June 12, 20214 yr Author 22. NEW MAN- Ed Sheeran (56,656) #5 No 1 in 22 weeks in 2017 This particular track was co-written by Jessie Ware and co-produced by Benny Blanco. It marks the 4th and final Sheeran track on this survey- it goes to show that he had staggered his releases week after week he could have ended up at least 5 or 6 chart toppers on the trot. EwzD8U4u76k
June 12, 20214 yr Author 21. TEARDROPS- Womack & Womack (63,000) # 3 No 1 in 22 weeks in 1988 Husband and wife team Womack & Womack’s biggest hit by some chalk was this 1988 single which seemed to hang around forever. It was later covered by Lovestation ten years later and made the top 20 all over again, it also ended up as the 10th biggest hit of the year despite only making No 3 so perhaps it’s no surprise it ends up here. n7jyzHfTM8o
June 12, 20214 yr Teardrops is miles ahead than most of the #1s in 1988! Edited June 12, 20214 yr by chartjack2
June 12, 20214 yr Was Nonstop actually promoted as a single? If not, I guess at #4 it's the highest charting track from a 'current' album release that's never been promoted as such, just ahead of Emotionless from the same album, New Man, and the song that's #5 today. I'd also mention the change of streaming ratios and addition of video streams halfway through 2018 which inflated the weekly sales in the later half of the year: of the 22 weeks in 2018 where the #1 sold less, it looks like 16 of them were before this change (including 5 for God's Plan and the 1 for Nice For What). No such caveats for Teardrops, that would have been a well-deserved #1.
June 12, 20214 yr Does anyone remember how that Drake song goes? No, me neither. Same applies to all the Ed Sheeran album tracks here.
June 12, 20214 yr A true shocker that people don't remember album tracks from artists that they don't care about... :P 'Nonstop' was a single in the US but not the UK I believe. It also turned into a fairly big TikTok song so yeah it's definitely not forgotten, BuzzJack is just shockingly not its audience x
June 12, 20214 yr Depends what your into, Ed Sherrans album has been a huge seller and streamer so most will probably know the tracks!
June 13, 20214 yr Author 20. WHATCHA SAY- Jason Derulo (66,737) #3 No 1 in 22 weeks in 2009 A US chart topper in November 2009 the song spent no time in becoming his first hit on this side of the Atlantic. It of course contains a very large sample of Imogen Heap’s “Hide & Seek” which failed to dent the top 100 when released but proved just the hook Derulo needed. xz_uQvXnx64
June 13, 20214 yr Author 19. I REALLY LIKE YOU- Carly Rae Jepsen (85,840) #3 No 1 in 22 weeks in 2015 If released just a fortnight later this would have become Jepsen’s second chart topper but it ran into Wiz Khalifa and Omi at their height so third place it was. Some were none too enamoured with the rather “basic” lyrics in the chorus but it terms of earworm it certainly worked. 2NZSoVfCBz0
June 13, 20214 yr Author 18.GOT THE FEELIN’- Five (114,000) #3 No 1 in 22 weeks in 1998 An almighty first week sale bettered only by “Keep On Moving” saw Five (or 5ive depending on how you feel) saw the boys get their career best (to this point) with this summer track. It was released in the same week as Fat Les and Baddiel & Skinner and couldn’t compete with the type of media frenzy afforded to those two releases. 4ft6BYFmd94
June 13, 20214 yr Jason Derulo's first few singles were great, shame that nearly everything beyond that has been varying levels of garbage. Almost the inverse for Carly Rae Jepsen, I did like 'Call Me Maybe' but wasn't a fan of her other earlier singles with 'I Really Like You' being a particular nadir, but her later stuff (i.e. after she was no longer relevant enough to make the top 40) has been by far her best material.
June 13, 20214 yr Got The Feelin’ is my favourite Five song. Everybody loved it that Summer, I didn’t know it sold so much that first week.
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