July 19, 20206 yr On Air, On Sale was happening even in 2009, when I started following the charts (and I assume before that), but it tended to be quite rare, and with songs by minor artists, or songs that weren't expected to be hits. They were also more common from US artists than UK artists. There were a number of cases of European dance hits originally being released immediately for download in the UK, only for them to be removed from iTunes when they started getting popular (or when the record company saw potential for the song to be a hit), so that they could hold them back and get a high debut. I guess you say 2011 because of Price Tag by Jessie J? It was a highly publicised OAOS song, but it was far from the first. They did it because her previous single, Do It Like A Dude was a surprise hit and unexpectedly climbed all the way to #2 with an immediate release, so they thought they would try it with Price Tag. But the funny thing was that it debuted at #1 on its release week anyway, and nowadays you would never know it was OAOS from looking at its chart run. Also, post-album singles were all technically OAOS the whole time in the digital era, and many of them did very well. The Way I Are in 2007 for example went all the way to #1. I'm sure Kasabian released Empire as soon as radio started playing it back in 2006.
July 19, 20206 yr I'm sure Kasabian released Empire as soon as radio started playing it back in 2006. Gorillaz released “Feel Good Inc.” OA/OS in 2005, and it was prevented from charting for a few weeks as the rules at the time did not allow digital only releases to chart, so they released a limited run of 7" vinyl (300 copies or so) to force the OCC to allow it to chart. :D Plus every single song before 1995 was released OA/OS.
July 19, 20206 yr I don't think the term 'on air/on sale' started being a thing until 'Price Tag'. Obviously there were songs before that which were released immediately but it wasn't an industry standard in the UK until then (and even then it was quickly abandoned before eventually being forced when streaming took over). Joy Division *.*
July 19, 20206 yr Fun(ish) fact - there are the same amount of songs that have Joy Division in their titles that have been UK Top 75 singles than have been hits for the band (just the two so far). I doubt that will change this week, but would love to see it happen.
July 19, 20206 yr Fun(ish) fact - there are the same amount of songs that have Joy Division in their titles that have been UK Top 75 singles than have been hits for the band (just the two so far). I doubt that will change this week, but would love to see it happen. Joy Division Oven Gloves is a wonderful song :music:
July 19, 20206 yr Fun(ish) fact - there are the same amount of songs that have Joy Division in their titles that have been UK Top 75 singles than have been hits for the band (just the two so far). I doubt that will change this week, but would love to see it happen. I was ignorant enough of music at the time that the first time I ever heard the name Joy Division was when I heard 'Let's Dance To Joy Division'. I always thought that was kind of a weird title until I discovered it was the name of a band.
July 19, 20206 yr I was ignorant enough of music at the time that the first time I ever heard the name Joy Division was when I heard 'Let's Dance To Joy Division'. I always thought that was kind of a weird title until I discovered it was the name of a band. The song does make a lot more sense when you know who Joy Division were :lol: I need a pair of those oven gloves :o
July 19, 20206 yr Yeh once downloads were introduced in 2005/06 songs began to climb up the charts again due to the nature of iTunes dominance but record labels were scared that songs didn't debut at no1 anymore due to this (even though they still accumulated decent sales with a No12 peak)! Radio also didn't really get on board initially at the start of the download era and it was t until the streaming era that they were forced to due to the nature of Way streaming affected the charts. Going back to the original question 2014 was a time when a lot of songs lined up trying to hold back to get the no1 spot with big sales still but at times they fell like a brick because people had to wait sometimes as long as 8 weeks after their radio debut to buy them so increasingly songs ended up debuting with big sales but actually selling less overall. The tipping point imo was when one of the biggest hits of the decade was sent to radio in December 2014 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson & Bruno Mars and it had a release date of late January 2015 and then a week after the radio debut an X-Factor contestant performed it in the final of the show and she jumped up the iTunes chart with it forcing the record label to release it fearing losing sales or even momentum to the Xf finalist.
July 19, 20206 yr 01 (01) Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo – Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) 02 (03) Joel Corry feat. MNEK – Head & Heart :wub: :wub: Top 2 forever pls
July 19, 20206 yr Fun(ish) fact - there are the same amount of songs that have Joy Division in their titles that have been UK Top 75 singles than have been hits for the band (just the two so far). I doubt that will change this week, but would love to see it happen. There was also My Chemical Romance's 'Boy Division' which missed he Top 75 by one place.
July 19, 20206 yr So Don't Need Love and Breaking Me hit ACR. But somehow Flowers escaped along with Dinner Guest ?
July 20, 20206 yr Intrigued to see Ellie’s midweek figures later today! Me too; do you know what Deliruim opened with?
July 20, 20206 yr Me too; do you know what Deliruim opened with? 38.4k for the week, 25.5k on the first mids. I'm just hoping for 10k+ tbh
July 20, 20206 yr Author my guess is Ellie will sell about 15-20k similar to Haim a few weeks ago, especially with all the bundles on her site hoping Oliver Tree's album can chart somewhere *_*
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