Posted October 3, 200816 yr 2008 singles sales don't look too bad, I'm sure there be a surge before the end of year chart. 2008 1 "Mercy" Duffy 496,230 2 "Rockstar" Nickelback 446,495 3 "American Boy" Estelle ft. Kanye West 432,350 4 "Now You're Gone" Basshunter 424,150 5 "4 Minutes" Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake 415,060 6 "Black and Gold" Sam Sparro 390,850 7 "Low" Flo Rida ft. T-Pain 364,115 8 "I Kissed A Girl" Katy Perry 338,615 9 "Dance Wiv Me" Dizzee Rascal ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome 332,500 10 "Closer" Ne-Yo 317,000 2007 1 "Bleeding Love" Leona Lewis 787,652 2 "Umbrella" Rihanna 512,730 3 "Grace Kelly" Mika 492,500 4 "When You Believe" Leon Jackson 395,669 5 "Rule the World" Take That 357,325 6 "About You Now" Sugababes 346,420 7 "The Way I Are" Timbaland featuring Keri Hilson & D.O.E. 336,740 8 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" The Proclaimers featuring Andy Pipkin & Brian Potter 333,750 9 "Valerie" Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse 329,490 10 "Ruby" Kaiser Chiefs 313,765 2006 1 "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley 820,053 2 "A Moment Like This" Leona Lewis 700,069 3 "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean 495,000 4 "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" Scissor Sisters 353,733 5 "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" Sandi Thom 325,600 6 "From Paris to Berlin" Infernal 308,000 7 "Maneater" Nelly Furtado 296,000 8 "Patience" Take That 282,423 9 "SOS" Rihanna 243,000 10 "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake 241,250 2005 1 Is This the Way to Amarillo Tony Christie 1,100,200 2 That's My Goal Shayne Ward 874,400 3 Axel F Crazy Frog 525,100 4 You're Beautiful James Blunt 474,500 5 Hung Up Madonna 338,600 6 All About You/You've Got a Friend McFly 336,500 7 You Raise Me Up Westlife 334,500 8 Lonely Akon 334,400 9 Don't Cha The Pussycat Dolls Featuring Busta Rhymes 308,900 10 Push The Button Sugababes 306,700 2004 1 Do They Know It's Christmas Band Aid 20 1,094,000 2 F*ck It (I Don't Want You Back) Eamon 552,407 3 Cha Cha Slide DJ Casper 351,421 4 Call On Me Eric Prydz 335,000 5 Yeah Usher 300,000 6 All This Time Michelle McManus 292,000 7 Left Outside Alone Anastacia 275,000 8 Mysterious Girl Peter Andre 261,000 9 Toxic Britney Spears 260,000 10 F*ck You Right Back Frankee 246,000 2003 1 Spirit in the Sky Gareth Gates & The Kumars 630,000 2 Ignition Remix R Kelly 550,000 3 Mad World Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules 395,000 4 Leave Right Now Will Young 390,000 5 Where Is The Love? The Black Eyed Peas 336,000 6 All The Things She Said t.A.T.u. 7 Changes Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne 335,000 8 Breathe Blu Cantrell feat. Sean Paul 330,000 9 Make Luv Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham 320,000 10 Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) The Darkness 315,000 2002 1 "Anything Is Possible" Will Young 1,789,919 2 "Unchained Melody" Gareth Gates 1,329,740 3 "Hero" Enrique Iglesias 742,478 4 "Dilemma" Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland 659,662 5 "A Little Less Conversation" Elvis vs. JXL 634,364 6 "Anyone of Us (Stupid Mistake)" Gareth Gates 573,125 7 "Whenever, Wherever" Shakira 554,756 8 "The Ketchup Song (Asereje)" Las Ketchup 538,591 9 "Without Me" Eminem 502,138 10 "Just a Little" Liberty X 487,037 2001 1 It Wasn't Me Shaggy 1,180,700 2 Pure And Simple Hear'Say 1,078,400 3 Can't Get You Out Of My Head Kylie Minogue 1,037,235 4 Whole Again Atomic Kitten 939,000 5 Hey Baby DJ Ötzi 747,000 6 Uptown Girl Westlife 745,000 7 Don't Stop Movin' S Club 7 710,000 8 Angel Shaggy featuring Rayvon 585,000 9 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus 550,000 10 Because I Got High Afroman 505,000 2000 1 Can We Fix It Bob the Builder 853,151 2 Pure Shores All Saints 685,343 3 It Feels So Good (remix) Sonique 642,001 4 Who Let The Dogs Out Baha Men 618,576 5 Rock DJ Robbie Williams 578,092 6 Stan Eminem Feat. Dido 554,380 7 Toca's Miracle Fragma 530,742 8 Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) Spiller ft. Sophie Ellis Bextor 523,242 9 Never Had a Dream Come True S Club 7 492,948 10 Fill Me In Craig David 480,106 Edited October 3, 200816 yr by thtr
October 3, 200816 yr Really strong sales from 2000, 2001, 2002. I hope 2008 will end up with good sales too though I can't see any singles to end up over 1 million.
October 3, 200816 yr Wasn't the Black Eyed Peas the biggest seller of 2003? Yes it was, the top5 of 2003 was actually: 1. Black Eyed Peas 2. Gareth Gates 3. R Kelly 4. Michael Andrews 5. Will Young
October 3, 200816 yr sales are starting to pick back up again. Here's a list by year of the amount of songs that sold over 200,000 in the end of year charts from the past 20 years since the sales award for silver dropped to that level in 1989: 1989: 50+ 1990: 50 1991: 40 1992: 31 1993: 37 1994: 57 1995: 70+ 1996: 69 1997: 61 1998: 97 1999: 87 2000: 64 2001: 54 2002: 39 2003: 23 2004: 16 2005: 14 2006: 15 2007: 26 2008: 29 (to date) 2 more will pass 200,000 on Sunday and at least one the week after to give a total of 32 so far this year by mid October. So while it's nowhere near the peaks of the 90s it is a recovery. The only thing is that there are no massive sellers with no record having sold over 500,000 so far this year - the first time this hasn't happened by as late as October since at least the 1950s...
October 3, 200816 yr What happened between 2002 and 2003 to cause such a massive slump in sales? :wacko:
October 3, 200816 yr What happened between 2002 and 2003 to cause such a massive slump in sales? :wacko:it seems like people just gave up on singles. File sharing was taking off but it can't account for the massive slump that happened. One thing I do remember though is that multi-format buying seemed to die off in 2001 to 2003 and this did have an effect on overall sales. Whereas my local Our Price would stock all versions of a single in the very late 90s they often just carried one or two at most formats by the time they closed in 2003 or whenever it was. Cassette singles sales were the main casualty - they dropped from 20 million of them being shipped in 1999 to less than a million in 2003. It seems like releases in this format just vanished and then labels just started to release a main CD and a 2 track CD instead, the latter never really took off so often it was just one version being sold. Edited October 3, 200816 yr by Robbie
October 3, 200816 yr lord... what a catalogue of mainly disgusting tracks evidence if any were needed that popular doesnt = good. after all... 90% of the british public are musical morons.
October 3, 200816 yr I always assumed Kylie was the biggest seller in 2001. Did she sell more then Shaggy and Hear'Say overall over time? Edited October 3, 200816 yr by Glyn
October 3, 200816 yr I always assumed Kylie was the biggest seller in 2001. Did she sell more then Shaggy and Hear'Say overall over time? She did - she also had the advantage of releasing later in the year than the other two. The advantage was that it was still in the chart in December, so would have been played at Christmas parties - which would have resulted in being brought by those who hadn't noticed it in the interveining three months.
October 3, 200816 yr Because lower down the chart single sales are at their highest ever i think 2008 will probably be the biggest ever year for singles. I could be wrong though.
October 3, 200816 yr Because lower down the chart single sales are at their highest ever i think 2008 will probably be the biggest ever year for singles. I could be wrong though.
October 5, 200816 yr 2 more will pass 200,000 on Sunday and at least one the week after to give a total of 32 so far this year by mid October. So while it's nowhere near the peaks of the 90s it is a recovery. The only thing is that there are no massive sellers with no record having sold over 500,000 so far this year - the first time this hasn't happened by as late as October since at least the 1950s... Duffy 'Mercy' will have sold 500k in a couple of weeks, so at 2008 will see at least one half million single
October 5, 200816 yr And X-Factor and more lame charity singles most probs. ^ Anyone have sales like those for albums?
October 5, 200816 yr Leon didn't sell half a million did he :unsure: Take That's Rule The World has passed half a million this year, as has Nickelback's Rockstar, although these tracks picked up most (in Take That's case) or some (in Nickelback's case) of their sales last year... 1998 was tremendous for singles sales wasn't it :o almost 100 singles over 200k :o that's why CD sections in charity shops always look like 'the best of 1998'
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