Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 08/11/2019

This is the proper charts NOT the Sales Chart

The sales Chart is better than this chart

Don't start now is an absolute 10/10 for me. It's a total blaze

I was just thinking how pewdiepie hasn't made the charts considering their popularity and how you can stream them

Predictions for next week-
1) Dance Monkey (0) (Although ACR possible)
2) Don't Start Now (0)
3) South Of The Border (+1)
4) Circles (+1)
5) Memories (+3)
6) Lose You To Love Me (0)
7) Bruises (+2)
8) Good As (-1)
9) Must Be (NEW)
10) Outnumbered (0)

The reason why I think that the sales Chart is the proper chart is because there are some good songs on it. For example Freddie Mercurys new version of Time (Waits for no one) was in the sales chart and not the official singles chart. and last week, Thriller by Michael Jackson and Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr were in the sales chart but not the official singles Charts.

I have been looking at the Charts from 2008 and to be honest there were some good songs released back then.

People should look at the sales chart more often because the official
singles chart is turning into a joke. All you see on here is singles and
Album tracks. Shotgun by George Ezra which is #87 has been in the top
100 for over a year now. The official Charts should stop counting
streams and focus on sales. I prefer looking at the singles chart from
the 1980s because there are some good songs on them and none of them
charts have album tracks just singles. Back In late 2015, Justin Bieber
dominated the singles charts and I will tell you why that happened,
because it is everybody's fault for listening to his songs on his album
purpouse. If you guys just listened to one Justin Bieber song back then,
you wouldn't of seen so many Justin Bieber songs in the singles chart.
It's like back in the 1980s when Michael Jackson was popular. I know
streaming was not around the 80s but if it was you all would of made it
so Michael Jackson dominated the Charts. For example, when the Thriller
album came out way back 1982 and streaming was to be around back then,
you would of all listened to his tracks from that album most of Charts
would of been Mostly Michael Jackson songs like as it was end of June
and all of July 2009 after his death. I am fed up of people just moaning
about if a certain artist dominates the Charts. The Official Charts
should stop counting streams but that will never happen. So when an
artist releases a new album, just listen to one song!

Unfortunately, I did not have the time to prepare a review throughout the last week, so here's a short summary of the hot songs inside the top 40 and my ratings on them:

'Don't Start Now' - light 6/10
'This Is Real' - never reviewed this one before, but now that I've familiarized myself with it - light 7/10
'Tell Me' - strong 8/10
'Nice To Meet Ya' - also never reviewed this until now - strong 5/10
'G Love' - strong 7/10

To see my favorites of the week, check out my CrownNote chart! I didn't have time to post one last week, or check other people's charts (sorry everybody!) but I will this week - in the meantime, here's my new one: http://crownnote.com/charts/akyovbashiev/crystal-top-40-week-452019

My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always…

‘Dance Monkey’ by Tones & I continues its dominant run on the singles chart, with a sixth consecutive week at #1! It achieved 84,500 combined sales for the tracking week, consisting of 11,450 downloads (its highest weekly download figure so far!) & 9.33 million streams!

‘Orphans’ by Coldplay spends a second consecutive week atop the national airplay chart. ‘Don’t Start Now’ by Dua Lipa is the top debut of the week on radio at #2!

On YouTube, ‘Dance Monkey’ is #1 for a fourth consecutive week, increasing 9.8% in weekly views to 4.02 million!

DUA LIPA - DON’T START NOW (#2)
One thing I’ve learnt while doing these chart reviews is to never underestimate Dua Lipa’s performance! Not only did she get a successful run with her own singles from her debut album, but her popularity became worldwide faster than a lot of British artists have! Regardless, after hearing ‘Don’t Start Now’, I’m convinced that this trend for her will continue! I mean, the obvious is that Dua Lipa sounds stronger than she ever has before, especially with that incredible vocal build-up to the anthemic hook, but her delivery also allows the groove to fully stand out here! I’ve heard many people compare the production of this song to ‘Electricity’, but I’m reminded more of 90s disco or funk when you listen carefully to the guitar licks, which is even more impressive for me! Of course, in classic Dua Lipa fashion, she’s a complete professional at getting over nasty men, stating here that if she no longer cares for them, why should they care about her? Honestly, while November might be one of the dullest months of the year in general, at least we got this to make up for it! So glad to have you back Dua… light 9/10!

KREPT & KONAN, D-BLOCK EUROPE & LING HUSSLE - TELL ME (#23)
When you listen to a Top 40 UK chart countdown in 2019, it’s almost a given that there’ll be at least one British rap song debuting, almost all of which are collaborations! Although, we’ve got a case where you have a group I generally like, along with one I really don’t & a female singer that I actually never heard of before. Sadly, I feel like there was a lot of wasted potential in this song! The moments that I actually got some enjoyment out of, including Ling Hussle’s smooth voice & the playful production on the hook, are rather short lived! Unfortunately, both groups add very uninteresting lyrics, while the mixing around Krept & Konan’s vocals is horrendous, with the same problem applying to D-Block Europe, except with a choppy delivery that really kills the mood of the song. In other words, this is the perfect example of “too many cooks spoil the broth” when it comes to these kind of collaborations. Very light 4/10!

KREPT & KONAN FT WIZKID - G LOVE (#28)
I'll admit that I actually forgot to catch this debut, both on the chart show & looking through the refreshed Top 100 here! Thankfully, this is the better of the two songs from the duo that debuted this week, although unfortunately not by that much! I do think the connection between both members is certainly there, especially with more original production for the group. That said, why do they sound so bored here? Also, when they don't sound bored, why are the vocals so warbled? Again, I think this tells me that while Krept & Konan work well as the two of them, they might struggle by themselves. At least this has a very chilled atmosphere to it, so I'm giving this a strong 5/10!

M HUNCHO FT NAFE SMALLZ - THUMB (#30)
Okay, so this is team-up any better? Sadly, no, not at all! For as much as the skittering beat has a more lively melody than I was anticipating, there is way too much auto-tune going on here! That said, we then have some of the most disgusting lyrics I’ve come across for any song in 2019, including encounters like the two of them putting their thumbs in a girl’s ! So yeah, I might settle into the more gentle & relaxed rhythm as the song progresses, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is still incredibly immature & features some of the grossest content of the year so far. For goodness sake, at least Kanye made me laugh last week with his virtual Chick-Fil-A commercial! This might not have been the best week for debuts, but I’ll take almost anything else over this right now, because this is trash! Light 2/10!

AJ TRACEY & SKEPTA - KISS & TELL (#31)
Thankfully, if there are two artists whose songs just end up growing on me with every listen, it’s AJ Tracey & Skepta, so I actually went in with much stronger expectations this time round. That being said, the general vibe I’m getting is that while this is by no means disappointing, nothing really screams out as all that special either. Starting with AJ Tracey & Skepta themselves, where not only do I dig how both of them rap back-to-back with one another, the AJ Tracey was actually able to match Skepta on the level of intensity he brings too! Even beyond that, both of them have such slick rapping skills & if you think that the songwriting might be generic, it’s certainly not, as both artists seem to imply that they don’t want to say too much about the relationships they’ve had with the women they’ve been with. If anything let’s this down at all, it’s that the sparkling tone is not the right fit for the knocky trap beat at all, especially when the latter has been so overused as it is. Still, I thought this mostly worked as it is, so for that, light 7/10!

THE CAST OF RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE UK - BREAK UP BYE BYE (#35)
While this’ll almost certainly be its only week here, I still don’t think anybody expected this to perform as well as it did! It’s for that reason that I’m kind of unsure what to say when reviewing this, because it’s certainly not the type of song that you’d critically review. That said, I’ll do it like it do all Top 40 entries & look, I really wanted to enjoy this, but it got old fast throughout just this past week alone! Sure, I’m really happy that this will inevitably give the LGBTQ+ community in British music a big boost, but there are so many flaws throughout here. Firstly, between the production that’s trying & mostly failing to be bombastic, along with the cringy vocals, it feels not far removed from a really cheaply constructed K-Pop song. Yes, I certainly see the appeal between the chemistry between the members & especially their jokey attitudes, since this was always intended to be a fun break-up song, even if there are some very questionable lines scattered about here. That said, if I’m going to listen to songs that promote same-$ex relationships, I’ll listen to something with actual punch like ‘I Kissed A Girl’ by Katy Perry or something with a deeper meaning from the heart like ‘Same Love’ by Macklemore. Yeah, I hate to say it, but while ‘Break Up Bye Bye’ is certainly a unique chart entry, it just got very annoying in record time. For that, solid 3/10!

POUNDZ - 0PP TH0T (#37)
On the other hand, I’m slightly more ambivalent when I see a newer grime or drill artist break into the Top 40, since the two genres can be so unpredictable (as you can tell by my wide range of ratings for each of them here!). Okay, in this case, I never actually knew what an “0pp th0t” was before hearing this, but apparently it’s defined as a woman with negative energy who have many $exual encounters. So, I guess in that sense, I like how Poundz mentions that he would never want to pursue anything with these kind of women, although at the same time, he could convey that positivity a lot more in both his rapping & just the atmosphere of the song as a whole, especially when you have two primary beats that don’t blend with each other that well at all! Thankfully, Poundz himself might just be the best part of the song! His rapid flow is always something I look for in this kind of song & outside of the standard bragging about cars, there is at least some clever wordplay, particularly in the punchlines that connect a lot better than I’d have expected them to! So yeah, I’m not expecting anything massive from this unless a big remix happens, but I feel like I’d be indifferent regardless. So for that, solid 5/10!

Literally “from out of nowhere”, Jeff Lynne’s ELO secure their #1 studio album since ‘Time’ from back in 1981! Elsewhere, the 2019 Children In Need compilation album was the best-selling album of the week.

The rest of the Top 5 is: ‘KIWANUKA’ by Michael Kiwanuka (debuts at #2), ‘No.6 Collaborations Project’ by Ed Sheeran (6-3), ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ by Lewis Capaldi (7-4, 23 weeks in Top 5) & ‘Revenge Is Sweet’ by Krept & Konan (debuts at #5).

Looking ahead to next week, these songs could enter the Top 40 for the first time: ‘Better Half Of Me’ by Tom Walker, ‘This Is How [We Want You To Get High]’ by George Michael, ‘I Feel Love’ by Sam Smith, ‘Paper Cuts’ by Dave, ‘Must Be’ by J Hus, ‘Pump It Up’ by Endor, ‘Roxanne’ by Arizona Zervas & maybe even more.

Thanks for reading everyone! I hope you all have a good weekend.

My latest Crown Note chart: https://crownnote.com/charts/piran-delves/pirans-top-40-154

COLDPLAY new song is alreaday dropping! Shame really..like the song...the same goes for KATY PERRY, her new single should have climbed higher!!

Like last week, baby girl LIZZO was at number 4 mid week but then again she is at 7!! So close to get her first Top 5 single!! Hopefully next week she will...

Selena Gomez should have been number 1!! Great song...Massive success in USA why not here??!!

I really wanted DUA LIPA to be our number 1 single this week!! I can't believe the overrated monkey dance is still at number 1!! Thought RU PAUL will get a Top 20 single...was at 19 mid week but only made it to 35!! Glad JAX JONES ia climbing again the charts!

People should start looking at the sales chart as that is the proper Charts. George Michaels new posthumous single is at number 10 on the sales Charts.

This might be the first week I'm actually a bit disappointed about 'Dance Monkey' being #1, because I really hoped 'Don't Start Now' would get there! That said, I'm not ruling out that happening the future & #2 is still an amazing start for Dua Lipa.

I love that massive jump for 'This Is Real' too, hopefully it's going to be a future Top 10 hit!

Full review coming shortly! :)