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One_For_Sorrow
post 29th April 2021, 10:24 AM
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QUOTE(Jay❄ @ Apr 29 2021, 10:07 AM) *
wub.gif It takes me right back to those days too!

I've now edited in info for H & Claire, Lisa and Faye... unfortunately there's barely any sales information, and what I did find for DJ and Lately is very old. I just need to edit in Claire Richards information soon - not sure how well or not she did in the download charts with her singles!

Lol at the H & Claire album being certified Silver - their label must have really overestimated demand for it. I doubt its first week sales were any higher than 15,000.


An Australian newspaper back in the late 90’s early 00’s use to publish a weekly music and movies guide every Thursday. In it was always the top 10 or 20 albums chart in Australia as well as the top 20 singles charts for Australia, UK and US.

It was always a joy getting the paper on a Thursday.
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post 29th April 2021, 08:01 PM
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Great work Jay!!
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Liam.k.
post 30th April 2021, 08:02 AM
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Great work Jay! Going to take a closer look and see if I can find any info for you.

Edit:

Slightly odd seeing 'Heartbeat' / 'Tragedy' opening with 67k in between two songs, from the same album, that opened with 140k. I feel like 'Heartbeat' was probably mainly pushed as first (I see it charted on the airplay chart whilst 'Tragedy' didn't, although the airplay might have been combined and 'Tragedy' just wasn't credited) and 'Tragedy' naturally gained popularity over the Christmas / New Year period. Then 'Better Best Forgotten' capitalised on the success of 'Tragedy'.

Fantastic sales for 'Heartbeat' / 'Tragedy' in the Top 10:

02 66,567
05 68,945
05 69,387
08 58,671
08 60,382
06 99,645
04 104,780
01 98,080
02 65,340
03 66,617
03 54,071
06 49,604
10 44,000
10 35,000

'Stomp' sold 48,250 at #1 to be specific: http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/2001/UK%2...02001.01.27.pdf
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post 30th April 2021, 09:10 AM
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Thanks everyone, and thanks Liam for that extra information! wub.gif

You're right that Heartbeat was initially the mainly pushed song out of the two, which with hindsight seems like an odd decision, but at the time it felt appropriate... a ballad for winter!

I can't really remember how Tragedy suddenly caught on in such a big way to give the single sales such a boost, maybe as you say it just seemed well suited to the celebrations of Christmas and New Year. Maybe TV channels started to prioritise the Tragedy music video? I wonder if Steps shifted towards performing Tragedy during promotion after the single's release?

I actually remember buying the single in the new year, specifically because of Tragedy, so I'm pretty that coincided with the week they got to #1 *.* Just noticed that Spice Girls were at #2 in that week with 92k, falling heavily from the previous week's sales of 208,000. For Steps, that was fortunate!

Those sales were very consistent - increasing in week 2 and 3 despite being at #5 ohmy.gif (I wish they'd dipped out of the Top 5 in week 3 though to allow Madonna's The Power of Good-Bye to be a #5 hit though kink.gif )
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post 30th April 2021, 09:44 AM
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That's some really great information Liam. Thank you so much!
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post 30th April 2021, 09:48 AM
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I'm almost positive the run that Heartbeat/Tragedy experienced was almost unheard of when cd singles were the only format available. Falling down the top 10 climbing to number 1 and then experiencing loads more weeks in the top 10.
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post 30th April 2021, 09:53 AM
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It had a similar run to All Saints - Never Ever from the year before, but in the main it was very uncommon!
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post 30th April 2021, 09:56 AM
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Yeah it seems very uncommon.

Following the UK charts from Australia it seemed like most songs would debut then drop steadily or rapidly with very few rising over the weeks.
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post 11th May 2021, 06:05 AM
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Anyone got any more sales updates?
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post 11th May 2021, 01:00 PM
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I'd say WTFH is on about 75k now.
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post 11th May 2021, 01:10 PM
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QUOTE(Steptastic @ May 11 2021, 07:05 AM) *
Anyone got any more sales updates?

Unfortunately all that we have can be found in the first few posts of this thread!

QUOTE(Feel_The_Fever @ May 11 2021, 02:00 PM) *
I'd say WTFH is on about 75k now.

It had sold 72,020 on 16th April, it won't have managed another 3k in 3 weeks. Probably 73k now but progress is going to be very slow from now until September, when hopefully it gets a boost because of Part 2 (I'm going to guess by then it might have made it to 80k).
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post 11th May 2021, 05:05 PM
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Great work Jay ❤️ Love these kind of topics!
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post 19th May 2021, 06:55 AM
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Anyone have updated figures for WTFHP1?
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post 19th May 2021, 01:24 PM
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Based on previous posts in the forum from April, 74,000 would be a close estimate.
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post 20th May 2021, 05:37 PM
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Nice enough! Curious to see what part 2 will sell.
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post 20th May 2021, 10:17 PM
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While I am glad to get a new album I kind of wish it was a bonus disc to a WTFH re-release as it would help the album get to gold sales a lot quicker, it's going to be a very slow slog of quite a few years now I think.
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post 4th June 2021, 11:10 PM
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I saw ‘Steps: Official Top 10’ on MTV Classic recently and thought I’d share it with you guys:

01. Tragedy - 1,180,000
02. 5,6,7,8 - 620,500
03. One For Sorrow - 484,000
04. Last Thing On My Mind - 388,500
05. Better Best Forgotten - 381,500
06. Love’s Got A Hold On My Heart - 337,500
07. Chain Reaction - 324,500
08. Say You’ll Be Mine - 311,000
09. It’s The Way You Make Me Feel - 282,500
10. Deeper Shade Of Blue - 238,500

One For Sorrow and Deeper Shade Of Blue are my favourites wub.gif
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post 4th June 2021, 11:20 PM
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QUOTE(spiceboy @ May 20 2021, 10:17 PM) *
While I am glad to get a new album I kind of wish it was a bonus disc to a WTFH re-release as it would help the album get to gold sales a lot quicker, it's going to be a very slow slog of quite a few years now I think.


That would’ve made so much more sense. They could’ve also made a 3 disc set with the remixes that are on cd2 of part 2.
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post 4th June 2021, 11:22 PM
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Thanks for sharing. It’s a pretty good list.

I’m guessing 5,6,7,8 is one of their best streamers?

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post 5th June 2021, 12:44 AM
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Ooh thank you so much for sharing that, Seinfeld! wub.gif Some of those hadn’t had updates since 2009! I’ll add that info to the first page asap.
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