Posted October 28, 201113 yr Those that managed to sneak in for a week on very low sales, or between big releases... 3 Of A Kind - Baby Cakes Orson - No Tomorrow (perhaps the luckiest of all)! Any others?
October 28, 201113 yr Crazy Frog with it's aggresive ad campaign that basically stopped the opposition from having a level field.
October 28, 201113 yr Author Crazy Frog with it's aggresive ad campaign that basically stopped the opposition from having a level field. On that basis, you might say the same of any XF or charity single...
October 28, 201113 yr Steps - Stomp 50k for a #1 in 2000 was very poor, they should have led the era with It's The Way You Make Me Feel which sold far more a few months later to debut at #2, despite being available on an album already...
October 28, 201113 yr Any of the Elvis re-issues which made a mockery of the 1000th number one (how can it be a new number 1 if the song has already been #1 before.....) Also around the same time: Ja Rule ft R Kelly & Ashanti - Wonderful - went to #1 on desperately low sales
October 28, 201113 yr Also around the same time: Ja Rule ft R Kelly & Ashanti - Wonderful - went to #1 on desperately low sales Can't believe that got to #1?!? :o WTF? Such a good song, I'm not going to lie, and I still hear it on urban radio stations though, after all these years, just I practically never heard it when it came out, from what I recall anyway.
October 28, 201113 yr I agree with Eric about Wonderful. I still love it. Ashanti really adds something to the song despite only so little.
October 28, 201113 yr Not sure about the sales, but Kid Rock was very lucky to get a week between big songs 'Dance Wiv Me' and 'I Kissed A Girl' (46-6-3-2-1-2-2-3-6-7-9-etc) Same with Bruno Mars 'The Lazy Song', it could've been a mini MLJ had it not been lucky enough to be #1 between 'Party Rock Anthem' and 'Give Me Everything' Nero 'Promises' would've missed #1 had it been released any other week of the year, same with their album
October 28, 201113 yr "No Tomorrow" WAS lucky but only in the same way as "The Lazy Song" (and how "Moves Like Jagger" would have been) in that it had excellent overall sales but looked destined to be a strong-selling #2. It entered at #5 on downloads alone, which in 2006 usually meant you were pretty much certain to get #1 the next week ("Welcome to the Black Parade" only went to #29 or something ridiculous on downloads) but stalled behind Chico in his second week.
October 28, 201113 yr "No Tomorrow" WAS lucky but only in the same way as "The Lazy Song" (and how "Moves Like Jagger" would have been) in that it had excellent overall sales but looked destined to be a strong-selling #2. It entered at #5 on downloads alone, which in 2006 usually meant you were pretty much certain to get #1 the next week ("Welcome to the Black Parade" only went to #29 or something ridiculous on downloads) but stalled behind Chico in his second week. I heard that the 5 weeks around reaching #1, it actually sold more than the week it made it! Something like that anyway...so the 2 weeks prior and after?
October 28, 201113 yr I heard that the 5 weeks around reaching #1, it actually sold more than the week it made it! Something like that anyway...so the 2 weeks prior and after? That would require three weeks after being #1. :P It COULD have done, it sold 227k over the course of the year but I'm not sure why its sales would suddenly rebound like that. Oh and another one could be "Rollin'" - I love it dearly (I think I'm the only one) but to get two weeks at #1 in 2001 with neither week being over 50k is pretty lucky. 2001 was an odd year looking back at it, home to one of the most atypical (and arguably one of the heaviest) #1 singles ever, as well as THE heaviest #1 album ever in "Iowa". Good times.
October 28, 201113 yr No Tomorrow definitely sold 20k plus in it's first 2 weeks and for a couple of weeks after being knocked off the top. It's just bizarre that it's sales were only 17k the week it made no.1 considering all this.
October 28, 201113 yr Steve Miller Band - The Joker, because Groove Is In The Heart sold exactly the same.
October 28, 201113 yr Stay Awake by Example was very lucky to get to number 1. If I remember rightly, wasn't there about 100 sales separating it and MLJ?
October 28, 201113 yr Stay Awake by Example was very lucky to get to number 1. If I remember rightly, wasn't there about 100 sales separating it and MLJ? Something like that. And the latter was still no.2 the week Stay Awake left the top 40 :lol:
October 28, 201113 yr Something like that. And the latter was still no.2 the week Stay Awake left the top 40 I think that's more to do with the success of MLJ than the decline of SA.
October 28, 201113 yr 2001 was an odd year looking back at it, home to one of the most atypical (and arguably one of the heaviest) #1 singles ever, as well as THE heaviest #1 album ever in "Iowa". Good times. I echo this, it was brilliant year with amazing rock albums: Free All Angels, Toxicity, Iowa, Is This It...
October 28, 201113 yr Cher Lloyd - Swagger Jagger It opened with considerably lower sales for number one single than compared to many other weeks this year!
October 28, 201113 yr Orson 'No Tomorrow' sales: 05/3 - #5 - 22,237 12/3 - #2 - 21,030 19/3 - #1 - 17,694 26/3 - #3 - 19,181 02/4 - #5 - 18,103 09/4 - #4 - 18,396 So in its first 6 weeks its lowest sale was the week it was number one. Lucky? Perhaps. Undeserving? Definitely not.
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