oh jesus....here was me thinking I'd never heard Pitbull - Give Me Everything. Youtube says different. Club Banger by numbers. How many times can the same riff be used?

 

I know. It's disappointing that such a generic song has been such a big hit, but oh well. Ne-Yo's next single sounds very different though! :o So different that I can't possibly hear it being a chart hit atm. :lol: Pitbull's future singles seem to sound exactly the same though. He's never going to change.

I would say The Beatles:

 

SHE LOVES YOU - Beatles (1963)

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - Beatles (1963)

CAN'T BUY ME LOVE - Beatles (1964)

I FEEL FINE - Beatles (1964)

 

Plus one for John Lennon (Imagine) and one for Paul McCartney (as the Wings) (Mull of Kintyre)

 

Elvis, Englebert Humperdink, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Wham/George Michael, Celine Dion, Robson and Jerome, Spice Girls and Take That/Robbie Williams have had 2.

 

It's not fair to compare the sales nowadays with the sales in the past. In 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, you should had gone to the mucic store for buying the single. These days, you download the song and it's more cheaper than in the past. So, we can't compare million singles of Celine Dion and Spice Girls with these of Rihanna (I love Rihanna but i have to be fair with the artists). I remember myself giving a whole fortune for buying cd-singles. Nowadays the songs have the same price with bubble-gums..

It's not fair to compare the sales nowadays with the sales in the past. In 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, you should had gone to the mucic store for buying the single. These days, you download the song and it's more cheaper than in the past. So, we can't compare million singles of Celine Dion and Spice Girls with these of Rihanna (I love Rihanna but i have to be fair with the artists). I remember myself giving a whole fortune for buying cd-singles. Nowadays the songs have the same price with bubble-gums..

Why not fair? Well these are statistics numbers and in a couple of years only these statistics numbers will stay and no one will bother what the price was.

 

If we follow your logic no one should do statistics at all of any products because the prices differ, the economic state changes from year to year, the behaviour of costumers change from time to time. :wacko:

 

Edit: Of course anyone who's reading statistics are aware that these are only statistics and the climate of the two numbers can't be fairly compared. But that's why it's called statistics ;)

It's disappointing that such a generic song has been such a big hit, but oh well.

 

 

That's exactly why it has been such a hit. The public have shit taste in music.

 

edit - Afrojack. another name to add to the club banger producer hall of shame.

Edited November 17, 201113 yr by tonyttt31

Of course it's not fair to compare sales. In the same manner, it's not fair to compare length of chart runs etc. But we all still do it (me included)!

V2 :

 

Pos - LW - YTD - Artist - Song - Total - New - Hst

1 - 1 - 1188100 - Adele - Someone Like You - 1188100 - 05/02/11 - 1

2 - 2 - 945900 - Jessie J ft B.o.B. - Price Tag - 945900 - 12/02/11 - 1

3 - 3 - 945900 - LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem - 945900 - 02/04/11 - 1

4 - 4 - 846100 - Pitbull - Give Me Everything - 846100 - 30/04/11 - 1

5 - 6 - 841000 - Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger - 841000 - 27/08/11 - 2

6 - 5 - 830900 - Bruno Mars - Grenade - 830900 - 22/01/11 - 1

7 - 7 - 765400 - Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor - 765400 - 09/04/11 - 1

8 - 8 - 764500 - Adele - Rolling In The Deep - 764500 - 29/01/11 - 2

9 - 9 - 716300 - Ed Sheeran - A Team - 716300 - 14/05/11 - 3

10 - 10 - 628700 - Rihanna - S&M - 655400 - 27/11/10 - 3

11 - 11 - 597000 - Lady Gaga - Born This Way - 597000 - 19/02/11 - 3

12 - 12 - 593300 - Bruno Mars - Lazy Song - 593300 - 29/01/11 - 1

13 - 13 - 573800 - Chris Brown Ft Benny Benassi - Beautiful People - 573800 - 02/04/11 - 4

14 - 14 - 564100 - Example - Changed The Way You Kiss Me - 564100 - 18/06/11 - 1

15 - 15 - 557900 - Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar - 565800 - 06/11/10 - 2

16 - 16 - 549200 - Snoop Dogg & David Guetta - Sweat - 549200 - 26/03/11 - 4

17 - 17 - 540600 - Christina Perri - Jar Of Hearts - 540600 - 04/06/11 - 4

18 - 23 - 534200 - Rihanna ft Clavin Harris - We Found Love - 534200 - 15/10/11 - 1

19 - 18 - 491600 - Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat - 491600 - 07/05/11 - 3

20 - 19 - 474300 - DJ Fresh - Louder - 474300 - 16/07/11 - 1

21 - 20 - 472500 - Jessie J - Do It Like A Dude - 565700 - 04/12/10 - 2

22 - 22 - 472400 - Wanted - Glad You Came - 472400 - 23/07/11 - 1

23 - 21 - 467100 - Chris Brown - Yeah 3x - 467100 - 05/02/11 - 6

24 - 25 - 435100 - Lady Gaga - Edge Of Glory - 435100 - 21/05/11 - 6

25 - 24 - 428100 - Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath - 428100 - 26/03/11 - 1

26 - 26 - 427300 - David Guetta - Where Them Girls At - 427300 - 14/05/11 - 3

27 - 27 - 418400 - Nicki Minaj - Super Bass - 418400 - 14/05/11 - 8

28 - 28 - 416800 - One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful - 416800 - 24/09/11 - 1

29 - 30 - 413000 - Adele - Set Fire To The Rain - 413000 - 05/02/11 - 11

30 - 31 - 405000 - Calvin Harris ft Kelis - Bounce - 405000 - 25/06/11 - 2

31 - 29 - 403200 - Chipmunk - Champion - 403200 - 19/02/11 - 2

32 - 34 - 400600 - Olly Murs - Heart Skips A Beat - 400600 - 03/09/11 - 1

33 - 33 - 399000 - Katy Perry Ft Kanye West - ET - 399000 - 05/03/11 - 3

34 - 32 - 397900 - Beyonce - Best Thing I Never Had - 397900 - 09/07/11 - 3

35 - 35 - 371700 - Black Eyed Peas - Just Can't Get Enough - 371700 - 12/03/11 - 3

36 - 36 - 368200 - David Guetta ft Rihanna - Who's That Chick - 517000 - 11/12/10 - 6

37 - 37 - 343500 - Jason Derulo - Don't Wanna Go Home - 343500 - 02/07/11 - 1

38 - 39 - 342700 - Katy Perry - Last Friday Night - 342700 - 25/06/11 - 9

39 - 38 - 340400 - Rihanna ft Drake - What's My Name - 766400 - 27/11/10 - 1

40 - 41 - 332100 - Martin Solveig - Hello - 338600 - 08/01/11 - 13

 

Hello Hello :D

 

Is it too much to ask for some newsreaders to dance to it on Children In Need and keep it in the year end top 40? :kink:

 

Glad that LMFAO are about to take over from Chavvy J too :D

I'd love to start seeing YTD that only include Top 40 positions sales so the tricklers would be much lower - possibly.

Of course it's not fair to compare sales. In the same manner, it's not fair to compare length of chart runs etc. But we all still do it (me included)!

I understand what you mean but everything should be handled in the right place. Statistics are statistics and only numbers, you shouldn't think more behind it. ;)

 

According to this logic the official chart is not fair either because some songs are only available as an individual track, some has digital bundles and some have phsyical singles and those prices differ (So it's not fair that We Found Love is number 1 because that song is only available as a 1 track download, while for example Ed Sheeran has a CD single and a 7 or 12" out).

The same in the album charts. For example Cher Lloyd's album is much cheaper on Amazon than The Wanted's album. So to think about what is fair and not fair is really pointless. :D

Ben is right. No one should place any worth or value a song based on it's sales or chart position because they are dependent on so many factors that it is not a level playing field.

I'd love to start seeing YTD that only include Top 40 positions sales so the tricklers would be much lower - possibly.

 

Could you clarify?

 

By 'top 40', do you mean YTD sales for only those songs in the current week's top 40 singles?

 

Easy enough to do, but what would be the point? The whole idea of YTD's is to show the post popular songs of the year, rather than just those currently popular - that's what the weekly T40's are for... :)

I think he means the top selling totals for songs that have peaked at every position in the top 40. So i mean the top selling #1, top selling #2 etc all the way down to #40. That would be interesting to see.

What's this year's top-selling number 5? It doesn't appear to have sold enough to make the YTD top 40... Same goes for the top-selling number 7... Make You Feel My Love perhaps?

What's this year's top-selling number 5? It doesn't appear to have sold enough to make the YTD top 40... Same goes for the top-selling number 7... Make You Feel My Love perhaps?

 

I think the highest-selling #5 might be Traktor or Black and Yellow.

I think the highest-selling #5 might be Traktor or Black and Yellow.

 

Black and Yellow sold miles more than Traktor - the former spent nine weeks top 40 with five of them in the top 10, the latter six in the top 40 and just two in the top 10.

Black and Yellow sold miles more than Traktor - the former spent nine weeks top 40 with five of them in the top 10, the latter six in the top 40 and just two in the top 10.

 

Yeah, that's true. It's obviously Black and Yellow then. :lol:

 

Although Traktor has had a really big top 200 chart run considering how quickly it fell down the chart I think.

Strange to see two non top ten hits in the YTD top 40 with just a month and a bit of the year left to go :o

I think the highest-selling #5 might be Traktor or Black and Yellow.

 

Oh yeah, forgot about Black and Yellow! I don't know why, but I've tended to find that - across the years - there are a surprisingly low number of phenomenally-selling number 5 hits! Strange, but when I look at the year-end top 75 singles every year I always seem to have to look way down for the number 5 tracks, or maybe I'm just imagining it!

Strange to see two non top ten hits in the YTD top 40 with just a month and a bit of the year left to go :o

 

and five other non-top 5 hits still making the grade too! that wouldn't have happened in the 90s or the early noughties!

Could I have the total sales for the following please:

 

Beyoncé:

'Run the World (Girls)'

'Countdown'

'Love on Top'

 

Katy Perry:

'California Gurls'

'Firework'

'The One That Got Away'

 

Thank you in advance :)