Spotify and Deezer streams will count towards the official singles chart from July, according to the Official Charts Company (OCC).
Sunday 6 July will be the first chart to incorporate streaming figures after what the OCC has described as an ‘explosion in streaming’ over the last year.
Music streaming doubled from 100m to 200m streams a week between January 2013 and January 2014.
Further findings revealed that Bastille’s Pompeii has been confirmed as the most streamed song of all time.
Dan Smith, Bastille front man, said: ‘Hearing Pompeii has had over 26m streams is amazing and completely weird and we’re really really happy. I think streaming going into the chart is definitely a good thing. I think for the charts to be fair it has to reflect how people digest music.
'I know with our album we’ve been really lucky and it’s far exceeded what we expected in terms of how many it actually sold, but if you look at the live shows we do versus how many albums we’ve sold, it’s clear that at least double, if not more, people have heard or own the album than have actually paid for it. I think bringing streaming in to that is pretty much as close as you can get to reality, so it’s definitely a good thing.’
The likes of Spotify, Deezer, Napster, O2 Tracks and Sony’s Music Unlimited will all contribute data to the chart.
According to the OCC, 100 streams will count as equivalent to one single (download or physical single) in the chart compilation process.
Meanwhile in the singles charts, X Factor star Ella Henderson is spending a second week at number one with her debut release Ghost. Lana Del Rey is top of the album charts with her third album Ultraviolence.
Sunday 6 July will be the first chart to incorporate streaming figures after what the OCC has described as an ‘explosion in streaming’ over the last year.
Music streaming doubled from 100m to 200m streams a week between January 2013 and January 2014.
Further findings revealed that Bastille’s Pompeii has been confirmed as the most streamed song of all time.
Dan Smith, Bastille front man, said: ‘Hearing Pompeii has had over 26m streams is amazing and completely weird and we’re really really happy. I think streaming going into the chart is definitely a good thing. I think for the charts to be fair it has to reflect how people digest music.
'I know with our album we’ve been really lucky and it’s far exceeded what we expected in terms of how many it actually sold, but if you look at the live shows we do versus how many albums we’ve sold, it’s clear that at least double, if not more, people have heard or own the album than have actually paid for it. I think bringing streaming in to that is pretty much as close as you can get to reality, so it’s definitely a good thing.’
The likes of Spotify, Deezer, Napster, O2 Tracks and Sony’s Music Unlimited will all contribute data to the chart.
According to the OCC, 100 streams will count as equivalent to one single (download or physical single) in the chart compilation process.
Meanwhile in the singles charts, X Factor star Ella Henderson is spending a second week at number one with her debut release Ghost. Lana Del Rey is top of the album charts with her third album Ultraviolence.
