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 May 25 2020, 11:32 AM
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 BuzzJack Idol
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QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ May 25 2020, 12:14 PM)  Random observation, but the length of time between the releases of Sound of the Underground and Beat of My Drum (3,093 days) is less than Beat of My Drum to now (3,277 days), and I'd like someone to explain to me how all of this time has gone by   STOP. This cannot be true!  Those sales and chart run for 'Beat of My Drum' strike me as quite decent all things considered. It was an OA/OS release which impacted the chart performance of even the most successful of artists so, considering Nicola was never the 'star' of the band and perhaps the member whose solo material people were least excited for (could be wrong about that), it was good going that this single managed to stay afloat like that. She had a solid promotional campaign too, I recall. Makes me wonder how it may have performed if released the traditional way. |
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May 25 2020, 01:36 PM
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QUOTE(Jay ☆ @ May 25 2020, 11:14 AM) Random observation, but the length of time between the releases of Sound of the Underground and Beat of My Drum (3,093 days) is less than Beat of My Drum to now (3,277 days), and I'd like someone to explain to me how all of this time has gone by No way!  This sounds so surreal, the release of BOMD doesn't seem that far away at all. It's crazy how time flies!^And I agree about the sales being quite decent as well, especially when you consider it only spent one week in the top 40. Ofcourse it should have done much better, but I actually expected sales to be lower. Should atleast be over 50K now. |
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Aug 7 2020, 03:03 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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'Long Hot Summer' has achieved 3m streams in the UK according to the OCC:
QUOTE Girls Aloud's extremely subtle and not at all suggestive Long Hot Summer is the epitome of mid-Noughties pop. The group's chief producer Brian Higgins of production outfit Xenomania described it as "a distaster record", made in a panic when they were approached for a possible inclusion in the Herbie: Fully Reloaded soundtrack. It was Girls Aloud's first song to miss the UK Top 5, but 15 years on it's still getting us worked up, with 3 million streams to date. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/h...n-adams__19476/ |
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Aug 15 2020, 11:34 AM
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BuzzJack Gold Member
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That's still quite low, isn't it? Generally speaking I'm always quite shocked to see how low their streams are, I know they were quite local, but still. The Saturdays, who basically did not have any hits outside of the UK, are doing so much better on streaming which seems bizarre.
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Aug 17 2020, 11:37 PM
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Long hot summer was never a big fave of mine, not song i listen to much.
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Dec 3 2020, 01:55 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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QUOTE Sound Of The Underground has 874,000 UK chart sales to date, including 22 million streams since 2014. Scared Trust's stands at 270,000 - and is clocking up an average 6,378 plays in the UK every week. https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...e-voice__17236/ |
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Dec 3 2020, 03:22 PM
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"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
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A nice increase since 800k in August 2019
 I'm looking forward to it reaching 1 million!
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Dec 7 2020, 11:16 AM
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QUOTE(Liam.k. @ Dec 3 2020, 02:55 PM) Those streaming numbers are so low for a classic Also interesting that total streaming numbers at at 24 million, so only 2 million streams from outside the UK?
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Dec 7 2020, 11:34 AM
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I'm shocked and appalled at Nicola's Yo-Yo not even entering the top 100.. I know she wasn't huge but god that is such a good song. Probably one of my favourites from them as a group/soloists overall.
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Dec 8 2020, 01:14 AM
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QUOTE(Chemistry @ Dec 7 2020, 11:16 AM) Those streaming numbers are so low for a classic Also interesting that total streaming numbers at at 24 million, so only 2 million streams from outside the UK?That's 24 million streams on Spotify worldwide - 22 million streams is the total for all platforms (YouTube, Apple, Amazon etc) in the UK only. |
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Feb 18 2021, 06:28 PM
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"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
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Here's all the information I could find out about Something Kinda Ooooh and Call the Shots in the midweeks. Both were unfortunate enough to be #2 throughout the midweek updates, only to be pushed down to #3 in time for the official chart.
 ~~~~~ Something Kinda Ooooh Midweeks Tues 24th Oct 2006: #2 Girls Aloud (12,559), #3 Fedde Le Grand (8,469) [4,090 difference] Wed 25th Oct 2006: #2 Girls Aloud (19,235), #3 Fedde Le Grand (16,138) [3,097 difference] Thurs 26th Oct 2006: #2 Girls Aloud, #3 Fedde Le Grand Fri 27th Oct 2006: #2 Girls Aloud (29,141), #3 Fedde Le Grand (28,592) [549 difference] Sunday 29th Oct 2006 Chart #2 - 46,896 - Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands Up for Detroit #3 - 42,114 - Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh [4,782 sales behind] The week after that, it started out at midweek #2 again but was quickly overtaken: Midweeks Tues 31st Oct 2006: #2 Girls Aloud, #3 Bodyrox Wed 1st Nov 2006: #2 Bodyrox (9.9k), #3 Girls Aloud (9.5k) Thurs 2nd Nov 2006: #2 Bodyrox, #3 Girls Aloud Fri 3rd Nov 2006: #2 Bodyrox (16k), #3 Girls Aloud (15k) Sunday 5th Nov 2006 Chart #2 - 23,181 - Bodyrox - Yeah Yeah #3 - 21,695 - Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh [1,486 sales behind] Something Kinda Ooooh sold 147,000 in 2006 & 34,000 in 2007 - 180,919 total at the end of 2007. Yeah Yeah sold 104,500 in 2006 and 46,000 in 2007 - 150,500 total at the end of 2007. Both are Silver certified. Last known figure for Something Kinda Ooooh was 341,589 in August 2019. I have no idea what Yeah Yeah's total is these days! ~~~~~ Call the Shots Midweeks Tues 27th Nov 2007: #2 Girls Aloud (10,745), #3 T2 (9,597) [1,148 difference] Wed 28th Nov 2007: #2 Girls Aloud (15,507), #3 T2 (14,068) [1,439 difference] Thurs 29th Nov 2007: #2 Girls Aloud (19,224), #3 T2 (17,854) [1,370 difference] Fri 30th Nov 2007: #2 Girls Aloud (22,403), #3 T2 (21,413) [990 difference] Sunday 2nd Dec 2007 Chart #2 - 31,768 - T2 feat. Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken #3 - 31,457 - Girls Aloud - Call the Shots [311 sales behind] Call the Shots wasn't too far off #2 in its second week at #3 either, although it was midweek #3 in every update during that week: Sunday 9th Dec Chart #2 - 22,902 - T2 feat. Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken #3 - 22,135 - Girls Aloud - Call the Shots [767 sales behind] The following week, Sunday 16th Dec, Call the Shots was finally higher in the chart than Heartbroken... GA: #5 [18,455 sales] and T2: #9 [17,844 sales]. Just 611 sales separating them on that occasion, that was a tight chart! By the end of 2008, Heartbroken had sold 240,145 while Call the Shots was on 249,495. Interestingly both songs of these songs went Gold in 2020. Call the Shots on 14th February, Heartbroken on 10th July. ~~~~~ Considering that both SKO and CTS ended up outselling Yeah Yeah and Heartbroken respectively, it's a pity they GA didn't quite manage to nab #2 peaks with those singles! I can't argue that SKO deserved better than Put Your Hands Up for Detroit though - that single went Gold in 2019. Initially McFly - Star Girl prevented Fedde Le Grand from #1. Star Girl was highly front-loaded at the time, with a chart run of 1-9-19-27-42-62-93-x-98-99-x, meaning that it was only ahead of Something Kinda Ooooh in the charts in that week it was at #1. Star Girl achieved just 86,000 sales in 2006, whereas Something Kinda Ooooh managed 147,000. Something Kinda Ooooh passed 200,000 sales towards the end of 2008 (14th December 2008 - 206,344). Star Girl didn't reach 200k until June 2015. Interestingly Star Girl has become increasingly popular in the streaming era though... it went Gold (400k+) in May 2020. In 2006 I was pretty aggrieved that McFly's ardent fanbase prevented SKO from a better peak, but in the long run... somehow it's ended up being more memorable for the public! |
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Feb 18 2021, 06:38 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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'Something Kinda Ooooh' quite comfortably had the biggest weekly sale for a #3 position in 2006. Only three other songs sold 30k+ whilst at that position:
04/11 | 42,114 | Girls Aloud - Something Kinda Ooooh 29/07 | 32,322 | Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean - Hips Don’t Lie 03/06 | 31,800 | Infernal - From Paris To Berlin 02/12 | 30,582 | Emma Bunton - Downtown Would have been enough for #1 in a lot of weeks that year! |
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Feb 18 2021, 06:52 PM
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"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
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That will always hurt! (  ) Trust them to choose such a difficult week! The previous week when it was only available as a download, resulted in a rather surprisingly high entry at #5. I remember being so thrilled with that. They were the first UK act to achieve a Top 5 hit with just downloads! So that's another reason why it only moving up to #3 a week later felt a tad deflating. When it entered at #5 (14,308 sales) it was only 491 sales behind that week's #3. The #1 only sold 29,201! If only Something Kinda Ooooh had been scheduled a week earlier... it seems very likely that they'd have got a #1 single. Despite the disappointment about the #3 peak, The Sound of Girls Aloud getting to #1 a week later was certainly a moment that made up for it - the fanbase was overjoyed! P.S. G'won Emma Bunton with that high #3 sale! Though that was another frustrating moment for me, it was only 57 sales behind #2!! (The chart fortunes of girl groups and solo girl group members have clearly been a source of stress for me over the years  )
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Feb 18 2021, 07:18 PM
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"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
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These are Girls Aloud's sales as of 30th December 2007... which I appreciate probably isn't that interesting, but I found this information via my old Girls Aloud Discography site through the Wayback Machine, so I thought I may as well post it!
590,344 - Sound of the Underground 197,359 - Jump 186,679 - I'll Stand By You 180,919 - Something Kinda Ooooh 147,918 - Love Machine 128,459 - Call the Shots 122,508 - No Good Advice 119,323 - Biology 108,995 - Walk This Way 89,937 - The Show 84,700 - Life Got Cold 81,867 - Sexy! No No No... 74,326 - I Think We're Alone Now 66,111 - Wake Me Up 62,447 - See the Day 51,590 - Long Hot Summer 43,873 - Whole Lotta History 2000s sales were so depressing. Girls Aloud were incredibly popular, yet 5 years into their career only one of their singles had sold enough to be certified! The major success of The Sound of Girls Aloud a year before indicates how much affection the public had for their hits; the singles sales really weren't an accurate reflection (the peak positions were, at least). By the way, while I was researching the midweeks information for Something Kinda Ooooh, it led me to remember an annoying chart rule that was in place in 2006: if a single's physical was deleted, it wasn't eligible for the singles chart. A few of Girls Aloud's singles were appearing in the midweeks in October/November 2006, but they were 'starred out' (indicating that they wouldn't be eligible to chart). For instance, Biology would theoretically have been midweek #145 on Friday 27th October 2006 if no singles were starred out (only 377 sales was needed for that position!). Anyway, they were robbed of achieving some more chart positions in their chart runs
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Apr 16 2021, 02:40 PM
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These are my latest estimates for some of the singles:
896,000 - Sound of the Underground 699,000 - The Promise 482,000 - Love Machine 423,000 - Call the Shots 386,000 - Something Kinda Ooooh 383,000 - Jump 236,000 - Biology 235,000 - Something New 199,000 - The Loving Kind 170,000 - No Good Advice 164,000 - Walk This Way 161,000 - Sexy! No No No... 155,000 - Untouchable 134,000 - The Show 112,000 - I Think We're Alone Now 99,000 - Long Hot Summer 80,000 - Whole Lotta History I'm a little unsure about Biology and Something New though. Something New could have pushed ahead of Biology by now, if their popularity positions on Spotify is anything to go by. But based on the last couple of sales updates we had, Biology was increasing at a faster rate. It seems The Loving Kind could be coming for silver in June, although that's based on the sales increase from July 2017 to August 2019. It could have slowed down or increased its weekly sales since then. Hopefully it's still on track for silver fairly soon though. Jump and Something Kinda Ooooh could be gold by the end of 2021! |
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Apr 16 2021, 02:48 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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Thanks for that Jay! Their sales are looking so much more representative of their success thanks to streams. I'm looking forward to the day 'Sound of the Underground' passes 1m!
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Apr 17 2021, 12:49 AM
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I’m surprised none of their songs have passed a million, but like you say, sales were depressing in the 00s. Imagine some of those sales totals if they have released musics later.
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Apr 17 2021, 01:48 PM
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It's quite shocking to see, once again, how low sales were during most of their prime-time. Especially singles like The Show, you would never think The Loving Kind or even Untouchable outsold that one.
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May 4 2021, 03:48 PM
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"Jayrusaleminians" - Umi.
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Something random: I was looking at download charts from 2006, and was reminded that their Megamix reached #43 in the download chart on 5th November 2006.
It was ineligible to chart in the singles chart, because only singles with a physical release were allowed to chart (these eligible singles were also allowed 1 week in the chart with just download sales, prior to the physical release). This rule was changed in January 2007, when any song was able to chart if it it sold enough downloads, without requiring a physical. Kasabian - Shoot the Runner was #42 in the download chart that week, and #65 in the official chart - this being its "download only" week prior to its physical release week. Madonna - Jump was at #59 in the official chart, with 2,246 sales, and was download only that week. I assume if the singles chart had been a free-for-all like it was in 2007, then Girls Aloud's Megamix would have made the official Top 100? And maybe sold about 2000 copies. ~ I've also just remembered that one of their Christmas songs appeared in the midweeks in 2007, but ultimately it didn't manage to hold on to the Top 200. That was 'Merry Xmas Everybody', appearing at midweek #135 on Tuesday 4th December 2007 (354 sales). A day later it was down to #170 (380 sales). On Thursday it wasn't midweek Top 200 - the #200 had sold 394. It seems it never re-emerged after that, so I wonder what caused that initial boost in sales for the track? |
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May 7 2021, 02:42 PM
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BuzzJack Idol
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 Much sooner than expected too: QUOTE 02/08/2019:
543,090 - Call My Name 03/03/2020: 557,000 - Call My Name [+13,900 approx] 30 weeks between updates, average sale per week: 463 - Call My Name At this rate... December 2021 - Call My Name [Platinum, 600k+] |
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