Thanks for posting!!.

From the OCC:

To make the 1,000th #1 album the occ have listed every number one album in the UK.

 

320th Like A Virgin

333rd True Blue

383rd Like A Prayer

418th The Immaculate Collection

563rd Evita Soundtrack

583rd Ray Of Light

632nd Music

694th American Life

764th Confessions On A Dance Floor

841th Hard Candy

878th Celebration

943rd MDNA

UK Budget Album Chart

45 (RE) The Immaculate Collection - 35 wks

Celebration re-enters at #188 this week and has now sold 534k to date!

Celebration re-enters at #188 this week and has now sold 534k to date!

 

 

Great stuff, getting very near to 100 wks now :). (Only 32 in the top 75 tho).

According to Magic's Top 50 Best Selling Movie Singles of the 21st Century list, 'Die Another Day' has sold 190k to date (rounded to nearest 10k).

Thanks for posting great info!!.

 

Can't help but notice Madonna's version of Americam Pie isn't on that list.

 

Official Charts Flashback: 30 years of Holiday, Madonna’s First Top 10 Hit

07/02/2014

By Justin Myers

 

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1984: A song called Holiday jets into the Top 10 for the very first time – but certainly not the last. Madonna’s debut hit and signature song has been a Top 10 hit THREE times.

 

Can you remember a time before Madonna? If you can’t, and only know her as the global superstar she is now, there’s every chance you won’t know just how exciting, different and interesting this ragtag American singer with a kind of squeaky voice seemed when her ditty about skiving off work entered the Top 10 this week in 1984.

 

Sassy solo female singers were nothing new, of course and another young American lady named Cyndi Lauper was enjoying her first Top 10 hit with Girls Just Want To Have Fun a little further up the chart, but Madonna seemed to have something special from the start. Brutally honest and funny in interviews, her music was unashamedly poppy and devoted to having a good time and Holiday, now one of her most famous songs, perfectly encapsulated Madonna’s whole ethos: “Awww, just have a day off, it’ll be fine”.

 

Watch Madonna perform Holiday on Top Of The Pops before we tell the story of her very first feelgood smash. The guy dancing to the left of her with the impressive sweatpatches is her brother Christopher.

 

Little did we know that behind those bright eyes and kind of half-hearted dancing there was an ambitious workaholic, who would stop at nothing until she achieved global domination and, well, it didn’t take her very long.

 

Holiday had been in the Top 40 for three weeks before it finally clambered into the Top 10. It seemed odd that this happy, carefree record hadn’t been released in the height of summer and when it peaked at Number 6, Madonna obviously decided that wasn’t good enough – it was rereleased 18 months later covered in suntan lotion and in the height of Madonnamania, this time making it all the way to Number 2.

 

Holiday was Madonna’s first Top 10 hit but her next two singles fared less well. Lucky Star landed at Number 14 and Borderline, a huge fan favourite, actually stalled at Number 56 first time round. That one usually comes up in pub quizzes – nobody can quite believe it wasn’t an instant hit.

 

Perhaps sensing that plan for world domination couldn’t be achieved by tracks from her debut, self-titled album, she moved on to the Like A Virgin era in November 1984, beginning a residency of the Official Singles Chart that would see every single she released for the next 10 years chart in the Top 10. Yes, all 35 of them. 35! The spell was finally broken by Take A Bow, one of her biggest hits in the US, which peaked at Number 16 in the UK.

 

Borderline would get another shot at the Top 10 in 1986, when it zoomed up to Number 2, coming at the end of a blitz of Madonna chart entries – eight within a year. She would have to wait until August 1985 for her first Number 1, Into The Groove. For one week, Holiday sat right behind it in Number 2. There’d be another 12 chart-toppers to come, but we’ll be talking about those later…

 

After Madonna released her first greatest hits collection in late 1990, The Immaculate Collection (still one of the biggest selling albums in the UK of all time, fact fans), Holiday’s time had come once more. It was rereleased the following summer with some tunes that hadn’t made the greatest hits and so had another crack at the Official Singles Chart. This time, it reached Number 5. Three goes at getting to the top spot is a pretty impressive run, and even more impressive to hit the Top 20 every time, but you’ve got to know when it’s time to retire, and Holiday finally went on a very long chart vacation and hasn’t been since.

 

Madonna’s not one for showing much affection for her old hits, but Holiday has fared better than most – she has performed it on all but one of her nine live tours. And you love it too: it is one of her biggest selling singles, shifting 795,000 copies in the UK.

 

Watch Madge – we can’t believe we got the whole way through an article without calling her Madge until now – perform it on her Reinvention Tour in 2004. She’s come a long way, hasn’t she?

 

Tomorrow, to celebrate 30 years since that very first hit on the Official Singles Chart: all Madonna’s Number 1 singles in the UK, ranked by how much they sold. What’s your favourite? Find out which of her 13 chart-toppers has outsold the rest.

Thanks got posting that, you beat me to it 795,000 sold ;)

Surely tomorrow's countdown should be like this.. Unless we are in for a surprise

 

01. Into The Groove

02. Papa Don't Preach

03. Hung Up

04. Like A Prayer

05. True Blue

06. Frozen

07. Vogue

08. 4 Minutes

09. La Isla Bonita

10. Music

11. American Pie

12. Who's That Girl

13. Sorry

Presumably 'Like a Virgin' is still second on her best sellers list though with at least over 800k. Wonder if this is a better trickle seller than 'Into the Groove'?

 

Ooh I didn't read the last paragraph, hopefully sales are given!

The OCC have got it wrong Holiday debuted in the UK charts on Jan 8th 1984 not February 8th.

Crazy for you and beautiful stranger are among her biggest selling hits in the uk. My guess would be this although hung up and like a prayer may jump up through download sales

 

1. Into the groove

2. Like a virgin

3. Holiday

4. Crazy for you

5. Papa don't preach

6. Hung up

7. Like a prayer

8. Frozen

9. True blue

10. Beautiful stranger

Edited February 8, 201411 yr by vibe

Why hasn't the list been posted :) it's very interesting . I'm on phone so can't post it.

From the OCC.. Updated sales Feb 2014

 

01. Into The Groove 870,000 (+26,439)

02. Holiday 795,000 (+42,032)

03. Papa Don't Preach 640,000 (+10,614)

04. Hung Up 610,000 (+92,964) **passed 600k in July**

05. Like A Prayer 580,000 (+66,769)

06. Frozen 545,000 (+36,704)

07. True Blue 540,000 (+5,272)

08. Beautiful Stranger 530,000 (+16,008)

09. Vogue 515,000 (+30,692)

10. 4 Minutes 500,000 (+99,216)

11. Music 415,000 (+14,469)

12. La Isla Bonita 410,000 (-11,760 ??)

13. American Pie 390,000 (+9,063)

14. Who's That Girl 350,000 (-26,498 ??)

15. Sorry 200,000 (+21,037) **past 200k in July**

Sales since August 2008

01. 4 Minutes - 99,216

02. Hung Up - 92,964

03. Like A Prayer - 66,769

04. Holiday - 42,032

05. Frozen - 36,704

06. Vogue - 30,692

07. Into The Groove - 26,439

08. Sorry - 21,037

09. Beautiful Stranger - 16,008

10. Music - 14,469

11. Papa Don't Preach - 10,614

12. American Pie - 9,063

13. True Blue - 5,272

 

Lost sales for..

01. Who's That Girl - 26,498

02. La Isla Bonita - 11,760

 

Best Selling Albums of All Time in the UK Top 40 10/02/14

11. The Immaculate Collection

I find the sales for WTG quite surprising yet pleasing :)

Really ?? Even tho they lost almost 27k sales for it ?.

 

Madonna must have passed the 18million mark now as they last time in oct 12 they said she sold 17.8m

UK Budget Album Chart:

33 [RE] The Immaculate Collection - 36 wks