And we now have our full Bottom 100!

Updated with Dior

The date for Ja Rule - Wonderful is incorrect (or rather the year is). That was 2004, not 2006.

23 hours ago, ThePensmith said:

The date for Ja Rule - Wonderful is incorrect (or rather the year is). That was 2004, not 2006.

Cheers, that’s amended!

Updated :)

Updated again :)

12 hours ago, chartjack2 said:

Updated again :)

Thank you 🙏🏻 btw - I’m a bit sleepy but I think it should be above Shakespear’s Sister.

Absolutely right, thanks - edited it now x

Poor jack looks like your going to be busy for a while 😅

I’m going to go through the 1970s sales on the Haven forum later to see if anything qualifies from then….

Updated again :)

Did 'Shine' and 'Beautiful Liar' really sell exactly 27,000 and 28,000 respectively in their weeks here, with no rounding? Coincidental for two of the top 20 in this thread if so!

21 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

Did 'Shine' and 'Beautiful Liar' really sell exactly 27,000 and 28,000 respectively in their weeks here, with no rounding? Coincidental for two of the top 20 in this thread if so!

Both are rounded sales. Alan Jones usually quoted rounded sales at the time. For 'Shine', he commented that the single had sold "nearly 42,000".

I take it that each single can only appear once on the list, even where they have more than one qualifying week? Otherwise Sienna Spiro should have two entries here for Great Expectation.

Yeah only the counting the lowest weekly sale at #1 for each single.

37 minutes ago, chartjack2 said:

Yeah only the counting the lowest weekly sale at #1 for each single.

Out of curiousity how many more would there be on this list if every qualifying week for each charttopper was listed?

Far too many to bother with!

Many more to come I’m sure!

14 hours ago, chartjack2 said:

Far too many to bother with!

I've worked it out myself, based on the weekly sales at number one thread by Gezza in the chart vault, and by my reckoning there are 'only' 146 weeks in total, so not all that much more than the 103 records listed here.

For the record this is all the singles/tracks that had more than one sub-40k week at number 1 since 1980:
1992: Shakespears Sisters-Stay - 4 weeks, Right Said Fred - Deeply Dippy - 2 weeks, The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode - 2 weeks, Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satelitte - 2 weeks
1999/2000: Westlife - I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun - 2 weeks
2003: Evanessence - Bring Me To Life - 2 weeks
2004: Eric Prydz - Call On Me - 3 weeks
2005: James Blunt - You're Beautiful - 2 weeks
2006: Notorious BIG et al - Nasty Girl - 2 weeks, Meck ft Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again - 2 weeks, Gnarls Barkley - Crazy - 2 weeks, Shakira ft Wycelf Jean - Hips Don't Lie - 5 weeks, Lily Allen - Smile - 2 weeks, McFly - Don't Stop Me Now/Please Please Please - 2 weeks, My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade - 2 weeks, Take That - Patience - 3 weeks
2007: Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This - 2 weeks, MIKA - Grace Kelly - 2 weeks, Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar - 3 weeks, Rihanna ft Jay Z - Umbrella - 8 weeks, Timbland ft Keir Hilson/DOE - The Way I Are - 2 weeks, Kanye West - Stronger - 2 weeks, Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls - 2 weeks
2008: Basshunter - Now Your'e Gone - 3 weeks, Madonna ft Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - 4 Minutes - 2 weeks
2023: Kenya Grace - Strangers - 2 weeks
2025: Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club - 2 weeks
2026: Sienna Spiro - Great Expectation - 2 weeks (so far)

I was just figuring out how many sub-40k weeks have happened only because the true most consumed song was subjected to Artificially Crap Ratio (ACR).

There have been 17 sub-40k weeks so far since the middle of 2017 [and the last one before that was All Summer Long in 2008]. Of those 17 I think, from looking at the weekly sales threads, that 13 were only because of ACR,

2017: Feels (Despacito on ACR)
2018: I'll Be There (One Kiss on ACR)
2020: Lemonade (Mood and 1 other track on ACR), Positions (All I Want For Christmas Is You and up to 6 others on ACR)
2022: Easy On Me (Shivers on ACR)
2024: Sailor (Taste on ACR)
2025: Not Like Us (Messy on ACR), Pink Pony Club x2 (Messy on ACR), Dior (Ordinary on ACR)
2026: Choosing Texas (Rein Me In on ACR), Great Expectation x2 (Rein Me In on ACR)

So the only 'genuine' sub-40k weeks since Mid 2017 (as long as you accept the SCR metric, or even the idea of adding streams to the chart in general) are:
2021: Sweet Melody, Driver's License
2023: Strangers x2

So without ACR we'd have 92 singles and 133 weeks on the sub-40k list.

If anyone spots any mistakes there then feel free to correct me.

Corrected to reflect what I's now found on JosephStyles' thread How ACR has affected the #1 spot which can be found here: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/241418-how-acr-has-affected-the-1-spot/

Edited September 19Sep 19 by DanChartFan
Corrected to reflect what I's now found on JosephStyles' thread How ACR has affected the #1 spot which can be found here: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/241418-how-acr-has-affected-the-1-spot/