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'Call My Name' is the OCC's Chart Flashback this week:

 

In total, Call My Name's chart sales now stack up to more than 646,000 in 2022 - including over 22 million streams. According to Official Charts Company data, it's Cheryl's second-biggest single in the UK, beaten to the top spot by, of course, the mighty Fight For This Love's mammoth 1.3 million chart sales and counting.

It passed 600k 58 weeks ago, so averaging ~793 chart sales per week.

Gold for 'I Don't Care'.

 

Um this took a while :lol:

 

3 Words was one of her worst singles, I'm surprised it sold that much. Probably only because of the FFTL hype.

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I worked out some estimated sales and posted on Popjustice, so I'll post them here too!

 

As ever I stress they're just estimates, based on previous sales figures and the average sales. They might not be very accurate:

 

Estimate figure is written before the titles, and I've included previous official sales after the titles:

 

973,000 - Sound of the Underground [27th November 2020: 874,000 / 2nd August 2019: 800,338]

743,000 - The Promise [22nd October 2021: 712,140 / 2nd August 2019: 634,748]

578,000 - Love Machine [7th February 2020: 400,000+ / 2nd August 2019: 364,321]

451,000 - Call the Shots [14th February 2020: 400,000+ / 2nd August 2019: 389,409]

425,000 - Jump [26th November 2021: 400,000+ / 2nd August 2019: 327,322]

417,000 - Something Kinda Ooooh [31st December 2021: 400,000+ / 2nd August 2019: 341,589]

253,000 - Biology [2nd August 2019: 214,055 / 22nd June 2018: 200,000+]

251,000 - Something New [2nd August 2019: 216,405 / 9th February 2018: 200,000+]

204,000 - The Loving Kind [17th December 2021: 200,000+ / 2nd August 2019: 186,119]

182,000 - No Good Advice [18th February 2022: 178,000 / 2nd August 2019: 160,517]

171,000 - Walk This Way [2nd August 2019: 156,200 / 19th October 2018: 152,422]

170,000 - Sexy! No No No... [2nd August 2019: 150,043 / 19th October 2018: 145,035]

162,000 - Untouchable [2nd August 2019: 147,858 / 19th October 2018: 144,393]

142,000 - The Show [6th August 2021: 136,000 / 2nd August 2019: 124,905]

118,000 - I Think We're Alone Now [2nd August 2019: 104,508 / 19th October 2018: 101,107]

111,000 - Long Hot Summer [2nd August 2019: 84,121 / 27th July 2018: 75,271]

85,000 - Whole Lotta History [2nd August 2019: 74,386 / 19th October 2018: 71,712]

 

The following singles haven't had enough recent updates to be able to work out some good estimates. But I'll share again what their totals were back in August 2019:

 

252,727 - I'll Stand by You

242,253 - Can't Speak French

100,055 - Life Got Cold

83,544 - See the Day

83,352 - Wake Me Up

28,922 - Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me

 

Hopefully I'll Stand by You and Can't Speak French are much closer to 300,000 now. I can only see Wake Me Up, See the Day and Life Got Cold increasing by 10k to 15k at best in the past 3 years.

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The second of Cheryl's five UK Number 1 singles, Promise This now has chart sales totalling 499,000 - 435,000 of these consisting of digital downloads - as well as total UK streams of 6.3 million.

From the OCC. Increases 9k in a year.

Quite a forgotten #1 but it's nice to see it almost at half a million!

 

An old total: 427,262 in June 2012. It's certainly been slow progress to 500k.

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Girls Aloud's Official Top 20 biggest songs ever revealed

29 March 2023 | By Carl Smith

 

May 2023 marks 20 years since the release of Girls Aloud's debut album Sound of the Underground.

 

An LP that spawned four Top 5 singles - its title track, No Good Advice, Life Got Cold and Jump - it truly cemented the Popstars: The Rivals winners as a pop force to be reckoned with, and forged the start of their ongoing relationship with production powerhouse Xenomania.

 

Now, as Cheryl, Nadine Coyle, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh prepare to reissue the record with some previously-unreleased material, we've crunched the numbers to reveal the group's biggest songs in the UK.

 

From the criminally-underrated Long Hot Summer to melancholic masterpiece Call The Shots and the bonkers brilliance of Biology, we've fully updated the girls' Official Top 40 biggest tracks. But before we get into the complete list, let's take a closer look at the Top 5.

 

5. Jump

Released: 2003

Official Chart peak: 2

UK chart units: 446,000

The group's cover of The Pointer Sisters' 1984 track Jump (For My Love) proved a huge success for Girls Aloud, peaking at Number 2 in November 2003. Recorded for inclusion in Christmas staple Love Actually, Jump has been streamed a total of 20.5 million times in the UK so far.

 

4. Call The Shots

Released: 2007

Official Chart peak: 3

UK chart units: 462,500

The second single lifted from Girls Aloud's fourth studio album Tangled Up, the sublime Call The Shots comes in third on the list. To date, Call The Shots has been streamed over 14.6 million times in the UK, and is also the group's second most-downloaded song behind The Promise (currently on 297,000 UK downloads).

 

3. Love Machine

Released: 2004

Official Chart peak: 2

UK chart units: 580,000

Once wrongfully predicted by the group to be - in Nadine Coyle's own words - 'career suicide,' Love Machine is Girls Aloud's third biggest-seller to date. The second single lifted from their What Will The Neighbours Say? album boasts 39 million streams and 127,500 downloads in the UK.

 

2. The Promise

Released: 2008

Official Chart peak: 1

UK chart units: 765,000

Girls Aloud's fourth and final Number 1 single in the UK, The Promise lands in second place on the list. Having won the group a BRIT Award for Best British Single in 2009, the track is actually their most-downloaded ever (with 517,500 UK downloads and counting).

 

The Promise has also racked-up over 24 million UK streams to date.

 

1. Sound of the Underground

Released: 2002

Official Chart peak: 1

UK chart units: 1,028,000

With its iconic opening surf guitar, drum 'n' bass influence and ingenius 'Buy Girls, Bye Boys' marketing campaign, Sound of the Underground reigns as Girls Aloud's biggest single to date in the UK.

 

Having scored the girls their first UK Number 1 single (and a Christmas Number 1, at that) after a much-publicised chart battle against Popstars: The Rivals competition One True Voice, Sound of the Underground has gone on to shift over 1 million chart units to date.

 

The track's been streamed 38.8 million times in the UK - just shy of their most-streamed single Love Machine's total - and remains their biggest physical seller (562,000 copies).

 

Girls Aloud's Official Top 40 biggest songs on the Official UK Chart:

POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK

1 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1

2 THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1

3 LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2

4 CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3

5 JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2

6 SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3

7 CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH GIRLS ALOUD 9

8 I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD 1

9 BIOLOGY GIRLS ALOUD 4

10 SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2

11 THE LOVING KIND GIRLS ALOUD 10

12 NO GOOD ADVICE GIRLS ALOUD 2

13 SEXY NO NO NO GIRLS ALOUD 5

14 WALK THIS WAY SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD 1

15 UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS ALOUD 11

16 THE SHOW GIRLS ALOUD 2

17 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW GIRLS ALOUD 4

18 LIFE GOT COLD GIRLS ALOUD 3

19 LONG HOT SUMMER GIRLS ALOUD 7

20 WAKE ME UP GIRLS ALOUD 4

21 SEE THE DAY GIRLS ALOUD 9

22 WHOLE LOTTA HISTORY GIRLS ALOUD 6

23 THEME TO ST TRINIANS GIRLS ALOUD 51

24 GIRLS ALOUD MEGAMIX GIRLS ALOUD

25 NOT TONIGHT SANTA GIRLS ALOUD

26 BEAUTIFUL 'CAUSE YOU LOVE ME GIRLS ALOUD 97

27 ON THE METRO GIRLS ALOUD

28 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY GIRLS ALOUD

29 JINGLE BELL ROCK GIRLS ALOUD

30 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT GIRLS ALOUD

31 TEENAGE DIRTBAG GIRLS ALOUD

32 GIRL OVERBOARD GIRLS ALOUD

33 ROLLING BACK THE RIVERS IN TIME GIRLS ALOUD

34 JE NE PARLE PAS FRANCAIS GIRLS ALOUD

35 REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD GIRLS ALOUD

36 EVERY NOW AND THEN GIRLS ALOUD

37 LOVE IS PAIN GIRLS ALOUD

38 BLACK JACKS GIRLS ALOUD

39 MISS YOU BOW WOW GIRLS ALOUD

40 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY GIRLS ALOUD

©2023 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

Sound of the Underground sold 557k by the end of 2003 so has managed 5k physicals since then, wonder how many of that was at Christmas due to the vinyl release?

 

Really interesting to see how the non-singles rank in terms of sales, especially seeing their megamix above 'Beautiful 'Cause You Love Me' which had sold 29k as of 2019). Makes sense that it's mostly Christmas songs and album tracks from 'Tangled Up', 'Out of Control' and 'Ten' that make up their best selling non-singles; judging by Spotify numbers I would assume 'Graffiti My Soul' is highest placed out of the earlier album tracks and probably wasn't far from the Top 40. Their covers of 'With Every Heartbeat' and 'Teenage Dirtbag' featuring is interesting, particularly the latter which isn't even on Spotify.

Omg they have a million seller now? Deserved!

Wow!! So great to have all this information, particularly confirmation that Sound of the Underground has passed 1 million! But I do wish OCC would be a bit more generous and reveal more sales data than just the Top 5.

 

Maybe this is just me but I’m bemused that their most streamed song has less than half of Busted’s Year 3000 streams (recently revealed to be 80 million?!).

 

Love Machine has slowed down a bit. Based on how it was performing in 2018-2020 it seemed it would have been on course for 590,000 now, and Platinum by May 2023 - but it’s been revealed as 580,000. So Platinum is seemingly going to take a bit longer. I wonder if it’s been removed (or become less prominent) on a particular playlist?

 

Beautiful Cause You Love Me still being below Megamix and Theme to St. Trinian’s (with neither of those being available to download or stream for a few years now) - eek! I’m assuming that Megamix is the Something Kinda Ooooh version and that the Something New megamix (which is available) counts separately?

 

I wonder what has more influence on the album tracks that appear, downloads or streaming? I could see some of them having sold decently enough in the download era, hundreds or maybe even a few thousand in trickle sales… but maybe it’s streaming racking up over the past 9 years that is the main reason for these particular album tracks/B Sides showing? Who knows!

 

Frustrating that Theme to St. Trinian’s has been unavailable to download or stream for a few years, considering it’s still their best selling non-single.

 

I really want No Good Advice to be Silver. :cry:

 

Since the sales we got in 2019, these singles have swapped places:

 

Call the Shots and Love Machine (that happened in 2020)

Something Kinda Ooooh and Jump

Biology and Something New

I’ll Stand by You and Can’t Speak French

Walk This Way and Sexy! No No No…

See the Day and Wake Me Up

Sound of the Underground sold 557k by the end of 2003 so has managed 5k physicals since then, wonder how many of that was at Christmas due to the vinyl release?

I remembered this article from December 2015 - https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...e-voice__17236/ - and they shared that it had sold 560,272 physicals at that point.

 

The 7" vinyl sold less than 1,733 copies but more than 1,293 copies in its release week ( http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...t&p=7248805 ). So it seems 2,000-ish at best, for them to state 562,000 physicals total, unless it's still <2k and they rounded it up to 562k.

 

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SINGLES

1 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1

2 THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1

3 LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2

4 CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3

5 JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2

6 SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3

7 CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH GIRLS ALOUD 9

8 I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD 1

9 BIOLOGY GIRLS ALOUD 4

10 SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2

11 THE LOVING KIND GIRLS ALOUD 10

12 NO GOOD ADVICE GIRLS ALOUD 2

13 SEXY NO NO NO GIRLS ALOUD 5

14 WALK THIS WAY SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD 1

15 UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS ALOUD 11

16 THE SHOW GIRLS ALOUD 2

17 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW GIRLS ALOUD 4

18 LIFE GOT COLD GIRLS ALOUD 3

19 LONG HOT SUMMER GIRLS ALOUD 7

20 WAKE ME UP GIRLS ALOUD 4

21 SEE THE DAY GIRLS ALOUD 9

22 WHOLE LOTTA HISTORY GIRLS ALOUD 6

26 BEAUTIFUL 'CAUSE YOU LOVE ME GIRLS ALOUD 97

 

ALBUM TRACKS

25 NOT TONIGHT SANTA GIRLS ALOUD

27 ON THE METRO GIRLS ALOUD

28 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY GIRLS ALOUD

29 JINGLE BELL ROCK GIRLS ALOUD

32 GIRL OVERBOARD GIRLS ALOUD

33 ROLLING BACK THE RIVERS IN TIME GIRLS ALOUD

35 REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD GIRLS ALOUD

36 EVERY NOW AND THEN GIRLS ALOUD

37 LOVE IS PAIN GIRLS ALOUD

38 BLACK JACKS GIRLS ALOUD

39 MISS YOU BOW WOW GIRLS ALOUD

40 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY GIRLS ALOUD

 

B SIDES/MISCELLANEOUS

23 THEME TO ST TRINIANS GIRLS ALOUD 51

24 GIRLS ALOUD MEGAMIX GIRLS ALOUD

30 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT GIRLS ALOUD

31 TEENAGE DIRTBAG GIRLS ALOUD

34 JE NE PARLE PAS FRANCAIS GIRLS ALOUD

 

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CHEMISTRY ALBUM TRACKS

25 NOT TONIGHT SANTA GIRLS ALOUD

28 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY GIRLS ALOUD

29 JINGLE BELL ROCK GIRLS ALOUD

40 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY GIRLS ALOUD

 

TANGLED UP ALBUM TRACKS

32 GIRL OVERBOARD GIRLS ALOUD

38 BLACK JACKS GIRLS ALOUD

 

OUT OF CONTROL ALBUM TRACKS

33 ROLLING BACK THE RIVERS IN TIME GIRLS ALOUD

35 REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD GIRLS ALOUD

37 LOVE IS PAIN GIRLS ALOUD

39 MISS YOU BOW WOW GIRLS ALOUD

 

TEN ALBUM TRACKS

27 ON THE METRO GIRLS ALOUD

36 EVERY NOW AND THEN GIRLS ALOUD

 

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SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND ERA

1 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1

5 JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2

12 NO GOOD ADVICE GIRLS ALOUD 2

18 LIFE GOT COLD GIRLS ALOUD 3

 

WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBOURS SAY? ERA

3 LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2

8 I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD 1

16 THE SHOW GIRLS ALOUD 2

20 WAKE ME UP GIRLS ALOUD 4

 

CHEMISTRY ERA

9 BIOLOGY GIRLS ALOUD 4

19 LONG HOT SUMMER GIRLS ALOUD 7

21 SEE THE DAY GIRLS ALOUD 9

22 WHOLE LOTTA HISTORY GIRLS ALOUD 6

25 NOT TONIGHT SANTA GIRLS ALOUD

28 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY GIRLS ALOUD

29 JINGLE BELL ROCK GIRLS ALOUD

31 TEENAGE DIRTBAG GIRLS ALOUD [included on Whole Lotta History single - even though it is a recording from the What Will the Neighbours Say? tour]

40 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY GIRLS ALOUD

 

THE SOUND OF GIRLS ALOUD: THE GREATEST HITS ERA

6 SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3

14 WALK THIS WAY SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD 1 [i thought I may as well lump this single into this era]

17 I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW GIRLS ALOUD 4

24 GIRLS ALOUD MEGAMIX GIRLS ALOUD [included on Something Kinda Ooooh single]

 

TANGLED UP ERA

4 CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3

7 CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH GIRLS ALOUD 9

13 SEXY NO NO NO GIRLS ALOUD 5

23 THEME TO ST TRINIANS GIRLS ALOUD 51 [soundtrack song]

30 WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT GIRLS ALOUD [included on Can't Speak French single]

32 GIRL OVERBOARD GIRLS ALOUD

34 JE NE PARLE PAS FRANCAIS GIRLS ALOUD [included on Can't Speak French single]

38 BLACK JACKS GIRLS ALOUD

 

OUT OF CONTROL ERA

2 THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1

11 THE LOVING KIND GIRLS ALOUD 10

15 UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS ALOUD 11

33 ROLLING BACK THE RIVERS IN TIME GIRLS ALOUD

35 REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD GIRLS ALOUD

37 LOVE IS PAIN GIRLS ALOUD

39 MISS YOU BOW WOW GIRLS ALOUD

 

TEN ERA

10 SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2

26 BEAUTIFUL 'CAUSE YOU LOVE ME GIRLS ALOUD 97

27 ON THE METRO GIRLS ALOUD

36 EVERY NOW AND THEN GIRLS ALOUD

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