Posted May 31, 201411 yr Kasabian’s Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles Revealed! 31/05/2014 By Justin Myers http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3169-kasabian2011_420x250.jpg To celebrate 10 years since the band’s very first hit Club Foot, and the release of brand new single Eez-Eh, we take a look back at Kasabian’s Top 10 bestselling tracks. It’s already a decade since noisy psychedelic rockers Kasabian first graced the Official Chart Top 40, when Club Foot reached Number 19. Since then, they’ve scored a total of 11 Top 40 singles, including four Top 10s, and all but one of their four studio albums have gone to Number 1. As the band – Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards and Ian Matthews – prepare to release new single Eez-Eh, to be followed by fifth studio album 48:13, we take a look at their top-selling tracks in the UK so far. Is your fave track the king of the Kasabian hit list? It’s no coincidence that the track at the top of the heap is their highest-charting single. Fire, taken from the band’s chart-topping third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum was Kasabian’s fourth Top 10 single and is their biggest seller – it’s shifted 425,000 copies. In an interview with the Guardian at the time of the track’s release, lead singer Tom Meighan described Fire as “flipping out”, and he wasn’t wrong – it managed to flip out all the way up to the dizzy heights of Number 3 in 2009. In the runner-up spot is the hit that started it all. Club Foot made it to Number 19 on its first release in 2004, and was reissued the following year, when it managed a respectable Number 21. It’s shifted over 200,000 copies. The track was taken from Kasabian’s self-titled debut, which has sold over a million copies. Another Top 10 hit and the title track of the band’s first Number 1 album, Empire reached Number 9 in 2006. Continuing the band’s anti-war theme, Empire was the second highest new entry that week. The highest? Madonna’s Get Together, which went in at Number 7. Empire (the single) has sold over 170,000 copies. Rounding off the Top 5 is Empire’s follow-up Shoot The Runner, which peaked at Number 17. The video features some pretty mind-bending animation. Take a look at the band’s Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles below. TRACK PEAK YEAR 1 FIRE 3 2009 2 CLUB FOOT 19 2004 3 UNDERDOG 32 2009 4 EMPIRE 9 2006 5 SHOOT THE RUNNER 17 2006 6 LSF 10 2004 7 DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN 28 2011 8 WHERE DID ALL THE LOVE GO 30 2009 9 PROCESSED BEATS 17 2004 10 RE-WIRED 96 2011 © 2014 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.
May 31, 201411 yr Impressive for "Underdog" to be their 3rd biggest hit, despite only peaking at 32! I estimate it between 180 & 185k
May 31, 201411 yr 'Processed Beats' is very underrated! Looking at that list though reminds me that they have a pretty solid singles discography, although I pretty much completely ignored everything from their last album.
May 31, 201411 yr 'Processed Beats' is very underrated! Looking at that list though reminds me that they have a pretty solid singles discography, although I pretty much completely ignored everything from their last album. Exactly the same except replace 'their last album' with 'before West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum'. I've probably heard most of their singles from before then but I don't recognise many from the titles. 'Processed Beats' is one of the few I do and it is one of their best songs (though my fave would have to be the super mainstream option of 'Fire', very rightfully their biggest hit).
May 31, 201411 yr Kasabian’s Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles Revealed! 31/05/2014 By Justin Myers http://c0903002.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3169-kasabian2011_420x250.jpg To celebrate 10 years since the band’s very first hit Club Foot, and the release of brand new single Eez-Eh, we take a look back at Kasabian’s Top 10 bestselling tracks. It’s no coincidence that the track at the top of the heap is their highest-charting single. Fire, taken from the band’s chart-topping third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum was Kasabian’s fourth Top 10 single and is their biggest seller – it’s shifted 425,000 copies. Take a look at the band’s Official Top 10 Biggest Selling Singles below. TRACK PEAK YEAR 1 FIRE 3 2009 2 CLUB FOOT 19 2004 3 UNDERDOG 32 2009 4 EMPIRE 9 2006 5 SHOOT THE RUNNER 17 2006 6 LSF 10 2004 7 DAYS ARE FORGOTTEN 28 2011 8 WHERE DID ALL THE LOVE GO 30 2009 9 PROCESSED BEATS 17 2004 10 RE-WIRED 96 2011 Surely it actually is a bit of a coincidence, given that most of their biggest hits are much further down - although 'Fire' was a significant hit it's obviously also gained from being released at a time of much better sales than most of their other high-charting hits. Notice that 'Cutt Off' isn't even in this Top 10, even though it peaked at 6 (though it's obviously one of the smallest selling Top 10 hits of all time). I think 'LSF' is the one where says "the chips are on fire", isn't it?
May 31, 201411 yr Solid singles band through and through, great to see Empire and Underdog in the top 5, although as 'Cutt Off' is one of my favourites by them it's a shame that's not in there (it's surreal to see a #96 hit outselling a #8 hit, no matter how small the latter was).
May 31, 201411 yr Re-Wired didn't even seem to stick around long so it's incredible it managed to outsell Cutt Off. Shame there's no Me Plus One either.
June 1, 201411 yr Clubfoot , Underdog and Days Are Forgotten are great tracks, amazing they have sold so well considering their poor chart performance. Their new song is great too!
June 1, 201411 yr Re-Wired didn't even seem to stick around long so it's incredible it managed to outsell Cutt Off. Shame there's no Me Plus One either. Cutt Off barely sold 6,000 copies in its first week and with a chart run of {8}-27-35-51-53-55-69->7 at the beginning of '05 that wouldn't have amounted to much more than 10k at the time, Re-Wired would've hit about 3k in a week at 96.
June 1, 201411 yr Author In regards to 'Club Foot', that has sold 24,400 copies to date according to Gezza's Hit Today/Gone Tomorrow thread.
June 1, 201411 yr In regards to 'Club Foot', that has sold 24,400 copies to date according to Gezza's Hit Today/Gone Tomorrow thread. I assume you meant to say "Cutt Off". "Club Foot" is their 2nd biggest seller ! Sales in 2004/5 really were dire.
June 1, 201411 yr Author I assume you meant to say "Cutt Off". "Club Foot" is their 2nd biggest seller ! Sales in 2004/5 really were dire. Yeah that's the one! ;) They really were, I think January 2005, when 'Cutt Off' debuted, was the worst time too - infamously Kylie sold 7,000 copies at #3 during that time!
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