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Posted by: gooddelta 30th March 2021, 09:28 AM

Yesterday I had some music on shuffle in the car and Des'ree's Life came on immediately after Darren Hayes' Insatiable. It struck me how similar the chart runs were for these two songs, four years apart:

8-15-14-16-16-21-22-21-26-30-34 (Life)

8-12-12-13-12-12-16-20-25-37-39 (Insatiable)

Obviously not exactly the same but I found it interesting how both entered at No.8 and then stayed top 10 for just one week before lingering in the top 20 for a while longer than you would have expected a No.8 record to at this time (including both climbing back up at one point). Presumably the very high airplay for both kept them afloat for a while, I can't remember if either had been expected to peak higher initially than they did. And then they both finish up with 11 weeks in the top 40.

Are there any other examples of two songs with oddly similar chart trajectories, especially songs that charted lower down - but obviously not stuff which went 20-OUT, more like songs that were top 40 for a while perhaps.

Was also wondering what No.1s followed a very similar path up or down the chart over the years.

Posted by: dan::G 30th March 2021, 09:40 AM

I pointed this out at the time but Despacito and Savage Love had the exact same trajectory to number one within the top 40: 22-4-1

Posted by: jimwatts 30th March 2021, 09:54 AM

Umbrella and Shape Of You's first 10 weeks

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You and Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) were identical for the first 9 weeks: 8-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1...

Posted by: adrianreavill83 30th March 2021, 03:15 PM

With Every Heartbeat by Robyn featuring Kleerup and It's A Sin by Pet Shop Boys both had a chart run starting in 5-1 in its two weeks

Posted by: Dobbo. 30th March 2021, 03:23 PM

Roll Deep's Good Times & Jason Derulo's Want To Want Me were both fell very quickly for multi-week #1 singles.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 30th March 2021, 03:28 PM

14 weeks in the top 20 for WTWM though?

Posted by: JosephStyles 30th March 2021, 03:30 PM

Sigma's Nobody to Love and Kiesza's Hideaway came out a week apart yet had very similar initial top 40 runs...!

1-2-3-4-5-7-11-18-19-24-26-31-31-32-33-39 [Nobody to Love]
1-2-3-3-5-9-16-17-20-25-27-29-33-34-37-[41] [Hideaway]

Only two weeks where there was a difference of more than 2 places! It differed more after that and Hideaway re-entered a couple of times but I always found that trajectory very interesting.

Even if we account for Hideaway coming out a week later:

01-02-03-04-05-07-11-18-19-24-26-31-31-32-33-39 [Nobody to Love]
00-01-02-03-03-05-09-16-17-20-25-27-29-33-34-37 [Hideaway]

Still only two weeks of more than 2 places between them...!

Posted by: Dobbo. 30th March 2021, 03:39 PM

I wanted to check but Polyhex is down! Yeah from memory it did hold up quite well in the top 20 but fell out of the top 10 very quickly. Think over half its weeks in the top 10 were at #1 in fact and this was pre-ACR days of course.

Posted by: fchd 30th March 2021, 04:17 PM

Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me - (46 Weeks) 06/06/2015 -{1}-1-1-1-3-8-15-12-16-13-16-15-14-18-22-28-32-31-33-36-37-41-44-42-54-67-76-81-65-78-79-63-65-86-91-76-78-72-82-91-96-91-88-97-94-x(2)-86


I don't think it fell very quickly at all. Seventeen weeks Top 40 after dropping down from Number One.

Posted by: JulianT 30th March 2021, 04:50 PM

I’m sure there are loads that I can’t think of off the top of my head but here’s one:
Jaimeson had 2 #4 hits in 2003 with eerily similar chart runs:
True 4-9-14-19-25-34
Complete 4-7-12-17-26-33
The other interesting thing was that, despite the almost identical runs and there only being 6 months between the 2 hits, True had sold 80k by the end of the year and Complete only 58k. That’s how badly the market was in free fall at that time.

Posted by: dan::G 30th March 2021, 05:01 PM

are you confusing WTWM with Don't Wanna Go Home?

for a multi-week #1 it had a rather poor run, 5 weeks in the top 10, but only an additional 3 in the top 40

1-1-5-6-7-15-23-27-41-46-60-70-88-83-90-x-92-x

Roll Deep - Good Times likewise, 5 weeks top 10, 8 weeks top 40

1-1-1-3-9-14-30-37-41-46-57-52-56-68-65-83-80-99-x

Posted by: Dobbo. 30th March 2021, 05:42 PM

I wasn't but that is a much better example yes! Actually didn't realise Good Times was such a sharp decline...

Posted by: Rush 30th March 2021, 07:50 PM

Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me: 1-1-1-1-2-3-5-6-8-9-13-19-24-28-31-34-37...
Duffy - Mercy: 1-1-1-1-1-2-3-5-6-8-9-11-12-18-21-22-21-26-26-32-33-33-32-39...
Estelle - American Boy: 72-x(1)-1-1-1-1-2-3-5-6-9-11-13-17-17-20-23-21-23-28-23-30-36...

10 weeks identical between the first 2, and 8 with the 3rd, and they're all from the same year

A couple others:

Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex: 1-1-1-2-3-3-5-7-10-13-6-9-16-19-19-27-33-35-36-32...
Sam Smith - Too Good At Goodbyes: 1-1-1-2-3-3-5-7-3-4-5-7-30-42-44-43-27...

Craig David - 7 Days: 1-2-3-7-8-11-18-29-36-44...
McFly - All About You / You've Got A Friend: 1-2-3-7-8-11-17-24-34-39-47...

TLC - Unpretty: 6-9-10-15-18-21-27-30-40-53-73
Blue - Fly By II: 6-9-10-15-18-21-24-34-38-50-57-56

Basement Jaxx - Good Luck (first release): 12-17-22-28-33-41-57-74
PARTYNEXTDOOR feat. Rihanna - BELIEVE IT: 12-17-22-28-33-32-34-32-40-40-43-94

Oasis - The Hindu Times: 1-4-13-23-37-51-66-63-65-62-74
Cheryl - I Don't Care: 1-4-13-23-37-62-75-77-71-86

Posted by: JulianT 30th March 2021, 08:05 PM

Thanks for those - they’re brilliant!

Posted by: gooddelta 30th March 2021, 08:13 PM

Wow! Those are great examples, especially the trio from 2008

Oasis and Cheryl too as those are quite freefalling runs to have the same first five weeks!

Posted by: Colm 30th March 2021, 09:11 PM

Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam, Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could stuck together the whole way up and down the top 40.

PUTJ 37-19-04-03-02-02-04-08-11-19-26
IOIC 36-17-06-04-03-03-05-10-15-20-29
DIFF 01-02-02-01-01-01-01-02-04-01-03

Posted by: Smint 30th March 2021, 09:38 PM

And Sydney ended up no.13 in the EOY chart for 1989 as by far the highest peaking no.3 (Technotronic was highest no.2 at 8 in the EOY). Both peaked behind the year biggest single Black Box.

Posted by: Tawdry Hepburn 30th March 2021, 10:06 PM

This made me chortle.

Excellent finds. How did you do it?

Posted by: Dill Doe 30th March 2021, 10:12 PM

Spice Girls - Hollier/ LLLTW
All Saints - Black Coffee
Destiny's Child - Independent Woman
Leanne Rhymes - Can't Fight The Moonlight

All of those have the same chart runs.

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
Goyte - Used To Know
Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

All three of these have similar chart runs too.

Posted by: Dill Doe 30th March 2021, 10:14 PM

Oh, and Emma Bunton - What Took You So Long and Alexandra Burke - Don't Start With Me have similar runs.

Posted by: Jay❄ 31st March 2021, 03:29 AM

All Saints - Never Ever and Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy - not the best example of similarity in this thread, but nevertheless I associate them together - both were November releases that didn't make it to #1 until January (in the late 90s it was quite uncommon for singles to not peak at #1 until many weeks into their chart runs).

Never Ever release date: 10th November 1997 [entered at #3; #1: Aqua - Barbie Girl (4th week at #1) | #2: Natalie Imbruglia - Torn (3rd week at #2)]
Heartbeat/Tragedy release date: 9th November 1998 [entered at 2; #1: Cher - Believe (4th week at #1)]

Both singles managed 15 weeks in the Top 10:

03 05 06 05 04 04 04 02 01 02 02 04 05 03 07 [All Saints]
02 05 05 08 08 06 04 01 02 03 03 03 06 10 10 [Steps]

Both featured in the EOY Top 20 in two consecutive years:

Never Ever - 13th in 1997 [690k], 16th in 1998 [567k]
Heartbeat/Tragedy - 12th in 1998 [626k], 19th in 1999 [523k]

Posted by: Rush 31st March 2021, 04:34 AM

I have a spreadsheet of the charts from 1990-2020 (I scraped them from the OCC site at one point lol) and I added a column with, each week, each song's chart run over the last 10 weeks (or chart run thus far for songs on less than 10 weeks of age), and looked for double-ups in the 10-week segments, and then the ones of songs' first 9 weeks, 8 weeks, etc. Most of them are uninteresting (eg it's no surprise there are multiple songs that have charted 1-1-1-1-2-2), but there were several standouts which are the ones I posted.

A few more:

Ed Sheeran - Shape Of You: 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-2-3-4-5-7-9-10-11-17...
Calvin Harris & Sam Smith - Promises: 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-2-3-4-18-23-22-38...

New Kids On The Block - Step By Step: 2-5-12-23-30-45-72
E-17 - Each Time: 2-5-12-23-30-47-51-44-47-64...

iiO - Rapture: 2-5-8-10-19-30-37-36-33-39-48-62...
Craig David feat. Sting - Rise & Fall: 2-5-8-10-19-28-35-57-67-71

Ironik feat. Chipmunk & Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Hold Me Closer): 3-3-7-11-16-24-40-49-76-97-95-87-55-83...
David Guetta feat. Flo Rida & Nicki Minaj - Where Them Girls At: 3-3-7-11-16-26-23-26-26-17-18-15-19-19-21-24-36-32...

Conor Maynard - R U Crazy: 4-9-11-17-22-35-42-63-74...
Blonde feat. Alex Newell - All Cried Out: 4-9-11-17-22-26-32-38-42-60-49-50...

Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight: 5-10-13-17-26-35-41-41-43-42-53...
Shaggy - Luv Me Luv Me: 5-10-13-17-26-28-48-62-59-63...

Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles: 6-9-11-16-18-18-18-18-23-26-42-54-62...
Sia - Chandelier: 6-9-11-16-18-14-20-21-22-25-30-29-30-30-35-36-34-28-22-33-37-40-21-38-31-29-24-22-19-22-25-25-24-22-20-27-30-30-32-29-32-35-37-40-35-35-43-39...
(that #18 for 4 weeks in a row in 2002 is very impressive)