Thanks for this Colm, fascinating chart.

 

I also had no idea that How Do I Live did so comparatively little on radio airplay. It makes sense though as proves people loved the song but were discovering it in dribs and drabs over time, hence the protracted chart run. You'd have thought it would be the sort of song radio would play to death. Maybe a little too country for some stations, I suppose the TV music channels must have been supporting it a lot.

 

I do remember hearing it a lot at the time, but my dad was into the country music TV channel and I think it appeared on that a lot along with Shania, The Mavericks etc...

 

It also got played at the school leavers discos as the token slow dance, along with Truly Madly Deeply.

As an aside, there may be one but I can't think of another occasion that a non top five hit has finished higher than its weekly peak in the end of year chart?

 

So odd to see it as the 6th biggest seller of the year when it peaked at No.7.

Very odd.

 

Sorry that my comments were so uneven. Sometimes I was inspired to go looking for info. Other times I was working from memory. And other times I just couldn't muster any enthusiasm. 😄

Thanks for all the posts. This sort of thing is nothing without responses.

How Do I Live certainly had a remarkable chart run for the time, decent song too.

 

As an aside, there may be one but I can't think of another occasion that a non top five hit has finished higher than its weekly peak in the end of year chart?

 

So odd to see it as the 6th biggest seller of the year when it peaked at No.7.

There has been another! In 2018, The Greatest Show by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron & Zendaya reached #18 in the EOY chart despite having a peak of #20.

 

 

Thanks for doing this!

Looking at the sales for Macy Gray, sales peaked on her first week at number 7 at almost 58,000 and by the time she peaked at 6 her sales had fallen by over a third. Her first 10 weeks totalled 383,000. LeAnn Rimes did 326,000 in the same time frame.

Edited November 4, 20222 yr by fiesta

Looking at the sales for Macy Gray, sales peaked on her first week at number 7 at almost 58,000 and by the time she peaked at 6 her sales had fallen by over a third. Her first 10 weeks totalled 383,000. LeAnn Rimes did 326,000 in the same time frame.

58k at No 7?! Think that’s never been achieved this century.

There has been another! In 2018, The Greatest Show by Hugh Jackman, Keala Settle, Zac Efron & Zendaya reached #18 in the EOY chart despite having a peak of #20.

 

Ah yes, thanks, I had a feeling the streaming era might have thrown one up!

58k at No 7?! Think that’s never been achieved this century.

According to this thread of Liam k's, there have been at least a couple of weeks over 60k.

Ah yes, thanks, I had a feeling the streaming era might have thrown one up!

Interestingly this would also have been repeated in the sales era if it had lasted until the end of 2014! Let It Go by Idina Menzel was the 10th best selling song of the year despite a peak of #11, but streaming was included in the official EOY chart which pushed it down to #13.

Interestingly this would also have been repeated in the sales era if it had lasted until the end of 2014! Let It Go by Idina Menzel was the 10th best selling song of the year despite a peak of #11, but streaming was included in the official EOY chart which pushed it down to #13.

Discussed this in another thread but Idina is #9 in the Buzzjack version of the EOY chart which includes streaming for the whole year and not only from July so on that basis it was achieved - I think that version is fairer myself.

I believe 'How Do I Live?' was also the US Hot 100's longest charting hit prior to the download era (although now miles behind the longest running hits in the streaming era, apples and oranges etc.)

 

Thanks for running this Colm, has been interesting to follow along.

Yes thanks for the rundown Colm, Lionel Richie was a surprise and I mentally just discarded that one as bland and never bothered thinking about it ever again, but the top2 were unavoidable in the 90's. I grew to hate that LeAnn Rimes song, I really did, she had a follow up called Blue which was lovely but obscure. I still love I Try, though, and I heard it non-stop on radio for years, easily as big as a big number one.

Discussed this in another thread but Idina is #9 in the Buzzjack version of the EOY chart which includes streaming for the whole year and not only from July so on that basis it was achieved - I think that version is fairer myself.

I didn't know that such a version of the EOY chart even existed! :lol:

I didn't know that such a version of the EOY chart even existed! :lol:

Haha I don’t think it was produced by Buzzjack but presumably the mods felt it was the more correct version to post

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=140270

Haha I don’t think it was produced by Buzzjack but presumably the mods felt it was the more correct version to post

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=140270

After a bit of searching on the forum I think it came from UKC+, which I had never seen beforehand as a chart enthusiast at the time who was also unaware that chart forums existed, so I only had the various contrasting OCC articles to go off. It's great to finally see the fairer EOY chart for 2014 (I never thought that one which included Jan-Jun streams had ever been published!), so thanks for directing me to that! :lol:

This was a great thread, thank you for compiling it and counting it down for us Colm. I really enjoyed following it, brought back lots of memories of songs we don't see mentioned all the time.

 

Obviously from the off we all knew that How Can I Live would be at the top but you can't deny that chart run, astonishing really for a single released in that era.

According to this thread of Liam k's, there have been at least a couple of weeks over 60k.

 

 

Very interesting data there.

 

Surprised that in 2002 that you could do 48,000 and still only get a number 7 placing - George Michael - Freeek!

According to this thread of Liam k's, there have been at least a couple of weeks over 60k.

Forgot how enormous that gift card effect was in the download heyday!

After never hearing it for decades, My Destiny is currently playing in the café I’m sat in!