400k. It got certified Gold just last week actually.

 

It sold 199k in 2004, so that's 83k in singles sales since and the rest made up by streaming.

 

I stand corrected :D

 

'Unwritten' was her biggest single over in America wasn't it? I remember reading it was an unofficial graduation anthem of sorts.

I stand corrected :D

 

'Unwritten' was her biggest single over in America wasn't it? I remember reading it was an unofficial graduation anthem of sorts.

It was her only top five hit in America, finished at #6 in their EOY chart and sold 2m copies, so it was rather massive.

 

It is also Gold certified in the UK.

It was her only top five hit in America, finished at #6 in their EOY chart and sold 2m copies, so it was rather massive.

 

It is also Gold certified in the UK.

 

Wow, I didn't realise it had done that well, that's huge! I know she's based in the States these days but she should consider a comeback album of sorts. I'm surprised Daniel hasn't done a Craig David style comeback yet!

It's such a shame to think how Natasha's career went after this, when she had such potential and deserved more than she got.

 

I do think 'I Wanna Have Your Babies' really did it tbh, although not releasing 'Pocketful of Sunshine' robbed her of a guaranteed hit.

It was her only top five hit in America, finished at #6 in their EOY chart and sold 2m copies, so it was rather massive.

 

No it wasn't, Pocketful of Sunshine also went top 5.

Natasha's hits over here are all brilliant I think. These Words is an all-time favourite and I Wanna Have Your Babies is one of my biggest guilty pleasures :lol:

I stand corrected :D

 

'Unwritten' was her biggest single over in America wasn't it? I remember reading it was an unofficial graduation anthem of sorts.

Obama also used it as his campaign song when running for president I believe. Gave it a lot of free promo.

It's such a shame to think how Natasha's career went after this, when she had such potential and deserved more than she got.

 

I do think 'I Wanna Have Your Babies' really did it tbh, although not releasing 'Pocketful of Sunshine' robbed her of a guaranteed hit.

 

Babies should probably have been kept as a quirky album track, it certainly alienated most people but I think she was aiming to come back with a bang.

 

I’ve never had one of her albums. Was there a better song to lead the NB era?

Some sales data:

 

SINGLES

 

40978 Natasha Bedingfield

34300 3 Of A Kind

26765 The 411

26759 Maroon 5

 

11600 Sugababes (8)

10900 Mousse T (9)

10000+ Dizzee Rascal (10)

4300 Faithless (22)

2300 Kane (38)

1900 Gretchen Wilson (42)

850 Deepest Blue (57)

 

ALBUMS

 

64286 Prodigy

59346 Maroon 5 (total sales now 546,391)

 

18120 Finn Brothers (8)

16694 R Kelly (11)

16351 Alexander O'Neal (12)

5359 Jeff Buckley (44)

 

COMPILATIONS

 

48880 Now 58

28821 Cream Classics

 

Downloads (Test Data)

 

01 01 Shapeshifters - Lola's Theme

02 02 The Streets - Dry Your Eyes

03 05 Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

04 NE Oasis - Columbia (Live)

05 03 Maroon 5 - This Love

06 04 Scissor Sisters - Laura

07 06 Jeff Buckley - Forget Her

08 11 Anastacia - Sick And Tired

09 09 Keane - Everybody's Changing

10 07 Anastaicia - Left Outside Alone

 

Number 1's

 

Dance Singles: Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall

R&B Singles: The 411 - Dumb

Independent Singles: Dizzee Rascal - Stand Up Tall

Edited August 30, 20186 yr by Robbie

I remember being so gutted at Maroon 5 missing top 3 by 6 copies.

 

She Will Be Loved>>>>>their most recent hits.

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...umber-1__24184/

 

In the early '00s, breakup bangers were a staple of the pop diet. They came in the form of the defiant, such as Kelly Clarkson's Since U Been Gone, the snarky like Beyonce's Irreplaceable, and in the case of Justin Timberlake's Cry Me A River, the downright bitter.

 

When it came to the latter, a song supposedly (almost certainly) aimed his ex Britney Spears, it inspired a song that is a much rarer strand on the breakup banger spectrum: a response, titled Sweet Dreams My LA Ex.

 

The track was written by '90s popstar-turned-songwriter Cathy Dennis, who thought Britney might be interested in having a pop back at her former boyfriend. It turned out she wanted to be the bigger person, so it was eventually offered to a singer in search of her big breakthrough hit: former S Club star Rachel Stevens.

 

She'd barely let the wounds of her own band breakup heal before unleashing Sweet Dreams 15 years ago this week, arriving just a month after S Club's final single Say Goodbye had left the Official Singles Chart.

 

Rachel's profile was sky high at the time, and a Number 1 seemed like a shoo-in. What hadn't been accounted for was the surprise arrival of a group called Black Eyed Peas, whose track Where Is The Love? was taking off across the world. Rachel's pull wasn't strong enough overpower BEP, so it had to settle for Number 2, selling 66,361 copies to BEP's 79,289. Conspiracy theorists will note that Where Is The Love? was co-written by and features uncredited vocals by Timberlake - just saying.

 

As things stand, Sweet Dreams My LA Ex has sold 255,756, including 1.75 million streams, since while Where Is The Love's combined sales stand at 1.4 million.

 

There were more surprises elsewhere on the Official Chart 15 years ago this week. Westlife scored one of their lowest charting debuts yet with Hey Whatever (4) and Louise made a welcome - albeit brief - return with pop stomper Pandora's Kiss, landing at Number 5.

 

Further down, there were new entries for Jamelia's Superstar, Justin Timberlake's Senorita and Placebo's Special Needs.

I notice Rachel finally has her own VEVO channel! *.* 'Sweet Dreams...' remains my favourite from her; adored the song and the video as a child. Think she was one of my many celeb crushes.

I remember this week very well, a great chart! I'm sure in the early midweeks, Rachel was leading early on but B.E.P quickly caught up. 2003 was a fantastic year anyway, shame sales were so low overall. After 2002 single sales just collapsed.

 

I loved "Sweet dreams" and "So good" was amazing too, peaked at #11! What a shame :( I've forgotten how big Rachel Stevens was initially, the papers were always reporting various feuds she was involved in and celebs slagging her off!! :lol:

Interesting to see the sales for #1 and #2 - it definitely seemed a lot closer between them at the time.

 

7 new entries in the top 10 equalled the record which still stands (even the Ed Sheeran week only managed 7 as two of his tracks in the top 10 were released prior to the album).

 

Geeky fact about that chart: #34 was a new entry for Junior Jack - E Samba, which charted exactly 6 years to the day after the previous 'Samba' track to chart (Bellini's Samba De Janeiro).

 

And there was a chart debut at #54 that week for Snow Patrol with Spitting Games (which reached #23 the following year on re-issue).

Superstar - what a climber that song was !!!

Interesting to see the sales for #1 and #2 - it definitely seemed a lot closer between them at the time.

 

7 new entries in the top 10 equalled the record which still stands (even the Ed Sheeran week only managed 7 as two of his tracks in the top 10 were released prior to the album).

 

Geeky fact about that chart: #34 was a new entry for Junior Jack - E Samba, which charted exactly 6 years to the day after the previous 'Samba' track to chart (Bellini's Samba De Janeiro).

 

And there was a chart debut at #54 that week for Snow Patrol with Spitting Games (which reached #23 the following year on re-issue).

 

Junior Jack E-Samba was a great track - and the album was even better!! Dance music like that wouldn't chart these days!!

I loved "Sweet dreams" and "So good" was amazing too, peaked at #11! What a shame :( I've forgotten how big Rachel Stevens was initially, the papers were always reporting various feuds she was involved in and celebs slagging her off!! :lol:

 

'So Good' peaked at #10.

 

Ahhh, the memories! I can't believe it's been 15 years.

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...believe__20834/

 

There are comebacks, and then there are COMEBACKS, and Cher pulled off perhaps the biggest one of all when she went straight in at Number 1 with her dance-pop reinvention Believe.

 

1998 was the apex of planet pop, with Steps breaking through, Geri's departure from the Spice Girls and the speedy ascent of acts like Billie, the youngest star to debut at Number 1, at the age of 15. It's only natural the older acts would want a slice of the action too.

 

Cher's alliance with dance music wasn't necessarily a new one – she'd had disco hits in the 1970s – but after being better known in the late '80s and early '90s for rockier tastes meant Believe felt a drastic change in direction.

 

Co-written and produced by Brian Higgins, who would go on to found Xenomania and have hits with Dannii Minogue and, more notably, Girls Aloud, Believe caused a sensation with its very obviously Auto-tuned vocals, which took Cher's usually faultless pipes and gave them a wonky twang.

 

The song caught the imagination of music fans of all ages – it really was just a number in 1998 and older acts still got played on the radio – and Believe began a seven-week reign at Number 1.

 

It's often forgotten that Cher's nearest rival that week was another star making a comeback of sorts – George Michael was beginning his own reinvention after coming out as gay, with his disco-inspired anthem Outside.

 

Believe sold 167,750 copies in that first week alone, leaving Outside behind by over 50,000 copies, and went on to be the biggest selling single by a female of ALL time in the UK – 1.84 million total sales, and just shy of 20 million streams.

 

Elsewhere in the Top 40, there were a host of returns, with U2's The Sweetest Thing, and the comeback of '80s band Culture Club with I Wanna Be Loved at 4. Alanis Morissette also made her return with Thank U, the first single from the follow-up to her smash album Jagged Little Pill.

20 Years of Believe! *.* And the birth of Xenomania. Still a song that goes OFF on nights out, enjoyed by everyone, no matter who they are.

 

'Believe' now joins the 2 million club with streams boosting its total to nearly 2.04m. Its previous known total was 1.928m in September 2017, so it seems to be shifting nearly 8.5k a month / 2.1k a week!

Twenty bloody years! That's crazy. 😲

 

I remember how both me + my Mum went and bought the single (without realising we'd both done so), that probably demonstrates the wide-reaching appeal this song had. It's still a total BANGER, isn't it?

20 years, my goodness. 1998 was a great year for pop music, capped by this being the year's biggest seller. It was my first encounter of Cher in any real capacity (I was 9 for a point of reference), and I remember watching her perform this on Des O'Connor with my mum and dad before it was released, thinking nothing more of it, until a week later when it went straight to number one, and then stayed there for seven weeks.

 

When you look at the list of records that it kept off, all of whom were by quite big artists at the time, it's quite staggering to recall just how successful this was:

 

- George Michael - Outside (first two weeks)

- E-17 - Each Time (third week, their first single without Tony Mortimer, albeit their last of any real success for them)

- Steps - Heartbeat/Tragedy (fourth week, although would eventually be number one itself in January 1999)

- Five - Until The Time Is Through (fifth week, one of their many attempts at the top slot that they couldn't sustain until Sunday)

- Boyzone - I Love The Way You Love Me (sixth week. Now this was a big one. Especially coming so soon after 'No Matter What')

- Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life (seventh and final week, again led midweek but relented by Sunday. Shame as this would have been a deserving chart topper)

 

Between this and the Run DMC/Celine Dion records from earlier in 1998, it was my first real awareness of a mega-hit. A great time for music.

1 Cher - Believe 167 000

2 George Michael - Outside 116 000

3 U2 - Sweetest Thing 111 000

4 Culture Club - I Just Wanna Be Loved 71 000

5 Alanis Morissette - Thank U 59 000

 

8 Kele Le Roc - A Little Bit of Lovin 43 000

 

What a great week and top 5 and no. 8 of new entries! Kele Le Roc's track was a great, slick RnB Track, hugely underrated!

Edited October 25, 20186 yr by RockafellerSkank