Friday Hill - Baby Goodbye

 

Peaked at 6 and did feature on a Now album but they feel very forgotten and despite being on said NOW! I can't recall how it goes now lmao.

I quite liked that, probably better than anything Blazin' Squad released for me. Doesn't seem to be on streaming.

 

Got to No.5 with six weeks in the top 40 too so not a complete flash in the pan.

I feel like this is really quite forgotten (and seemed to be fairly quickly since), but it's SUCH a tune

 

I’m interested to know if the stat about the Backstreet Boys single being the lowest selling Top 10 of the 00s is based on sales just within the 2000s decade or if it’s still the case now? Is there any possibility that streaming units could have pushed it over something else?

 

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You couldn’t really get further away from “forgotten Top 10” if you tried, so I appreciate this isn’t the best thread to launch into this… but from an “at the time” perspective… it still amazes me that The Killers - Mr Brightside didn’t even make it into the End of Year 2004 Top 200 chart. I’m not sure what it sold that year - maybe under 30,000 copies? It sold 12,700 to reach #10. As of July 2017 it had sold 18,651 CDs and 3,861 Vinyl (22,512 overall) and most of that surely must have been sold in 2004.

 

Mr Brightside was released 2 weeks before the Hot Fuss album, which initially had this chart run off the back of it: 6-25-25-29-42… then the album began to climb when All These Things That I’ve Done started to get promotion.

 

The love for Mr Brightside clearly grew as the Hot Fuss era became huge in 2005 and somehow that’s never diminished over 18 years on. It just seems funny to think that when it was actually released as a single, the UK public didn’t latch on with a huge amount of enthusiasm, with rather small numbers buying it on CD/Vinyl single. Back then it must have been down there as being one of the worst selling UK Top 10 hits? Radio was quite cold to the song at that stage, just a few weeks low Top 100 in the airplay chart, so that probably explains it.

 

Final thing about Mr Brightside: I don’t think I realised that it was initially released as a single in September 2003. It didn’t make the Top 200 singles chart at that point, but apparently only 500 CDs and 500 Vinyl were pressed in that initial run so I guess there wasn’t an aim for it to chart then.

 

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I bought Lemar - Another Day (I agree it was If You’re Not the One Part II) and Angel City - Sunrise! I also preferred Friday Hill - Baby Goodbye to anything Blazin Squad released.

 

Truth Hurts - Addictive caught me by surprise in 2002 because it didn’t seem to me like it was destined to do that well - 4 weeks in the Top 10 was very good going. I really liked it though and I still do. At the time, in terms of R&B newcomers from the US, Tweet - Oops (Oh My) felt to me like it got more exposure, but it didn’t do as well as Addictive.

 

End of essay :blush:

I’m interested to know if the stat about the Backstreet Boys single being the lowest selling Top 10 of the 00s is based on sales just within the 2000s decade or if it’s still the case now? Is there any possibility that streaming units could have pushed it over something else?

Just based on Gezza’s thread:

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...=157717&hl=

Yes pretty sure that just covered sales to 2009 (and it was done in 2013 anyway) so might well not be the lowest selling now.

Wasn't the End of Year 2004 top 200 chart based only on physical sales and not downloads? Mr Brightside's recorded sales for 2004 could therefore have been no more than 22,512 which surely wasn't enough for EOY top 200 even in the low sales climate. It did re-enter the weekly Top 100 in the final week of 2004 though, so there was significant sustained interest in it even before the re-release of Somebody Told Me went to #3.

 

Back on topic, when Mr Brightside was at #10, this was the song at #9:

Thank you for linking that thread! Poor Melanie C being in the Top 20. :cry: Plus two Rachel Stevens songs... both bops. :cheeseblock:

 

 

14,300 sales as a total (back then) for a Top 10 single, wow... it's pretty crazy just how horrible sales became by 2005. I had a look on Spotify and Just Want You to Know has managed over 24 million streams, although this is a worldwide figure, so there's no way of telling how much streaming it gets in the UK.

 

2nd on that list, Manic Street Preachers - Autumnsong [14,800 sales] has 9.5m streams on Spotify, and I'd assume that's more concentrated in the UK than Backstreet Boys' song would be, so I'd guess Autumnsong still has a higher total.

 

3rd - Darkness - Is It Just Me [14,900] has 3 million Spotify streams, so maybe that could have slipped behind?

 

If not that, then 4th - Sham 69 - Hurry Up England - The People's Anthem [15,100] may very well be the lowest now, with it only having 382,000 Spotify streams to date.

 

 

Wasn't the End of Year 2004 top 200 chart based only on physical sales and not downloads? Mr Brightside's recorded sales for 2004 could therefore have been no more than 22,512 which surely wasn't enough for EOY top 200 even in the low sales climate.

I think you're right, as downloads weren't included in the weekly charts until April 2005! Mr Brightside was released in advance of there even being a separate download chart, although paid for downloads did exist when Mr Brightside came out. The download sales back then must have been so small!

 

I see from Gezza's thread that Jessica Simpson - With You was said to have sold 27,800, and that was #200 in the EOY 2004 chart.

 

I actually remember the existence of that Kristian Leontiou single! Though I can't remember how it goes. Only a little over 400,000 streams on Spotify, about 0.02% of Mr Brightside. :kink:

I remember my mum really liking that Kristian Leontiou song lol *_*

I have the CD for 'Story of my Life' and liked it a lot too, even played it recently but as far as general public goes I doubt anyone remembers him or his songs too well.

He had another almost top 10 track too, called Shining, I liked that a little more than Story Of My Life.

 

I must admit my first thought before recalling Gezza's thread was that the Sham 69 song was probably the lowest selling now, or something else that has minimal streaming. 24m streams for the BSB song must include a small chunk from the UK at least.

Oh undoubtedly the Backstreet Boys track will be nowhere near the bottom now in that case as 24 million on Spoti will be much more than most of those on that list. If just a couple of million of those are UK that’s 20,000 extra “sales” - more than it had in the first place!

A couple of UK top 20 hits from Australian sisters from 2009.

 

 

:wub: I love them so much

 

I'd say 'Untouched' is fairly remembered, it remains one Radio 1 play regularly all these years on and it's always used in things like football coverage (well, the strings/backing track anyway)

Glad they’re fondly remembered. That’s probably my least favourite of the three 4ever videos.

 

Their first album had some great songs. Well single really. Everything I’m Not, When It All Falls Apart, Revolution and Leave Me Alone.

The Secret Life of... was a defining album of my teenage years, I still love it just as much (second and third albums also really good, although glad they switched it up a bit!)

Second albums had its moments, but for the third one I only really liked You Ruin Me and If You Love Someone. Haven’t heard their last two albums from 2021.

 

This one just came up for me on Shuffle. #9 in Jan 2002.

Glad they’re fondly remembered. That’s probably my least favourite of the three 4ever videos.

 

Their first album had some great songs. Well single really. Everything I’m Not, When It All Falls Apart, Revolution and Leave Me Alone.

 

I recommended that album to Roba as a good future one for a listenthrough, it's one of my absolute all-time favourites, probably just outside my top 10.

 

I'd add Secret and Speechless to those highlights, which I agree with.

 

They also wrote tATu's UK top 10 (forgotten) hit All About Us, which makes perfect sense, as it sounds like it could have been on The Secret Life Of...

 

I recommended that album to Roba as a good future one for a listenthrough, it's one of my absolute all-time favourites, probably just outside my top 10.

 

I'd add Secret and Speechless to those highlights, which I agree with.

 

They also wrote tATu's UK top 10 (forgotten) hit All About Us, which makes perfect sense, as it sounds like it could have been on The Secret Life Of...

 

 

Secret is great, favourite non single.

 

Didn’t know they wrote All About Us. They also wrote Faded by Kate DeAraugo, later covered by Cascada. The Kate DeAraugo version sounds like it’d fit on The Secret Life Of… as well.

Secret is great, favourite non single.

 

Didn’t know they wrote All About Us. They also wrote Faded by Kate DeAraugo, later covered by Cascada. The Kate DeAraugo version sounds like it’d fit on The Secret Life Of… as well.

 

Oh yes, I loved that track too, I have her album and it's pretty good. Cascada did cover some unexpected songs.