April 24, 201015 yr Loving the fact OMG wasn't number 1 in Ireland. :yahoo: Hope Diana can rise to the top spot next friday. OMG could well go to No.1 next week though, performing well on iTunes. That is if Glee doesn't replace itself at No.1 with Like A Prayer! :o
April 24, 201015 yr Just had a look at the certifications there, Lady GaGa sold over 135,000 albums in Ireland last year :o Yet I don't get how Susan Boyle supposedly is 8x platinum, Lady GaGa is 9x platinum, yet Susan Boyle was listed as the best seller of the year? :unsure: Can anybody clear that up? Edited April 24, 201015 yr by Irishguy123
April 25, 201015 yr Just had a look at the certifications there, Lady GaGa sold over 135,000 albums in Ireland last year :o Yet I don't get how Susan Boyle supposedly is 8x platinum, Lady GaGa is 9x platinum, yet Susan Boyle was listed as the best seller of the year? :unsure: Can anybody clear that up? Certifications are based on shipments, the year-end chart was based on sales. That makes sense because GaGa's album had all of last year for the CD stores to re-stock whereas Susan only had 2 months. Susan has sold more copies but there are more copies of TFM on the shelves. & Lady GaGa is probably 11x/12x platinum by now seeing as she's been in the top 5/10 since January, so that would put her at 180,000 :o :D Edited April 25, 201015 yr by KKBL
April 28, 201015 yr Author Ireland's official singles chart began at the start of October 1962. Prior to this the Evening Herald published a Top 10 starting back in February 1959. Those charts can be found at http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?...&highlight=. Ireland's first chart show was introduced by Harry Thuillie, compiled by Jimmy Magee and produced by Roisin Lorigan. It was broadcast on Monday 1 October 1962 at 6:45pm on Radio Eireann. 01 She's Not You - Elvis Presley 02 Wolverton Mountain - Claude King 03 Things - Bobby Darin 04 You Don't Know Me - Ray Charles 05 Sheila - Tommy Roe 06 Spanish Harlem - Jimmy Justice 07 Roses Are Red - Ronnie Carroll 08 Adios Amigo - Jim Reeves 09 Speedy Gonzales - Pat Boone 10 It'll Be Me - Cliff Richard
April 30, 201015 yr w.e. 29th April 2010 Top 50 Singles 02 01 Usher ft Will I Am - OMG 19 02 Glee Cast - Like A Prayer 05 03 Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone 04 04 Train - Hey, Soul Sister 06 05 David Guetta ft Kid Cudi - Memories 08 06 Timbaland ft Justin Timberlake - Carry Out 07 07 Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song 03 08 Diana Vickers - Once Ne 09 James O'Connor & Audrey Trainor - Falling Up 01 10 Glee Cast - Gives You Hell 11 11 Taio Cruz ft Ke$ha - Dirty Picture 12 12 Plan B - She Said 09 13 Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 10 14 Selma Gomez & The Scene - Naturally 21 15 Professor Green - I Need You Tonight 13 16 Heathers - Remember When Ne 17 Cathy Davey - Little Red Ne 18 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now 15 19 Tinie Temper - Pass Out 18 20 Jedward ft Vanilla Ice - Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby) 14 21 Rihanna - Rudeboy 28 22 Kelis - Acapella 17 23 Mumford & Sons - The Cave 16 24 Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed 20 25 Cheryl Cole - Parachute 36 26 Sean Kingston & Justin Bieber - Eenie Meenie 40 27 Lady Gaga - Bad Romance 29 28 Alicia Keys - Empire State of Mind (Part 2) 22 29 Timbaland ft Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again 23 30 Boyzone - Gave It All Away 33 31 Chipmunk ft Esmee Denters - Until You Were Gone 46 32 Glee Cast - 4 Minutes 26 33 Justin Bieber ft Ludacris - Baby 25 34 BlackEyedPeas - Rock That Body 30 35 Chiddy Bang - Opposite of Adults 34 36 Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man 42 37 Paramore - The Only Exception 47 38 Saturdays - Ego 41 39 Owl City - Fireflies 39 40 Alicia Keys ft Beyonce - Put It In A Love Song Ne 41 Donna Marie - Simple Song Ne 42 Roll Deep - Good Times 38 43 Lloyd & Young Money - Bedrock 27 44 OneRepublic - All The Right Moves 45 45 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 35 46 Jason Derulo - In My Head Ne 47 Glee Cast - Like A Virgin 37 48 Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition Ne 49 Keane ft K'naan - Stop For A Moment 44 50 Inna - Hot Dropping out 24 Glee Cast - Hello Goodbye 31 Glee Cast ft Jonathan Groff - Hello 32 O Emperor - Reverie EP 43 Glee Cast - Hello, I Love You 48 Riptide Movement - Hard To Explain 49 Florence & The Machine - You've Got The Love 50 Reko - Stop My Eyes Top 20 Downloads 02 01 Usher ft Will I Am - OMG 18 02 Glee Cast - Like A Prayer 03 03 Train - Hey, Soul Sister 05 04 Lady Gaga ft Beyonce - Telephone 06 05 David Guetta ft Kid Cudi - Memories 08 06 Timbaland ft Justin Timberlake - Carry Out 07 07 Scouting For Girls - This Ain't A Love Song Ne 08 James O'Connor & Audrey Trainor - Falling Up 04 09 Diana Vickers - Once 01 10 Glee Cast - Gives You Hell 10 11 Taio Cruz ft Ke$ha - Dirty Picture 09 12 Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over 12 13 Plan B - She Said 13 14 Heathers - Remember When 19 15 Professor Green - I Need You Tonight Ne 16 Cathy Davey - Little Red Ne 17 Lady Antebellum - Need You Now 11 18 Selma Gomez & The Scene - Naturally 15 19 Tinie Temper - Pass Out 14 20 Rihanna - Rudeboy Dropping out 16 Ellie Goulding - Starry Eyed 17 Mumford & Sons - The Cave 20 Timbaland ft Katy Perry - If We Ever Meet Again Top 100 Artist Albums 01 01 AC/DC - Iron Man 2 (OST) 07 02 Lady Gaga - The Fame 03 03 Florence & The Machine - Lungs 04 04 Justin Bieber - My World 22 05 Glee Cast - The Power of Madonna 02 06 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More Ne 07 Josh Ritter - So Runs The World Away 05 08 Original Cast - Glee The Music: Vol 1 06 09 Original Cast - Glee The Music: Vol 2 09 10 Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up 10 11 Plan B - Defamation of Strickland Banks 15 12 Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D. 11 13 Whitney Houston - Ultimate Collection 08 14 Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation 31 15 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend 18 16 Imelda May - Love Tattoo Ne 17 Usher - Raymond V Raymond 14 18 Selma Gomez & The Scene - Kiss & Tell 23 19 Taylor Swift - Fearless 35 20 Abba - Gold 33 21 Andrea Bocelli - Vivere (The Best of...) 12 22 Boyzone - Brother Ne 23 Bullet For My Valentine - Fever 30 24 Rihanna - Rated R 21 25 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words 20 26 Michael Jackson - Off The Wall 58 27 Guns n Roses - Greatest Hits 16 28 Michael Buble - Crazy Love 69 29 Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations: The Best of.. 24 30 Celine Dion - My Love - The Essential Collection 89 31 Elton John - Rocket Man - Definitive Hits 19 32 Alicia Keys - Element of Freedom 84 33 Bon Jovi - Cross Road: The Best of..... 36 34 Ellie Goulding - Lights 32 35 Katherine Jenkins - Ultimate Collection 25 36 Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce Ne 37 Johnny McEvoy - The Legendary Collection 56 38 Timbaland - Shock Value II 17 39 Scouting For Girls - Everybody Wants To Be On TV 64 40 Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell 53 41 Madonna - Celebration Ne 42 Paddy Reilly - Very Best of... 40 43 Bruce Springsteen - Greatest Hits Re 44 Sting & The Police - Very Best of... 90 45 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits 13 46 MGMT - Congratulations 75 47 Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire - The Legend of.... 34 48 Heathers - Here, Not There Re 49 Enrique Iglesias - Greatest Hits Re 50 Stone Roses - The Stone Roses 88 51 Eurythmics - Ultimate Collection 77 52 Take That - Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection 27 53 Gorillaz - Plastic Beach 38 54 Snow Patrol - Up To Now 71 55 Boyzone - Back Again....No Matter What 82 56 Westlife - Unbreakable: Greatest Hits Vol 1 45 57 High Kings - Memory Lane 41 58 Andre Rieu - Forever Vienna 60 59 Pixie Lott - Turn It Up 26 60 Kate Nash - My Best Friend Is You 42 61 Kings of Leon - Only By The Night Ne 62 Avett Brothers - I & Love & You Re 63 Don Henley - Very Best of.... 67 64 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 97 65 Wolfe Tones - Legendary Wolfe Tones 1&2 49 66 Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid Re 67 Stevie Wonder - No 1s 29 68 Marina & The Diamonds - Family Jewels 43 69 Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 28 70 Meat Loaf - Hang Cool Teddy Bear Re 71 Christy Moore - Live At Vicar Street 37 72 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits Re 73 AC/DC - Back In Black 54 74 Temper Trap - Conditions 39 75 David Guetta - One Love 59 76 Jason Derulo - Jason Derulo 48 77 AC/DC - Live 52 78 Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible 61 79 Coronas - Tony Was An Ex Con 63 80 Michael Buble - It's Time Re 81 Van Morrison - Still On Top (Greatest Hits) 66 82 Pink - Funhouse 46 83 Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream 55 84 Ke$ha - Animal Re 85 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once (OST) 70 86 Johnny Cash - American V: Ain't No Grave Ne 87 Fall - Your Future Our Clutter 92 88 Phil Collins - ...Hits 73 89 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad 91 90 Take That - The Greatest Day: The Circus Live 47 91 Chieftans ft Ry Cooder - San Patricio 62 92 XX - XX 81 93 Paramore - Brand New Eyes 87 94 U2 - U218 85 95 Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend 76 96 Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can 78 97 Rufus Wainwright - All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu 99 98 N-Dubz - Against All Odds 68 99 Miley Cyrus - Time of Our Lives 50 100 Natalie Merchant - Leave Your Sleep Dropping out 44 Jonsi - Go 51 Frank Sinatra - Great American Songbook 57 She & Him - Volume 2 65 OneRepublic - Waking Up 72 Crystal Swing - Best Years of Our Lives 74 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 79 JLS - JLS 80 Hermione Hennessey - Songs My Father Taught Me 83 Ash - A To Z: Vol 1 86 Muse - The Resistance 93 Alexandra Burke - Overcome 94 Abba - 18 Hits 95 Dolly Parton - Very Best of..... 96 John Grant - Queen of Denmark 98 Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits 100 Vampire Weekend - Contra Top 30 Compilation Albums 01 01 Now 75 02 02 Dave Pearce Trance Anthems 2010 04 03 Clubland Smashed Ne 04 Big Tunes: Back 2 The 80's 03 05 Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakuel 05 06 Floorfillers 90's Club Classics 16 07 Dirty Dancing (OST) 06 08 40 Children's Favourites 07 09 Pop Princesses 2010 12 10 101 Running Songs 08 11 Now 74 Ne 12 100 Chillout Classics 09 13 Euphoria: A Decade of Trance Anthems 10 14 Massive R&B Spring 2010 11 15 Sexy R&B 15 16 Running Trax 25 17 1916 Easter Rising: 90th Anniversary 20 18 Mamma Mia (OST) 13 19 Rebel Songs of Ireland 14 20 Now That's What I Call The 00's Re 21 Big Tunes: Back 2 The 90's 22 22 Camp Rock 19 23 Motown 50 26 24 Legends of Irish Folk - Song For Ireland 21 25 Now Dance Anthems [2009] Re 26 R&B Lovesongs 2010 Re 27 100 Hits - Country Re 28 Twilight: New Moon (OST) 24 29 A State of Trance 2010: Armin Van Buuren 27 30 Mash Up Mix 90's Dropping out 17 Absolutely Essential Irish Songs 18 Kickass (OST) 23 Weekend Anthems 28 Boat That Rocked (OST) 29 My Songs 2010 30 Pop Party 7 Top 10 Indie Artist Albums Ne 01 Josh Ritter - So Runs The World Away 01 02 Heathers - Here, Not There 02 03 Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History 03 04 Temper Trap - Conditions 05 05 Coronas - Tony Was An Ex Con Ne 06 Fall - Your Future Our Clutter 06 07 XX - XX 08 08 Hermione Hennessey - Songs My Father Taught Me 11 09 Vampire Weekend - Contra 07 10 Crystal Swing - Best Years of Our Lives 09 11 Ash - A To Z: Vol 1 04 12 She & Him - Volume 2 10 13 John Grant - Queen of Denmark 13 14 Paul Brady - Hooba Dooba 19 15 Prodigy - Invaders Must Die 12 16 Caribou - Swim 20 17 James Vincent McMorrow - Early In The Morning Ne 18 Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo Re 19 Strokes - Is This It 16 20 Groove Armada - Black Light Dropping out 14 Coronas - Heroes Or Ghosts 15 Jane McNamee - Acoustically Yours 17 Gil Scott Heron - I'm New Here 18 Redneck Manifesto - Friendship Chart Track Commentary Usher Pips Glee After two weeks in the runner-up spot, Usher climbs to the top of the Singles Chart this week with ‘OMG’ (feat. Will.i.am) – his tenth Irish hit single and second No1, six years after reaching the top with ‘Yeah!’. The Glee Cast leap seventeen places from No19 to No2 with Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’, while their ‘Gives You Hell’ travels in the opposite direction, down nine places from No1 to No10. James O’Connor & Audrey Trainor have this week’s highest new entry at No9 with ‘Falling Up’, released across seven versions covering a range of genres. Cathy Davey has the next new entry at No17 with her independently-released ‘Little Red’ – her first Irish hit single despite both albums making the Top 30. Nashville country music group Lady Antebellum have the third and final Top 20 new entry with their US triple-platinum single ‘Need You Now’ new at No18. AC/DC’s ‘Iron Man 2’ soundtrack holds at No1 on the Album Chart for a second week, ahead of a resurgent Lady Gaga who jumps from No7 back to No2 with ‘The Fame’. Glee’s ‘The Power Of Madonna’ is this week’s highest climber, up seventeen places from No22 to No5, which means there are now three Glee albums in the Top 10 – Volume 1 is at No8 and Volume 2 is at No9. Josh Ritter has this week’s highest new entry at No7 with his seventh album ‘So Runs The World Away’, his fourth Irish Top 10 album following ‘Hello Starling’ (2003), ‘The Animal Years’ (2006) and ‘The Historical Conquests Of’ (2007). Usher has the next new entry at No17 with his sixth studio album ‘Raymond v Raymond’, the follow-up to ‘Here I Stand’ which debuted at No2 in May 2008. Shaky Fan's Commentary This weekend sees the 3000th Singles chart in the UK. In Ireland we have the 200th Download chart - look out during the week as I'll be posting a history of its no 1s. A correction on the compllation chart where I've discovered that I was getting the Twilight and Twilight: New Moon soundtracks mixed up. I will edit the affected posts asap but for now the last 5 weeks for the New Moon album should read 10 9 9 19 - 28. The Twlight OST was at no 22 in the first of those weeks. Any fans of Josh Ritter - who has the highest entry on the album chart - can grab 5 free tracks if they're quick from http://www.hotpress.com/joshritterweek/index.php Finally - not directly connected to the charts - but one of Irelands top broadcasters Gerry Ryan died suddenly on Friday morning. 2FM for whom Gerry presented a daily morning show changed its output heavily to reflect this when the news broke during the afternoon and it will be interesting to see if this has any effect on next week's chart. Edited May 5, 201015 yr by Irishguy123
April 30, 201015 yr Shocking! :blink: I had no idea Irish sales were so poor! I also can't believe Like a Prayer didn't get No. 1
April 30, 201015 yr ... and it sold only 1492 copies to do so! :unsure: Is that downloads and physicals, cos that's ridiculous :lol:
April 30, 201015 yr Is that downloads and physicals, cos that's ridiculous :lol: Its just downloads as there's no physical for OMG. While it is surprising its that low, its not shocking. When they released the top 40 of the decade and I Gotta Feeling was only #37 after 12 weeks at #1, it was kinda obvious then that sales must be quite low. Its weird as many countries single sales like the UK and Australia are having the best sales for years yet Ireland its very poor.
April 30, 201015 yr Your gonna have to provide some form of a source for that info, cause I remember reading that the average No.1 in Ireland sold 6,000 a week.
April 30, 201015 yr Your gonna have to provide some form of a source for that info, cause I remember reading that the average No.1 in Ireland sold 6,000 a week. Where did you hear that? They release very little info (most of the info i know is from chart track commentary) but there is no way a #1 sells that amount (bar from charity or X factor winners). I remember when Mario (Leave right now) was #1 on Christmas 2005, it was the fastest seller of the year and was the 11th best seller of 2005, but only sold 18k, meaning the top 10 of that year only sold over the amount. I remember reading an article saying Numb/Encore sold 2,000 the week it was #1 too. If you read the commentary from late 2009 when Joe was #1, he sold 20,000+ in his second week (maybe 40k at best by the end of last year?) and that was the 20th best seller of the entire decade (actually if you go by that very rough total then many big hits of last decade sold less than that). Edited April 30, 201015 yr by simonf
April 30, 201015 yr I couldn't tell you the name of the site for the life of me, but i remember googling 'irish music sales' or something similar, and i found a site that said that on an average week, a no.1 sold 6000, a no.10 sold around 1000 and to get to get into the top 20 you'd have to sell around 250. If you have the patience to scroll though the irish chart 2009 thread you'll find the site I am talking about.
April 30, 201015 yr Author This goes back about 4 years but this is what I was told by IRMA back in 2006 Certifications in Ireland are as follows: Albums: Gold: 7,500 units sold Platinum: 15,000 units sold Singles: Silver: 7,500 units sold Gold: 10,000 units sold Platinum: 15,000 units sold There are no average single sales as it depends on the release of new repertoire, but on a slow week 500 sales could make the Top 20. There are no average album sales as it depends on the release of new repertoire, but on a slow week 400 sales could make the Top 20. Like Irishguy I'd be more willing to believe Usher's sales if we had a source rather than take the word of someone who has posted 7 times in the 2 1/2 years since signing up - 2 of those here today, 1 when signing up and the others all on the subject of Glee.....
April 30, 201015 yr ^^ If it took 500 sales to make the top 20 in a slow week in 2006, it's without question that this would be considerably more in 2010, given the inception of downloads and, given the fact that music sales are increasing universally, I see no reason why Ireland would not be included in this trend. So if the a no.20 is selling a lot more than 500, it goes without saying that the no.1 would be considerably more, at least a few thousand. So given that ushers supposed sales remain sourceless, and using logic, I think its safe to say that it's bull$h!te
April 30, 201015 yr I don't believ that Usher figure, no offense. In th UK there are 62,041,708 people so lets say 60,000,000 but the average #1 single sells ~60,000, so its 1/1000 of the population In Ireland there are 4,459,300 people, Logic can presume that a #1 would sell ~4,500.
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