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Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 24/8/2018

24 August 2018 - 30 August 2018

The Official UK Top 40 chart is compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on official sales of sales of downloads, CD, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. The Top 40 is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 and MTV, the full Top 100 is published exclusively on OfficialCharts.com. View the biggest songs of 2023.

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Mikhail Kondratyev

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My favourite songs this week: Stargazing - Travis Scott; Drake - Nonstop.

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Chloe Jones

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The charts badly need some new hits. One or two big ones every couple of weeks just isn't enough

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Ted

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There were 7 new entries this week though?

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Tosyma

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Could you please post the 'printable version' of the chart? It really helps to read the positions of the singles when I'm on air. Thank you.

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Painmix King

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How much more interesting the sales chart is. No. 1-Calvin Harris, No.2 - Loud Luxury, No.5 - Jess Glynne and Aretha Franklin at 10, 19 and 21

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Dan Love

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sales chart is for people who want an interesting chart, actual chart is for people who want a realistic chart

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Painmix King

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How can you say the actual chart is realistic when there;s no rock music in there?

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Ted

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Because the majority of the general public don't listen to it, that's why

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Painmix King

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How come rock band gigs are sold out in minutes then

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Painmix King

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No the majority of the public take no notice of the charts because they don't reflect what people are listening to

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Ted

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There are a lot of rock fans, but they are just plain outnumbered by the kids and teens that stream pop, dance and rap on Spotify. That's the reality.

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Painmix King

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I agree Ted, that is my argument, and proves the Sales Chart is more accurate

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Piran

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My thoughts & observations on the UK charts as always…

- ‘Shotgun’ by George Ezra spends a fourth non-consecutive week atop the singles chart. It was the most streamed song of the week, with 7 million plays across all services. Its overall lead was just 3,000 combined sales.

- ‘Don’t Leave Me Alone’ by David Guetta ft Anne-Marie becomes the new #1 on the airplay chart.

- Despite losing 2.4% of its views from last week, with 2.88 million plays over the past seven days, ‘Girls Like You’ by Maroon 5 ft Cardi B returns to #1 on the YouTube chart.

- CALVIN HARRIS & SAM SMITH – PROMISES (#4, best selling song of the week)
Not a collaboration I expected at all! It brings one of Calvin’s more interesting production ideas over the past couple of years, with the hard piano notes & the 90s disco feel. Sam Smith’s soulful voice helps him nail the delivery too! The song is about saying you’ll make a loved one have a good night, even if you don’t have that much money. Nice work here, light 8/10.

- ARIANA GRANDE – BREATHIN’ (#8)
Many people have considered this to be the strongest unreleased track from ‘Sweetener’ & I agree! It shows off Ariana’s vocal range exceptionally well & I love the synths fuelling this to give it a late summer pop-dance vibe. The content addresses the realities of rebuilding yourself after trauma. Overall, I got into this really quickly, so solid 8/10!

- JESS GLYNNE – ALL I AM (#16)
Really good to see that Jess Glynne has gone back to the sounds that made her solo career big in the first place & here, this seems like a repeat of ‘Hold My Hand’, even the lyrics are similar! The hook might not be as explosive, but the upbeat atmosphere of this song is hard to not find fun. Lovely song & I’d be very surprised if this doesn’t become a bigger hit. 8/10 at the moment.

- ARIANA GRANDE – SWEETENER (#22)
Unfortunately, I’m a lot less into this track from Ariana! The biggest problem with ‘Sweetener’ is that the production is wildly inconsistent & I’m not the biggest fan of Pharrell’s work here sadly. I will say that Ariana still shows some charisma & energy here, but it’s a more annoying way than interesting, so for now, 5/10.

- THE 1975 – TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME (#26)
I’d heard a lot of negative buzz about this before checking out & yeah, if you’re a fan of The 1975, I could see you being disappointed by this. This is the most mainstream I’ve heard them sound yet, with less powerful vocal delivery (believe or not, Drake comparisons have been made there!), but this features mid-tempo dancehall beats & even flirts with some European Balearic music. My only real concern is that this isn’t going to sound all that memorable live, but other than that, I’m not that mad at this… 6/10.

- MARSHMELLO & BASTILLE - HAPPIER (#31)
Another very unexpected collaboration here & more proof that Bastille can surprise us! I started off the week not caring about this song hardly at all, but now I stream at least a couple of times every day. The band themselves have shifted into pulsating euphoria, even if you only really get to hear Dan Smith more than the rest of the group as a whole. Marshmello brings yet another hook that won't leave your mind for a while, even if the drop did disappoint me a little. For that reason, strong 7/10.

- DYNORO & GIGI D’AGOSTINO – IN MY MIND (#36)
This has already been a massive hit in Europe already & given that I’m a huge EDM fan, I’m really pleased to see this cross over to the UK charts! The eerie yet bouncy production is certainly to make this popular in clubs, even if the first half & second half of the song are almost identical & the lyrics are a bit repetitive. Overall, definitely addictive & I could see this growing on many, so a solid 7/10 seems fair to me.

- On the albums chart, Ariana Grande gets her second #1 with ‘Sweetener’, which also gives her strongest opening week so far, with 45,000 combined sales.

- The rest of the Top 5 is: ‘Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again’ (1-2), ‘The Greatest Showman’ (2-3), ‘Staying At Tamara’s’ by George Ezra (stationary at #4) & ‘Scorpion’ by Drake (3-5).

- Looking ahead to next week, these songs could enter the Top 40 for the first time: ‘Idol’ & maybe a couple other songs by BTS, ‘Goodbye’ by Jason Derulo & David Guetta ft Nicki Minaj & William, ‘Lost Without You’ by Freya Ridings, ‘Beautiful’ by Bazzi ft Camila Cabello, & maybe even more.

- Finally, it was disappointing to see no Aretha Franklin inside the Top 40 today. That said, I know many older & even some younger chart-watchers on this forum, including myself, have been celebrating her life & music this week. May she rest in peace.

- Thanks for reading everyone! I hope you all have a good weekend. :)

- My latest Crown Note chart: www.crownnote.com/charts/piran-delves/pirans-top-40-90

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Ireneusz Chmielewski

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Referring to Aretha Franklin's death, we can at least enjoy the fact that her great hit from 1967 "A Natural Woman" entered the UK Top 100 chart for the first time today...

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Ted

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Hey Piran! This week has definitely made up for how boring the Top 40 has been for most of the summer. Besides Sweetener (which genuinely sounds like a Bop It toy!), I do quite like the other 6 entries in the chart if I'm being perfectly honest- Happier, Promises, TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME, and breathin are all 8/10 or above for me, and All I Am + In My Mind would be a 7.

Happier in particular has especially surprised me, it's easily my favourite out of all of Marshmello's hits at the moment, and there's more of a Bastille flair on the track than I thought there would be. I'm also really hoping breathin will be Ariana's next song that gets pushed, it was given high placement on the New Music Friday playlist on Sweetener's week of release which has helped it, but we'll see how long it takes God Is A Woman to go down.

Looking ahead to next week, I'm certain that Promises will be #1, which would be a pretty good end to this summer, with it being a bit more down-beat than One Kiss. It's got strong downloads, isn't far behind In My Feelings on streams, and Shotgun had fallen to #5 on Spotify and iTunes the last time I checked, so Calvin should be in the clear for his tenth UK #1 single!

Personally I've enjoyed this summer's #1's much more than the ones we had last year for sure. Despacito was really overplayed, in fact I never thought it was a good song to begin with- and I thought all the other chart toppers weren't that all that good either, besides maybe New Rules. Both Shotgun and In My Feelings have had a nice 4 weeks at the top, and One Kiss would definitely be my choice for song of the summer, despite having been released earlier in the year.

I do think it's a shame that none of Aretha Franklin's music managed to crack the Top 40, the new ACR rules definitely killed any chance of them doing so- but even if they didn't exist, I think they would've had a hard time doing so anyway with how busy this week has been on the chart.

Finally I'm still pretty mad that Lucid Dreams still hasn't gone Top 10 yet, I know you're not much of a fan of it but this is annoying me just as much as when Meant It Be was stuck at #11 :/ It's especially frustrating when you consider the song has actually doing better than Taste on every platform besides Apple Music this week, where it is currently just one position above it! Unless there's a massive divide between the two on there, something can't be right here.

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Foxes

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Regarding your comment on 'Taste' and 'Lucid Dreams', 'Taste' is #7 while 'Lucid Dreams' is #8 on Apple Music, though there could have been a much larger gap between them earlier in the week. For the weekly chart on Spotify, 'Lucid Dreams' is #7 with 2.3m streams, while 'Taste' is #12 with 1.96m streams. I assume that 'Taste' had to have done better on Apple Music earlier in the week, and that the gap between them was extremely small. It's also possible that 'Taste' got a much higher percentage of its streams from paying subscribers, giving it a better average streams:sales ratio than 'Lucid Dreams'. I agree, though, it is very frustrating to see 'Lucid Dreams' being so close to the Top 10 but not quite making it (yet).

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Foxes

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Hey Piran! It's good to see 'Shotgun' at #1 again, but I'm pretty sure that its run will come to an end next week as 'Promises' looks all but guaranteed to hit #1. It's not looking like it'll be as big of a hit as 'One Kiss', but that could definitely change! I do quite like 'Promises', but I would have to say that I slightly prefer 'One Kiss'.

I like the vast majority of the other new entries as well, though like you I'm not really a massive fan of 'sweetener'. I do, however, absolutely love that 'God is a woman' and 'breathin' are in the Top 10! Those are definitely my two favourite tracks from 'Sweetener', with 'everytime' in a close 3rd and 'no tears left to cry' in a close 4th.

I like that 'Sweetener' hit #1, but I don't know if it'll stay there for next week. Streaming has died off for all tracks other than 'God is a woman' and 'breathin', and the album is only #7 on iTunes (#4 if we don't include albums that aren't eligible for the main albums chart). I think the #1 spot will go back to a soundtrack next week, though I couldn't predict which one.

Also very worth noting this week is that '÷' drops out of the Top 10 after spending 76 consecutive weeks in the region, beating the previous record for an artist album of 74 weeks held by Ed's own 'x'. Whether it can beat the non-consecutive record of 99 weeks, also held by 'x', will be very interesting to see.

I really like that 'Beautiful' and 'Be Alright' are edging their way closer to the Top 40, and since both of them reached new peaks on Spotify yesterday I can see them both making the Top 40 in the coming weeks! Sadly 'Be Alright' isn't even in the Top 100 on iTunes, but it is at #51 on Spotify, and since streams are much more important than sales nowadays it's definitely in with a shot. 'Beautiful' is at #57 on Spotify and #58 on iTunes, so that's in with a shot as well! Sadly both are being let down by Apple Music, though, where 'Be Alright' is #94 and 'Beautiful' is #109.

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Piran

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Hey Gameskiller! :)
Yeah, I'm amazed how well 'Shotgun' has held up over the summer, but this should be its last week at #1 as not only will 'Promises' get it like you said (almost twice the sales lead & now passed it in streaming), but the former is due for ACR very soon I think! For me, 'Promises' & 'One Kiss' are probably tied. The former impressed me more at first listen, but the latter is more catchy, so they're level for me in terms of quality right now.
Regarding 'Sweetener', I agree that it'll probably only get just this week at #1 as the soundtracks have gone ahead on sales again. It'll be close there, but I think 'Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again' is going to have the edge on streaming over 'The Greatest Showman'.
I guess 'Beautiful' & 'Be Alright' are benefitting from being newer songs, but are also generally consistent across streaming metrics. You don't really need to chart on iTunes nowadays to make the main chart, but you probably need to make it onto Spotify unless you have 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'-level sales!

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Piran

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Hey Ted! Yeah, I'm happy we got so many new entries into the Top 40 this week & a lot of quality it seems. A week was this was certainly needed! :D
Haha, I think I've seen somebody else make that comparison too, but it's true! The production from Pharrell seemed to let down 'Sweetener' as a whole; not only is it mediocre at best, but it just isn't tailored for Ariana's vocals very well.
I really liked the original 'Despacito', but didn't care anywhere near as much for the remix. 'One Kiss' is probably getting Song Of The Summer, however 'Shotgun' might be able to grab that title with how consistent its been on the charts over the past few weeks.
Regarding Aretha Franklin, at least 'Respect' & 'A Natural Woman' both finally debuted!
So next week, it's looking like 'Promises' will make Calvin Harris only the eighth artist ever to get a double digit number of #1s! Given how it's growing on me, it might end up as my favourite #1 of the summer. 'These Days' is probably my favourite #1 of the whole year so far (not counting 'Perfect', as that was released in 2017).
I'm very surprised 'Lucid Dreams' is getting stuck in 11th; it's not even on ACR yet & it seems consistent on iTunes & Spotify, as well as on most streaming platforms like you said.
It appears that YouTube might be causing the difference; in today's update, 'Taste' was at #7 & it appears 'Lucid Dreams' isn't even inside the Top 100.

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Piran

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Yeah, at least we have that! ;)
I only really have time to post reviews on the Top 40 though (as Top 100 ones would take me way too long, haha!).
Strange that 'Respect' is listed as a debut...

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Ted

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That's incredibly odd about Lucid Dreams on YouTube- I could've sworn it was at #4 on it earlier this week? Whereas I didn't even see Taste on the chart for it. Whatever's going on, I do hope Lucid Dreams does make the Top 10 this week!

Shotgun has been incredibly consistent, but it's already starting to drop off (currently at #5 on iTunes and #3 on Spotify, has also been lower than that recently), I'm thinking it will likely be on ACR the next chance it gets. In My Feelings could potentially take that title too though, it got massive streams those four weeks and is still the most streamed song on Spotify currently.

Perfect and These Days never really did it for me at all, so One Kiss is probably my favourite #1 of the year so far, though I did quite like God's Plan as well. If Promises is #1 next week, it will be the 13th #1 we've had this year-and at around the same point this time last year, Look What You Made Me Do was the 13th #1 of 2017. I was hoping we would be getting more songs going to #1 this year thanks to ACR, but that isn't looking to be the case!