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[Old Codger Fan]

This out from the Guardian today ~

The UK’s Top 10 most popular singles of 2022

1 Harry Styles – As It Was
2 Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
3 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran – Peru
4 Cat Burns – Go
5 Ed Sheeran – Shivers
6 Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
7 Glass Animals – Heat Waves
8 Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott – Where Are You Now
9 LF System – Afraid to Feel
10 Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under

  The UK’s Top 10 most popular albums of 2022

1 Harry Styles – Harry’s House
2 Ed Sheeran – =
3 Taylor Swift – Midnights
4 The Weeknd – The Highlights
5 Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
6 Eminem – Curtain Call: The Hits
7 Elton John – Diamonds
8 Fleetwood Mac – 50 Years – Don’t Stop
9 Little Mix – Between Us
10 Abba – Gold – Greatest Hits

Not sure where this 'fits' in the forums - But surely worthy of discussion.

Two things spring to my mind: 

a) I had to You-Tube the Cat Burns song - How has something so stubbornly un-memorable achieved this position??

b) There is still no radio station which is prepared to cover the whole gamut of best-selling albums - There must be a market for this??

 

..... Your reflections ???

[radio1fan]

4 hours ago, Old Codger Fan said:

 

a) I had to You-Tube the Cat Burns song - How has something so stubbornly un-memorable achieved this position??

This is perhaps because R1 usually played a different edit of it which was at a different speed, and you were listening to the standard version? 

[BBCAaron]

6 hours ago, Old Codger Fan said:

This out from the Guardian today ~

The UK’s Top 10 most popular singles of 2022

1 Harry Styles – As It Was
2 Ed Sheeran – Bad Habits
3 Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran – Peru
4 Cat Burns – Go
5 Ed Sheeran – Shivers
6 Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
7 Glass Animals – Heat Waves
8 Lost Frequencies and Calum Scott – Where Are You Now
9 LF System – Afraid to Feel
10 Sam Fender – Seventeen Going Under

  The UK’s Top 10 most popular albums of 2022

1 Harry Styles – Harry’s House
2 Ed Sheeran – =
3 Taylor Swift – Midnights
4 The Weeknd – The Highlights
5 Olivia Rodrigo – Sour
6 Eminem – Curtain Call: The Hits
7 Elton John – Diamonds
8 Fleetwood Mac – 50 Years – Don’t Stop
9 Little Mix – Between Us
10 Abba – Gold – Greatest Hits

Not sure where this 'fits' in the forums - But surely worthy of discussion.

Two things spring to my mind: 

a) I had to You-Tube the Cat Burns song - How has something so stubbornly un-memorable achieved this position??

b) There is still no radio station which is prepared to cover the whole gamut of best-selling albums - There must be a market for this??

 

..... Your reflections ???

I mean albums do tend to be different body of work and never in history of albums and radio stations has there been a station dedicated to albums. Interesting that most albums are greatest hits and that most singles from the year were songs not released in the year of 2022. Kind of same that popular music is often dominated by the same groups of artists and that group hoarding spaces on charts and harder for new talent breaks through. One shame I find with the streaming age is there is little space for newer artists to take top positions in the charts and get high turn over for number ones. Its common that a track can spend five-seven weeks at the top of the chart 

[Old Codger Fan]

14 hours ago, radio1fan said:

This is perhaps because R1 usually played a different edit of it which was at a different speed, and you were listening to the standard version? 

Might be - I'll go searching for the radio version, and report back! ....

[Old Codger Fan]

On 1/4/2023 at 6:00 PM, radio1fan said:

This is perhaps because R1 usually played a different edit of it which was at a different speed, and you were listening to the standard version? 

... Right - listened - Still don't remember it. Still mystified by its success.