Official Singles Chart on 17/2/2017

Me! :P

hey where's our mate calum?

He was on earlier, but I expect that he'll be back later. :)
So have you heard that new Ed Sheeran single yet?

Not sure, but he might be back later. :)
Have you heard Ed's new single then & if so, what do you think of it?

you mean 'shape of you'? well i'm listening to it right now and it's ok :D. was that one of the 2 singles that debuted in the top 10 not too far back?

I was actually referring to 'How Would You Feel [Paean]', which is currently #1 on iTunes over here. I like the original a lot, but I actually prefer the live version even better! :)
'Shape Of You' was the song that debuted at #1 in both the UK & the US recently. I would probably give that a 7/10, but I prefer 'Castle On The Hill' much more.

oh ok i'll check out that other song in a bit, got the green day 'american idiot' album on right now. an all time fave album of mine :)

so, what's the programme awards? piers morgan's twitter has all kinds of tweets from people that didn't want him there :D do you know anything about that?

Yeah, that's my favourite Green Day album too! :)
Not really into the Programme Awards to be honest, so I actually haven't heard anything about that story.

well, i did check out that ed song you recommended, too simply acoustic for me :D when's his album coming out again? and what exactly is the programme awards? looks like piers morgan was the host and on his twitter he said that he voluntarily withdrew his name.

'÷' is going to be released on the 3rd of next month. That means we should see Ed on the BB200 in three weeks from now! ;)

dang...remember the run his last album had on the 200 chart? i never realized he was in the top 10 almost a full year :D. think the next album will have a similar response?

I think his next album might get more time at #1 on the BB200, but I honestly don't see it lasting an entire year in the Top 10. I think it will break records in the UK though! ;)

hmmm...i wonder what records it could break here? well eminem would hold the 1st week sales record for a male artist (1.8mill. in 1 wk with the marshall mathers lp in 2000....very electrifying month! britney had debuted @ #1 with her 2nd album and sold the 1.3mill. that previous week. and nsync was still on a roll ;)) and then of course adele's sales week :D well, maybe ed might get the highest first week sales for a uk male solo act?

It could set some streaming record for a British artist. What would be the current record for highest first week sales from a British male solo act though? :)

for a uk solo male act...i don't know. did sam smith have a big 1st week sales tally? well, it'll look like ed has a sure shot of achieving a feat like that.

You like Green Day! Great!

right i do! the american idiot album is still an all time fave of mine :)

Glad I'm not the only one who hates 'Call On Me', I think the only reason it is so high in the charts is because of the chorus. That's it, the verses are boring... I haven't actually heard the remix, could you give me the link?

the remix is the one in the charts, not the original. ;)

you've never heard fake love?? wow, its been out months! its really boring now though so I wouldn't recommend it. and how can you still say One Dance is okay? its literally the MOST BORING SONG ON THE PLANET except maybe chandelier and cheap thrills (all sias songs get so horribly boring for me). it seems like most of the dance is in the kinda sucky or awful sections. don't you like edm / dance music? for me it was the best genre in 2016. :)

Fake Love's never played on radio in my area and I can't be arsed to search for it on YouTube, wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't on there.
One Dance has a good dance beat, it's just the vocals and no.1 duration that f**ked that song up
I did like dance until 2016, most dance music was trash that year. I'd rather listen to Muse or Green Day any day than this generic Neiked or Chainsmokers trash (though I do like Closer)

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-VsisgVkHw
To me it sounds like a pack of monkeys having a stroke, IDK about you

They used to play the original in the charts though, but they barely sound different

Hey Synthesiza! I hope you're having a good weekend. :)
I'll do the same as usual. Also, I'm going to give this week's Top 40 a score, so for each song: Great = 5 points, Good = 4 points, Decent = 3 points, Meh = 2 points, Bad = 1 point & Awful = 0 points.
Great: #3, #31
Good: #2, #5, #7, #8, #12, #14, #19, #20, #26, #29, #35, #36, #39
Decent: #1, #4, #6, #9, #10, #11, #15, #18, #21, #22, #24, #28, #37
Meh: #16, #17, #23, #25, #27, #34, #38
Bad: #30, #33, #40
Awful: #13, #32
SCORE: 118/200 or 59%; not bad at all, but nothing spectacular either.

hey girl! gonna come over to the hot 100 party on tues? ;) it's usually lots of fun where everyone chats about anything they want :).

Don't like Anne Marie's new song then?

Not at the moment; it's rather annoying & the vocals aren't good either in my opinion. :/

Reckon I'll be agreeing with you when it spams the radio

You don't like Anne-Marie that much anyway, right?

No, hate her, also, just realized this but it's a cop out she hit the top 40 this week but Imagine Dragons couldn't last week

wait do u listen to local radio? I usually listen to capital fm and they don't play it on that anyway but I listen to the charts and hear it there and I mostly listen to Spotify anyway.
Fair enough, we all have opinions, but some of my fave songs of last year, like All My Friends, Say You Do, Perfect Strangers, Nothing Like This, No Money, Sexual, etc were dance music. :)

I do listen to radio, Capital very much included
All My Friends is not dance, but having said that, I like Say You Do (I feel I'm the only one though), Perfect Strangers and Nothing Like This.

well, snakehips are djs so theoretically all my friends is dance, even if its not generic dance. and I'm glad you like those songs, they were some of my faves of the first half of last year!

I like a lot of songs with Anne-Marie as a featured artist, but not many with her as a lead artist.
Imagine Dragons are decent for me, so I also wanted 'Believer' to reach the Top 40 too.

Ah, so you don't like Alarm then?

DJs does not automatically mean an artist is dance. In fact, there are even some rock DJs. Ever heard of Linkin Park? They're rock and one of the members is a turntablist, therefore he is a DJ, therefore he is a rock DJ.

I think some people do qualify Snakehips as dance but really, they're just R&b producers/Djs.

I'd give 'Alarm' a 5/10 to be honest. What did you think of that song?

Terrible. Not as bad as Do It Right or something like that bt still bad

I can remember you really didn't like 'Rockabye' either. What about 'Rumour Mill' or 'Boy' if you've heard either of them?

Rumour Mill is cancer. The only bad Rudimental song I've ever heard, never heard Boy though

I doubt you'll like 'Boy' if you don't like all of the other Anne-Marie songs. 'Waiting All Night' still remains as my favourite Rudimental song though! :)

Feel The Love is better than Waiting all Night because JOHN NEWMAN FTW!!!

But WAN (Wide Area Network?:p) is still good.

Also, remember that song she did with Wretch 32? Better than most but still a bit rubbish

Yeah, I liked 'Feel The Love' as well & speaking of John Newman, I liked 'Love Me Again' even more! I hope he's back on the charts again soon. :)

That was 'Alright With Me' if I remember correctly & it wasn't bad. I think she might have had a Top 10 hit in Australia with 'Catch 22' & I thought that was decent! :)

Yes, Love Me Again is like my all time favourite

I know you like Olly Murs a lot too. Did you get his latest album? :)

Yeah still fairly good but In Case You Didn't Know and Right Place Right Time were better

Yeah, I preferred both of those albums too, but 'Never Been Better' remains my favourite album of his. As for favourite songs, I would say: 'Oh My Goodness', 'Army Of Two', 'Beautiful To Me', 'Dear Darlin' & 'Hand On Heart'. :)

Beautiful To Me is mediocre IMO but I like the rest. I never bothered with the Never Been Better album as I have most of those singles from compilations and stuff

Those first two songs are so underrated

Yeah, I still can't believe that neither made the Top 10! :/
Have you been to any of his concerts before then?

Never been to a live performance in my life as 1) I don't really have an interest in that stuff and 2) in my family, we all have COMPLETELY different tastes to each other

Fair enough. What music do the rest of your family like then? :)

Well, my dad likes old hard rock, my mum likes modern rock + metal, my middle brother likes anything dance (but he is starting to like more) and to be fair, I'm kind of like my brother, except less dance and more diverse and my little brother likes whatever we try to get him into.
Still, I wouldn't want to see a dance act live, I ain't paying money to see mime jobs.

Yeah, your brother's taste in music sounds similar to mine.
I agree that I'd rather see an actual singer than a DJ live.
So have you heard the new song from The Chainsmokers & Coldplay? If so, what do you think of it? I love it! :)

I heard it on the Brit's and it's okay. Pretty good for a Chainsmokers song, but pretty bad for a Coldplay song. Bit irritated it's Chainsmokers FT. Coldplay, bet they only did it that way just because it would be more popular that way. I will say the song is certainly a styles clash

ANYWAY this may be off topic but have you heard Linkin Park's new song 'Heavy' yet? What do you think?

I thought it was credited as The Chainsmokers AND Coldplay, but yeah, if it had been Coldplay & The Chainsmokers, then I agree that it might not have been as big as it is.
The drop reminds me a lot of 'Roses' & the lyrics seem really good too. If streaming support is good enough for it, then I could see 'Something Just Like This' debuting at #1 next Friday! :)

I have heard it & I actually like it more than I thought I would, despite it getting a lot of hate from both critics & fans. It was an unusual choice for production, but the vocals are decent enough. I think Linkin Park were trying to be experimental with their music & try something completely different. It's good to see that they're at least exploring new ideas though, but I (along with many others) would go back to their 00s music.

It's not terrible for a pop song but it has nothing to it and is incredibly generic

True they just resampled the Roses drop as it sounds like. At least they didn't make it boring AF this time

It'd be cool for Coldplay to get a third #1

Yeah, I'd love to see Coldplay back at #1 too!
So are you going to be doing 'ups & downs' for this week? :)

What do you think of Linkin Park in general then?

Well this is much better than 'Roses' in my opinion. So who was your favourite performer at the BRITs?

IDK didn't watch them all, Ed Sheeran was good until Stormzy rained on my parade, I suppose

Okay, but overrated. They have a few good songs (In The End, What I've Done, One Step Closer) but also some really bad songs like most of the other Minutes to Midnight singles. Constantly finding myself sing 'Crawling' though ATM, IDK why :P

Yep, they are up now!

Awesome! I saw that you did ratings of each song too, so I'll check out your post now & let you know what I think. :)

Good review as always Calum! :)
Anyway, I'm more excited for next week too, but unfortunately, I don't know if 'Castle On The Hill' will be climbing back up to #2 again due to it's sales losses.
It should be cool to see: 'How Would You Feel (Paean)', 'Giants' & 'It Ain't Me' debut in the Top 40 next week. I have mixed thoughts on 'Love Incredible' & 'Cold' for now. Also, do you think the new song from Linkin Park & Kiiara can reach the Top 40 next week?
Once again, I really enjoyed reading your opinion on the charts this week & I look forward to your next review.

haven't heard it yet- is it good?

I just gave it my first listen; it's decent, but nothing spectacular. It got a surprisingly large amount of hate in the YouTube comments to the official video though.
Anyway, I'm signing off for a bit mate, but chat to you later or tomorrow! :D

wow!!! that's some top 10 review!! there's still some uk acts i'm unfamiliar with though...you should do a top 10 review on the hot 100 article? ;) lots of the fans do that each week :)

cool- maybe I will! ;) its good bad things is doing so well over there- do u consider #4 a big hit yet? :P lol

ok bye! I'm gonna do my chart soon- I think ill put it up tomorrow!

hey mate! i just came back from crownnote and left a comment for both you and tom :)

oh that's right LOL! you and i were chatting about 'bad things'. :D well, it's done pretty good, when we were last chatting about it, didn't it fall out of the top 10 after 1 week? but it also looks like camilla will be on the cover of the next bb mag. but yes, i do consider it having a good top 10 run so far.

she has a new song with cashmere cat- have u heard it yet? I think its amazing!!

oh no i haven't heard it yet...you gotta come for the hot 100 party :D i'm sure she'll still be in the top 10 next week. ok mate, i gotta get going, i'll talk to you later :P

its called love incredible- it came out today. u should check it out! btw- u haven't given ur opinion on bad things to me ever. do u like it?

bye :)

Oh yeah, I heard about that new Linkin Park song - ain't Kiarra that woman who had that weird 'Gold' song?

That's right! Yeah, 'Gold' got a lot of hate from critics & I'd probably only give it a 3/10.

well, i'm listening to it right now...not too bad, her vocals sound pretty good. i can't say that i'm in love with the song or anything :D but i mostly listen to throwbacks, not too much into current music these days.

I'm so angry!! love incredible is falling really fast on iTunes- its now 68!! AARRGGHH!! it went from 36-59 overnight, then down to 68 in the last couple of hours! I'm really mad as now it may not make even the top 100 unless it has a revival or finally gets some radio promotion. I really hope it does sooner rather than later!

Sorry to hear about that! Unfortunately, it's doing bad on streaming & Capital FM is the only major station where I see 'Love Incredible' getting any significant radio support.
That said, not many people in the UK know who Cashmere Cat is & Camila is only a featured artist here. If 'Trust Nobody' wasn't big in our country, then 'Love Incredible' sadly probably won't be either.
There's also no sign of 'Digital Love', so I doubt that'll be making the Top 100 anytime soon either. :(

wait love incredible is getting played on capital? I didn't know that!

just checked and its not on the playlist

Not at the moment, but what I meant is that it's possible that 'Love Incredible' could be played on Capital FM eventually. I'll check to see if any other stations have it on their playlist. :)

It's only been two days since release, so it might be added soon.
Speaking of radio, 'Castle On The Hill' went back to #1 on airplay this week & 'Chained To The Rhythm' debuted in the Top 5. ;)

how do you see the airplay chart? didn't know u could

Google 'UK Airplay Chart' & you should be able to see it. You can even check what is being played in your local area. ;)
OCC won't include radio data though as only sales & streaming count towards the charts.

decent! ill be sure to keep an eye on that!

Cool! Are you listening to the Vodafone Big Top 40 at the moment? :)

yep ;) I already pretty much know the top 10 but whatever ill listen anyway. :)

Do you ever go on Kworb's website then? That tells you which songs are gaining or losing sales & how much of a lead the #1 song on iTunes has. ;)

no actually ill check it out now!

You can check international iTunes chart there too! :)
Oh Big Top 40 are playing 'Ciao Adios' now & it's actually growing on me very slightly.

:D yeah I really like it :) I checked out kworb but don't really get it. does green mean increase in sales and red loss? and do the numbers mean percentage of sales in proportion to no1?

Yeah, all of what you said there is right! :D
Do you ever check out the UK Albums Chart too?

well only the top regions, as lower down is usually full of old albums or artists ive never heard of. even the top 5 usually has non-famous artists in in (well I don't know them anyway). its also interesting to see on the Spotify section the peak the songs had, and seeing the most popular youtube music videos. its a good website thanks for showing me it!

You're welcome buddy! :)
So apparently Camila Cabello is possibly collaborating with Pitbull... now that would be an awesome collaboration! What are your thoughts on that?

yeah wow! erm well it would be different- but in a good way I'm sure! :) looking forward to it! maybe that's the long-awaited debut solo single!

how often does the kworb iTunes update? every 6 hours or so? cos it still says 12:18!

I'm definitely excited too! Pitbull is probably one of my favourite rappers of the decade so far. ;)

They should usually update every 2-3 hours. :)

cool

Hey Calum, just a quick update...
So 'How Would You Feel' currently has a slight lead (about 10%) on sales over 'Shape Of You'. However, on Spotify, 'Shape Of You' is at #1 with 730,085 daily streams, but 'How Would You Feel' has had 290,080 & falling.
With all of that said, I think 'Shape Of You' will keep the #1 on Friday & 'How Would You Feel' will definitely debut in at least the Top 10 & maybe even the Top 5. ;)

yeah I saw it just updated! I think shape of you will overtake how would you feel eventually as its lead is definitely lessening. I'm sure how would you feel will have a revival on Spotify in the next few days, and will make top 5 on Friday, probably top 3 unless its sales continue to fall. :)

Do you think that we could see Ed do what only JB has done & occupy the entire Top 3 spots on the Official Charts when his album is released?
I remember one Big Top 40 show where Ed Sheeran had six songs in the Top 10 in the week that he released 'x'! :O

really? I don't remember that! which songs? lemme guess: sing, thinking out loud, don't, bloodstream, photograph, what else?

yeah, he can! its possible he can even this Friday, so when divide comes out he certainly can!

Oops... I got that wrong! On the 22/06/2014 dated Big Top 40, he actually had 6 songs across the entire Top 40, but four in the Top 10. Here are where the Ed Sheeran singles charted that week...
#1: Sing
#5: Photograph
#6: Thinking Out Loud
#10: The Man
#16: Don't
#35: Afire Love
Still really incredible, right? ;)

Ed should have three in the Top 5, but I think 'Human' might be able to stay in the Top 3 for one more week though.

the man got #10?? wow, I didn't know it ever got in the charts! this is really weird right, but in late 2014 ed had I think 7 songs in my top 20, 2 of those being the man and afire love, both of which re-entered in early 2016 and are my fave two from X right now, probably. but all this time I thought they shouldn't have been let in and that my rule was breached!! I had no idea whatsoever that they actually reached the charts!! :) XD the man hit 6 for me in 2015 aswell! wow that's a good shock!

i didn't listen to big top 40 then so i wouldn't have known. but yeah thast good!

I'll need to check where they appeared on Official Charts later, but they certainly did well on the Big Top 40! :)
Well when Taylor released '1989', she had six songs inside of my Top 40: 'Shake It Off', 'Blank Space', 'Bad Blood', 'Welcome To New York', 'All You Had To Do Was Stay' & 'How You Get The Girl'.

I might've already asked you this before, but do you think Ed's new album will have higher first week sales than 'x' did? :)

just checked his official chart history and pretty much all of X hit the top 100! and it seems afire love and the man were singles as they have their own covers! wow- i did not know this!!

not sure as X was in the top 5 albums it seemed forever, but with the success of the first 3 singles, probably!

I didn't know that either! :O
I think every song from 'Purpose' made the Top 100 too. 'Starboy' & 'Lemonade' might've had every track from them chart too.

Yeah, I can imagine the album will get a lot of streams too! I have a feeling that every song from '÷' could make the Top 100. ;)

lemonade mustve been massive if it did that as it wasn't even on Spotify!

is ur chart up yet?

Yeah, it's been posted now! ;)

I'll have to check the archives & let you know what I find later. Remember that was the week that Prince died, but I think he had something like six re-entries as his music wasn't made available to stream.
So are you going to be checking out the Official Chart Update later then? :)

cool ill check it out ;)

Awesome! When are you next going to update your charts then? :D

ive left a comment on crownnote! great chart! I might update mine later or tomorrow and ill check the update now if its there

Thanks for the reply to me there & I responded back to you! :)
Well it looks like I'm going to win our bet about 'Love Incredible', as it looks that won't be reaching the Top 40 on Friday. At least it's charting in the Top 100 though, so I hope you're still happy with that.

arsenal beat Sutton ;( ;(

Well Sutton did well to reach the fifth round of the FA Cup though & especially if they got to play a team as good as Arsenal! Sadly, Liverpool only made it to the fourth round. :/

;) ;) qpr lost in the 3rd round ;(

They're your favourite team, right? :)

yeah. Liverpool are second as my mum supports them ;) u support liverpool don't u

That's right! :)
Oh I like that football article on your profile page. Did you write that?

oh wondergoal media? yep, that's my blog! I haven't done it in a while but ive got about 7 posts I think! I'm glad u like it!

That's the one! ;)
So have you updated your Crown Note Charts yet?

not yet but ill do it soon :)

I left a reply on crownnote btw :)

Oh yeah, I saw your response & I'll reply to it soon.
Thanks for the comment mate! :D

I left another couple of comments on crownnote ;)

Awesome! Are you going to be here on Friday for the next Official Charts then? ;)

what time is the hot 100 up? whatever time it is, ill try and be there about 9 :)

ill do a review of maybe the top 10 or 20 ;) =)

of course! my top 40 will be up hopefully later and ill check out the hot 100 and maybe do a review about 9! :)

That's awesome! :)
I'll be on the Hot 100 article too, but signing off at about that time. If not tonight, then I'll definitely try to see it tomorrow.

hey mate, well piran and i are racing each other to be the 1st comment as i'm typing this ;) it should come up sometime today is all i can tell you ;)

looks like we're getting some new top 10 entries this week ;). back when nsync, destiny's child, britney and all them would be in the top 10 you would still normally debut in the bottom part of the chart. streaming certainly gives tons more advantages ;)

cool ill be there later!

usually the hot 100 article posts up every monday, but yesterday was president's day, a federal holiday here. back in the day, the top 10 article would be up on weds and then the full charts would be up on thursdays ;)

Piran Liverpool haven't had a good first half have they? ur losing pretty badly! ;) and btw have u done ur chart I'm sorry I'm so behind on mine (I haven't put the last 2 on crownnote) but I will defo do one tomorrow and one Thursday, that's the plan. I have done them but haven't found the time o put them online

Hey Calum! Yeah, Liverpool are losing 2-0 right now. :(
I was watching the rugby this weekend though in London (hence why I've not been on recently). It was great that England beat Italy 36-15 in the end. Are you a fan of that sport? :)
Well I certainly look forward to checking both Crown Note Charts from you. I updated mine earlier today if you haven't seen it already! ;)