UK album and singles charts of 2022

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How many times has ABBA Gold ended up in a year end top 10?
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Amazingly, only the second

1992 #12
1993 #36
1994 ??
1995 ??
1996 #89
1997 #100
1998 #55
1999 #4
2000 #41
2001 #148
2002 ??
2003 #193
2004 #47
2005 #118
2006 #194
2007 #166
2008 #19
2009 #54
2010 #90
2011 #130
2012 #140
2013 #119
2014 ??
2015 #79
2016 #72
2017 #77
2018 #20
2019 #32
2020 #19
2021 #13
2022 #10
 
If we thought the singles chart was busted... Jesus, the albums chart really is a pointless endeavour these days

Only 19 of the top 100 were 2022 studio album releases. The vast majority are greatest hits and old classics. I imagine 2023 will be even worse.

(01) HARRY STYLES – Harry’s House
(03) TAYLOR SWIFT – Midnights
(17) ARCTIC MONKEYS – The Car
(18) GEORGE EZRA – Gold Rush Kid
(22) THE WEEKND – Dawn FM
(35) BEYONCE – Renaissance
(36) KENDRICK LAMAR – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
(44) ARRDEE – Pressure
(45) LIAM GALLAGHER – C’mon You Know
(49) CENTRAL CEE – Central Cee
(50) WET LEG – Wet Leg
(66) PAOLO NUTINI – Last Night In The Bittersweet
(67) DRAKE – Honestly, Nevermind
(69) DRAKE & 21 SAVAGE – Her Loss
(77) THE 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language
(81) YEARS & YEARS – Night Call
(85) MUSE – Will Of The People
(89) FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Dance Fever
(96) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Only The Strong Survive
 
Shoat said:
If we thought the singles chart was busted... Jesus, the albums chart really is a pointless endeavour these days

Only 19 of the top 100 were 2022 studio album releases. The vast majority are greatest hits and old classics. I imagine 2023 will be even worse.

(01) HARRY STYLES – Harry’s House
(03) TAYLOR SWIFT – Midnights
(17) ARCTIC MONKEYS – The Car
(18) GEORGE EZRA – Gold Rush Kid
(22) THE WEEKND – Dawn FM
(35) BEYONCE – Renaissance
(36) KENDRICK LAMAR – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
(44) ARRDEE – Pressure
(45) LIAM GALLAGHER – C’mon You Know
(49) CENTRAL CEE – Central Cee
(50) WET LEG – Wet Leg
(66) PAOLO NUTINI – Last Night In The Bittersweet
(67) DRAKE – Honestly, Nevermind
(69) DRAKE & 21 SAVAGE – Her Loss
(77) THE 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language
(81) YEARS & YEARS – Night Call
(85) MUSE – Will Of The People
(89) FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Dance Fever
(96) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Only The Strong Survive
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Were there many 2022 GH releases?
 
Nope - so when I say GH, I mean the usual same old from years gone by (Abba, Fleetwood Mac, Elton etc)

I think the most recent GH in the top 100 might be Little Mix's from last year
 
Shoat said:
If we thought the singles chart was busted... Jesus, the albums chart really is a pointless endeavour these days

Only 19 of the top 100 were 2022 studio album releases. The vast majority are greatest hits and old classics. I imagine 2023 will be even worse.

(01) HARRY STYLES – Harry’s House
(03) TAYLOR SWIFT – Midnights
(17) ARCTIC MONKEYS – The Car
(18) GEORGE EZRA – Gold Rush Kid
(22) THE WEEKND – Dawn FM
(35) BEYONCE – Renaissance
(36) KENDRICK LAMAR – Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
(44) ARRDEE – Pressure
(45) LIAM GALLAGHER – C’mon You Know
(49) CENTRAL CEE – Central Cee
(50) WET LEG – Wet Leg
(66) PAOLO NUTINI – Last Night In The Bittersweet
(67) DRAKE – Honestly, Nevermind
(69) DRAKE & 21 SAVAGE – Her Loss
(77) THE 1975 – Being Funny In A Foreign Language
(81) YEARS & YEARS – Night Call
(85) MUSE – Will Of The People
(89) FLORENCE + THE MACHINE – Dance Fever
(96) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – Only The Strong Survive
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Good grief, no wonder sales are in trouble if the chart is this badly CLOGGED with old stuff.
 
So less than 20% of the top 100 being 2022 releases, and looking at that list of them, the vast majority are by very well established acts multiple albums deep into their careers as well.

And as much as I have very little interest in the music teenagers are listening to, that can't be a great thing for the industry can it? When I was that age I'd be looking at the charts every week excited by them. Admittedly the singles chart usually skewed younger as ever, but a teenager now must see hardly any relevance to them at all in the album chart.
 
Arctic Monkeys's "AM" did better than "The Car". That must be irritating. It's making a band who are still having real success with new music look like a 'heritage act'.
 
I guess it is the fact that pretty much all albums ‘sold’ are from heritage acts that have fans willing to buy the format. 90% of album ‘sales’ are probably streams these days, so Greatest Hits playlists simply overrule all else or albums that have multiple streaming hit singles on them, but are counted (rightfully I guess as it is simply listening to an artist, not an album) so low that they only rack up minimal album units.

You could nearly rename the album chart the artist chart these days bar Taylor Swift and Harry Styles.

I mean I see Ella Henderson has been back in the album chart since November and now top 40 on midweeks. She isn’t selling any, it’s the label added on her dance collaborations to the end (about six of them) and their combined stream units means her album has suddenly become a hit after being a one week wonder about 9 months ago.
 
It surely makes it more difficult for the future greatest hits streaming artists to break through. Separating out the legacy stuff would surely benefit the industry and help new acts break through.. Hard to understand why it hasn't been done yet
 
I think the Ella tactic is quite common now - it's the only real reason Becky Hill has been able to claim a hit "album", she just updates the tracklist everytime she's farted out another of her faceless EDM clones.

Essentially it's no longer an album chart but an artist playlist chart. Which is fine, but let's just call it as such.
 
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The album charts should be sales only, or only where a full album is streamed.

I don't see why a million or so streams of 'Running up that hill' should all count towards 'The Whole Story', if they haven't bothered to check out 'Sat in your lap' and 'Experiment IV' for example.
 
Vicky the Vole said:
The album charts should be sales only, or only where a full album is streamed.

I don't see why a million or so streams of 'Running up that hill' should all count towards 'The Whole Story', if they haven't bothered to check out 'Sat in your lap' and 'Experiment IV' for example.
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Only problem is sales are so low it would be pointless. I assume the #20 on sales probably doesn’t clear more than about 1,500, so if a #40 only does about 600 is it really reflecting and kind of popularity enough to represent the #40 for the week?
 
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