{"id":3426,"date":"2016-06-02T22:05:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3426"},"modified":"2016-06-02T22:05:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T21:05:51","slug":"charts-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=3426","title":{"rendered":"Charts – May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another month,\u00a0and\u00a0turnover isn’t exactly picking up. \u00a0“One Dance” by Drake<\/a><\/strong> remains at number 1 for the whole month, a total of six\u00a0weeks. \u00a0That’s the longest run at number 1 since “Uptown Funk” at the start of 2015, and the longest uninterrupted\u00a0<\/em>run at number 1 since “Bleeding Love” in 2007. \u00a0The next record in sight is “Umbrella”, which managed 10 weeks earlier that year.<\/p>\n

Of course, this is not a direct comparison because of the shift to streaming data. \u00a0“One Dance”\u00a0still doesn’t have a video – which, incidentally, may work in its favour under UK chart rules, because\u00a0only\u00a0audio<\/em> streaming services count towards the chart, and presumably a bunch of people who would otherwise be watching “One Dance” on YouTube are listening to it on Spotify instead. \u00a0More to the point, it hasn’t been the top selling single for several weeks. \u00a0It’s\u00a0staying at number 1 because people are continuing to listen to it. \u00a0And if the charts had always been based on sustained popularity rather than first week sales, one suspects we’d have had a lot more epic-running number ones over the last twenty years or so.<\/p>\n

But May\u00a0did have\u00a0some activity further down the chart. \u00a0The\u00a06 May chart, for example,\u00a0actually managed \u00a0a new entry at what now constitutes the dizzying height of number 2! \u00a0It’s\u00a0“This is What You Came For” by Calvin Harris & Rihanna<\/strong>, which doesn’t have a proper video yet either.<\/p>\n