No it follows the exact same format at the Billboard Hot 100; I think sales make up only 40% of a song's chart submission. Haha 200 copies sold would NOT get anyone to #1. I'd say somewhere along the lines of 25,000 could get you to #1 but thats just me guessing. Platinum = 80,000 and Gold = 40,000.

 

In terms of albums I know Britney's Femme Fatale sold 22,000 in it's first week to reach number 1 and that was in March 2011.

 

I'm just going by Wikipedia -

 

Originally, when the chart was started in November 1996, there were 200 positions (with the top 50 being published by Jam!). However, because of the reduced singles market in Canada, only the top 10 positions now appear on the SoundScan chart (SoundScan has a policy that at least 10 copies have to be sold in order to make its singles chart).

Since the early 1990s, single sales in Canada have decreased dramatically, and most songs were not available as commercial singles.[citation needed]As a result, the chart rarely reflected the listening habits of Canadians. In perhaps the most notorious example, Elton John's charity single "Candle in the Wind '97"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" stayed in the top twenty for three years. By 2004, sales in Canada declined even further, because of the growing popularity of digital downloading of music. As a result, Canadian sales are not as substantial as they had been before in the 1990s and early 2000s, and singles remained on the chart for even lengthier periods of time. In 2006, most Canadian number-one singles sold less than 200 copies.

Billboard introduced their own singles chart for Canada, called the Canadian Hot 100, on June 7, 2007. It is based on digital download single sales data from Nielsen SoundScan and radio audience levels from Nielsen BDS.

 

#133 on iTunes now. I hope to wake up tomorrow and see this in the top 100.

Edited January 15, 201312 yr by shadow2009

^ Yes and if you read the last few sentences it says that the new chart used is the Canadian Hot 100 which "is based on digital download single sales data from Nielsen SoundScan and radio audience levels from Nielsen BDS." 2006 was a bad year for single sales as physical sales were rapidly decreasing and digital sales had not taken off yet. We're in 2013; 2012 was the largest year for single sales...

 

EDIT: Scream & Shout sold 24,000 to reach #1 on the Canadian Digital Songs chart..

Edited January 15, 201312 yr by MyDecember

I don't know what I'm expecting this song to do anymore, it's slowing down on iTunes which is quite obvious which would happen as sales are a lot higher. I'm fully expecting around 70-100/BubblingUnder, I don't think the show will give What About Us the greatest boost either!. I hope the Today show tomorrow puts them top 100 on iTunes, the worrying thing is that as I previously stated they only have two more television performances (Jeff Provst show will have no impact though).

What About Us | iTunes

 

USA - #128

Canada - #67 and dark green on Kworb

 

This is really good! :D

Pleased to see it's climbed as high as it has, I hope it keeps going. The radio is a worrying aspect though.

USA - #128

Canada - #67 and dark green on Kworb

 

USA #124

Canada #57

I hope it's a hit in Canada even if it flops in the US.

USA - #125

Canada -#56

 

Update:

 

USA - #121 (slowly but surely)

Canada #55

 

:)

Edited January 16, 201312 yr by MyDecember

#119 in the US now.

#54 in Canada.

 

Is anyone else shocked at how well this is doing already? I was expecting months of promo before it would even dent the top 200 and yet they only appeared on TV for the first time last week and they're at #119. :o And it's The Saturdays.

US Main Chart

113. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

US Pop Chart

33. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Main Chart

57. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Pop Chart

24. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

:cheer: Still climbing in the US and I'm sure the Canadian drop won't last too long!

Edited January 16, 201312 yr by Ryan741

111 in US! :D

This is going to be such a long and frustrating climb to the top 100, I can feel it. :lol: :(

 

EDIT - yep. #110 now.

Edited January 16, 201312 yr by shadow2009

US Main Chart

106. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

US Pop Chart

31. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Main Chart

49. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Pop Chart

23. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

:cheer:

US Main Chart

106. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

US Pop Chart

31. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Main Chart

49. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

Canada Pop Chart

23. The Saturdays - What About Us

 

:cheer:

 

 

This is so exciting! :wub: :cheer: :w00t:

Amazing! :cheer:

 

And people thought this song wouldn't even make the top 500. You were all pretty harsh on it. :( It's no All Fired Up or Higher, I agree with all of you, but it's certainly better than half of their other singles. Not in terms of the song you prefer, because there so much more to a "good single" than just that, but yeah, as a single, this song is strong and I could see it be a really minor hit in the US if radios could follow. But really, I think airplay is what going to make everything fall apart.

Hope it's Top 100 by the morning! Top 100 without airplay is amazing, hopefully the airplay will be decent and it'll take off.

Edited January 16, 201312 yr by justinthomas92

Starting to slip a bit now on both charts. There's only so far they can go without airplay. :(

update?

US - #131

Canada - #57

It's still good to be honest. I mean, they barely have any airplay.