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 8th November 2014, 11:08 AM
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Cheryl & Girls Aloud’s Official Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles Revealed!
08/11/2014 By Justin Myers  As Cheryl prepares to release album number four, we rank her solo hits against her Girls Aloud classics and see which tracks come out on top. Is she really better off alone? This week is a big week for Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, or Cheryl as we like to call her in the pop biz. After a two-year wait and two massive singles before it, Mrs Fez-Vez is finally ready to release her fourth solo album, Only Human. But as Cheryl celebrates five years as a solo artist, we couldn’t help but wonder: have Cheryl’s singles sold more than her Girls Aloud hits? Well, luckily, we have all the details at our fingertips , because we are, of course the only chart that counts. And so we had a look in our vaults. And now we can tell you, by way of an amazing Top 20 that doesn’t have a duff track on it. But first… the Top 5! 1: Cheryl – Fight For This Love In an amazing coincidence, Fight For This Love was Number 1 exactly five years ago today. We’ve had an in-depth look at this tune’s progress, but all you need to know is that as a million seller it is Cheryl’s bestselling song. It was Number 1 for two weeks and sold super-speedily – 430,000 of you bought it in its first two weeks on sale. Cheryl may well have thought going solo wasn’t “gon’ be no picnic”, but she didn’t do too badly with this deceptively dancey R&B number. SALES: A cool million CHART FACT: Cheryl only went and knocked her very own X Factor protégée Alexandra Burke off the top spot. Cheryl was then herself booted off Number 1 by another X Factor act – JLS! 2: Girls Aloud – Sound Of The Underground The song that started it all for Cheryl – and Nadine, Nicola, Kimberley and Sarah too, of course – this was the Official Christmas Number 1 of 2002 and beat the girls’ Popstars: The Rivals competitors One True Voice into second place. Sound Of The Underground – the beginning of a career-long love affair for Girls Aloud with producers Xenomania – stayed at the summit for four weeks until it was given the heave-ho by another talent show winner – Fame Academy’s David Sneddon. SALES: 665,000 CHART FACT: Four weeks was Girls Aloud’s longest run at the top spot. Sound Of The Underground was the first of four Number 1 singles for the group. 3: Girls Aloud – The Promise From the song that began their great chart story to one that came pretty near the end, The Promise was a huge hit for Girls Aloud as they prepared to release their fifth and final studio album Out Of Control. Part ‘60s girlband-pastiche, part Blankety Blank theme tune (in the best possible way), The Promise stayed at Number 1 for a week, almost exactly six years ago today! SALES: 540,000 CHART FACT: The Promise also fell victim to the curse of The X Factor – it was booted off Number 1 by The X Factor finalists’ cover of Mariah Carey’s Hero. Take a look at the full Top 40 from the week The Promise was at Number 1. 4: Cheryl – Call My Name With Calvin Harris on board, there wasn’t much chance of this track not being a monster hit. Cheryl’s second biggest seller was a Number 1 hit for her in 2012. SALES: 450,000 CHART FACT: Call My Name was originally earmarked for Rita Ora, but she didn’t think it was her thing. Rita had three Number 1s in 2012, and along with Cheryl and Geri Halliwell, holds the record for most Number 1 singles by a British female solo artist. Selling over 150,000 copies in its first week on sale, Call My Name was the fastest selling single of 2012 until James Arthur’s Impossible came along in December. 5: Cheryl – Promise This And another Cheryl song means that the majority of the Top 5 belongs to Mrs Fez-Vez. Promise This was the lead single from what you might call Cheryl’s sophomore album, Messy Little Raindrops, and spent a week at Number 1 in 2010, giving Chezza a second solo chart-topper. SALES: 430,000 CHART FACT: Promise This was knocked off Number 1 by Rihanna’s million-selling Only Girl (In The World). Other notable entries The top selling song on our chart not to hit Number 1 is Cheryl’s Parachute, in sixth place. It peaked at Number 5 in 2009 and has sold 400,000 copies. Girls Aloud’s top selling non-Number 1 is 2007’s Call The Shots, a Number 4 hit, selling 325,000 copies and landing eighth on our overall countdown. Cheryl’s 2014 Number 1 Crazy Stupid Love is already her sixth bestselling solo single, and breaks into our Top 10 here, with over 280,000 copies sold. Girls Aloud’s other Number 1s also put in an appearance in this Top 20, with 2004’s I’ll Stand By You popping up in 13th place with over 230,000 copies sold. Up in 20th and only just edging No Good Advice out of the countdown by a mere 400 copies is the girls’ team-up with Sugababes, Walk This Way. The charity cover of the Run DMC/Aerosmith track spent a week at Number 1 and was a third chart-topper for Girls Aloud, but a fifth for Sugababes, who by then had welcomed Amelle into the group to replace Mutya. It’s sold over 140,000 copies. Classics that didn’t make it The download era means that Cheryl’s solo material had a better chance of making the Top 20 – and quite right too. It’s bad news for Girls Aloud tracks like Sexy No No No (24), The Show (25) and Wake Me Up (28). They are, of course, still brilliant. Here’s the full Official Cheryl and Girls Aloud Top 20 biggest selling singles: TRACK ARTIST PEAK YEAR 1 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE CHERYL COLE 1 2009 2 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1 2002 3 THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1 2008 4 CALL MY NAME CHERYL 1 2012 5 PROMISE THIS CHERYL COLE 1 2010 6 PARACHUTE CHERYL COLE 5 2009 7 3 WORDS CHERYL COLE FT WILL I AM 4 2009 8 CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3 2007 9 HEARTBREAKER WILL I AM FT CHERYL COLE 4 2007 10 CRAZY STUPID LOVE CHERYL COLE FT TINIE TEMPAH 1 2014 11 SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3 2006 12 JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2 2003 13 I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD 1 2004 14 LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2 2004 15 CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH GIRLS ALOUD 9 2007 16 UNDER THE SUN CHERYL 13 2012 17 SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2 2012 18 BIOLOGY GIRLS ALOUD 4 2005 19 THE LOVING KIND GIRLS ALOUD 10 2008 20 WALK THIS WAY SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD 1 2007 © 2014 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. |
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8th November 2014, 11:09 AM
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Posted this in the GA forum too but I thought I may as well post here too.
1,000,000+ Fight for This Love 665,000 Sound of the Underground 540,000 The Promise 450,000 Call My Name 430,000 Promise This 400,000 Parachute 325,000 Call the Shots 280,000 Crazy Stupid Love 230,000 I'll Stand By You 140,000 Walk This Way 139,500 No Good Advice |
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8th November 2014, 11:20 AM
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Biology is far too low in this countdown. I know better sales in 2012 and all but how even did Something New outsell it?
 good to see that Call My Name has outsold all of Cheryl's non-FFTL singles anyhow and Sound of the Underground still GA's top seller |
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8th November 2014, 11:30 AM
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QUOTE(liamk97 @ Nov 8 2014, 11:08 AM)  The download era means that Cheryl’s solo material had a better chance of making the Top 20 – and quite right too. No words really. It's a shame there's only 3 Girls Aloud tracks in the top 10, but well done to Cheryl all the same! |
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8th November 2014, 12:19 PM
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The fact 'Promise This' is in the top 5 actually angers me.
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8th November 2014, 12:26 PM
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 Why do today, what you can do tomorrow?
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'Parachute' was Top 5 in 2010 not 2009 as the article states.
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8th November 2014, 12:39 PM
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QUOTE(mr_aly @ Nov 8 2014, 12:19 PM) The fact 'Promise This' is in the top 5 actually angers me. An insult to pop. |
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8th November 2014, 02:02 PM
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 Ciao, 911? E 'Quagmire. Sì, è preso nella finestra di questo
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Probably my favourite pop group of the noughties- peerless pop at a time when pop wasn't all that fashionable.
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8th November 2014, 03:09 PM
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So pleased that they revealed an updated sale for Call The Shots!
'Crazy Stupid Love' figure doesn't include streaming. It's sold nearly 338,000 officially. So that would put it above Call The Shots but I'm not sure if it has outsold '3 Words' given that they didn't reveal a total for that. |
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8th November 2014, 04:29 PM
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Pleasing to see that 'Call The Shots' is GA's 3rd biggest seller (this may have been common knowledge, but I care not enough to know ~).
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8th November 2014, 05:29 PM
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I can't believe Under The Sun outsold Something New in the very same sales climate. I always considered Under The Sun to be a flop really.
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8th November 2014, 05:57 PM
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I remain forever baffled by Cheryl's popularity.
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8th November 2014, 06:07 PM
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I love promise this!!
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9th November 2014, 10:13 AM
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They held up well in the sales dip but unfortunate that overall it means Cheryl is so prominent in this list. She may have some weird selling power but they were always better together.
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9th November 2014, 12:12 PM
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I love Cheryl but I agree, I was gutted when girls aloud came to an end. They encapsulate my youth
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