Official Singles Chart on 19/7/2019

UK Top 40 Singles Chart, 19 July 2019
https://youtu.be/__w2XEOXDCk

You don't throw away the charts just because of an odd rule. the chart just looks differe
nt and it will adapt. there has always been problems people have with the way things are done.

if you need rent-a-singer for feat ? just call jess glynn, rita ora, bebe rexha, camilla cabelo

tom walker, Lewis capaldi , alie gate, ed sheeran, dermont kennedy in charts except dean Lewis . but why ? He is as boring as like them.. Also they reduced ed's sales

underperformance of Taylor swift & zara larsson and high performance of craig David are surprises of chart. he is 11 @ sales

Whitney & kygo @ 2 in sales. There is big cliff between sales & official

These charts should just be sales, if you buy it and you buy it enough it will chart simple as. Plus it should be SINGLES only, clue is in the name of the chart and should not include album tracks or anything else which have not been officially released as a SINGLE.

This is a shame, I m not from the UK, but all my life I always admired this chart, Now this new chart in not real, a lot of money of American, and the UK ARTISTS THEY DO NOT KNOW !!
we miss a lot the pop, the dance, . what happen, please do something !!

Anyone looking for what the chart should've looked like this week without artists being restricted to 3 songs, here it is (though sadly I couldn't find what the chart would've looked like without ACR as well):

Songs that were removed from the chart highlighted in bold

1) Ed Sheeran ft. Khalid - 'Beautiful People' (+2)
2) Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello - 'Señorita' (-1)
3) Ed Sheeran ft. Stormzy - 'Take Me Back to London' (Debut)
4) Ed Sheeran ft. Chance the Rapper, PnB Rock - 'Cross Me' (+4)
5) Ed Sheeran ft. Eminem, 50 Cent - 'Remember The Name' (Debut)
6) Ed Sheeran, Travis Scott - 'Antisocial' (Debut)
7) Ed Sheeran ft. Camila Cabello, Cardi B - 'South of the Border' (Debut)
8) Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber - 'I Don't Care' (-6) (probably #2 without ACR)
9) Lewis Capaldi - 'Hold Me While You Wait' (-5)
10) Ed Sheeran ft. Young Thug, J Hus - 'Feels' (Debut)
11) Ed Sheeran ft. YEBBA - 'Best Part of Me' (+25)
12) AJ Tracey - 'Ladbroke Grove' (=)
13) MIST ft. Fredo - 'So High' (-2)
14) Sigala, Becky Hill - 'Wish You Well' (-5)
15) Stormzy - 'Crown' (-9)
16) Lil Nas X - 'Old Town Road' (-9) (probably Top 10 without ACR)
17) Mabel - 'Mad Love' (-7)
18) Ed Sheeran ft. Ella Mai - 'Put It All on Me' (Debut)
19) Post Malone ft. Young Thug - 'Goodbyes' (-14)
20) Ed Sheeran ft. Paulo Londra, Dave - 'Nothing On You' (Debut)
21) Dave ft. Burna Boy - 'Location' (+17) (Taken off ACR this week)
22) Ed Sheeran ft. Meek Mill, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie - '1000 Nights' (Debut)
23) Lewis Capaldi - 'Someone You Loved' (-10) (Probably Top 15 without ACR)
24) Dominic Fike - '3 Nights' (-5)
25) Billie Eilish - 'bad guy' (-2) (Probably Top 15 without ACR)
26) Kygo, Whitney Houston - 'Higher Love' (=)
27) Ed Sheeran ft. H.E.R. - 'I Don't Want Your Money' (Debut)
28) Ed Sheeran ft. Skrillex - 'Way To Break My Heart' (Debut)
29) Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton, Bruno Mars - 'BLOW' (+14)
30) Krept & Konan ft. Headie One, K-Trap - 'I Spy' (Debut)
31) Young T & Bugsey ft. Aitch - 'Strike a Pose' (-10)
32) D-Block Europe - 'Home P*ssy' (-12)
33) Taylor Swift - 'You Need To Calm Down' (-16)
34) Katy Perry - 'Never Really Over' (-20)
35) Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc - 'SOS' (-20)
36) Stormzy - 'Vossi Bop' (-18) (Probably Top 20 without ACR)
37) Chris Brown ft. Drake - 'No Guidance' (-21)
38) Freya Ridings - 'Castles' (-4)
39) Lewis Capaldi - 'Grace' (-14)
40) Jess Glynne, Jax Jones - 'One Touch' (-16)

Emeli Sandé's new single should be the song of the suer yet she seems to have been completely forgotten about whilst artists like Ed Sheeran seem to thrive, generating more generic melodies and lyrics about girls

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts always…

‘Beautiful People’ by Ed Sheeran ft Khalid is the new #1 on the singles chart! It’s Ed’s seventh #1 hit & Khalid’s second.

Despite being toppled from the top of the singles chart, ‘Senorita’ by Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello does become the most played song on British radio this week.
http://ukairplaychart.com/

In other radio chart news, ‘Chasing Cars’ by Snow Patrol was recently announced as the biggest airplay hit of the century so far in the UK.

‘Old Town Road [Remix]’ by Lil Nas X ft Billy Ray Cyrus reaches its 13th non-consecutive week at #1 on the national YouTube chart! It drops 2.6% of its weekly views to 3.75 million.
https://charts.youtube.com/charts/TopSongs/gb?hl=en-gb

Even though it’s only thanks to the two new chart rules, ‘I Don’t Care’ ties ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ & ‘Last Christmas’ for the biggest dropout in chart history (all from #2). Personally, I feel that not having a song being in the chart despite probably being either the second or third most popular of the week is very unfair.

ED SHEERAN FT STORMZY - TAKE ME BACK TO LONDON (#3)
We all knew this was coming, ever since the two artists collaborated on the remix to ‘Shape Of You’ a couple of years back, as well as both being good friends for a while & being among the biggest British artists currently putting out grime music. Although, despite this being an obvious teaming, it’s also one of the highlights of the album for me personally! I think the biggest reason behind it’s UK appeal is, of course, how patriotic the song is, with both of them reminding fans that home truly is where the heart despite all of the travelling or even their recent national achievements like winning BRIT Awards or headlining Glastonbury. While I’m not completely sold by Ed’s rhythm on the hook, there’s at least a fair level of passion here & both artists accompany each other fine enough. I do feel like this might have a lot of first week hype & hence could run the risk of being frontloaded, but I’m definitely liking the level of reflection both artists show & even bragging that doesn’t sound all that cocky, such as when Ed talks about his last tour grossing half a billion pounds. It might not be revolutionary exactly, but it achieves what it needed to & is a good song to boot. I’d say a very light 8/10 for this for now!

KREPT & KONAN FT HEADIE ONE & K-TRAP - I SPY (#18)
I’ll say this, for as much as they seem to fade out of the spotlight as quickly as they jump back into it, Krept & Konan are certainly a rap duo that I’m intrigued by more than most others. That’s because they combine so many different styles of urban music, with this one being a combination of grime & UK drill, while also finding the right balance between the two. The production is both hard-hitting yet vibrant thanks to B-Kay, which seems to be a fitting match to the darker delivery all four artists bring to the song (which is kind of ironic for a song called ‘I Spy’!). Not only that, but it seems to match the content soon & while it’s just about not giving the time of day to haters on the surface, dig a little deeper & you find that this is one of the more convincing & believable hits currently in the charts that take this approach. Nothing really exceptional, given what this group have done before, but despite the annoying chipmunk vocal snippets, I’m sure it’ll grow on me even further. It’s already getting a really light 7/10 from me as it is though!

REMEDEE X NOT3S & YOUNG ADZ - LOML (#37)
Look, I don’t really know too much about Remedee & I’ve only got a sense of who Young Adz is recently, but with me having followed Not3s for considerably longer & even seen him live recently, surely the three of them can bring more to the table than this? The content seemed promising the chorus where they say they’re going to treat the woman question like a gentlemen, then completely kill any intent of that happening with the rest of the song being full of $ex references about said woman, as well as bragging that you’ve all heard in this kind of song a thousand times already this year! I guess I can kind of appreciate that most of the raps flow well here, but that also reminds me of the very weird structure that this song has. I mean, for a collaboration between Not3s & a member of D-Block Europe, it connects better than you would expect, but I doubt I’m going to revisit this by choice. It’s an extremely light 5/10!

TIESTO, JONAS BLUE & RITA ORA - RITUAL (#40)
This is the kind of collaboration that I thought would’ve impacted this region of the chart sooner, given that it got considerable airplay across a variety of major stations & you’ll hear over the TV or clubs too since we’re deep into the summer, but anyway, it’s finally here & honestly, I thought it would be a little better. It’s still by no means bad though & I think the main reason for that is Rita Ora’s vocals, which appear to shine over a hook that’s trying to be way more explosive than it actually is. Despite this, while Tiesto & Jonas Blue both get lead credit here, the production honestly sounds like it’s about 90% Tiesto & 10% Jonas Blue. I do get hints of the latter’s work over the light, breezy verses, but the track is really dominated by the club feel this is going for in the hook. I don’t even mind the slightly off-cycle nor repetitive delivery in the chorus either, but the two DJs here have generally gone for different styles of dance music that coming to a compromise might be a big challenge & I do feel like this proved it. Still a fun enough song, it’s decent, so… light 6/10!

On the albums chart, ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’ becomes the fastest selling album of the year so far, giving Ed Sheeran his fourth #1!

With 125,000 combined sales (57,000 physical, 18,000 downloads & 70.2 million streams), ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’ outperformed the rest of the Top 30 combined!

The rest of the Top 5 is: ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ (1-2), ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ by Billie Eilish (4-3), ‘Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection’ by Kylie Minogue (2-4) & ‘A Star Is Born [Soundtrack]’ by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper (25-5). The latter gains by so much thanks to its national TV premiere last Friday.
https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

Looking ahead to next week, these songs could reach the Top 40 for the first time: ‘How Do You Sleep?’ by Sam Smith, ‘What You Won’t Do For Love’ by Luke Burr, ‘Gone’ by Charli XCX & Christine & The Queens, ‘Rich’ by D-Block Europe x Offset, 'Hate Me' by Ellie Goulding & Juice WRLD, 'Ransom' by Lil Tecca & maybe even more.

Thanks for reading everyone! I hope you all have a good weekend. :)

My latest Crown Note chart: http://crownnote.com/charts/piran-delves/pirans-top-40-138