Posted October 1, 201014 yr Since Dee-lite and The Steve Miller Band effectively tied in 1990, I was wondering what has been the closest gap in any given week between Nos 1 and 2 in the single chart?
October 1, 201014 yr I'm pretty sure it was Pixie Lott 'Boys and Girls' beating David Guetta ft. Akon 'Sexy Bitch', last September, but I'm not certain and I don't know the sales - there's a "Sales Vault" if you want to search in there though. ;)
October 1, 201014 yr Timbaland 'The Way I Are' (#1) and Kate Nash 'Foundations' (#2) last 2007 by just 17 sales I think? Edited October 1, 201014 yr by FM11
October 1, 201014 yr Yes, the above two examples are correct. Iirc, Sugababes 'Freak Like Me' outsold 'One Step Closer' by S Club Juniors by roughly 500 copies. Same applies to Westlife 'If I Let You Go' unfortunately selling about 500 copies more than 'Better Off Alone' by DJ Jurgen & Alice Deejay. One thing that I have noticed though is in the Almost Saturday Charts which mentioned the old Nescafe Chart. In this weeks thread it mentions how The Scorpions 'Wind Of Change' and Kiri Te Kanawa 'World In Union' both made #1 unofficially whilst Bryan Adams kept his 14th, 15th and 16th weeks at #1 officially. Therefore I reckon sales between the top 2 in these weeks must've been close. Same with the week Enigma 'Sadness Part I' beat Seal 'Crazy' to no. 1 in January 1991. Again, I reckon sales were close between these two tracks.
October 1, 201014 yr In February 1957 Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell and The Garden Of Eden by Frankie Vaughan were joint number one for a week. Both songs also had a spell at number one in their own right. Of course, the chart was based on a fairly small sample of sales at the time so there may have been a fairly large gap in actual sales.
October 1, 201014 yr Didn't Duffy 'Mercy' beat Leona 'Better In Time' by just 100 copies or something?
October 1, 201014 yr The closest one was between The Way I Are and Foundations - only 16 copies. Tupac/Elton John and Mariah Carey also, just 392 copies. Edited October 1, 201014 yr by ehot
October 2, 201014 yr It's always my favourites that seem to lose these battles - Foundations, Better Off Alone, We Belong Together :( 17 copies for the former was just ridiculous, I could have got Kate a #1 myself by just spending £15!
October 2, 201014 yr In February 1957 Singing The Blues by Guy Mitchell and The Garden Of Eden by Frankie Vaughan were joint number one for a week. Both songs also had a spell at number one in their own right. Of course, the chart was based on a fairly small sample of sales at the time so there may have been a fairly large gap in actual sales. This also happened in 1953 when the #1 was joint between two versions of the same song - Frankie Laine and David Whitfield's separate recordings of 'Answer Me'.
October 2, 201014 yr Not sure about #1 and #2 but if I remember correctly, McFly's Lies charted at #4 just 7 copies behind the Pussycat Dolls in 2008.
October 2, 201014 yr Not sure about #1 and #2 but if I remember correctly, McFly's Lies charted at #4 just 7 copies behind the Pussycat Dolls in 2008. Yes, if I could remember.
October 2, 201014 yr The closest we've had in the top 5 in recent times was the chart for 24/09/05 when Bad Day by Daniel Powter and Dr Pressure by Mylo v Miami Sound Machine sold the same amount of copies (17,257), with Mylo being placed at #4 and Daniel Powter placed at #5. Co-incidentally, that very same week the top 2 compilation albums also sold the same amount of copies - both Dance Party (which was placed at #1) and Massive R&B Volume 2 sold 20,249 copies. Edited October 2, 201014 yr by Robbie
October 2, 201014 yr Going back to that 1991 October 20th R1 Top 40. The Top 5 were: 01 Bryan Adams 02 2Unlimited 03 Scorpions 04 Kiri Te Kanawa 05 Monty Python Kiri was indeed a-top the Network Chart. On the previous week on said show, Kiri was number 4, with Scorpions at 2 (although number one across London). I would say that the Oct 20th chart, must have been very very close between the whole top 5 or even top 6, as Vic Reeves "Dizzy" was not far away at 6. On the following week the top 6 were juggled into positions 2-7, with U2 & "The Fly" crashing in at number one. I don't reckon those weeks are likely to occur near that again.
October 2, 201014 yr Gosh, i didn't know that about Foundations. :cry: It makes all evern worse now! :(
October 2, 201014 yr Timbaland 'The Way I Are' (#1) and Kate Nash 'Foundations' (#2) last 2007 by just 17 sales I think? 16 copies. :P
October 2, 201014 yr Gotta say, I'm really glad The Way I Are got to #1, Kate Nash is vile IMHO :lol:
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