In my personal charts: Steps were comfortable # 1 with the all-time # 1 best music video "Say You'll Be Mine"

Why am I not in the least surprised?

Indeed - and as best I can tell, FTONY even averages ~150/wk outside the Xmas period... :blink:

 

 

Seriously 150 copies a week??

 

Surely its over a million copies then?!

 

Also for the Band Aid thing - why do you think M.Buble is at no3 in the albums chart this week having sold over 100k copies for an album that was released last xmas?!

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by steve201

6- RE-REWIND THE CROWD SAY BO SELECTA- Artful Dodger Ft Craig David (83,000)

 

Re-Rewind also sold 107,000 in its first week, which was two weeks before the Christmas chart.

 

So its sales pattern probably would have been:

 

107,000 - 95,000 - 83,000

 

Am I right? :D

 

-x-

 

There are some great sales in this week! ^_^

Negative:

Dance music ( William Orbit, Artful Dodger) was dreadful.

 

 

Do you actually like dance music?

Re-Rewind also sold 107,000 in its first week, which was two weeks before the Christmas chart.

 

So its sales pattern probably would have been:

 

107,000 - 95,000 - 83,000

 

Am I right? :D

 

-x-

 

There are some great sales in this week! ^_^

 

It's sales were well over 500,000 in total (by the end of 2000), if I remember correctly.

 

It's sales were well over 500,000 in total (by the end of 2000), if I remember correctly.

 

It sold 401,500 copies in 1999, according to Wikipedia.

 

Which would leave 116,500 copies for the last chart of the year. :unsure:

 

Was the last chart of 1999 a huge sales week or did it increase its sales in the second week of its release? :D

 

It sold 401,500 copies in 1999, according to Wikipedia.

 

Which would leave 116,500 copies for the last chart of the year. :unsure:

 

Was the last chart of 1999 a huge sales week or did it increase its sales in the second week of its release? :D

 

 

Or perhaps you just can't believe what you read on Wikipedia?

Or perhaps you just can't believe what you read on Wikipedia?

 

Those sales look pretty accurate to me.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_British_music

The sales in that chart are all over the place.

 

18 "Heartbeat / Tragedy" Steps 522,900 1

19 "My Love Is Your Love" Whitney Houston 493,400 2

20 "2 Times" Ann Lee 496,100 2

21 "I Try" Macy Gray 501,400 6

22 "If I Could Turn Back the Hands of Time" R. Kelly 536,600 2

23 "Beautiful Stranger" Madonna 490,700 2

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by AnthonyT

83 Re-Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta - Artful Dodger featuring Craig David [2] 168,000

 

Sales for it in 2000 from

 

http://www.moopy.org.uk/forums/showthread....the-decade-2000

Never trust anything from Wikipedia without having a better, trusted, source to back it up.

Never trust anything from Wikipedia without having a better, trusted, source to back it up.

 

 

Indeed. Find it on Wikipedia and then look for more sources to support it.

The sales discrepancies are probably because they're only including 1999 sales - some tracks were either released late into 1998 (Heartbeat/Tragedy) or sold well into early 2000.

The sales discrepancies are probably because they're only including 1999 sales - some tracks were either released late into 1998 (Heartbeat/Tragedy) or sold well into early 2000.

 

I think that you're right. I think that they are using total sales instead of sales from 1999. The sales at the top end of the chart are accurate at least! :D

The sales discrepancies are probably because they're only including 1999 sales - some tracks were either released late into 1998 (Heartbeat/Tragedy) or sold well into early 2000.

 

 

But they SHOULD only be including sales from 1999.

Well simply put we'll be looking back over the Christmas charts since 1980 at the closest races to the top spot.

 

Maybe we could add this year's Xmas chart onto the list. At the moment it's very unpredictable, James is at #1 on iTunes but the Justice Collective may get that #1 with physicals. I do love a good chart battle, this must be the first unpredictable Xmas battle since 2009! :o

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Edited May 14, 20169 yr by Electric Top 10

Wasn't this year a year where the Christmas chart fell quite a way before the actual 25th, but was the nearest Sunday to it? I'm pretty sure Mr Hankey peaked at #4, which wouldn't have happened once the festive season died down and Steps and S Club 7 also got higher peaks of #4 and #2 respectively once the new year came in...

Edited December 18, 201212 yr by GrAmii

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GEZZA’S SIXTH CHART OF CHRISTMAS- 1980

http://images.dailyexpress.co.uk/img/dynamic/10/285x214/134474_1.jpg

Obviously a matter of such conjecture, but by my reckoning this must have been a close run thing. The cutesy appeal of St Winifred’s School choir or the reverential appeal of honouring the memory of the recently deceased Lennon must have been a tough one to call but certainly it must have taken a very strong showing by the kids to overcome Lennon who had soared to No 1 the previous week from No 21.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/news/articles/celebrity-homes/files/2012/08/John-Lennon.jpg

Two main factors played a part in the direction of the festive No 1 this year, firstly again it’s down to dates with the Christmas chart covering sales between 15-20 December thusly not resulting in a massive selling festive chart, but also meaning that sales of the more seasonal hits (John Lennon’s “Happy Christmas”) hadn’t got into their peak sales period. Secondly, and arguably more importantly, is that the sales for John Lennon were split between three records and had there been only one it’s likely that the competition would have been too strong for TNQLG.

Cursory attempts at the No 1 spot from the big names of the day (The Police, Adam & The Ants) but they were all also rans.

1- THERE’S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA- St Winifred’s School Choir (189,000)
2- JUST LIKE STARTING OVER- John Lennon & Yoko Ono (155,000)
3- STOP THE CAVALRY- Jona Lewie (131,000)
4- HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)- John Lennon & Yoko Ono (122,000)
5- SUPER TROUPER- Abba (94,000)
6- DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA- The Police (85,000)
7- ANTMUSIC- Adam & The Ants (82,000)
8- EMBARRASSMENT- Madness (69,000)
9- IMAGINE- John Lennon (53,000)
10- RUNAWAY BOYS- The Stray Cats (51,000)

GEZZA’S SIXTH CHART OF CHRISTMAS- 1980

 

1- THERE’S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA- St Winifred’s School Choir (189,000)

2- JUST LIKE STARTING OVER- John Lennon & Yoko Ono (155,000)

3- STOP THE CAVALRY- Jona Lewie (131,000)

4- HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)- John Lennon & Yoko Ono (122,000)

5- SUPER TROUPER- Abba (94,000)

6- DE DO DO DO, DE DA DA DA- The Police (85,000)

7- ANTMUSIC- Adam & The Ants (82,000)

8- EMBARRASSMENT- Madness (69,000)

9- IMAGINE- John Lennon (53,000)

10- RUNAWAY BOYS- The Stray Cats (51,000)

 

I personally would've loved Stop the Cavalry and Happy Christmas to be the top 2, both amazing classic Christmas songs! :heart: There's No-One Quite Like Grandma is terrible, I think the people making up the school choir must look back and cringe at it. But I guess it must be something to be able to tell your mates "I had the Christmas #1" :lol: