Posted September 25, 20195 yr SOURCE: OCC Official Charts continues its definitive series of UK chart books, designed to chronicle the history of the Official Singles and Albums Charts – and this time we're heading for the 2000s with the release of four new Noughties books. The four volumes are The Official Singles Charts, The Official Albums Charts, The Official Compilations Charts and The Official Noughties Hits Book. The first three volumes offer a comprehensive chronological listing of all the charts by week, in this case from January 4 2000 to December 26 2009. The Compilations book even offers full trackistings for all compilation albums that charted during the decade. The Official Hits is a companion encyclopaedia of all of the releases which reached the charts in that decade, listed by artist and full of chart facts. The books incorporate data on the longest chart lengths which were published at the time, up to Top 75 – the longest chart lengths yet committed to book form. The new series of books – published by the Official Charts Company as print on demand volumes, produced through the Kindle Direct Publishing platform - will provide music fans of all depths of interest the opportunity to delve into music history decade-by-decade and will represent an indispensable overview of the history of the Official Charts in the UK. Over the coming months, further volumes will be published covering other chart decades, ultimately producing a library spanning the history of the Official UK charts, from the Fifties, right through to the present decade. Overseeing the mammoth task of putting together this series is chart expert / archivist Graham Betts, who acts as writer and editor for the series. Betts has collated biographies, as well as data on awards, certifications and much more, all of which is presented around the UK chart information managed by the Official Charts Company. Order your copy of The Official Charts Noughties books on Amazon: Noughties Singles: https://amzn.to/2LLVILX Noughties Albums: https://amzn.to/330BB2d Noughties Compilations: https://amzn.to/2M7SHVe Noughties Hits Encylopedia: https://amzn.to/2Qruv5m To celebrate the release of the new book, OfficialCharts.com has revealed the biggest selling songs of the decade, based on physical copies and, once they were incorporated into the chart in 2005, downloads too. Top of the heap is Will Young, who romped to victory in the first ever series of Pop Idol in 2002, and his double A-side (ask your mum) Anything is Possible/Evergreen was his winner's single. Selling 1.1 million in its first week alone, Will's hit has racked up 1.79 million sales and is still the biggest selling debut single of all time. Bc-sq7cJGho Speaking to OfficialCharts.com, Will says: "I cannot believe, and still find it hard to fathom, how many people supported me in buying Evergreen/Anything Is Possible. They are songs I still sing on tour 18 years later! It will forever humble me." Will was just one of a slew of TV talent show contestant to land big sales in the 00s. Right behind Will is his Pop Idol rival Gareth Gates, whose cover of Unchained Melody knocked Will off Number 1 and has sold 1.34 million. The X Factor produced many a big hitter in this decade, and those making the Top 40 are Alexandra Burke (6), Shayne Ward (9), and Leona Lewis (12 and 17). Early TV talent show victors Hear'Say, from Popstars, are 10th with Pure and Simple, and Popstars: The Rivals winners Girls Aloud are in 40th slot with Sound of the Underground, which would kick off a record-breaking series of Top 10s. Gnarls Barkley's Crazy (13) was the first song to reach Number 1 on downloads alone, in 2006, and now has 970,000 sales to its name, and spent nine weeks at Number 1. The longest-running chart-topper in our 00s Top 40, however, goes to Rihanna's Umbrella, which spent 10 weeks at the top during the soggy summer of 2007 and has 677,600 sales. There are eleven million-sellers originating from this decade, and the most represented years in our Noughties Top 40 are 2009 and 2002, with seven entries each. 2009 was dominated by Lady Gaga, and her first two million-selling hits, Poker Face and Just Dance, are at 16 and 22 respectively. The Official Top 40 biggest selling songs of the Noughties TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR 1 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN WILL YOUNG 1 2002 2 UNCHAINED MELODY GARETH GATES 1 2002 3 IT WASN'T ME SHAGGY FT RIKROK 1 2000 4 (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO TONY CHRISTIE FT PETER KAY 1 2005 5 HALLELUJAH ALEXANDRA BURKE 1 2008 6 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS BAND AID 20 1 2004 7 CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD KYLIE MINOGUE 1 2001 8 THAT'S MY GOAL SHAYNE WARD 1 2005 9 PURE AND SIMPLE HEARSAY 1 2001 10 CAN WE FIX IT BOB THE BUILDER 1 2000 11 BLEEDING LOVE LEONA LEWIS 1 2007 12 CRAZY GNARLS BARKLEY 1 2006 13 WHOLE AGAIN ATOMIC KITTEN 1 2001 14 SEX ON FIRE KINGS OF LEON 1 2008 15 POKER FACE LADY GAGA 1 2009 16 A MOMENT LIKE THIS LEONA LEWIS 1 2006 17 I GOTTA FEELING BLACK EYED PEAS 1 2009 18 HERO ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 1 2002 19 HERO X FACTOR FINALISTS 1 2008 20 STAN EMINEM 1 2000 21 JUST DANCE LADY GAGA 1 2009 22 DILEMMA NELLY FT KELLY ROWLAND 1 2002 23 HEY BABY DJ OTZI 1 2001 24 UPTOWN GIRL WESTLIFE 1 2001 25 WHERE IS THE LOVE BLACK EYED PEAS 1 2003 26 DON'T STOP MOVIN' S CLUB 7 1 2001 27 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE CHERYL COLE 1 2009 28 A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION ELVIS VS JXL 1 2002 29 PURE SHORES ALL SAINTS 1 2000 30 WHO LET THE DOGS OUT BAHA MEN 2 2000 31 THE CLIMB JOE MCELDERRY 1 2009 32 RULE THE WORLD TAKE THAT 2 2007 33 USE SOMEBODY KINGS OF LEON 2 2008 34 UMBRELLA RIHANNA FT JAY-Z 1 2007 35 IN FOR THE KILL LA ROUX 2 2009 36 IT FEELS SO GOOD SONIQUE 1 2000 37 KILLING IN THE NAME RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 1 2009 38 WHENEVER WHEREVER SHAKIRA 2 2002 39 YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL JAMES BLUNT 1 2005 40 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1 2002 ©2019 Official Charts Company. 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September 25, 20195 yr Author Are they not doing a 90s one? :( As they've said in the article above those are still to come in the following months :)
September 25, 20195 yr As they've said in the article above those are still to come in the following months :) Great! They are the only ones I’m really interested in getting.
September 25, 20195 yr Ooh thanks for the heads up, the noughties is my favourite decade for chart music so I'm definitely interested in these :wub:
September 25, 20195 yr Some changes from the Music Week article in 2010 - as displayed on Wikipedia anyway. Biggest change by far is Where is the Love rising from 42 to 25. Edited September 25, 20195 yr by JCM20
September 25, 20195 yr Are they not doing a 90s one? :(The author of the books, Graham Betts, posted the following at ukmix: The four Noughties books (singles chart, album chart, compilation chart/hits and hits) are officially released tomorrow, Tuesday 24 September. The planned release date for the three Seventies books (singles chart, albums chart and hits) is 14 October. I don't have release dates yet for the four Nineties books, but they will be released, along with the lone Fifties book, before Christmas. The four books for the Teens will appear around March or April next year - I want to have the information for the hits book up to date, which means including the Grammy and BRIT awards from February. However, it may be the OCC want to release the three chart books earlier, so it could even be in January with the hits book appearing later.
September 25, 20195 yr Does someone have a preview what's like? Amazon used to have pdf files with a few pages to see exactly what is inside the book but I can not find it now....
September 25, 20195 yr Always amusing to see Killing In The Name in these lists :D note also the absence of songs from the middle of the decade, more to do with the transition from physical to digital than anything else. When they say "There are eleven million-sellers originating from this decade" surely they mean during the decade itself and not since, as with the list. Otherwise Mr. Brightside would be above at least half those songs, even on pure sales alone.
September 26, 20195 yr Fight for This Love sold more copies in 7 weeks than all but 26 songs sold across the entire 2000s decade - wow Also, just shows how appalling sales were in 2007 that Rihanna was number 1 for 10 weeks and didn't even make the top 30!
September 26, 20195 yr Fight for This Love sold more copies in 7 weeks than all but 26 songs sold across the entire 2000s decade - wow And Joe McElderry just a few slots lower with only 2 weeks of sales!
September 26, 20195 yr I got the Singles Charts book today, it’s good, does what it says on the tin. A nice intro about the history of the chart and a brief overview of the changes in the 00s and then just literally every top 75 published in full in a similar format to how it appears in Music Week, with previous week position, weeks on chart, record label info etc. Quite intrigued by the compilations one too but doubt I’ll bother with the Albums or Hits books. I’m just glad there are some chart-based books around again, I was an avid collector of the old Guinness books.
September 26, 20195 yr Seems that the Top 40 list posted above must include the "Week Ending 2nd January 2010" sales, based on Joe McElderry featuring. Joe's sales: W/E 26th December 2009 - #02 - 450,838 W/E 2nd January 2010 - #01 - 195,730 = 646,568 sales Cheryl's sales: in 9 weeks she sold 694,407, in 10 weeks she sold 713,531 copies: 01. 31/10 - #01 - 292,845 02. 07/11 - #01 - 138,614 03. 14/11 - #02 - 75,451 04. 21/11 - #04 - 53,624 05. 28/11 - #05 - 40,190 06. 05/12 - #08 - 31,366 07. 12/12 - #10 - 24,199 08. 19/12 - #13 - 19,258 09. 26/12 - #17 - 18,860 10. 02/01 - #14 - 19,124 Lady Gaga - W/E 26/12/2009: 861,755 - Poker Face 754,609 - Just Dance or W/E 02/01/2010: 867,901 - Poker Face 758,914 - Just Dance
September 26, 20195 yr Seems that the Top 40 list posted above must include the "Week Ending 2nd January 2010" sales, based on Joe McElderry featuring. Joe's sales: W/E 26th December 2009 - #02 - 450,838 W/E 2nd January 2010 - #01 - 195,730 = 646,568 sales Cheryl's sales: in 9 weeks she sold 694,407, in 10 weeks she sold 713,531 copies: 01. 31/10 - #01 - 292,845 02. 07/11 - #01 - 138,614 03. 14/11 - #02 - 75,451 04. 21/11 - #04 - 53,624 05. 28/11 - #05 - 40,190 06. 05/12 - #08 - 31,366 07. 12/12 - #10 - 24,199 08. 19/12 - #13 - 19,258 09. 26/12 - #17 - 18,860 10. 02/01 - #14 - 19,124 Lady Gaga - W/E 26/12/2009: 861,755 - Poker Face 754,609 - Just Dance or W/E 02/01/2010: 867,901 - Poker Face 758,914 - Just Dance It should also include W/E 09.01.10 which was the cut off at the time. It was a 53 wk year. :D
September 26, 20195 yr It should also include W/E 09.01.10 which was the cut off at the time. It was a 53 wk year. :D Seems like a strange choice for the book to cut off at December 26 2009 in that case :o Additional Joe/Cheryl/Gaga info: Cheryl Fight for This Love: 11. 09/01 - #11 - 31,889 = 745,420 Lady Gaga Poker Face: 882,059 Lady Gaga Just Dance: 767,507 Joe McElderry The Climb: 716,360
September 26, 20195 yr When they say "There are eleven million-sellers originating from this decade" surely they mean during the decade itself and not since, as with the list. Otherwise Mr. Brightside would be above at least half those songs, even on pure sales alone. Even in that case, it should only be ten. Bleeding Love sold its millionth copy in 2010.
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