How did Greedy swap with Scared To Start on the last week of the year

How did Greedy swap with Scared To Start on the last week of the year

Sorry I had made a mistake in the Week 51 positions which I’ve now fixed. I may need to tweak the sales again a bit later.

Does anyone have 2024 "sales" estimates for the original Band Aid, "Someone You Loved" and "Shape of You"?

These three, plus "Mr. Brightside" and "Last Christmas" must surely now comprise the all-time Top 5 songs.

I'm assuming Shape of You must be close to being certified 11 x Platinum, likewise "Someone You Loved" must now be very close to being certified 10 x platinum?

Rough estimates:

 

#1 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 6.45m

#2 Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 6.27m

#3 Wham! - Last Christmas 6.21m

#4 The Killers - Mr Brightside 6.06m

#5 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 5.85m

 

At the end of next year Wham! should be #1. Although it is possible the Killers briefly get a stint there as well

Rough estimates:

#1 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 6.45m

#2 Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas? 6.27m

#3 Wham! - Last Christmas 6.21m

#4 The Killers - Mr Brightside 6.06m

#5 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 5.85m

Thank you. I find it fascinating how close they all are. I think I had expected Band Aid to be a little closer to Ed Sheeran.

A total of 184 Songs made the YTD list at some point this year, with 40 entering in the first week and not leaving at any point, including Naive and Dial Drunk which didn't spend one week in the singles chart all year. Exes entered in week one and stayed for the whole year before dropping out in week 52.

 

Linger entered and dropped out 3 separate time before entering for a fourth time and staying til the end of the year in week 40.

Valerie and Wonderwall dropped out twice before entering for a third time.

 

Full list of every entry here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/136D...dit?gid=0#gid=0

Edited December 28, 2024Dec 28 by Maestro

Final Top 100 with my sales estimates (totals in brackets)

 

1 1,989,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (2.52m)

2 1,788,000 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

3 1,751,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

4 1,725,000 Teddy Swims - Lose Control (1.84m)

5 1,466,000 Hozier - Too Sweet

6 1,335,000 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

7 1,224,000 Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather

8 1,206,000 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe

9 1,148,000 Dasha - Austin

10 1,143,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please

 

11 1,044,000 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (2.23m)

12 1,013,000 Myles Smith - Stargazing

13 967,000 Cassö with Raye & D Block Europe - Prada (1.57m)

14 959,000 Beyoncé - Texas Hold ‘Em

15 910,000 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help

16 855,000 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (1.86m)

17 846,000 Artemas - I Like The Way You Kiss Me

18 812,000 Tate McRae - Greedy (1.27m)

19 810,000 Swift featuring Post Malone - Fortnight

20 807,000 Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

 

21 792,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

22 770,000 The Killlers - Mr Brightside (6.06m)

23 768,000 Djo - End Of Beginning

24 753,000 Ariana Grande - We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)

25 745,000 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (1.93m)

26 740,000 Eminem - Houdini

27 738,000 Mark Ambor - Belong Together

28 709,000 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me (1.03m)

29 684,000 Tommy Richman - Million Dollar Baby

30 682,000 Wham! - Last Christmas (6.21m)

 

31 681,000 Benson Boone - Slow It Down

32 668,000 Teddy Swims - The Door

33 660,000 Chappell Roan - Hot To Go

34 655,000 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring Bbyclose - Kisses

35 653,000 Ella Henderson featuring Rudimental - Alibi

36 647,000 Vance Joy - Riptide (4.24m)

37 633,000 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile

38 632,000 Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

39 631,000 Zach Bryan featuring Kacy Musgraves - I Remember Everything (820k)

40 630,000 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (3.58m)

 

41 627,000 Dua Lipa - Houdini (790k)

42 624,000 Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (3.81m)

43 622,000 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us

44 620,000 Olivia Rodrigo- Vampire (1.40m)

45 607,000 Ariana Grande - Yes, And?

46 602,000 Tyla - Water (960k)

47 598,000 Gigi Perez - Sailor Song

48 591,000 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (3.22m)

49 586,000 Sonny Fodera & MK featuring Clementine Douglas - Asking (960k)

50 584,0000 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (5.55m)

 

51 582,000 The Blessed Madonna featuring Clementine Douglas - Happier

52 580,000 Kenya Grace - Strangers (1.04m)

53 575,000 Lewis Capaldi — Someone You Loved (5.85m)

54 572,000 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (2.22m)

55 565,000 Dua Lipa - Training Season

56 553,000 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (2.15m)

57 544,000 Billie Eilish - Lunch

58 543,000 Coldplay - Viva La Vida (3.59m)

59 542,000 David Guetta & OneRepublic - I Don’t Wanna Wait

60 531,000 Lord Huron - The Night We Met (1.82m)

 

61 530,000 NewEra - Birds In The Sky

62 529,000 Tom Odell - Another Love (3.38m)

63 523,000 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? (1.06m)

64 521,000 Chase & Status and Stormzy - Backbone

65 520,000 Hozier - Take Me To Church (4.33m)

66 514,000 Billie Eilish - Wildflower

67 513,000 Coldplay - Yellow (3.20m)

68 509,000 Harry Styles - As It Was (3.04m)

69 503,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Feather (610k)

70 502,000 Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire (3.95m)

 

71 501,000 Chase & Status & Bou feat. IRah, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura - Baddadan (940k)

72 498,000 Central Cee & Lil Baby - Band4band

73 497,000 Charli xcx & Billie Eilish - Guess

74 487,000 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter (1.70m)

75 485,000 Oasis - Wonderwall (4.83m)

76 484,000 Journey - Don’t Stop Believin’ (3.79m)

77 483,000 Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I’m Sorry

78 478,000 Kygo & Ava Max - Whatever

79 477,000 YG Marley - Praise Jan In The Moonlight

80 475,000 Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree (2.96m)

 

81 472,000 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. - Somedays

82 471,000 Adam Porte and Stryv featuring Malachiii - Move

83 470,000 Becky Hill and Chase & Status - Disconnect (940k)

84 469,000 Billie Gillies featuring Hannah Boleyn - DNA (720k)

85 468,000 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance (3.66m)

86 467,000 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World (3.03m)

87 467,000 Raye & 070 Shake - Escapism (1.85m)

88 466,000 Richy Mitch & the Coal Miners - Evergreen (690k)

89 466,000 Jungle - Back On 74 (520k)

90 462,000 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark (2.36m)

 

91 460,000 Bryan Adams - Summer Of ‘69 (3.08m)

92 459,000 Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange (880k)

93 458,000 Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse - Valerie (2.39m)

94 454,000 The Kooks - Naïve (3.22m)

95 452,000 Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence (1.61m)

96 451,000 Fred again.. & Baby Keem - Leavemealone (490k)

97 450,000 The Cranberries- Linger (1.37m)

98 449,000 Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk (680k)

99 445,000 Florence & The Machine - Dog Days Are Over (2.90m)

100 443,000 Charli xcx - 360

Looks like Christmas songs have sold less this year than last year.

Both EOY lists have now been posted to the charts website

Looks like Christmas songs have sold less this year than last year.

 

I think not having a winter up to now kinda helped that a bit

Here is a very rough decade to date chart, Julian may have better numbers that he can correct mine with:

 

1 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights (4.56m)

2 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (3.89m)

3 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (3.49m)

4 The Killers - Mr. Brightside (3.18m)

5 Wham! - Last Christmas (3.09m)

6 Harry Styles - As It Was (3.04m)

7 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (3.03m)

8 Tones and I - Dance Monkey (2.99m)

9 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You (2.92m)

10 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (2.89m)

11 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart (2.85m)

12 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (2.69m)

13 The Weeknd - Save Your Tears (2.66m)

14 Olivia Rodrigo - good 4 u (2.57m)

15 Lewis Capaldi - Before You Go (2.55m)

16 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (2.52m)

17 Dua Lipa feat. DaBaby - Levitating (2.50m)

18 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now (2.48m)

19 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (2.47m)

20 Ed Sheeran - Perfect (2.45m)

21 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (2.38m)

22 Vance Joy - Riptide (2.38m)

23 Tom Odell - (2.38m)

24 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere (2.29m)

25 Adele - Easy On Me (2.25m)

 

Sad days when it's going to be Mr Brightside VS Last Christmas for number one...

Sad days when it's going to be Mr Brightside VS Last Christmas for number one...

 

Are they outselling Blinding Lights enough to overtake though?

Are they outselling Blinding Lights enough to overtake though?

 

Mr. Brightside did ~400k more than Blinding Lights this year, so yes.

Thanks very much Maestro - I was just thinking I woudln’t have time to estimate the DTD!

2024 totals from Music Week: https://www.musicweek.com/labels/read/emi-i...ng-crown/091143

 

1,988,798 Noah Kahan - Stick Season

1,787,692 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

1,751,273 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso

1,724,876 Teddy Swims - Lose Control

1,147,814 Dasha - Austin

1,142,890 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please

1,012,699 Myles Smith - Stargazing

967,010 Casso, Raye and D-Block Europe - Prada

959,373 Beyonce - Texas Hold 'Em

845,583 Artemas - I Like the Way You Kiss Me

792,484 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste

My estimates all within 5k / 0.5% :yahoo:

Thanks for all the lists, incredibly helpful.

Would I be correct in saying there are now 21 tracks with more than 4.2 million chart units all time?

And a further 17 tracks with more than 3.6m chart units all time?

Presumably Dance Monkey and Castle on The Hill must be close to being declared 7x platinum?

Is the EOY 200 posted or available anywhere, so annoying that the OCC tempts us by publishing the top 100 using the 200 stats

Did Cruel Summer have 2 consecutive years of over 1 million then? How common is that? I remember Bad Habits doing it, any others? Blinding Lights?