The 1975's top 10 biggest selling singles

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danG View member profile	Jun 2 2018, 01:02 PM Post #1
🔥🚀🔥 Joined: 30 August 2010 Posts: 74,520 User: 11,746	Source POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR 1 CHOCOLATE 1975 19 2013 907k units (367k sales, 540k SES) 2 THE SOUND 1975 15 2016 634k units (134k sales, 500k SES) 3 GIRLS 1975 45 2013 4 SOMEBODY ELSE 1975 55 2016 377k units (57k sales, 320k SES) 5 SEX 1975 34 2013 6 LOVE ME 1975 20 2015 7 THE CITY 1975 30 2013 8 ROBBERS 1975 N/A 2013 9 UGH 1975 42 2016 10 SETTLE DOWN 1975 68 2013 Wow at the sales for 'Chocolate', didn't realise it did that amazingly (I suppose mostly due to very good trickle streams). Good to see it firmly at #1 anyway as it's their strongest song by a long way.


Brer View member profile	Jun 2 2018, 03:12 PM Post #2
I'll just stick around and do some more damage Joined: 14 February 2009 Posts: 115,034 User: 8,300	Those seem like surprisingly high pure sales for 'The Sound' and 'Somebody Else'! I guess downloads hadn't quite collapsed so much in 2016. 'The City' deserves to be higher, that along with 'Chocolate' and 'Somebody Else' is a standout in their discog.


Jessie Where View member profile	Jun 3 2018, 06:52 PM Post #3
Break the tension Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 88,874 User: 51	'Somebody Else' is for me their best moment. Pretty astonishing to see it approaching gold.


Liam.k. View member profile	May 22 2020, 01:36 PM Post #4
BuzzJack Idol Joined: 8 December 2010 Posts: 50,946 User: 12,472	QUOTE The 1975’s biggest songs on the Official Chart revealed The 1975 are one of the biggest British breakthrough bands of the last decade, building a reputation as one of the world's best live acts. Their passionate fan base have lead them to success the world over, including an unbroken streak of Number 1s on the Official Albums Chart. While their latest album Notes On A Conditional Form has been subject to a couple of delays, the band have achieved some remarkable success in this second part of their 'Music For Cars' era. If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know) instantly became the band' highest-charting single, a clear sign that the band are as popular as ever some seven years into their career. To celebrate the release of The 1975's fourth studio album, we look back at their biggest songs in UK chart history, ranked in sales + streams order. Somebody Else The final single from their Mercury-nominated second album, Somebody Else is The 1975 in full heartbreak synth-pop mode. It might have missed the Top 40, peaking at Number 55, but the song lingered around the Top 100 for 11 weeks in 2016, and ranks as the group's third biggest hit. Its tally stands at 633,000 combined sales, including 60.7 million plays on streaming services. The Sound Previously the band’s highest charting single (topping out at Number 15) The Sound places at Number 2 on the band's all-time list. The lead release from their chart-topping second album, Matt revealed at the time that they almost gave the song to One Direction, but “it just didn’t really work very well”. Thankfully it did for them, notching up 19 weeks on the Official Chart with overall sales of 885,000, including 80.3 million streams. Watch back this, ahem, memorable performance of the song at the 2017 BRITs: Chocolate The 1975’s breakthrough hit is also their most successful single, with a mighty 1.2 million combined sales, including 88 million streams and 369,000 downloads. The track – revealed by Matt as a “love letter to the authority figures” and about “small town boredom” - was radio staple in 2013. Chocolate was a slow burner on the Official Singles Chart, debuting at Number 71 in February 2013, and eventually peaked at 19 and spent 35 weeks inside the Top 100. The 1975’s Official Top 10 biggest singles POS TITLE ARTIST YEAR 1 CHOCOLATE 19 2013 1.2m 2 THE SOUND 15 2016 885k 3 SOMEBODY ELSE 55 2016 633k 4 GIRLS 45 2013 5 SEX 34 2013 6 TOOTIMETOOTIMETOOTIME 26 2018 7 IT'S NOT LIVING (IF IT'S NOT WITH YOU) 46 2018 8 ROBBERS 166 2013 9 LOVE ME 20 2015 10 THE CITY 30 2013 ©2020 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.


Jessie Where View member profile	May 22 2020, 01:54 PM Post #5
Break the tension Joined: 7 March 2006 Posts: 88,874 User: 51	'Somebody Else' having that many sales is mindblowing to me. Easily their best though, the peak is unjust. There are 4 in that top 10 I haven't even heard.


N-S View member profile	May 22 2020, 02:34 PM Post #6
BuzzJack Gold Member Joined: 23 June 2006 Posts: 4,667 User: 816	In any other chart era, The 1975 would have had multiple top 10 hits but now they're lucky in just being the only British rock(-ish?) band to chalk the occasional top 40 hit (nevermind top 20!).


GTH View member profile	May 23 2020, 06:36 AM Post #7
Gareth T H Joined: 6 February 2010 Posts: 2,492 User: 10,597	Chart positions mean so little these days. To think even Robbers with that 166 peak is a silver certified (200,000 units) song. Surprised someone else didn’t make top 40 still.