what week throughout the year is usually the lowest single sales wise. or which month usually delivers the lowest sales. because some weeks you see people selling enough to get top 20 which other weeks they would get a top 10. thanks for your time. scott

what week throughout the year is usually the lowest single sales wise. or which month usually delivers the lowest sales. because some weeks you see people selling enough to get top 20 which other weeks they would get a top 10. thanks for your time. scott

 

Late summer / early autumn is usually a very quiet time for singles sales.

thanks, what month can you notice the most, or what week in summer/autumn. thanks for your help and time :) oh and what sort of sales are we talking about as low?

Edited January 8, 201015 yr by scott

I would suspect January is usually a quiet month due to lack of new releases and old songs hanging around in the charts

Usually it'd be early January but with downloads that seems to have bucked the trend.

 

Below is the lowest weeks for a no. 1 single sales from 1995 right up to 2009 so we can compare:

 

12.03.95 Celine Dion Think Twice 50,000

18.02.96 Babylon Zoo Spaceman 63,000

06.04.97 R Kelly I Believe I Can Fly 51,281

24.05.98 The Temperer feat. Maya Feel It 49,500

17.01.99 911 A Little Bit More 75,400

02.01.00 Westlife I Have A Dream 34,500

28.01.01 Limp Bizkit Rollin' 47,435

06.01.02 Daniel Bedingfield Gotta Get Thru This 25,000

19.04.03 Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham Make Luv 32,500

24.10.04 Eric Prydz Call On Me 21,749

16.01.05 Elvis Presley One Night 20,463

19.03.06 Orson No Tomorrow 17,694

14.01.07 Leona A Moment Like This 20,392

22.06.08 Coldplay Viva La Vida 23,212

04.10.09 Taio Cruz Break Your Heart 42,746

 

Obvious pre-2007 there were no download sales but these are the weeks where the no. 1 sold the least number of copies.

so it seems mainly the first half of the year. mainly jan. thanks. anyone else got anything to add? do you guys think maybe the trend will follow?

Traditionally it's always been early January, but with the mp3/Gift Card effect coupled with January now the time to launch new artists, it does seem that January sales have generally got healthier now.

so if not jan, which month? thanks guys.

July & August.

Since 2007ish anyway when downloads have picked up.

Edited January 8, 201015 yr by Gramoodle

Are you by any chance planning a chart campaign? : )

I doubt we'll ever have a UK no. 1 selling as little as 17k ever again. Singles sales have increased significantly thanks to the rise of downloads.

 

To answer your second question, I'd say August purely because in the cases of 'Break Your Heart' and 'Call On Me' there was little competition for the no. 1 and those songs were spending their final weeks at no. 1 with those low sales.

Are you by any chance planning a chart campaign? : )

 

Maybe he's not sure that the first week of February is a good time for the GA- untouchable top10 campaign.

Are the sales figures archived somewhere on the forum? On a similar note I'd like to know the top 40 sales figures for (end of) May last year : )

Edited January 8, 201015 yr by WesWhite

22.06.08 Coldplay Viva La Vida 23,212

 

 

I had no idea that this was so low....

Are the sales figures archived somewhere on the forum? On a similar note I'd like to know the top 40 sales figures for (end of) May last year : )

 

I have a spreadsheet with all the UK no. 1 sales figures since January 1995.

 

Here are the sales for no. 1 in May 2009 (I assume that's what you mean?)

 

03.05.09 Tinchy Stryder feat. N-Dubz Number One 72,374

10.05.09 Tinchy Stryder feat. N-Dubz Number One 57,150

17.05.09 Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow 74,440

24.05.09 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden Bonkers 114,465

31.05.09 Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden Bonkers 63,141

 

Ah - that's really helpful, thanks so much!

 

What I really want is the sales figures for the whole top 40 though. Like how many for number 1, how many for 2, etc. Hell, as far down as they're recorded would be good to know. And I mean the week beginning end of May so first chart of June really.

 

Thanks in advance! Or no worries if it's a hassle : )

i am thinking of a campaign, well ive already started it. today. its for kylie the one. i only want it top 10. cos its my fave kylie song of all time. i love it, it reminds me so much of her PWL era. its such a shame it missed the top ten. anyway i decided on august because that way it will be around 2 years after the original release. the first week in august, is that a low sales week? thanks guys

Edited January 8, 201015 yr by scott

i am thinking of a campaign, well ive already started it. today. its for kylie the one. i only want it top 10. cos its my fave kylie song of all time. i love it, it reminds me so much of her PWL era. its such a shame it missed the top ten. anyway i decided on august because that way it will be around 2 years after the original release. the first week in august, is that a low sales week? thanks guys

 

Mikey will love that. His avatar is a clip from Kylie 'The One' video. Actually, I have to admit I thought 'The One' was the best of the four singles released from 'X' and even got to no. 2 in my personal chart - better than the #37 peak in the UK.

 

It's difficult though to know when there's going to be a relatively quiet week in the singles chart. There might be an influx of big new singles released in July seeing the top 10 all sell over 20-25k so anything less won't make as much of an impact.

 

A bit like the Girls Aloud campaign to get 'Untouchable' in the top 10 - it'd have to sell at least 25k to stand a chance.

well ive posted in the kylie section. im currently whoring it out. theres months left before it starts anyway, so if we can just get members that would be a great start. its a shame because IMO its one of kylies greatest moments.

I think it's almost completely variable nowadays. The main thing you can bank on is that sales with be high in the run-up to Christmas and more recently just after it.

 

In the 1960s sales were low in the summer and high in the winter, because music was less portable and so people bought more singles when they were likely to be indoors.

 

By the 1980s it was clear that there was a slump in January, which had been a stronger period when the charts were slower and there wasn't a battle for the Christmas number one.

 

In the early 1990s, before the continuous instant number ones era of the later 1990s when individual new releases made a big impact on the overall totals, the pattern was for quiet but building sales in January to early February. There would be a peak around Valentine's day and the school half-term, then quiet again until the Easter school holidays.

 

Although the Easter holidays usually had two weeks the first week was the bigger week most times. After that things were generally fairly quiet until August, with maybe the summer half-term being stronger than the weeks around it . Sales would often build in the later summer (purchases by holidaymakers / overseas student may also have helped).

 

Back to school in September and sales usually dipped a bit but generally higher than in most of the first half of the year (except Feb and Easter). School half-term saw another peak, then often one quiet week and then the build-up to Christmas began. These days it's probably known as the time that X Factor related material hogs the top spot most of the time.