185,000 - Don't Stop Me Eatin'

181,000 - Sausage Rolls for Everyone

158,000 - We Built This City

152,000 - I Love Sausage Rolls

78,000 - Food Aid

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/l...r-1-single-2023

 

https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/21/ladbaby-scra...years-19849302/

 

LadBaby: 'After five amazing years we’ve decided to pass the baton over to the Great British public and we’re not going for Christmas number one this year'

Still took a record off The Beatles/Spice Girls…..

 

Those sales are shocking

Thank f***ing god

I expect 'Sausage Rolls For Everyone' will be the first to go Silver. 'Food Aid' must have one of the lowest combined sales for a #1 in history - aside from the reissued Elvis #1s which I wouldn't count separately, is anything from the last 30 years or so likely to have less?

The first 4 had decent week 1 sales, the 5th is terrible. All 5 had dreadful week 2 sales.

 

Edit: reading the article, the first had first week sales of just 75,000, which is poor.

Edited November 21, 20231 yr by Robbie

Thank god for that.

 

Now can we all please get behind a campaign to get a good Christmas song to number one now that Mariah and Wham both had a chance? What would be your favourite not Christmas number one? I’d like to see White Christmas by Bing at the top just cos it would be fun.

Yeh get staion cat number 1

Not counting on this yet... they could return "due to public demand".

wise of them, better to give up when you reach saturation point and you're gonna flop for sure

Stream/buy/download The Krackpots for Christmas #1 x

“Pull out”? I wasn’t aware they’d pulled in.

 

I don’t really want the Kunts or Sidemen or anything like that either though. I’d be up for Wham! getting the official Christmas #1 once, though clearly that will get very tedious if it happens every year.

All those poor souls who put money on them, the bookies must be laughing all the way to the bank :lol:

Gone too soon :cry:

wise of them, better to give up when you reach saturation point and you're gonna flop for sure

 

Agreed. I predicted this would happen last year.

 

Better to go out with five No.1s than 1-1-1-1-1-10 and all the negative press that comes with the downfall.

Edited November 21, 20231 yr by gooddelta

It's a miracle! :yahoo:

I prefer Ladbaby at # 1 than Wham or Mariah.

 

 

I expect 'Sausage Rolls For Everyone' will be the first to go Silver. 'Food Aid' must have one of the lowest combined sales for a #1 in history - aside from the reissued Elvis #1s which I wouldn't count separately, is anything from the last 30 years or so likely to have less?

I think McFly's 'Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania' is the only one from this century. A post from Liam.k. with their sales annotated by me:

An update on the #1 songs of the century that are yet to be certified:

 

Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against the Classes (2000) - 142k in 2000

A1 - Same Old Brand New You (2000) (this went silver in 2020)

Busted - You Said No (2003) - 103k in 2003

Tomcraft - Loneliness (2003) - 128k in 2003

Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side (2003) - 113k in 2003

Kylie Minogue - Slow (2003) - 90k in 2003 - 154k as of 2019

Sam & Mark - With a Little Help From My Friends (2004) - 94k in 2004

Busted - Who's David? (2004) - 73k in 2004 - it has since overtaken 'You Said No' so it must be somewhere above 103k

Brian McFadden - Real to Me (2004) - 93k in 2004

Robbie Williams - Radio (2004) - 85k in 2004

U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (2005) - 71k in 2005

McFly - I'll Be OK (2005) - 88k in 2005

Chico - It's Chico Time (2006) - 141k in 2006

McFly - Don't Stop Me Now / Please, Please (2006) - 85k in 2006

Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes - Walk This Way (2007) - 109k in 2007 - 156k as of 2019

McFly - Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania (2007) - 51k in 2007

Eva Cassidy & Katie Melua - What a Wonderful World (2007) - 130k in 2007

Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West ft. Sir Tom Jones & Robin Gibb - Islands in the Stream (2009) - 156k in 2009

The X Factor Finalists 2011 ft. JLS & One Direction - Wishing on a Star (2011) - 167k in 2011

NHS Choir - A Bridge Over You (2015) - 148k in its 2 charting weeks

LadBaby - We Built This City (2018) - 158k

LadBaby - I Love Sausage Rolls (2019) - 152k

Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore and the NHS Voices of Care Choir - You'll Never Walk Alone (2020) - 102k in its 2 charting weeks

LadBaby - Don't Stop Me Eatin' (2020) - 185k

LadBaby feat. Ed Sheeran & Elton John - Sausage Rolls for Everyone (2021) - 181k

LadBaby - Food Aid (2022) - 78k

Also relevant:

Yeah that's right, 'Baby's Coming Back' will get all the original sales of the double A side as well as any sales for the song itself, whilst the total for 'Transylvania' will start from scratch. Just looking at the Spotify streams, 'Baby's Coming Back' has 294k streams and 'Transylvania' has 6.9m, so I think it's safe to say the total for 'Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania' hasn't increased that much from the 51k it sold in 2007. I wonder if 'Transylvania' was the song that got allocated the sales of the double A side then it would have a total big enough to shake the "lowest selling #1" title.

U2 are surely far above 71k with streaming (when I counted once in 2021 they had the best streaming out of the list of uncertified #1s), so that leaves only 'Baby's Coming Back / Transylvania' being below 'Food Aid'. Notable that the Sam & Mark song is not available digitally (as far as I can tell), so maybe 'Food Aid' could end up overtaking it someday.

Edited November 21, 20231 yr by Rush

Thank CHRIST!

 

Can't believe we've had 5 years of this.

All those poor souls who put money on them, the bookies must be laughing all the way to the bank :lol:

I'd imagine they'd get their money back if no single is released.

 

I'd imagine they'd get their money back if no single is released.

Technically they could return to #1 with any of their previous 5!