It's cause English ruined their chart, while it was one of the most exciting charts in the world....

 

FOr gods sake having a song on top for months just because it's being streamed is a joke.... I find it also pointless that Mariah Carey will always enter the xmas Top 5 till the day we die, selling ~0 copies of the song is also unacceptable... Hello my love is undoudtedly the highest selling single of the week, it deserves to be a #1 but it will only end up getting a decent position in the Top 10... Big shame for me..

But the majorty of people don't buy music anymore, I don't know anyone who buys from iTunes anymore.

 

Streaming is how most people listen to music, so the charts reflect this. (mostly)

I find this part surprising

 

What About Now

The sales split is an interesting reflection of its year of release, 2009: 79% of its total sales are digital downloads vs. 8% physical and 13% audio and video streams.

 

Looks like they were surprised as well. I thought back in 2009, physicals are still their driving force. I'm just sad for Safe and Lighthouse they were not supported like What About Now like the later years of ABBA single releases.

I find this part surprising

 

What About Now

The sales split is an interesting reflection of its year of release, 2009: 79% of its total sales are digital downloads vs. 8% physical and 13% audio and video streams.

 

Looks like they were surprised as well. I thought back in 2009, physicals are still their driving force. I'm just sad for Safe and Lighthouse they were not supported like What About Now like the later years of ABBA single releases.

 

To be perfectly honest, Safe and especially Lighthouse weren't amazing songs so I am not suprised they weren't hits, they didn't deserve to be and I'm saying that as a HUGE fan.

I find this part surprising

 

What About Now

The sales split is an interesting reflection of its year of release, 2009: 79% of its total sales are digital downloads vs. 8% physical and 13% audio and video streams.

 

Looks like they were surprised as well. I thought back in 2009, physicals are still their driving force. I'm just sad for Safe and Lighthouse they were not supported like What About Now like the later years of ABBA single releases.

 

 

What about now is a different story because it was an already famous hit and was released from Westlife while it was still a world wide hit... Also they performed it on X factor the exact day of download release so it sold many downloads that week... If it wouldnt be the case what about now would also miss the top 5... :) Shame it didnt reach the #1 eventually, it was so close... :(

 

Hello my love will be a #1 if it sells the same as What about now, just saying :)

Also they performed it on X factor the exact day of download release so it sold many downloads that week

-Safe had the same treatment. I mean the song is their first original debut single released since Unbreakable 2002 lol. I can understand Lighthouse failure though people were kinda pissed deep inside when they announced their break-up like in Scotland where they have legions of fans and it only charted at 27

 

Anyway, I heard Hello My Love is #2 on Google Play

Edited January 12, 20196 yr by myxxd

What's the most posted-in topic for a single here? I think Louisa's Yes holds the record, but this should beat it. :P

They just announced the album might be released on November. no surprise

 

they will have concerts on Asia, China, Australia, New Zealand and Europe too

Could be huge with the Christmas sales!

Could be huge with the Christmas sales!

 

 

I am more interested on reaching the #1 instead of a few more sales, and in november / december it is tough.... Hopefully it will be release a couple of months earlier :)

Spotify #75 UK 98k IE #2 45k

That's really impressive in all honesty :o

Honestly I expected it to be higher in the UK... They are really famous, and #75 on their day of release is low for me... (imagine they have only 2 times the streams they have in ireland and UK is like 10 times are Ireland)

 

Ireland is a certain #1 in the official chart next week, I cant really see it charting anything lower than that, what do you think? :) it will be their 14th #1 overcoming beatles i think.. :)

hope we can have the midweek numbers now lol so we can estimate how many downloads streams needed hahah

Edited January 12, 20196 yr by myxxd

How can they only be #3 in UK sales and downloads while they were #1 the last 2 days outselling by 2 to 1 the rest of them?

 

Because they had only 1 day against full week for other songs.

 

So does that mean the sales from the release day will contribute to next weeks chart?

No, because it went on sale in the morning on Thursday 10th January - so the 5,137 copies it sold up to 11:59pm counted towards the chart of Friday 11th January - but it didn't quite sell enough to enter the Top 100.

 

All the sales/streams they achieve from Friday 11th January to the end of Thursday 17th January will go towards its chart entry on Friday 18th January.

 

How can they only be #3 in UK sales and downloads while they were #1 the last 2 days outselling by 2 to 1 the rest of them?

Ava Max at #1 and Mark Ronson at #2 in the sales chart had 7 full days to sell the number of downloads they managed. Westlife was only on sale for about 16 hours... it was impressive that they sold 5k so quickly, but Ava & Mark sold more (Ava - 11.5k, Mark - 8.2k).

 

(Wrote this before seeing Good Old Days' reply :heehee: )

Honestly I expected it to be higher in the UK... They are really famous, and #75 on their day of release is low for me... (imagine they have only 2 times the streams they have in ireland and UK is like 10 times are Ireland)

Streaming is a different kettle of fish to sales, in that progress can be quite slow. If they're eventually added to more play lists it'll stand to climb higher on Spotify. To make it to #75 purely based on it being on New Music Friday (and at a not so high placement of 11th in that playlist) & people actively searching for it, is actually a very good start.

 

Plus you have to consider they've been away for years and streaming wasn't even a huge thing when they split, so that's not likely to be an area they excel in as an older act, regardless of their popularity.

Because they had only 1 day against full week for other songs.

 

I'm surprised with #3 tbh charis with that one day sale only

Streaming is a different kettle of fish to sales, in that progress can be quite slow. If they're eventually added to more play lists it'll stand to climb higher on Spotify. To make it to #75 purely based on it being on New Music Friday (and at a not so high placement of 11th in that playlist) & people actively searching for it, is actually a very good start.

 

Plus you have to consider they've been away for years and streaming wasn't even a huge thing when they split, so that's not likely to be an area they excel in as an older act, regardless of their popularity.

 

They might have streaming fans already in UK because of the surprise entries of I Wanna Grow Old WIth You and I'll See You Again as one of their top most streamed songs which were not singles and became popular only around 2016 17 in my observation

^ You never know! It's early days for this song on Spotify etc anyway, we'll have to see in the coming days how it holds up... but don't be too surprised if it falls tomorrow

 

Btw those of you with Last.fm accounts should upvote this picture ^_^ - https://www.last.fm/music/Westlife/+images/...483f58c47993ffa

saw the sales of ava this week, they are on an increase.... no new release impacted the run this week in streams so a #1 is impossible...