Originally posted by Summertime Love Is this confirmed? Because ...

It was confirmed in the sales report.

Streaming data is pretty much always upweighted for at least 1 day every week, since Spotify are always a day behind on submitting data (so Thursday's streaming data is upweighted).

However, this is the first time it's happened with actual sales. I think it also includes Apple Music since it seems to be Apple as a whole who didn't submit on time.

This is (again) why I think the charts shouldn't be published on Friday's. It's too early. They should move them back to Sunday's, giving them 2 extra days to make sure ALL data is submitted.

Originally posted by Dizzy This is (again) why I think the charts shouldn't be published on Friday's. It's too early. They should move them back to Sunday's, giving them 2 extra days to make sure ALL data is submitted.

Originally posted by prezli There is no female lead in the UK this year.

Originally posted by Fruity The chart used to be on a Sunday with the tracking week ending on a Saturday. So essentially the same time frame, just shifted by 2 days. In that case how was it never a problem in the past? I think its just a one off mistake from Apple.

I know the Apple scenario is a rare one off, but I mainly mean Spotify. Streaming wasn't featured in the charts when they were on Sunday's, only for a short while towards the end before it shifted to Friday but even then streaming wasn't that important. Now suddenly it's bigger than sales in the UK charts.