Nathan Evans and Drake are challenging for Number 1 on the Official Chart: First Look

i feel like you need to get a life because you've spent everyday for the past two months fuming at the success of a song by a 17/18 year old.... hobbies and jobs are needed

He’s literally like 1 space under Driver’s License on iTunes, and only 5 under Wellerman.

Plus he was ahead up until today.

Oh yeah, and sales are irrelevant, almost forgot about that...

Exactly. He’s at 16, which would make it only a top 20 hit, not straight in at number 2 with 3 songs in the top 10 and 6 number one singles. Streaming makes him seem bigger than he actually is.

Oh yeah, and streams never were relevant, forgot about that too...
Sales were always relevant to the charts, like cds, downloads, vinyl, even cassettes which are all seeing a massive boost in recent years and still count a lot towards the countdown and was the whole point of the chart in the first place. It’s no longer a singles chart, but a big Spotify playlist songs chart. Not the same.
Just because the OCC took the stupid decision to include free hollow listens into the chart doesn’t make them relevant to anything. The chart itself has been stone dead and pretty much entirely irrelevant for years.

There’s so much more people using streaming instead of buying, it’s like a 97/3 split.

And a Top 20 isn’t nothing, as you claim it is...

Yes there is, but that doesn’t mean it should count towards the chart. It just doesn’t work. Look at the mess it’s caused and all the ridiculous rule changes that the OCC have done over the years to try and shoehorn it to fit in.
And I didn’t claim anything mate. Where did I say that?
Top 20 is good, , even making the top 40 or 100 is good, especially nowadays. But it isn’t as high as number 2, that’s all I said.

You’re just repeating yourself at this point...

Just because sales used to be all there was, doesn’t mean it’s still like that.

And streams definitely show what’s popular, sales don’t account for how much you actually play the song, and like I said have a 97/3 split between chart relevance.

They haven’t added any bad rules? Apart from the 3 songs per artist, which would’ve came with sales as well at some point.

And in your first statement, you said: “I don’t care as long as garbage Drake doesn’t get there I’m happy. He never even sells anything.”

Definitely sounds like saying he doesn’t sell anything to me.

They’ve added plenty of stupid rules into the chart to correlate with streaming (ACR for example, which wouldn’t be needed if it wasn’t for streaming) and I don’t think they would’ve added the 3 song rule if it was just sales either.
Also with Drake I didn’t mean he sells absolutely NOTHING, I meant most of his success comes with streaming instead of actual sales like most of his number ones and high chart positions, figuratively, he’s not as big as they make him out to be when it comes to actually selling records as opposed to people just listening to him on Spotify. Don’t take everything so literally.

Well not really, and if I am repeating maybe that’s because it’s relevant to bring up here and you haven’t said anything against those actual points?
Although it should be, and sales actually do show what’s popular, and what millions of people are still buying. Streaming only shows what teens in their bedrooms are listening to as I’ve said before, as if they’re the most important and only demographic, when they aren’t. Or the that’s popular on TikTok. That’s not everyone in the entire country.
The chart shouldn’t be about for how long you play the song either, it should be about purchasing the songs you like, not about playing a bit of it then it enters the chart. What if it’s part of a playlist or a song you’re just streaming to hear for the first time? That shouldn’t count towards any credible singles chart, nor should someone manipulating it by streaming something endlessly over and over again to keep it in as it’s for free.
You might as well include radio airplay in it then.
That’s another thing the OCC has done is have to change how many streams it takes for a song to get in time and time again like 100 to 150 for example, because songs were staying in for months and it was becoming stale and extremely easy for some to just be streamed in for ages more than others, which wasn’t at all fair.
It’s just a massive completely wrong mess now with no variety in it, which is why most chart fans have lost interest in it over the years. They should just scrap it altogether in all honesty.

he does sell. he sold 600k first week with take care. 700k first week with NWTS and nearly 900k pure copies with Views in 2016. even now, he sells more than anyone not named Adele or Taylor Swift. 2016 was the year streaming started to skyrocket and usurp traditional sales. sales have drastically declined since then. nowadays, sales are just simply a sign of a cult following and dedicated fanbase which is a good thing but it doesn't reflect who is actually popular and being consumed the most. streaming does. that's how like 90% of music is being consumed nowadays. sales aren't completely obsolete but they will be eventually. it's the streaming era, you're going to have to deal with it

I am streaming this song everyday to make sure it goes to No.1 hopefully.

Drake most definitely has the fanbase, I reckon with another 4 days of streaming he'll easily go up.