IRO Top 200

 

With the Beatles flood breaking the 202 week sequences of both Chasing Cars, and Mr.Brightside, that leaves Kings Of Leon 'Sex On Fire' as the leader, on 115 weeks, with their 'Use Somebody' in 2nd on 113w (though the latter only survived by 6 places this week).

 

Third is Journey-DSB on 99w, and 4th BEP-IGF on 76w

Who the f*** is STILL buying those songs?

 

Wish there were more new songs charting...Many brilliant tracks go unnoticed (like The Human League's amazing new one which is out this week)

Who the f*** is STILL buying those songs?

 

Wish there were more new songs charting...Many brilliant tracks go unnoticed (like The Human League's amazing new one which is out this week)

 

You mean they're building synthesisers into zimmer-frames now? :P

Sad that people buy such $h!t - not the Beatles.

You do have to wonder who doesn't own a copy of songs like SOF and IGF by now :lol:

You do have to wonder who doesn't own a copy of songs like SOF and IGF by now :lol:

 

To answer that question - I don't, for one...

Well seeing as there are around 60 million people in the UK then there's well over 55 million who don't own either.

You do have to wonder who doesn't own a copy of songs like SOF and IGF by now :lol:

 

You mean who doesn't own a copy of songs like SOF and IGF that want a copy. There's 60m people in the UK but not everyone of them buys current music singles and compilations. I got SOF on a Now Album and I bought IGF (as well as getting it on a Now Album)

I don't own any version of Sex On Fire, Use Somebody, Mr Brightside, Chasing Cars or Don't Stop Believing.

 

Well, what's the point? I hear them so often, should I actually want to listen to them I'll go on Youtube or Spotify, or even Music On Demand on TV. Don't intend to buy a copy any time soon.

I have a physical copy of Mr Brightside that I bought the very week it came out in 2004. Never imagined it would still be regularly in the top 200 six years later :lol: It is a great track but very overplayed so I don't like it anywhere near as much as I did back then. How much has it sold by now anyway? Must be at least a couple of hundred thousand? I had no idea it had been in the top 200 for that long.

I also don't own any of those songs. I'd probably get I Gotta Feeling, but as someoneelse has mentioned, I hear it too much anyway. It might be one of those tracks I get once the airplay dies down (so perhaps by 2015?).

 

Perhaps that's why these songs are still selling; because they used to get so much airplay that people didn't need to buy them earlier.

 

Or perhaps it's because of the airplay. Like people didn't like them originally, but they've just had to teach themselves to like the songs?

I wonder if SOF could see a noticeable benefit from the iTunes gift card effect for a third year running this year :o

 

Anyway, on topic, thank God Chasing Cars is out although it'll probably be back soon :(

Edited November 23, 201014 yr by What's My Name?

Who's buying them? My theory is children who were 6-7 years old when Chasing Cars was first on the chart are now 10-11 years old and at the age where they download music. They hear the song and buy it. Rinse and repeat over a number of years leads to years of people buying the song for the first time.

I have a physical copy of Mr Brightside that I bought the very week it came out in 2004. Never imagined it would still be regularly in the top 200 six years later :lol: It is a great track but very overplayed so I don't like it anywhere near as much as I did back then. How much has it sold by now anyway? Must be at least a couple of hundred thousand? I had no idea it had been in the top 200 for that long.

I don't know what the total sales for Mr Brightside are but it sold 66,750 in 2007, 83,000 in 2008 and 96,750 in 2009. With sales from 2004, 2005 and 2006 plus whatever it has sold this year it is probably well over 300,000 copies...

 

I have a physical copy of Mr Brightside that I bought the very week it came out in 2004. Never imagined it would still be regularly in the top 200 six years later :lol: It is a great track but very overplayed so I don't like it anywhere near as much as I did back then. How much has it sold by now anyway? Must be at least a couple of hundred thousand? I had no idea it had been in the top 200 for that long.

 

I have it on at least 325k, but I have no idea if that is the complete total.

 

As for Chasing Cars, I am pretty confident in my total figure of 684-685k.

I don't know what the total sales for Mr Brightside are but it sold 66,750 in 2007, 83,000 in 2008 and 96,750 in 2009. With sales from 2004, 2005 and 2006 plus whatever it has sold this year it is probably well over 300,000 copies...

 

~76k in 2010, so with the above,and what it sold in 2004-2006 as well, it is surely well over 350k.

 

Additional : it failed to make the YTD T200 in 2004, so that means it sold <29k - but probably not *much* less.

Edited November 24, 201014 yr by vidcapper

Mr. Brightside needs X Factor

 

It really does! It's regularly played (and is nearly always the highlight for me personally) on a night out. The atmosphere and crowd goes wild when the intro plays it's WOW! It'd be DSB-Part II I reckon. It'll sell so much.

Ugh, someone would just butcher it. I downloaded SOF on the first day it came out and now own it and US on my copy of Only By The Night. I'd be quite happy to never hear IGF ever again.

Mr. Brightside needs X Factor

 

 

Erm, it has sold 300,000+ according to estimates above. Aren't there a lot of other songs that need the exposure more?