July 17, 201114 yr Author According to Digital Spy a few days ago, Katy Perry was still ahead of Adele...4.12 million to Adele's 4.08 million. The fact that Adele's a non mover at 3 this week she stands a good chance of having the biggest selling single in both the UK and the US with different tracks. Not sure when the last time that happened. It almost happened with The Black Eyed Peas back in 2009 when "Boom Boom Pow" was the biggest seller in the States and "I got A feeling" was the 2nd biggest seller in the UK behind Lady Gaga's "Poker Face". Digital Spy isn't as good a source as, you know, Billboard itself ;) http://www.billboard.com/#/news/adele-s-21...005277692.story Its first single, "Rolling in the Deep," crowned the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks earlier this year. Adding to its accolades, this week it became the year's best selling digital song, with 4.23 million sold. Katy Perry's "E.T." (featuring Kanye West) was previously the year's highest-selling song, and now falls to the No. 2 position, with 4.19 million sold. It certainly is unusual she looks like she could end up the highest seller of the year in both the US and UK with different songs. It must go all the way back to The Beatles' time if it ever happened before... It must also be pretty rare for the same artist to have the highest selling single and album of the year in the US and the UK. Although I'm not sure her positions at the top are certain in the US. Edited July 17, 201114 yr by Bré
July 17, 201114 yr I'm really surprised at Ed Sheeran doing well inside the top 6 for 5 weeks, I really thought it would tank after its first week. Great track and great staying power.
July 17, 201114 yr ^ To be fair, Digital Spy probably was correct, just a couple of weeks out of date. I'd say it's pretty much 99% certain RITD will be the year-end #1 in the US (in the Hot 100), because of the fact that they include airplay. E.T. and Rolling in the Deep would be a fantastic year-end top 2 though, although E.T. could be beaten by something, since it's low top 40 on iTunes now I think. But I read somewhere that E.T. spent 20 weeks in the top 10! :o That's mind-blowing! For a 4th single aswell!
July 17, 201114 yr Author But I read somewhere that E.T. spent 20 weeks in the top 10! :o That's mind-blowing! For a 4th single aswell! Yeah, its top 10 run is: 8-8-3-2-1-1-1-2-1-1-2-2-2-3-3-4-5-7-7-10 RITD is on 15 weeks in the top 10 and I think it'll almost certainly beat E.T. though: 10-10-6-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3
July 17, 201114 yr Digital Spy isn't as good a source as, you know, Billboard itself ;) http://www.billboard.com/#/news/adele-s-21...005277692.story Its first single, "Rolling in the Deep," crowned the Billboard Hot 100 chart for seven weeks earlier this year. Adding to its accolades, this week it became the year's best selling digital song, with 4.23 million sold. Katy Perry's "E.T." (featuring Kanye West) was previously the year's highest-selling song, and now falls to the No. 2 position, with 4.19 million sold. It certainly is unusual she looks like she could end up the highest seller of the year in both the US and UK with different songs. It must go all the way back to The Beatles' time if it ever happened before... It must also be pretty rare for the same artist to have the highest selling single and album of the year in the US and the UK. Although I'm not sure her positions at the top are certain in the US. That's good news Bre! Go Adele! The Beatles had the biggest seller 3 times in the UK. I think they might have done the double in 1964. "Can't Buy Me Love" was the biggest seller in the UK and I think "I Want To Hold Your Hand" might have pulled it off in the US.
July 17, 201114 yr Yeah, its top 10 run is: 8-8-3-2-1-1-1-2-1-1-2-2-2-3-3-4-5-7-7-10 RITD is on 15 weeks in the top 10 and I think it'll almost certainly beat E.T. though: 10-10-6-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3 Wow. Thanks. :D Their successes have been amazing! They're amazing songs too tbh. Where do you get the chart runs from btw?
July 17, 201114 yr Author Wow. Thanks. :D Their successes have been amazing! They're amazing songs too tbh. Where do you get the chart runs from btw? acharts.us :) Go to a song's page (e.g. http://acharts.us/song/56768) and click on the little black arrow to the left of the chart you want the chart run for. :D The only bad thing about it is it doesn't make any mention of gaps between weeks, so for example the UK chart run of Next To You shows up as 49-43-39-24-20. Edited July 17, 201114 yr by Bré
July 17, 201114 yr acharts.us :) Go to a song's page (e.g. http://acharts.us/song/56768) and click on the little black arrow to the left of the chart you want the chart run for. :D The only bad thing about it is it doesn't make any mention of gaps between weeks, so for example the UK chart run of Next To You shows up as 49-43-39-24-20. Wow. Thanks very much. :)
July 17, 201114 yr acharts.us :) Go to a song's page (e.g. http://acharts.us/song/56768) and click on the little black arrow to the left of the chart you want the chart run for. :D The only bad thing about it is it doesn't make any mention of gaps between weeks, so for example the UK chart run of Next To You shows up as 49-43-39-24-20. If you really wanted to see if the run was unbroken, then tick the box next to the black arrow - go down to the bottom where it says 'draw graph' and it'll have a graph of the chart run. For example - if you do it with Katy Perry's US run for 'E.T.' you can see a massive gap in weeks between it's number 42 "debut" and when it returned to the chart at number 28 when it was a proper single release. http://acharts.us/song/56768
July 18, 201114 yr I thought Still life would be a bit higher than #63 but still good for an Indie act. B)
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