[Thinny]

Originally Posted by jazzsta

411 people from UK streamed the album Forever over the past weekend ? seems tiny.

No that's not how it works. Very complicated....but the streams are the equivlant on 411 sales...

https://absolutelabelservices.com/uk...reamingratios/

The 2 album tracks with the most streams are neutralised to the level of the average of the next 10 most streamed tracks on the album.

The streams of the top 12 tracks (or all tracks if an album has fewer than 12 tracks) are aggregated together and converted using a ratio of 1,000 streams = 1 album sale.

[Thinny]

Originally Posted by TBoy

I dont understand what is counted here? How is then the album #1 on iTunes from the first day in UK?

Those are download sales, not streaming. So those people purchased the album for download rather than streamed it. Not many people do that these days, everybody streams, so those charts are largely irrelevant. As you can see they got to number one on downloads with less than 1.4k downloads - which shows just how few peoople actually download music these days.

[B.J. Always]

Originally Posted by Thinny

No that's not how it works. Very complicated....but the streams are the equivlant on 411 sales...

https://absolutelabelservices.com/uk...reamingratios/

The 2 album tracks with the most streams are neutralised to the level of the average of the next 10 most streamed tracks on the album.

The streams of the top 12 tracks (or all tracks if an album has fewer than 12 tracks) are aggregated together and converted using a ratio of 1,000 streams = 1 album sale.

I really do wish it were the good old days of when it was just albums sold!

Your link is in English and I know it is English yet it seemed all Greek to me. I couldn't follow it at all.

[Thinny]

Originally Posted by Thinny

UK Sales breakdown below:

1 Bon Jovi - Forever (18,587) [16,854 physicals, 1,322 downloads, 411 streaming]

2 Charli XCX - Brat (16,219)
3 Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department (7,956)
4 Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft (6,017)
5 Aurora - What Happened To The Heart? (4,045)

It really is going to be between Bon Jovi and Charli XCX - it's very close. Bon Jovi's streaming is very weak. But it looks like they are guaranteed a no. 2 at least.

Does anyone know sales figures for 2020 and THINFS for UK?

The gap is closing...

Charli is only 1300 behind now...she released a deluxe edition yesterday which would have helped her too.

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...k-chart-update

[liljovi93]

Originally Posted by Thinny

The gap is closing...

Charli is only 1300 behind now...she released a deluxe edition yesterday which would have helped her too.

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...k-chart-update

Not looking good. Hopefully she has that influx of sales and that's it for the next few days.

Can't see them holding on for number 1.

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[Litneg]

Originally Posted by liljovi93

Not looking good. Hopefully she has that influx of sales and that's it for the next few days.

Can't see them holding on for number 1.

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In US' iTunes it has just dropped from #1 to #2.

It's still holding #1 in these countries:
Australia
Austria
Canada
Germany
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom

[JON4EVA]

Originally Posted by Thinny

The 2 album tracks with the most streams are neutralised to the level of the average of the next 10 most streamed tracks on the album.

The streams of the top 12 tracks (or all tracks if an album has fewer than 12 tracks) are aggregated together and converted using a ratio of 1,000 streams = 1 album sale.

Yup, which means that streaming the top 2 songs (if we knew what those were - guessing LP & Legendary?) won't actually affect the total numbers. We need to give the less popular songs a boost for the best chance of improving the numbers. I'm leaving "I wrote you a song" on repeat overnight (on silent!) as it's one of the shortest so will loop through more times.

I'm sure I should have better things to worry about in my spare time...

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[Litneg]

Originally Posted by JON4EVA

Yup, which means that streaming the top 2 songs (if we knew what those were - guessing LP & Legendary?) won't actually affect the total numbers. We need to give the less popular songs a boost for the best chance of improving the numbers. I'm leaving "I wrote you a song" on repeat overnight (on silent!) as it's one of the shortest so will loop through more times.

I'm sure I should have better things to worry about in my spare time...

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Nah it's war in UK right now. Do what you can

[JON4EVA]

Originally Posted by Litneg

Nah it's war in UK right now. Do what you can

True story!

"Drop your shield and lay your sword down
Your weapons are your streaming devices"

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[jon-flp]

Forever probably will debut at #5 in the US.