What do you mean? Songs can't "run out of sales". Although I guess downloads hadn't fully taken off by then. Were they running out of CDs in the shop or something?

 

I meant that a lot of the people who wanted the single had already bought it in the first week.

 

-x-

 

And Gezza, if you're talking about Eric's Call On Me comment - the comment is still there? :lol:

I meant that a lot of the people who wanted the single had already bought it in the first week.

That's the case for every winner's single though, Eric was wondering why it had such a massive drop in comparison to the others. I mean even Little Mix didn't have a much lower second week and Shayne massively outsold them in week one.

 

I haven't a clue what caused it myself. All I can think of is stocking issues.

That's the case for every winner's single though, Eric was wondering why it had such a massive drop in comparison to the others. I mean even Little Mix didn't have a much lower second week and Shayne massively outsold them in week one.

 

I haven't a clue what caused it myself. All I can think of is stocking issues.

 

But a lot more people bought the Shayne Ward single in its first week, so it would be easy to see why there was such a massive decrease in comparison to the others. The Little Mix single was a lot less popular, so its sales were probably spread out more. When a single like that has massive sales but has a limited appeal, it's easy to see why it would have a bigger drop than all the other winner's singles, apart from Alexandra, but the Woolworths sale obviously helped her sales and Shayne sold almost 200k more of his single in its first week anyway.

Edited December 21, 201212 yr by ★ G R I E F ★

Scream & Shout to 87.5%.

 

:o Go S&S :yahoo:

Re: Shayne Ward- the answer is all to do with dates. The week that covered Christmas ran from 18th-24th December thus getting in practically the whole pre Christmas rush to maximise sales, the following week contained no run- in to Christmas so the drop was larger than most. Other winners singles had something of the next week to sell in the run up so tended to hold up better (% wise). He was also, I recall, a very popular winner.

Re: Shayne Ward- the answer is all to do with dates. The week that covered Christmas ran from 18th-24th December thus getting in practically the whole pre Christmas rush to maximise sales, the following week contained no run- in to Christmas so the drop was larger than most. Other winners singles had something of the next week to sell in the run up so tended to hold up better (% wise). He was also, I recall, a very popular winner.

 

Oh Gezza, dates are always the answer for everything! You only need to look at your latest thread to see that! :D

 

I think that he only sold so many copies because he had the marketing appeal that attracted the girls, which were typically the target audience for these singles. It's the same reason why James Arthur has sold so much as well.

Oh Gezza, dates are always the answer for everything! You only need to look at your latest thread to see that! :D

 

I think that he only sold so many copies because he had the marketing appeal that attracted the girls, which were typically the target audience for these singles. It's the same reason why James Arthur has sold so much as well.

Shayne Ward was considerably easier on the eye! :lol:

Re: Shayne Ward- the answer is all to do with dates. The week that covered Christmas ran from 18th-24th December thus getting in practically the whole pre Christmas rush to maximise sales, the following week contained no run- in to Christmas so the drop was larger than most. Other winners singles had something of the next week to sell in the run up so tended to hold up better (% wise). He was also, I recall, a very popular winner.

 

That makes sense a bit.

 

Yeah, he was very popular. Girls especially used to love him, and also Journey South and Chico. :lol:

 

Oh Gezza, dates are always the answer for everything! You only need to look at your latest thread to see that! :D

 

I think that he only sold so many copies because he had the marketing appeal that attracted the girls, which were typically the target audience for these singles. It's the same reason why James Arthur has sold so much as well.

 

Will Young and Gareth Gates also testify to this!! :lol:

Edited December 21, 201212 yr by Eric_Blob

Fairytale of New York being performed on Text Santa by Gary Barlow, Tulisha, Nicole Scherzinger & Dawn French! Possible climb into the top 10?

Edited December 21, 201212 yr by MrGaGa

Fairytale of New York being performed on Text Santa by Gary Barlow, Tulisha, Nicole Scherzinger & dawn French! Possible climb into the top 10?

 

Everybody will probably decide they hate the song if Tulisa is performing it, so it might drop out the top 100 instead. :( :lol:

If we can avoid writing potentially libelous stuff about popstars please! (This refers to a deleted post)- thanks

Tulisa LOL

Fairytale of New York 23 and 25

Gangnam Style #8 (1 billion view effect?)

 

One Pound Fish #26

 

It's only just now that 'Diamonds' has clicked with me! :o

 

When it was first released, I thought it was her worst single (bar 'You Da One') since 'Hate That I Love You'. I was wrong! It's so epic (and not in the overused definition of the word, I mean the whole song and video is iconic in a weird sense!)

 

Okay I'm done bumming the song for now but wow!

S&S is really close to #2 :o

 

#2 He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brothe... 0.9375 0.9688 light red

#3 Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears) 0.8125 0.8125 very green

46 will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears) [Radi... 0.0613 0.0625 light red

 

combined 0.8738

Hoping Slade night on BBC Four benefits Merry Xmas Everybody, currently number 60.

It looks like going from 490k to ~200k in a week - that's a 60% drop, so a similar one would see it on ~80k next week. That would make it easy prey to the Xmas voucher market...

 

In fact, here is my XF sales drop spreadsheet, updated :

 

Year - Wk1 - Wk2 - Wk3 - Wk4

2005 - 742180 - 132284 - 54192 - 31724

2006 - 571253 - 128077 - 39000 - 20400

2007 - 275742 - 119927 - 32098 - 16497

2008 - 576046 - 311887 - 104454 - 34440

2009 - 450838 - 195730 - 69792 - 21147

2010 - 439007 - 299996 - 113037 - 46116

2011 - 210129 - 115678 - 63862 - 18500

2012 - 489560

- - - -

Avg - 469344 - 186226 - 68062 - 26975

- - - -

% Fall - n/a - 60.3 - 63.5 - 60.4

Poor forgotten Steve Brookstein. :(

74. Lost - Frank Ocean

 

Even in the Christmas rush he's selling well. :D

 

I also can't believe the likes of Leona, JLS, Ne-Yo and Girls Aloud are looking to miss the top 100 with their recent singles.

 

I can't wait to see what the iTunes chart looks like after it unfreezes from the Christmas period. I wonder what the surprise New Year hits will be.

Edited December 21, 201212 yr by SceneofSIXCrimes

Hoping Slade night on BBC Four benefits Merry Xmas Everybody, currently number 60.

 

And I hope How Does It Feel makes an appearance in the top 1500....now THAT would be a great X Factor Winner's Single!