Official Singles Chart on 22/4/2016

Hope not,It's a great song!

Both "Hair" and "Just Like Fire" are good songs but with the way things are going it'll probably be between "Purple Rain", "One Dance" or "Cheap Thrills" for No.1 next week.

Ugh no. I dunno what I want to take 1D (har-har) off the spot but not those two artists, their songs have literally like no chance anyway.

Almost 5 months this year and no female artists have topped the charts, so I'd be almost happy if Little Mix or P!nk topped the chart.

Yeah, in the last month's justin beiber , Shawn Mendes, Zayn , Lukas Graham, Mike posner and drake's songs are the only songs that have been no.1 ......

You never no though, cheap thrills might be no.1, or Megan Trainer.

Well actually Kyla has reached No.1 (if you count her as a featured artist on Drake's "One Dance") but no females have as a lead artist in 2016. It looks like Sia is the most likely contender to put women back on top but it would be good to see Little Mix or P!NK get there too. :)

Beyoncé has a good chance with Formation

Sadly, It's gonna be "One Dance" again.

"The charts were never meant to be a measure of what people were listening to. They were about what people were buying."

the point of an overall chart is to measure overall popularity. somewhat unrelated; I can understand not counting radio; radio takes forever to change their playlists. on topic: they are the official charts, not the official sales charts.

"People listen to what is familiar and popular and that inevitably leads to a very stagnant commercial biased chart. There are so many songs that are getting in the top 40 on sales chart now which aren't even getting in top 100 of official chart."

then blame the british music community for not streaming, lmao. basing an overall chart solely on sales makes the chart look artificially active and easily manipulated. it would make the #1 spot look like a joke. it would make the whole chart look like the joke.

"Smaller up and coming acts with a strong fan base used to be able to break the charts but now they have little chance."

then there's something wrong with the british music community per se. up-and-coming acts sometimes have their breakthroughs here in the USA, as evident in our charts. (Desiigner, Alessia Cara, the Weeknd, Fetty Wap to name a few)

streaming hasn't reallykilled the charts; the british GP refusing to stream (or refusing to buy) has killed the charts. quick question, how long have you been on this earth?

I've already explained time and time again how the charts are not "ruined" and why streaming is not going away from the charts. I see this comment every week and it has to end. Do you really think you complaining in the comments is going to make streams go away? No! I'm not going to explain why streaming isn't going away as I've already done that many, many times. Go check the previous week's comments and find my comment.

Sorry , but who are you? Do
you own the comments section of this website? Do you have the authority to tell
me to stop commenting? Of course I understand that streaming isn't going away
but my point is still a valid one; including streaming with the weighting it
currently has is leading to a stagnant and dull chart. Just compare the number
of new entries now to those of the chart prior to the inclusion of streaming. Just
look at how long songs are hanging around in the charts now. It’s boring! It
doesn't take a genius to understand why. Since the inclusion of streaming
virtually no smaller acts with growing fan bases ever manage to break the
charts like they used to do. As a result the charts no longer reflect what is
happening in the music scene. Very few of the big live acts ever break the
charts now. This is what used to make the charts varied and exciting. This is
because including streaming just serves to inflate the chart position of what
is already known, and popular, and played on the radio. It leads to a samey,
bland, mainstream, pop dominated chart. Ok, the chart has always been dominated by pop
( I don’t have an issue with this. I love pop, but I also like lots of other
genres of music) but now it is total ! Ok, if you want a chart that reflects what people
are listening to then, yes, it reflect that to some extent but the official
chart has never been just about that. The whole history of the official chart
is about measuring sales and the commitment that fans make to a song/band when
they purchase their track, not when they just click on a link or press replay
on Spotify which takes virtually no commitment! Including streaming in the official charts is
like including how many times someone listened to a cd back in the olden days!
It does not relate to the commitment someone shows when they purchase a track.
All it shows is what is being listened to and the more popular a track is then
the more it will be listened too and the more times it will be listened to by
an individual. As a result, you just get a chart that reflects what is
established and played on the radio. If streaming has to be included, then it
should just be one stream per person and once an individual has streamed a
track once then that should be it for the week. Counting multiple streams is
meaningless unless we have completely redefined what the chart is meant to be
showing.

Physical sales increased by some 330% week on week due to Record Store Day.

"Physical sales increased by some 330% week on week due to Record Store Day"

Record Store Day? Oh, right. Never heard of that. I guess it's like "Bingo Day" or "Chart Isn't As Good as It Used To Be " Day. :P

It's an annual event where artists recognise the efforts of independent record stores, Some acts have special releases that are only available on CD or vinyl formats.

You're not alone.

In the top 200 I presume, I bet a number of those will be Prince re-entries.

Maybe, it`s because of Record Store Day.

Physical sales increased by some 330% week on week because of Record Store Day.

I'd love to see a Singles chart invasion but singles chart entries will surely be limited and not on the scale of Bowie as the material just isn't available on Spotify. When streaming accounts for 50% of 'sales' its not going to happen on the same scale :(

Prince is going to do well on sales and downloads but streaming will be a disadvantage like you said. That's the only thing I regret about streaming on the charts; that most artists who peaked before the 21st century don't have the music on the streaming services and hence it's harder for them to get on the charts. That said "One Dance" made it to No.1 with few streams so hopefully something like "Purple Rain" will sell enough to overcome the streaming disadvantage.