Official Singles Chart Top 100 on 28/3/2025

It's the first time I have seen comments about how the charts are compiled and the system not working.  I have a solution that is practical and gets rid of ACR completely.  Instead of counting "units" count Retail Sales instead.  What I mean by Retail Sales is the cost per unit to the public. So for downloads you count the 99p (etc) and for vinyl the actual price of each one sold. Same with CDs.  As for streams, they can be worked out by the price paid for a monthly subscription divide by a typical family downloads (currently around 2,000 per month). So a £10.99 subscription at 2,000 would give a stream price of 0,005p per stream.  For add funded streams, this would be much lower.  Say 0.001p a stream.

At the moment, 100 units of CD and 100 of Vinyl and 100 downloads amounts to 300 units.

But 100 CD at £3.99p 100 Vinyl at £10.99 and 100 downloads at 99p as you can see are not the same. But 400 sales equivalent streams would beat the 300 other units. 

However, 400 stream units would amount to just £2!

The biggest effect would be the albums.  For example, a £27.99 vinyl selling just 10 copies would produce £279.90 of sales.

Currently, if you buy a CD, download, or vinyl, or any format that is physical, you can affect the chart. But no matter how many times you stream a record, you don't have any effect on sales, unless several other people do the same!  The Retail Sales Chart would stop that

2,073 digital downloads of Alex amount to £2,052.27p at 99p. For example, (OCC figures).

The Streams on Spotify would give Alex £20,978.12p

The 100 position on Spotify currently gives a sale of just £3,440.03p.

Of course, these are based on one streaming rate of £0.005p.  As Spotify probably combines free streams, these would need to be separated.  The other streaming sites don't give figures, but the OCC will know these.

i want my twin brother Piran to love me and accept me as i am 😭

I don’t comment here much anymore (I also haven’t made a full chart in 2 weeks 😭) but here’s a few thoughts

- Well, Ordinary held the #1 as expected. I just wish this was Born Again doing this instead, the quality difference is insane. 

- Speaking of Alex Warren, he gets his 2nd UK top 10 hit with Carry You Home. Honestly I’m not that mad with this, it really grew on me even if some of the lyrics are.. questionable.

- FUFN becomes JADE’s 2nd song to have multiple weeks on chart! This is a pretty good sign and very positive, it’s my favourite song of hers now. 

- Selena & Benny have a bit of impact after all. I haven’t heard any of the debuting tracks this week but I really hope Bluest Flame can become a hit. While it very much just sounds like a Charli xcx scrap (I’m aware she Co-wrote it), Selena actually fits scarily well on it and I think it has potential. 

- The Troye Sivan remix of Physical by Dua Lipa was officially released! Although the original is obviously better, the remix is fantastic and I hope it could potentially allow it to re-enter the chart!

hope everyone has a good weekend

The ACR system does work. I know a lot of people are upset that songs like Beautiful Things (4) are getting such impressive chart hold given their age, but if it is popular then it should just stick high up. There's no reason why older songs can't stay in the chart if they're still popular. Yes - things were out of hand when Sabrina Carpenter consistently occupied the top three spots, but that's harmless compared to what the charts were like without the three-song rule and ACR - Ed Sheeran with the top 10 all to himself! My only criticism of the ACR system is the almost inability for older songs to "escape" ACR - they have to almost double popularity. This percentage should be lowered - but otherwise the system is pretty cool!

uk charts is in a mess ! We need new music hitting the charts !!!!!! 

Still disappointed that sugababes did not manage to chart with jungle ! Keep streaming ! 

New music —————————

Ariana Grande

past life 9/10 

Defin my fav from all the tracks from her eternal sunshine deluxe

Dandelion 8/10 

Intro end of the world 8/10 

Hamstead 7/10

Warm 6/10 

Twilight Zone 7/10 

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jade fufn (for the club ) 10/10 

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Leon Thomas Chris brown remix mutt 10/10

this should get top ten next week 

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single of the week 

Grace Davies mde 10/10 

this is giving me early  80s /90s vibes _______________________________

Bow wow /Chris brown use me 

when hip hope rnb was great 8/10 

i'm so glad to see "just us" flopping. jack harlow

it’s about time the charts get an overhaul. the acr thing is backfiring. pink pony club, beautiful things, carry you home, please please please, die with a smile, birds of a feather, lose control, good luck babe, sailor song, guess, not like us and the door have been out for ages now and they’re still prominent in spotify playlists, algorithms etc. i like some of the songs mentioned but the uk needs a recurrency-like rule like what the hot 100 has, otherwise we probably wouldn’t be seeing beautiful things at number 4 on its 62nd week.

I want "Pink Pu$$y Club" to go back to number one. I hate Alex Warren.

My top 10:

1. Why do the pills work-Haven Madsion (NEW)

2. Anyways how you been -Sofia Camara (NEW)

3. Dont Wanna Cry-Selena Gomez (NEW)

4. Bluest Flame-Selena Gomez (NEW)

5. How does it feel to be forgotten -Selena Gomez (NEW)

6. Silver Spoon -Erin Lecount (+2)

7. Cowboy-Selena Gomez (NEW)

8. You Said You Was Sorry- Selena Gomez (NEW)

9. Ojas Tristes-Selena Gomez (NEW)

10. Dont Take It Personally -Selena Gomez (NEW)

My Top 25 for this week:

1. Bdrmm - Infinity Peaking (1) 3w

2. Mia Wray - Only Love (14) 2w

3. Suki Waterhouse - Dream Woman (3) 5w

4. Jade - FUFN (16) 2w

5. Lady Gaga - Garden Of Eden (10) 2w

6. Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman (2) 6w

7. Eevah - Lullaby (6) 3w

8. Tate McRae - Revolving Door (20) 4w

9. Addison Rae - High Fashion (4) 6w

10. Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not (12) 6w

11. SIENNA SPIRO - ORIGAMI (11) 5w

12. Tate McRae - Sports Car (7) 9w

13. Selena Gomez & benny blanco - Sunset Blvd (23) 2w

14. RØRY - Morality $uicide (9) 8w

15. Marina - Butterfly (5) 5w

16. Lisa Feat. Rosalía - New Woman (25) 3w

17. Blond:Ish - Self Love (8) 6w

18. James Hype - Don't Wake Me Up (NEW)

19. Dasha - Not At This Party (18) 4w

20. Bella Poarch - Will You Always Love Her? (NEW)

21. Snow Patrol - This Is The Silence (26) 2w

22. Dove Cameron - Too Much (15) 4w

23. Japanese Breakfast - Winter In LA (NEW)

24. Hotwax - In Her Bedroom (28) 2w

25. Oklou - Take Me By The Hand (NEW)

but enough bad omens ramble or i’m gonna spiral. this is a chart page!

ordinary isn’t great, but ill take it over anxiety. all that song does is get worse and worse for me, and im a doechii fan! why have we let that become the hit and not bullfrog or catfish?

dark thoughts and show me love are decent but i can see myself getting bored of them with time.

love me not, mutt and back to friends are great songs and i hope they climb further.

i have no idea what feel it is doing back, but it’s absolutely welcome - one of my favourite chart songs of 2024.

and finally, i expected a harder plummet for sleep token, so to see them stay for another week isn’t too shabby.

i remember august 2023 where, after only knowing my chemical romance’s big songs, i did a deep dive and got hyperfixated. they became my favourite band, and i’ve always wanted to experience that feeling again. ladies, gentlemen, and everyone in between, it’s happened again. this time, it’s bad omens.

ive gotten myself so obsessed with them to the point that, in only the space of a week, they’re already my second-most streamed artist of 2025 so far, only less than 10 streams behind tyler, the creator. i even thrifted a tour tee that just came through the mail today!

so the return of my “12 songs a week” shtick will be a bad omens special:

• take me first
• miracle
• like a villain
• artificial suicide (unzipped) (hot take: i kinda prefer this cyberpunk-y version to the og)
• running in circles
• mercy
• exit wounds
• the worst in me
• anything > human
• hedonist
• the grey
• just pretend (it’s their most popular by far, but also check out the live version because there’s a hidden acoustic version in the track too)
• burning out

My Top 10 of the week 22/03/25 - 28/03/25

1. Afro Medusa - Pasilda (NEW)

2. Alex Adair - Make Me Feel Better (NEW)

3. Alex Party - Don't Give Me Your Life (Dancing Divaz Edit) (NEW)

4. Eminem - Without Me (NEW)

4. Groove Armada - Dusk You & Me (NEW)

5. Groove Armada - Superstylin' (LW - 3)

6. Groove Armada - Serve Chilled (NEW)

7. Jamiroquai - Canned Heat (NEW)

8. Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (LW - 6)

9. Boogie Pimps - Sunny (NEW)

10. Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha (Norman Cook Remix) (NEW)

To be fair I liked the new sugababes song it should've charted

My Top 10 Songs Of The Week:

#1: Piri & Tommy – Fruit Machine (=)   [3rd consecutive week at No.1] 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#2: Freya Skye – Who I Thought I Knew (+1) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#3: Ella Langley – Monsters (+44) 🇺🇸

#4: Ella Langley – Weren’t For The Wind (=) 🇺🇸

#5: Lady Gaga – How Bad Do U Want Me (+25) 🇺🇸

#6: Olivia Rodrigo – Out Of The Old (+3) 🇺🇸

#7: Doechii – Anxiety (-5) 🇺🇸

#8: LISA ft Doja Cat & RAYE – Born Again (+4) 🇹🇭 / 🇺🇸 / 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#9: JADE – FUFN (F**k You For Now) (-4) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#10: Ella Langley – Better Be Tough (+4) 🇺🇸

Full chart on Crown Note: https://www.crownnote.com/charts/piran/pirans-top-50-267

Full chart on BuzzJack: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/278918-pirans-personal-chart-02042025/

Here's my top 20 for the week:

1. Tomorrow - Morrissey (returning to #1 + 2 weeks at #1) (LW: 2)

2. Rusholme Ruffians - The Smiths (LW: 7)

3. Are 'Friends' Electric - Gary Numan & Tubeway Army (new entry)

4. New Generation - Suede (LW: 14)

5. I Have Forgiven Jesus - Morrissey (LW: 10)

6. Skin Deep - The Stranglers (LW: 19)

7. Everything Counts - Depeche Mode (re-entry)

8. Star - Erasure (new entry)

9. Disco 2000 - Pulp (LW: 11)

10. We Are The Pigs - Suede (LW: 20)

11. The National Front Disco - Morrissey (LW: 12)

12. Animal Nitrate - Suede (LW: 3)

13. So Young - Suede (LW: 13)

14. Hold On To Your Friends - Morrissey (new entry)

15. Shoplifters Of The World Unite - The Smiths (LW: 4)

16. This Charming Man - The Smiths (LW: 15)

17. Metal Mickey - Suede (LW: 18)

18. Inbetween Days - The Cure (new entry)

19. November Spawned A Monster - Morrissey (re-entry)

20. Do You Remember The First Time? - Pulp (LW: 17)

How have we managed to be in a situation where the song that was #1 this time last year is still the fourth biggest song in the country? 😐

Anyway, ‘Mutt’ ended up 33 places higher than it did in the midweek update. Glad to see it as it’s such an addictive yet chill slice of R&B, although a remix with an abuser definitely wasn’t necessary.

Other than that, I’m liking the return of ‘It Isn’t Perfect But It Might Be’ and the jump for ‘Show Me Love’ is fine.

Top 40 Rankings: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/afad44e5b3dbf9815e8b3906459e2e31ae07a2c58742df7b04aff142fa7cd1e5.jpg

Don't tell me Alex got another top ten..

Sad to see ‘Headlock’ on ACR this week but at least it didn't exit the chart altogether. Besides, a fantastic song from the mid-2000s getting such a big resurgence so long after its release was incredible to see. :)

It’s also a shame that ‘People Watching’ fell victim to it but I’m happy that it became another very successful hit for Sam.

Too sweet is turning out to be like stick season.

Yeah… the Jack Harlow and Doja Cat collab did absolutely nothing for me.

The latter brings a bit of a charisma, but the former sounds completely uninterested and that kills any chemistry between the two of them. It’s frustrating because Jack’s latest studio album showed off his rapping abilities rather well, whereas it feels like he’s had all that energy and groove sucked out of him here.

If I get form outdated one more time I'm going to rage.

What a boring chart

The Playboi Carti tracks didn’t hold up at all this week, although it’s a shame that JADE is collapsing with them. Surprised that Sleep Token got another week in the Top 40.

It seems like neither of Morgan Wallen’s new releases made any impact at all. Honestly, given his reckless attitude and the fact that there are much better mainstream country artists, I can’t exactly complain about it.

Seventeen going under again??

Ugh. Can we please not make ‘Carry You Home’ a hit? For as much as I find ‘Ordinary’ to be underwhelming, Alex is at least singing with a bit more passion in that song.

Honestly, this week wasn’t very good for the charts in general. You know things are stale when we don’t have a single debut in the Top 40. The highest new entry is at #50.