Official Singles Chart on 10/1/2020

A Welsh language song called ‘Yma O Hyd’ by Daffyd Iwan (from 1983) has reached #1 on the UK iTunes chart.

Does anyone know if a song entirely in Welsh has ever done this before?

Dermot Kennedy's album WITHOUT FEAR, is by far,,,,by so faaaaaar,, better than Number 6 collaborations project (no offense Ed,)

This dude is underrated

Halsey will hopefully flood this chart as from next week,,or the next one....

And can someone please go to court to get an order to stop Justin Bieber from (any more) singing,,pleeeeease!!!!!!😪

Hey Guys. Here's a (not so) brief review

Generally, it seems people are still listening to the End of the Year Playlists on various streaming services. Hence, the numerous re-entries. Moving on now.

#5 Yummy - Justin Bieber: This is the one of the worst things I've heard in a while. Like it's so bad that I'll rather have "I love Sausage Rolls" by Ladbaby on repeat than this . I don't know if he was trying to make a song for kids or just wanted a SFW tune. Anyways, this is too crappy for the latter. Cringiest line was "you got that yum yum yum" like are you serious? But of course, it's a top 5 because it's Justin Bieber, not sure this would grow on me at all. Score as at now 3/10. Sorry Bieliebers.

#35 Savage - Mist: First, questions. What is happening to the UK rap scene? Why are the good rap tracks finding it difficult to chart? The answer, we might never know
I really don't have much to say about this. The beat is dope but the content is bland and cliché the only memorable line is "Gangsta in the morning, Gansta in the Evening" which is repeated from the midpoint to the end. Then again, I'm more comfortable playing this than Yummy. 6/10

I was reading the Music Week review on this week's chart and found this comment incredibly relevant:

"Notwithstanding my comment that things are calmer this week, many tracks enjoy renewed impetus, primarily because they outperformed the market last week and come off ACR, which means that their sales-equivalent streams are worth twice what they were. Prime amongst these is Memories by Maroon 5, which was pushed to No.60 a fortnight ago on a combination of ACR and an avalanche of Christmas-related tracks. It recovered to No.21 last week, and now, having emerged from ACR, climbs to No.13, even though its sales last week would have been 26,735 without ACR, and are 3.53% lower this week at 25,790. I’m not sure that this is what ACR is for."

You know it's bad when even Alan Jones of Music Week starts having doubts in the system...

this list is totally worng!!! wheres my song MaLIFE???

When will the people get tired of Shallow??? I mean, it's in the charts since 62 WEEKS.

Here's a suggestion for the OCC to stop the controversy. Why not make it ACR & the 3-songs-per-artist rule don't effect the Top 5.

Song Of The Week-
JUSTIN BIEBER- "Yummy"
Where to start? So much confusion, so much wasted potential. In 2015 Justin Bieber released his best album to date with "Purpose" and since then has made a variety of appearances, up to his country debut with "10,000 Hours" just last Autumn, so this is a comeback only in name. The lyrics to "Yummy" are awful. The release was quickly followed by widespread criticism from music fans, and for good reason. The atrocious title already means he's fighting an uphill battle, and the lyrics are just a (slightly) more adult version of his original teen pop heartthrob material. At one point he stops to shout out his new clothing line which shows to me just how corporate and safe he's playing it. Also, Justin's YouTube channel features 3 lyric videos, 2 music videos, a fan lip-sync montage, and a reaction compilation. Someone saw Old Town Road's success using similar tactics. I do like the grove though so it "only" gets a 2/10
My Other Remarks On This Week's Chart-
-"Dance Monkey" impressively is #6 despite ACR. Possibly a contender for Song Of The Year?
-"Someone You Loved" returned to the Top 10. Brilliant. This was #1 on my Year-End Worst Hit Songs list that got taken down as spam due to pure overplay. I'm not happy it's back up.
-"Blinding Lights" makes it's Top 10 debut. I don't like it as much as some other people, but I'm glad that it seems to have at least some staying power.
-"The Box" is up to #16 in the UK and #3 in America. It's meh
-ACR continues to lead to some wacky events. "South Of The Border," "Circles" & "Highest In The Room" among the songs to jump up this week.
-Selena Gomez Album quick review: Not my thing but good for what it is 6/10
-Maybe one of the Stormzy diss tracks will make the chart next week
My Crownnote chart is here, updated on Saturday mornings: http://crownnote.com/charts/blobyfish/this-weeks-top-forty-24
Thanks For Reading!

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always…

Stormzy does the chart double as ‘Own It’ spends a second week at #1 on the singles chart, while ‘Heavy Is The Head’ becomes the brand new #1 album for the week! Only two acts managed this in 2019 (Ariana Grande & Ed Sheeran).

Regarding the rest of the Top 5 on the latter chart, we have: ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ by Lewis Capaldi (1-2), ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’ by Ed Sheeran (4-3), ‘Fine Line’ by Harry Styles (5-4) & ‘When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ by Billie Eilish (6-5).

‘Don’t Start Now’ by Dua Lipa is once again the biggest song on British radio!

On YouTube, ‘Dance Monkey’ returns to the top for a 12th non-consecutive week! However, it did lose 16.6% (about one-sixth) of its views from last week, down to 2.92 million views for the past seven days.

JUSTIN BIEBER - YUMMY (#5)
Let’s be honest, you didn’t come here for a review of this song, you came to see me rant about it! I mean, for as much as I loved his last album, this was getting huge backlash from critics to even diehard to Beliebers, but surely this can’t be that bad? Um... well somehow it is!!! Look, I’m not just disappointed about this one, I’m absolutely fuming! Come on, what’s there even to analyse here?! Let’s just get the obvious major flaws out of the way first, the lyrics are absolutely asinine & childish in a way that makes me think a 25-month-old would write this, let alone a 25-year-old; “Yeah, you got that yummy-yum, that yummy-yum, that yummy-yummy”... who in their right mind thought anyone would find that appealing?! It’s even more embarrassing when you realise that he recently got married to Hailey Baldwin, so this would’ve been an awesome opportunity to dedicate an acoustic ballad like ‘10,000 Hours’ to her, but no, we instead get a song that tries to be $exy & fails in every way possible! I don’t even mind JB going back to his R&B sound like he did on the ‘Believe’ album, but when the falsetto is this grating (despite otherwise decent & smooth vocals on the hook), the concept is ridiculously uninspired & the syncopated, dull backdrop blends in horribly with another messy trap beat probably engineered for TikTok success only, you’re left with what’ll go down as his worst single to date, because for as cringy as ‘Baby’ was, it was at least manufactured for teenage girls back when he was a new heartthrob on the scene, but I don’t see anyone having reason to get behind this! I’ve talked about this song way too long, but JB, if you’re out there reading this man, I’m one of the few 21-year-old guys who adores most of your music (I even saw you live at V Festival in 2016!), but if you plan on making an entire album as disastrous as this song is… it really pains me to say it, but you can count me out as a fan if you DARE let this happen again, just please go back to the songs I loved from ‘Purpose’! As for this, yeah, strong 1/10! Britain, for everyone’s sake, even JB’s for the sake of his career, please can we just let this tank?!

MIST - SAVAGE (#35)
[Takes a deep sigh] Okay, now that I’ve released all my anger out on that song, let’s talk about something that’s hopefully a lot better! Honestly, given what we got, it is, but all we’ve done is substituted an atrocious new entries with a mostly bad one, so that’s hardly an improvement! Again, there was some potential with this given how hard MIST goes in & the drill beat hitting deep, but the incredibly repetitive, autotuned hook & the effects that close out the song kill it for me entirely, along with lyrics all about being a gangsta all day, which is absolutely nothing we haven’t heard here before! Genuinely guys, this is the first week ever where I didn’t actually enjoy putting this review together. I can at least laugh at the song itself or other people’s reactions when I cover terrible songs here, but not either of these two. Solid 3/10 for this one!

Looking ahead to next week, these songs could enter the Top 40 for the first time: ‘Come Out Ye Black & Tans’ by The Wolfe Tones, ‘Power Over Me’ by Dermot Kennedy, ‘Life Is Good’ by Future ft Drake, ‘Better Off Without You’ by Becky Hill ft Shift K3Y, ‘You Should Be Sad’ by Halsey, ‘Rare’ by Selena Gomez & maybe even more. Either way, I hope it’s better than the mess we got today!

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-40-163

Own It is still a fake #1, only at the spot because of ACR:

Dance Monkey
#1 Audio Streaming
#1 Sales
#3 Video Streaming

Own It
#2 Audio Streaming
#4 Sales
#5 Video Streaming

I'm going to keep pointing this out every time it happens until they get rid of that rule.

You know guys, we could've made this beautiful track from the very talented Hailee Steinfeld a Top 5 single instead, but no, it misses the chart completely! :/

I'm not even blaming the OCC for this, that's on the public not giving this the recognition it deserves...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39xGflo5kTs

SOMEONE YOU LOVED SHOULD JUST BE PERMANENTLY ACR'D. IT'S APPEARANCE HAS OUTSTAYED ITS WELCOME. >_<

Nothing new really about this week!! The overrated Bieber is "back" with a new Top 5...NO, REALLY??!! But at least i am glad to see DERMOT KENNEDY having 2 Top 75 this week...

My goodness... this week was terrible! :(

Let's get the brief list of positives out of the way; Stormzy being #1 on both chart is fine, with 'Blinding Lights' going Top 10 for The Weeknd probably being the most enjoyable thing about the week overall.

That said, there are a lot of disappointing re-entries & gains, with even the good ones being extremely overplayed at this point!

Oh yeah, then there's 'Yummy' in the Top 5, but trust me, I'll be tearing into this in full in a few moments.

Please Britain, let's not continue 2020 like this!

I'm going to be completely honest - I expected more. When I saw the supposed database error the Official Charts Company had made on the post-Christmas chart, cutting Mariah Carey's 'All I Want for Christmas is You' short of nearly 5 million video streams, I thought: "This will surely get fixed within time." Days, weeks passed, nothing. And I admit, maybe it was a bit too naïve of me - a bit too naïve to expect the company, which prides itself in compiling and publishing the only official musical chart of the United Kingdom - as frequently mentioned on the BBC Radio 1 show - to own up to its mistakes and look into correcting them. And correct them, they did not. They waited for it to blow over, and continued business as usual.

This will hardly affect the OCC negatively - they're still technically the official charts, the one artists care about, and the affected artists in this case, Mariah Carey and Ellie Goulding, probably don't even know/care that anything has gone wrong. They've still got the support of everyone in the music industry. Plus, casual radio listeners will still appreciate their favorite songs going to #1, as announced by Radio 1/MTV. Nothing will change here.

That being said, one thing that will change, is my support of these charts. I can't say I've been following them for that long, but in the time I have, it's been greatly entertaining; and for a large portion of that time, I was even fine with their specific rulesets. It was truly fascinating for a chart geek, as these charts moved really quickly, allowing lots of fresh songs to be able to break through properly, while not banishing old ones completely. But these recent happenings have allowed me to take another look at all this - and the official charts should not be all glitz and glam. It's not about which song has the prettiest chart run, or letting a song that would otherwise have no chance of nearing the top 40 get a week or two in the top 30. It's about an accurate representation of the musical landscape. And while throughout most of the year, ACR doesn't largely interfere with that, these past two weeks have shown exactly the opposite, as we've gotten possibly the biggest fantasy charts, labeled as "official" ones.

We have not had the most-consumed track of the week at the top for a third week running now. Let that sink in. What's even worse, is that even with this toxic ruleset, Mariah still should have overcome Ellie in the post-Christmas chart, but did not, due to a 'database error' that the OCC still have not come around to fixing. A fellow commenter on here, Andrew, spent a good amount of time trying to convince me that the charts are rigged, and I refused to believe it. But at this point, with all the sufficient evidence presented and no response, there is absolutely nothing else left for me to believe. Who would have had the motivation to stop Mariah Carey from going #1, or to get Ellie Goulding to that same spot, I don't know. And I don't really care anymore. All I know is that something dodgy is going on, but more importantly, these charts are not trustworthy anymore.

I will be leaving this community, as I cannot continue to follow a chart that is obviously inauthentic. Before I go, I'd like to mention some of the great people I've met on here: Piran, your reviews are amazing, even if they cover a pretty dodgy chart; coolocelot101, I wish you only the best and sincerely hope your mental health improves; gameskiller, we haven't spoken as much on here, but I will continue to look at your personal charts, they're great; Andrew, it's been great discussing this with you and you've really helped me realize how bad the issue is; and anyone else who I didn't mention, you've all been great. (I will still hang around CrownNote to chat with all of you, hopefully I can be more active on there now!)

So that's about it. Back in 2017, when the Sheeran takeover happened, lots of people rushed to declare the death of the charts. I can see why, though I'd disagree, since the data for all of his songs making the top 20 was, in fact, there, and not manipulated. Now that the latter has changed, I can't say that the charts are dead, because technically they're not. But they're meaningless to me now. So they're dead to me personally - your own mileage may vary. And honestly, I'm not mad. I'm just really disappointed.