Do you know what the UK no 1 song is this week?

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Why don’t people talk about chart songs any more ?

changed days now and no one really cares.
record companies and groups not the same as 70’s, 80’s or 90’s.

If you have TikTok then it’s easy to know most of the top 10 because every video seems to use the same songs then quickly switch to another.

Is it still Every Thing I Do I Do It For You? It's been number 1 for a while

🤣 I love Bryan so much.

No, I think it’s ‘Love is All Around’……

As said above it really doesn’t matter anymore. Gone are the days when it was based on singles sales meaning that it was a representation of the music that people had made the active choice to walk into a shop and buy. (Let’s just gloss over how they were rigged).
These days it’s based on plays on Spotify and the like. The problem is that one play isn’t one person requesting a song but Spotify deciding to play it.

Another thing I've learned from a MN - thank you. I had mistakenly thought the national chart had stopped years ago and had been replaced by charts for music genres. Do they play the whole top ten?

I've never heard of Alex Warren. Perhaps it's not surprising that I don't know about the charts. 🤣

I used to watch TOTP when I was young. Now I have no way to know. I wouldn't watch it now anyway. Charts are irrelevant because of the way music is distributed.

I only do because I’m a bit obsessed with Alex Warren and his backstory 😂 And my TikTok is 95% either him or his fans talking about how well the song is doing.

It's not really a thing anymore. Our kids laughed when I explained one day how we used to have the charts, measuring this endless roiling series of national microfads that everyone was into. It seemed so quaint to them.

It's just not like that today. Realistically the charts died a long time ago when the record companies worked out how to game them and you ended up with new entries at number one every week, and that ruined the key idea of the fad spreading its way around the country. But even music itself seems to barely be a thing now. It's more like background to whichever other media is capturing attention.

The sad thing is the charts were an absolutely brilliant concept! What a great way to create a national culture, for no other reason than pure fun.

Um to be fair I don’t listen too often.

They don’t play the whole Top 40 and the chart programme is less than 2 hours so considerably shorter than the Gen X heyday of around 1986 BUT I would guess the probably do play the whole Top 10, yes - from memory. I last listened around 4 weeks ago.

There's a good UK chart thread on the music forum on Digital Spy that explains how streaming affects the charts. Artists streaming numbers are forced lower after a certain number of weeks once they've been around for too long, they can also have a boost for some reason (don't fully understand it tbh).

No, I lost touch with the charts about 30 years ago. The pop music of the 21st century is rubbish.

I was confused by mention of the song Ordinary being number one because I thought, oh I can’t say I’ve heard that one. Then I googled and realised of course I’ve heard it numerous times, I’ve just never been aware of it or noted it, it’s like background music.

I listened to it-genuinely first time hearing it today. It's a decent song-shockingly!

I did actually! I looked the other day out of curiosity.

I keep an eye on it still, even at my age, but streaming killed the already ailing charts (Simon Cowell etc al started the rot).

Getting a chart place for 10 seconds on TikTok on a trending video is not the same as someone parting with cash for a song they genuinely like.

And even if you did want to buy a physical copy, I went to buy a particular single last year, they didn't have any singles at all in my HMV!

No, I don't. I knew I was getting old when I realised I know longer knew who was in the charts. Previously I would know who was popular even if it wasn't necessarily my favourite type of music.

Omg !! I went ti HMV back in the early months of 2010 and even that far back there were no singles - not the one I wanted anyway!!!

Absolutely agree with this. Not had a clue since TOTP went off air. I learned so much from DD and students I used to teach when music was played without headphones. Obviously headphones are a good thing but music sharing has gone.

It’s Everything I Do isn’t it?

I think the last time I knew for sure was the 90s. Maybe the early 00s.

We listen to the Radio 1 chart show every week in our house so, yes, I always know what's at number 1! Unfortunately, for the last nine weeks, it's been that tedious and appropriately named Alex Warren song 'Ordinary'. Still, prior to that we've had some cracking number 1s this year, 'Pink Pony Club' by Chappel Roan, 'That's So True' by Gracie Abrams and 'Messy by Lola Young.
As someone who is passionate about pop music the charts have always mattered to me since I was a kid in the 90s and, in my opinion, as someone whose first musical love is girl pop, the charts have never been better and more diverse than they are now!
I do a lot of music quizzes too and being up on modern chart music is a real advantage when so many people I compete against seem to have stopped listening to music at the turn of the millennium!

I believe counting streaming towards record positions made the charts pointless. Then before that, The X Factor/Pop Idol was a long stretch to see who become Xmas No 1

99.9% of the music in the last 10-15 years is just rubbish, We are listening to stuff made in 1965, 60 years ago today. I doubt anyone will be listening to today’s crap in 2085, let alone next week

I’m Alive by the Hollies !!

I love it ! 🙌🙌🙌

Is Bryan Adams still number 1?

No idea - most of today's music is crap anyway 😂