May 21, 20223 yr Completely forgot to reply to this but I’m so pleased that Ten finally went Platinum :wub: It’s a major achievement that all 5 studio albums & 2 compilations went Platinum or multi Platinum.
May 21, 20223 yr Amazing to see TEN is platinum, really felt this album deserved so much more back in the day of it's original release, think it was just too close to their last GH with not enough material in between for the general public. That combined with the "underperformance" of Cheryl's third album and them leaving it so long only to come back with a 'farewell' GH cash in just did not work at the time. Still bitter that Wake me up is not on it though <_<
May 23, 20223 yr 19 years old, those years flew but in other ways with girls aloud it feels like they were in the charts over 20 years ago.
June 23, 20232 yr A little over 20 years since it debuted and peaked at No.2 on sales of 37,077 copies, Girls Aloud’s first album, The Sound Of The Underground, has been released in a much-expanded deluxe edition. Re-entering at No.42 (2,925 sales), it raises its lifetime consumption to 380,885 units. Their fifth and final album, 2008 release Out Of Control, is their top studio album with sales of 805,065 while their 2006 compilation The Sound Of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits is their biggest seller overall, with to-date consumption of 1,283,157 units. 1,283,157 - The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits 805,065 - Out of Control 380,885 - Sound of the Underground 10th September 2021 total for TSOGA was 1,259,383. Despite this album not being available to download or stream, OCC evidently apportions some sales towards it every week. It's grown by 23,774 sales in 93 weeks, which is an average of 255.6 sales a week. Out of Control was on 800,890 sales on 2nd August 2019. An increase of 4,175 sales in 203 weeks, that's just 20.5 sales a week. In last Friday's chart before the re-release sales started to be included, Sound of the Underground was on 377,960 sales. An older total of 372,193 was shared on 2nd August 2019. 372,193 to 377,960 is an increase of 5,767 in 202 weeks, that's 28.5 sales a week on average.
June 23, 20232 yr I had hoped we would get an updated total for 'SOTU' but didn't think we'd get another two totals! :o Interesting that 'SOTU' is averaging more than 'Out of Control' on a weekly basis, given those weekly units will mostly comprise of streaming and - without actually checking - I would have thought 'SOTU' would be the least streamed Girls Aloud album.
November 26, 20231 yr OCC shared 3 updated sales figures the other day ( https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...albums-biggest/ ) 1,290,000 - The Sound of Girls Aloud 805,500 - Out of Control 614,400 - What Will the Neighbours Say? I wish they'd been more generous and given a full update. -_- Anyway, the previously known sales for those albums were: 1,283,157 - The Sound of Girls Aloud (23rd June 2023) 805,065 - Out of Control (23rd June 2023) 605,120 - What Will the Neighbours Say? (2nd August 2019) Increases: The Sound of Girls Aloud [increase of 6,843 in 21 weeks // average sales per week: 326] Out of Control [increase of 435 in 21 weeks // average sales per week: 21] What Will the Neighbours Say? [increase of 9,280 in 224 weeks // average sales per week: 41] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Other old album sales: Tangled Up - total of 509,634 on 2nd August 2019. If it sold at the same rate as Out of Control it would be over 514,000 by now, or approaching 519,000 if it sold at the same rate as What Will the Neighbours Say? - I assume its total would land somewhere in between. Chemistry - total of 394,868 on 2nd August 2019. Again using OOC and WWTNS as benchmarks, by now its total could be 399,000 to 404,000. It would be very nice if it has gone over 400,000! Sound of the Underground - total of 380,885 on 23rd June 2023. Presumably it's sold over 381,000 by now. Ten - it exceeded 300,000 on 13th May 2022. If it was to sell 500 copies a week (this is a completely random figure), then it would be 340,000 now, but I don't know what it likely sells a week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I estimate that Girls Aloud have sold over 4,380,000 albums in the UK (including Mixed Up, Girls A Live and The Collection). According to a post from Haven forum, Girls Aloud are the 153rd best selling album act of all time in the UK! https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...-albums-artists It shouldn't be too long until they reach 4.4m, which will of course be largely driven by their compilation albums.
November 26, 20231 yr The Sound of Girls Aloud rather high there for how much it’s pulled lately! (I can’t see it anywhere on streaming sites but is this paid sales driving it or streaming from their catalogue counting to that rather than Ten).
November 26, 20231 yr The Sound of Girls Aloud rather high there for how much it’s pulled lately! (I can’t see it anywhere on streaming sites but is this paid sales driving it or streaming from their catalogue counting to that rather than Ten). I’m guessing the record label hasn’t selected either The Sound of Girls Aloud or Ten to receive their catalogue streams so they just alternate between the two. I can’t imagine the streams of the songs that appear on The Sound of but not Ten gain enough streams to make up 300 chart sales per week.
November 26, 20231 yr According to a post from Haven forum, Girls Aloud are the 153rd best selling album act of all time in the UK! https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...-albums-artists It shouldn't be too long until they reach 4.4m, which will of course be largely driven by their compilation albums. Can you post this list somewhere (or send me it) I can’t view it says I need to create an account!
December 1, 20231 yr So Official Charts recently stating that The Sound of Girls Aloud had sold 1,290,000 was apparently misleading? Music Week say it's sold 1,283,780 :thinking: A very small increase (623 sales) from the 1,283,157 total that Music Week revealed back in June. :thinking: Meanwhile Ten is on 339,368!
December 2, 20231 yr Meanwhile Ten is on 339,368! So you were pretty much bang on when you suggested 500 chart sales a week! :o
December 2, 20231 yr Ten is always a downer for me as the standard edition doesn’t feature Whole Lotta History. It needed the fans to get it on there on a bonus disc.
December 3, 20231 yr Ten is always a downer for me as the standard edition doesn’t feature Whole Lotta History. It needed the fans to get it on there on a bonus disc. I would have done this tracklisting: 1. Sound of the underground 2. No good advice 3. Life got cold 4. Jump 5. The show 6. Love machine 7. I’ll stand by you 8. Wake me up 9. Biology 10. Whole lotta history 11. Something kinda ooh 12. Sexy no, no, no 13. Call the shots 14. Can’t speak French 15. The promise 16. The loving kind 17. Untouchable 18. Something new 19. On the metro 20. Beautiful cause you love me Left off Every now and then, I was always amazed they left off Wake me up tbh being a top 5 hit. :o
December 4, 20231 yr Ten is at #70 on today’s chart update. I think it should still place another week inside the top 100 come Friday?
December 5, 20231 yr Really happy thats its managing to stay around for another week. It's doing pretty well given Amazon hasn't had any copies of the physical since before the reunion was announced.
December 30, 20231 yr I was checking out the best selling albums list for 2010 and was pleasantly surprised to see Messy Little Raindrops all the way at number 21 with over 421,000 copies sold. Considering it was certified platinum in August 2011 I had assumed it must've sold around 200,000 copies in 2010, so now I am wondering two things: a) why did it not get certified when it passed the 300,000 sales threshold (were the certifications not automatic back then?) and b) why did its sales fall off so quickly after 2010, considering it's only at 491,000 sales as of now despite having had such a strong first 3 months (and it's not even like it had a frontloaded run carried just by a big first week). Can someone help? Edited February 14, 20241 yr by Delicate
