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 18th February 2021, 09:52 AM
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I've no idea how many sales it was behind the two songs above it, but I've always wondered whether There Goes The Fear would've been bigger had it not been deleted after a day, though could just have been the gimmick that made it chart so high in the first place!
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18th February 2021, 10:01 AM
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QUOTE(RabbitFurCoat @ Feb 18 2021, 09:52 AM)  I've no idea how many sales it was behind the two songs above it, but I've always wondered whether There Goes The Fear would've been bigger had it not been deleted after a day, though could just have been the gimmick that made it chart so high in the first place! Oasis were no.1 so I doubt it would have made a difference. I always thought it was the gimmick that got it there. |
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18th February 2021, 10:13 AM
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top 3 sales 27/04/02 1. The Hindu Times - Oasis 116k 2. Girlfriend - 'N-Sync & Nelly 53k 3. There Goes The Fear - Doves 41k |
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18th February 2021, 10:20 AM
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One chart week that springs to mind was w/e 10/04/99
1. Mr Oizo 184,000 2. Eminem 143,000 3. Phats & Small 116,000 4. Thank ABBA For The Music 99,000 Very high sales for 2-4! |
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18th February 2021, 11:03 AM
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it's always a bit stretch to call #3 unlucky, as there are two songs above it.
We could go on and on and have a thread about "unlucky #9's" 
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18th February 2021, 11:14 AM
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QUOTE(Sour Candy @ Feb 18 2021, 11:03 AM) it's always a bit stretch to call #3 unlucky, as there are two songs above it. We could go on and on and have a thread about "unlucky #9's" If we're talking about unlucky #9s 'Ciao Adios' comes to mind |
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18th February 2021, 11:30 AM
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QUOTE(Mangø @ Feb 18 2021, 11:14 AM) If we're talking about unlucky #9s 'Ciao Adios' comes to mind Considering its chart run of hitting #9 on four separate occasions, Lost Without You by Freya Ridings definitely does. Honourable mention for A Sky Full of Stars too. |
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18th February 2021, 11:35 AM
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Also, DJ Luck & MC Neat - A Little Bit Of Luck went 18-17-14-11-12-9-9-10-10-16... during one of the fastest periods of Top 10 turnover in chart history.
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18th February 2021, 11:46 AM
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When You’re Gone by Bryan Adams and Mel C could be an example. Sales were massive at that point, did it ever get any weeks at 100k+?
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18th February 2021, 11:57 AM
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1975 - If You're Too Shy is my vote when we get to unlucky #14s!
Sold 27k which would almost get you top 5 now, ten months later This post has been edited by rio309: 18th February 2021, 11:57 AM |
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18th February 2021, 12:11 PM
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QUOTE(Bré @ Feb 17 2021, 11:39 PM) 'name any song that peaked at #3 and sold a lot / had longevity' for the most part. Let me add to this  (I started writing this post before T Boy mentioned the song in question!)Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C - When You're Gone stands out to me, in terms of going on to be a much bigger hit than the song that prevented it from #2. When You're Gone entered and peaked at #3, while Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) was a new entry at #2 (according to Gezza their first week sales were 78,000 and 107,000 respectively, so clearly not a close call... however... When You're Gone placed higher in the chart in every subsequent week in 1998 and 1999, therefore it achieved a much better chart run and sales. In its 9th week, Bryan was at #5 while Jay-Z was #57! 1998/1999 chart runs: 02-07-12-13-15-25-37-51-57-65-62-81-00-00-88-80-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)] 03-06-08-07-06-06-06-07-05-07-11-15-22-32-36-42-50-57-65-00-00-00-84-86 [Bryan Adams feat. Melanie C - When You're Gone] Hard Knock Life: 56th best selling single of 1998 - 274,000 copies sold (and not in the Top 200 best sellers of 1999; #200 sold 78,300) Certification: Gold (1st May 2015) Recent total sales: 476,000 as of March 2018 (I can't find anything more up to date, but working off its sales being 460k on 18th Aug 2017 and 476k on 9th Mar 2018, with the assumption of its average weekly sales staying the same, it would have reached 560k now) When You're Gone: 45th best selling single of 1998 - 317,000 copies sold 55th best selling single of 1999 - 318,000 copies sold 73rd best selling single of the 1990s decade - 635,000 copies sold Certification: Platinum (12th February 1999) Recent total sales: 901,000 as of January 2021 These are the weekly sales for When You're Gone while it was in the Top 10: 78,000 - #03 [06/12/1998] 67,000 - #06 [13/12/1998] 75,000 - #08 [20/12/1998] 60,000 - #07 [27/12/1998] 37,000 - #06 [03/01/1999] 36,000 - #06 [10/01/1999] 36,000 - #06 [17/01/1999] 40,000 - #07 [24/01/1999] 39,000 - #05 [31/01/1999] 34,000 - #07 [07/02/1999] In terms of all the Spice Girls' solo careers, When You're Gone has vastly outsold everything else, even though 11 of their solo singles charted in the Top 2 (eight #1s, three #2s). The second highest selling solo Spice single is 477,000 for It's Raining Men by Geri Halliwell, as of May 2020. |
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18th February 2021, 12:14 PM
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QUOTE(rio309 @ Feb 18 2021, 11:57 AM) 1975 - If You're Too Shy is my vote when we get to unlucky #14s! Sold 27k which would almost get you top 5 now, ten months later It also fell really quickly though. Scared To Be Lonely deserved better! It already spent two weeks at #14, and if Ed Sheeran's Divide album had the three track per artist rule applied at the time it would have spent ANOTHER two weeks at #14. Oh, and Into You obviously, three weeks at #14! |
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18th February 2021, 12:27 PM
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As well as being an absolutely massive No.3 that deserved more, When You're Gone is an interesting track in that both artists sing in tandem on it throughout (apart from Mel's ad-libs and Bryan's talking bits), a bit like Take That's These Days, where all three of the band sing together throughout. I guess that's also Bananarama's USP.
But you don't get too many duets or collaborations where everyone involved sings every word together. |
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18th February 2021, 12:33 PM
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‘All Fired Up’, stuck behind the unluckiest number-two ‘Moves Like Jagger’, stuck behind Pixie Lott’s ‘All About Tonight’ which hugely benefitted from a prime-time performance on Red or Black during release week.
I remember Example’s ‘Stay Awake’ being released the week prior debuting at number-one with a good 17,000 sales less than what All Fired Up sold in its first week. |
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18th February 2021, 12:35 PM
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QUOTE(gooddelta @ Feb 18 2021, 12:27 PM) As well as being an absolutely massive No.3 that deserved more, When You're Gone is an interesting track in that both artists sing in tandem on it throughout (apart from Mel's ad-libs and Bryan's talking bits), a bit like Take That's These Days, where all three of the band sing together throughout. I guess that's also Bananarama's USP. But you don't get too many duets or collaborations where everyone involved sings every word together. There’s Snow Patrol and Martha Wainwright on Set The Fire To The First Bar. Also A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera on Say Something. |
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18th February 2021, 12:42 PM
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It might not be "unlucky" but as we're kinda on the topic of best songs to peak at #3, Britney Spears - Gimme More is the winner and you can argue with your walls about that.
 I was curious to see what stopped her and... it's arguably one of the strongest top 3's there is as Sugababes - About You Now & Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie were ahead of her. I don't know sales (but I assume they were quite low? 30k-ish?) so I don't know if she'd have benefitted in any other time of the year in comparison. |
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18th February 2021, 12:51 PM
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How about TLC - No Scrubs?
It had a fairly unusual chart run by 1999 standards: 7-13-8-6-9-3-5-5-9-12-12-16-22-29-38-37-44-60-69 The Top 2 in the week it peaked at #3 were #1: Westlife - Swear It Again [80k] and #2 Offspring - Why Don't You Get a Job? [72k]; TLC were #3 with 53k, so unfortunately not close. No Scrubs was the 16th best seller of the year with 553k sales (second biggest #3 hit of the year, behind Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much), whereas Swear It Again was 46th with 349k and Why Don't You Get a Job was evidently very front loaded because it ended 117th with 157k. Westlife's single is Gold, Offspring went Silver in 2014. No Scrubs became 2xPlatinum in 2018. I'd say that No Scrubs has definitely stood the test of time and is regarded as one of the ultimate girl group classics... I guess many people who aren't chart enthusiasts might be surprised that it wasn't a #1 hit! ~~~ #4 singles... a couple of them from early 2014 strike me as a bit unlucky, considering they sold a lot more than was typically needed to be #4. There were certainly a lot of #2 sales from that year which didn't sell this much: Neon Jungle - Braveheart - 63,743 [Such a strong first week sale for a new girl group! Such a shame they fizzled out so quickly] Gorgon City/MNEK - Ready for Your Love - 71,966 |
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18th February 2021, 01:19 PM
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QUOTE(Tafty @ Feb 18 2021, 12:42 PM) It might not be "unlucky" but as we're kinda on the topic of best songs to peak at #3, Britney Spears - Gimme More is the winner and you can argue with your walls about that. I was curious to see what stopped her and... it's arguably one of the strongest top 3's there is as Sugababes - About You Now & Mark Ronson feat. Amy Winehouse - Valerie were ahead of her. I don't know sales (but I assume they were quite low? 30k-ish?) so I don't know if she'd have benefitted in any other time of the year in comparison. Its download release was brought a week forward so sold 18k on downloads alone to debut at #3 (Sugababes sold 41k and Mark Ronson sold 33k). The following week, when it was released physically, it sold 32k but dropped to #6! This was on 'Bleeding Love'/'Rule the World' release week, plus McFly were new at #3. |
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18th February 2021, 01:24 PM
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QUOTE(Liam.k. @ Feb 18 2021, 01:19 PM) Its download release was brought a week forward so sold 18k on downloads alone to debut at #3 (Sugababes sold 41k and Mark Ronson sold 33k). The following week, when it was released physically, it sold 32k but dropped to #6! This was on 'Bleeding Love'/'Rule the World' release week, plus McFly were new at #3. Omg. I assume it would have been around (or close to) 50k had it had a dual release! So she *could* have been #1 that week. Ughhhh!But wtf at that sudden jump in sales. 18k to get #3 and then 32k to get a #6! LMAO. Crazy! Did Take That ever get mentioned in the unlucky #2's thread, icr? They ran Leona close several times, right? |
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18th February 2021, 03:07 PM
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QUOTE(Robbie @ Feb 18 2021, 10:13 AM) ^ top 3 sales 27/04/02 1. The Hindu Times - Oasis 116k 2. Girlfriend - 'N-Sync & Nelly 53k 3. There Goes The Fear - Doves 41k Not out of the question that it could have swapped with NSync and made #2 I suppose. But then as already noted I think the gimmick of it been deleted helped it to #3 anyway. |
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