01 85 04 Labrinth Feat. Emeli Sandé Beneath Your Beautiful

02 02 03 Swedish House Mafia Feat. John Martin Don't You Worry Child

03 01 02 Calvin Harris Feat. Florence Welch Sweet Nothing

04 04 04 Rihanna Diamonds

05 03 10 PSY Gangnam Style

 

I've just realised that this week's Top 5 is made up entirely of current/previous Number 1 singles! Does anyone know if this has happened before?

Not only that but they are the last fiv e number ones. I mentioned it in my commentary this week and paulgilb at Haven (who also posts here occasionally) replied that it last happened in November 2002 (Christina Aguilera, Nelly, DJ Sammy, Westlife, Las Ketchup).

It last happened exactly ten years ago as well! :o That means that JLS are the highest song not to get to #1, which proves that their critics who think that they are over (*cough* Lady Gaga *cough*) are wrong!

It last happened exactly ten years ago as well! :o That means that JLS are the highest song not to get to #1, which proves that their critics who think that they are over (*cough* Lady Gaga *cough*) are wrong!

 

 

No - how does the past positions of singles above a certain other single have any bearing on success level of the artist behind that single?

 

Surely, its sales when at number 5 are far more of an indicator of their current success level?

No - how does the past positions of singles above a certain other single have any bearing on success level of the artist behind that single?

 

Surely, its sales when at number 5 are far more of an indicator of their current success level?

 

Because the Top 5 have sold loads of copies week after week and explains that JLS's chart position was due to bigger sellers eclipsing them.

The fact that we know its sales means that its position becomes irrelevant when determining if they are over or not.

 

If we didn't know any sales, ever, and all we had to go on was chart positions then the fact that the singles that are higher than it have all been number 1 would give more credence to the theory that it is a high seller - but even then we would be foolish to make such an assumption - just because a single is a big seller when it is at number 1 doesn't mean it is still a big seller when it is at number 5 weeks later.

 

 

We'd be better off assessing its sales in comparison with all the other sales figures for the year so far and determining if it could have done much better other weeks. Also, a comparison to the first week sales of comparable JLS releases would also be more informative in this regard.

Edited October 29, 201212 yr by AnthonyT

Not only that but they are the last fiv e number ones. I mentioned it in my commentary this week and paulgilb at Haven (who also posts here occasionally) replied that it last happened in November 2002 (Christina Aguilera, Nelly, DJ Sammy, Westlife, Las Ketchup).

 

If Blazin' Squad (who were #6 that week) swapped with Westlife, that would've been such a classic top 5 (although it wouldn't have been a top 5 of #1s, so maybe it's best it didn't happen :lol:).

 

On the other hand, it is high-lighting that the charts are still moving pretty slow at the moment. I hope more newer songs can get into the top 5 in the coming months, rather than previous massive #1 hits hogging it up for weeks and weeks.

 

About JLS, even if their song hasn't sold much. It doesn't mean they're over. Kanye West's singles from his current album have peaked at #13, #86, #89 and #12 in the US respectively. Nobody was saying his career was over when two of his singles missed the top 80 in the US (and failed to chart nearly everywhere else in the world). His fans weren't panicking or anything. They just calmly moved on to the next single.

 

And I can find dozens of superstars in similar situations right now, doing much worse than JLS. Maybe JLS will choose to quite after this, but this does not mean they have to end their career. They can carry on perfectly fine if they really want to.

Was there ever a chart where there wasn't any former number One in the top 40? (Except of course the song at #1 at the time)

In 1991, the final 9 weeks when Everything I Do was number 1 were all charts that only had one number 1 in them as Any Dream Will Do from Jason Donavan had left the chart seven weeks after falling from number 1.

Edited October 29, 201212 yr by AnthonyT

In 1991, the final 9 weeks when Everything I Do was number 1 were all charts that only had one number 1 in them as Any Dream Will Do from Jason Donavan had left the chart seven weeks after falling from number 1.

And of course during Wet, wet, wet's mammouth run at the top in 1994

The last three weeks of Bohemian Rhapsody's original reign (four if you count the repeated chart separately) also had no other former number ones. Some of those weeks also had two songs which would go on to be posthumous number ones - Bohemian Rhapsody itself and Imagine.