Official Singles Chart on 26/8/2016

Thank you for your comment. I was thinking the same regarding the representation of British artists in the charts. Once again we see the growing discrepancy between the albums chart and singles chart. It's worth noting that the best-selling albums of 2016 in the UK are by British artists and many more reached the top of the chart. From the singles chart alone you would never actually guess that British dominate the local music scene as we've seen only ONE British artist at the top in 8 months. Unlike sales charts which use raw data, streaming-based charts work with an arbitrary set of variables making it a highly subjective business. I would like to analyse some grey areas of the chart-compiling process in the discussion next week as I don't want to bore people stiff :).

Yes and the current number 1 Cold Water, down to 4 from 3 in the sales chart

Craig David is amazing but because of streaming his songs dont do well enough. It was the same with nothing like this and one more time too and no holding back didnt even hit the top 100 I hope his album does well next month!

Totally. That's why 2013 was such a good year for music, and after 14 it went downhill

Some guy on here made an online petition a few weeks ago to ban streaming from the charts but I forgot where the link to is

Aw snap, I am looking in to how to create a petition and will try to post up on next edition, and true but the effects are truly being felt this year on an unprecedented huge scale.

Dumb dumb dunb

Well said

Not counting "Love Yourself" from last year, it's only 6 number 1's!

I agree. It's been getting decent radio support.

It was at around 50 in sales about 2 weeks ago. But because of the very low streaming, it failed to hit the hot 100.

Because it's boring and repetitive.

I think you got them the wrong way round. Let me hold you (turn me on) is AMAZING like cheat codes' old song and bob marleys song is soooooooooo rubbish how it is no7 on itunes I do not know

Oh no, I was merely speaking on the pace of their chart runs. Is This Love was lurking by the top 40 for the past month or so, while Let Me Hold You was far away by the top 75 last week and was still new.

Yeah good point. But is this love is so bad - I swear bob marley is dead? How is he still in the charts?

I've taken a look at the 70's charts (from this official charts) and I've noticed that the "funk" dance tracks that were regularly being played by DJ's are in the lower end of the charts (positions 50-75 etc), so maybe it's quite accurate that the popular british tunes are charting lower nowadays!

You say that like it's the chart's fault and not consumers'. Vote with your wallet and/or clicks!

I was referring to the OCC (Official Charts Company, the compiler). No matter what I buy or click, I cannot change the way charts are compiled. Maybe I'm just a bit nostalgic and sad that my favourites are no longer charting in the singles chart. Well, times they are a changing...

Well said Daniel

I know how you feel, but I've noticed that it's been that way since about 2008-2009 that a number of my fave rock and indie bands suddenly stopped having top 40 hits and were beginning to flop, like Ash for instance, one of my fave bands, who at one point gave up releasing albums in favour of singles and released 26 singles in one year and not a single one of them even made the top 40, sadly. Gone are those days where you could have exciting sounding songs or even diverse ranges of music in the singles chart. So yeah, the so-called "singles" chart, or should I now say "tracks" chart has completely lost all relevance because of streaming, hype, image and mass downloading (how can Rihanna or Drake or Bieber simultaneously have 5 tracks in the top 100 each, isn't that not cheating? There ought to be a regulation against that). Albums charts are more important now these days.

Yeah well I prefer the 70s n 80s meself n the music nahadays aint up to wot we ad back then but iss all online so I can always listen to it dahn my gaff.

Thass wot I think n all.

Thank you for your insight. I agree that OCC has moved from a singles chart to a tracks chart. It's worth noting, however, that some countries only allow official singles to chart and some limit the number of tracks which can chart simultaneously. We also remember the times when Billboard didn't allow radio hits to chart (still can't get over the fact that Don't Speak didn't chart in the US :) before they changed the formula. I'm not saying it's good or bad but Billboard seems to be tweaking the formula whenever they feel the chart is becoming too stale or irrelevant. Who would've thought that Billboard Hot 100 would eventually become the more 'action-packed' chart in the future?
OCC could easily redistribute the weight of sales vs streams, recalculate the value of a stream, impose limits on the number of tracks (remember instant grat tracks?) or move 'eternal' songs to a recurrent chart. But for whatever reason they seem to be happy with the current formula or too afraid to touch it again so soon. I guess we'll never know. So thank god for the albums chart I get most of new music from there!

Totally agree

Yes, indeed Daniel. Times are changing and not for the better (judging by the crapology going on nowadays - I mean, who ever heard of a song spending more than a year in the singles chart ? And who ever heard of 5, 6 or 7 songs from the same artist in the chart at the same time ???) .

Everyone seems to like Olly Murs, myself included.

Yeah he's my fave but I know one that doesn't and that's that 'drew' guy, everytime I mention Olly Murs Drew has to respond with a hate comment against him.

IKR? We only got 2 songs that spent less than 4 weeks at the top.