Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 10/9/2021

Hi Paul, hope everything is good in Italy, been there a few times and love it.
I like Maneskin , they are a breath of fresh air in the stale UK charts. I just hope they can release more good songs to keep the interest going.

Hey man, Maneskin are amazing. They're reviving one of the most popular and influential genres, not to mention iconic, and the impact they're having can only be a good thing. They're so talented!

hi, i really like maneskin! they deserved all the success they had last summer. i just hope they don’t fade out quickly like previous eurovision acts did.

You don't want to know what I think of them

Of course I want to know what you think.

Sorry Anthony for just answering you now. I'm glad you enjoyed it in Italy, but where have you been? I am from Sicily. I, on the other hand, have been in the UK in Manchester where my son lived, and in London.

That's ok Paul.
I've been to Rome, Tivoli , Sorrento, Naples, Pompeii, Herculaneum Verona, Bressanone and the Alpine area.
I would love to go to Sicily, have always wanted to go to Syracuse, Taormina, Cefalu and Monreale.
I lived in London about 25 years ago ! Mow I am in the Midlands near Worcester.

Hi Anthony, I'm glad you were in Italy, then I wish you to come back, maybe in Sicily, it's still summer here! Have a nice day. Paolo.

I know, right? Frank can be annoying at times, but at least he partly talks about music. :/

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Unfortunately, Anthony, social media in 2021 is a very toxic place!

I’d personally suggest blocking these people, or if they create multiple accounts, just report them.

My concern is, where are the site moderators in all of this? :(

son you need jesus in your life.

exactly anthony, at this point i’ve had enough and i’m sick of nearly all of them. NEARLY ALL OF THEM. and i’m done with them, they clearly can’t find jesus in their lives.

i honestly feel really sorry for regulars like you, frank, dave, dami, kiesling, etc who have to read through this bs every week. i wish they would just leave, find god, come back when they’re at peace, and make this place a better community again.

i’m glad people like you are saying what i’m thinking. keep up the good work 👍

You can’t post one comment without showing to the whole community that you’re a worthless failure who’s trying to break this place apart! :P

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okay, that actually looks delicious though. but how is this related to music?

Yeah, but not by a lot if they’re outside of the weekly Top 100! :P

Driver's Licence might still be top 100 if not for the 3 song rule, so could be racking up significant sales/streams towards the end of year chart (if I understand how end-of-year chart is calculated).

Yeah, I think so too. :)

We’ve already seen that Olivia would’ve had up to seven tracks from ‘Sour’ in the Top 40 at the same time earlier in the summer!

I'm obsessed with this scent on you 🥰

coco chanel on your neck with your body in check, loving all the time with you 🥰

stream don’t play.

But now you’ve just gone missing
You’re airing all my wishes

I’ll stick with ‘Psycho’, thanks. :)

Playing a perfect Patrick bateman

Put blame on anyone but you. :)

All kinds of ghosts down in your basement

You made me feel so useful & so used! 😭

what you know about rolling down in the deep

When your brain goes numb, you can call that mental freeze! 🥶

When these people talk too much, put that $#!+ in slow motion

I feel like an astronaut in the ocean! 👩‍🚀

Not quite sure how these are calculated lol but here's the official list from OCC (for the first half of the year, we should get another update at the start of next month):

1) Olivia Rodrigo - 'drivers license' (1,030k)
2) Nathan Evans, 220 KID, Billen Ted - 'Wellerman' (713k)
3) Tiësto - 'The Business' (640k)
4) Lil Nas X - 'MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)' (638k)
5) The Weeknd - 'Save Your Tears' (637k)
6) Dua Lipa - 'Levitating' (???)
7) Riton, Nightcrawlers ft. Mufasa & Hypeman, Dopamine - 'Friday' (629k)
8) Russ Millions, Tion Wayne - 'Body' (626k)
9) The Kid LAROI - 'WITHOUT YOU' (613k)
10) Olivia Rodrigo - 'good 4 u' (???)

Very likely that 'Bad Habits' and 'good 4 u' are both Top 5, if not Top 3, by now, but, like I said, we'll get another update next month.

Bad Habits will be number one and good 4 u number three.

He has a crownnote page for each chart or smth, so the total is from cn points

It's calculated by their official positional changes week on week. 75pts for #1, 74 for #2 down to 1pt for #75. With streaming, ACR and the 3-single rule, comparing this method to the official sales chart shows the impact of such artificial chart manipulation. Much more pronounced than in the physical era when such rules were not in place.

It's also a method I used to see how big or small a hit is, even when full sales data is not published or difficult to obtain. OCC (and earlier publications like Guinness Hit Singles) used to count number of weeks as a scale of chart impact where a #1 is equal to a #75 and everything in between. This makes it a bit more accurate, but also interesting to compare to the sales chart which ones gained a lot of "chart impact" with fewer sales by charting for a long time lower down the chart, and those that has a lot of sales in a short period (e.g. a big-selling #1).

It highlights the #1s that were hyped and those that more genuine long-term favourites with the public, if they didn't have an instant impact.

Hey Andy!

I’d certainly be interested in hearing more about this. :)

I was hoping you would reply aha :)

Yeah, it sounds like a good idea. :)

heyy, i would love this :D i've been asking piran to do a similar thing for a while now lol. I'm not very comfortable on a mic but i could help with design and stuff

Amazing! the more people on board the merrier! xD

No, there really isn’t. :/

Stream ‘Drama’ by AJR

even sadder that even without ACR it wouldnt be top 40 cos of drake :/

Yeah, it’s huge all of sudden worldwide

wait, worldwide too? i bet it’ll climb too if it’s getting this big lol.

Yeah, that’s how it works. 😩

i think so. i pre-ordered a cd of sour by olivia rodrigo on amazon - it came on release day - and i believe it counted as a sale when it dropped.

Yep, it counts

Of the 3 contenders, I hope it’s Obsessed With You, but it’s probably gonna be Shivers. 🤢

oml, going from bad habits to shivers, .
2021 is going to be year of olivia rodrigo and ed sheeran only.

I believe the rule is 3 songs from 1 album Alison.
This means that they can have 4, 5 or even more hits are a time if they are off different albums or stand alone singles or collaborations.

In Sweden ABBA are at No.1 and No.2, in the Singles Chart. 'Don't Shut Me Down' is only their 4th No.1 Single there. Their 1st since 'Summer Night City' in 1978. They didn't Release a lot of their Singles in Sweden. Hence the low Total of No.1 Hits.

None of the 3 ten toppers of Drake are even charting in the USA...

So amazing!!!!!

She has such an amazing voice, but I only know ‘Control’ and ‘Girls Like Us’. I keep meaning to listen to her Kygo collab but forgetting lol

i’ve only heard her collaboration with kygo and that was pretty good.

I'll try a listen on her buddy. I remember a German singer from the 90's...she was Blumchen, what has been of hers?

hi Dami! how are you today? enjoy our "last " week of summer? TBH i have never heard of Blumchen but did hear of HADDAWAY, CULTURE BEAT, DR ALBAN...all german i think? have a lovely day.

Spring is coming here in 2 wks, enjoy nice weather as much as you can. Yeppp, I still remember al those 90's acts, i'd add also Snap, Labouche and Twenty4seven

oh yeah SNAP!! So good....LA BOUCHE and the tragedy that came for the singer of the band!! She was so young! what about MODERN TALKING and SANDRA CRETU? Still a massive fan of SANDRA and still buy any cd she rarely releases nowadays!! take care..

Before knowing Kylie, I was a massive Modern Talking fan, I still have all their discography

Maybe she’ll at least get a week number one before Ed Sheeran gets 37 weeks at number one lol

Ohh noooo

I agree, I wish Ed had gone onto ACR a week earlier so STAY could’ve peaked but it still outsells that paedo drake

Frrr, I really want stay to get to number 1

okay, but how is drake a p*do? 🤨

Texting underaged girls.

personally i don’t see anything wrong with that unless the messages were creepy. were they sus?

Absolutely agree

Me too, it’s just weird to me.

Sarah - It is almost impossible for 'Old' Acts to have UK Top 10 Singles now. ABBA have done very well to get anywhere near the Top 10. That's why Madonna, has not managed a UK Top 10 Single since 2009 and Kylie Minogue has not had one since 2011. ABBA's 'Voyage' Album has more UK Advance Orders, than any previous Universal Album. So, that does not quite fit in, with your attempts to say that ABBA's popularity is exaggerated. Their 'Voyage' Album will be huge, in the UK - and elsewhere. By the way, the 2 Singles are Top 5 in Germany and several other Countries. The UK Charts are not the only ones. Also, the 'ABBA Gold' Album, has just become ABBA's first, to reach 30 Top 5 Weeks, in the UK.

I stand by what I said.

P.S. Not according to ABBA discography so please do tell the countries they made Top 5 and maybe you can get them to add these countries into the ABBA discography:)

Absolutely agree witb you. I'm a massive Kylie fun and it gets me mad that her brilliant 3 2020 singles havent made the top 40 due she isnt popular on streaming

It’s recently blown up on TikTok again, it’s actually become massive. It’s in the top 40 biggest non-drakeorkanye songs worldwide

Well, in this day and age most singles by big get all the attention in the first week, and never really start at the bottom and work their way up. Songs by small or medium artists climb, like Heat Waves and The Business. If a song is truly amazing it'll grow and then peak later

Thanks for the message Ethan. I liked the way you said if a song is truly amazing.

already? it’s a great song!

Me! :D

awesome! fun fact: demon days was the first album i ever received. :)

Really? Mine was actually ‘Beautiful World’ by Take That. :)

ooh take that are good. that was one of my first too.

Me, as you already know. 😩

yeah, i know you are, and honestly good. they’re mint 👌

You got the album too? That’s awesome! My second would’ve been Taylor’s self-titled debut. :)

Best TT album for sure!

It’s between that & ‘Progress’ for me. :)

We both thought the same thing! 😂

yeah he’s so close! he really deserves another top 40.

I know was so hoping 'better days' would be a huge hit, its one of his best. Hopefully next week, its so hard for great tracks to make it big these days, why do so many listen to new stuff by Kanye or Drake and then don't bother the week after and then less the next week, I don't see how that is popular as if it was the same or more people would listen as it was a great track? Taken Glass Animals forever to scale the chart but its definitely a popular track (even though there are of course those who dislike but nobody can mistake its popularity with the way it has risen and risen). Anyway was off on one then, to next week Dermot, it took forever for you to get noticed last time but your tracks got there in the end

hi Rob! how are you today? ready for the week end? TBH i never understood the popularity some "so called artists" are getting these days!! I like good rap music: EMINEM, MC SOLAAR, LIZZO, SUMMER WALKER, DOJA CAT, MEGAN THEE THE STALLION but drake and kanye west are so overrated and so talentless: every song sounds the same and are just so boring!! Anyway i guess we can't all like the same artist!! I really thought like you that DERMOT will be a huge start by now like lewis capaldi but lewis released his album a few months before DERMOT and musically both artists sound the same so i guess most people just bought LEwis music instead!! tbh i much prefer DERMOT! Glass animals deserve the success they are getting right now!! It is about time they start to get well known!! have a great day and chat to you soon...

hi Rob! how are you today? ready for the week end? TBH i never understood the popularity some "so called artists" are getting these days!! I like good rap music: EMINEM, MC SOLAAR, LIZZO, SUMMER WALKER, DOJA CAT, MEGAN THEE THE STALLION but drake and kanye west are so overrated and so talentless: every song sounds the same and are just so boring!! Anyway i guess we can't all like the same artist!! I really thought like you that DERMOT will be a huge start by now like lewis capaldi but lewis released his album a few months before DERMOT and musically both artists sound the same so i guess most people just bought LEwis music instead!! tbh i much prefer DERMOT! Glass animals deserve the success they are getting right now!! It is about time they start to get well known!! have a great day and chat to you soon.

I am good thanks, been a long week but looking forward to a relaxing weekend and some athletics on Sunday! Hope you are having a good weekend. Yes I have to agree I'm not really into Drake or Kanye West, I think the only track of Drake's I like was hotline bling it was really original at the time but all his stuff since then is the same kind of thing. Kanye had a good start and has a far better back catalogue imo but I just don't see anything that has interested me since his album with Jay-Z which I thought was a great take mashing up many genres. Hopefully big rise next week for Dermot though!

at least their other song is in the top 10. :)

Might depend on how technical you want to be. I'm American, so I don't know much about Cliff Richard. But he could be said to have about 50 years between "Move It" and "Thank You for a Lifetime." However, "Move It" was as The Drifters. If you limit him to having the exact same artist credit (i.e. also denying any "and the Shadows" singles), I think ABBA beats him out by a few months, as his solo career goes from "When the Girl in Your Arms is the Girl in Your Heart" to "Thank You for a Lifetime.", which is also 47 years, but not as long as ABBA's 47 years.

Paul McCartney would have a claim if Beatles hits were allowed. I can't find anyone that definitely has longer than 47 years without an asterix

Move it was released as " Cliff Richard and the Drifters ", so he did get billing.

You have missed Elvis Presley, Heartbreak Hotel, 1956 to Way Down 2005, makinf 49 years.

Elvis Presley , 1956 to 2005, Heartbreak Hotel and Way Down, making 49 years.

If we were doing top 20 instead of top 10, then it might be Vera Lynn with 'Forget Me Not' (1952) to 'Land of Hope and Glory' (2020).

I don't think anyone has as long a gap as Abba without going into reissues, performing with different acts (either Drfters or Beatles), or releasing archive singles. It's the longest gap of newly recorded top 10s with the same lineup. Can't think of anyone who had hits in the last 10 years and earlier than the 80s.

To be honest yeah, why do I even bother with him??

omg shut up ive done nothing wrong

This is cap, but like I said I’m not bothering with you.

omg youre such a b*tch

Yeah, literally, why do people bother arguing with anyone here? 😂

We know you are, now shut up and stop repliying.

am i amazing i do barely anything bad

You haven’t to me at least. :)

make me you child

Okay. 👍

Wtf happened to the charts, people used to be happy and friendly all the time, now it’s just constant arguing

Yes we love you, LEGEND 🥰

This is the same question I’ve been asking all year!

Sorry that you go through all of this each week. :/

Yes, you’re incredible. :DDDDD

It’s not your fault lol :)

I know! At the end of the day, as long as you guys aren’t bothered by it, then neither am I. :)

not shivers oml

It's Ed, so it'll probably be massive on streaming! :P

lil nas x coming for #1 :D

How do you know the number of copies for these songs are declining? Is there somewhere you can find out this information?

website called buzzjack have a UK forum page

I think out out will have a great chance

I can see that peaking at #3 like ‘Bed’ did. :)

ikr, success needs to be shared, i’m sick of seeing his name constantly at number 1...

Same thing man

90% based

industry baby is a very good song, hope that’s number 1 when lil nas x’s album drops.

Nice to see some quality with ABBA in your list. Shame you can’t appreciate an artist rather than knock them because they don’t fit your ideal of younger artists only!

If you were to higher remember these would nearly be the same as mine😮. Great taste

no clue how it got there seeing as it was at 62 a couple of weeks ago but i wont complain, its one of the best songs ever

i think it got an acr reset thanks to netflix or sum like that, but i’m absolutely loving the rebound. it’s such a fantastic song. their new song that dropped today is also fire! 🔥

Tik Tok has reset it. Strangely it spent 7 or 8 weeks at number 1 in Australia back in Feb/March

thanks for the info wilson, i also knew about it going to number 1 in australia but i didn’t think it was that long until you told me lol.

im not allowed to talk apparently

Just block them then. :)

As it should.

and then we have his brand new single, shivers, which is without a doubt some utter garbage.

Why do you have to preach at people and behave like a spoilt 5 year old just because people like a different singer than you.
Can you please grow up.

it’s not even that anthony, me and a few others that comment here are just sick of seeing his name at number 1. for me, 11 weeks is too much for any song, even songs i love. sorry if i ever offended you but i had a long day today and had to vent. i’ll give ed this though, visiting hours was good and i wouldn’t mind if that was his chart topper for 2021 instead of bad habits.

OK, CoolOcelot, thanks for that.
I am sorry if I upset you but as a new member/ commenter I get fed up with people knocking an artist who has a long stretch at number 1. It's not the artist who is making themselves number 1, it's the public.

You have to remember though that songs have been number 1 for a lot longer than Ed's.... 1n 1955 we had a number one for 18 weeks, and in the 90's there were long runs from Bryan Adam's and Wet Wet Wet.

Take care

oh no, you haven’t upset me anthony. i understand that you get fed up with me saying things like this and i’ll try to stop. and yes, i’m aware of previous long-running number ones, i witnessed a 14-week number 1 in 2017 courtesy of another of ed’s tracks and a 11-weeker in 2019. and not forgetting bryan adams and wet wet wet.

🤣

ACR

Always the culprit! :(

yee

Do you like much of their music? :)

a bit

I hope Elton can make the top 10 next week .
That will mark 50 1/2 years of top 10 hits.

Do you think he will Piran, as you are more knowledgeable than me on the charts of nowadays.

I think Elton John and Dua Lipa P'Nau Remix will hit the Top 10 next week?
It is the most downloaded song for the past week, probably Dua Lipa fans downloading it rather than Elton John fans who would prefer a Physical Copy?
I have been a Diehard Elton John fan for the past 48 years and is enjoying him being back in the charts?
I think it will make the Top 5, but not sure if they will make No1?

Nice to see them back, but I think their new songs . 🤢

Don't forget, not only Abba but Elton John is also having their 2nd top 20 this year: Step Into Christmas hanging over at #8, and a 2nd new hit at #47 (It's A Sin with Years & Years).

It could be a second Top 10 for Elton by next Friday! :O

I think it’s likely, given how strong his sales are & the fact that consecutive rap albums that had tracks debuting high that have pushed it down!

I think it could go Top 10 next week though if steaming doesn’t drop off a lot for it. :)

What songs? :)

i like most of them tbh, i'd have to listen to them all to decide my favourite and i have baby keem's album tolisten to first xd

I couldn't be more agree on your comment Piran, its so unfair for popular and classic artists yo not have the chance of getting hits in the top 40 due to streaming

I agree with streaming being such a major component of the chart formula, since that’s how almost everyone listens to music nowadays, but I wish more classic artists were successful there (as well as on sales, obviously). :)

I wish I could’ve been there when they were at their peak though, haha. :)

I really hoped that Diana Ross ' Comeback had have had more impact on the charts. Her comeback single " Thank you " was a perfect piece of soul , something that seems to have disappeared totally now from the charts. Perhaps she will fare better when the album is released later this month.

Is it bad that I didn’t even know she released a new single? :(

I forgive you ( just this once lol 😁 )
It was supposed to be released last year . She was going to do a European tour including Glastonbury which got cancelled. So she put the single off until this year when she was going to do the Lytham festival, this got cancelled to.

As you're probably aware by now I am baffled by the charts nowadays but it got to number 16 on the British iTunes chart and number 18 on the British Amazon chart.
I would have thought that was a good enough showing to warrant a low position in the top 100 but, alas no.

Love to see ABBA here again, after years!!!

I also have high hopes for Elton to go 10 Topper this week!!! He is such a living legend!!!

‘Cold Heart’ was #4 when BuzzJack posted their most recent update on Wednesday! :O

Same here! Such a breath of fresh air for the charts, haha. :)

Yeah, even a Top 10 on the sales chart doesn’t guarantee an entry on the main chart anymore sadly. :/

Good call!

Thanks, haha. :)

Didn't know!!! What a pleasant surprise!!! BTW how are you doing Piran???

I’m good thanks! How are you doing? :)

I didn't get to hear Diana's song at all... I am already looking for it...

"Thank you " was the comeback single but she has another one out now " If the whole world just danced "

woah. you must really not like if you really love me (how will i know) haha.