Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved climbs to Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart: “I’m officially a one-hit wonder”
Congratulations to Lewis Capaldi, who claims his first Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart with Someone You Loved.
The song lifts from 3 to 1, logging 58,000 combined sales, including 6 million audio streams. Someone You Loved first entered the Top 100 at Number 66 back in January and has steadily climbed over the past nine weeks.
Celebrating the news, Lewis told Official Charts: "Look who it is at Number 1! If you’ve listened to it, bought it, streamed it… thanks very much. This is my first Number 1, so I’m officially a one-hit wonder on the Official Charts."
Watch Lewis' hilarious video message in full, where he thanks his parents - well, sort-of...
The Scottish singer-songwriter made his Official Chart debut last November with Grace, which reaches a new peak at Number 24 in this week’s Top 40. His debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, is out on May 17.
After a close battle all week, Calvin Harris & Rag’n’Bone Man’s Giant settles for second places, finishing 1,900 combined sales behind Lewis, while last week’s Number 1 7 Rings by Ariana Grande slips to 4.
Pink claims this week’s highest new entry with Walk Me Home at Number 8, earning the star her 20th UK Top 10 single, while Tom Walker zooms nine spots to Number 10 with Just You & I following his British Breakthrough win at this year’s BRIT Awards.
MORE: Pink's biggest singles and albums on the Official Chart revealed
Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper’s Shallow rebounds ten places to 11 after winning Best Song at last week’s Oscars, and there are Top 20 breakthroughs for Blueface’s Thotiana, up seven to 15, and Lauv & Troye Sivan’s I’m So Tired, up five to 17.
Further down, Kehlani’s Nights Like This ft. Ty Dolla $ign returns to the Top 40 at 33 following the release of her While We Wait mixtape, and two songs performed at last week’s BRITs return to the Top 40: Jess Glynne’s Thursday leaps six places to 35, and Calvin Harris & Sam Smith’s Promises climbs 13 spots to 37.
Finally, London rapper Dave bows at 40 with his new single Black.
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nicosnectarinegirl
congrats to him on earning his first #1 though don't count on remaining #1
Christian Jahn
Great news that Lewis Capaldi has reached his first no.1. I did not think that it would be possible today that such good quality music, like this pop ballad, would score a number one single nowadays. Congratulations to Lewis Capaldi for that. He deserved it.
Piran
Very happy for Lewis Capaldi. Big congratulations lad! :D
'Someone You Loved' has grown on me a lot since I first heard it & I'm looking forward to what he's got for us next.
Elsewhere, I love P!NK's new single managing to debut in the Top 10!
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Nu No
Pink new single is #01 on the sales charts climbing from #10 last week. At streaming it's a new entry at #31. As Lewis Capaldi it's #03 on the sales charts Pink song probably made more (in value £) this week being at #08 than the #01 song of the combined chart.
I don't have Pink correct numbers but Lewis Capaldi had 6 million audio streams + 18k sold tracks. That's about 6k£ from streaming (at most) and about 18k£ from sold tracks (so around 24k£ in total).
The number #02 song certainly did more than the #01 as it's only 1.9k chart points behind and they had 4.8 million streams. So the song sold around 24.1k downloads making a total of around gross 29k£
I can only estimate Pink streams at 2.5M (at best) and selling from 25k to 35k. If that's the case she made at least more 4k£ to 14k£ than the #01 song on the combined chart this week. Not sure if it made more than "Giants" but it dind't made more was pretty close as in the worst scenario it made at least 28k£ or it could be as high as 38k£
Does anyone have Pink's song sales for this week?
Rob Parkinson
The artist may make a few quid on initial downloads but they'll be making money from streaming for a long time, if they get a xmas hit that's charts each year theyll be sorted for life
Piran
How much are you suggesting artists get paid for streaming then? I don't know the exact value, but I know it's extremely little compared to sales.
Also, remember that radio contributes to an artist's revenue, but not their UK chart performance.
Foxes
The amount an artist gets paid per stream varies greatly by service. Napster reportedly has the highest payout, with $0.019 per stream (53 streams per $1), while YouTube has the lowest payout, with $0.00069 per stream (1,449 streams per $1). Apple Music pays $0.00735 per stream (136 streams per $1), while Spotify pays $0.00437 per stream (229 streams per $1). Source: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/12/25/streaming-music-services-pay-2019/
Using Spotify's figure as an average, 'Someone You Loved' earned ~$26,220, or ~£19,781, from streams, plus the ~£10,560 from 10,667 sales at £0.99 leaves it with £30,341, disregarding radio. If 'Walk Me Home' was streamed 1.2m times and sold 24k (which would leave it with ~32k total sales, which seems reasonable for #8), then it earned ~£27,761, so ~£2,580 less than 'Someone You Loved'. If 'Giant' had the same streaming ratio as 'Someone You Loved' did this week of ~128:1, then it got ~18,174 sales, and would've ended up with ~£33,823, ~£6,062 more than 'Walk Me Home' and ~£3,482 more than 'Someone You Loved'. However, 'Giant' was on sale on iTunes for £0.59 this week, so using an average sales figure of £0.69 its total comes out to ~£28,371, ~£1,970 less than 'Someone You Loved' and ~£610 more than 'Walk Me Home'. For comparison '7 rings' on its 1st week would've earned ~£70,674.
TL;DR - 'Someone You Loved' earned ~£30,341, 'Giant' earned ~£28,371 and 'Walk Me Home' earned ~£27,761, disregarding radio. For comparison, '7 rings' on its 1st week would've earned ~£70,674.