December 30, 20231 yr Certifications only became automatic from July 2013 and its sales were boosted from the Q4 Christmas market. No more singles were released after The Flood underperformed so there was nothing to keep the album in the charts. As good as 400k in 2010 seems now, I imagine the record company might have expected a bit more given this was the follow up to very successful first album and Cheryl’s profile was bigger than ever.
January 2, 20241 yr Messy Little Raindrops screams rush recorded when you look back now. I don’t blame them as Cheryl’s profile was huge then and X Factor was at its peak but it’s definitely her weakest solo album for me. In a way I kinda wish they just re released 3 words as a deluxe and tagged an extra 4-5 songs on there but fair play the album did well I do wish they extended it with another single though but that’s also the case for her A Million Lights album too.
March 15, 20241 yr OCC shared updated sales figures the other day ( https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...albums-biggest/ ) 614,400 - What Will the Neighbours Say? It's now 618,569, having sold 2,925 in the last week! So its previous total on 8th March was 615,644. 614,400 was a figure given in an article published on Thursday 23rd November, which I'll presume means the total is from Friday 17th November. A 16 week gap between then and 8th March, in which time it sold 1,244 copies. That's an average of around 77 or 78 copies a week (which is higher than I would have imagined!). That translates to the album selling a little over 4,000 copies in the space of a year.
March 15, 20241 yr I guess having five singles helps the weekly streaming sales. Wonder if this is their best selling studio album on a weekly basis?
March 15, 20241 yr I guess having five singles helps the weekly streaming sales. Wonder if this is their best selling studio album on a weekly basis? I can definitely imagine this being the case!
May 25, 20241 yr As per sales thread Tens total sales stand at: 361,920 It’s also top 40 again this week :cheer:
May 26, 20241 yr As per sales thread Tens total sales stand at: 361,920 It’s also top 40 again this week :cheer: :wub: 'Ten' totals since 2019: 15/03/2019 - 226,528 02/08/2019 - 236,052 27/08/2021 - 280,146 03/09/2021 - 280,524 (+378) 10/09/2021 - 282,110 (+1,586) [#61] 17/09/2021 - 282,923 (+813) [#198] 13/05/2022 - 300,000+ {Platinum} 24/11/2023 - 337,053 01/12/2023 - 339,368 (+2,315) [#68] 10/05/2024 - 358,116 17/05/2024 - 358,963 (+847) 24/05/2024 - 361,920 (+2,957) [#39]
May 31, 20241 yr Warning: Song spoilers for the tour are in this post Comparison of Girls Aloud streams before and after the tour (10 May vs 26 May): Sound of the Underground: 25,760 vs 62,639 No Good Advice: 3,164 vs 18,255 Jump: 11,883 vs 28,380 The Show: 3,766 vs 22,789 Love Machine: 32,363 vs 32,434 I'll Stand By You: 3,314 vs 17,883 Wake Me Up: 1,087 vs 7,779 Graffiti My Soul: 454 vs 6,038 Long Hot Summer: 2,093 vs 12,589 Biology: 5,997 vs 32,817 Whole Lotta History: 1,202 vs 13,933 Something Kinda Oooh...: 8,444 vs 31,374 Sexy! No No No...: 3,725 vs 16,543 Call The Shots: 7,924 vs 30,847 Can't Speak French: Girl Overboard: 1,162 vs 7,767 The Promise - Single Version: 12,505 vs 52,613 Untouchable - Radio Mix: 1,305 vs 8,628 (14,183 including album version) Something New: 5,371 vs 26,292 On The Metro: 3,531 vs 19,306 Bonus: The Loving Kind: 2,311 vs 9,342 Almost everything except Love Machine increased in streams massively, and it's good to see TLK gaining nearly as much as the other tracks despite not being on the setlist.
June 1, 20241 yr Warning: Song spoilers for the tour are in this post Thank you for those stats! Fantastic increases, but how curious that Love Machine remained virtually static! Percentage increases: 1229.96% - Graffiti My Soul 1059.15% - Whole Lotta History 615.64% - Wake Me Up 568.42% - Girl Overboard 561.15% - Untouchable 505.12% - The Show 501.48% - Long Hot Summer 476.96% - No Good Advice 447.48% - Biology 446.76% - On the Metro 439.62% - I'll Stand by You 389.52% - Something New 344.11% - Sexy! No No No... 320.74% - The Promise 289.29% - Call the Shots 271.55% - Something Kinda Ooooh 143.16% - Sound of the Underground 138.83% - Jump 0.22% - Love Machine Bonus: 304.24% - The Loving Kind (Can't Speak French data was missing) Or to look at it another way, these are the percentages of how much the songs were streamed on 10th May in comparison to 26th May: 7.52% - Graffiti My Soul 8.63% - Whole Lotta History (Meaning that Whole Lotta History was streamed more than 10x as much on 26th May as 10th May) 13.97% - Wake Me Up 14.96% - Girl Overboard 15.13% - Untouchable 16.53% - The Show 16.63% - Long Hot Summer 17.33% - No Good Advice 18.27% - Biology 18.29% - On the Metro 18.53% - I'll Stand by You 20.43% - Something New (so roughly speaking Something New was streamed 5x more often on 26th May compared to 10th May) 22.52% - Sexy! No No No... 23.77% - The Promise 25.69% - Call the Shots 26.91% - Something Kinda Ooooh 41.12% - Sound of the Underground 41.87% - Jump 99.78% - Love Machine 24.74% - The Loving Kind
June 2, 20241 yr Warning: Song spoilers for the tour are in this post Thank you for those stats! Fantastic increases, but how curious that Love Machine remained virtually static! Percentage increases: 1229.96% - Graffiti My Soul 1059.15% - Whole Lotta History 615.64% - Wake Me Up 568.42% - Girl Overboard 561.15% - Untouchable 505.12% - The Show 501.48% - Long Hot Summer 476.96% - No Good Advice 447.48% - Biology 446.76% - On the Metro 439.62% - I'll Stand by You 389.52% - Something New 344.11% - Sexy! No No No... 320.74% - The Promise 289.29% - Call the Shots 271.55% - Something Kinda Ooooh 143.16% - Sound of the Underground 138.83% - Jump 0.22% - Love Machine Bonus: 304.24% - The Loving Kind (Can't Speak French data was missing) Or to look at it another way, these are the percentages of how much the songs were streamed on 10th May in comparison to 26th May: 7.52% - Graffiti My Soul 8.63% - Whole Lotta History (Meaning that Whole Lotta History was streamed more than 10x as much on 26th May as 10th May) 13.97% - Wake Me Up 14.96% - Girl Overboard 15.13% - Untouchable 16.53% - The Show 16.63% - Long Hot Summer 17.33% - No Good Advice 18.27% - Biology 18.29% - On the Metro 18.53% - I'll Stand by You 20.43% - Something New (so roughly speaking Something New was streamed 5x more often on 26th May compared to 10th May) 22.52% - Sexy! No No No... 23.77% - The Promise 25.69% - Call the Shots 26.91% - Something Kinda Ooooh 41.12% - Sound of the Underground 41.87% - Jump 99.78% - Love Machine 24.74% - The Loving Kind Warning: Song spoilers for the tour are in this post Yes, the lack of gains for Love Machine shocked me too. I would've assumed it to be in competition with Sound of The Underground as their most streamed track after the tour, but it remained largely stagnant. I was able to get data for Can't Speak French too: it did 3,531 streams on 10 May and 19,306 streams on 26 May. That represents a 446.76% increase in streams, meaning CSF's 10 May total made up 18.29% of its 26 May total.
June 2, 20241 yr Another great increase! I wonder how much the streams will skyrocket when it's time for the London shows :cheeseblock:
June 2, 20241 yr When you take into consideration the additional streams that the songs will be gaining from the recently released Megamix them certifications will hopefully be coming even sooner
June 16, 20241 yr Regarding Sound of the Underground, here are total sales I found for it from over the years: Totals: 30th November 2003 - 143,000 (this being the day before the reissue came out - 143k achieved in 27 weeks) 7th December 2003 - 169,000 (after the first week of the reissue's availability) 28th December 2003 - 245,000 (102k sales achieved for the reissue in 4 weeks) 30th December 2007 - 354,475 21st June 2009 - 366,514 21st March 2013 - 368,000 2nd August 2019 - 372,193 16th June 2023 - 377,960 (its total before the 2023 reissue was released) 23rd June 2023 - 380,885 (including the 2,925 copies that the reissue sold in its first week) We can see that it was trickle selling quite nicely during the years that they were active, but then it really slowed down when they took their hiatus. Streaming is not their strong point, so it continues to sell slowly. I wish I knew when exactly it passed 300,000... maybe that info is out there somewhere, but I haven't been able to find anything between Dec '03 and Dec '07! It did re-enter the chart in late 2006, so maybe it was pushed over 300k during that time? What's interesting is that the album was certified on 28th November 2003. That being for shipments of over 300,000 (back in those days, it wasn't based on over-the-counter sales). So it seems like them shipping out the Sound of the Underground reissue at that point, meant that the album had exceeded 300,000+ shipments, well in advance of it actually selling 300,000.
July 23, 2024Jul 23 Here's the full UK chart run for Ten. Thank you JulianT for letting me know the most recent positions! :wub: 02/12/2012 - 1. #9 09/12/2012 - 2. #26 16/12/2012 - 3. #32 23/12/2012 - 4. #22 30/12/2012 - 5. #34 06/01/2013 - 6. #46 13/01/2013 - 7. #62 20/01/2013 - 8. #73 27/01/2013 - 9. #77 03/02/2013 - 10. #86 10/02/2013 - 11. #102 17/02/2013 - 12. #104 24/02/2013 - 13. #74 03/03/2013 - 14. #63 10/03/2013 - 15. #60 17/03/2013 - 16. #64 24/03/2013 - 17. #80 31/03/2013 - 18. #150 07/04/2013 - 19. #151 29/09/2013 - 20. #154 06/10/2013 - 21. #146 13/10/2013 - 22. #148 20/10/2013 - 23. #174 10/09/2021 - 24. #61 17/09/2021 - 25. #198 01/12/2023 - 26. #68 08/12/2023 - 27. #96 24/05/2024 - 28. #39 31/05/2024 - 29. #30 07/06/2024 - 30. #47 14/06/2024 - 31. #61 21/06/2024 - 32. #72 28/06/2024 - 33. #57 05/07/2024 - 34. #89 12/07/2024 - 35. #140 19/07/2024 - 36. #192 This is how long their albums have spent in the UK Top 200: 158 - The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits 60 - Tangled Up 58 - Out of Control 44 - Sound of the Underground 41 - What Will the Neighbours Say? 36 - Ten 33 - Chemistry 2 - Mixed Up 2 - Girls A Live 1 - The Collection = 435 weeks Some of their albums were prevented from longer Top 200 chart runs, because for periods of time they were demoted to the Budget Album Chart. -_- In particular The Sound of Girls Aloud and Tangled Up could have had lengthier chart runs. TSOGA fell out of the main album chart from #10 (in January 2009) because of the rules! :drama: Tangled Up was selling enough to be in the Top 40 in January 2009, had it not been in the budget chart.
July 28, 2024Jul 28 Author Updated the first post (pending Ten's position on Friday - assuming it's dropped out though), great to see Ten closing in on SOTU to shake off being their lowest selling album at last!
August 13, 2024Aug 13 The Whole Damn Show Megamix didn't chart in any charts i.e. physical/sales/vinyl :thinking: However following their Brighton Pride set, Ten re-entered the chart at #200! :D
August 13, 2024Aug 13 Here's some very useless chart facts! 🤓 - Ten being at #200 this week is the first time they've ever been at #200 in the album chart - The positions they've never placed at are: 19, 21, 51, 65, 85, 111, 112, 116, 141, 153, 155, 164, 178, 179, 188, 189, 191, 195, 196, 197 - Here's a list of the number of times they've placed at positions in the album Top 200 chart: (#61 is the most frequently occurring position - on 8 occasions! Twice with The Sound of Girls Aloud and Ten, once with Sound of the Underground, Chemistry, Tangled Up and Out of Control) #1 - 2 times #2 - 1 time #3 - 2 times #4 - 2 times #5 - 3 times #6 - 2 times #7 - 3 times #8 - 2 times #9 - 4 times #10 - 2 times #11 - 3 times #12 - 3 times #13 - 3 times #14 - 2 times #15 - 2 times #16 - 2 times #17 - 3 times #18 - 1 time #20 - 3 times #22 - 2 times #23 - 1 time #24 - 3 times #25 - 1 time #26 - 1 time #27 - 3 times #28 - 3 times #29 - 3 times #30 - 5 times #31 - 2 times #32 - 1 time #33 - 2 times #34 - 2 times #35 - 2 times #36 - 1 time #37 - 4 times #38 - 1 time #39 - 2 times #40 - 2 times #41 - 1 time #42 - 3 times #43 - 1 time #44 - 3 times #45 - 2 times #46 - 5 times #47 - 5 times #48 - 3 times #49 - 5 times #50 - 2 times #52 - 4 times #53 - 4 times #54 - 3 times #55 - 4 times #56 - 3 times #57 - 2 times #58 - 1 time #59 - 1 time #60 - 5 times #61 - 8 times #62 - 4 times #63 - 1 time #64 - 2 times #66 - 2 times #67 - 1 time #68 - 1 time #69 - 1 time #70 - 2 times #71 - 1 time #72 - 1 time #73 - 3 times #74 - 3 times #75 - 2 times #76 - 1 time #77 - 5 times #78 - 1 time #79 - 3 times #80 - 2 times #81 - 1 time #82 - 1 time #83 - 4 times #84 - 2 times #86 - 1 time #87 - 3 times #88 - 3 times #89 - 4 times #90 - 4 times #91 - 2 times #92 - 2 times #93 - 2 times #94 - 1 time #95 - 3 times #96 - 4 times #97 - 3 times #98 - 3 times #99 - 2 times #100 - 3 times #101 - 3 times #102 - 4 times #103 - 4 times #104 - 3 times #105 - 4 times #106 - 2 times #107 - 4 times #108 - 6 times #109 - 1 time #110 - 6 times #113 - 2 times #114 - 1 time #115 - 1 time #117 - 1 time #118 - 4 times #119 - 1 time #120 - 1 time #121 - 6 times #122 - 1 time #123 - 3 times #124 - 2 times #125 - 1 time #126 - 3 times #127 - 3 times #128 - 4 times #129 - 2 times #130 - 1 time #131 - 1 time #132 - 1 time #133 - 3 times #134 - 4 times #135 - 3 times #136 - 2 times #137 - 4 times #138 - 1 time #139 - 2 times #140 - 2 times #142 - 2 times #143 - 1 time #144 - 3 times #145 - 1 time #146 - 1 time #147 - 2 times #148 - 2 times #149 - 1 time #150 - 3 times #151 - 2 times #152 - 3 times #154 - 2 times #156 - 2 times #157 - 2 times #158 - 1 time #159 - 2 times #160 - 2 times #161 - 3 times #162 - 2 times #163 - 2 times #165 - 1 time #166 - 1 time #167 - 2 times #168 - 3 times #169 - 2 times #170 - 1 time #171 - 1 time #172 - 3 times #173 - 3 times #174 - 7 times #175 - 2 times #176 - 1 time #177 - 4 times #180 - 4 times #181 - 3 times #182 - 2 times #183 - 1 time #184 - 3 times #185 - 1 time #186 - 2 times #187 - 1 time #190 - 4 times #192 - 3 times #193 - 2 times #194 - 2 times #198 - 4 times #199 - 1 time #200 - 1 time
November 26, 2024Nov 26 Ten is in the UK charts this week at #131! This is its 38th week in the Top 200. 02/12/12 - 1. #9 09/12/12 - 2. #26 16/12/12 - 3. #32 23/12/12 - 4. #22 30/12/12 - 5. #34 06/01/13 - 6. #46 13/01/13 - 7. #62 20/01/13 - 8. #73 27/01/13 - 9. #77 03/02/13 - 10. #86 10/02/13 - 11. #102 17/02/13 - 12. #104 24/02/13 - 13. #74 03/03/13 - 14. #63 10/03/13 - 15. #60 17/03/13 - 16. #64 24/03/13 - 17. #80 31/03/13 - 18. #150 07/04/13 - 19. #151 29/09/13 - 20. #154 06/10/13 - 21. #146 13/10/13 - 22. #148 20/10/13 - 23. #174 10/09/21 - 24. #61 17/09/21 - 25. #198 01/12/23 - 26. #68 08/12/23 - 27. #96 24/05/24 - 28. #39 31/05/24 - 29. #30 07/06/24 - 30. #47 14/06/24 - 31. #61 21/06/24 - 32. #72 28/06/24 - 33. #57 05/07/24 - 34. #89 12/07/24 - 35. #140 19/07/24 - 36. #192 09/08/24 - 37. #200 22/11/24 - 38. #131 Speaking of Ten, today is the 12th anniversary of its release. I still wish they'd named it something that wasn't quite so specific (referencing 10 years) because it's just so out of date now, and not obviously clear that it's a Greatest Hits. I'd like it if the label would reissue The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits with a new cover and new track list, but I suppose there's not much likelihood of that.
November 26, 2024Nov 26 I like the title Ten tbf, but they could just add Greatest Hits to it on Spotify or something...
