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post Feb 2 2018, 01:47 PM
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Little Mix selling 3.8 million last calendar year is amazing and would easily be at the top of the boyband yearly tally which is headed by Boyzone at 3.1 million sold in a year from 1999 and above Robbie's biggest year which was 1998 and 3.6 million sold and Take That's biggest in 2010 with 3 million sold. They have also gone far past One Directions biggest yearly UK tally which was 2.6 million sold during 2013.

As it stands it is the third largest yearly tally for a girlband behind two blockbuster years from the Spice Girls 4.7 million in 1996 and 4.6 million in 1997.
Spice Girls currently stand on 13.1 million records sold in the UK though don't sell on previous catalogue sales at all rarely adding to this huge tally.
Girls Aloud are sitting on 8.5 million and are similar to Spice Girls with rare sales activity. Little Mix this year overtaking Girls Aloud to go second biggest selling girlband in UK history with 9.6 million total UK sales.

3.5 million sales behind the Spice Girls it would take a few more years of this kind of success to match up and then do the unthinkable knock the Spice Girls down into second biggest selling girlband ever in British history. I think that last year maybe feels like Little Mix peak in my opinion however on steady sales for a few more years they could possibly do it.


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post Feb 18 2018, 09:46 AM
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In terms of album/singles breakdown the top 10 in UK sales looks like this:

Albums

1. Take That - 13.8 m
2. Westlife - 12 m
3. Boyzone - 6 m
4. One Direction - 4.2 m
5. Blue - 3.3 m
6. The Monkees - 2.9 m
7. JLS - 2.8 m
8. Bay City Rollers - 2.5 m
9. Busted - 2.4 m
10. East 17 - 1.8 m

Singles

1. One Direction - 12.7 m
2. Take That - 10.6 m
3. Westlife - 7.2 m
4. Boyzone - 7.1 m
5. JLS - 4.1 m
6. Backstreet Boys - 3.3 m
7. Bay City Rollers - 3 m
8. Five - 2.4 m
9. The Wanted - 2 m
10. The Monkees - 1.9 m

Overall Top 10 best selling boybands for the UK:

1. Take That - 24.4 m
2. Westlife - 19 m
3. One Direction - 14.9 m
4. Boyzone - 13.1 m
5. JLS - 6.9 m
6. Bay City Rollers - 5.5 m
7. Backstreet Boys - 4.9 m
8. The Monkees - 4.8 m
9. Blue - 4.3 m
10. Five - 4 m

Also rans: East 17 - 3.6m / McFly - 3.4 m / Busted 3.4 m.

Those top 4 are like they'd say in football 'the big four' truly are amazing sales to go over 10 million overall sales in the UK is unprecedented. Those big four are interchangeable in both singles/albums split showing a true overall dominance across both formats.
To put it into context in the United States sales over 10 million of any album is diamond (and quite rare) so granted these are combined UK sales but still these four boybands have truly sold in amazing terms in Britain. So Take That have sold the equivalent of 2 US diamond albums (10 mill) plus one 3x Platinum (3 mill)!!! cool2.gif

If those UK sales as they stand were actually American TT would be lauded and held as one of the most successful acts of their time. 10 mill singles and over 13 mill albums that's far more than the UK band Bush sold in America and they are considered the UK success rock act of the 90's in America. This shows how phenomenal these UK sales truly are. Had TT been able to actually replicate this UK success in America or even half of it Stateside as well they would have shot up in sales globally.

Take That are the only boyband to have gone over 10 million UK sales in both albums and singles no other boyband has achieved that.

For anyone wondering about Take That in pure 90's sales they were in the combined 7 million area and would have placed in 4th overall had they not come back in 2006. They have put distance between themselves and Westlife having overtaken WL sales in 2009 to go into #1.

Time will tell with regard to the future Westlife and One Direction reunions: Westlife at present would need 4.5 million sales which is a lot less than where Take That were in 2006 in playing catch up and One Direction 8.8 million. One Direction have blown up single sales (the leaders) however their album sales are good but not up their with TT/WL and this is what hampers them in sales.
It's unfortunate the latest TT album hasn't sold Platinum or Giants hasn't gone silver considering it's used in background music often on television so hopefully these will go in time and push a further gap whilst both those groups are inactive.

In further analysis Blue and Busted were hindered by the times as despite strong album sales the period 2003 - 2005 is often regarded as the lowest selling period for singles due to the decline of physicals and the changeover to digital. This explaining why neither have made the top ten on the singles list. These two bands also used TV promo appearances to perform album tracks to a wider audience when others stick to the singles. Blue even performed an album track at The Brits which kick started that particular albums sales again.

Backstreet Boys have always been promoted as a singles act in Britain from the beginning hence their high singles standing. Despite global smash albums they were never pushed in Britain and are surprising actually quite low. It's only since their decline in singles success and being on an independent label 2007 onwards that the albums are now being promoted in Britain however only to current minimal sale returns.

Five and The Wanted were both single success driven with The Wanted album sales being really quite poor and minimal when compared to their single sales. They never appeared to promote their albums even in the UK and such were returned with apt sales returns. The Saturdays girlband were exactly the same truly identical to The Wanted here's an album if you want it but let's churn out the singles. If the artist isn't truly passionate about an album the fans are less likely either and casuals certainly won't be.
Five actually produced good albums but were very singles focussed especially as they had to wait years before actually topping the singles chart after falling just short so many times. It would appear most of their attention went onto the single releases.

Both The Monkees and Bay City Rollers had tremendous success however in a very short time space shorter than Take That, Boyzone, Westlife or One Direction. The fact they remain in the top ten lists for both shows how highly concentrated their success was. Telling for the times perhaps the fact unlike some groups they appear in both lists show fans supported all product both albums and singles. The Monkees especially chalked those sales over just 1-2 years in their UK height of popularity 1967-1968 and Bay City Rollers were also high selling during 1974-1976. They both potentially could have gone higher if they had the commercial longevity given to later boyband groups which had expanded to a now average of 6 years high commercial success.
This makes sense as if you triple both those groups sales they would both be around the current top four sales.


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Fascinating to read! Thanks Nirvana! Just shows the staying power of Take That, with hopefully many more sales to come!
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QUOTE(nirvanamusic @ Feb 2 2018, 01:47 PM) *
Little Mix selling 3.8 million last calendar year is amazing and would easily be at the top of the boyband yearly tally which is headed by Boyzone at 3.1 million sold in a year from 1999 and above Robbie's biggest year which was 1998 and 3.6 million sold and Take That's biggest in 2010 with 3 million sold. They have also gone far past One Directions biggest yearly UK tally which was 2.6 million sold during 2013.

As it stands it is the third largest yearly tally for a girlband behind two blockbuster years from the Spice Girls 4.7 million in 1996 and 4.6 million in 1997.
Spice Girls currently stand on 13.1 million records sold in the UK though don't sell on previous catalogue sales at all rarely adding to this huge tally.
Girls Aloud are sitting on 8.5 million and are similar to Spice Girls with rare sales activity. Little Mix this year overtaking Girls Aloud to go second biggest selling girlband in UK history with 9.6 million total UK sales.

3.5 million sales behind the Spice Girls it would take a few more years of this kind of success to match up and then do the unthinkable knock the Spice Girls down into second biggest selling girlband ever in British history. I think that last year maybe feels like Little Mix peak in my opinion however on steady sales for a few more years they could possibly do it.



Spice Girls are on 14.1 million record sales in the UK

- Spice (2,963,975)
- Spiceworld (1,593,889)
- The Greatest Hits (568,091)
- Forever (269,000)

- Wannabe (1,620,850)
- 2 become 1 (1,216,000)
- Say you'll be there (1,020,000)
- Spice up your life (973,000)
- Goodbye (910,000)
- Mama / Who do you think you are (763,000)
- Viva forever (729,000)
- Too much (707,000)
- Stop (468,000)
- Holler / Let love lead the way (280,000)
- Headlines (55,000)

14,135,805 records in the UK
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post Jan 1 2020, 10:03 AM
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