Official UK music streaming chart launches

Remember preparing your tape recorder on a Sunday evening, eagerly awaiting the chart show to get all the new tracks recorded? Well, the days of measuring how many 45s have disappeared from the shelves of Our Price are gone (along with 45s and Our Price). Streaming services are the better measure of what’s hot in the Hit Parade – hence they’re getting their own chart.

On Monday, May 14th, the first Official Streaming Top 100 will be unveiled at 1pm at OfficialCharts.com as well as being published in Music Week. The streamers used to measure the chart will be Spotify, Deezer, We7, Napster, Zune (Xbox Live) and new mobile phone start-up ChartsNow.

With around 2.6 billion streams a year in the UK alone, it certainly is time to start measuring music popularity differently. If nothing else it can push revenue into streaming and bring down its price – hopefully. Is it too much to hope we might get Top of the Pops back as a vidcast?

Dan Grabham Editor-in-Chief

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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Computing, mobile, audio, smart home