Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 12/7/2019

Only Medellin feat Maluma entered at 83 for just one week. The other singles didn't chart

Metellin was charted for 8 weex in saleschart

Actually look forward to read your reviews, and can honestly say, scrap the official chart and just use your crown note chart

Didnt realise that love island had given Freya Ridings a push, pleased they have though as 'lost without you' was a great song, the next single I didnt really take to so much so I've forgotten its title but I do love castles a lot too.
There are a lot of great tracks around currently that am sure could do really well with a boost:
JP Cooper's sing it with me
Imagine dragons ft Elisa - Birds
One republic - rescue me
Camelphat and Jake bugg - Be someone
There are many more too

Hey Piran! It's absolutely fantastic finally seeing 'Señorita' going to #1, and getting both Camila & Shawn their 2nd #1! Hopefully it can return to #1 in a few weeks' time after the Ed effect has worn off. I also really love seeing 'Goodbyes' debut in the Top 5, as well as 'So High' and 'Ladbroke Grove' coming ever so close to the Top 10! It's also very impressive that, if it wasn't for ACR, 'Old Town Road' would be spending its 11th non-consecutive week at #2 this week! I also like that Capaldi returns to #1 on the albums chart, and that '÷' rebounds into the Top 10.
As for the debuts, 'Goodbyes' is easily my favourite of the week with a strong 9/10. I agree with you that the song would've been better without Young Thug, it doesn't kill the song for me. 'So High' was also a pleasant surprise for me. I've been a fan of MIST ever since I heard 'Game Changer', but this is definitely a welcome change of pace for him! Solid 8/10 here. 'Home P*ssy' is definitely the best I've heard from D-Block Europe, but yeah, still not the best. Light 6/10 from me. I do also like 'Castles' and am glad it's charted, but not as much as you since it'd be a light 7/10 from me. I really like that 'Thiago Silva' manages to chart, even if it should've been way higher. I do agree that it's not what either of them would put out today, but, even though I love both of their recent music, I kind of like that. It makes it sound quite unique for me, so I'd give it a light 8/10. 'Truth Hurts', though, I really did not like. While I wasn't the biggest fan of 'Juice', I could at least appreciate it. 'Truth Hurts' is just extremely grating and annoying for me. Light 2/10 here at best.
Next week I don't think it's any secret who's going to be #1 on both charts, but the more interesting question is: what 3 tracks will he be able to chart, and how far ahead is 'No.6' going to be? My personal predictions would be around 300k sales for 'No.6', with enough streams to pass 'Scorpion's ~50k streaming sales but not enough to pass '÷'s ~79k. I'd also say that the Top 5 next week will most likely look like this:

1) 'Beautiful People'
2) 'Take Me Back to London'
3) 'Remember The Name' / 'Cross Me' / 'Antisocial'
4) 'Señorita'
5) 'Hold Me While You Wait' / 'Goodbyes' / 'Crown' / 'So High'

Though I definitely hope that 'South of the Border' can increase enough over the week to get a #3 debut!

Hey Gameskiller! :)

I definitely agree with you regarding 'Senorita'! It certainly makes up for 'I Know What You DId Last Summer' not making the Top 40, but it's also a huge improvement from both 'Stitches' & 'Havana' (although both were still good songs). Speaking of Shawn & Camila, I'm now almost completely convinced that they're dating, since they were apparently seen holding hands & passionately kissing in public. Good for them though, hopefully it will last! :D

Moving on to Ed though & while he's obviously going to have massive chart success next week, I'm really surprised how much his two latest promotional singles have underperformed. Even without the "three songs maximum per artist rule", 'Best Part Of Me' was #26 on both sales & streaming, while 'BLOW' was #21 on sales & only #90 on streaming! That would've put the former just outside the Top 20 overall, while the latter would've probably been around #60. I get why 'BLOW' didn't do so well; rock songs never really get much streaming at all, although 'Best Part Of Me' reminded me so much of 'Perfect' that I thought it would've been at least a little bigger! :/

That said, there's no doubt 'No.6 Collaborations Project' will easily enter at #1 & stay at the top for at least a couple of months. I agree with you that it'll get one of the biggest streaming debuts ever, but certainly not the biggest overall. I wouldn't be surprised if '÷' returns to the Top 5 either, since when '÷' debuted at #1, 'x' & '+' both joined it inside the Top 5 for that week.

In terms of your predictions for the Top 5, I mostly completely agree! So 'I Don't Care' is going on ACR next week then? I believe that it would tie 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' for the biggest dropout in chart history, since both fell out of the Top 100 from #2. That said, there is a big caveat there that 'I Don't Care' would probably still remain at #2 if it were neither of those rules (which shows how pointless both of them are!).

I do think 'Senorita' will remain in the Top 5 until it goes on ACR now, even if I'm not sure if it'll be able to jump back in front of 'Beautiful People' to return to #1.

The Top 2 next week should be fairly easy to predict, but yeah, the third Ed song is certainly going to be an interesting one. Right now, I'd give 'Cross Me' a narrow edge, but both other tracks you mentioned are so close behind that it's by no means guaranteed. I also believe it would be the second time Ed has held the entire Top 3 after his massive chart dominance last time with nine out of the Top 10!

As for who'll get #5, I'd say 'Crown' is out in front for now. 'Goodbyes' seems to have faded a bit in performance from its debut, so if it was #5 this week, I don't think it'll be that high next week. 'Hold Me While You Wait' looks like it'll heading for ACR very soon, while 'So High' is only really massive on Apple Music & not anywhere else for now.

Hey Rob! :)
Yeah, I believe that's where a lot of people discovered her from, I did at least! I agree that 'Lost Without You' was a really good song. 'You Mean The World To Me' was the next single, but I'm not surprised it didn't do as well, probably because its release was poorly timed given the former was doing & the fact that it was way too similar in terms of the tone the song was going for. I still don't like 'Castles' as much as 'Lost Without You', but I'll still be rooting for it regardless.
I'll definitely check out those new songs you mentioned, although I did hear a snippet of 'Be Someone' & I was fairly intrigued by it being an EDM fan!

Thank you very much! Glad you're liking both my reviews & personal charts. :)

D-Block Europe is actually only 2 guys, Young Adz and Dirtbike LB

Oh really? I know D-Block Europe is a collective led by them, but I had no idea that they were the only two members.

Hey Piran,
I think I love 'castles' as much as 'lost without you' as it's such a different track and quite the opposite but still Freya delivers an amazing vocal but much more upbeat but still has the original emotion, not raw like lost without you but as you state the perfect follow up as an uplifting am over you now. Perhaps her next track could involve meeting somebody new lol. You wont be disappointed with 'be someone' ;)

I reckon Streaming only started cause singles don't sale anymore. How can so many streaming equal one sale alter it hasn't sold at all, I'm sure they make up the rules as they go along.
And the reason why Madonna hasn't made the charts is cause anyone over a certain age regardless how good a song they put out won't chart and that's wrong.
Older artists or bands from a few years ago or longer don't chart anymore and why don't rock bands get as many streams.
I just can't understand why the great new single from Keane " The Way I Feel" hasn't entered the Top 100, is it cause they are too old now which shouldn't matter if it's good enough cause it's been getting great reviews or is it cause radio just can't be asked to play it especially Radio 1.
What makes me laugh is The new album "Cause and Effect" will more than likely come in at No 1 like a lot of artists and bands, but when it comes to the single they can't hit the chart very odd.

I misspoke somewhat as there's many members, but on most of their songs (including all but 1 of their big songs) it's just the 2

For me, 'Havana', 'Señorita' and 'Stitches' all actually make my Top 100 songs of all time, with 'Havana' at #11 with 100/100, 'Señorita' at #44 with 97/100 and 'Stitches' at #98 with 91/100! Yeah, if Shawn & Camila are dating now then I'm definitely happy for them! They seem like a good fit for each other, though I just hope that people can respect their privacy.
According to Music Week, 'Best Part of Me' and 'BLOW' would've charted at #36 and #43, respectively. They've also just reported that 'No.6 Collaborations Project' has sold 89,845 units from Friday - Tuesday, officially making it the fastest selling album of the year so far (not that anyone'll be surprised by that), and looking likely to pass 100k by the end of the week. Honestly I'm pretty surprised that it's selling so little, relative to his previous albums, of course. Even '+' sold 102k in its first week, and 'No.6' is currently looking like it'll sell a similar amount. I'd say it should spend at least a month at the top, but I'm not even sure it'll manage 2 months. '÷' should climb as well, but I don't know if it'll quite go back to the Top 5.
With the updated streaming & sales data we have now, I'd say the Top 5 will most likely look like this now:

1) 'Beautiful People'
2) 'Señorita'
3) 'Take Me Back to London'
4) 'Remember The Name' / 'Cross Me'
5) 'Hold Me While You Wait'

I'd also say that 'So High' and 'Ladbroke Grove' have pretty good chances of climbing into the Top 10, and possibly Top 5 in the weeks to come. But yeah, 'I Don't Care' is on ACR now since it's dropped in sales every week it's been on the chart, otherwise I'm pretty sure it would've been #2. I agree that it really does just show that limiting artists to 3 tracks and putting songs on ACR is pointless as it manipulates the chart, especially since Ed would've had 7 songs in the Top 10 and all 15 in the Top 40 according to Music Week on Wednesday's update, which won't be properly represented on the final chart.

Any chance the Lion King songs will efter the top 100?

I think 'Spirit' has a chance at debuting in the lower end of the chart today. Not sure about any others though.

That's awesome both of those Shawn & Camila songs are among your all-time favourite songs, including their new collaboration! Isn't 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' near the top of that list too?

I'd have thought 'Best Part Of Me' would've been higher than #36, given that it was well higher than that in both the sales & streaming only charts.

I'm surprised about the 102k combined sales projected for 'No.6 Collaborations Project' too, since that's only about a sixth of what '÷' did in its opening week. This is a much more experimental album than usual though, so I wasn't expecting to be his biggest commercial success by any means.

It just seems weird having the second biggest song of the week not being listed in the Top 100 later. It's also one of the few cases where both the ACR & three songs rules are implemented simultaneously, but also one of the instances where the chart is wildly inaccurately reflected.

I do feel like 'Senorita' could have a very good shot at being #2 later, given that it rebounded a lot faster than I expected across the board throughout the week. Wouldn't even be surprised if it goes back to #1 next week given that it's almost completely closed the gap on Spotify & it's sales lead is only getting stronger. It's slightly behind on Apple Music for now, but I think it's consistently strong YouTube might make up for that.

I really liked 'Be Someone'; it reminds me a lot of their first ever hit, 'Cola'! It'll definitely be in my personal chart next week, even if not too high up.

Speaking of Freya Ridings, have you heard anything else from her debut album that came out on Friday? I'm hoping to check it out over the next couple of days! :)