February 12, 20214 yr I had noticed the same thing with regards to what “Give Me Just a Little More Time” had sold. “Stay” was said to have sold 490k at the time and I know it was reported in 2019 that it had sold over 300k in downloads/streams so who knows maybe it is on its way to a million? ☺️ If I remember correctly Pwl had some "problems?" with production/distribution of singles in Europe (1991-1992), so this number is probably shipment number for all Europe
February 12, 20214 yr The other great phenomenon of the 90s charts! Here's a good question that i'm sure someone will know the answer to, what was the last song to get to #1 on the back of a Levi's advert? All I can think of is 'Spaceman' by Babylon Zoo but i'm sure there must have been another after that! Flat Beat in 1999 I think? Although an underrated Levi’s advert track for me is Before You Leave by Pepe Deluxe, #20 in 2001.
February 18, 20214 yr EvuL5jyCHOw https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...ly-away__32476/ Fly Away was something of a surprise comeback for Lenny Kravitz. The New York musician scored his global breakthrough with 1991's Mama Said album, but as the new millenium approached, he seemed destined to be remembered as a nineties rockstar. His fifth studio album, appropriately titled 5, was met with a lukewarm reception, with many critics claiming his trademark funk-rock sound had run its course. It seemed not even Kravtiz or his label Virgin had initially clocked the potential of Fly Away, releasing it as the album's fourth single - though its last minute inclusion on the record may have had something to do with it. When Kravitz wrote Fly Away, he had already finished and handed in the album, but after being persuaded by a friend he sent it to the label anyway, who reluctantly added it in. While some criticised Fly Away's clunky lyrics ("I wish that I could fly / Into the sky / So very high / Just like a dragonfly") and its almost shameless mimicking of '60s funk-rock, few could deny the power of its towering, head-turning guitar riff. Fly Away debuted at Number 1 this week in 1999 selling 123,383 copies, knocking last week's leader, Blondie's own comeback hit Maria, after one week at the summit. The track's total UK chart sales to date stand at 556,000, including 14.1 million streams. It would be another five years until Kravtiz returned to the singles Top 40, scoring a Number 35 hit in 2004 as a guest feature on Diddy's Show Me Your Soul. Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart that week in 1999, Fly Away had held off competition from three big releases: 2Pac's Changes (3) trance smash Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A...) by DJ Sakin (4), and Barenaked Ladies' signature hit One Week (5).
February 18, 20214 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/i...-series__32480/ As the powerful new TV series It's A Sin continues to grip viewers, interest its namesake song by the Pet Shop Boys has surged, OfficialCharts.com can reveal. The show's huge success and widespread acclaim has led to long-time PSB followers returning to the 1987 chart-topper, as well as a new generation of fans being introduced to the track. Sales and streams of It's A Sin are up 249% in the UK since the series debuted three weeks ago, compared to the same three-week period last year. Looking at when the show first aired on January 22, the following week saw an uplift of 115% for the song. Streaming is the main driver powering the song’s resurgence, with weekly plays of It's A Sin more than doubling since the show began. The average weekly streams of It’s A Sin prior to the show's airing was 93,000 plays a week in the UK. Since the show started three weeks ago, that figure has increased to an average of 310,000 plays a week. It's A Sin served as the lead single from Pet Shop Boys' second album Actually. The track became their second Number 1 single, spending three weeks at the summit, and was the UK's eighth best-selling single of 1987, selling half a million copies.
February 25, 20214 yr qemWRToNYJY https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...ike-you__32533/ Ten years ago this week, Adele shot to global superstardom following a spine-tinglging performance of her single Someone Like You at the BRIT Awards, which became her first Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart. The performance, for which Adele was accompanied only by a piano, was instantly iconic, gaining her worldwide fame after it went viral on YouTube (still a relatively new concept at the time), where it now has 179 million views. Prior to the BRITs, Adele was already establishing herself as one of the UK's premier singer-songwriters, landing a Number 1 debut album with 19 three years earlier, and the lead single to its follow-up Rolling In The Deep reaching Number 2 on the Official Singles Chart. But as her showing at the BRITs - and a performance on Jools Holland three months earlier - proved, there was something about Someone Like You that hit different. Inspired by a broken relationship, Adele's frank lyrics and raw emotion seemed to immediately connect with the masses. The track climbed 46 places to take the top spot ten years ago this week, selling 112,000 copies. "It makes me really upset," Adele admitted of the track at the time. "It's my most articulate song. It's just to the point, it's not trying to be clever, I think that's why I like it so much, because it's just so honest, no glitter on it." True to the song's feeling, Somone Like You was written and recorded in just two days, with Adele teaming up with Semisonic's Dan Wilson after being introduced to each other by producer Rick Rubin. Adele later tried recording the song with a full orchestra, but opted to keep the demo version on the record. By the end of 2011, and after five weeks at Number 1, Someone Like You was the UK's best-selling single of the year, with 1.24 million copies sold. Its total UK chart sales to date stand at 2.86 million, including 147 million streams. Proving its enduring effect, the song was played 1.08 million times in the UK just last week. Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart this week in 2011, Adele had knocked Price Tag by rising star Jessie J off Number 1, while Adele's previous single Rolling In The Deep was holding firm in the Top 5 at Number 4. Rihanna secured her 16th Top 10 hit with S&M at Number 6, while JLS landed their sixth consecutive one with Eyes Wide Shut at Number 8.
February 25, 20214 yr https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/i...-series__32480/ This pleases me greatly! It'd be nice if more of their discography could be discovered by a new generation, although I know that's a big ask.
February 25, 20214 yr Not too sure, don't think the OCC have given sales for 'Stay' yet but, for example, Kylie's 'Give Me Just a Little More Time' has been reported to have sales of 325k and Madonna's 'Erotica' has been reported to have sales of 270k, yet neither sold over 150k in 1992 and they definitely haven't sold that much in downloads. There's been other cases of songs from 1992 appearing to high on artists' all time lists, like 'Remember the Time' on Michael Jackson's best sellers list. Basically the OCC just make it up as they go along so let's pretend 'Stay' has sold a million! :P That sounds like a most sensible conclusion! Hurrah for Stay!!!
February 26, 20214 yr qemWRToNYJY https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...ike-you__32533/ Crazy how musical tastes have changed over the last decade. I’m just not sure I can ever see a Brits performance having this much effect on a song/album/artist ever again. ☹️
March 4, 20214 yr cRM70Jw7F4M https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...out-you__28943/ Some would brand it a return to form, others called it a retreat to safety. Kelly Clarkson's My Life Would Suck Without You was birthed out of one of biggest pop myths of the 2000s: the relative commercial failure of her third album My December, rumoured to have been coordinated by her label boss Clive Davis after she went against his orders to continue down the same path as her thunderously successful Breakaway album. Whether that's true or not, it's hard to deny that My Life Would Suck..., the trailer for Kelly's fourth album, is essentially a retread of Breakaway's breezy and breathtaking lead Since U Been Gone. If that sounds like a bad thing, it's not. My Life Would Suck... is Kelly in full throttle power-pop-rock mode, aided by failsafe hitmakers Max Martin, Claude Kelly and Dr Luke. Despite that, the song's gestation wasn't easy. Kelly was against releasing the track because of Dr Luke's involvement, saying her previous experience of working with him had been negative. After claiming her label wouldn't release her album if she didn't work with Dr Luke, she tweaked the lyrics to My Life Would Suck... until she was happy with it, but rejected a writing credit because she didn't want to be associated with Luke. "I was like, 'I don't want my name near his. I want to pretend this didn't happen in my life, and I wanna forget it,'" she said in an interview with US radio station Z100. "I mean God, there's hundreds of thousands of dollars gone because of that. You know what I'm saying? Or millions, because that song was huge." She continued: "I was making a point to the people working with me going, 'This is how much I didn't want to do this.' I don't care about the money... that's not what holds weight in my life." Kelly spoke out against Dr Luke in 2017 after Kesha launched legal action against him, claiming Luke had "sexually, physically, verbally, and emotionally abused [Kesha]to the point where [she] nearly lost her life." Luke countersued shortly after and the case is still ongoing. This week in 2009, My Life Would Suck... debuted straight in at Number 1 (her first in the UK) with opening week sales of 51,000. While its success essentially proved Clive Davis was right, the victory very much belonged to Kelly. The song's chart sales to date stand at 604,000, including 402,000 downloads and 21.5 million streams. Elsewhere on the Official Singles Chart that week, Kelly denied Taylor Swift her first Number 1 with Love Story, zooming from 22 to 2 and becoming her first hit single in the UK. Last month, Taylor's updated version of the song - the first of her re-recordings after losing the rights to her early albums - reached Number 12. Close behind Taylor was Lady Gaga's Poker Face, which had climbed 12 places to Number 3. Three weeks later it would become her second chart-topper, T.I and Justin Timberlake's rap ballad Dead And Gone zoomed 13 spots to Number 4.
March 4, 20214 yr As much as I like My Life... and I'm glad Kelly got a UK No.1 to her name, its background is hard to read about. My December on the other hand was a genius album and I so wish it had been a commercial success for her. I'd sooner listen to Sober, Chivas, Be Still, Irvine, How I Feel etc over any of the stuff from All I Ever Wanted.
March 18, 20214 yr TLGWQfK-6DY 5JD6ejmlpa8 https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...mber-1s__14143/ They'd been an unstoppable force on the Official Singles Chart for almost two years, but this week in 1998, the Spice Girls discovered they couldn't always get what they want, what they really, really want. After six straight chart-toppers, which kicked off with million-selling Wannabe in summer 1996, the ladies' run of good luck was thwarted by a bit of a surprise. Jason Nevins' banging reworking of Run DMC's It's Like That had been a smash all over Europe, and on its release in the UK, demand was high. The unthinkable happened: Spice Girls went straight in at Number 2, while Run DMC and Jason took it all the way. Spice Girls' Stop – the third single from their sophomore effort Spiceworld, had impressive first-week sales of over 115,000, but this was dwarfed by It's Like That's monster numbers – a whopping 242,796 copies flew off the shelves to see it romp home to Number 1. Stop's lifetime combined sales stands at 638,000, made up of 404,000 pure sales and 27.2 million streams There was much hype in the media about the Spice Girls missing the big one for the first time, and indeed, in a way, it did spell the beginning of the end. While there was another single to come with Geri – Viva Forever – by the time of its official release, she had departed, meaning Stop is kind of their last one with her as a part of the group. For a few years anyway. Looking at the rest of the Official Singles Chart that week, Texas continued their streak of Top 10 hits, notching up their fifth consecutive one with their Wu-Tang Clan collaboration Say What You Want/Insane (yes this really happened), while Italian Europop star Alexia landed at 10 with her debut single Uh La La La. Further down, The Wombles had resurfaced and landed at 13 with a re-release of their signature hit Remember You're A Womble, and Kylie Minogue was in the middle of her experimental phase; the third single from her Impossible Princess album, Breathe, entered at 14. If it was any consolation to the Spices, they were beaten to the top by a true phenomenon. It's Like That spent six weeks at the top and is a million-seller (1.32 million pure sales to be precise, plus 26.5 million streams). Spice Girls' fans may not like it, but that's the way it is. HUH.
March 18, 20214 yr The right song reached number one! Pretty unusual to see a 6-week chart topper in 1998! Edited March 18, 20214 yr by steve201
March 18, 20214 yr I think it's fair to say 'Stop' is probably one of their most remembered songs now? As if this was 23 years ago! It was a couple of years before I followed the charts closely (aside from watching TOTP every week), but I remember the hoo-ha about them missing #1 vividly.
March 18, 20214 yr Author I think it's fair to say 'Stop' is probably one of their most remembered songs now? Yes - It's actually their 2nd most streamed song on Spotify, with a few of their #1s well behind 01 559m Wannabe 02 92m Stop 03 80m 2 Become 1 04 72m Say You'll Be There 05 65m Spice Up Your Life 06 37m Who Do You Think You Are 07 32m Viva Forever 08 19m Mama 09 18m Too Much 10 13m Holler (10m Goodbye) (3m Let Love Lead the Way) (3m Headlines)
March 18, 20214 yr I wonder if a number of Spice Girls fans had moved onto All Saints by this point, they were also a girl group but their music was a million times better.
March 18, 20214 yr It's odd that Stop stands out as the only Spice Girls single not to reach #1 considering it has ultimately been one of their most remembered. I think it is a combination of the fact that the Run-DMC track was also massive and much anticipated and people outside their core fanbase were a bit fatigued and fed up of them by that point. Plus it was the third single off the album. Yes their later releases went to #1 but as i've seen explained before they all had other publicity reasons behind them that helped boost them- Geri's departure for Viva Forever, a brand new release and the Christmas factor for Goodbye and the first single in 2 years for Holler.
March 19, 20214 yr ^ Yes I think there was an effect of overexposure at that point, with them having seemingly been everywhere for almost two years, and it being the third single from the album which came soon after their first. It finished outside the top 40 sellers of 1998, with just over half the sales of Viva Forever which I agree was given extra poignancy by Geri having left by then. I always thought Stop was one of their better songs though and I can see why it's one of their most streamed.
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