Posted November 1, 201014 yr Singles selling more than 100k in a week 2005 11 19-Mar 158,013 McFly All About You / You’ve Got A Friend 12 26 Mar 266,844 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 13 02 Apr 261,031 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 14 09 Apr 130,700 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 22 04 Jun 149,466 Crazy Frog Axel F 23 11 Jun 120,246 Crazy Frog Axel F 46 19 Nov 105,128 Madonna Hung Up 52 31 Dec 742,180 Shayne Ward Thats My Goal 52 31 Dec 159,815 Nizlopi JCB Song (#2) 2006 01 07 Jan 132,284 Shayne Ward That’s My Goal 15 15 Apr 194,179 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 16 22 Apr 118,714 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 52 30 Dec 571,253 Leona A Moment Like This 2007 01 06 Jan 109.027 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 13 31 Mar 126.211 The Proclaimers featuring Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles 44 03 Nov 218.805 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 45 10 Nov 158.370 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 46 17 Nov 111.978 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 52 29 Dec 275.742 Leon Jackson When You Believe 53 05 Jan 119.927 Leon Jackson When You Believe 2008 44 08 Nov 313.244 The X Factor Finalists Hero 45 15 Nov 189.600 The X Factor Finalists Hero 46 22 Nov 101.813 The X Factor Finalists Hero 49 13 Dec 131.593 Leona Lewis Run 51 27 Dec 576.046 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 52 03 Jan 311,887 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 2009 01 10 Jan 104,454 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 21 30 May 114.165 Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden Bonkers 29 25 Jul 106,299 JLS Beat Again 43 19 Oct 187,100 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 44 26 Oct 292,845 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 44 26 Oct 121,744 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 45 01 Nov 138,614 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 46 08 Nov 121,809 JLS Everybody in Love 47 15 Nov 100,237 Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway 48 22 Nov 193,176 X Factor Finalists You're Not Alone 49 29 Nov 138,123 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 50 06 Dec 111,637 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 52 20 Dec 502,672 Rage Against The Machine Killing In the Name 52 20 Dec 450,838 Joe McElderry The Climb (#2) 53 27 Dec 195,730 Joe McElderry The Climb 2010 02 10 Jan 106,237 Iyaz Replay 07 14 Feb 453,426 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 08 21 Feb 102,769 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 25 13 Jun 113,246 Shout ft. Dizzee & James Corden Shout 27 27 Jun 123,607 Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg California Gurls 35 29 Aug 108,397 Taio Cruz Dynamite 40 03 Oct 115,073 Tinie Tempah feat Eric Turner/Written in the Stars 41 10 Oct 106,962 Cee Lo Green F*** You 43 24 Oct 116,684 Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are (Amazing) 44 31 Oct 157,000 Cheryl Cole Promise This 44 31 Oct 126,000 Rihanna Only Girl (In The World) (#2) 45 07 Oct 134,540 Rihanna Only Girl (In The World)
November 1, 201014 yr It's amazing how many songs we've had selling over 100k on merit (ie. not related to XF or charity) this year compared to last year... Last year we literally just had Bonkers. I suppose you could count Beat Again as it wasn't performed on the X Factor but they're XF artists. This year we've had Replay, California Gurls, Dynamite, Written In The Stars, F**k You! and Only Girl (In The World). You could count Just The Way You Are if you don't count it being performed on the XF by a contestant as being XF related.
November 1, 201014 yr it is great that we've had so many songs selling over 100k on merit alone, thats a good sign :) last year it was mainly charity songs and songs performed on XF
November 1, 201014 yr If this is a reflection of continued growing download sales in 2010, what could 2011 be like? Especially if there's plenty excellent tracks getting released. 1984 = massive year for vinyl sales 1997 = massive year for cd singles sales 2010 = massive year for download sales :D
November 1, 201014 yr If this is a reflection of continued growing download sales in 2010, what could 2011 be like? Especially if there's plenty excellent tracks getting released. 1984 = massive year for vinyl sales 1997 = massive year for cd singles sales 2010 = massive year for download sales :D 2023 = massive year for ??? sales ?
November 1, 201014 yr If this is a reflection of continued growing download sales in 2010, what could 2011 be like? Especially if there's plenty excellent tracks getting released. 1984 = massive year for vinyl sales 1997 = massive year for cd singles sales 2010 = massive year for download sales :D 2023 = massive year for USB sales just sayin'
November 1, 201014 yr Author Also to note, the previous #2s were around Xmas period Rihanna has sort of broken the mould, I'm not sure this has happened prior to 2005 where the top 2 sold over 100k (particularly not around the festive period).
November 1, 201014 yr All the songs in bold are nothing to do with charity/X Factor 2005 11 19-Mar 158,013 McFly All About You / You’ve Got A Friend 12 26 Mar 266,844 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 13 02 Apr 261,031 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 14 09 Apr 130,700 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 22 04 Jun 149,466 Crazy Frog Axel F 23 11 Jun 120,246 Crazy Frog Axel F 46 19 Nov 105,128 Madonna Hung Up 52 31 Dec 742,180 Shayne Ward Thats My Goal 52 31 Dec 159,815 Nizlopi JCB Song (#2) 2006 01 07 Jan 132,284 Shayne Ward That’s My Goal 15 15 Apr 194,179 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 16 22 Apr 118,714 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 52 30 Dec 571,253 Leona A Moment Like This 2007 01 06 Jan 109.027 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 13 31 Mar 126.211 The Proclaimers featuring Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles 44 03 Nov 218.805 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 45 10 Nov 158.370 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 46 17 Nov 111.978 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 52 29 Dec 275.742 Leon Jackson When You Believe 53 05 Jan 119.927 Leon Jackson When You Believe 2008 44 08 Nov 313.244 The X Factor Finalists Hero 45 15 Nov 189.600 The X Factor Finalists Hero 46 22 Nov 101.813 The X Factor Finalists Hero 49 13 Dec 131.593 Leona Lewis Run 51 27 Dec 576.046 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 52 03 Jan 311,887 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 2009 01 10 Jan 104,454 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 21 30 May 114.165 Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden Bonkers 29 25 Jul 106,299 JLS Beat Again 43 19 Oct 187,100 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 44 26 Oct 292,845 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 44 26 Oct 121,744 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 45 01 Nov 138,614 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 46 08 Nov 121,809 JLS Everybody in Love 47 15 Nov 100,237 Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway 48 22 Nov 193,176 X Factor Finalists You're Not Alone 49 29 Nov 138,123 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 50 06 Dec 111,637 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 52 20 Dec 502,672 Rage Against The Machine Killing In the Name 52 20 Dec 450,838 Joe McElderry The Climb (#2) 53 27 Dec 195,730 Joe McElderry The Climb 2010 02 10 Jan 106,237 Iyaz Replay 07 14 Feb 453,426 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 08 21 Feb 102,769 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 25 13 Jun 113,246 Shout ft. Dizzee & James Corden Shout 27 27 Jun 123,607 Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg California Gurls 35 29 Aug 108,397 Taio Cruz Dynamite 40 03 Oct 115,073 Tinie Tempah feat Eric Turner/Written in the Stars 41 10 Oct 106,962 Cee Lo Green F*** You 43 24 Oct 116,684 Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are (Amazing) 44 31 Oct 157,000 Cheryl Cole Promise Me 44 31 Oct 126,000 Rihanna Only Girl (In The World) (#2) 2010 will be looked back on as a great year for music!!
November 1, 201014 yr 2023 = massive year for ??? sales ? 2023 = massive year for downloads straight to the chip planted in your brain sales
November 1, 201014 yr All the songs in bold are nothing to do with charity/X Factor 2005 11 19-Mar 158,013 McFly All About You / You’ve Got A Friend 12 26 Mar 266,844 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 13 02 Apr 261,031 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 14 09 Apr 130,700 Tony Christie feat. Peter Kay (Is This The Way To) Amarillo 22 04 Jun 149,466 Crazy Frog Axel F 23 11 Jun 120,246 Crazy Frog Axel F 46 19 Nov 105,128 Madonna Hung Up 52 31 Dec 742,180 Shayne Ward Thats My Goal 52 31 Dec 159,815 Nizlopi JCB Song (#2) 2006 01 07 Jan 132,284 Shayne Ward That’s My Goal 15 15 Apr 194,179 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 16 22 Apr 118,714 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 52 30 Dec 571,253 Leona A Moment Like This 2007 01 06 Jan 109.027 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This 13 31 Mar 126.211 The Proclaimers featuring Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles 44 03 Nov 218.805 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 45 10 Nov 158.370 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 46 17 Nov 111.978 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love 52 29 Dec 275.742 Leon Jackson When You Believe 53 05 Jan 119.927 Leon Jackson When You Believe 2008 44 08 Nov 313.244 The X Factor Finalists Hero 45 15 Nov 189.600 The X Factor Finalists Hero 46 22 Nov 101.813 The X Factor Finalists Hero 49 13 Dec 131.593 Leona Lewis Run 51 27 Dec 576.046 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 52 03 Jan 311,887 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 2009 01 10 Jan 104,454 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 21 30 May 114.165 Dizzee Rascal featuring Armand Van Helden Bonkers 29 25 Jul 106,299 JLS Beat Again 43 19 Oct 187,100 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 44 26 Oct 292,845 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 44 26 Oct 121,744 Alexandra Burke ft. Flo Rida Bad Boys 45 01 Nov 138,614 Cheryl Cole Fight for This Love 46 08 Nov 121,809 JLS Everybody in Love 47 15 Nov 100,237 Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway 48 22 Nov 193,176 X Factor Finalists You're Not Alone 49 29 Nov 138,123 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 50 06 Dec 111,637 Peter Kay's All Animated Star Band 52 20 Dec 502,672 Rage Against The Machine Killing In the Name 52 20 Dec 450,838 Joe McElderry The Climb (#2) 53 27 Dec 195,730 Joe McElderry The Climb 2010 02 10 Jan 106,237 Iyaz Replay 07 14 Feb 453,426 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 08 21 Feb 102,769 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts 25 13 Jun 113,246 Shout ft. Dizzee & James Corden Shout 27 27 Jun 123,607 Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg California Gurls 35 29 Aug 108,397 Taio Cruz Dynamite 40 03 Oct 115,073 Tinie Tempah feat Eric Turner/Written in the Stars 41 10 Oct 106,962 Cee Lo Green F*** You 43 24 Oct 116,684 Bruno Mars Just The Way You Are (Amazing) 44 31 Oct 157,000 Cheryl Cole Promise Me 44 31 Oct 126,000 Rihanna Only Girl (In The World) (#2) 2010 will be looked back on as a great year for music!! Except that half of them were performed on X factor! No, this is not a good year for music, only good in terms of singles' sales.
November 1, 201014 yr This is the dawning of the digital age... Amazing how Rihanna is one of the few to get a #2 with 100k+ ^_^ Other thing to add to her curriculum...
November 1, 201014 yr 47 15 Nov 100,237 Black Eyed Peas Meet Me Halfway That was performed on the X Factor that week
November 1, 201014 yr Also to note, the previous #2s were around Xmas period Rihanna has sort of broken the mould, I'm not sure this has happened prior to 2005 where the top 2 sold over 100k (particularly not around the festive period). Didn't The Corrs "Runaway" sell over 100K when it debuted at #2 behind "...Baby One More Time"? Shakira's "Whenever Whereever" sold over 100K behind Will Young in 2002 too. Edited November 1, 201014 yr by Zenith Zealot
November 1, 201014 yr Does anybody have a list of tracks that climbed from initial sales of below 100,000 to sales of over 100,000? All I can think of is Just the Way You Are, and Meet Me Halfway from recently, but there's probably some obvious others I'm forgetting. I guess Killing in the Name would count too. I think it's truly amazing when songs manage to do that. It's the sort of thing that seems to happen like once a year now, although I suppose it was a more common occurance in previous decades?
November 1, 201014 yr It definitely happened with Heartbeat/Tragedy by Steps which hit over 100k in it's 8th week on chart, which was all the more odd given it happened in early January too. Every week the track spent in it's first 8 weeks was also within the top 10, so it wasn't like it was an album track charting on low sales initially either. Although that was (just) outside the 2000's - 1998 going into 1999
November 1, 201014 yr Didn't The Corrs "Runaway" sell over 100K when it debuted at #2 behind "...Baby One More Time"? I'd imagine that Blur's "Tender" did as well.
November 1, 201014 yr It definitely happened with Heartbeat/Tragedy by Steps which hit over 100k in it's 8th week on chart, which was all the more odd given it happened in early January too. Every week the track spent in it's first 8 weeks was also within the top 10, so it wasn't like it was an album track charting on low sales initially either. Although that was (just) outside the 2000's - 1998 going into 1999 Wow, that's pretty amazing! And I LOVED Tragedy by Steps when I was a kid. :D I remember singing it like all the time! I must've been so annoying... :lol:
November 1, 201014 yr Does anybody have a list of tracks that climbed from initial sales of below 100,000 to sales of over 100,000? All I can think of is Just the Way You Are, and Meet Me Halfway from recently, but there's probably some obvious others I'm forgetting. I guess Killing in the Name would count too. I think it's truly amazing when songs manage to do that. It's the sort of thing that seems to happen like once a year now, although I suppose it was a more common occurance in previous decades? Thanks to the oddity of the UK chart rules in 2006, Gnarls Barkley achieved this. 02.04.06 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 31,703 09.04.06 Gnarls Barkley Crazy 194,179 Other examples of singles increasing over 100k are: 16.12.01 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman Somethin' Stupid 98,500 23.12.01 Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman Somethin' Stupid 110,000 04.02.01 Atomic Kitten Whole Again 69,285 11.02.01 Atomic Kitten Whole Again 85,295 18.02.01 Atomic Kitten Whole Again 101,919 25.02.01 Atomic Kitten Whole Again 113,090 In the case of 'Whole Again' it actually increased sales again in its fifth week in the chart (selling 115k) but dropped to no. 2 as Shaggy 'It Wasn't Me' rocketed to no. 1 selling 345k. 25.10.98 Cher Believe 107,000 01.11.98 Cher Believe 205,000 Cher almost doubled her sales in her second week of release. 'Believe' spent 7 weeks at no. 1 selling over 100k in those weeks too. 12.02.95 Celine Dion Think Twice 86,000 19.02.95 Celine Dion Think Twice 154,000 During Celine's seven week reign at no. 1, 'Think Twice' benefitted from a massive sales boost after the record company released the track as a cassette single.
November 1, 201014 yr I'd imagine that Blur's "Tender" did as well. Whitney Houston 'It's Not Right, But It's Ok' also sold over 100k the same week to enter at #3 - so that week the top 3 sold over 100k. Christmas 1997 must be the record though. The entire top 5 singles in Xmas 1997 sold over 100k each.
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