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YTD Sales : Please read these guidelines before you request sales estimates, it makes my task a lot easier.

 

1. Be specific - please name the artist and title for each entry you'd like an estimate for.

2. I log sales for all albums that have charted this year, but only update those that have sold enough to reach my 200 position tracking range

3. If an album isn't in the current Top 100, I won't be able to update its sales until Tues. Also, please don't ask about ex-T100 albums too often - once a month at most)

4. Remember to check the thread before requesting estimates - they may already have been answered. Also, no more than half-a-dozen requests at a time, thanks.

5. Please note my figures are combined sales & streams, and since I have no way of separating them, I cannot provide a split.

6. While I am no longer estimating singles sales, I can provide YTD singles positions from C+, and I am still maintaining my sales archive based on published figures (PM me if you want to see it)

 

Thank you.

 

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Albums

 

Pos - LW - YTD - Total - Artist - Title - New - Hst

1 - 1 - 480,500 - 2,109,500 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Greatest Showman - 04/01/18 - 1

2 - 2 - 473,500 - 473,500 - Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - 30/05/19 - 1

3 - 3 - 469,250 - 469,250 - Ed Sheeran - No 6 Collaborations Project - 25/07/19 - 1

4 - 4 - 314,750 - 314,750 - Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? - 11/04/19 - 1

5 - 5 - 314,500 - 524,750 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST) - 02/11/18 - 3

6 - 6 - 305,000 - 996,250 - George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's - 05/04/18 - 2

7 - 7 - 275,750 - 275,750 - Ariana Grande - Thank U, Next - 21/02/19 - 1

8 - 8 - 227,750 - 499,250 - Cast Recording ft Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born - 18/10/18 - 3

9 - 9 - 208,000 - 207,750 - Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive - 14/03/19 - 1

10 - 10 - 207,750 - 3,421,250 - Ed Sheeran - ÷ - 16/03/17 - 6

11 - 11 - 180,500 - 385,250 - Jess Glynne - Always In Between - 25/10/18 - 5

12 - 12 - 180,250 - 302,500 - Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop - 29/11/18 - 5

13 - 13 - 161,500 - 2,219,750 - Queen - Greatest Hits I, II & III (Platinum Coll.) - 25/11/00 - 8

14 - 14 - 160,250 - 239,250 - Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me - 19/07/18 - 12

15 - 15 - 157,500 - 544,250 - Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa - 15/06/17 - 9

16 - 17 - 153,750 - 445,000 - Elton John - Diamonds - 23/11/17 - 6

17 - 16 - 151,750 - 151,750 - Pink - Hurts 2B Human - 09/05/19 - 1

18 - 18 - 151,000 - 151,000 - Dave - Psychodrama - 21/03/19 - 1

19 - 19 - 136,250 - 417,750 - Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys - 10/05/18 - 13

20 - 21 - 133,250 - 133,250 - Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding - 19/09/19 - 1

21 - 20 - 128,750 - 428,750 - Drake - Scorpion - 12/07/18 - 16

22 - 22 - 124,750 - 124,750 - Taylor Swift - Lover - 05/09/19 - 1

23 - 23 - 119,000 - 119,000 - Jack Savoretti - Singing To Strangers - 28/03/19 - 1

24 - 24 - 111,250 - 160,500 - Clean Bandit - What Is Love? - 13/12/18 - 9

25 - 25 - 110,250 - 484,750 - Motion Picture Cast Recording - Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - 26/07/18 - 7

26 - 27 - 109,500 - 109,500 - Liam Gallagher - Why Me? Why Not. - 03/10/19 - 1

27 - 26 - 108,000 - 108,000 - Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars - 27/06/19 - 1

28 - 28 - 106,500 - 1,675,750 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours - 26/02/77 - 17

29 - 29 - 106,000 - 2,280,500 - Eminem - Curtain Call - Greatest Hits - 10/12/05 - 27

30 - 30 - 104,500 - 4,891,250 - Abba - Gold - Greatest Hits - 03/10/92 - 27

31 - 32 - 103,750 - 1,109,250 - Oasis - Time Flies : 1994-2009 - 26/06/10 - 25

32 - 31 - 103,000 - 334,250 - Take That - Odyssey - 06/12/18 - 3

33 - 33 - 102,500 - 102,500 - Jax Jones - Snacks - 17/01/19 - 9

34 - 34 - 98,500 - 3,515,500 - Ed Sheeran - X - 05/07/14 - 18

35 - 35 - 97,250 - 156,250 - Rita Ora - Phoenix - 06/12/18 - 16

36 - 37 - 93,500 - 93,500 - AJ Tracey - AJ Tracey - 21/02/19 - 3

37 - 39 - 92,500 - 2,369,250 - Beatles - Abbey Road - 04/10/69 - 1

38 - 36 - 91,750 - 249,750 - Olly Murs - You Know I Know - 22/11/18 - 10

39 - 38 - 91,250 - 284,750 - Ariana Grande - Sweetener - 30/08/18 - 16

40 - 40 - 89,500 - 2,566,000 - Bob Marley - Legend - 19/05/84 - 22

 

Edited November 12, 20195 yr by vidcapper

Top 3 very close now. Wouldn't like to say who will be in pole position next week.

 

It is looking increasingly likely that Ed Sheeran will triumph in the Year End chart but somehow feel Lewis Capaldi will benefit significantly from many TV appearances in the run-in to Xmas.

Such an exciting race, love it (exciting obviously until Adele releases)

Based on the last few weeks sales:

next week (w/e 21/11): 1 - TGS; 2 - Lewis; 3 - Ed

following week (w/e 28/11): 1 - Lewis; 2 - Ed; 3 - TGS (but very close)

 

After that, by the same theory Ed would overtake and stay top until year end / Adele, but the Lewis album repackage on 22/11 could change things.

Think ed might take over the week after next, but then lewis will take back over the week after that due to his rerelease

Hoping Kylie Step Back In Time Greatest hits can grab a top 40 spot in year end charts. The re release out 22nd Nov and has promo coming

Kylie is on Graham Norton in 2 weeks.

 

Ed isn't promoting except obv from radio plays so think at this time of year that is a huge advantage for Lewis so he should be year end No1 and deservedly so! Prob sell 600-700k or so

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