January 1, 200916 yr Thats amazing! Take A Bow in Top 10, and X Factor Finalists at #10, great EOY chart in Ireland
January 1, 200916 yr Author One that seemed reluctant to leave the chart.... 4 Basshunter & DJ Mental - Now You're Gone 43 x x x 46 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 4 4 3 6 9 10 13 16 16 19 27 33 40 45 50 x 45 43 x 50 x 50
January 1, 200916 yr Author 3 Flo rida ft T-Pain - Low 48 25 21 9 9 7 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 5 5 4 11 8 9 10 13 12 18 21 23 31 33 34 34 40
January 1, 200916 yr Author Just one place above Alexandra but with a much longer chart run - 73 weeks! 1 Sharon Shannon & Mundy - Galway Girl 49 50 48 39 27 27 24 27 15 13 15 17 17 20 29 28 19 24 30 28 39 34 39 41 48 36 40 49 x 41 13 8 13 14 18 25 29 23 29 29 14 2 5 5 1 1 1 1 1 7 9 10 19 18 18 26 21 22 19 19 24 22 24 21 25 24 20 21 31 43 42 44 x 43 x 49
January 1, 200916 yr Thanks Shaky. I think Galway Girl should have been bigger over here. It was a shame. And thanks for all the Irish News in 2008, too. We look forward to the year ahead.
January 1, 200916 yr Author The Fab 40! 01 Sharon Shannon & Mundy - Galway Girl 02 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 03 Flo rida ft T-Pain - Low 04 Basshunter & DJ Mental - Now You're Gone 05 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl 06 Kid Rock - All Summer Long 07 Nickelback - Rockstar 08 Rihanna - Take A Bow 09 Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy 10 X Factor Finalists - Hero 11 Madonna & Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes 12 Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire 13 Duffy - Mercy 14 Script - Man Who Can't Be Moved 15 Chris Brown - Forever 16 Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 17 Britney Spears - Piece of Me 18 Rihanna - Disturbia 19 Pink - So What 20 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 21 Basshunter - All I Ever Wanted 22 Jordin Sparks ft Chris Brown - No Air 23 Soulja Boy Tellem - Crank That 24 Ting Tings - That's Not My Name 25 Chris Brown - With You 26 Sam Sparro - Black & Gold 27 Usher - Love In This Club 28 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly 29 Leona Lewis - Run 30 Ne-Yo - Closer 31 Katy Perry - Hot & Cold 32 V/a - Ballad of Ronnie Drew 33 Journey - Don't Stop Believin' 34 Rihanna - Don't Stop The Music 35 T.I. ft Rihanna - Live Your Life 36 Killers - Human 37 Britney Spears - Womanizer 38 Lupe Fiasco ft Matthew Santos - Superstar 39 Pussycat Dolls - When I Grow Up 40 OneRepublic - Stop & Stare I'll be back tomorrow evening with the latest chart on the new 2009 thread and any further year end info will be posted here along with the usual lists of all the chart hits of the year.
January 1, 200916 yr Yes! Brilliant :dance: Galway Girl is a credit to the nation of Ireland. I'm very proud to be half-Irish right now :) Low excepted, this is a great chart! Much better than the UK one. Thanks for all your work Shaky, and looking forward to the new chart.
January 1, 200916 yr Maybe because it's only been out about a month and sales are lower there (at a guess?) Looking at it, maybe the chart is based on points not sales.
January 1, 200916 yr Author Well Larry Gogan said a few times that they were counting down the biggest selling singles of the year! I'll be doing a points based chart at the weekend so it will be interesting to compare them! I remember listening to a year end chart on NI's Downtown radio one year in the late 80s. I had the weekly charts written out and decided to add a column for peak positions. It was only when I started to fill it in that I realised that the songs were ranked by peak position and then separated by weeks at no 1, weeks at no 2 etc;
January 1, 200916 yr LOL! :lol: That sounds kind of lame, but I bet it was full of great songs. That said, the Irish chart was weird in the 80s and 90s, songs that peaked in the 40s and 50s in the UK by British and European acts often charted top 20 in Ireland. I heard this was something to do with chart compilation methods. Do you know anything about that? And is there a list of biggest selling records in Ireland ever anywhere?
January 1, 200916 yr Author I believe that up until possibly 1992 (when Gallup started compiling the chart) it was actually based on orders from shops rather than what they actually sold. An all-time best sellers list would be difficult to compile as IRMA don't appear to have any records prior to the 90s - for example when Born In The USA (re-)entered the album chart a couple of years ago they had its weeks on chart total as 1 as on their records it had never previously charted. There is a list of more recent big sellers on the Chart-Track website - should be a link at the start of this thread
January 3, 200916 yr Author With thanks to Irishguy28 @ ukmix Positions 41-50: 41 Girls Aloud - The Promise 42 Dizzee Rascal et al - Dance Wiv Me 43 Kanye West feat. Chris Martin - Homecoming 44 Will.i.am feat Cheryl Cole - Heartbreaker 45 Kanye West - Love Lockdown 46 September - Cry For You 47 Leona Lewis - Better In Time 48 MGMT - Kids 49 Adele - Chasing Pavements 50 Leon Jackson - When You Believe And for good measure, here are the Top 20 Artist Albums 1 Kings of Leon - Only By The Night 2 The Script - The Script 3 Leona Lewis - Spirit 4 Take That - The Circus 5 The Priests - The Priests 6 Coldplay - Viva La Vida, or Death And All His Friends 7 Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad 8 Duffy - Rockferry 9 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black 10 Sharon Shannon - The Galway Girl - the Best of 11 Mary Black - 25 Years, 25 Songs 12 Killers - Day & Age 13 Celine Dion - My Love - The Essential Collection 14 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns 15 Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once (OST) 16 AC/DC - Black Ice 17 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 18 Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible 19 Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce 20 Il Divo - The Promise
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