In order of sales...

 

Platinum - Sound of the Underground (14.03.2003)

Platinum - The Promise (27.07.2018)

Platinum - Love Machine (15.09.2023)

Gold - Call the Shots (14.02.2020)

Gold - Jump (26.11.2021)

Gold - Something Kinda Ooooh (31.12.2021)

Silver - Can't Speak French (22.07.2013)

Silver - I'll Stand By You (14.05.2010)

Silver - Biology (22.06.2018)

Silver - Something New (09.02.2018)

Silver - The Loving Kind (17.12.2021)

Silver - No Good Advice (24.05.2024)

Silver - Sexy! No No No… (12.07.2024)

 

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I do love how every single era is represented in the Top 10. :wub:

Great to see another single getting a cert, hopefully they keep coming.

"Walk This Way" and "Untouchable" are the next two songs in line for a certification. I wonder which one will get there first.

'Untouchable', I'd say. 'Walk This Way' had an 8k lead in 2019 but I reckon 'Untouchable' performs better on a weekly basis nowadays.

 

'Walk This Way' was still ahead when the OCC revealed their best sellers list at the end of last year, but I reckon the sales between the two were pretty close at that point.

Hopefully untouchable gets there before walk this way.

I think 'The Show' will reach Silver before 'Walk This Way' does

Edited July 13, 2024Jul 13 by Willm

The Show deserves to reach silver before any of their other singles certify, it's such an underrated classic.

 

Wonderful news to see Sexy certifying, I missed it at the time.

I do love how every single era is represented in the Top 10. :wub:

 

 

I utterly love this too :wub:

OCC shared a new total of 300,000 for I’ll Stand By You

I think that total might have been rounded up, given the rate it was shifting between previous totals.

 

I wonder will this be considered a new single or a re-release/remix of the original… could mean ‘Beautiful Cause You Love Me’ is no longer the last Girls Aloud single!

I kind of think of 'Beautiful...' as a cancelled single anyway!

Official Charts update!

 

01. Sound of the Underground 1.2m

02. The Promise 860,000

03. Love Machine 694,000

04. Call the Shots 520,000

05. Jump 499,000

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...revealed__7045/

 

'Biology' and 'Something New' overtake 'I'll Stand By You' so, based on the sales update we got for 'I'll Stand By You' the other day, the Top 10 have all passed 300k.

This is the full Top 40 with March 2023 positions in brackets.

 

Some nice tour effects: 'Untouchable' and 'The Show' overtake 'Walk This Way'; 'Long Hot Summer' overtakes 'I Think We're Alone Now' and 'Life Got Cold'; 'Whole Lotta History' overtakes 'See the Day'; 'On the Metro' overtakes 'Beautiful Cause You Love Me'; 'Girl Overboard' climbs three places and 'Graffiti My Soul' enters.

 

01 [01] SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND GIRLS ALOUD 1

02 [02] THE PROMISE GIRLS ALOUD 1

03 [03] LOVE MACHINE GIRLS ALOUD 2

04 [04] CALL THE SHOTS GIRLS ALOUD 3

05 [05] JUMP GIRLS ALOUD 2

06 [06] SOMETHING KINDA OOOOH GIRLS ALOUD 3

07 [07] CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH GIRLS ALOUD 9

08 [09] BIOLOGY GIRLS ALOUD 4

09 [10] SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD 2

10 [08] I'LL STAND BY YOU GIRLS ALOUD 1

11 [11] THE LOVING KIND GIRLS ALOUD 10

12 [12] NO GOOD ADVICE GIRLS ALOUD 2

13 [13] SEXY NO NO NO GIRLS ALOUD 5

14 [15] UNTOUCHABLE GIRLS ALOUD 11

15 [16] THE SHOW GIRLS ALOUD 2

16 [14] WALK THIS WAY SUGABABES VS GIRLS ALOUD 1

17 [19] LONG HOT SUMMER GIRLS ALOUD 7

18 [17] I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW GIRLS ALOUD 4

19 [18] LIFE GOT COLD GIRLS ALOUD 3

20 [20] WAKE ME UP GIRLS ALOUD 4

21 [22] WHOLE LOTTA HISTORY GIRLS ALOUD 6

22 [21] SEE THE DAY GIRLS ALOUD 9

23 [24] GIRLS ALOUD MEGAMIX GIRLS ALOUD

24 [23] THEME TO ST TRINIANS GIRLS ALOUD 51

25 [25] NOT TONIGHT SANTA GIRLS ALOUD

26 [27] ON THE METRO GIRLS ALOUD

27 [26] BEAUTIFUL 'CAUSE YOU LOVE ME GIRLS ALOUD 97

28 [28] I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY GIRLS ALOUD

29 [32] GIRL OVERBOARD GIRLS ALOUD

30 [29] JINGLE BELL ROCK GIRLS ALOUD

31 [30] WITH EVERY HEARTBEAT GIRLS ALOUD

32 [33] ROLLING BACK THE RIVERS IN TIME GIRLS ALOUD

33 [31] TEENAGE DIRTBAG GIRLS ALOUD

34 [36] EVERY NOW AND THEN GIRLS ALOUD

35 [**] GRAFFITI MY SOUL GIRLS ALOUD

36 [35] REVOLUTION IN THE HEAD GIRLS ALOUD

37 [34] JE NE PARLE PAS FRANCAIS GIRLS ALOUD

38 [38] BLACK JACKS GIRLS ALOUD

39 [39] MISS YOU BOW WOW GIRLS ALOUD

40 [37] LOVE IS PAIN GIRLS ALOUD

 

** [40] MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY GIRLS ALOUD

So that means LHS has probs sold over 105k now then and both The Show and The Loving kind over 160k

I'm very happy to see the tour effect boost the more essential Girls Aloud songs over the covers. 'Whole Lotta History' no longer being their worst performing physical single is definitely most pleasing.

 

'Long Hot Summer' going from 84k in 2019 to at least over 105k as well! I'm going to assume 'Wake Me Up' is still under 100k but should be well over 90k by now.

Great to have a Top 40 update and very interesting to see quite a few changes to the order! There was an update last November but the only change at that point was Every Now and Then overtaking Revolution in the Head.

 

It bothers me that OCC are quite vague lately about sales that exceed 1 million ("1.2m" for Sound of the Underground, which is a rounded figure) even though they're accurate to the nearest 1k for sales below 1m. :drama: Make it make sense! I wonder how far off Sound of the Underground actually is from 2xPlatinum? Another thing that's frustrating is them only revealing the Top 5 sales each time they do this update. Even if they can't/won't reveal every sale in the Top 40, at least a few others would be interesting to know!

 

Wow at Biology and Something New moving ahead of I'll Stand By You! Who'd have thought a song that went 2-14-30-out of the Top 40 would one day outsell a 2 week #1 which spent 6 weeks in the Top 10! But with I'll Stand By You (Sarah's Version) selling a few thousand copies, I wonder if it'll move back up their list?

 

Untouchable and The Show moving ahead of Walk This Way is good to see - I wish we had an indication of how close to Silver the three of them are! Nice to know that Long Hot Summer is definitely over 100,000 sales now. Whole Lotta History finally moving ahead of See the Day - deserved! I hope both of these and Wake Me Up aren't too far off 100k+ if none of them are there already.

Sorry for triple posting :blush:

 

Increases since last updates (I'm assuming the data is from up to 24th March 2023:

 

Sound of the Underground

874,000 - 27th November 2020

1,028,000 - 24th March 2023

(+154,000 in 121 weeks)

= 1272.73 per week on average

 

Predictions:

1,100,000 - April 2024

1,200,000 [2xPlatinum] - October 2025

Don’t suppose you’ve got time to update this post have you Jay? Seems like all songs have been shifting higher amounts since the tour began.

^ Here we go! I've ended up including a lot of older sales figures - it's interesting to see how they've grown over the years:

 

 

Sound of the Underground

726,000 - 21st December 2017 (OCC article: data from 15th December 2017)

800,338 - 8th August 2019 (Shared on BuzzJack: data from 2nd August 2019)

874,000 - 3rd December 2020 (OCC article: data from 27th November 2020)

1,028,000 - 29th March 2023 (OCC article: data from 24th March 2023)

1,065,000 - 8th November 2023 (OCC article: data from 3rd November 2023)

1,100,000 - 28th April 2024 (MTV: cut off date unknown)

1,200,000 - 19th November 2024 (OCC article: data from 15th November 2024)

 

The Promise

578,145 - 21st September 2017 (Shared on BuzzJack: data from 15th September 2020)

600,000 - 27th July 2018 (BPI Brit Certified: Platinum)

606,000 - 1st November 2018 (OCC tweet: data from 26th October 2018)

634,748 - 8th August 2019

712,140 - 28th October 2021 (OCC article: data from 22nd October 2021)

765,000 - 29th March 2023

783,000 - 8th November 2023

805,000 - 28th April 2024

860,000 - 19th November 2024

 

Love Machine

292,827 - 11th June 2018 (Shared on BuzzJack: data from 8th June 2018)

364,321 - 8th August 2019

372,000 - 19th September 2019 (OCC article: data from 13th September 2019)

400,000 - 7th February 2020 (BPI Brit Certified: Gold)

580,000 - 29th March 2023

600,000 - 15th September 2023 (BPI Brit Certified: Platinum

605,000 - 8th November 2023

625,000 - 28th April 2024

694,000 - 19th November 2024

 

Call the Shots

359,301 - 19th March 2018 (Shared on BuzzJack: data from 16th March 2018)

389,409 - 8th August 2019

400,000 - 14th February 2020 (BPI Brit Certified: Gold)

462,500 - 29th March 2023

475,000 - 8th November 2023

488,000 - 28th April 2024

520,000 - 19th November 2024

 

Jump

301,784 - 16th October 2018 (Shared on BuzzJack: data from 19th October 2018) ~

327,322 - 8th August 2019

400,000 - 26th November 2021 (BPI Brit Certified: Gold)

446,000 - 29th March 2023

460,000 - 8th November 2023

472,000 - 28th April 2024

499,000 - 19th November 2024

 

 

The MTV data shared on 28th April 2024: it doesn't seem possible to pinpoint what the cut off date for the data is. These updates showed that their sales had been boosted since November 2023 (due to the reunion announcement), because all 5 singles were selling faster than they had done from March 2023 to November 2023.

 

If we just say for the sake of argument that the data comes from Friday 26th April, and the new data is from Friday November, then their average weekly sales (over 29 weeks) have been:

 

3,448 - Sound of the Underground (but we can take this with a pinch of salt given the 1.1m/1.2m rounding up)

2,379 - Love Machine

1,896 - The Promise

1,103 - Call the Shots

931 - Jump

 

Hopefully the airing of the tour has provided a nice boost again for their streaming!

 

Presumably their weekly sales will decrease somewhat if they enter another period of inactivity, but if those average sales continued then...

 

Sound of the Underground would certify 3xPlatinum (1.8m) in 2028 (presumably 2xPlatinum isn't too far off, whether it happens this year or in 2025)

The Promise would pass 1 million in 2026, and certify 2xPlatinum (1.2m) in 2028

Love Machine would pass 1 million in 2027 and certify 2xPlatinum (1.2m) in 2028

Call the Shots would go Platinum (600k) in 2026

Jump would go Platinum (600k) in 2026

 

... so I'd probably take these estimated years as "at the very earliest"!

Great to have a Top 40 update and very interesting to see quite a few changes to the order! There was an update last November but the only change at that point was Every Now and Then overtaking Revolution in the Head.

 

It bothers me that OCC are quite vague lately about sales that exceed 1 million ("1.2m" for Sound of the Underground, which is a rounded figure) even though they're accurate to the nearest 1k for sales below 1m. :drama: Make it make sense! I wonder how far off Sound of the Underground actually is from 2xPlatinum? Another thing that's frustrating is them only revealing the Top 5 sales each time they do this update. Even if they can't/won't reveal every sale in the Top 40, at least a few others would be interesting to know!

 

Wow at Biology and Something New moving ahead of I'll Stand By You! Who'd have thought a song that went 2-14-30-out of the Top 40 would one day outsell a 2 week #1 which spent 6 weeks in the Top 10! But with I'll Stand By You (Sarah's Version) selling a few thousand copies, I wonder if it'll move back up their list?

 

Untouchable and The Show moving ahead of Walk This Way is good to see - I wish we had an indication of how close to Silver the three of them are! Nice to know that Long Hot Summer is definitely over 100,000 sales now. Whole Lotta History finally moving ahead of See the Day - deserved! I hope both of these and Wake Me Up aren't too far off 100k+ if none of them are there already.

 

Honestly whats the point of OCC keeping any song’s total sales for themselves? It doesnt male sense does it?