Not much else to report on this week!

'Adore You' is now the longest charting solo single in the top 100. 30 weeks.

Updated! Watermelon Sugar has crossed 500k and will be platinum in just a few weeks. It's also hit 16 weeks top 40, overtaking PILLOWTALK and Slow Hands, and matching Strip That Down to be the second longest running solo single. It's surely guaranteed to overtake the 20 weeks of WMYB at this point to become the second longest running 1D single!

From OCC:

 

2. Three One Direction songs have achieved over 1 million chart sales in the UK.

Based on sales and streams combined, they are:

 

What Makes You Beautiful: 1.43m

History: 1.04m

Story Of My Life: 1m

9. One Direction’s biggest non-single is a track that probably should have been a single.

It’s They Don’t Know About Us, a tale about secret love, from their Take Me Home album (179,000 chart sales).

10. One Direction’s least popular track in the UK is… justified.

Based on sales and streams, is Everything About You from their Up All Night album. Their worst-performing proper single is Midnight Memories (220,000 chart sales).

Thanks Liam! Woop for those updates totals :cheer: I didn't get my usual sales data for the current chart this week so I'll update the entire thread for the past 2 weeks + this new info over this weekend!

 

33 weeks have passed since we got the total of 1,342,127 for What Makes You Beautiful, and it's added roughly 88k. That means it sells around 2.7k a week. It'll go 3x platinum in March 2023 at this rate!

 

75 weeks have passed since the 907,913 total for History. It's added 132k roughly since then, on average 1.8k a week. It'll reach 2x plat in September 2023 at this rate.

 

Can't really say for Story of My Life, its last total of 700k comes from 2014...!

 

Midnight Memories passed 200k in January 2020. 25 weeks have passed since its certification and it's added 20k, meaning it adds 800 a week. It'll go gold in November 2024 *_*

TDKAU is huge.

 

History had 894k sales since their hiatus, acc to OCC.

Edited July 23, 20204 yr by Rafael x

Yeah that's since January 2016, which.... covers most of its chart life to be fair!

:magic:

 

1. One Direction -- What Makes You Beautiful :: 1,418k

2. Zayn -- Pillowtalk :: 1,261k

3. Liam Payne ft Quavo -- Strip That Down :: 1,201k

4. Niall Horan -- Slow Hands :: 1,041k

5. Zayn & Sia -- Dusk Till Dawn :: 1,036k

6. One Direction -- History :: 1,032k

7. One Direction -- Story Of My Life :: 994k

8. Harry Styles -- Sign Of The Times :: 971k

9. Zayn & Taylor Swift -- I Don't Wanna Live Forever :: 948k

10. One Direction -- Little Things :: 909k

 

11. One Direction -- Drag Me Down :: 902k

12. One Direction -- Steal My Girl :: 831k

13. One Direction -- Perfect :: 762k

14. One Direction -- Best Song Ever :: 745k

15. Harry Styles -- Adore You :: 692k

16. One Direction -- Night Changes :: 637k

17. Liam Payne & Rita Ora -- For You (Fifty Shades Freed) :: 625k

18. Niall Horan -- This Town :: 619k

19. One Direction -- One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) :: 586k

20. Liam Payne & J Balvin -- Familiar :: 563k

From MTV as of mid-June 2020!

omg!!! :cheeseblock: I'm gonna dissect this info over the weekend but YESSS!!

4. Niall Horan -- Slow Hands :: 1,041k

 

HE DID THAT!!!!

but why louis' and aoki just hold on isnt on the list? its platinum certified (600k) and back to you had 400k units a long time ago. :(

I assume Just Hold On is an oversight on their part. I'd be shocked if Back to You had been missed, I don't think it would've sold THAT much.

acc to one direction's 10 years website, wmyb is 3x platinum in the uk

It's wrong, 3x plat is 1.8m sales

Updated for the past 2 weeks! Who's ready for a mega info post x

 

Watermelon Sugar has reached the top 5. It's the fifth longest-running 1D top 40 hit, and is all-but-guaranteed 2nd place.

 

I've included all the new sales above, and with confirmation that Midnight Memories is the lowest 1D seller on 220k, I've upgraded the sales for Gotta Be You and You & I to be 220k as a minimum too - they're likely above that of course!

 

PILLOWTALK was certified 2x plat on 30th August 2019. It's sold 61k in that time and 42 weeks have elapsed between then and mid-June. That means it sells just under 1.5k a week. June 2027 is when it's looking to go 3x plat...!

 

Slow Hands has sold 305.4k in ~116 weeks since April 2018, meaning it does about 2.6k a week! It'll hit 2x plat in September 2021.

 

Dusk Till Dawn has sold 336k in ~112 weeks (though that was a rounded figure so may be wrong), therefore doing 3k a week (which seems unusually high compared to PILLOWTALK, though Dusk does do better on Spotify). August 2021 for 2x plat.

 

Sign of the Times has sold 322k in ~119 weeks, so about 2.7k a week though I suspect it was doing lower than that until the Fine Line era began and is now selling at a higher rate. Nevertheless, using that figure, it's going to cross 1 million this October, and go 2x plat in March 2022.

 

I Don't Wanna Live Forever has sold 288.3k in ~135 weeks, so about 2.1k a week. January 2021 for 1 million, November 2022 for 2x plat.

 

The last total for Little Things is from 2014 so not much use for analysis, but it's selling faster than Best Song Ever and Steal My Girl.

 

Drag Me Down has also leapfrogged Best Song Ever and Steal My Girl, selling 302k in ~203 weeks, meaning about 1.5k is sold a week. 1m will be passed in October 2021, and 2x plat in May 2024.

 

Steal My Girl has sold 92.3k in the past 72 weeks, meaning 1.3k a week. January 2023 for 1m, January 2026 for 2x plat.

 

Perfect has overtaken Best Song Ever, adding 162k in ~160 weeks, so just over 1k a week. 1m in February 2025, December 2028 for 2x plat.

 

We had a Best Song Ever update last February, adding 102.4k in the 72 weeks since then, meaning 1.4k a week (so by the looks of things, it's closing the gap once again on Perfect which had overtaken it since the last update we got for that). January 2024 for 1m, October 2026 for 2x plat.

 

Night Changes got certified platinum 22 weeks before the update, selling 37k in that time, so 1.7k a week! August 2024 for 1m, December 2026 for 2x plat.

 

Similarly, For You went platinum in February, so in 19 weeks, it's sold 25k - 1.3k a week. Feb 2026 for 1m, January 2029 for 2x plat.

 

This Town went plat in April, selling 19k in 10 weeks so 1.9k a week. June 2025 for 1m, June 2027 for 2x plat.

 

One Way or Another is a VERY slow trickle seller. No full estimate as its old figure is from 2014, but only 56k added in almost 6 years! :( On the bright side, it's not that far off platinum now, hopefully it'll make it there before long.

 

Familiar has sold 163k in ~88 weeks, averaging 1.9k a week. December 2020 for platinum!

 

Summary, including the ones I posted above

 

October 2020 - Sign of the Times 1m

December 2020 - Familiar plat

January 2021 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever 1m

August 2021 - Dusk Till Dawn 2x plat

September 2021 - Slow Hands 2x plat

October 2021 - Drag Me Down 1m

March 2022 - Sign of the Times 2x plat

November 2022 - I Don't Wanna Live Forever 2x plat

January 2023 - Steal My Girl 1m

March 2023 - What Makes You Beautiful 3x plat

September 2023 - History 2x plat

January 2024 - Best Song Ever 1m

May 2024 - Drag Me Down 2x plat

August 2024 - Night Changes 1m

November 2024 - Midnight Memories gold

February 2025 - Perfect 1m

June 2025 - This Town 1m

January 2026 - Steal My Girl 2x plat

February 2026 - For You 1m

October 2026 - Best Song Ever 2x plat

December 2026 - Night Changes 2x plat

June 2027 - PILLOWTALK 3x plat

June 2027 - This Town 2x plat

December 2028 - Perfect 2x plat

January 2029 - For You 2x plat

 

Average Weekly Sales

 

3,000 Dusk Till Dawn

2,700 What Makes You Beautiful

2,700 Sign of the Times

2,600 Slow Hands

2,100 I Don't Wanna Live Forever

1,900 This Town

1,900 Familiar

1,800 History

1,700 Night Changes

1,500 Drag Me Down

1,500 PILLOWTALK

1,400 Best Song Ever

1,300 Steal My Girl

1,300 For You

1,000 Perfect

800 Midnight Memories

Thanks Joseph a v interesting read!

And some stabs in the dark on the rest. These are GUESSES and not really based on many facts, just comparisons to the songs around them and their increases.

 

Wouldn't be surprised if One Thing is nearing silver and Live While We're Young is nearing platinum at this point, they got their last certs quite a while ago and even with lesser increases than Little Things and Story of My Life, they'd be pretty close to their next certification. Kiss You could well be nearing platinum before long but I suspect it's not quite there yet, it took longer to reach gold than LWWY. I'm quite surprised it wasn't on more than 563k in the June update actually!

 

You & I and Gotta Be You are obviously over 220k, there's not a lot to go off on those but I expect You & I is over 300k at least.

 

I feel like it can't be too long before Two Ghosts goes silver? Kiwi and Sweet Creature both made it, and I expect Harry's entire debut album is streaming quite well on the whole, so surely a silver cert for Two Ghosts isn't that far away.

 

Polaroid could well go platinum within a year or so? :thinking:

 

Louis is pretty much an unknown entity with Just Hold On overlooked from the above list, but it didn't pass 600k that long ago anyway. Back to You is more of an unknown but it must be comfortably over 500k.

 

Could imagine Too Much to Ask nearing gold before long for Niall? I'm really interested to see where On the Loose is at actually...! We still only have a week 1 sales figure for that.

 

LIKE I WOULD can't be far off gold, same for Cruel actually. Still Got Time should be over 500k.

thanks for all work. :wub:

 

btw, you forgot tp update WMYB to 1.43m on first page

I didn't realise Familiar had done well to the extent of coming close to platinum :o

 

I bet if the general public were asked to name the 3 members of One Direction that had a million chart seller, most would assume Harry was one of them! Won't be long until he joins Zayn, Liam and Niall, of course.

Watermelon Sugar platinum

Fabulous news!!