On 10/12/2014 at 21:17, -Jay- said:

Sales that week for the Top 10 & Girls Aloud at #11:

 

241382 Eminem (1)

132632 Robbie Williams (2)

124647 Westlife (3)

111666 Take That (4)

102947 Madonna (5)

101157 Il Divo (6)

94946 James Blunt (7)

91035 Sugababes (8)

83980 Kelly Clarkson (9)

82193 Pussycat Dolls (10)

81962 Girls Aloud (11)

 

:( Just 231 copies in it.

 

Absolutely incredible sales all round! :o

Wow!! I really miss the days of big Q4 sales but it honestly kinda blows my mind now when you look at album sales for the #1s in 2025 and then look at Chemistry’s sales here and see it entered at #11!

It is kinda a sting that this is their only main release to not have a #10 or above peak attached to it (not counting Beautiful Cause You Love Me here)…

Hoping this re-release has enough fan love to have it get an extra week top 40! I know a lot of stans have high love for this album.

4 minutes ago, Jordanlee1402 said:

Wow!! I really miss the days of big Q4 sales but it honestly kinda blows my mind now when you look at album sales for the #1s in 2025 and then look at Chemistry’s sales here and see it entered at #11!

It is kinda a sting that this is their only main release to not have a #10 or above peak attached to it (not counting Beautiful Cause You Love Me here)…

Hoping this re-release has enough fan love to have it get an extra week top 40! I know a lot of stans have high love for this album.

Nowadays, 7k sales is the average for Top 10. For the 26th September, Chemistry needs to score at least 10k sales to do top 10 given that Perrie, Mariah, Olivia Dean and Zara Larsson are running for top 10 . We also need more people to stream and buy the album. We can't rely nowadays to traditional media such as Rolling Stone UK, Capital and NME for this re-issue as they prioritise modern artists and big names but at least there's still Official Charts to promote it. We feel sad why Capital snubbed GA for the new albums for this month but I'm not surprised.

Just a reminder for the data in iTunes, the numbers show the total sales had in the past 24 hours (it is moving cumulative numbers) , not the total number of sales garnered in a week or two days. For example, they will only count the sales from 9 am today to 9 am of next day..

Can we know how many sales had for SOTU and WWTNS reissues? We know that Ten outperformed those two in the overall albums charts. WWTNS peak is 35 and SOTU is 42. Ten has a peak of 30th.

7 hours ago, Jordanlee1402 said:

Wow!! I really miss the days of big Q4 sales but it honestly kinda blows my mind now when you look at album sales for the #1s in 2025 and then look at Chemistry’s sales here and see it entered at #11!

It is kinda a sting that this is their only main release to not have a #10 or above peak attached to it (not counting Beautiful Cause You Love Me here)…

Hoping this re-release has enough fan love to have it get an extra week top 40! I know a lot of stans have high love for this album.

Also Untouchable #11! and not that the Music DVD chart is too important but Style is also their only DVD to miss the Top 10 of that chart... at #11!

It's particularly crazy looking back at albums sales like those from 2005 and remembering that this was almost entirely based on the albums only being available on one or two CD formats. No culture of multi-formatting back then!

7 hours ago, AloudersReddit said:

Nowadays, 7k sales is the average for Top 10. For the 26th September, Chemistry needs to score at least 10k sales to do top 10 given that Perrie, Mariah, Olivia Dean and Zara Larsson are running for top 10 . We also need more people to stream and buy the album. We can't rely nowadays to traditional media such as Rolling Stone UK, Capital and NME for this re-issue as they prioritise modern artists and big names but at least there's still Official Charts to promote it. We feel sad why Capital snubbed GA for the new albums for this month but I'm not surprised.

Just a reminder for the data in iTunes, the numbers show the total sales had in the past 24 hours (it is moving cumulative numbers) , not the total number of sales garnered in a week or two days. For example, they will only count the sales from 9 am today to 9 am of next day..

Can we know how many sales had for SOTU and WWTNS reissues? We know that Ten outperformed those two in the overall albums charts. WWTNS peak is 35 and SOTU is 42. Ten has a peak of 30th.

Average sales for a #10 album in 2025 is 6,088. So far this year, one #10 has exceeded 8,000 sales (8,158 on 24th July), and there's been 5 #10 albums that have exceeded 7,000!

#10 Album Sales in 2025 (click to expand)

24-Jul  -  8,158  -   Barry Can't Swim - Loner

27-Feb  -  7,941  -   Ed Sheeran - +-=÷× (Tour Collection)

20-Feb  -  7,477  -   The Weeknd - The Highlights

21-Aug  -  7,395  -   Craig David - Commitment

04-Sep  -  7,362  -   sombr - I Barely Know Her

13-Mar  -  6,916  -   Charli xcx - BRAT

07-Aug  -  6,911  -   Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet

28-Aug  -  6,868  -   Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

10-Apr  -  6,409  -   Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid (Chapter 1)

11-Sep  -  6,391  -   Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?

20-Mar  -  6,365  -   The Weeknd - The Highlights

13-Feb  -  6,299  -   RØRY - RESTORATION

03-Apr  -  6,283  -   The Weeknd - The Highlights

27-Mar  -  6,267  -   The Weeknd - The Highlights

29-May  -  6,255  -   The Weeknd - The Highlights

31-Jul  -  6,057  -   Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT

10-Jul  -  6,054  -   Noah Kahan - Stick Season

06-Mar  -  6,017  -   Kendrick Lamar - GNX

06-Feb  -  5,974  -   Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

03-Jul  -  5,973  -   Charli xcx - BRAT

24-Apr  -  5,895  -   Lady Gaga - MAYHEM

08-May  -  5,769  -   Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra - Still Blooming

23-Jan  -  5,760  -   Noah Kahan - Stick Season

09-Jan  -  5,679  -   Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

17-Apr  -  5,635  -   Ethel Cain - Preacher's Daughter

30-Jan  -  5,613  -   Noah Kahan - Stick Season

22-May  -  5,520  -   Elton John - Diamonds

16-Jan  -  5,507  -   Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop

05-Jun  -  5,487  -   Morgan Wallen - I'm the Problem

17-Jul  -  5,301  -   Charli xcx - BRAT

01-May  -  5,214  -   Lady Gaga - MAYHEM

19-Jun  -  4,977  -   Tate McRae - So Close to What

15-May  -  4,949  -   Chappell Roan - The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess

26-Jun  -  4,909  -   Sam Fender - People Watching

14-Aug  -  4,817  -   Michael Jackson - The Essential

12-Jun  -  4,771  -   Morgan Wallen - I'm the Problem

Although it remains to be seen, I'm not sure that the 26th September release week would see an upswing to 10,000 as a minimum to make the Top 10?

Zara Larsson's previous album sold 5,038 in its first week, and the one prior to that 3,591, so I'm not sure she's really a 10k+ sort of artist - but I would like to be proved wrong, I'd love that for her. I have doubts that Mariah is destined for sales that high either. Her last studio album peaked at #40.

Both Sound of the Underground and What Will the Neighbours Say reissues coincidentally sold 2,925 sales each in their first weeks on sale. If Chemistry is destined for that level of sales, in some weeks in 2025 it's enough for Top 40 and in others it hasn't been. For instance #40 sold 3,099 a couple of weeks back. My gut feeling is that Chemistry won't make the Top 40. I'm not getting the sense that it's destined to do much better than the previous two reissues, as much as I wish it could. When Ten spent a week at #30 in 2024, its sales weren't revealed, but it was likely around 3,500.

I agree , i think it will chart similar enough to both Sound of the Underground and What Will the Neighbours Say reissues but im all for doing far better if it can mange it.

9 hours ago, -Jay- said:

Also Untouchable #11! and not that the Music DVD chart is too important but Style is also their only DVD to miss the Top 10 of that chart... at #11!

It's particularly crazy looking back at albums sales like those from 2005 and remembering that this was almost entirely based on the albums only being available on one or two CD formats. No culture of multi-formatting back then!

Untouchable completely slipped my mind there but that one did really sting!!

Chemistry being so close to top 10 though! I didn’t realise until reading earlier comments about chart tactics that week of price reductions etc. That’s another chart aspect I miss though!

In fairness to 'Untouchable', it wasn't close sales-wise to #10 and after the last single scraping at #10 I wasn't even expecting it to get that high!

Just one more week to go until the Chemistry reissue! So excited to hear Naked in the Shower, You Go Too Fast and Watch Me Go (We're Disco).

15 minutes ago, -Jay- said:

Just one more week to go until the Chemistry reissue! So excited to hear Naked in the Shower, You Go Too Fast and Watch Me Go (We're Disco).

Is 'Watch Me Go (We're Disco') not already available?

There's potential that it might be a little different - the version coming on the 20th Anniversary track list is 4:19, but what was uploaded to YouTube a few years ago is 4:35!

The number 10 position is around 6400 sales. I hope that Chemistry could get a good run. Until to this date, there's still no pre saves on Spotify, Amazon and Youtube Music.. We need more UK based fans to do streaming.

In an ideal world it would go top 10 this time around but i honestly think it will be closer to the low end of the top 40.

On 09/09/2025 at 19:59, Jessie Where said:

In fairness to 'Untouchable', it wasn't close sales-wise to #10 and after the last single scraping at #10 I wasn't even expecting it to get that high!

Plus they did f*** all to promote it, they just chucked it out and let it die... got what it deserved in that respect.

One performance Dancing on Ice, which I think was a few weeks before the CD came out - crazy!!

On 20/09/2025 at 08:24, Padamic_Tension said:

In an ideal world it would go top 10 this time around but i honestly think it will be closer to the low end of the top 40.

On Thursday 1 pm UK time, New Zealand fans can have Chemistry on streaming platforms.

Attitude Magazine wrote an exclusive article for Chemistry re issue and talks about Off the Record

https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/girls-aloud-sarah-harding-memories-chemistry-re-release-496476/

Edited September 24Sep 24 by AloudersReddit
Article website

CHEMISTRY 20TH ANNIVERSARY IS COMING!! Please do streaming on Spotify, Deezer, Youtube Music and download Apple Music/iTunes and Amazon Music


Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/album/0UuAQD9Qv1Nd51Z75kgNqp

Youtube Music - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kNUh1k6mH3Xo2KTNxivXl2MC_7ODjwGWw

Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/album/chemistry-20th-anniversary-edition/1832485858

Amazon Music - https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FLYH5VXG

Happy Streaming !!!

So excited for this tomorrow.

Time to dig out the McDonalds music player and Chemistry tour programme as some pre-reading x

Apparently ‘Naked in the Shower’ includes a section that ended up in ‘Wake Me Up’! Don’t think that means it’s a Neighbours track originally, the article does say the track was unfinished and that’s why it included a bit of ‘Wake Me Up’.

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The anniversary album is listed as a 2005 release rather than 2025, so it doesn't show up as a new release on their page and you have to scroll through all their albums.