Official Singles Chart on 11/12/2015

And talk about, pop music, talk about-pop music

"Pop music" is short for "popular music," kind of like how "pop culture" is short for "popular culture."
By definition, if a song is on the charts, it's, by definition, pop music.

You're right. There should be more heavy metal, punk, blues, jazz, folk, reggae, soul, and Gregorian charts in the charts. :-)

Yeah, that's true.

The record they refer to is not just that they knocked themselves off the top spot, but it is qualified with "both songs holding at number 1 and 2 for two consecutive weeks" . In the week prior to knocking She Loves You off the top spot, I Want To Hold Your Hand was number 10 in the charts.

I see what you mean even so Justin has held one and two for three weeks, same as the Beatles. The Beatles repeated that with Hello Goodbye and Magical Mystery Tour in 1967 buy admittedly that is not the same as MMT did not make No1. So for me Justin only shares the record.

They are two different records

The Beatles didn't release their singles simultaneously. "She Loves You" was released in August, "I Want Hold Your Hand" in November. So, SLY didn't run out of steam even after four month's. And people had to buy the record in the stores week by week to keep it on top. That was a far bigger achievement than the Bieber boy's.

streaming should be abolished.

You're only saying that because I wrote a comment telling people not to say that.

Did you even read more than just the first 2 paragraphs of my comment?

no i did not read it all as i was too busy crying and getting angry.

Fair enough. Not bothered really because frankly the singles chart is a farce these days. Bieber has over ten songs on it. With that many, one wonders why his album isn't simply bought instead.

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streaming shouldn't count. cos streaming is listening to music. you might as well add illegal downloading. the singles chart was and should always be about physical sales or downloads. actual purchasing and as for album tracks in a singles chart?????
they are not singles. the artist should have to release a song as a single before it qualifies for the singles chart and no song that isn't being actually released as a single should qualify either. including old songs re=entering. our charts is as embarrassing and stagnant as the US charts which we use to mock.

You know, the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. was actually changed from a singles chart to a songs chart. Shouldn't be long till the "Official Singles Chart" is renamed to the "Official Songs Chart." Doesn't bother me, but it does somehow bother everyone else.

In 5 more years, digital sales will be noexistent so...

Digital sales are decreasing and will be nonexistent in 5 more years. Streaming is the future. Get with it or jump off the ship.

I'm pleased to see this, rather than the usual moaning. The Charts aren't supposed to be about sales; they're supposed to be a measure of what's popular right now. In the past, the best proxy for this was sales. Now it's still partially sales, albeit largely in an electronic format, but also through streaming. This is one of the major ways in which music is discovered, listened to and enjoyed. People do also pay for streaming, don't forget; it's not just free, and each stream has a tiny fraction of the impact of 1 sale. It takes 100 streams to count as one sale and no one user can have more than 10 streams per day of a song count towards the chart. Considering nobody's ever really going to get anywhere near 10 plays per day, and that a whole week of doing so doesn't even count as a single sale, something really does need to be very popular indeed to register on streams alone. If it's that popular, it deserves a place in the chart, album track or not; why should record companies decide what constitutes a 'single'.

These rules make the UK chart the most democratic in the world. Almost every other country has gone down the airplay route, which really would be the end as that's basically the record companies deciding what gets in the chart again but in the most undemocratic way possible.

The only thing I'd moan about chartwise is Radio One destroying the chart show but, you know what, someone publishes a list of the Top 40 every week on Spotify so I just flip it using an app and listen to that instead. If Radio One is going to play silly buggers we can find another way of listening.

Streaming isn't going away any time soon and we need to be able to welcome new advances like this to keep music alive.

Couldn't agree more with you. The British Singles Chart Top 40 also used to be a National Tradition which attracted millions of followers. Because of the addition of streams and other changes to the way it's compiled, it has become a laughing stock, resulting in massive turn offs and a couldn't care less attitude towards it. SINGLES means SINGLES and not dozens of cherry picked album tracks. Let's go back to the days when the chart actually meant something and when it was a true and accurate weekly reflection of what's really selling and really popular in the UK.

Thank you! Why are you and me the only people who see this?

Wrong! The charts are (or should be) about sales and only sales. If I play a CD at home, it counts for nothing. Why should it count if I stream the album instead. there is no difference-only the media used to listen to it.

There's a big difference in the way music is 'consumed' between those two media: when streaming, you're playing tracks and paying for them on a play by play basis; when buying a CD or download you're buying all your plays at once.
I don't agree with the argument that streaming shouldn't count just because it's play-as-you-go. Each play is worth 100 times less than a purchase, remember, and I know I haven't played most of my CDs or downloads anything _like_ 100 times so if anything streaming is having a very low impact proportionally.

Musical media, and the way we enjoy music, is always (and has always been) constantly evolving and if the chart doesn't move along with these advancements then there's no point in it being there. Ten years ago some people were screaming about downloads not being valid for similar reasons but few would argue that now; if the chart only included physical sales it would very misrepresentative indeed given that physical sales are so low. Such is also increasingly true for streaming.
Downloads and streaming have also taken a lot of the power over what gets into the chart away from the record companies and given it to us. That has to be a good thing. I think the chart has a lot more cultural value than its probable original purpose as a capitalist promotional tool.

Well said Karl!