October 5, 2024Oct 5 The Hanson platinum cert feels off. It wouldn't have sold much on its original 1998 release (a blink-and-miss-it #23 appearance). It's Spotify and YouTube stats aren't significant at all (2.5m and 1m worlwide). There's no reason its downloads would be better. I'd guess someone has muddled up the MmmBop streams instead. Edited October 5, 2024Oct 5 by Torple
October 7, 2024Oct 7 The Hanson platinum cert feels off. It wouldn't have sold much on its original 1998 release (a blink-and-miss-it #23 appearance). It's Spotify and YouTube stats aren't significant at all (2.5m and 1m worlwide). There's no reason its downloads would be better. I'd guess someone has muddled up the MmmBop streams instead. Is there any way to flag this up with OCC/BPI? It just can't be true! I'm thinking you're right, that Thinking of You is getting the sales that should be going to Mmmbop. Thinking of You is supposedly selling at a rate of approaching 1,400 units a week, which I could believe to be the case for Mmmbop. Mmmbop still hasn't improved on its Platinum certification from June 1997. It sold 710,000 by the end of 1997 yet supposedly it hasn't made it to 1,200,000 yet (which would require 490,000 since 1998). I can't believe that it wouldn't have sold more than that in the digital era. Back in January 2023 I talked about this issue in the Boy Band certifications thread. Back then, Thinking of You had 2,040,556 worldwide streams on Spotify, now it's 2,554,943. That's an increase in 514,387 streams in 621 days, which works out to about 5,800 streams a week. An unknown percentage of that being UK... but the maths just ain't mathing for this song to be able to do 1400 units a week! :lol: Kind of random to raise this, but regarding boy bands... O Town - All Or Nothing had sold 122,060 copies in the UK by the end of 2001. Supposedly it still isn't Silver, yet it currently has a reasonably impressive 108.6m Spotify streams worldwide (combining the radio edit and album version). I don't believe that the song is that forgotten about in the UK that it wouldn't have been able to muster up 78k in downloads and streaming by now. :thinking: The OCC database probably has a lot of errors that haven't been spotted!
October 9, 2024Oct 9 Yeah that kind of confirms it. No way has Thinking Of You pulled more sales than MmmBop in the digital era. O-Town is maybe more believable. It was a bigger hit in the US than it was even over here, so it's not implausible that the UK is a pretty small fraction of those 108m streams.
October 11, 2024Oct 11 Author Certifications announced on the BRITs Twitter account today: SINGLES: PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (6x) Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man (4x) Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi (2x) Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body (2x) Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby GOLD Sabrina Carpenter - Taste SILVER Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry Zach Bryan ft. Maggie Rogers - Dawns ALBUMS: GOLD Coldplay - Moon Music SILVER Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen
October 11, 2024Oct 11 Author The BPI website hasn't even updated the certifications for this week. They're a lot later than they have been lately.
October 11, 2024Oct 11 And they are very slow at adding in BPI certs from previous weeks, when you search for an artist. For example, The Beatles All my loving from 23rd August not visible when you search on The Beatles. It displays Help from 2nd August. 4 newer certs are missing.
October 11, 2024Oct 11 And they are very slow at adding in BPI certs from previous weeks, when you search for an artist. For example, The Beatles All my loving from 23rd August not visible when you search on The Beatles. It displays Help from 2nd August. 4 newer certs are missing. Yeah, everything certified from 16th August currently doesn't show up if you search for the song or artist, but is visible if you search by the date period. This seems to be a recurring problem the website has these days and they have updated for similar issues earlier in the year. This does seem like quite a long date period for the BPI to have not put a fix in place yet still. Hopefully after this next update, the search feature will be up to date as well. Great to see from the certifications announced on twitter that Sk8ter Boi is now 2 x platinum. :cheer:
October 14, 2024Oct 14 Author Full certifications list for 11th October 2024: SINGLES: PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars (6x) 50 Cent - In Da Club (4x) Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man (4x) Twenty One Pilots - Heathens (3x) Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi (2x) Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body (2x) Childish Gambino - Heartbeat D4vd - Romantic Homicide Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your Way Oasis - Rock 'N' Roll Star The Strokes - Someday Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby The Undertones - Teenage Kicks The View - Same Jeans GOLD Ariana Grande - imagine Busted - Thunderbirds Are Go Chase Atlantic - Swim The Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir Fred again... - Jungle Hamilton Cast - Wait For It Machine Gun Kelly, X Ambassadors & Bebe Rexha - Home Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman Sabrina Carpenter - Taste Sister Sledge - Lost In Music System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. Taylor Swift - mirrorball SILVER The 1975 - I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes) Al Wilson - The Snake Chance Peña - I Am Not Who I Was Chris Stapleton - Starting Over Danny Elfman - This Is Halloween Dave - Purple Heart Def Leppard - Hysteria Gorillaz ft. Kali Uchis - She's My Collar Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry H.E.R. - Focus Korn - Here To Stay Labrinth - Never Felt So Alone Mamma Mia Cast - Super Trouper Omi - Hula Hoop Pinegrove - Need 2 Sam Fischer & Demi Lovato - What Other People Say Zach Bryan ft. Maggie Rogers - Dawns ALBUMS: PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM No albums were certified Platinum or higher this week GOLD Boney M. - The Essential Boney M. Coldplay - Moon Music Rick Astley - The Best Of Me SILVER Bread - Anthology Of Bread Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Nex Gen John Mayer - The Search For Everything
October 14, 2024Oct 14 Mamma Mia tracks don't do half bad really do they :lol: Always good to see more 1975 certifications too :wub:
October 16, 2024Oct 16 Nothing massively exciting except for Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body 2 x Plat Easily his best song to dance to but I’m a bugger for disco & funk
October 18, 2024Oct 18 Author The BRITs Twitter account doesn't seem to be updating certifications today.
October 18, 2024Oct 18 Author Do you think they're not doing it this week due to Liam Payne's passing?
October 18, 2024Oct 18 From Alan Jones, Simultaneously becoming Carpenter’s eighth silver single, for consumption in excess of 200,000 units – 202,239 – Bed Chem nevertheless has the lowest consumption of the eight weeks since it was released as a track on her Short n’ Sweet album. There's one Silver award this week! Need to wait till Monday to find the rest.
October 21, 2024Oct 21 Author Full certifications list for 18th October 2024: SINGLES: PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (4x) Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out (3x) Kesha - Tik Tok (3x) Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life (2x) Ariana Grande ft. Zedd - Break Free (2x) Linkin Park - What I've Done (2x) M83 - Midnight City (2x) One Direction - Best Song Ever (2x) Bombay Bicycle Club - Always Like This Bugzy Malone & TeeDee - Out Of Nowhere Catfish And The Bottlemen - Longshot Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love David Guetta, Anne-Marie & Coi Leray - Baby Don't Hurt Me Encanto Cast - The Family Madrigal Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow J Hus ft. Mist & MoStack - Fisherman Kanye West - Love Lockdown Post Malone - Chemical Shawn Mendes - Lost In Japan Tom Grennan - Remind Me Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You Wayne Wonder - Not Letting Go GOLD Florence + The Machine - Never Let Me Go Lionel Richie - Stuck On You Luke Combs - Forever After All Mase - Feels So Good Sean Paul - We Be Burnin' Yiruma - River Flows In You SILVER 50 Cent ft. Sonny Digital - I'm The Man Adele - Hold On A$AP Rocky ft. Imogen Heap & Clams Casino - I Smoked Away My Brain Beyoncé - Green Light Billie Eilish - L'Amour De Ma Vie Current Joys - New Flesh DDG ft. Blueface - Moonwalking In Calabasas Ed Sheeran - Tides Gigi Perez - Sailor Song Hannah Laing & HVRR - Party All The Time Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly Now Kane Brown, Swae Lee & Khalid - Be Like That Kendrick Lamar ft. Dr. Dre - The Recipe Kyla - Do You Mind Linkin Park ft. Pusha T & Stormzy - Good Goodbye Lorde - Solar Power Mac DeMarco - Still Beating Miley Cyrus - Jaded Neil Frances - Music Sounds Better With You Pozer - K*tchen Stove Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem September - Satellites Six - Get Down Slaves - The Hunter Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun Tate McRae - One Day The Wombats - Pink Lemonade ALBUMS: PLATINUM & MULTI-PLATINUM Post Malone - The Diamond Collection GOLD Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen Iggy Azalea - The New Classic SILVER Ashnikko - Demidevil Hollywood Undead - American Tragedy
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