Fantastic! Another platinum single!

If anyone is interested these are Take That's #1 UK airplay hits! Take into account airplay isn't included in the actual overall singles charting place (sales only then sales/streaming)

 

UK airplay #1's

 

Take That

 

1. Pray (1 week)

2. Babe (3 weeks)

3. Back For Good (4 weeks)

4. Patience (5 weeks)

5. Shine (1 week)

6. Rule The World (1 week)

7. Greatest Day (4 weeks)

8. Up All Night (3 weeks)

9. Said It All (1 week)

10. The Flood (5 weeks)

 

European Hit Radio (Top 40) 1990's

 

Could It Be Magic #13

Pray #5

Relight My Fire #3

Babe #16

Everything Changes #5

Love Ain't Here Anymore #10

Sure #5

Back For Good #1 (5 weeks)

Never Forget #2

How Deep Is Your Love #1 (4 weeks)

Edited November 29, 20177 yr by nirvanamusic

The flood and rule the world; where they rightfully belong!

Just a quick note to everyone here:

 

A very merry Christmas to you and your families. Wishing you all a festive, relaxing and enjoyable time.

Same you and many of them, i hope 2018 is a great year for us all.

Happy New Year Everyone.

Happy new year!

Today Rule The World has been certified 2x Platinum in the UK for total minimum sales of 1.2 million copies!

 

This means the song has finally tied with Back For Good as their biggest which has also sold 1.2 million copies in the UK. I think both songs will be quite similar in their trickle sales from now on with perhaps one just always being slightly ahead of the other.

Edited January 5, 20187 yr by nirvanamusic

Wonderful news about Rule The World and richly deserved.

 

Good to see Rule The World is still picking up trickle sales. I would love it to overtake Back For Good and become their best seller. I have found myself liking back for good alot more recently than i ever liked it as it was never a big fave of mine from them.

What fantastic news! Do we know if there are likely to be any others approaching new certification thresholds in the short term?

Their next three closest certifications for albums are as follows:

 

1.III - 579,000 - 21,000 copies away from 2 x Platinum

2.Take That & Party - 870,000 - 30,000 copies away from 3 x Platinum

3.The Platinum Collection - 60,000 - 40,000 copies away from Gold

 

TT&P has been so close for eternity and is so frustrating! The sales for the 90's albums though stalled even during the huge second coming of the band. Greatest Hits namely the 2005 was what new fans were buying as opposed to the original albums.

 

Maybe they could do a Phil Collins and re release them all individually as that counts towards the original album sales as long as it's not a remix of the tracks album in which case it would be a stand alone sales. They would have to promote each album like PC did and perform the hits but also good album cuts as well to sell the albums.

 

When you look at boybands like Westlife and Boyzone routinely getting x3/x4 platinum studio albums it always seems odd TT have x2 studio albums stuck on double platinum when they were a bigger band.

 

Next closest three singles are as follows:

 

1.A Million Love Songs: 192,500 - 7,500 copies away from Silver

2.Everything Changes: 367,000 - 37,000 copies away from Gold

3.Never Forget: 524,000 - 76,000 copies away from Platinum

 

Like the albums these singles need to start representing just how big TT were!! I know Never Forget has had a big (for a catalogue track) sales since 2005 going from 420,000 to 524,000 slightly over 100,000 sales since 2005. None of the other older tracks only Back For Good have sold like that having shifted 200,000 copies since 2005 to go double Platinum.

Edited January 9, 20187 yr by nirvanamusic

III will eventually make double platinum, likely when they do the next album/tour. Wonderland however will be the only studio album to date that most likely will never make platinum status for them.

 

Never Forget surely will make platinum but may take a while, this is always the song that in my head is a million seller. A Million Love Songs is the other song by them that feels like it should have much higher sales.

 

 

 

Good news with III, just a shame that Wonderland performed so underwhelmingly..

 

Million love songs nearly there!

 

I always though NF was nearly at platinum. Still got a little way to go.

 

Thanks so much, Nirvana!

Since 2005 these are the catalogue UK Take That single sales addition with only notable sales listed:

 

1. Back For Good - 247,286

2. Never Forget - 104,000

3. A Million Love Songs - 42,500

4. Relight My Fire - 30,000

5. Pray - 28,000

6. Could It be Magic - 15,000

 

When I think about it and look back these songs are the older Take That songs favoured that are usually performed on TV shows (X Factor, Let It Shine, Strictly, Concert For Diana, Carpool Karaoke and others etc) so can explain their sales. It would be nice for them to throw in some of the other 90's singles from time to time to slowly build those sales up however I think at this point they feel it's obvious which older tracks have most exposure/recognition and so stick with those few.

I think if Babe was pushed a little more on TV appearances (rare airing on Carpool Karaoke) and Love Ain't Here Anymore they'd still attract a newer audience for slight sales improvements. Those two tracks are strong ballads and could still have an audience however I understand why on rare opportunities they'd rather air the upbeat tracks plus BFG & AMLS.

 

 

Note: I got A Million Love Songs slightly wrong it's currently 192,500 so now 7,500 copies away from Silver. I've edited post above.

Edited January 9, 20187 yr by nirvanamusic

III will eventually make double platinum, likely when they do the next album/tour. Wonderland however will be the only studio album to date that most likely will never make platinum status for them.

 

Never Forget surely will make platinum but may take a while, this is always the song that in my head is a million seller. A Million Love Songs is the other song by them that feels like it should have much higher sales.

 

III is slowly getting there, but I do hope Wonderland gets to platinum. Disappointing that they’ve decided against releasing the DVD. They could have done a double pack with the CD like they did with III, but perhaps that infamous error from the label put them off it!

Wonderland appears to have little push from them. It is their most forgettable era by far.

Would they not want it to reach platinum though? Another single release and a live dvd/cd package would have done the trick I thjnk

Gary has announced they’ll be a Take That movie next year. Tim Firth is writing it. Could be an interesting spin on the TT story. Or perhaps it’ll just be a film version of The Band

NEVER FORGET HAS FINALLY GONE PLATINUM ! I REPEAT NEVER FORGET HAS FINALLY GONE PLATINUM IN THE UK !! About time too for this iconic track.

Edited April 6, 20187 yr by nirvanamusic