XF songs (and Yeo Valley) in the top 300:

 

6. Wherever You Will Go - Charlene Soraia [sophie]

19. Best Thing I Never Had - Beyoncé [Craig]

27. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling [sophie]

98. Russian Roulette - Rihanna [Marcus]

100. Forever Featuring The Churned - Yeo Valley [Advert]

110. The Scientist - Coldplay [Frankie]

160. With or Without You - U2 [Nu Vibe]

164. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling [sophie]

165. Would I Lie to You? - Charles & Eddie [Misha]

195. Wherever You Will Go - The Calling [sophie]

268. Would I Lie to You (Original Version Edit) - Charles & Eddie [Misha]

287. Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley [Janet]

 

Ergh @ Russian Roulette being back (although Marcus was my second favourite of the night, it's just a terrible song). Hopefully The Scientist will climb a lot more. Surprised how poorly U2 are doing so far, maybe it won't make the top 100 again! It was an awful performance.

any sign of Kylie;s cant get you out of my head.

Misha was once again the stand out performance, i hope WILTY continues to climb!

 

Off topic... but... LMFAO are #1 on US iTunes :o :drama:

Charlene Soraia for #1 next week :cheer:

 

No. The Wanted for next week's number 1 :wub:

Misha was once again the stand out performance, i hope WILTY continues to climb!

 

Off topic... but... LMFAO are #1 on US iTunes :o :drama:

 

Well, not for long, since Drake is releasing a new song soon (although I doubt it'll get to #1, but I can always hope :lol:)

 

Wow. So Snoop Dogg has already fallen off (no pun intended). :lol:

 

It seems every song that gets to #1 on US iTunes either spends 6 days in the top 10 or 6 months. :drama:

 

Adele will still be #1 officially for a few weeks though, because American radio are playing Someone Like You TO DEATH. Pumped Up Kicks and Moves like Jagger are also being played TO DEATH, so the highest LMFAO can hope for for a while is #4. But that's what you get when you include airplay in the US charts. :(

The top 3 in the USA are INCREDIBLY close - LPB still has Snizno at #1 but Adele at #3 is still on over 98% :o

 

I thought SAIKI would take longer to overtake, but Adele definitely has a fourth week at #1 in the bag on Wednesday and she should equal her 5 weeks at #1 in the UK, if not beat it. It'd be funny if she does get 5 weeks in total because then it would have had 4 weeks then 1 week in the UK and 1 week then 4 weeks in the USA :D

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by Bré

So, i just heard Lana Del Ray's "Video Games". Her voice is so haunting, rich, magnificent. I'm in love.

Charlene 5

Beyonce 18

The Calling 22

78. Russian Roulette - Rihanna

96. The Scientist - Coldplay

 

Climb more Coldplay :(

The top 3 in the USA are INCREDIBLY close - LPB still has Snizno at #1 but Adele at #3 is still on over 98% :o

 

I thought SAIKI would take longer to overtake, but Adele definitely has a fourth week at #1 in the bag on Wednesday and she should equal her 5 weeks at #1 in the UK, if not beat it. It'd be funny if she does get 5 weeks in total because then it would have had 4 weeks then 1 week in the UK and 1 week then 4 weeks in the USA :D

 

It's weird how Adele's songs are all having possibly more success in the US than the UK. Rolling in the Deep spending 7(?) weeks at #1, while it spent 2 weeks at #2 in the UK, and was frontloaded (in comparison to how it was in the US). And I'm pretty sure Someone Like You will spend much longer than 9 weeks in the top 10, and I'm sure her 3rd single will easily go top 10 aswell.

 

Not to mention Rumour Has It charted in the top 100 from a few radio stations playlisting it, and Turning Tables went top 20 on iTunes after Glee Cast covered it, while I think it didn't even get in the top 40 here.

 

It's frankly, quite embarassing.

It's weird how Adele's songs are all having possibly more success in the US than the UK. Rolling in the Deep spending 7(?) weeks at #1, while it spent 2 weeks at #2 in the UK, and was frontloaded (in comparison to how it was in the US). And I'm pretty sure Someone Like You will spend much longer than 9 weeks in the top 10, and I'm sure her 3rd single will easily go top 10 aswell.

 

Not to mention Rumour Has It charted in the top 100 from a few radio stations playlisting it, and Turning Tables went top 20 on iTunes after Glee Cast covered it, while I think it didn't even get in the top 40 here.

 

It's frankly, quite embarassing.

:huh:

 

Rolling In The Deep had huge longevity and sales here - plus it was against Grenade which spent 3+ weeks at #1 in the US!

 

Her albums sales here are astounding as well - your posts are so drama queen-ish sometimes.

Wow Craig is connecting with a lot of people, probably the one to beat. He's given incredible boosts the last 2 weeks from his performances :o

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by Karma

Marcus did well with 'Russian Roulette'. It is a difficult song to sing but he did well. I wish there was a bit more emotion in it though.

It's weird how Adele's songs are all having possibly more success in the US than the UK. Rolling in the Deep spending 7(?) weeks at #1, while it spent 2 weeks at #2 in the UK, and was frontloaded (in comparison to how it was in the US). And I'm pretty sure Someone Like You will spend much longer than 9 weeks in the top 10, and I'm sure her 3rd single will easily go top 10 aswell.

 

Not to mention Rumour Has It charted in the top 100 from a few radio stations playlisting it, and Turning Tables went top 20 on iTunes after Glee Cast covered it, while I think it didn't even get in the top 40 here.

 

It's frankly, quite embarassing.

 

Well, all of this is technically true, but I think some of it is more just due to the nature of releases in the USA and the UK rather than because Adele is more popular there.

• Regarding SLY being likely to spend more than 9 weeks top 10, of course it is! It's a relative failure for any top 5 hit to not spend that long in the top 10. Songs just naturally have longer chart runs in the USA (and not just because they have airplay in their chart although that helps, songs generally tend to stick around in the iTunes top 10 for much, much longer in the USA). Probably because everything is OA/OS there.
• Which brings me to the 'RITD was frontloaded here' argument - again, of course it was, it was a held-back release here whereas it was OA/OS in the USA and took its time to climb up. RITD wasn't exactly THAT frontloaded anyway, it sold ~11.8% of its total to date in its first week - so in the 37 weeks since its release it's averaged out at selling ~20.3% of its first week sales per week. It'd be interesting if someone could crunch some numbers on this with the other big hits of the year. (Also, it's not yet dropped any lower than #56).
• It doesn't take that much to go top 100, I'd compare the US success of Rumour Has It to, say, the success of 'Count On Me' in the UK - only being played by Heart but has still been in the top 100 for quite a few weeks.
• Glee is a much bigger phenomenon in the USA than the UK, so that's not that hard to explain.

I wouldn't use the word 'embarrassing' because success in the USA is more important on a worldwide scale than success in the UK - not only can she get much higher sales there then here (21 is nearly at 4 million there, RITD is approaching 5 and a half million and SLY recently passed 2 million, not to mention Chasing Pavements is a million-seller and that only peaked at #30 on the Hot 100!) but also the US charts are more influential on the rest of the world, so greater US success could lead to greater worldwide success. She's as big as an artist can get in the UK at the moment, you couldn't realistically expect her to be any bigger whereas you can in the USA and she has done so.

 

One thing I would say though is the fact some of her album tracks and old singles have been top 300 for ages with absolutely no promotion proves that she may be a bigger star in the USA than the UK.

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by Bré

:huh:

 

Rolling In The Deep had huge longevity and sales here - plus it was against Grenade which spent 3+ weeks at #1 in the US!

 

Her albums sales here are astounding as well - your posts are so drama queen-ish sometimes.

 

Adele is from the UK. RITD's chart success here isn't anywhere even remotely close to how it did in the US, and to make it even worse, it was on air, on sale in the US!

 

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The UK's chart run looks pathetic next to that.

 

Well, all of this is technically true, but I think some of it is more just due to the nature of releases in the USA and the UK rather than because Adele is more popular there.

• Regarding SLY being likely to spend more than 9 weeks top 10, of course it is! It's a relative failure for any top 5 hit to not spend that long in the top 10. Songs just naturally have longer chart runs in the USA (and not just because they have airplay in their chart although that helps, songs generally tend to stick around in the iTunes top 10 for much, much longer in the USA). Probably because everything is OA/OS there.
• Which brings me to the 'RITD was frontloaded here' argument - again, of course it was, it was a held-back release here whereas it was OA/OS in the USA and took its time to climb up. RITD wasn't exactly THAT frontloaded anyway, it sold ~11.8% of its total to date in its first week - so in the 37 weeks since its release it's averaged out at selling ~20.3% of its first week sales per week. It'd be interesting if someone could crunch some numbers on this with the other big hits of the year. (Also, it's not yet dropped any lower than #56).
• It doesn't take that much to go top 100, I'd compare the US success of Rumour Has It to, say, the success of 'Count On Me' in the UK - only being played by Heart but has still been in the top 100 for quite a few weeks.
• Glee is a much bigger phenomenon in the USA than the UK, so that's not that hard to explain.

I wouldn't use the word 'embarrassing' because success in the USA is more important on a worldwide scale than success in the UK - not only can she get much higher sales there then here (21 is nearly at 4 million there, RITD is approaching 5 and a half million and SLY recently passed 2 million, not to mention Chasing Pavements is a million-seller and that only peaked at #30 on the Hot 100!) but also the US charts are more influential on the rest of the world, so greater US success could lead to greater worldwide success. She's as big as an artist can get in the UK at the moment, you couldn't realistically expect her to be any bigger whereas you can in the USA and she has done so.

 

One thing I would say though is the fact some of her album tracks and old singles have been top 300 for ages with absolutely no promotion proves that she may be a bigger star in the USA than the UK.

 

That's fair enough. :lol:

 

It's true that song's in general have more longevity there anyway (see: E.T.'s chart run :blink: :drama:).

 

Yeah, it always surprises me when I see songs like Make You Feel My Love going high on their iTunes for practically no reason! :lol: Nice that the people there discover the song themselves though. It has to be shoved in the faces of the UK public for it to sell here.

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by Eric_Blob

Adele is from the UK. RITD's chart success here isn't anywhere even remotely close to how it did in the US, and to make it even worse, it was on air, on sale in the US!

 

68-97-84-69-64-41-26-13-18-25-26-17-10-10-6-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-4-5-6-9-12-13-14-17-17-20-22-21-21

 

The UK's chart run looks pathetic next to that.

Most Beatles chart runs look different than than the UK ones in comparison, but are you calling that 'embarassing'?!

 

Plus, see Bray's post, which sums it up.

Wow Craig is connecting with a lot of people, probably the one to beat. He's given incredible boosts the last 2 weeks from his performances :o

He wasn't even that good :huh:

Id say it was more due to the fact that the two songs he has sung are both (relatively) new and still popular/in the charts...

He wasn't even that good :huh:

Id say it was more due to the fact that the two songs he has sung are both (relatively) new and still popular/in the charts...

THIS. He's so... average. It is just the newness of the songs, if he sang (for example) Because Of You by Kelly Clarkson, it wouldn't rocket up. Saying that, he's a sure bet for at least 4th.

Most Beatles chart runs look different than than the UK ones in comparison, but are you calling that 'embarassing'?!

 

Plus, see Bray's post, which sums it up.

 

Well, I guess it is embarassing for the people who were saying this time last year that Adele was "too good" for the US, or that she was too talented to get radio airplay, and so on. Obviously, all those people have gone quiet now.

That's fair enough. :lol:

 

It's true that song's in general have more longevity there anyway (see: E.T.'s chart run :blink: :drama:).

 

Yeah, it always surprises me when I see songs like Make You Feel My Love going high on their iTunes for practically no reason! :lol: Nice that the people there discover the song themselves though. It has to be shoved in the faces of the UK public for it to sell here.

 

Make You Feel My Love has been doing well enough since it stopped being 'shoved in the faces' of the UK public. It hasn't had a high-profile usage on TV (to my knowledge anyway) since it re-entered the top 40 after Britain's Got Talent but it's still spent a further 18 weeks in the top 100 since then. Plus, even when it was being shoved in our faces seeming once every few weeks it was holding up very well in the meantime. And after its last week in the top 10 (when it was used on Dancing On Ice) it still spent a further 12 weeks top 40 with no further major promotion, just some support from commercial radio.

 

I do wonder what on Earth is causing it to be doing so consistently well for such a long length of time in the USA though, surely it can't just be because of its UK success in the last year :unsure: 'Set Fire To The Rain' is also doing amazingly well seemingly entirely off hype from its success in other countries. I wonder if SFTTR could even be another #1 for her in the USA (the 'post-album release effect' - we don't really have a name for that do we :lol: - isn't as pronounced in the USA as it is here it seems, which addresses your point about her third single being likely to go top 10 in the USA).

 

Well, I guess it is embarassing for the people who were saying this time last year that Adele was "too good" for the US, or that she was too talented to get radio airplay, and so on. Obviously, all those people have gone quiet now.

 

I would say those people are more pleased than embarrassed as it would have mostly been fans of Adele that said that (including me). Personally I'm incredibly pleasantly shocked at how receptive US radio have become to Adele.

Edited October 15, 201113 yr by Bré