From Haven, the 'panel sales' for Kylie's songs on the 1988 Year End Chart with estimated total sales based on the market:

 

3. 36,249 I Should Be So Lucky 616,233

4. 32,659 Especially For You 555,203

11. 21,996 The Loco-Motion 373,932

20. 16,771 Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi 285,107

21. 16,587 Got To Be Certain 281,979

 

I am a little bit confused about what the first number denotes. Panel sales? What exactly are they? Is the second figure the total amount they sold in 1988?

I am a little bit confused about what the first number denotes. Panel sales? What exactly are they? Is the second figure the total amount they sold in 1988?

 

At the time full sales weren’t collected/reported. Sales were recorded from a number of outlets and used to estimate total weekly sales.

 

And yes - I believe that’s what that last figure is.

 

Yeah the panel sales are multiplied by the size of the market I think, so the second figures are the total sales sold in that year.

Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread with all these BEAUTIFUL NUMBERS on it after like 13 years on Buzzjack.

Thanks for all the effort!

Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread with all these BEAUTIFUL NUMBERS on it after like 13 years on Buzzjack.

Thanks for all the effort!

Much appreciated! :wub:

Can't believe I've only just discovered this thread with all these BEAUTIFUL NUMBERS on it after like 13 years on Buzzjack.

Thanks for all the effort!

 

It’s a treasure trove filled with all the stats :wub:

Weeks in the UK top 20

 

13

 

Can't Get You Out Of My Head

 

10

 

I Should Be So Lucky

Especially for You (with Jason Donovan)

 

8

 

Got To Be Certain

 

7

 

The Locomotion

Hand On Your Heart

All The Lovers

Higher (with Taio Cruz)

Padam Padam *likely to be 8 this week*

 

6

 

Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi

Wouldn't Change A Thing

Tears On My Pillow

Better The Devil You Know

2 Hearts

Wow

 

5

 

Never Too Late

What Do I Have To Do

If You Were With Me Now (With Keith Washington)

Give Me Just A Little More Time

Spinning Around

I Believe In You

 

4

 

Step Back In Time

Shocked

Confide In Me

Put Yourself In My Place

Kids (With Robbie Williams)

Slow

Red Blooded Woman

 

3

 

Finer Feelings

On A Night Like This

Please Stay

In Your Eyes

Love At First Sight

 

2

 

Word Is Out

What Kind Of Fool (Heard All That Before)

Celebration

Chocolate

Giving You Up

In My Arms

 

1

 

Where Is The Feeling?

Where The Wild Roses Grow (With Nick Cave)

Did It Again

Breathe

Come Into My World

Get Outta My Way

Into The Blue

UK AirPlay Chart

NE: 149-34-2-3-2-3-2-2-2-1-12

 

UK TV AirPlay Chart

NE: 31-11-6-3-3-2-2-2-7

 

Glad we got that one week at #1 on the airplay chart before the nosedive!

#12 is not horrendous considering it lost playlist support - also R2 due to their market share seem to have a massive impact on the radio charts so even though she’s off the playlist I’m sure she’ll get a few spins still.

Considering Kylie singles usually fall out of the chart all together once they lose Radio 2 playlisting, #12 is rather good!

Excellent! I'm also happy/relieved that it managed to get that 1 week at #1 before the support declined.

Ya a number 1 airplay is great for Kylie regardless of how long it stayed there, its also great to see Kylie having a 10 week run in the official Top 30 which is more than all the singles from golden and disco combined managed in the top 100.

So Padam getting an 11th (and most probably last at very least until the album release) week in the top-40 and entering a very narrow circle of Kylie singles having more than 10 weeks in the top-40.

 

Kylie singles to have more than 10 top-40 weeks

I Should Be So Lucky - 13 wks

Especially for You - 12 wks

Can't Get You out of My Head - 20 wks

Wow - 15 wks

Higher - 13 wks

Padam Padam - 11 wks.

 

There are a few singles on 10 weeks though:

Got to Be Certain - 10 wks

Kids - 10 wks

2 Hearts - 10 wks

All the Lovers - 10 wks

Edited August 4, 20231 yr by perrobueno

Higher being her joint third longest Top 40 chart run… ew

I actually like Higher. Its a Bop.

But certainly not her third best single x

It's great that 35 years on she gets one of her longest chart runs in the top 40.

UK AirPlay Chart

NE: 149-34-2-3-2-3-2-2-2-1-13-16

 

UK TV AirPlay Chart

NE: 31-11-6-3-3-2-2-2-9-10

That Kylie has two Silver singles in the last 5-6 years (Padam Padam and Dancing) is really impressive. I'd expect SMFF, Say Something, Magic and Real Groove to be on over 100k by now and hopefully at least one to not be too far off Silver given the impressive streaming stats of Disco?