Official Singles Chart Update on 6/3/2017

Yes, no way for the OCC to hide the fact the singles chart was hijacked by album sales. The idea any artist is allowed to have 16 or more songs in the singles chart - utterly ridiculous. The OCC can delete this post but I believe the boss of the OCC should resign.

This is the lowest point in chart history. This is so wrong on so many levels. The only hope we have is the OCC take decisive action and change the chart rules. Disqualify all album tracks from the singles chart. But the fact they allowed album tracks in the first place - we had Justin Bieber filling up the top 100 with EIGHT album tracks in 2016, three of them at numbers 1, 2 and 3! - shows they were not interested or able to make the chart fair. What we're about to witness on Friday could have been avoided had the OCC and the record labels been proactive and changed the rules. They didn't do anything and this is the result.

This is just ridiculous, 9/10 singles in the top 10 is Ed Sheeran. And this is called The OFFICIAL UK Top 100....This chart has REALLY lost it´s meaning! Why don´t they call the Sales Chart the Official Chart. I have been following these UK charts for like over 30 years and now this chart is just a joke. Think about The Top Of The Pops, if it was still on the tele, the newest TOTP would be like Ed Sheehan concert. No sense anymore...

I really don't get why everyone is getting so salty. Ed Sheeran sold more songs than some (all but about 5) singles so completely deserve to be in the top 100, if people didn't want them in there they wouldn't have bought the song. Who cares if it's not a single, and yes I know it's a 'singles' chart but something like this will not happen regularly, possibly if Beyoncé or Adele release a new album. But I can't see this happening until they do. It's as simple as if you don't want the song in the charts don't stream/buy it!

wowowwowowowowowowowow :0 all I need to say. I cant say I'm particularly disappointed, but a bit shocked. I expected maybe 5 ed songs in the top 10, but 9??? I do like divide, but I hope they don't all stay that high for too long as then upcoming releases may not chart as high as they shouldve. I just heard about clean bandit's upcoming release with Zara Larsson which I'm excited for, and I also think I read somewhere that Hey Ma by Pitbull, Camila Cabello and J Balvin might be coming out this friday!!! I'm super excited for that :) the song features on the next Fast and Furious film, so I hope that drives it to large success (hopefully as much as see you again?). I'm excited to see how much this changes by Friday! ;) :D

If this keeps up we'll only have about 4-5 #1s this year :(

this cannot be right. how do the streaming services differentiate between playing an album and playing a track? if i listen to say 7 of the 'divide' tracks one day but then don't listen to the rest until a few days later, do they all count as individual plays?

this chart is hugely distorted by an inability to properly differentiate between playing an album and playing individual tracks.

And yet the solution to this craziness is so easy. Just allow any track to chart before the album is released, whether it's an official single, promotional single or an instant grat song (and any subsequent official singles obviously). This way you can a have a fair system and if anyone releases 10 promotional songs, so be it. They are on their own and can fight with the rest. An album track is not on its own, it is only carried by the album.
It's interesting that by trying to stay hip and relevant, the OCC have created an abomination which will completely strip them of any remaining professional credibility. Well, I guess serves them right.

This is fascinating but bonkers! A 'singles' chart like this has never been seen before. Not even when Michael Jackson died.

I acknowledge that this 'Ed Effect' is being caused mainly by sales of the individual tracks rather than streaming - but something has to be done to keep this as reasonably fast-moving singles chart. I agree that streams per user that are counted towards the chart should be limited. IMO to around 20 in total per track.

Perhaps if an album track has not been released as a single then it should count pro-rata towards the albums chart? Then we need to define what is a single?

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ED SHEERAN CANT SING. ALL HIS SONGS ARE , ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. IT JUST SHOWS THAT THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE COMPLETELLY TONE DEAF

Are the jocking with us??is this a UK official chart??This looks like an ED Official Chart

Ed Sheeran is reasonably popular.

After seein this top 10, u shud definitely stop allowin album tracks 2 b included in the singles chart

This needs to end NOW....

Ed Sheeran aside, is Solo Dance seriously set to climb? Who even LISTENS to that?

Almost 1/4 of the singles chart consists of album tracks ATM (Ed + Stormzy). If the chart was actually named songs or tracks chart, I would have zero problems with it. But calling album tracks singles is beyond silly, it's totally ludicrous. I have my beef with streaming but this way of distorting chart data is unprecedented. Either change the name of the chart or change the rules regarding album tracks. Double counting (for both albums and singles chart) is not fair and only shows, how chart compilers were not ready to face the challenge of adding streaming to their tabulation. Because of this all sorts of old records will be 'broken' creating an illusion of a major achievement. However, if they change it now, Ed will be an anomaly (together with Stormzy), if they don't change it, the future 'singles' charts could consist of 3-5 major albums's tracks. I'm afraid yet another professional blunder from the compilers.

This is a complete disaster! Ed Sheeran is good but what about all the other artists such as Train and Coldplay?

Rules must be chainged this chart is not fair . I mean ok Ed is very popular and great singer but come on he is not the only one to rule the chart.

This is just highlighting the issue with Streaming in the charts. Album tracks are ablum tracks, and should remain that way. I get that the next issue I'm about to highlight doesn't affect this week, but streams per user should be a maximum of 10 in total, not per week. When you buy a song, you buy it once and listen to it over and over again, but you've only bought it once, whereas streaming, the same people keep listening to it and it stays there. That's why the charts are stagnating, as the same people keep listening to tthe same songs and keeping them at number 1. There's no way One Dance shoiuld have been at number 1 for 15 weeks, but this streaming loophole kept it here.

This is ridiculous! All the good songs about right now that haven't peaked yet (It Aint Me and Stay come to mind) are going to have terrible chart performances because of this, not to mention how dull the chart will be when it is just the whole album.

No words... NINE songs in the top 10 and 15 in the top 20. Incredible. Predicting another 6 weeks at #1 for Ed at least. Wow

Wow... this is incredible! NINE songs in the Top 10 for Ed Sheeran... :O
I loved the '÷' album a lot, so I'm really looking forward to Friday!