oh didn't realise 6-10 were so close

Charli could be #6, fighting it out with Fleetwood Mac and Chappel Road

and Guts and Coldplay should be #9-10

I would expect Coldplay will get a bigger Christmas sales boost than Charli, Olivia and Chappell

oh actually Coldplay were on Graham Norton last Friday so that promo should help them

Now entering top 10 you need at least 280k?what a crazy year!

Wild to think both Beyonce and Dua have put out albums early in the year to aid with streaming sales and they’re both looking likely to not even be in the top 40. Beyoncé really does get by on her name as not many people seem to actually listen or buy her music.

Could the Cure make it?

Could come very close actually, though still think it may miss very narrowly. The Beatles Red could squeeze it out if its streams don’t go back to “1”.

Could come very close actually, though still think it may miss very narrowly. The Beatles Red could squeeze it out if its streams don’t go back to “1”.

 

Christmas sales come through - would love them to get there.

 

Will the live album this week count towards the original

It doesn't appear to be packaged with the original album so I don't think so.

Week 50:

 

1 1 767,000 Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department

2 2 390,000 The Weeknd - The Highlights (1.22m)

3 3 344,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Short n’ Sweet

4 4 335,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (460k)

5 5 332,000 Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard And Soft

6 6 280,000 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don’t Stop (1.46m)

7 7 278,000 Coldplay - Moon Music

8 9 276,000 Chappell Roan - The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess

9 8 275,000 Olivia Rodrigo- Guts

10 10 274,000 Charli XCX - Brat

 

11 11 267,000 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009 (2.02m)

12 12 260,000 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits (3.30m)

13 13 258,000 Elton John - Diamonds (1.64m)

14 14 240,000 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits (5.89m)

15 15 230,000 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor’s Version (530k)

16 16 221,000 Taylor Swift - Lover (880k)

17 17 218,000 Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson (1.83m)

18 18 215,0000 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (1.04m)

19 19 211,000 Taylor Swift - Folklore (830k)

20 20 207,000 Oasis - Definitely Maybe (2.79m)

 

21 21 202,000 Taylor Swift - Midnights (960k)

22 22 201,000 Arctic Monkeys - AM (2.09m)

23 24 192,000 Oasis - (What’s The Story) Morning Glory (5.30m)

24 23 191,000 Queen - Greatest Hits (3.03m)

25 26 191,000 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (2.53m)

26 25 189,000 Taylor Swift - Reputation (950k)

27 27 184,000 Post Malone - The Diamond Collection (330k)

28 29 181,000 Sza - SOS (460k)

29 28 178,000 Ariana Grande - Eternal Sunshine

30 30 171,000 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend (3.27m)

 

31 31 162,000 Linkin Park - Papercuts - Singles Collection 2000-2023

32 32 159,000 Eminem - The Death Of Slim Shady

33 33 149,000 Eminem - Curtain Call 2 (370k)

34 34 148,000 Maroon 5 - Singles (830k)

35 35 144,000 Ed Sheeran - Divide (4.33m)

36 36 143,000 Lana Del Ray - Born To Die (1.68m)

37 37 141,000 Teddy Swims - I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1

38 38 137,000 Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

39 40 136,000 CoCoMelon - Nursey Rhymes By CoCoMelon (220k)

40 39 135,000 Beyoncé - Cowboy Carter

 

45 127,000 Gracie Abrams - The Secret Of Us

57 116,000 Benson Boone - Fireworks & Rollerblades

67 106,000 Fontaines D.C. - Romance

83 95,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Emails I Can’t Send (150k)

92 90,000 Ed Sheeran - Mathematics

Dua’s live album didn’t do much but the sympathy effect may well have kept “Radical Optimism” in the Top 40 here!

Beyoncé vs Gracie vs 50 Cent for the final EOY top 40 spot?

How on earth has that CoCoMelon thing quietly shifted 136,000 units?!

Edited December 17, 2024Dec 17 by Mangø hø hø!

Beyoncé vs Gracie vs 50 Cent for the final EOY top 40 spot?

Beyoncé is definitely toast but I rather fancy George Michael currently at #42 to re-enter above 50 Cent!

How on earth has that CoCoMelon thing quietly shifted 136,000 units?!

I'm not sure the parents who have endured their young kids constantly playing their videos would describe it as "quiet"!

Beyoncé has no shot of staying; it’d be a travesty if that album wins album of the year; nobody seems to be repeat listening to it. Should be a criteria for the album to be in the top 25 sales to win; as otherwise an album 95% of the population haven’t heard meaning it had minimal cultural impact.

lol you don't need a go at beyonce's album every week

since when critical and commercial success are. the same thing, lol, look at Westlife :D

beyoncé's album hasn't done better cos the album was abandoned on release date not cos there is no interest

it's all about promotion

Hey just wanna say thanks Julian for posting these each week, the estimated numbers have to be time consuming to put together, and it's very appreciated

Hey just wanna say thanks Julian for posting these each week, the estimated numbers have to be time consuming to put together, and it's very appreciated

 

Hear hear! Very grateful for both YTD threads and Julian's hard work, been very interesting and helpful (and money-saving) this year. :yahoo:

Hey just wanna say thanks Julian for posting these each week, the estimated numbers have to be time consuming to put together, and it's very appreciated

You’re very welcome! Thanks all for reading and commenting and generally indulging my hyper-fixation hehe.

Beyoncé has no shot of staying; it’d be a travesty if that album wins album of the year; nobody seems to be repeat listening to it. Should be a criteria for the album to be in the top 25 sales to win; as otherwise an album 95% of the population haven’t heard meaning it had minimal cultural impact.

I feel like populism is an unrewarding trend in award ceremonies. If we want to know what's sold, streamed etc. the best, then we have that. Limiting the scope of what can be considered the best to the rare few that pass a necessary threshold diminishes the qualification of being the best because it's no longer competing with the whole field. To say nothing of how much marketing plays a part in deciding who is and isn't in that upper tier. What's the end purpose? To be a time-stamp of the (vaguely curated) sound of the times, to get the tick of approval of the majority and skate by paycheck-to-paycheck on conditional admiration, or to be looked back upon as a trusted tastemaker who can use their broad resources and experience to shine a light on the greater music world? I see so many publications confirming year after year that the pinnacle of music was successfully harvested by TikTok teens and it just seems so discouraging to music as a whole. That's not to say teenagers can't appreciate good music, but every year? I've spent far too long watching the sausage get made to have unwavering trust in the process.

 

But if this is about the GRAMMY awards, they're really not worth taking seriously in any degree.