week ending 11th Nov 1978 Grease had Summer Nights at 1, Sandy at 3 and Hopelessly Devoted To You at 4,

 

Grease was also at 31 and You're The One That I Want had topped the chart earlier in the year, and Greased Lightning entered 4 weeks later. Barbie has 6 simultaneously, which is a record (but only due to the way they have categorised the soundtrack various artists, recent soundtrack films would have been bigger if all album tracks had been eligible to chart).

 

In terms of total movie tracks to chart (not including oldies that had already charted) Saturday Night Fever has had 6 as well as Grease and Barbie.

 

There may be others who would have done more, Encanto and Greatest Showman spring to mind....I'm sure someone will have those stats at hand?

Xanadu also has six top 40 singles:

 

Magic

I'm Alive

Xanadu

All Over The World

Suddenly

Don't Walk Away

Yeah not really fair how they have allowed more than 3 for this album really. Surely Greatest Show, Encanto would have done more?

 

It's because they consider 'cast recording' to be the equivalent of a singular artist. So regardless of what artist the individual songs are credited to, the 'artist' that songs from The Greatest Showman, Encanto, A Star Is Born etc. is registered to for calculating the 3 track rule is the cast of the film. That's also why Gaga was able to have 4 songs in the top 100 the week 'Chromatica' came out, the OCC effectively don't consider 'Shallow' to be a Lady Gaga song as far as the 3 track rule goes. I don't really get why they treat soundtracks by non-cast various artists ensembles differently but it is what it is. I'd personally say they should have allowed more than 3 songs from TGS/Encanto rather than only allowing 3 from Barbie, as I think the 3 track rule should just be based on the artist credits of the actual songs.

Note that what the OCC actually says is that the soundtrack is the first to simultaneously place 3 in the top 5. The week before they had none in the Top 5 and now they have 3. The other examples all had prior records in the Top 5 before they put a total of 3. While subtle this distinction does make the record unique, though of course prior to 2012 and streaming (or perhaps back to 1994 or so when downloading allowed any song to chartt) 3 songs would be very unlikely to be released at the same time to enable this record to occur.

Edited July 29, 20231 yr by braindeadpj

Well the Bodyguard had two top 5 at the same time , I will always love you and i`m every woman by Whitney houston and 4 top 10 and 6 top 40 overall.

Note that what the OCC actually says is that the soundtrack is the first to simultaneously place 3 in the top 5.

 

In other words to place 3 in the Top 5 at the same time. Doesn't matter if they had been in the chart the previous week they were still simultaneously in the Top 5.

Ok I obviously said it wrong as you msinterpreted it. To quote them exactly: "It is the first film in chart history to simultaneously spawn three Top 5 hits" ie have three songs enter the top 5 at the same time.

I really doubt that was what they meant though. But sure, I guess it's a first for that extremely specific record :lol:

But it is what they mean, the full quote is: "It is the first film in chart history to simultaneously spawn three Top 5 hits, although three films have spun off three concurrent Top 10 hits hitherto." Of course as we know Grease spun off three concurrent Top 5 hits hitherto.

Edited July 30, 20231 yr by braindeadpj

hah, It's a non-noteable event designed to get website hits and BBC promo :lol: and to mislead people - they make no mention of Grease doing it when album tracks were not eligible, they had to be actual physically released singles, and in any case all 3 of the 3 tracks of barbie had already charted so all they were doing was going up the same week, it's not as if they were simultaneous new entries into the top 5, so it's really not any record at all. One might argue that it's less impressive than Grease duets which had spent 16 weeks on top of the singles chart, had another theme peak at 3, and THEN go on to still get 3 in the top 5 with 2 additional top 5 tracks, total 5. That's 5 top 5 hits from the same film.

 

"3 records climbing into the top 5 the same week" is so arbitrary, I mean, might as well make it Grease is the only film soundtrack to simultaneously chart 3 tracks in the top 4. Cos they def hold that record (at the moment). Come back next week and let's see if they have 4 or 5 and a proper chart record... :lol:

From reading the rest of the OCC article it is clear that by "This makes it (Barbie) the first film soundtrack in UK chart history to land three Top 5 singles simultaneously" the OCC mean "having three tracks inside the top 5 at the same time" rather than "having three tracks enter the top 5 at the same time".

 

For example:

 

The first film soundtrack to score three simultaneous Top 10s was Saturday Night Fever in 1978 (Night Fever, If I Can’t Have You, More Than A Woman), while Grease also completed a trifecta in the same year (Summer Nights, Grease, Hopelessly Devoted To You).

 

In neither example did all three records enter the top 10 in the same week.

 

Simply, the OCC (and Alan Jones, one of them is copying what the other wrote, even down to using the word "trifecta" in the article) got it wrong as one of them forgot that three singles from Grease were inside the to 5 for two weeks running.

The songs they list for Grease aren't even the right songs, those 3 were never in the top 10 at the same time!

The songs they list for Grease aren't even the right songs, those 3 were never in the top 10 at the same time!

That makes it even worse! Who on earth is doing their "research"?