oh yes it happened for me many times. But I don't think the music quality is bad, especially now, when you have better headphones than those you had in 90s. Try and check :cheer:

Maybe I should, for old times' sake :cool:

Adele says hello (it's me).

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I laughed WAY too much at this :lol:

Most Popular Albums 2020

 

 

Title

 

Artist

 

Equivalent sales

 

1

 

Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent

 

Lewis Capaldi

 

455,914

 

2

 

Fine Line

 

Harry Styles

 

293,435

 

3

 

Future Nostalgia

 

Dua Lipa

 

265,042

 

4

 

When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go

 

Billie Eilish

 

239,879

 

5

 

Heavy Is The Head

 

Stormzy

 

222,791

 

6

 

Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon

 

Pop Smoke

 

222,052

 

7

 

No 6 Collaborations Project

 

Ed Sheeran

 

217,939

 

8

 

Greatest Hits

 

Queen

 

193,495

 

9

 

The Greatest Showman

 

Motion Picture Cast Recording

 

190,864

 

10

 

Diamonds

 

Elton John

 

189,752

 

 

 

Source: Official Charts Company. Includes physical sales, downloads and streams

Both 'Stuck With U' and 'positions' have been certified gold today, as was speculated earlier, so the latter must've been so close to making it!

From Music Week:

 

Remember how The Greatest Showman dominated the albums chart for two years?

 

The soundtrack album was even blamed for crowding out artists on the main chart, where it racked up 28 weeks at the summit and more than two million sales from late 2017 to the end of 2019.

 

A year ago, the Official Charts Company made a change to the rules that saw soundtracks move from the albums chart to the compilations rundown. As a result, The Greatest Showman has now become a perennial in the compilations Top 10 and was the overall No.1 compilation last year with sales of 190,864, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

Just to put that in context: if it had been on the albums chart, then The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) would have been the ninth biggest album of 2020. Its career sales now stand at 2,347,935 (including 1,080,120 physical copies, 948,523 from streams and 319,292 downloads).

 

While its sales may have slowed since the 2018 peak, the soundtrack still racked up 147,976 sales from streams last year. Even in the quiet first week of January, it moved 4,300 copies and climbed from No.2 to No.1 in the compilations chart.

 

Now That’s What I Call Music 107 had to cede No.1 to The Greatest Showman last week. And it’s the Now compilation brand that has perhaps suffered most from the change to chart rules. While streams register to soundtracks’ sales, compilation albums’ chart placings are only based on pure sales (any streams for those songs accrue to any studio album and the biggest-selling greatest hits).

 

Now albums held the Top 5 positions in the overall compilations chart of 2019. But the highest-charting edition overall of 2020 was Now 105 at No.4 (112,047 sales last year), followed by Now 106 at No.5 (111,853), Now 104 at No.6 (88,225) and Now 107 at No.7 (86,878).

 

Soundtracks took up the rest of the Top 10, with Frozen 2 (Walt Disney/UMC) at No.2 overall last year (165,830 sales in 2020) and Hamilton (Atlantic) at No.3 (120,776).

 

The compilations chart has now become home to OST catalogue titles, with the rest of the Top 10 made up of 2016’s Moana (Walt Disney) at No.8 (85,252), 2013’s Frozen (Walt Disney/UMC) at No.9 (64,594) and 2018’s A Star Is Born (Polydor/Interscope) at No.10 (63,869).

 

While soundtracks have taken up residency in the compilations weekly rundown, the overall chart of 2020 also includes familiar brands, such as 100 Percent Clubland Trance (UMOD) at No.19 (44,550 sales) and Dreamboats & Petticoats – Music That Lives (Decca) at No.20 (39,743).

 

Top 10 Compilation Albums 2020

 

1 The Greatest Showman (Atlantic) 190,864

 

2 Frozen 2 (Walt Disney) 165,830

 

3 Hamilton (Atlantic) 120,776

 

4 Now That's What I Call Music 105 (Sony Music CG/EMI) 112,047

 

5 Now That's What I Call Music 106 (Sony Music CG/EMI) 111,853

 

6 Now That's What I Call Music 104 (Sony Music CG/EMI) 88,225

 

7 Now That's What I Call Music 107 (Sony Music CG/EMI) 86,878

 

8 Moana (Walt Disney) 85,252

 

9 Frozen (Walt Disney) 64,594

 

10 A Star Is Born (Polydor/Intersope) 63,869

Totals

2,347,935 The Greatest Showman

354,456 Hamilton

280,000 Now 104 (estimate)

226,000 Frozen II (estimate)

So Positions (as Jade said) and Know Your Worth must have been very very close to the Top 100, having gone gold on 1/1. Levitating must also have been pretty close, having gone gold on 8/1.

So Positions (as Jade said) and Know Your Worth must have been very very close to the Top 100, having gone gold on 1/1. Levitating must also have been pretty close, having gone gold on 8/1.

Shireblogger on Haven forums estimates that they finished #102, #104 and #107 respectively. The Pogues were #103 too.

Can't recall the last time a multi-week #1 missed the YE Top 100, let alone one that spent 6 weeks there!

 

Edit: to answer my own 'question', Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun was #1 in the first 2 charts announced in 2000 and ended the year the 106th best seller. However the first of these weeks had only 1 day of sales within the year, so in that sense it was no more a 'multi-week #1' within 2000 than Sweet But Psycho was for 2018, which also fell short of that year's Top 100. Those aside, it looks like 'positions' was indeed the first song to spend 2 or more weeks at #1 from sales weeks completely within any year and miss the Top 100 for that year - but it surely won't be the last (and will probably make the YE Top 100 for 2021).

Edited February 10, 20214 yr by jimwatts