Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 06/12/2019

Well we need a name for the TV show!

Yes we do. Can you think of any?

We could call it, "Clarkson, Hammond and May's musical show"

Or how about, "Clarkson, Hammond and May's musical talk show",

Can we change the subject because I thought of a brilliant idea!

Yeah of course we can and what's the idea, Hammond?

Well why don't we ask Scott Mills if we can do the Official UK top 40 on Radio 1 tomorrow and let him have a break this week?

That sounds like a brilliant idea. How hard can it be to count down the Official UK top 40 tomorrow.

Sure, it appears that we'll get six more Christmas songs joining the nine that were in last week's Top 40, bringing the total number of festive classics up to 15! :D

No it wasn't. 2014 was a brilliant year for music. I loved most songs from 2014! Especially It's My Birthday by Will.I.am.

Hahahahahahahahaha. That is such a rubbish song. Infact that is the worse song I have ever heard in my life. You shoulf get a life you sad weirdo!

No it is not a rubbish song. You are a sad weirdo. Who on earth do you think you are calling me a sad weirdo because I like music from 2014. If you don't the music from 2014 then listen to music from a different year!

Hahahahahaha. OMG you such a weirdo listening to such trash. I think you need to get a better music taste! Every song from 2014 was really bad.

No every song from 2014 was NOT actually really bad. I loved Happy from Pharrell Williams because that was a brilliant song. YOU should be the one that should listen to more music instead of slagging off songs from 2014 or any other year you might hate. I don't see Coolocelot101 or Piran Delves complaining about the Charts from previous years so why should you. Coolocelot101's favourite year was 2015 and I loved that year as well. If you don't like this decade then listen to a different decade of music!!!!

https://disqus.com/by/disqus_XJbjZC0JLD/

@coolocelot101

Okay, I'll do this one next! :)

Did you see my review of the June 2012 chart you suggested?

Yeah it was really good. I will try and recommend more if you like?

Thanks! Cool, I'll try to get through one or two more this week. :)

@coolocelot101 I would imagine you own this album.

It stands for "Accelerated Chart Ratio".

It means that if a song has been on the chart for at least 10 weeks & declined more than the rest of the singles market for three consecutive weeks, the value of its streams are halved.

https://disqus.com/by/disqus_XJbjZC0JLD/

@coolocelot101 Yeah me too

Sure, I'll comment on it either later or tomorrow. :)

Every one of these albums is worth listening too :D

That is a great chart

2010. Also the start of the 2010's decade!

Yes. That can be something else for the TV show. Which artist has a wax figure in Madame Tussauds.

Kylie has 3 figures already, by the way

A masterpiece opinion pop music

No who are they?

The Beatles. They are biggest group of the History of music!

Yeah, I certainly do! :)

That does not sound like a bad idea actually.

Yes. and we could have a News segement and also a throwback segemant

Hi Piran, great to see all this activity on here every week now, I kind of feel you set most of this off! Is also great to see Becky Hill and Wiess just bubbling under your chart, was a great track upon release and still is nowm I'm really liking the music and her voice and style right now and hope she can manage a decent chart hit all of her own soon

Hey Piran! It's a pleasure to chat and discuss with so many ppl so.passionate about charts and music!

Hi Rob! :)

Aw thanks, I really hope I've had at least some input into the sudden surge of popularity here, haha.

Yeah, it took me a while to discover 'I Could Get Used To This', but better late than never, since it's really my style!

Hey Dami! :)

I agree! It's really awesome to discuss different eras & styles of music each week.

I actually love a lot of this, especially: #2, #4 & #7! :)

Me! :)

Me too, at last Ellie's getting another top 20!!!

Perhaps we should all leave our a streaming on repeat during the night Christmas week if we want to see a festive song at number one.

Just shows how little sales impact the charts nowadays.

What's even more surprising is that it was in the Top 40 back in Monday's update! :O

It was said to go top 20 and then it flopped so badly.. it also should show Simon that this year didn’t work and the show has to be fixed next year

Apparently, there's another spin-off called 'X Factor: The Band' starting Monday. If the celebrity version couldn't produce anything big, I doubt this one will either sadly!

I hope they go back to the original format next year, but even then, it's very clear that the show is long past its best now. :/

The band seems more promising than the celeb version but I don’t think they will get a hit out of it.. they are reworking the format and going back to basics next year apparently stripping back everything and making the show just about the talent now which is needed!!

I don't either. Heck, they barely get a hit with the original format nowadays anyway! :/

I'd be interested! :)

PART 1 (#1-25)

#1: Avicii ft Aloe Blacc - SOS
#2: Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
#3: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita
#4: Sigrid - Don’t Feel Like Crying
#5: Sam Smith & Normani - Dancing With A Stranger
#6: Tones & I - Dance Monkey
#7: Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer
#8: Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
#9: Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered
#10: MEDUZA ft GOODBOYS - Piece Of Your Heart

#11: Lil Nas X ft Billy Ray Cyrus - Old Town Road
#12: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow
#13: Taylor Swift - Lover
#14: Victor Crone - Storm
#15: Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
#16: Avicii ft Chris Martin - Heaven
#17: Ed Sheeran ft Khalid - Beautiful People
#18: Sam Eeldt ft RANI - Post Malone
#19: Mahmood - Soldi
#20: Camila Cabello - Liar

#21: Sigrid - Never Mine
#22: Gryffin ft Maia Wright - Body Back
#23: Duncan Laurence - Arcade
#24: Katy Perry - Never Really Over
#25: Ed Sheeran ft Camila Cabello & Cardi B - South Of The Border

PART 2 (#26-50)

#26: Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999
#27: Post Malone - Circles
#28: Post Malone ft Swae Lee - Sunflower
#29: Mark Ronson ft Miley Cyrus - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart
#30: Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down

#31: Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next
#32: The Chainsmokers & ILLENIUM ft Lennon Stella - Takeaway
#33: Dermot Kennedy - Rome
#34: Mabel - Don’t Call Me Up
#35: Dominic Fike - 3 Nights
#36: Regard - Ride It
#37: Taylor Swift ft Brendon Urie - Me!
#38: The 1975 - It’s Not Living [If It’s Not With You]
#39: Sigrid - Sucker Punch
#40: Taylor Swift - Paper Rings

#41: Sigrid - Strangers
#42: Mark Ronson ft Camila Cabello - Find U Again
#43: Pale Waves - One More Time
#44: ILLENIUM & Jon Bellion - Good Things Fall Apart
#45: Echosmith - Lonely Generation
#46: MAG!C☆PRINCE - Update
#47: Alejandro Sanz ft Camila Cabello - Mi Persona Favorita
#48: Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don’t Care
#49: R3HAB & A Touch Of Class - All Around The World [La La La]
#50: P!NK - A Million Dreams

PART 3 (#51-75)

#51: Ava Max - So Am I
#52: Sigrid - Sight Of You
#53: Taylor Swift - Cornelia Street
#54: JVG - Tarkenee
#55: Taylor Swift - The Archer
#56: Marshmello ft CHVRCHES - Here With Me
#57: Daddy Yankee ft Snow - Con Calma
#58: Tiesto & Mabel - God Is A Dancer
#59: Jax Jones ft Ella Henderson - This Is Real
#60: Jess Glynne - Thursday

#61: Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me
#62: MAG!C☆PRINCE - Gomen.. Hanashitakunai
#63: Benny Blanco & Calvin Harris - I Found You
#64: Ariana Grande - Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored
#65: Robin Schulz ft Erika Sirola - Speechless
#66: Little Mix - The Cure
#67: Michela - Chameleon
#68: The Chainsmokers & 5 Seconds Of Summer - Who Do You Love?
#69: Kygo & Chelsea Cutler - Not OK
#70: James Arthur & Anne-Marie - Rewrite The Stars

#71: Dua Lipa - Swan Song
#72: Jonas Blue ft Chelcee Grimes, TINI & Jhay Cortez - Wild
#73: Jax Jones & Martin Solveig ft Madison Beer - All Day & Night
#74: Lizzo - Good As
#75: Sigrid - Home To You

PART 4 (#76-100)

#76: Post Malone - Wow
#77: Joel Corry - Sorry
#78: Westlife - Dynamite
#79: Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now
#80: Maitre Gims ft Vianney - La Meme

#81: Lady Gaga - Always Remember Us This Way
#82: Cameron Barnes - Chasing Love
#83: End Of The World ft Clean Bandit - Lost
#84: Luca Hanni - She Got Me
#85: Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
#86: Destery Smith ft Chase Gallarza - Dancing In The Dark
#87: Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You
#88: Sam Fender - The Borders
#89: Audien & Echosmith - Favourite Sound
#90: The Prince Karma - Later es

#91: MAX & Ty Dolla $ign - The Other Side
#92: Fisher - Losing It
#93: Westlife - Hello My Love
#94: Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man - Giant
#95: Nina Nesbitt - Colder
#96: JVG - Spagettipyssyt
#97: Panic At The Disco - High Hopes
#98: SAINt JHN - Roses [Imanbek Remix]
#99: Loud Luxury ft Bryce Vine - I’m Not Alright
#100: Khalid - Saturday Nights

Hi Piran,
I've been reading your reviews for a while now and thought I'd comment on this list. Overall I mostly agree with what you write, however, I really dislike both Señorita (which is the only song that I find so annoying I turn off my radio or switch the station) and Shallow, which I just find plain boring. I find it difficult myself to define my favourite songs of the year. At the moment I am really enjoying listening to White Mercedes by Charli XCX.

Have a nice weekend.

Hi, thank you for very much for your comment! :)

I'm pleased to hear that we're mostly in agreement, although disappointed to hear that you didn't like 'Senorita' nor 'Shallow' that much at all, since these were among my longest Crown Note #1's of the past year! That said, everyone's opinion is always appreciated by me, so that's fair enough.

'White Mercedes' is a decent choice & I'm surprised it hasn't become bigger in at least the UK!

I hope you have a nice weekend too.

I don't like Señorita too. But thanks to streaming, I could just listen to my fav. tracks 😄

Wowww! #72 and 84 are great songs! Sadly, didn't even get into the top 100. So glad to see many Sigrid's songs on the list, she does a genuine and lovely pop. I was hoping New York City by Kylie could enter unless on your top 100... 😞😞😂😂

JVG!! Wow didn't know you listen to music from Finland. That's cool, now I feel less weird knowing I'm not the only one who has songs from other languages in their library.

Yeah, JVG are one of my favourite foreign language groups actually! :D

They were recommended to me by a Finnish user on Headline Planet, but I also listen to: Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian & Swedish occasionally too.

Very nice :)

(NEW ENTRY) #14: ELLIE GOULDING - RIVER
So this track has managed to break into the top 40, being available exclusively on Amazon - and did so with a very good peak! This means this is now Ellie's highest-charting single this year, and it got me thinking: when was the last time a track exclusive to a single platform has managed to break the top 40? Turns out, it was last year, and the track was once again only available on Amazon Music! Katy Perry's 'Cozy Little Christmas' managed to sneak to a #23 peak last year, so it appears this year they're trying the same strategy to attempt to convert people to their streaming platform. (if only it was any good, but that's a rant for another day) Now, I love Ellie, and she's had quite a weird year, her last single 'Hate Me' managing to barely dent the top 40, and it was quite an unusual one. So here we have her covering a 1971 song of the same name by Joni Mitchell, and it's a slow piano ballad. I thought this should definitely work out, considering her strong vocals - but I suppose not. See, I'm not one for Christmas songs, but I don't think that has anything to do with that fact here. I think what this comes down to, she tries her hardest to do this, but this is just not the right song for her. The vocal curves that she attempts to do just don't fit her voice, in my opinion - she doesn't have the voice for this. Again, I'm generally a fan of Ellie, but I'm going to have to give this a 4/10, sorry.

(NEW ENTRY) #40: TREVOR DANIEL - FALLING
I can't help but think of Juice WRLD when I hear this song - Trevor Daniel's voice sounds strikingly similar (although that could just be me), and, of course, the lyrical content is also, just like with the former, incredibly raw and heartfelt. The track itself is actually kinda reminiscent to "Lucid Dreams", again, that might be me, but unfortunately, I genuinely prefer that one - Juice had a bit more of a consistent flow and the Sting sample was something else, where as with "Falling" we get a pretty basic trap beat and apart from the guitar strings in the beginning, nothing really capturing about this song, or something that would make it "catchy". In a week with two other urban tracks, which I also didn't really enjoy, this doesn't stick out in any way, sadly! Very light 5/10.

And that's about it for this week! Not a very eventful week overall, apart from all the holiday songs obviously - and as much as I'm generally not a fan of them, it does really put you in a Christmas mood. Mariah Carey is, as per usual, the highest of the bunch, and this really could be the year she gets to #1 - not on Christmas, though, that's a peak she's hardly going to reach, considering her streams are halved all the way through and it's going to be tracking data from the week of 13th-19th of December. Meanwhile, "Dance Monkey" claims a 10th week at the top, an astonishing record considering the chart rules that are set in place and usually prevent such things, and she's by all means looking set to grab an 11th one, as there's not much in sight that could dethrone her. Predicting a 12th one is a roll of the dice, however - she declined again this week, a 2nd one in row, and all she has to do is decline again next week to be put on ACR and out of the running for Christmas #1. What does that leave us with, again? Lewis Capaldi's "Before You Go" is a strong contender, and his team will undoubtedly push it for that title, but also Stormzy could grab it, in my opinion - his new album comes out next week and that might give it enough of a push to send "Own It" to the top. The race is as exciting as ever - and with two weeks still remaining, quite anything is possible.

My latest CrownNote chart is not up just yet - this post will be updated when it's available!

Good review once again, even if 'Heartless' is the only one I really agree on, haha! :D

My Top 100 Songs Of 2019 are up by the way.

I don't know, Mariah went from 34-8 this week alone, but it's still only the first chart of December!

At the moment, it really looks like she'll get both the Christmas & New Year #1 if this kind of momentum continues.

I assumed we wouldn't be agreeing about a lot of the new entries, haha! Although, apart from "Heartless", we do also seem to agree on "Falling" in that it's not that good.

Oh, that's cool! It's a bit early for my personal Top 100 of 2019, but I'll be checking yours out!

Oh yeah, I forgot about 'Falling', but that's honestly just a Post Malone rip-off.

That's alright, hopefully you'll like my chart! :)

Yeah, she does have strong momentum, but a lot of Christmas tracks shot up this week, so obviously Mariah would be the highest. It's anybody's guess, really, whether she will make it or not.

I do still think a Christmas #1 for her is a bit unlikely, but the week after that could be hers!

I honestly think the chart that follows Christmas could see 70+ festive songs inside the Top 100, with 8-9 in the Top 10! :O

Last year was crazy enough, but the streaming impact looks to be even greater this time round.

It's the 25th anniversary of Mariah Carey's festive classic this December, what a wonderful achievement it would be if she could bag Christmas or New Year number one .
The 1994 festive chart topper which kept Mariah at number two, East 17s Stay another day has barely re-entered the chart this week.

It's certainly a bad time for any song that's not a Christmas song, haha!

I do wonder though, with the increase in streaming numbers in recent years, which obviously also translates to holiday songs also flooding the charts in much larger quantities and with much higher peaks, will we ever see a post-Christmas chart that's 90-95% Christmas songs? I think 100% might be asking a bit too much, but the former certainly could happen at some point.

I'm not sure that'll be possible, since you'd literally need the 95th biggest Christmas song of the week to be streamed more than the 5th biggest non-Christmas song of the week for that to happen, haha!

Mind you, I don't think we'll come too far off though, unless the OCC introduce another rule that prevents festive classics from getting this high.

No, the sales Chart is the proper Chart!

Err no this is the proper Chart because this is the Chart that gets played on Radio 1

The sales Chart is the proper Chart and that's final

https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-sales-chart/ Here you go. Here's a link to the Sales Chart. Comment on that instead!

the one on Radio 1 is manipulative and fixable. as soon as they realise that and go back to proper sale the better

Agreed on everything, except I would rate 'River' a little higher.

I see what you mean about it not really feeling as festive as it's trying to be though!

Dance Monkey may be at 1 for the 10th week, but it cannot be compared with I will always love you as that was pure sales, and when people actually bought music rather than just watched videos which counted as sales. If streams had been around then, artists would have sold millions more, or clocked the views as sales.

If streaming was around back then, there probably wouldn't be many sales at all. People don't want to buy music when they can listen to it for free, just the way it is!

People's music consumption has changed considerably since then, so the chart formula also has to change with it to reflect popularity as accurately as possible! Besides, digital sales nowadays count for less than 3% of all units, while physical sales contribute for a negligible proportion.

That said, while 'I Will Always Love You' is a classic, I agree that I definitely couldn't put 'Dance Monkey' in the same league as it. Heck, I'm not even sure I could call 'Umbrella' a "classic" just yet!

Without Physical Sales the charts mean nothing? Streaming are not sales and for the fact you can pay £10 a month and have access to thousands of songs, what is that saying reference towards the charts?
Keep living in a fantasy world cause the charts are dead now?

Physical sales are certainly big on the albums side of things, but on the singles chart, they account for ~0% of music consumption figures.

Even the OCC are suggesting this! Downloads have become a lot bigger in the past 20 years since almost all people would rather buy a song through their phone or computer without having to make a trip to do it! It saves both time & money, but honestly, it's also common sense at this point. Even then, digital sales are dying fast now... why do you think iTunes got took over by Apple recently?

As for why streaming's included, I already mentioned a comment about this a few weeks back! I'm not going to do it again. Sick of explaining it to everyone week after week! :/

Ultimately though, say physical sales were removed from existence last week, then the Top 100 you're seeing now would likely remain unaffected entirely.

Oh, you're my favorite type of person. Piran might be sick of explaining this to people like you, but I'm not - I have a field day doing so.

Saying that the chart means nothing without physical sales (mind you, not even downloads, lmao) is so delusional, you might want to double check if you actually believe what you're saying. If you really want the charts to be dead, sure. A quick look at the physical sales chart (which the OCC still compile, mind you! You can join the party of nay-sayers and claim that's the proper one) reveals it's so stagnant, it's become a joke. All that's left there are new releases entering and dropping quick, and really, really old singles still sticking around, because the physical singles market itself is dead.

Streaming does not equal sales, that I agree. It means much more. The musical landscape changes constantly, and if the chart does not reflect that, then that's when it literally becomes the joke you're suggesting it currently is. You want the music taste of, like, a couple of hundred people (if even that many) still buying physical singles to officially define popular music for a nation of 65 million people? Say that out loud, maybe a couple of times if once doesn't do it, and if you still hold that opinion... I genuinely don't know what to tell you.

Physical sales were huge decades ago. Then came downloads and physical sales started dying. Then came streaming and downloads too started dying. Things change. Get over it.

Couldn't have put it better myself!

Across the UK, hundreds (probably even thousands) of songs are being streamed every second.

On the other hand, I'm fairly sure none of my local supermarkets have sold even one physical single this week! :P

EDIT: I don't even know if many shops in my county still sell physical singles at all, because they're that outdated.

Blinding Lights sounds so much 80s and I love it on first listen.

Oh yeah, such an awesome throwback vibe to it! :D