I don't know if this been covered before but with Mariah Carey becoming the latestt million seller and Xmas songs selling well every year will there come a time in many years to come where the UKs topp 100 selling songs are full of Xmas songs or do you think they will fade away in the future?

I imagine retro Christmas songs will stop selling as much as they do now soon. Surely all music buyers own a copy of the classics by now? Whether it's from a compilation or individual download, I do wonder how they keep selling lots every year.

OCC released a story regarding the [incredible] 1998 Christmas Number One today, and it gives a good indication of how songs are selling way outside of the Top 1500 - as Goodbye has only appeared a very few brief times.

 

Spice Girls - Goodbye

21 June 2009 - 862,524

20 Dec 2013 - 884,000

 

So in the past four years, 'Goodbye' has sold 21,476 copies

Roughly 100 copies a week then? That's quite encouraging! And not a traditional Xmas song as such. Most of the traditional more popular others seem to be adding about 50k a year fairly consistently so bound to be a few which pass it over the next few years

Roughly 100 copies a week then? That's quite encouraging! And not a traditional Xmas song as such. Most of the traditional more popular others seem to be adding about 50k a year fairly consistently so bound to be a few which pass it over the next few years

 

Yeah, its only associated with Christmas because its a #1 and '2 Become 1' is the most heavily played of three each year, so i'd imagine thats racked up almost twice as much! 'Too Much' kind of gets forgotton about.

 

Encouraging to think that 'Say Youll Be There' and 'Goodbye' may one day cross 1m mark, if they keep grabbing Headlines

I imagine retro Christmas songs will stop selling as much as they do now soon. Surely all music buyers own a copy of the classics by now? Whether it's from a compilation or individual download, I do wonder how they keep selling lots every year.

Yes but as children grow up and get into music, some of them will be downloading the old classic Christmas songs. So every year there will be a new influx of teenagers downloading them, as well as a small number of older people who have just got an ipod or whatever, or for whatever reason don't own those songs yet.

I imagine retro Christmas songs will stop selling as much as they do now soon. Surely all music buyers own a copy of the classics by now? Whether it's from a compilation or individual download, I do wonder how they keep selling lots every year.

Some of the Christmas classics sell as many copies per year as other non-seasonal classics. However, if the sales are spread roughly evenly across the year it doesn't really get noticed but, when they are almost entirely in one month, the song gets in the chart.

Some of the Christmas classics sell as many copies per year as other non-seasonal classics. However, if the sales are spread roughly evenly across the year it doesn't really get noticed but, when they are almost entirely in one month, the song gets in the chart.

 

Exactly : 80k/yr = 1.6k/wk - evenly spread, that equates to around an average position of #160 or so. Concentrated in a few weeks though, that gets you T20.

OCC released a story regarding the [incredible] 1998 Christmas Number One today, and it gives a good indication of how songs are selling way outside of the Top 1500 - as Goodbye has only appeared a very few brief times.

 

Spice Girls - Goodbye

21 June 2009 - 862,524

20 Dec 2013 - 884,000

 

So in the past four years, 'Goodbye' has sold 21,476 copies

 

 

Where did the 2009 figure come from - I don't see it mentioned in the article?

Someone with access to the OCC database provided a lot of sales for many different artists back in June 2009. There's a thread full of them, possibly in the sales archive.

If that Spice Girls song sells that many a year most songs must sell ALOT!! Wonder how they get these figures for ALL songs??