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Recently so many iTunes Charts were added, and you can buy songs off iTunes in bucketload of different countries. And to me it got really interesting to watch some random country charts and see what's popular there right now. Besides, many of those countries don't have decent official charts, so that will represent them that way too.

 

I'll be posting screenshots of some random iTunes charts in this thread and see how it will turn out. If you wish to bring the other iTunes chart here - feel free to do it in the format that in which you are comfortable to post them.

 

If there is a similar thread somewhere then SORRY! Feel free to merge etc.

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Starting from (obviously) Russia, Ukraine and Belarus!

 

Russia 23.02.2013

 

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j211/Arrs-/2013-02-23Russia.jpg

 

Ukraine 23.02.2013

 

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j211/Arrs-/2013-02-23Ukraine.jpg

 

Belarus 23.02.2013

 

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j211/Arrs-/2013-02-23Belarus.jpg

Regarding Belarus - 2 fake versions of Lana Del Rey's "Ride" in the Top 25?! :lol:

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Surprised to see Nelly Furtado #1 in Belarus. I saw the video earlier in the week on YouTube (through another video) and I'm surprised it's not taken off. It just seems like a big hit in waiting. :o

 

Also 'The Winner Takes It All' by ABBA top 20. Fresh new music in Belarus!!! :heehee:

At least Nelly Furtado is smashing somewhere!

 

Likewise Hurts, віват Україна!

I remember there used to be a thread like this, but that was a couple of years ago now.

 

I agree, it's interesting to see other countries charts. It's also good for seeing potential future hits in the UK, I first found out about the 3 biggest-selling songs of 2012 because they were doing well in other countries iTunes.

 

However, some of the newly-added countries probably don't have many iTunes users. In Belarus you need 2 sales to get to #1 on iTunes atm. Nelly Furtado and Alexandrow Ensemble have currently sold 2 copies each (and are now the top 2), and the other 98 songs in the top 100 have sole one copy each (you can tell this looking at LivePopBars). Explode and Lick Ya Down by Cover Drive are #12 and #13 there atm though! :D

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Ummmm, Livepopbars are already working for the newly added charts? Nice, really nice.

 

Seems like Ukraine is the same as Belarus :lol: With two sales in to the each of the top-3 and one for the rest. So this is kind of irrelevant. :(

 

Russia however generates quite a lot of sales where the step is about 0.6% which means about 170 sales per day. The reason for that is probably that I think about 95% of ex-USSR sales go from Moscow and Saint Petersburg with both of them being in Russia. :lol: I even saw an ad of iTunes store in some of the paying terminals (I'm in St.-Petes)!

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Given that there are actually Livepopbars working for every country and I have too much time in my hands this weekend - here are the #1s of 50 of the countries where the sales are more than you have to sell 2-3 copies to get to #1. In Alphabetical order!

 

Songs having a #1 in more than one country:

 

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop 7

Adele - Skyfall 5

Baauer - Harlem Shake 5

One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks) 5

will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears) 5

James Arthur - Impossible 3

Justin Timberlake - Mirrors 2

 

Argentina One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

Australia Baauer - Harlem Shake

Austria will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears)

Belgium Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Brazil One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

Bulgaria James Arthur - Impossible

Canada Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Chile Daddy Yankee - Limbo

Colombia Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven

Czech Republic Adele - Skyfall

 

Denmark Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Egypt Rihanna - Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko)

Finland Haloo Helsinki! - Vapaus Käteen Jää

France Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Germany Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

Greece Adele - Skyfall

Hungary will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears)

India Amit Trivedi - Manja

Indonesia Rihanna - Diamonds

Ireland Passenger - Let Her Go

 

Israel Baauer - Harlem Shake

Italy Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale

Japan GReeeeN - 桜color

Kazakhstan Adele - Skyfall

Latvia Dons & Ingus Bērziņš - Māsa Upe

Luxembourg Baauer - Harlem Shake

Malaysia One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

Malta James Arthur - Impossible

Mexico will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears)

Netherlands Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

 

New Zealand James Arthur - Impossible

Norway Lene Marlin & Kurt Nilsen - Engler I Sneen

Peru Carlos Vives - Volví a Nacer (feat. J. Alvarez) [urban Version]

Philippines Aiza Seguerra - Ano'ng Nangyari Sa Ating Dalawa

Poland Adele - Skyfall

Portugal The Lumineers - Ho Hey

Romania Adele - Skyfall

Russia Baauer - Harlem Shake

Singapore One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

Slovakia will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears)

 

South Africa P!nk - Give Me a Reason

Spain will.i.am - Scream & Shout (feat. Britney Spears)

Sweden Anton Ewald - Begging

Switzerland Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Turkey Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

Ukraine Okean Elzy - Обійми

United Arab Emirates (UAE) Maroon 5 - Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) [studio Recording From the Voice Performance]

United Kingdom Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

United States of America Baauer - Harlem Shake

Venezuela One Direction - One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)

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The #1 in Hong Kong sells around the same amount in Japan! :D
:o at James Arthur being a worldwide smash! Great to see Baauer still doing well too, if only he was #1 in the UK too instead of falling down to #8

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