Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Vote For Your Favorites of the Week (Week 9)!

Hey guys! There have been some concerns and questions on voting for your favorite tracks every week. To make things a whole lot easier, you can now vote songs up and down the list. At the end of the week, the points will be calculated and the ranker will be reset for the next week! All votes count! Don't see your favorite song? Feel free to leave a comment and I will add it! I will be updating the ranker from time to time as new tracks become available! New For this week: I have expanded the list to 90 entries.

Welcome to the 9th week of voting! Your votes help determine the top songs on the CDS Music Chart Hot 50. Please note that only the top 10 most approved tracks will receive bonus points toward their scores on the upcoming chart. Make sure you share this to get your favorite tracks into the top 10. New for this week, if this gets 750 voters and/or 15,000 votes by the end of Friday, each track in the top 10 will get 2x the regular votes and #11-20 on the list will get the score that the top 10 usually gets. 
Music Lists on Ranker

Watch: CDS Music Chart Hot 50 (June 26th, 2014)



Prefer to watch the Hot 50? That's totally cool in my book! You can watch this week's full Hot 50 video above or you can read the chart (or do both). I've attached the chart highlights to this post as a reference point.

"Boom Clap" becomes Charli XCX's first ever charting song as a solo artist as it enters at #33 this week (3rd charter including guest features). Bouncing by 32 points to 58, "Clap" is this week's Streaming Gainer, a component that had been retired. It returns this week, as I change the definition of "Airplay" slightly. The "Airplay Gainer" is the track that jumped a bunch this week thanks to plays that I listened to on US radio. "Streaming Gainer" means that I played the track more frequently through digital platforms and/or watched the song's official video (5 extra automatic points).

Monday, June 23, 2014

Report: Tracks From Ed Sheeran's Acclaimed "X" Album Ignite Top 50


Immediately after the release of Ed Sheeran's sophomore studio album, X, in Australia and New Zealand on June 20th, a slew of countdown singles began rapidly rising on the building chart for the chart dated June 26th. As the tracking week was already almost over by the time of the album's release in those markets, only a handful of them were actually able to chart (none made the official Hot
50).

Leading the pack was "Don't", which blasted in at #51 when the results for the chart (which tracked through the end of June 20th in America) dated June 26th came through this past weekend. "The Man", "Afire Love" and "Bloodstream" fell directly behind it, entering at #54, 57 and 60 respectively. The album's lead single, "Sing", would have likely finished within the top 60, but was barred from entering because it had already departed the Hot 50 before. Since positions #51-60 aren't awarded any points and they also don't appear on the finalized list, they're deemed the "Bubbling Under" positions of my chart. Previous Hot 50 entries can't reappear on the "Bubbling Under Chart", because they've already broken its boundary. In reality, Sheeran controlled 40% of this past week's "Bubbling Under Chart", claiming #1, 4, 7 and 10 (equivalent to #51, 54, 57 and 60 as mentioned before).

As we enter the midway stage of this week's building chart (that will be the issue dated July 3rd), "Don't" again leads the pack with a strong 28 points so far. It's headed for a final weekly total of approximately 65 plays, which should help it officially debut around #29. "The Man", "Afire Love" and "Bloodstream" are likely to clock in with 54, 52 and 49 points (respectively) by the end of the week. That should translate into noteworthy debuts at or around #36, 39 and 40 respectively.

Falling right behind is "Sing" (previously charted), which could re-enter as high as #45 (though its currently trending downwards as of the latest update.

"Thinking Out Loud", "Photograph", "One" and "I See Fire" are likely to clock in with 41, 39, 37 and 35 points respectively. That should translate to a #47 debut for "Thinking Out Loud" and a #50 opening for "Photograph". "One" and "I See Fire" will likely barely miss the Hot 50 this week (by one to two points overall), though "One" (which is trending upwards) might manage to wrangle into one of the final slots. If even 5 of these songs manage to debut, Ed Sheeran will become the artist with the most Hot 50 entries in a single week. That would be the cherry on top for the singer, who was recently "honored" with the most acclaimed album since the start of  the CDS Music Chart album reviews era. It (X) currently holds a 94/100 rating. Christina Perri's 2014 album, Head or Heart, was the previous record holder with a strong 92/100. Beyonce's 2013 self titled set is 3rd with a 91/100, while Lady Gaga's record churning ARTPOP ties for 4th with Robyn & Röyksopp's Do It Again (EP); they both scored a 90/100. Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence ranks 6th with an 89/100.

See how each song stands through the end of Monday, and where the tracks should stand after 4 more days of tracking.



Song

Spins So Far
Projected Spins Through Week’s End

Spins Per Day Average

Estimated New Rank

Last
Week

Position
Change


Trend
Don’t
28
65
9
29
51*
+22
b
The Man
23
54
8
36
54*
+18
b
Afire Love
22
52
7
39
57*
+18
a
Bloodstream
21
49
7
40
60*
+20
a
Sing
19
44
6
45
-**
Re-Entry
c
Thinking Out Loud
17
41
6
47
-
Debut
b
Photograph
16
39
6
50
-
Debut
c
One
16
37
5
-
-
Debut
b
I See Fire
15
35
5
-
-
Debut
c




















*Positions past #50 aren't official. In this case, these tracks made the Bubbling Under Chart (which is a ten position extender to the actual Hot 50).
**Barred from Bubbling Under Chart (though it ranked higher than some on this list) because it previously reached the Hot 50.

Come back for more posts!

Chart: June 26th, 2014


CDS MUSIC CHART HOT 50: June 26th, 2014
b= Up c=Down a=Even b=Debut b=Component Gainer
#
LW
2W
PK
WKs
Name
Artist
Points
1
1
2
1
7
***NUMBER 1***
Undo {#1 for 2 Weeks}
Sanna Nielsen
129b
2
2
1
1
8
Hideaway {#1 for 6 Weeks}
Kiesza
121b
3
NEW
-
3
1
***HOT SHOT DEBUT***
Maps
Maroon 5
118b
4
7
8
4
19
Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne)
Clean Bandit
112b
5
10
13
5
14
***VOTER’S CHOICE***
Dare (La La La)
Shakira
109b
6
4
6
4
14
Fancy (feat. Charli XCX)
Iggy Azalea
107b
7
9
12
7
8
A+D
Vita Chambers
103b
8
NEW
-
8
1
***GREATEST GAINER***
Giant In My Heart
Kiesza
100b
9
3
3
2
8
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
  98c
10
5
5
5
10
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
  97b
11
6
7
6
5
Pills N Potions
Nicki Minaj
  95a
12
14
16
12
8
Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea)
Ariana Grande
  93b
13
11
11
11
5
Do It Again
Röyksopp & Robyn
  91b
14
13
10
3
13
Latch (feat. Sam Smith)
Disclosure
  90b
15
8
4
4
16
Magic
Coldplay
  90a
16
16
20
16
5
Summer
Calvin Harris
  88b
17
18
22
17
3
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Alyssa Reid
  87b
18
12
9
3
18
All of Me
John Legend
  86a
19
15
17
11
14
Chandelier
Sia
  85b
20
22
25
20
4
Everybody
Oceana
  83b
21
28
39
21
3
Am I Wrong
Nico & Vinz
  82b
22
17
15
1
17
Empire {#1 for 4 Weeks}
Shakira
  80a
23
26
31
23
10
It’s On Again (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
Alicia Keys
  79b
24
20
19
19
13
The Big Bang
Katy Tiz
  77b
25
27
32
25
11
Ain’t It Fun
Paramore
  75b
26
46
49
26
10
***AIRPLAY GAINER***
West Coast
Lana Del Rey
  74b
27
21
18
3
23
G.U.Y. (Girl Under You)
Lady Gaga
  73a
28
23
21
8
16
Hey Brother
Avicii
  71b
29
19
14
1
30
Team {#1 for 3 Weeks}
Lorde
  67c
30
24
28
24
14
Not A Bad Thing
Justin Timberlake
  65c
31
25
23
14
20
Goodness Gracious
Ellie Goulding
  63c
32
32
41
32
3
Rude
MAGIC!
  61b
33
NEW
-
33
1
***STREAMING GAINER***
Boom Clap
Charli XCX
  58b
34
29
26
25
26
XO
Beyoncé
  56c
35
40
46
35
4
***CDS PICK HIT***
If I Go
Ella Eyre
  55b
36
33
27
9
10
First Things First
Neon Trees
  55b
37
31
38
31
7
Midnight
Coldplay
  55c
38
39
-
38
2
Angel In Blue Jeans
Train
  53b
39
42
45
39
7
Marilyn Monroe
Pharrell Williams
  51b
40
35
29
2
28
Drunk In Love (feat. Jay Z)
Beyoncé
  50c
41
30
24
1
38
***CHART SITTER***
***BIGGEST FALLER***
Counting Stars {#1 for 2 Weeks}
OneRepublic
  50c
42
37
35
6
23
Happy
Pharrell Williams
  48c
43
36
33
16
19
Partition
Beyoncé
  48c
44
44
47
44
3
Ultraviolence
Lana Del Rey
  46b
45
38
34
34
4
Say Yes
Destiny’s Child
  44c
46
48
-
46
2
Jungle
Jamie N Commons & X Ambassadors
  43b
47
49
-
47
2
Bass Like Home
Lily Allen
  42b
48
NEW
-
48
1
Stay With Me
Sam Smith
  40b
49
45
48
45
4
Shades of Cool
Lana Del Rey
  39c
50
47
-
47
2
Brooklyn Baby
Lana Del Rey
  37a


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