December 23, 201410 yr If anyone is interested, here's a list of the Radio Airplay Christmas number ones. 1991 Simply Red - Stars 1992 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You 1993 Take That - Babe 1994 East 17 - Stay Another Day 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1996 Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart 1997 Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 1998 The Corrs - So Young 1999 Robbie Williams - She's The One 2000 Robbie Williams - Supreme 2001 Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This 2002 Robbie Williams - Feel 2003 Will Young - Leave Right Now 2004 Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You 2005 Madonna - Hung Up 2006 Take That - Patience 2007 Girls Aloud - Call The Shots 2008 Take That - Greatest Day 2009 Joe McElderry - The Climb 2010 Ellie Goulding - Your Song 2011 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 2012 Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker 2013 Avicii - Hey Brother 2014 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk I'm very interested do you have full charts for these years pre 2006?
December 23, 201410 yr Like I had just read it yesterday lol doesn't seem long ago! How do you think it feels to have written it so long ago? :drama:
December 23, 201410 yr I'm very interested do you have full charts for these years pre 2006? I have most of them going back to sometime in 1997 in Music Week magazines, but other than that I've got the Airplay Charts book that was compiled by Lonnie Readioff, which has full chart runs of all the songs to make the Top 100 Airplay charts from November 1991 to August 2007.
December 23, 201410 yr How do you think it feels to have written it so long ago? :drama: Lol well keep up the good work as we all appreciate it ;)
December 23, 201410 yr I have most of them going back to sometime in 1997 in Music Week magazines, but other than that I've got the Airplay Charts book that was compiled by Lonnie Readioff, which has full chart runs of all the songs to make the Top 100 Airplay charts from November 1991 to August 2007. Thanks I might check this out, cheers
December 23, 201410 yr I've got the Music Week chart report for that week. The albums sales were (with rounded figures which was usually all Alan Jones quoted back then): December 26, 1998 1. Ladies And Gentlemen - George Michael 309,000 2. I've Been Expecting You - Robbie Williams 178,000 3. Talk On Corners - The Corrs 156,000 5. Where We Belong - Boyzone 138,000 6. Step One - Steps 136,000 11. B*Witched - B*Witched 89,000 The top 37 artist albums all sold over 24,000 copies Compilations: 1. Now 41 - 186,000 2. Hits 99 - 140,000 4. Chef Aid - The South Park Album 64,000 Total album sales for the week: 6,787,000 Interesting to know...89k for #11! I remember they were sky high in 2005 as well because Kelly Clarkson was shifting 100k a week at the bottom of the top ten for a few weeks iirc. I actually received Hits 99 for Xmas that year, I didn't get Now 41 until years later until I bought it for myself! Even though Now 41 was stronger overall Hits kicked off with Cher's Believe on Disc 1 and Corrs' So Young on Disc 2 so I can definitely see why I was bought that!
December 23, 201410 yr Interesting to know...89k for #11! I remember they were sky high in 2005 as well because Kelly Clarkson was shifting 100k a week at the bottom of the top ten for a few weeks iirc. Christmas week 2005 Will Young sold 132,109 to end up at No 13 :o
December 24, 201410 yr Christmas week 2005 Will Young sold 132,109 to end up at No 13 :oIt was a bumper week for album sales in Christmas week 2005 - in total 10,581,571 albums were sold which I believe is the highest ever weekly figure, though Christmas week in 2000 and 2006 came close. The top 5 artist albums all sold over 200,000 with the top 16 selling over 100,000 and the top 98 all sold over 10,000.
December 24, 201410 yr I wonder why 2005 saw such incredible album sales being achieved? I seem to remember that albums were relatively expensive back then. Sugababes & Pussycat Dolls albums being reduced to £7.99 was quite a bargain for the time and saw both achieve huge sales increases in the Top 10 in early December. At the expense of Girls Aloud who sold nearly 82k to enter at #11. Their 2 CD version was retailed at £16.99. :(
December 24, 201410 yr I wonder why 2005 saw such incredible album sales being achieved? I seem to remember that albums were relatively expensive back then. Sugababes & Pussycat Dolls albums being reduced to £7.99 was quite a bargain for the time and saw both achieve huge sales increases in the Top 10 in early December. At the expense of Girls Aloud who sold nearly 82k to enter at #11. Their 2 CD version was retailed at £16.99. :( It was also to do with Christmas day being a Sunday so it had a full Christmas week to rack up the sales, economy booming etc :D
December 19, 20168 yr I've got the Music Week chart report for that week. The albums sales were (with rounded figures which was usually all Alan Jones quoted back then): December 26, 1998 1. Ladies And Gentlemen - George Michael 309,000 2. I've Been Expecting You - Robbie Williams 178,000 3. Talk On Corners - The Corrs 156,000 5. Where We Belong - Boyzone 138,000 6. Step One - Steps 136,000 11. B*Witched - B*Witched 89,000 The top 37 artist albums all sold over 24,000 copies Compilations: 1. Now 41 - 186,000 2. Hits 99 - 140,000 4. Chef Aid - The South Park Album 64,000 Total album sales for the week: 6,787,000 Chef Aid was robbed of #1 in the compilation chart. Then again, Sony shouldn't have released it at the same time as NOW 41
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