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"The Official Charts Company has announced that the Top 40 singles chart will include audio streams from next month. It is the first time in the chart&amp;#039;s history that music played on services such as Spotify and Deezer will count in the UK, alongside single sales.  Streams from Napster, O2 Tracks, rara, Sony&amp;#039;s Music Unlimited and Xbox Music will also be incorporated into the reconfigured chart from Sunday, July 6. Plans to include streaming in the Top 40 were revealed by BBC Radio 1&amp;#039;s head of music George Ergatoudis earlier this year. The move comes in light of music streaming&amp;#039;s continued growth in the UK, doubling from around 100 million streams a week in 2013 to 200 million at the beginning of 2014. An average of 260 million songs are currently streamed per week. Official Charts Company boss Martin Talbot told BBC News that the changes are &amp;quot;about future-proofing the charts&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;So far this year we&amp;#039;ve seen nine tracks which have been streamed more than one million times in a week,&amp;quot; Talbot explained. &amp;quot;Last year there were only two tracks that had reached that kind of level.&amp;quot;  Bastille&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Pompeii&amp;#039; is the most-streamed track of all time in the UK so far with 26.6 million steams to date but only made number two in the singles chart based on sales alone. Watch Bastille explain the changes to the singles chart below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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