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Posted by: vidsanta 14th December 2019, 08:26 AM

V2 :

YTD Sales : Please read these guidelines before you request sales estimates, it makes my task a lot easier.

1. Be specific - please name the artist and title for each entry you'd like an estimate for.
2. I log sales for all albums that have charted this year, but only update those that have sold enough to reach my 200 position tracking range
3. If an album isn't in the current Top 100, I won't be able to update its sales until Tues. Also, please don't ask about ex-T100 albums too often - once a month at most)
4. Remember to check the thread before requesting estimates - they may already have been answered. Also, no more than half-a-dozen requests at a time, thanks.
5. Please note my figures are combined sales & streams, and since I have no way of separating them, I cannot provide a split.
6. While I am no longer estimating singles sales, I can provide YTD singles positions from C+, and I am still maintaining my sales archive based on published figures (PM me if you want to see it)

Thank you.

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Albums

Pos - LW - YTD - Total - Artist - Title - New - Hst
1 - 1 - 574,600 - 574,600 - Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - 30/05/19 - 1
2 - 2 - 534,000 - 534,000 - Ed Sheeran - No 6 Collaborations Project - 25/07/19 - 1
3 - 3 - 508,800 - 2,137,600 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Greatest Showman - 04/01/18 - 1
4 - 4 - 347,000 - 347,000 - Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - 11/04/19 - 1
5 - 5 - 327,600 - 538,000 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST) - 02/11/18 - 3
6 - 6 - 323,000 - 1,014,400 - George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's - 05/04/18 - 2
7 - 7 - 287,400 - 287,400 - Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next - 21/02/19 - 1
8 - 8 - 247,400 - 247,400 - Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive - 14/03/19 - 1
9 - 9 - 237,400 - 509,000 - Cast Recording ft Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born - 18/10/18 - 3
10 - 10 - 228,000 - 3,441,000 - Ed Sheeran - ÷ - 16/03/17 - 6
11 - 11 - 195,000 - 317,200 - Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop - 29/11/18 - 5
12 - 12 - 189,600 - 394,600 - Jess Glynne - Always In Between - 25/10/18 - 5
13 - 13 - 182,000 - 473,400 - Elton John - Diamonds - 23/11/17 - 6
14 - 14 - 177,600 - 2,236,000 - Queen - Greatest Hits I, II & III (Platinum Coll.) - 25/11/00 - 8
15 - 15 - 175,800 - 254,800 - Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me - 19/07/18 - 12
16 - 16 - 171,600 - 558,400 - Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - 15/06/17 - 9
17 - 18 - 164,600 - 164,600 - Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding - 19/09/19 - 1
18 - 25 - 164,200 - 164,200 - Robbie Williams - The Christmas Present - 05/12/19 - 1
19 - 17 - 162,600 - 162,600 - Dave - Psychodrama - 21/03/19 - 1
20 - 19 - 157,600 - 157,600 - Pink - Hurts 2B Human - 09/05/19 - 1
21 - 20 - 146,600 - 428,400 - Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys - 10/05/18 - 13
22 - 21 - 144,400 - 144,400 - Taylor Swift - Lover - 05/09/19 - 1
23 - 32 - 140,400 - 140,400 - Coldplay - Everyday Life - 05/12/19 - 1
24 - 22 - 138,000 - 438,000 - Drake - Scorpion - 12/07/18 - 16
25 - 23 - 131,400 - 131,400 - Liam Gallagher - Why Me? Why Not. - 03/10/19 - 1
26 - 24 - 129,800 - 129,800 - Jack Savoretti - Singing To Strangers - 28/03/19 - 1
27 - 26 - 122,200 - 1,691,400 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 26/02/77 - 17
28 - 28 - 117,800 - 2,292,400 - Eminem - Curtain Call - Greatest Hits - 10/12/05 - 27
29 - 73 - 117,600 - 117,600 - Rod Stewart - You're In My Heart - 05/12/19 - 1
30 - 27 - 117,400 - 166,600 - Clean Bandit - What Is Love? - 13/12/18 - 9
31 - 30 - 116,400 - 4,903,200 - Abba - Gold - Greatest Hits - 03/10/92 - 27
32 - 31 - 115,600 - 115,600 - Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars - 27/06/19 - 1
33 - 34 - 115,400 - 115,400 - Jax Jones - Snacks - 17/01/19 - 9
34 - 33 - 115,200 - 1,120,600 - Oasis - Time Flies : 1994-2009 - 26/06/10 - 25
35 - 29 - 115,200 - 488,600 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - 26/07/18 - 7
36 - 55 - 111,800 - 111,800 - Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Back Together - 21/11/19 - 2
37 - 36 - 110,200 - 2,386,800 - Beatles - Abbey Road - 04/10/69 - 1
38 - 35 - 108,400 - 3,525,600 - Ed Sheeran - X - 05/07/14 - 18
39 - 37 - 107,000 - 337,400 - Take That - Odyssey - 06/12/18 - 3
40 - 50 - 104,800 - 104,800 - Westlife - Spectrum - 28/11/19 - 1

Kylie is #52

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 14th December 2019, 10:17 AM

Highest Robbie will get to is no8.

Easy win for Lewis for YE album - will do 650k max now. Poorest in years?

Posted by: T Boy 14th December 2019, 11:05 AM

Only since 2016 actually, but that was Adele’s second year on top.

I’m gutted Pink will miss the top 20, it’s a great album but it hasn’t picked up at all. I expect at least Coldplay, Rod and Ball & Boe will overtake before the end.

Posted by: SmileyKylie 14th December 2019, 04:14 PM

Any chance Kylie has re-entered the top 50 albums? 92.5k? Top 60 at least?

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 14th December 2019, 04:16 PM

The Pink album seemed to come very quickly after the previous one and only really the first single did well with the public.

Posted by: Crazy Chris-tmas 14th December 2019, 05:05 PM

Thanks Vidsanta.

Posted by: Medellíam 14th December 2019, 05:51 PM

If she bothered to have a consistent promo campaign this side of its release then I could have seen this album climbing it's way to Platinum by now. It annoys me when artists leave the album to die like that, Madonna was the same with Madame X. There was much more to offer.

Posted by: vidsanta 15th December 2019, 05:48 AM

T60 yes, T50 no.

Posted by: SmileyKylie 15th December 2019, 10:39 AM

Thank you. Still should sell over 100,000 in 2019 so nice for Kylie

Posted by: jszmiles 15th December 2019, 09:41 PM

Is Freya Ridings anywhere inside top 100? Dido?

thanks in advance

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 15th December 2019, 11:41 PM

It's not a bad total tbf.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 17th December 2019, 12:37 AM

Vid, do you have any total sales for any Christmas classics?

Posted by: vidsanta 17th December 2019, 06:16 AM

Which specific ones?

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 17th December 2019, 08:17 AM

Mariah, Wham, Chris Rea, The Pogues, Slade and Band Aid?

Posted by: vidsanta 17th December 2019, 08:53 AM

I have figures, but since most of them pre-date the OCC's takeover of chart compilation, them may not be complete.

2406k ??
1478k ?
746k
1928k ??
785k (no way!)
948k (no f-ing way!!)

Posted by: Robbie 17th December 2019, 09:56 AM

To November 2002 Slade had sold 1,007,500 and Band Aid were on 3,550,000. Most of those would also be pre-1994 sales (pre OCC sales) since I don't think either single was given a physical re-release from 1994 to 2002. So that would make Slade on 1.792m and Band Aid about 4.5m in total.

The original Band Aid track was also on 'Do They Know It's Christmas' by Band Aid 20 (it's track 2) and that sold just over a million so unofficially the original Band Aid single has sold over 5.5m copies.

Posted by: GTH 17th December 2019, 01:15 PM

Really hope Lewis breaks through the 600k threshold before year end.

Posted by: tgl92 17th December 2019, 01:20 PM

Total sales for the previous Ball and Boe albums? Much appreciated.

Posted by: Bjork 17th December 2019, 01:34 PM

crazy that the Ed album looks certain not to go Double Platinum this year
when his previous did 672K on week 1 alone

Posted by: FelizNavidad 17th December 2019, 01:42 PM

It's 300k for a platinum album (not 600k). Anyway week 1 comparisons with that long ago are a bit meaningless as so many people have switched to streaming so their album 'sales' come over a much longer time (it would be virtually impossible to generate 300k album sales from streams in a week).

Posted by: slowdown73 17th December 2019, 02:28 PM

So Lewis Capaldi looks like being the biggest album of the year on about 625k roughly based on current weekly sales. I’m glad he will be the biggest seller rather than Sheeran.

Posted by: FelizNavidad 17th December 2019, 03:37 PM

Me too (although being released a couple of months earlier helped). Ed got to 500k in a shorter time, but on current form Lewis would have the bigger seller in the long run.

Posted by: Bjork 17th December 2019, 03:39 PM

I know, meant double platinum
shocking underperformance

Posted by: myxxd 17th December 2019, 03:45 PM

Ed Sheeran audiences are divided this year and he's already on his way to his ten years as a mainstream music artist.

Posted by: ___∆___ 17th December 2019, 05:37 PM

From Music Week -

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 17th December 2019, 10:43 PM

Thanks for the info on the Xmas songs guys.

Yeh delighted that Lewis is looking like being the years biggest seller, well deserved and the biggest new artist of the year!

Posted by: Herbs 17th December 2019, 11:17 PM

Almost half of the top 40 are 2019 releases - that’s good!