seems that is not true.That's quite interesting.

Nobody 'bought' the number 1. The Official Charts Company have decided that if a song has been on the chart for 10 weeks and has been in sales decline to any extent for the last 3 they need 300 streams to make a sale rather than 150 which I am adamantly against, it discriminates against long running hits and falsifies the chart. In Despacito's case, if it had been counted at 150:1 those weeks when Feels and Wild Thoughts hit No1 it would've made Number 1 therefore in my eyes they had no business being at the top and are fake Number 1's manufactured and manipulated by the OCC. On the week that Feels was Number 1, Despacito was the most dowloaded and streamed song and was at 4, how can that possibly be right?
his is why I stopped following this chart because I don't trust it anymore. If you want to chat more join my Facebook group UK Top 40 Chart Chat.

Oh i didn't know it,i'm really sorry.Ok,then you're right,it's too forced as an idea and it's faking the chart,even though the purpose for what they made it is good.Ok,i'll check it out.

yeah but ed can't help it if his music is selling the best. he rightfully earned all those top spots and now with this 3-song limit the charts are gonna disallow tracks that rightfully earned their spots...but because of who the artist is the official charts won't allow it.