Who else will get a million selling single this year?

 

Passenger- let her go currently on 906,700 so far will probably get to a million

X factor winner if they get a good song

 

anything else?

 

Does anyone think any albums will sell 1 million? Emeli sande only on 590,000 so unlikely

Passenger will get to a million either by the end of the year or early next year, depends how much X Factor exposure it gets.

 

Maybe Roar has an outside chance if it stays in the Top 10 for another couple of months, and maybe gets an X Factor boost or something? Though it's pretty unlikely.

 

Can't think of anything else around currently which could sell a million by the end of the year.

Edited October 3, 201311 yr by mango

Wake Me Up will pass a million this week or next, and Passenger should follow this year. I'm sure La La La will get there eventually too, just not by the end of this year.

 

At least we got one million selling album last year, says a lot when that same album is top this year also. :( Sats to sell a million?!!1!11!

At least we got one million selling album last year, says a lot when that same album is top this year also. :( Sats to sell a million?!!1!11!

The Sats have already sold a million... just not all of the same album :lol:

The Sats have already sold a million... just not all of the same album :lol:

 

Have they even sold a million albums? :lol: :( Chasing Lights less than 400k, Headlines! 200k, Wordshaker 90k-ish and OYR 60k oops

Oops, my bad :lol:

La La La needs 112,000....

 

Pity it wouldn't get an X Factor boost.

I can imagine Rihanna's dreary 'Diamonds' is not far away, I fully expect some numpty to perform it on X-Factor and give it a boost too.

Does anyone think any albums will sell 1 million? Emeli sande only on 590,000 so unlikely

I don't think we'll get a million selling album, but hopefully something will outsell Emeli Sande (not because I don't like her music but it's not that great to see an album released at the beginning of 2012 to still do better than everything else almost two years later). Perhaps Katy Perry, Eminem, Lady Gaga, One Direction and Robbie Williams(?) could do it - should only take 650k+.

I don't think we'll get a million selling album, but hopefully something will outsell Emeli Sande (not because I don't like her music but it's not that great to see an album released at the beginning of 2012 to still do better than everything else almost two years later). Perhaps Katy Perry, Eminem, Lady Gaga, One Direction and Robbie Williams(?) could do it - should only take 650k+.

I agree, it would be great to have a million selling album this year but I doubt it will happen.

 

Out of the above list, I think Katy Perry or Robbie Williams would be the most likely to outsell Emeli. Based on previous albums, it will take One Direction a good few months to reach 650k (plus I think their third album won't sell quite as much as the first two anyway). ARTPOP won't sell anywhere near as much as Born This Way either.

I don't think anything will outsell Emeli sadly... Last year the only album released in Q4 to clear 600k by the end of the year was One Direction, although somebody could come out of the blue I guess, but she'll probably sell more over Christmas and make about 650-700k by the end of the year anyway :(

If no albums sell a million this year then it will be the first time since 1982 that no album has officially sold a million copies. The top seller that year was 'Love Songs' by Barbra Streisand which sold around 900,000 or so copies. I say "officially" because the real best seller was The Kids From Fame's album of the same name which did sell a million. However some of its sales were on cassette which wasn't a chart eligible format in 1982, the format only being included in sales return figures from January 1983.

 

Prior to 1982 the last time no album, officially or otherwise, passed a million sales was in the 1970s, possibly 1975 when the best seller was 'Best Of' by The Stylistics.

If no albums sell a million this year then it will be the first time since 1982 that no album has officially sold a million copies. The top seller that year was 'Love Songs' by Barbra Streisand which sold around 900,000 or so copies. I say "officially" because the real best seller was The Kids From Fame's album of the same name which did sell a million. However some of its sales were on cassette which wasn't a chart eligible format in 1982, the format only being included in sales return figures from January 1983.

 

Really? I never knew that. I was buying all my albums on cassette from about 1978

 

Really? I never knew that. I was buying all my albums on cassette from about 1978

I wasn't aware at the time too until Alan Jones mentioned it in a Record Mirror article about Gallup taking over the compilation of the charts

 

http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/1982/UK%2...nd%20albums.pdf

 

(PDF file, see 4th and 5th pages of the PDF file)

 

Why on earth were cassettes not chart eligible for all those years they were available? Surely that's millions of lost sales!

Why on earth were cassettes not chart eligible for all those years they were available? Surely that's millions of lost sales!

Definitely millions of lost sales, 31.5 million cassettes out of a total of 89.3 million albums were shipped to record shops in 1982 alone. Assuming that Alan Jones is correct about cassette sales not being counted I'm guessing it was done to just simplify the chart compilation process - up to the arrival of Gallup in January 1983 record shops had to complete chart return diaries by hand and someone at the then chart compilers BMRB had to input the catalogue numbers to the computer by hand to actually run the chart. Perhaps it was done to make it easier to write down / input one catalogue number per album. Perhaps vinyl album sales were once upon a time seen as being more representative of all sales so there was no need to record cassette album sales. Certainly the albums chart wasn't as important back then as it is now, the singles chart was always seen as the most important and was always the first to be compiled. The albums chart was pretty much an afterthought at one time. In terms of what cassette albums were actually sold, the record labels would have been able to discover this from what they shipped and from their own sales representatives. Possibly the way estimated sales were worked out included a general amount for cassette sales even though they weren't recorded and of course even though certain types of music sold better on cassette.

I can imagine Rihanna's dreary 'Diamonds' is not far away, I fully expect some numpty to perform it on X-Factor and give it a boost too.

 

 

It' still my favourite Rihanna song. Quite wonderful.

 

Rolling in the Deep and that Pitbull song cant be far off either - unless they have passed it.

It' still my favourite Rihanna song. Quite wonderful.

 

Rolling in the Deep and that Pitbull song cant be far off either - unless they have passed it.

The last figures I saw for this was 980k for Pitbull and 950k for Adele. I presume Adele is outselling Pitbull, probably at least double and I wouldn't be surprised if 'Rolling in the Deep' was past 960k now.

 

I love 'Diamonds' too. :wub: Admittedly the "shine bright like a diamond" repetition is quite annoying but it's something I can overlook since the rest of the song is fantastic!

Rolling in the Deep and that Pitbull song cant be far off either - unless they have passed it.

They are both still not far off.

From Music Week,

 

Total singles sales fell annually between July and September by 3.1% to 43.9 million units, despite the Top 10 titles collectively selling nearly 40% more copies than the equivalent releases sold combined over the corresponding three months last year. This was led by Universal’s Positiva/PRMD track Wake Me Up by Avicii selling more copies in a third quarter (980,316 units) than any release since Elton John’s record-breaking Candle In The Wind 1997 16 years ago.

Edited October 4, 201311 yr by ben08