Posted October 18, 201014 yr Does anyone have the first week sales figures for the X Factor Winners: I'm interested in comparing. I'm talking first proper single, rather than winner's singles. Joe McElderry "Ambitions": 43,034 Alexandra Burke "Bad Boys": ? Leon Jackson "Don't Call This Love: ? Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love": ? Would also be interested in the first week sales of: Diana Vickers "Once": ? Olly Murs "Please Don't Let Me Go": ? Shayne Ward "No Promises": ? JLS "Beat Again": ? Thanks anyone who can help! Edited October 18, 201014 yr by hoppers
October 18, 201014 yr Diana Vickers "Once": 69.407 Olly Murs "Please Don't Let Me Go": 93.239 And Shayne's first proper single was No Promises, not No You Hang Up. Edited October 18, 201014 yr by Poker Face
October 18, 201014 yr Author Thanks. Have also edited the above re Shayne's single (plus added in JLS).
October 18, 201014 yr Shayne No Promises 67,628 Leona Bleeding Love 218,805 Leon Don't Call This Love 32,404 Alexandra Bad Boys 187,100 JLS Beat Again 106,299 Olly Please Don't Let Me Go 93,239 Others:- Leona Run 131,593 Shayne No U Hang Up 33,444 JLS Everybody in Love 121,809 Alexandra Start Without You 73,306
October 18, 201014 yr Author Brilliant - thanks. I've collated below from highest to lowest: Leona Bleeding Love 218,805 Alexandra Bad Boys 187,100 JLS Beat Again 106,299 Olly Please Don't Let Me Go 93,239 Diana Vickers "Once": 69.407 Shayne No Promises 67,628 Joe McElderry "Ambitions": 43,034 Leon Don't Call This Love 32,404 Others: Leona Run 131,593 JLS Everybody in Love 121,809 Alexandra Start Without You 73,306 Shayne No U Hang Up 33,444 Only other big single from X Factor I can think of (Aside from winner's songs) is Chico - It's Chico Time. Has anyone got the figures for that?
October 18, 201014 yr Only other big single from X Factor I can think of (Aside from winner's songs) is Chico - It's Chico Time. Has anyone got the figures for that? Also:- Leona Happy 85,552
October 18, 201014 yr Olly sold well over twice the amount of Joe? Oh dear. And Alexandra over 4 times as many (in a lesser sales climate) and Leona over 5 times as many (in an even lesser sales climate).
October 18, 201014 yr well I suppose at least Joe outsold Leon :lol: plus selling less than half of what Olly did! his career will end soon
October 18, 201014 yr I think Leon would have had more sales than Joe in this current climate Spot on:- Leon sold 32,404 copies of his single Joe sold 43,034 copies of his single. Given sales were lower 2 years ago than where they are now, you need to scale them appropriately for any analysis of them to be meaningful. Single sales in 2010 are on average 23% higher than they were in 2008. However, at the top end of the chart, they are a massive 66% higher. Joe sold 33% more than Leon, but when Leon's sales are scaled to reflect the different sales periods, Leon probably sold c. 48k copies (approx 50% uplift), which is 5-6k copies, or 13% more, than Joe.
October 18, 201014 yr Also need to take into account the huge increase in ratings of the show over the past two years as well. Last night saw over 15 million viewers, more than the 2008 final!
October 14, 201113 yr Joe McElderry "Ambitions": 43,034 It would be pretty embarrassing if Matt sold less than this.
October 14, 201113 yr It would be pretty embarrassing if Matt sold less than this. Even more so given single sales are some 20% higher this year than they were a year ago, therefore Matt equivalent target is 51.6k (43.0k+20%). Anyone know roughly what his sales will be this week?
October 14, 201113 yr It would be pretty embarrassing if Matt sold less than this. 'Letters' will probably outsell 'Wide Awake' in a couple of weeks max though which will more than make up for it. (I don't think RFYL's sales will be THAT far off 43k anyway - last week's #5 sold 41k so Matt should be heading for around that, maybe a few thousand less).
October 14, 201113 yr Even more so given single sales are some 20% higher this year than they were a year ago, therefore Matt equivalent target is 51.6k (43.0k+20%). Anyone know roughly what his sales will be this week? The big % increase in sales is only really applicable to the lower reaches of the charts, sales in the top 10 have probably barely changed from last year...
October 14, 201113 yr The big % increase in sales is only really applicable to the lower reaches of the charts, sales in the top 10 have probably barely changed from last year... Vidcapper might be able to answer this better, but my understanding is that sales at the top end of the chart have actually increased more than the %'s quoted in the MW reports (i.e. total sales per week in 2011 vs. total sales from equivalent week in 2010), not the converse.
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