July 28, 20168 yr It's an end of an era :cry: I very much doubt we'll see something like this happen again for the foreseeable future, well I hope so anyway. It does feel good to finally experience what living through a 15 week number one is like anyway. I think the music industry will start to speed up as a reaction to Drake spending so long at number one here anyway so whilst runs of one week number ones are definitely not making a comeback , 10 week+ number ones shouldn't become the norm either. **major Lazer spends 15 weeks at number one** Its also up to radio stations not to keep songs on their playlists so long.
July 28, 20168 yr One achievement that Drake isn't likely to accomplish when compared to both Bryan Adams and Wet Wet Wet is recording an increase in sales of the track even as the record falls from the top spot. Bryan's sales increase was particularly impressive as the record fell from number 1 to 4 despite sales of the single increasing by 6%. Wet Wet Wet's sales increased by an unbelievable 60% the week the single fell from number 1 to 2. For the Wets it was the highest sale of their single for 12 weeks. It will be intesting to see if the Drake song is like Boney M's Rivers Of Babylon and one it starts to fall it will fall very quick indeed. Edited July 28, 20168 yr by TheSnake
July 28, 20168 yr Regarding the Bryan Adams song - Summer/Autumn 1991 was a time when the charts became absolutely dominated by hardcore rave acts, and even Right Said Fred's I'm Too Sexy - while hardly a 'rave' track - had a strong 'dance' sound of the time which would have sounded pretty alien even half a decade earlier. The gentle soft-rock guitar sound of Everything I Do would have made it stand out hugely on the Woolworths/HMV/etc shelves of the time, being one of the only non-rave/dance songs high up in the charts, and this is what I think helped ensured its success for so long. Remember this was an era where, like today, people of a certain age were getting extremely worried about the state of the charts - vinyl record sales were sliding but CDs weren't catching on quick enough, kids and teens were spending their money on video games more than music releases, and the invasion of these new - and to some rather terrifying - "dance" songs caused some disgust at the time, a DJ pressing some samples on a keyboard not seen as "real" music in the same way any new trend is sneered at first. This is when 'Top of the Pops' banned miming and forced everyone to sing live, which was a huge problem for half the chart as there wasn't any actual live singing in their singles - causing some very odd (and memorable) performances! So again, a "real" singer with a "real" musical instrument singing a "real" song would have stood out a lot to the average shopper, ahead of such obscure new faces such as "The Prodigy" and "The Shamen", neither of whom will surely never have a #1 single in a million years :P Or maybe I'm just overthinking it...I find the late 80s/early 90s a fascinating time in general! So it wasnt a surprise when Britpop arrived 2/3 years later with NME looking down at this new rave scene and even TOTPs tut tuting at miming!! The same was obvious around 1979-83 when synth pop began its rule!
July 29, 20168 yr Never really gotten the hoopla over the significance of the run at #1 being consecutive. Sure, it looks appealing, but non-consecutive runs imply a far more extended run of dominance within the public mindset. Frankie Laine, true king of the charts *.*
July 29, 20168 yr The thing is I was a bit too young to remember Bryan Adams and the Wets' mammoth runs at #1. I think the closest I probably got to witnessing a long stayer at #1 that I can remember was Cher with "Believe". It was the first number one that I remember being ubiquitous at the time, even one of our teachers at school sang it for Christs sake! And I remember fondly listening to the top 40 with Mark Goodier the weekend she was finally knocked off the top by B*Witched and sort of doing a mini victory dance when he went 'And the record at #2 is..." then the first few bars of 'Believe' kicked in. I look back at that song more fondly now but as a child of the 'instant' generation a song staying at #1 past two weeks was still an alien concept to me. I was a restless one! Drake hasn't had quite the same impact largely because the singles chart is not something I've paid full attention to in a good few years. I'm sure however that there are plenty of kids up and down the country right now who'll remember 'that summer of '16 with endless Drake' the way I remember the autumn of 1998 as endless Cher.
July 29, 20168 yr Author Just a quick question I wonder if someone can answer; Was it during Drake's reign that the 59p bargain singles were introduced and can someone name the first 59p single available to download on iTunes?
July 29, 20168 yr Just a quick question I wonder if someone can answer; Was it during Drake's reign that the 59p bargain singles were introduced and can someone name the first 59p single available to download on iTunes? 59p reductions have been going on for years.
July 29, 20168 yr Gezza posted the following back in June 2011 13-Jul Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 65,000 20-Jul Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 98,000 27-Jul Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 105,000 03-Aug Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 115,000 10-Aug Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 108,000 17-Aug Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 105,000 24-Aug Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 95,000 31-Aug Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 93,000 07-Sep Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 91,000 14-Sep Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 90,000 21-Sep Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 75,000 28-Sep Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 69,000 05-Oct Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 63,000 12-Oct Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 57,000 19-Oct Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 49,000 26-Oct Everything I Do (I Do it For You) Bryan Adams 47,000 I'm not sure if some of the above are estimates but if so they probably aren't far wide of the mark - back then Alan Jones rarely gave weekly sales figures.
July 29, 20168 yr For that matter, what were the sales like for U2's "The Fly" the week it got to #1? I've always wondered if it could have cut the run short but never found out what the case was.
July 29, 20168 yr Also, the weekly sales for 'Love Is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet. Gezza's version based upon how sales were calculated at the time: 04-Jun Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 87,525 11-Jun Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 104,210 18-Jun Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 115,718 25-Jun Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 113,021 02-Jul Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 100,986 09-Jul Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 100,901 16-Jul Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 98,031 23-Jul Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 85,942 30-Jul Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 85,963 06-Aug Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 87,996 13-Aug Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 83,773 20-Aug Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 89,278 27-Aug Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 82,170 03-Sep Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 77,059 10-Sep Love Is All Around Wet Wet Wet 64,961 while back in January 2005 in an article in Music Week titled "Celebrating 1,000 Number Ones" Alan Jones revealed the sales held in the OCC computer: The 12th biggest-selling single of all-time in the UK, Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet also holds the record for most weeks in a row selling more than 50,000 copies. It beat the target 14 weeks in a row during its 15 week reign at number one. Remarkably, however, it never sold more than 84,000 copies in a week. Its weekly sales while at number one were as follows: 63,533, 75,644, 83,998, 82,040, 73,304, 73,242, 71,159, 63,684, 62,399, 63,875, 60,809, 64,805, 59,646, 55,936 and 47,154. It also sold 48,681 copies when at number two immediately before starting the run and improved by 60.2% to 75,555 sales the week after it finished its run at number one, as buyers rushed to buy it following an announcement that it was to be deleted. The discrepancy between Gezza's totals and those given by Alan Jones boils down to the fact that the figures in the OCC computer are based on actual sales from about 75% or so of all record shops in the UK whereas the figures revealed at the time, and which Gezza posted, are what were known as "total market sales", which were arrived at based on the old "chart panel" method of calculating sales in all record shops. The OCC figures downplay sales while the chart panel method probably overestimates sales to some degree.
July 29, 20168 yr For that matter, what were the sales like for U2's "The Fly" the week it got to #1? I've always wondered if it could have cut the run short but never found out what the case was.For 'The Fly' I have 66,000 (again, posted by Gezza in 2011 but since removed). Sales of Bryan Adams' single actually increased by 4% the week it fell from the top down to number 4. That week coincided with school half term, a time when (in physical sales days) sales in general would often increase.
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