The official UK pop charts are broken. Streaming has caused untold damage. What can be done to bring the golden era back?
The UK charts are broken – what can be done to fix them? Something is wrong with the UK pop charts. Not the tunes – they say pop gets worse as you age, but the 2020s are already a major improvement on the 2010s. The mix of genres getting exposure has returned to healthy levels not seen for years and the kinds of artists getting hits have diversified rapidly.
Looking at the top 10 from each week of the last decade proves one thing: the UK charts are almost frozen still. In the period between 2015 and 2024, the average number of changes atop the charts per year completely collapsed to just 18. You’d have to go back 33 years, to the summer of Bryan Adams, if you wanted to find similar numbers. As for new songs entering the top 10 since 2015, that total crashed from 137 all the way down to 86 in less than a decade – the lowest average since 1959.
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