Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 18/10/2019

For Thierry, yet another new song by Keiino!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbAkfn3C-s

Thank you so much Ronald! Hope you are doing fine.Were you able to book for the EUROVISION 2020 in Rotterdam? or is it too early for the booking yet? Have a great day

Another amazing song from KEIINO!! And i am glad they are back singing in English....I really can't wait anymore for their album!!

Me neither!

You are welcome! I am enjoying myself during my Autumn Break. I love my job! Hahaha!

Tickets for the ESC 2020 are not available yet. I hope I will be able to buy a ticket (or three!). Would you go if the ESC was held in the UK?

I will definitely go if it was held in UK!! I mean to see that amazing show live"! once in a lifetime opportunity...Have a great day Ronald

We think alike!
Great day to you too!

Hi Ronald! How are you today? guess what? Duncan Laurence is releasing a new single next week!! Got to listen to the song this week end..Have a great afternoon

Hi Thierry, here is a clip of the new song that he performed on Dutch TV this week. He admitted to have some voice / throat problems and that's why he had to cancel some concerts in the Netherlands after this performance... The new single isn't bad at all but it is nothing like Arcade.... Have a great weekend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HtMvJkWLH8

Thank you.Have a great week end too Ronald...Lizzo is releasing her GOOD AS : remix with ARIANA GRANDE...Yeah!!

And.... it is a rather good remix!
https://open.spotify.com/track/07Oz5StQ7GRoygNLaXs2pd?si=6oynC5xKTH250UYb4ZPxWA

Morning Ronald...Thank you for the link...How are you? Hope you had a great week end..I went with some friends to Rennes, France for the week end...Quite a nice city but unfortunately everything was closed!! Still the surroundings are nice and the food!! don't let me start there! The seafood...the prawns...mussels with fries and the French pancake!! You have a lovely week...

Hi Thierry,
I am fine, thanks!
Had a week off from work and was able to rest.
Working in education is really nice but can also be a bit stressful.
But I am used to that after 27 years....
Rennes, I heard of it but never been in Rennes.
Seafood is not my thing but I'm sure there are other things on the menu too.
Hoping that LIZZO will make quite an impact on Friday's chart!
I expect DUNCAN LAURENCE to enter the Dutch Charts rather high this week.
He's currently still at #88 with Arcade.
I will keep you updated!
Have a great week!

Evening Ronald! How is your week going so far? OMG it has been raining non stop for days now!! BTW the first album from KEIINO in February 2020!! Yeah..Actually i can't stop listening to their new single: DANCING IN THE SMOKE...Just love it..i mean, they are so talented..but to be honest, the song they released in Swedish isn't my favourite..but i mean..SPIRIT IN THE SKY, PRAYING, SHALLOW and now DANCING IN THE SMOKE...they can't do no wrong!! I got to listen asap the new song from DUNCAN LAURENCE...Finally we got a 2nd single after ARCADE!! Have a great Thursday!

Oh yeah LIZZO mid week is at number 4!! i guess the talented ARIANA GRANDE and her vocals on the remix helped out a bit...i got to be honest: i really am a big fan of LIZZO!! but i guess you already know that!

it is indeed a good remix but i prefer LIZZO solo version..BTW KEIINO has just released a proper video for DANCING IN THE SMOKE...love it!

Good morning Thierry, my week is going well so far. It's Thursday already, time flies when you're having fun at work... Over here in the Netherlands the weather is much better. No rain, mostly rather sunny but chilly. Winter is approaching slowly...

OMG!!! Now I can not wait till February! I will definitely buy the KEIINO album because I really love their pop sound so much! Scandinavian bands are so good in producing pop music! I love DANCING IN THE SMOKE a lot! I even like that Swedish song. It is just pure pop. And I love that.

Tomorrow I will know what impact DUNCAN LAURENCE has made on the Dutch charts... I read somewhere that the day after release it went to #1 on the iTunes chart....

Are you really a big fan of LIZZO? What makes you think I (and the rest over here) already knew that? HAHAHA!!!

YAAAAAAY!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TppSO3z76ms

Great...Let me know about Duncan's new single chart position...once i know more about the specific date of KEIINO's album release, i let you know...Have a great day

Happy B day!!!!

Thank you so much!

Welcome! Greetings from Argentina!

Hey Sam! ACR stands for "Accelerated Chart Ratio".

This is where if a song has been on the charts for 10 or more weeks and declined in streams for three consecutive weeks, the value of that song's streams (in terms of performance on the singles chart) will be halved.

Seriously, there is NOTHING exciting about this chart, nor has there been for a good five years nor will there be until there’s a fundamental levelling of the playing field to allow a greater variety of songs and styles into the chart. This chart is just worthless nonsense.

Hi Piran, hope your having a great time away. Amazing to see Robin Schulz back on your chart with speechless, any particular reason for it re-entering?

hie piran only catching up now a lot of suprises on the chart Dance monkey looks like it's unmovable for weeks to. I'm glad to see God is a dancer my favourite jumping up nicely Outnumbered steadily in top 10.
As I normally update on our South Africa top 40. Suprises our biggest dropper Khalid Talk down 15 places from # 17 to #32 .Our greatest gainer 13 places up from #27 to #14 goes to Dan + Shay ft Justin bieber 10000hrs .As for top spot after spending 2 weeks at number 1 Sam smith dethroned by Ed sheeran ft khalid beautiful people our brand new number 1
and he attains 2 number ones this after I Don't care and Cross Me peaked at #11
South of the boarder has been bubbling under
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South Africa top 40
#40.Elderbrook Something Bout you -2
#39 One Republic wanted -3
#38 Local
#37 5SOS Teeth -3
#36 local
#35 Summer walker Playing games (new)
#34 Alessia cara Rooting for you -1
#33 Local
#32 Khalid Talk (biggest dropper -15
#31 Shaed Trampoline +5
#30 Only Human Jonas brothers +2
#29 Ariana grande boyfriend -7
#28 The Script last time +2
#27Camila cabello shameless -1
#26 Lewis capaldi bruises +3
#25 Local
#24 Dominic 3 Nights -3
#23 Local
#22 DJ khaled Ft SZA JUST US +2
#21 No Guidance Chris Brown =
#20 Local
#19 Lil nas x old town road =
#18 Lizzo truth hurts +8
#17 I Don't care Ed sheeran -3
#16 you need to calm taylor swift -1
#15 Local
#14 Dan +Shay 10000 hours (Greatest gain in stream )+13
#13 Sigala Wish you Well =
##12 Usher &Black Coffee Lalala (highest local peak)
#11 Normani Motivation -1
#10 Imagine dragons bad liar -1
#9 Mabel Mad love -1
#8 Kygo Higher love -4 (biggest dropper in airplay )
#7 Brown Skin Girl Beyonce =
#6 Maroon 5 Memories +5 (biggest gain in radio airplay
#5 Senorita Shawn mendes =
#4 Dance monkey +2 (biggest gain in sales
#3 Sam smith how do you sleep -2
#2 Post Malone Circles +1
#1 Ed sheeran ft khalid beautiful people +1

I'd love to see your idea of an exciting chart?

Here in Aus we are still totally obsessed with Dance Monkey and I think it'll get a couple more weeks since the top 10 is pretty stagnant and we only got 1 new entry with Harry Styles.

Very interesting indeed outside of Christmas I cannot remember a chart that had such a drop and the first three songs on the top 40 are three biggest drops on top 40

Yeah, I think we're going to get have to get used to this with ACR now becoming a thing, haha.

If I remember correctly, this is now 'Dance Monkey's 12th consecutive week at #1, so it would need another three at the top to match 'Shape Of You's record. I have a feeling that it's going to do it if I'm being honest with you!

Incredibly, it's not even the longest #1 of 2019 in your country yet, since 'Old Town Road' managed 13 weeks earlier this year!

For as much as I'd like to see 'Circles' or 'Memories' go to #1, I have a feeling both are going to get blocked in the runner-up position. Elsewhere, I really love seeing 'Ride It' make its way into the Top 10, but kind of mixed on 'Hot Girl Bummer' doing the same.

I think I already replied to you elsewhere regarding the UK charts, but I'm certainly interested in chatting about the South African one for this week! :)

Firstly, I love seeing 'Beautiful People' go back to #1, especially since it was also at the top of my personal chart for a short period of time too! 'Dance Monkey' & 'Memories' gaining in the Top 10 comes as absolutely no surprise, haha, while '10,000 Hours' might manage to get there next week.

Lower down, the only other thing I can really note is the debut of 'Playing Games', which I'm assuming is due to Summer Walker's new album being released.

Thanks for updating me on this as usual!

Hey Rob! Yeah, it was good thanks. :)

It was played during 'Europe's Biggest Dance Show' on Radio 1 the Friday before last, which reminded me how much I loved the song, so I went back to revisit it!

There already is a solid variety of songs inside the chart.

In this week alone, we've got: 'Dance Monkey' (pop), 'Ride It' (EDM), 'Lights Up' (pop-rock), 'Circles' (hip-hop), 'Highest In The Room' (trap), 'Outnumbered' (pop-rock), 'South Of The Border' (pop/Latin/rap), 'Be Honest' (R&B), 'Bruises' (pop) & 'Post Malone' (EDM).

Seems like a decent range of genres if you ask me & that's just the Top 10!

Also, regarding the ARIA charts, I'm amazed by how well 'One Thing Right' is doing!

You probably wouldn't expect a EDM-country fusion to go Top 5 even in the US, let alone Australia.

I'd love to see Circles get to number one but the radios fully supporting Dance Monkey plus we support our own down here so that's definitely helpful. But yeah I love Ride it, hot girl bummer on the other hand

We do love our country music over here. I went to a country music concert (Morgan Evans) on Sunday and it was awesome.

Hie Piran thanks sorry for replying late I'm glad you loving our charts. As for Summer walker yes it's the new album affecting it's debut in weeks to come she won't go any further. So your personal chart you rate it yourself. ??

Pretty much any singles chart before the year 2010. Totally agree with Paul, there used to be much more variety in genre. The handful of mini / sub-genres pointed out in one of the posts above unintentionally highlights that, but even with that breakdown, the majority of the chart is all made to a very particular standard & sound. This has been the case for several years, but I imagine it wouldn’t seem out of place if you hadn’t been following the chart / popular music for as long as certain people (I’ve been checking it for nearly 30 years for example).

Yeah, always lots of fun following international charts! :D

One thing though... for some songs in the Top 40, you just put "local", but I'd be curious to check out what these songs actually are. Maybe song will end up landing on my personal charts, even if I almost certainly won't have heard of them before, haha.

My personal chart is based on two factors; 1) how many times I listen to a song every week through YouTube or the radio & 2) how good I think the song is.

Isn't Morgan Evans from Australia? Other than Keith Urban, I don't really know too many country singers from your country.

It seems like 'Dance Monkey' is consistent across the board, probably coming out on top in all metrics in the upcoming chart!

I was hoping 'Lose You To Love Me' would have a chance next week, but releasing that part way through the tracking week probably didn't help matters.

Either way, Adele is said to be releasing something next month, so that'll easy pass 'Dance Monkey' whenever that comes out! ;)

ok sorry on the issue of "local " it's Local produced south African songs " From next week will give you full information on our local songs

interesting chart though I've opened the Crown chart but I'm failing to edit so that I edit my chart too maybe you could help me

Yes he is, we look after our own down here. He's the one with the current popularity but Lee Kernaghan, Paul Kelly and Adam Brand are legends here.

will update in full next time if you want to know the Local Song

I actually haven't heard of any of the three others you mentioned.

Are there any songs you could recommend from them? :)

Sure! What's the name of your chart? :)

I'll see if I can find it on Crown Note, then look into exactly what the problem is.

Cool, I look forward to that! ;)

Paul Kelly's best known song is How to Make Gravy for Adam Brand and Lee Kernaghan I'd recommend their collab spirit of the Bush. For Lee Kernaghan Boys from the Bush is a staple in my home town

sorry Piran for replying late I meant I opened the account at crown chart but not so sure how to operate it very tricky for me

That's alright! It's fairly difficult to be fair, but you'll get used to it.

The biggest issue for me is putting up song titles that have really common names, since you have to do a search for them.

If you're struggling, maybe just make a chart with 5-10 songs, then edit more in if that goes well!

I'll check those out & let you know what I think of them when I've heard them! ;)

Anyway, as for the new ARIA singles chart, 'Dance Monkey' doesn't seem to be going anywhere! I'd still give the song a 9/10, but even then, this isn't a positive. 14 weeks is overkill now, but what's worse is that it looks almost certain to at least tie 'Shape Of You's record!

That said, I have a lot of good things to say about the rest of the chart, such as 'Lose You To Love Me' being the top debut of the week at #2! 'Good As ' going Top 10 is amazing too, even if I wasn't such a huge fan of the remix with Ariana Grande. Even 'Follow God' isn't that bad, despite the rest of Kanye's new album being a huge letdown.