Posted February 26, 201213 yr http://www.theofficialcharts.com/features/...-stay-turns-20/ Can you believe it's been two decades. The song was the 4th biggest seller of 1992 (selling 490,000), to date it has sold over 600,000. Also, Marcella is turning 60 this year apparently. _eXw47qb4U0 Edited February 26, 201213 yr by Jack!
February 26, 201213 yr http://www.theofficialcharts.com/features/...-stay-turns-20/ Can you believe it's been two decades. The song was the 4th biggest seller of 1992 (selling 490,000), to date it has sold over 600,000. Also, Marcella is turning 60 this year apparently. Just shows how low sales were at the time if 8 weeks at no.1 couldn't even sell half a million. Edited February 26, 201213 yr by Col1967
February 26, 201213 yr Why were sales so low then? Because people weren't buying many singles? :rolleyes: Seriously though, I think this was just before Britpop & Grunge really took off, and the singles market had gotten somewhat stagnant.
February 26, 201213 yr At the time it was blamed on the massive popularity of games consoles (like the Super Nintendo & Mega Drive) and the slow but sure growth of satellite television. Also I think cassettes were huge around this time - after vinyl had faded but before CD singles had caught on. By the final week it was only selling 28,000 at number 1, and was only the top seller on cassette format - different songs were number 1 on 7", 12" and CD!
February 26, 201213 yr obv it wasnt selling because people werent buying many singles but i was looking for WHY that was....didnt realise cd singles didnt take off til after this.....wasnt grunge big from 1989-93,then brit pop brought music back 'home' with blur,oasis,pulp, the verve and suede!
February 26, 201213 yr obv it wasnt selling because people werent buying many singles but i was looking for WHY that was....didnt realise cd singles didnt take off til after this.....wasnt grunge big from 1989-93,then brit pop brought music back 'home' with blur,oasis,pulp, the verve and suede! Recession in the main, but that led to a weaker singles market so more niche acts managed to have bigger hits, which was good but lead to songs in the charts not have widespread appeal so in turn sales continued to drop. The rise of dance music also meant that a lot of groups only really appealed to clubbers which discounted a lot of the audience for mainstream radio. Grunge was never a major movement in the Uk certainly singles wise. The arrival of Britpop in 93/94 coincided with coming out of the recession and the market recovered.
February 26, 201213 yr Didn't Duffy only sell 500,000 in 2008? Had it not been Alexandra burke, that would have been the top selling single that year.
February 26, 201213 yr Wow 20 years, and it still sounds as unique and intriguing a single today as back then. Back in 1992 vinyl was being phased out by the industry in favour of CDs, but owing to the recession the public hadn't bought CD players as quickly as the industry had originally hoped meaning that only a reduced % of the music buying public was able to buy and play new music for a while. Cassettes did bridge the gap but didn't necessarily win over some vinyl lovers with thier frequent tangling and rewinding, and often limited track listing compared to the vinyl. Brit pop turned things back round in the next few years. Another thing I love about Stay is that it spawned a parody in the Mr Blobby video the next year, not many songs can say that lol.
February 26, 201213 yr An absolutly epic song, but dissapointed that it was Cher Lloyd's cover of it on XFactor that got me into it.
February 26, 201213 yr Loved this song for ages. It was in my Top 20 of all time for a while in 1993. I quit listening to it for a while. Now I like it again.
February 27, 201213 yr Cripes, I do feel old now...and, yes, Marcella Detroit will be 60 this year. Singles did not sell very well in the early 90s. CD singles and 12"s sold at £3.99 each, 7" and cassette singles were £1.99 and you had to really, really want a song back then as a result. Then, around 1995, the labels grew wise to this and started selling them at 'half price' (99p / £1.99) for the first week only in order to get a high chart placing. This also explains the rise of records going straight to number one which hardly ever happened in 1992 - Stay entered at no.27 and took five weeks to hit the top. The other thing labels did to coax more sales was to start selling singles as "double CD" packs where part 1 would come out one week and part 2 the next (at full price, natch) Yeah, 1992 was pretty innocent :)
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