Great chart guys. Well done with the commentary. There's plenty of great, life affirming, thought provoking and hip-gyrating music in the list - and lots of shite too but you'll have that. :P

It's incredible how many "Someone Like You" has sold (and is still selling) when you consider how many have bought the album

More importantly, where are Fragma.............AGAIN?

Fragma may not have sold enough to make the chart as the threshold haas risen they are possibly outside (esp if the OCC did not add sales of 2008 Version to the 2000 original).

 

Do we need a new thread for all the questions? :lol:

Great chart guys. Well done with the commentary. There's plenty of great, life affirming, thought provoking and hip-gyrating music in the list - and lots of shite too but you'll have that. :P

 

 

Exactly. An one person's "great" is another person's "shite"

Well that was enjoyable, with some surprises here and there. :D

26. WHOLE AGAIN- Atomic Kitten (13) 976,000

 

OCC said in March 2012 that it as sold over 980,000 ;)

I must admit that I didn't expect Adele to be so high. I wish it was for Rolling in the Deep, which is a much better song (IMO) than Someone like You.

 

Although Will and Gareth had the advantage of a fresh show like Pop Idol to launch them, unlike X Factor, there was a delay of a month and two months respectively before they released their debut singles, which were available in one format only, which you had to buy from an actual shop, costing £4 a go. They weren't available for download within a couple of hours of the show ending, for 79p.

 

Back in the early 00s, once a song dropped out of the charts, that was it for sales. Some will be able to pick up sales again now they are available for download, but when they were first available for legal download, they wouldn't have been eligible for the charts, so anything cherry picked from an album won't have counted to the official sales figures.

 

You never completely lose it, more control it. Fair play to him though, he sounded pretty fluent.

Agreed. The reality is that if Gareth's stammer was still as bad as it used to be, he wouldn't have been able to do the interview at all. In fact, he hardly ever gave any radio interviews back then, and if he did do something, it was pre-recorded and heavily edited.

 

If anyone is interested, Gareth did a documentary for BBC3 a couple of months ago, where he helped some other people manage their stammers.

Also, last estimate i saw for Kylie a bit ago was 1,140,000 and 927,000 for Just Dance?

 

stellar work on the list, i wonder if certain artist fans may be able to triangulate even more accurate figures ;)

OCC said in March 2012 that it as sold over 980,000 ;)

Altered- I knew I'd forget to marry up something! :D

Also, last estimate i saw for Kylie a bit ago was 1,140,000 and 927,000 for Just Dance?

 

stellar work on the list, i wonder if certain artist fans may be able to triangulate even more accurate figures ;)

Thanks- altered the Kylie one however given that the list ties up with sales to last weeks chart Gotye was deffo on 918k so Lady Gaga CAN'T be more than that?!

This has been bugging me since I heard it today. Does anyone think the chorus to Gareth Gates' Anyone of Us sounds almost identical to another song? It reminds me so much of something, and I haven't knowingly heard Anyone of Us before.

With last weeks sales I put Gotye up to 27 already?!

It is rather basic, but I quite like this version to be honest. Always liked Gareth's voice, it's a shame he couldn't handle his career better (he was young, I suppose).

The big problem anyone has if they choose to cover Unchained Melody is that they stand next to no chance of bettering the Righteous Brothers' version. Even Elvis couldn't beat it. His version was terrible. The only chance anyone would have would be if they did a very different version rather than trying to emulate the Righteous Brothers.

alexandra burke "hallelujah" sold 1.225 million, didn't it?

November 2004 was the month the occ started tracking download sales, although they weren't incorporated into the chart until the following year. That's the only significant thing I can think about that date.

That could explain it. If they moved everything on to a new database at the time they could be using the date the song was added to that database. They need a good data analyst to sort this out and I know just the man :D That said, it is rather sad that none of the presenters seemed to notice that there were rather a lot of songs from the same year, let alone the same month.

 

Many thanks to everybody who hosted the thread. You did a grand job :dance:

Had no idea Make You Feel My Love and Don't Stop Believin' had both passed 800k :o And wow at Someone Like You being the 2nd biggest seller of the century now!

113. Flo Rida feat. T-Pain - Low

 

 

2008

#2

 

The debut single from rapper Flo Rida (guess which American state he's from!), it was a massive hit here but even bigger in his native USA where it spent ten weeks at #1. I personally really like this but I realise I'm probably in a minority of BuzzJack there - Rida has had more BJ-friendly songs since though.

More BJ friendly songs? With lyrics like "you spin me right round baby, right round, when you go down when you go down down" you're not wrong :kink:

 

Thanks- altered the Kylie one however given that the list ties up with sales to last weeks chart Gotye was deffo on 918k so Lady Gaga CAN'T be more than that?!

Well if you're going to use logic....

 

alexandra burke "hallelujah" sold 1.225 million, didn't it?

I thought the last figure i saw (which may be a VC estimate) was over the 1.2mil anyway

 

Some totals from the last Virgin Book (sales until end 2009/Q1 2010) - only posted those which are higher in there (as sales will only have increased since):

 

- Pure & Simple 1,085,000

- (incidentally they "only" have band aid at 1,150,000 but prob even that version gets some xmas sales)

- (Is This the Way To) Amarillo 1,215,000

- Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) 1,340,000

 

Every little helps... :P

Edited May 7, 201213 yr by spicefunk

Shakespeare is so overrated imo. Most famous rappers rhyme much better than him.

Oh my god :blink: :blink: :o

 

Just, oh my god :lol:

 

The kind of post I will remember for a long time.

Edited May 8, 201213 yr by Fruity

Thanks- altered the Kylie one however given that the list ties up with sales to last weeks chart Gotye was deffo on 918k so Lady Gaga CAN'T be more than that?!

 

I assume you mean the 5/5/12 chart?

 

If so, then some of sales of recent songs aren't consistant with that - e.g. the figures for SLY & IGF tie in with those of 2 weeks before...

 

Either way, the top 40 is dominated by hits from the 3 years! :)

 

Edited May 8, 201213 yr by vidcapper

Top 5 sales revealed on here, to the nearest thousand

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-revealed-1382/

 

As part of a special day of Bank Holiday programming, yesterday (Monday, May 7) BBC Radio 1 revealed the Official Top 150 Biggest Selling Singles Of the 21st Century.

 

The mammoth countdown kicked off at 7am with Reggie Yates, host of the Official Chart Show, and continued into Fearne Cotton and Scott Mills’ shows, leaving Official Update presenter Greg James to reveal the final Top 40.

 

Former Pop Idol contestant Will Young topped the chart with his debut release, Anything Is Possible / Evergreen, which has clocked up nearly 1.8 million sales to date. February of this year marked the 10th anniversary of the single's release and Young beating bookies favourite Gareth Gates to win the finale of the hit reality TV series.

 

“Ten years ago I won Pop Idol. Since then I have still not achieved my dream of a Tupperware range. Life can be cruel...” commented Young on his Twitter.

 

Adele, whose second album, 21, recently overtook sales of Michael Jackson’s Thriller to become the UK’s fifth biggest selling album of all-time, took second place with Someone Like You. The track, which was the second single to be lifted from 21, has sold a staggering 1,348,000 copies to date.

 

With 1,342,000 sales under its belt, Pop Idol runner-up Gareth Gates was in third place with his cover of Alex North, Hy Zaret and Todd Duncan’s 1955 hit Unchained Melody. The track was made famous by The Righteous Brothers some ten years later and became the theme song of 1990 film, Ghost. The Black Eyed Peas’ David Guetta-produced 2009 smash, I Gotta Feeling, was Number 4 in the countdown with sales of 1,289,000, while Shaggy’s 2001 former Number 1, It Wasn’t Me, completed the Top 5 with sales of 1,255,000.