Can people stop going on about JLS 'flopping' their GH is selling really well and I'm sure they don't give a toss about the single or they would have released it last week before the album.

#36 - JLS - Billion Lights

 

Shit man. Is this their worst performing single EVER? Aside from the one they released after 'Hottest Girl', which I wouldn't even count as a single.

 

Yes by a long way (as you say excluding the one that made number 112)

 

JLS

25 Jul 09 Beat Again 1 27

14 Nov 09 Everybody In Love 1 16

23 Jan 10 One Shot 6 15

17 Jul 10 The Club Is Alive 1 9

27 Nov 10 Love You More 1 12

22 Jan 11 Eyes Wide Shut (JLS featuring Tinie Tempah) 8 16

06 Aug 11 She Makes Me Wanna (JLS featuring Dev) 1 13

19 Nov 11 Take A Chance On Me 2 7

10 Dec 11 Wishing On A Star (X-Factor Finalists featuring JLS & One Direction) 1 4

10 Dec 11 Do You Feel What I Feel 16 11

31 Mar 12 Proud 6 3

03 Nov 12 Hottest Girl In The Wold 6 5

Total Hits : 12 Total Weeks : 138

 

 

(Excludes "Hero" and "Everybody Hurts" where they were not individually credited)

Edited November 21, 201311 yr by fchd

Why exclude 'Hold Me Down'? It was a single!

Why exclude 'Hold Me Down'? It was a single!

 

Was it a single in the same way 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' was?

Combined/Weighted iTunes

 

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01 - 1.0000 One Direction - Midnight Memories

02 - 0.7307 Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know

03 - 0.6178 Bastille - Of the Night

04 - 0.5799 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You (Official BBC...

05 - 0.5468 Gary Barlow - Let Me Go

06 - 0.4804 Martin Garrix - Animals

07 - 0.4619 Eminem - The Monster (feat. Rihanna)

08 - 0.3437 Storm Queen - Look Right Through (MK Remix)

09 - 0.3064 Little Mix - Move

10 - 0.2849 Lily Allen - Hard Out Here

 

11 - 0.2777 Lorde - Royals

12 - 0.2743 One Direction - Story of My Life

13 - 0.2654 One Direction - Diana

14 - 0.2454 OneRepublic - Counting Stars

15 - 0.2148 Katy Perry - Roar

16 - 0.1948 Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)

17 - 0.1824 Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

18 - 0.1602 Robbie Williams - Go Gentle

19 - 0.1528 Ellie Goulding - Burn

20 - 0.1487 Avicii - Wake Me Up

 

21 - 0.1387 Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home (feat. Majid Jordan)

22 - 0.1273 Rizzle Kicks - Skip To the Good Bit

23 - 0.1177 James Blunt - Bonfire Heart

24 - 0.1150 Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)

25 - 0.1120 Rudimental - Free (feat. Emeli Sandé)

26 - 0.1102 Avicii - Hey Brother

27 - 0.1082 Wilkinson - Afterglow

28 - 0.1027 Showtek - Booyah (feat. We Are Loud! & Sonny Wilson)

29 - 0.0951 AWOLNATION - Sail

30 - 0.0935 Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty (feat. 2 Chainz)

 

31 - 0.0804 Dizzee Rascal - Love This Town (feat. Teddy Sky)

32 - 0.0760 Katy Perry - Unconditionally

33 - 0.0738 Eminem - Berzerk

34 - 0.0709 Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat (feat....

35 - 0.0696 JLS - Billion Lights

36 - 0.0648 Jason Derulo - Trumpets

37 - 0.0647 Kanye West - Bound 2

38 - 0.0637 Passenger - Let Her Go

39 - 0.0621 Céline Dion - Loved Me Back to Life

40 - 0.0615 Tinie Tempah - Children of the Sun (feat. John Martin)

 

41 - 0.0578 The Vamps - Can We Dance

42 - 0.0577 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

43 - 0.0561 James Arthur - You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

44 - 0.0557 Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop

45 - 0.0544 The 1975 - Girls

46 - 0.0525 The Killers - Shot At the Night

47 - 0.0507 Ariana Grande - Last Christmas

48 - 0.0505 Jessie J - Sexy Lady

49 - 0.0501 Lana Del Rey & Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness (Lan...

50 - 0.0495 Ed Sheeran - I See Fire

 

51 - 0.0484 T-Pain - Up Down (Do This All Day) [feat. B.o.B]

52 - 0.0462 Conor Maynard - R U Crazy

53 - 0.0461 Boyzone - Love Will Save the Day

54 - 0.0456 Justin Bieber - PYD (feat. R. Kelly)

55 - 0.0447 Kate Williams & Paul Hart - Christmas Lullaby (Bradley ...

56 - 0.0446 Kid Ink - Show Me (feat. Chris Brown)

57 - 0.0421 Katy B - 5 AM

58 - 0.0418 Imagine Dragons - On Top of the World

59 - 0.0400 Eminem - Survival

60 - 0.0389 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell)

 

61 - 0.0361 Britney Spears - Work Bitch

62 - 0.0357 Jessie J - Thunder

63 - 0.0349 Avicii - You Make Me

64 - 0.0343 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert...

65 - 0.0333 Fall Out Boy - Young Volcanoes

66 - 0.0328 Rod Stewart - Forever Young

67 - 0.0327 Calvin Harris & Alesso - Under Control (feat. Hurts)

68 - 0.0327 Busted - Year 3000

69 - 0.0317 Rihanna - What Now

70 - 0.0315 Breach - Everything You Never Had (We Had It All) [feat...

 

71 - 0.0294 Foxes - Youth

72 - 0.0281 RY X - Berlin

73 - 0.0279 will.i.am - Bang Bang

74 - 0.0278 Bruno Mars - Gorilla

75 - 0.0273 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?

76 - 0.0273 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You

77 - 0.0269 Robin Thicke - Give It 2 U (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

78 - 0.0264 Enya - Only Time

79 - 0.0260 Lawson - Juliet

80 - 0.0258 One Direction - Best Song Ever

 

81 - 0.0245 Lady Gaga - Applause

82 - 0.0238 Eminem - Rap God

 

Ineligible to chart on Sunday

Pre-order

Was it a single in the same way 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' was?

 

They had their differences (as I've listed below), but ultimately they were both flop singles.

 

Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me - It had a music video / it was performed / it didn't have a physical format / it didn't have a digital EP / it didn't have artwork.

Hold Me Down - It didn't have a music video (but an acoustic version was uploaded to Vevo) / it was performed / it didn't have a physical format / it did have a digital EP / it did have artwork.

G'won 'Hey Brother'.

 

Also great to see Breach and Calvin doing well on pre-orders. Top 5 seems possible for them.

873. Diana Vickers - Mad At Me

 

:cheer:

873. Diana Vickers - Mad At Me

 

:cheer:

 

This song deserves some recognition, such a KILLER pop song.

They had their differences (as I've listed below), but ultimately they were both flop singles.

 

Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me - It had a music video / it was performed / it didn't have a physical format / it didn't have a digital EP / it didn't have artwork.

Hold Me Down - It didn't have a music video (but an acoustic version was uploaded to Vevo) / it was performed / it didn't have a physical format / it did have a digital EP / it did have artwork.

 

 

I heart the aloud, but the only reason it didn't have an EP/artwork was cause it was gonna flop and they tried to save face by it not "being a proper single" lol

 

Anyway, JLS clearly didn't want to release Hold Me Down - I guess it was at that point they really considered the split. They've said openly in interviews that the label released it rather than them backing it

I heart the aloud, but the only reason it didn't have an EP/artwork was cause it was gonna flop and they tried to save face by it not "being a proper single" lol

 

People always come up with theories like this, but I don't think record labels are going to not make a music video or not make artwork just so that a few people on Internet forums can use that to pretend the song wasn't a single.

Yeah, but they did actually cancel the single release of it though...

Yeah, but they did actually cancel the single release of it though...

 

That happens all the time. For example with Lana Del Rey, Young and Beautiful was going to be released in the US, but they cancelled it last minute and replaced it with Summertime Sadness. Same happened with Rihanna and Pour It Up getting it's pop release cancelled and replaced with Right Now in the US. And in both those cases the songs were actually doing well in the charts before they got cancelled.

18 & 29 Katy Perry - Roar

 

It has already outsold her first two singles ("I Kissed A Girl", "Hot N'Cold")..If you add this week sales..

 

22. Rudimental - Free (feat. Emeli Sandé)

 

34. Katy Perry - Unconditionally

 

Katy, i will love you unconditionally.. :wub:

 

38. Jason Derulo - Trumpets

 

Another Top 40 for him...

 

 

 

 

There were never plans for 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' to have a single release (I mean in terms of physicals / 1-track digital / digital EP). It was only ever intended to sell via its inclusion on the 'Ten' album. Nothing was cancelled.

XMAS SONGS iTunes Watch:

 

41 Ariana Grande- Last Christmas

45 Kate Williams & Paul Hart- Christmas Lullaby (Bradley Lowery's Fight)

98 159 Mariah Carey- All I Want For Christmas Is You

133 178 The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl- Fairytale of New York

145 Wizzard- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

185 453 Wham!- Last Christmas

199 1043 Shakin' Stevens- Merry Christmas Everyone

232 619 Slade- Merry Christmas Everybody

234 933 Band Aid- Do They Know It's Christmas?

299 Chris Rea- Driving Home for Christmas

335 John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Band, Yoko Ono & The Harlem Community Choir- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [2003 Mix]

367 896 Gabrielle Aplin- The Power of Love

420 Elton John- Step Into Christmas

421 Brenda Lee- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

464 Michael Buble- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

489 Lucy Mae and the Tom Cats- Santa Baby

547 The Crystals- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

548 Paul McCartney- Wonderful Christmastime

549 Dean Martin- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

629 Greg Lake- I Believe in Father Christmas

631 Kylie Minogue- Santa Baby

632 863 East 17- Stay Another Day

738 Andy Williams- It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year

776 Frankie Goes to Hollywood- The Power of Love

818 Frank Sinatra- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

819 The Ronettes- Sleigh Ride

820 Mud- Lonely This Christmas

821 Cliff Richard- Mistletoe and Wine

852 Justin Bieber- Mistletoe

965 1396 Kate Winslet- What If (From "Christmas Carol")

1077 Michael Buble- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

1078 Mariahchi Doritos- Stay Another Day

1080 Michael Buble- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

1083 Aled Jones- Walking in the Air

1166 The Darkness- Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)

1187 Joe McElderry- Wonderful Dream (Holidays Are Coming)

1210 Bing Crosby & David Bowie- Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

1211 Michael Buble- White Christmas (Duet with Shana Twain)

1212 Band Aid 20- Do They Know It's Christmas?

1216 Johnny Mathis- When a Child Is Born

1369 Bobby Helms- Jingle Bell Rock

1394 Coldplay- Christmas Lights

XMAS SONGS iTunes Watch:

 

54 Ariana Grande- Last Christmas

70 Kate Williams & Paul Hart- Christmas Lullaby (Bradley Lowery's Fight)

92 139 Mariah Carey- All I Want For Christmas Is You

129 167 The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl- Fairytale of New York

140 Wizzard- I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

172 551 Wham!- Last Christmas

196 971 Shakin' Stevens- Merry Christmas Everyone

223 541 Slade- Merry Christmas Everybody

234 803 Band Aid- Do They Know It's Christmas?

303 Chris Rea- Drving Home for Christmas

349 793 1130 Gabrielle Aplin- The Power of Love

362 John Lennon, The Plastic Ono Bond, Yoko Ono & The Harlem Community Choir- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) [2003 Mix]

407 Elton John- Step Into Christmas

419 Brenda Lee- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

445 Dean Martin- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

458 Andy Williams- It's the Most Wonderful Time of The Year

482 Michael Buble- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

496 The Crystals- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

566 643 East 17- Stay Another Day

571 Kylie Minogue- Santa Baby

630 The Ronettes- Sleigh Ride

642 Paul McCartney- Wonderful Christmastime

653 Frankie Goes to Hollywood- The Power of Love

667 Greg Lake- I Believe in Father Christmas

695 Frank Sinatra- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

732 Mud- Lonely This Christmas

735 Lucy Mae and the Tom Cats- Santa Baby

807 Justin Bieber- Mistletoe

859 Cliff Richard- Mistletoe and Wine

949 Michael Buble- Christmas (Baby Plase Come Home)

1068 The Darkness- Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)

1126 Kate Winslet- What If (From "Christmas Carol")

1137 Michael Buble ft The Puppini Sisters- Jingle Bells

1139 Boney M- Mary's Boy Child/ Oh My Lord

1140 Michael Buble- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

1142 Michael Buble- Winter Wonderland

1187 Darlene Love- All Alone On Christmas

1206 Mariachi Doritos- Stay Another Day

1273 Bing Crosby & David Bowie- Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy

1275 Aled Jones- Walking in the Air

1315 Jona Lewie- Stop the Cavalry

1361 The Octaves- Radio Christmas (Pre Order)

Can people stop going on about JLS 'flopping' their GH is selling really well and I'm sure they don't give a toss about the single or they would have released it last week before the album.

 

Well yeah it's pretty obvious they don't give a shit about the whole thing since they're splitting up anyway.

There were never plans for 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' to have a single release (I mean in terms of physicals / 1-track digital / digital EP). It was only ever intended to sell via its inclusion on the 'Ten' album. Nothing was cancelled.

 

It had a release date on the release schedule though?

And plenty of promotional appearances. In fact it was pushed a lot more than many other "singles"

It had a release date on the release schedule though?

 

That was an "impact date".