Vidcapper, how much did Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing sell in 2010? Just read the OfficialCharts twitter feed and their facebook page and they've said that the track has now sold about 900k. Thanks in advance!

Edited January 7, 201114 yr by jackph89

I really think the number of million sellers will increase at a much faster rate than previously, over say the next 5 years (or less) due to these perennials which, as download sales increase in general, seem to only increase their sales rate and edge ever closer to the 1 mil.

 

Anyone any idea what's close or some educated guesses?

 

Thanks for this thread VC, and all your work every week it really is a joy to have access to these (rather accurate) sales estimates.

 

looking forward to the 200!

Jason Derulo- What If

Pixie Lott - Gravity

Plan B - Prayin'

 

Sales, please? :)

I really think the number of million sellers will increase at a much faster rate than previously, over say the next 5 years (or less) due to these perennials which, as download sales increase in general, seem to only increase their sales rate and edge ever closer to the 1 mil.

 

Anyone any idea what's close or some educated guesses?

 

Thanks for this thread VC, and all your work every week it really is a joy to have access to these (rather accurate) sales estimates.

 

looking forward to the 200!

 

I came up with this list on another thread, I'm sure you've seen it already spicefunk. It's songs which could pass the million mark by the end of the decade. Kinda split into three categories: oldsongs which are already pretty close, old songs with high annual sales which will cross the million mark if sales stay consistent and then current songs which are selling strongly.

 

1. Aerosmith - I Don't Want to Miss A Thing

2. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

3. Bruno Mars - Just the Way You Are ?? (It's selling well... could be a consistent seller)

4. Cheryl Cole - Fight For This Love

5. Cliff Richard & the Shadows - The Next Time/ Bachelor Boy

6. Dawn - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree

7. East 17 - Stay Another Day ?? (Benefits yearly from Christmas chart so could possibly reach the million mark, was on 910k in 2005)

8. Eminem - Lose Yourself ?? (Always on the iTunes chart, sells consitently)

9. Eminem feat. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie

10. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord

11. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

12. Jounrey - Don't Stop Believin'

13. Kylie Minogue & Jason Donavon - Easpecially For You

14. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

15. Lady Gaga - Just Dance

16. Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You

17. Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl

18. Pipes, Drums & Military Band of the Royal Scots Dragon Guards - Amazing Grace ?? (I don't really know if this is available to download, plus who buys instrumentals these days? 962k in 2005)

19. Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York

20. Pussycat - Mississippi

21. Rage Against the Machine - Killing In the Name

22. Rod Stewart - Sailing

23. Showaddywaddy - Under the Moon of Love

24. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars ?? (Sells well annually - perhaps if it were sang on the xfactor?)

25. Spice Girls - Say You'll Be There ?? (Don't know an updated figure but could possibly pass the million, was on 900k in 2005. Possibly after another Spice Girls reunion?)

26. Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight

27. Tornados - Telstar

 

 

Was thinking maybe Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart might possibly make it too.

 

Vidcapper, how much did Aerosmith - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing sell in 2010? Just read the OfficialCharts twitter feed and their facebook page and they've said that the track has now sold about 900k. Thanks in advance!

 

They totaled 41k in the 32 weeks I have listed, so they probably sold 15k or so in the other 20 weeks - so probably somewhere between 55-60k for 2010.

Thanks for this thread VC, and all your work every week it really is a joy to have access to these (rather accurate) sales estimates.

 

looking forward to the 200!

 

Thanks - though of course, if I knew how accurate they really were, i wouldn't need to do *estimates* in the first place. :P

Jason Derulo- What If

Pixie Lott - Gravity

Plan B - Prayin'

 

Sales, please? :)

 

WI ~168k

Gr ~141k

Pr ~139k

WI ~168k

Gr ~141k

Pr ~139k

 

What If deserved better. :( Hopefully it's used on XF one day and gets to 200K.

 

Gravity did well for the fourth single and a #20 peak. :o

 

Prayin' was much better than She Said, again deserved better!

I'm sure a lot of people have said this a lot but Airplanes is extremely similar to Love The Way You Lie and I believe that if B.o.B had had as good a chart history as Eminem, I think Airplanes would have outsold it because personally I think Airplanes is the better song

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by gilly010

I'm sure a lot of people have said this a lot but Airplanes is extremely similar to Love The Way You Lie and I believe that if B.o.B had had as good a chart history as Eminem, I think Airplanes would have outsold it because personally I think Airplanes is the better song

 

Yes, that has been said constantly for the past 6 months. Pretty much the day the song leaked everybody was saying they were similar. :lol: Eminem did a rap verse for Airplanes, Part II, and he probably loved it as much as everybody else, and asked Alex Da Kid to make a similar song for his own album. :lol:

 

I do agree with you though, both are fantastic, but Airplanes is better. I think Love the Way You Lie sold more because it's Eminem and Rihanna, who are leagues more famous than B.o.B. and Hayley Williams. Also, the subject matter in Love the Way You Lie is probably more interesting to people (although, again, both songs have incredible lyrics), and I think it'll have gotten more interest because it was Rihanna doing a song about domestic violence, and also Eminem has sometimes been critical of female pop artists in the past, plus he said a year before that he'd pee all over Rihanna (although he was joking), so it was a bit confusing at first for people. Then there's the fact that Airplanes had an above-average video, but Love the Way You Lie had a video with Megan Fox in, and got so much more interest.

 

I think the only way in which Love the Way You Lie suffered in comparison to Airplanes is the fact that it came after, so it's seen as "the one that copied", although, to be fair, it might not have existed without Airplanes anyway.

 

I do wonder though, how much Love the Way You Lie would've sold if it was released when Not Afraid was. I think some of the hundreds of thousands of people that bought the album would've bought the single too then.

 

EDIT: Woah, sorry, didn't mean to write an essay about this. :lol: Also, I'm really shocked that they've taken the santa hats off the smileys now! :o

Edited January 8, 201114 yr by Eric_Blob

I'm sure a lot of people have said this a lot but Airplanes is extremely similar to Love The Way You Lie and I believe that if B.o.B had had as good a chart history as Eminem, I think Airplanes would have outsold it because personally I think Airplanes is the better song

 

'm sure you wouldn't be surprised that I think the song would have been better with *just* Hayley Williams. :P