Official Singles Chart on 3/1/2020

Sad about Mariah Carey. In USA and Germany she was 1st time with this song at number 1. But not in the UK

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I see Dance Monkey far exceeded Stormzy this week and should/would have been No.1 again had it not been for ACR. The charts are more like school results where 9 is the best and 1 the worst. Week on week the best performers in sales/streams are usually somewhere other than No.1 … or is that No.4 ? doh!

OCC sort the charts out once and for all and get your act together, you're losing credibility on a massive scale. This is shambolic. SCRAP ACR AND HAVE A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR ALL SONGS. The streaming figures need to be adjusted. This is not working!!! Passive playlist counts should NOT be included in streaming. 3 songs per artist limitation is a ridiculous rule. Put the charts to how they should be and not a manipulative tool for the music industry. ACR is useless, is making OCC look like fools and is making the charts fake!

So glad to see some of my favourite songs getting a new peak: Arizona, Harry Styles ( even getting 3 Top 20 this week!!), Jax Jones ( a well deserved Top 10: brillant song with Ella) and Camilla....

acr needs to be got rid of.every single song should have an equal playing field.every stream should count,every download should count.even if this means Mariah having the xmas no 1 every year,at least u know the no 1 is THE most streamed or downloaded song of the week!

The 2019 End Of Year Top 100 Singles Chart is up now: https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/end-of-year-singles-chart/

Reviews
(13) My oh My - Camila Cabello ft. Dababy [7/10]
Took a while grow on me but not on repeat though kinda reminded me about what I like about you by Jonas blue. You know, becoming a bad girl because of a bad guy you're into. Dababy being one of my favourite American rappers right now because of his playful nature which also reflects in his tracks and verses which you'll notice here too. So great song.

(29) No cellular site - D Block Europe [2/10]
I'm gonna sound like a hater but I don't get how DBE keep making it here most of their tracks are so boring. I only listened to this once and I wasn't even pushed to try play again and of course they talk about the same old thing. Sorry fans.

(33)No Denying - J hus [6/10]
Well I was expecting similar to Must be but this is on a different lane. It's good but sounds like something I'll get tired of soon and won't be coming back to.

(38)No idea - Don Toliver [3/10]
I seriously don't get way this is sooooo hyped I was hoping this country would sleep on it but heyyy! Too much auto tune on "let's get naughtier", the chorus. If I needed songs for my $£>< playlist this won't be on it.

(40)The Box - Rody Ricch [4/10]
I'm pleased to see Rody Ricch have his first UK Top 40 entry but he has wayy better tracks than "beep-poob", not gonna say much but I prefer this to "no cellular site"

Side note
The OCC should consider the following new year's resolutions

1. Notify people when something is wrong. I seriously don't want to suspect rigging or constant falsification of figures cause nothing is perfect but when a flaw like what happened last week (those who follow music and the charts know what I'm talking about) happens you update the public even if it's just on social media.

2. The three tracks per artist rule shouldn't apply if an artiste or a band member dies. I feel Juice wrld, Avicii, Chester Benington, Aretha Franklin and more weren't mourned properly.

3. No More ACR. Looking at the nature of Today's charts I think ACR is a bad idea. Instead a new streaming to sales ratio should be considered for the charts in general.

Who agrees with me?

Congrats on Dance Monkey for taking #1 in the fallout of Christmas again, shame on OCC for ACR-ing out of the deserved position and giving the crown to Own It, which Dance Monkey passes on literally all 3 metrics (#2 v.s. #3 on Sales, #1 v.s. #2 on Audio Streams, #1 v.s. #3 on Video Streams). I didn't want to have to point this out again so soon, but this policy is making so many fake leaders that it's quite upsetting.

The charts are just one big mess these days. So many silly rules/handicaps that distort the listings. All rather meaningless and untrustworthy

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always...

'Own It' becomes Stormzy's third, Ed's ninth & Burna Boy's first #1 single! It accumulated 57,000 chart sales over the past seven days, which includes 6.6 million streams.

Stormzy is the first rapper since Dizzee Rascal to achieve three #1 singles in less than a year (the latter did it with: 'Holiday', 'Dirtee Disco' & 'Shout' between September 2009 & June 2010).

In the aftermath of Christmas dropouts, 'Adore You' by Harry Styles return to the top of the national airplay chart for a second non-consecutive week!

On the latest YouTube chart, Mariah Carey did indeed replace Tones & I at the chart summit, as 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' was the most watched video across the country during the Christmas week (4.69 million, +95.3%).

CAMILA CABELLO FT DABABY - MY OH MY (#13, Best Of The Week)
As you’ll see when reading on, despite the re-entries being mostly awesome, the new arrivals were mediocre at best to terrible at worst! Although, while there are four of those coming up, this being the highest of them kind of saves that, because it’s awesome! Now, that’s unsurprising given how much I adore Camila Cabello’s new album, but this really looks like it could have potential to be the next ‘Havana’, with Camila’s flirtatious charisma combined with the “call-response” style hook! That bass guitar also carries so much groove, which is a perfect match to Camila’s innocent yet cheeky attitude & DaBaby’s playful, rhythmic second verse. Of course, the highlight of this would be the bridge, where Camila’s hitting some of the most powerful notes I’ve heard her reach in a long time! As for the content, it seems to show how unfamiliar yet curious she was to become $exual with a previous partner (which I say because she’s now dating Shawn Mendes, although she describes the guy in question as “a little bit older”), so it could be about Matthew Hussey! It’s also done in a way that’s admittedly a little creepy, but it’s a very relatable song for couples who haven’t dealt with many mature relationships in the past! I think I probably enjoy this more than I should, but this has a serious shot at becoming a massive hit, so I’ll certainly be supporting this. Light 9/10!

D-BLOCK EUROPE - NO CELLULAR SITE (#29)
There’s also two UK rap songs going up against two US rap songs for me to cover this week, so it’s not exactly the best sign when the first song of the new decade I’ll be covering is from a group I’ve never rated above a light 5/10 despite charting here a few times. That being said, that might actually be about to change! Now, let it make it perfectly clear that many of the same problems I’ve had with this group still remain; Young Adz being slathered in autotune to the point where you can barely understand him at points, Dirtbike LB sounding so bored that he lacks any kind of sincerity, neither of them having any chemistry with one another & generic lyrics, but that being said, this might be the first time that I’ve actually heard an interesting idea of a melody from them with that whistling line opening & closing out the song. Also, while they’re still heavily bragging, they at least acknowledge them taking drugs raises the big issue of doctors & family worrying about them! Beyond that, Young Adz is probably the better of the two here for being able to ride his flow over the trap skitter decently. Trust me, it’s probably going to take a long time before I ever actually like a D-Block Europe song, but this one at least tolerable. Solid 5/10!

J HUS - NO DENYING (#33)
Oh God, on the other hand, here’s an artist that I was actually expecting to hear quality from & he couldn’t deliver at all this time round! If there’s one part of the song that works, I guess it’s how confident his lyrics are, suggesting that this jail time changed nothing about him as a person… just a shame he can’t convey any of that idea into his delivery, where he sounds so warbled that it’s almost embarrassing at this point, I’m sorry! Then we get the awful mixing in the production, which seems to push the swampy bass way too far forward & yet you still can’t ignore the off-key horns in the background. Unfortunately, coming from J Hus, this is a massive disappointment & I seriously hope he doesn’t continue 2020 making music like this. Light 3/10!

DON TOLIVER - NO IDEA (#39, Worst Of The Week)
Oh look, even the Americans are letting me down this week too! Seriously, I was hoping for the best when I heard the flute line that starts this off, along with Don Toliver’s okay soulful & deeper timbre, but that falsetto is incredibly grating & the beat is something you’ll forget literally minutes after you've heard it, while he tries to perve over a girl that probably even half the trap artists in the charts now would find laughable! Yeah, I get a really bad feeling about this song, even if it only got here thanks to the ‘JACKBOYS’ label album with Travis Scott & Sheck Wes, but yeah, even they can do far better than this. Solid 2/10!

RODDY RICCH - THE BOX (#40)
At this point, I’m just glad to get this over with, so hopefully Roddy Ricch can come up with something enjoyable, but no, this isn’t going to do it! I can at least get behind the ominous percussion that adds a little swell to the song, but that’s almost completely ruined by the fact that Roddy Ricch’s vocal performance is almost a Young Thug rip-off, but then we get the “ee-oo”s scattered about to only add to how much I can’t get behind this, along with the standard content about guns & flexing you’ve all heard hundreds of times before! Man, you know it’s a rough week when D-Block Europe have the second best new arrival out of five here, but yeah, I wouldn’t want to see this get big either. Solid 4/10!

On the albums chart, 'Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent' by Lewis Capaldi returns to #1 for the first time since July, where it spends a fourth separate stint & seventh non-consecutive week there! It was also crowned the biggest album of 2019, shifting 641,000 copies across all platforms since its release last May!

The rest of the Top 5 is: 'Heavy Is The Head' by Stormzy (5-2), 'You're In My Heart' by Rod Stewart (1-3), 'No.6 Collaborations Project' by Ed Sheeran (9-4) & 'Fine Line' by Harry Styles (8-5).

Looking ahead to next week, these songs could be entering the Top 40 for the first time: 'Yummy' by Justin Bieber, ‘One Night’ by MK & Sonny Fodera ft Raphaella, ‘We by Koffee ft Gunna & 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-40-162

Surely this stupid joke of a chart must show even the most stubborn that it is pointless, meaningless, worthless.

Roddy Ricch, The Box - 8/10, Really like this song, initially it didn't stand out when i first listened to Roddy's album but this song somehow is stuck in my head all the time now!

Don Toliver, No Idea - 9/10, I've been a fan of Don Toliver ever since his feature on CANT SAY by Travis Scott, which was my favourite song on ASTROWORLD. This song is almost as good, I love Donny's voice!

J Hus, No Denying - 6.5/10, Better than Must Be, and has a lot more energy, but still not as good as did you see which is the only J Hus song that i really like.

DBE, No cellular Site - 4/10, Really boring song to be honest, I liked Kitchen Kings but apart from that I've never got on board with D-Block Europe

Cabello ft DaBaby - 7/10 , Catchy, really liked DaBaby's verse, he is notorious for using the same flow on all of his songs but he actually switched it up on this one! I'm not the biggest fan of pop music and probably wouldn't listen if it weren't for the feature but It's pretty good!!

I was going to do a regular review tonight, but I feel compelled to, once again, address the elephant in the room, as the persisting issue with Mariah's miscounted streams from last week remains unaddressed. (a regular review might still be coming later)

Considering it's been a well publicized issue, with many reports and enough convincing evidence to have the OCC look into it, it's incredibly suspicious that they haven't, to this point. I was at first skeptical of any supposed 'rigging' (I still am), but every day that passes that there's no update on this, is another day that the legitimacy of these charts remains under question. How am I supposed to trust this, going forward, when you could, once again, have a 'database error' and give someone's video streams away to a random covert act? Who's not to say that next week, Stormzy's streams could be given to Drake, for example, or that next Christmas, Mariah won't be cheated out again?

I understand very well that messing up is bad press for any company. But, at this point, admitting you were wrong and looking into your mistake is only the right step. The integrity of this chart is on the line here, the trust of the public in it - even if Mariah won't get to #1 with those missing (4.6 million!!) streams, that affects her total sale count for the future; the streaming record, given to Wham! this year, should have without question belonged to her, and a possible #1 spot was taken away from her. Don't get me wrong, I really couldn't care less whether Mariah or Ellie got the #1 spot, it's a matter of a truthful and representative chart - which, last week's one, was far from. Again, I've been refraining from calling this a conspiracy, but, again, every day of silence is another day that your actions look incredibly suspicious and, well, motivated.

I will keep my promise I made last week - if this is not addressed within the next week, so until the next chart is published on Friday, I will quit following and completely disregard the Official UK Charts, for they would be absolutely no better than someone's custom CrownNote chart.

Oh, and the chart above here? A complete mess. Tracks on ACR mixed up with tracks on SCR, to the point where, again, this is mostly just a fantasy chart. 'Memories' was not more popular than 'Don't Rush' this week, just like 'Better Half of Me' was not bigger than 'Lose Control' or 'South of the Border'. It's as far away from an accurate representation as possible. But next week will be even funnier, when only half of these songs get reset, and it strays even further away from the truth.

This is disheartening and disappointing.
EDIT: As per another commenter, it seems like last week's video chart was indeed removed. Hopefully that means they are indeed looking to correct their mistake, and not just cover it up.

Yesss Don Toliver!!

Okay, before I chat about this chart, a little rant coming up…

It’s very disappointing to see how the last chart was dealt with! Not only do the numbers reported strongly suggest Mariah was unfairly denied a #1 (even with ACR, which is unnecessary anyway), but the fact that there was no update nor communication to us regarding the YouTube issue raises even more suspicions. I still respect OCC for a lot they’ve done in the past, but sadly, I’m going to have to take their “official” charts with a pinch of salt from now on!

Anyway, at least the first chart of the new decade is looking rather good, with ‘Own It’ becoming both Stormzy’s & Ed’s third #1 in just a few months, as well as EDM getting off to a strong start to 2020 with both ‘Pump It Up’ & ‘This Is Real’ breaking into the Top 10, among many other awesome hits from the past year rebounding considerably! It's also very deserving that Harry Styles got three songs inside the Top 20, along with Camila Cabello also breaking into the region for an eighth time so far in her career.

Full review coming up later this evening! :)