Posted December 9, 200816 yr I know there is a list of the top 20 best selling songs of the century or was when Amy Winehouse climbed into the top 10 but is their a new list or one with the top 100 in the UK. Would like to see where Leona Lewis is as judging by her sales she should be in the top 20 at least.
December 15, 200816 yr Leona is 13th best seller so far. :). As of Sunday. Source http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=84836 Edited December 15, 200816 yr by Olympus
December 15, 200816 yr (Source: Music week) 1 BACK TO BEDLAM – JAMES BLUNT Recorded in 2003, released in 2004, and first charting in 2005, former soldier James Blunt’s debut album got off to a slow start, with first week sales of just 482 – not enough to secure a placing in the chart. It remained outside the Top 75 for a further 20 weeks, finally entering the list when You’re Beautiful started to receive airplay. The album arrived at the top of the chart in July of that year, a week before You’re Beautiful topped the singles list. Three further hits were plucked from the album, which continues to sell well, adding nearly 28,000 to its overall sales thus far in 2008, to reach 3,120,833 sales. 2 NO ANGEL – DIDO Dido’s 2000 debut album was kickstarted into action when Eminem sampled one of its tracks, Thank You, for his hit single Stan. Thank You subsequently became one of three Top 10 singles plucked from No ANgel, which spent six weeks at number one, and was in the Top 10 for 32 weeks in a row. It sells very slowly now, adding just 2,015 copies so far in 2008 for a to date total of 3,023,288. 3 WHITE LADDER – DAVID GRAY Mancunian singer/songwriter David Gray’s first three albums all fell short of the Top 75 but his fourth, White Ladder, made its introductory chart appearance at number 69 on sales of 2,056 in May 2000, with demand stoked by the success of introductory single Babylon, which subsequently peaked at number five. The album spawned four further Top 40 hits but it took it well over a year to reach number one. Sales to date of 2,888,025 include 4,593 this year. 4 LIFE FOR RENT – DIDO Following up an album as successful as No Angel was a daunting prospect for Dido but with introductory single White Flag reaching number two, Life For Rent hit the ground running in 2003, with a spectacular first week sale of 400,351. It subsequently stormed past its first million sales in 43 days – and then sped up, reaching the magical 2m. mark on its 85th day in the shops. By year’s end, it had sold 2,168,302. It has slowed down somewhat since then but has so far sold 2,823,569 copies, including 2,180 this year. 5 1 – THE BEATLES Collecting together all 27 of The Beatles’ British and American number one singles more than 30 years after the fact, 1 was a triumph of marketing, and stormed to the top of the chart the week it was released in 2000, on sales of 319,126. It spent its first nine weeks at number one, and had sold nearly 2m. copies by the time it was dethroned in January 2001. The only compilation to make the 21st century Top 10, 1 has sold 2,775,654 copies, including 7,361 this year. 6 SCISSOR SISTERS – SCISSOR SISTERS After introductory single Laura scraped to a number 54 peak, The Scissor Sisters’ quirky electro cover of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb raced to number 10 on the UK singles chart providing the impetus for their self-titled debut album to sell 21,395 copies on its first week in the shops, to earn a number 11 debut in February 2006. Proving to be far from one trick ponies, their ultra-commercial hit-laden album also generated Top 20 hits in the form of Take Your Mama, the reissued Laura and Mary before the last single off the set – Filthy/Gorgeous – became the biggest hit of them all, climbing to number five. The album rose to number one on three separate occasions, and has so far sold 2,686,705 copies, including 7,376 this year. 7 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD – COLDPLAY Coldplay’s 2000 debut Parachutes was one of the most impressive ever, spinning off the hits Shiver, Yellow and Trouble, and selling nearly 2.4m copies. The anticipation of follow-up A Rush Of Blood To The Head was intensified by the enormous popularity of first single In My Place, which reached number two. The album duly raced to first week sales of 273,924. With subsequent single The Scientist and Clocks also reaching the Top 10, the album spent more than a year in the Top 40, and has accumulated sales of 2,638,927, including 9,683 this year. 8 HOPES AND FEARS – Keane Keane had already reached #3 with debut single Somewhere Only We Know and #4 with follow-up Everybody’s Changing, when their first album, Hopes And Fears, rocketed straight to #1 in May 2004 with first week sales of 155,373. The first UK rock band to debut atop the album chart since July 2000 when Coldplay - a band with whom they are often compared - did likewise, they took a further two Top 20 singles off the album. Their melodic, piano-based style has made them very popular, and Hopes And Fears has so far sold 2,627,253, including 8,733 this year. 9 X&Y – COLDPLAY Just as In My Place set the pace for A Rush Of Blood To The Head, Speed Of Sound was the first single from Coldplay’s follow-up album, X&Y, and also raced to number two. Although the band’s two previous albums selling 5m copies between them, it was still something of a surprise that X&Y scorched to the second highest first week sales in history to that point, selling a stellar 464,471 copies to debut emphatically at number one in June 2003. Number one for four weeks, it has now sold 2,473,433 copies, 17,511 of them this year. 10 BACK TO BLACK – AMY WINEHOUSE 2,467,575 sales, of which 318,350 have been made in the last 10 weeks. The album will overtake Coldplay’s X&Y later this week to rank ninth for the 21st century, and seems certain to replace the other ‘Back To’ behemoth – James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam – at the top of the 21st century best-sellers list in due course. 11 COME AWAY WITH ME-NORAH JONES 2,432,712 12 PARACHUTES-COLDPLAY 2,385,676 13 BEAUTIFUL WORLD-TAKE THAT 2,372,280 14 THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP- EMINEM 2,245,624 15 SWING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING- ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2,235,240 16 SING WHEN YOU'RE WINNING-ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2,187,283 17 EYES OPEN-SNOW PATROL 2,098,620 18 GREATEST HITS- ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2,095,703 19 ESCAPOLOGY- ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2,047,299 20 The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ By The Way has sold 1,945,495 copies.
December 16, 200816 yr this is an old article and leona has climbed to number 13 wilth sales of more than 2.3 mill, take that have to be at number 12 with almost 2.5 mill
December 16, 200816 yr 10 BACK TO BLACK – AMY WINEHOUSE 2,467,575 sales, of which 318,350 have been made in the last 10 weeks. The album will overtake Coldplay’s X&Y later this week to rank ninth for the 21st century, and seems certain to replace the other ‘Back To’ behemoth – James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam – at the top of the 21st century best-sellers list in due course. Not sure whether it will do this now. In fact i doubt it will ever.
December 16, 200816 yr I think Leona will be top ten by the end of the year. Dido has had a spectacular drop for her 3rd album. I suppose if you wait 5 years though............................
December 16, 200816 yr Leona should be now on 2,356,459 so unless they've revised one of the figures downwards it'd put her in 14th.
December 16, 200816 yr Does anybody reckon Leona could eventually tackle James Blunt and be the best selling album of the century? :P I'm doubtful, but I would love to see it happen. ^_^
December 16, 200816 yr can definitely happen....she can release one more single and tv appearances can boost saales
December 16, 200816 yr i can see it happening - either Amy or Leona could become the biggest seller I don't wish her that. Not with the first album: she will be cursed to make the same music over and over to reassure the winning formula. It will be bad. Let her grow, find her style, grown a little. Take James Blunt: his music now is so predictible and boring. :unsure:
December 16, 200816 yr Not sure whether it will do this now. In fact i doubt it will ever. Would Amy be #1 if the two versions of the album were combined?
December 17, 200816 yr Aren't the two B2B's combined in that figure? Seems very high especially considering this list may be a few months old. Anyone know when its sales are accurate to? thanks for posting, very interesting especially to see how much these old albums sell each year now they are long gone from the charts
December 22, 200816 yr Two confirmed set of figures from Music Week today: Take That - Beautiful World 2,525,685 Leona Lewis - Spirit 2,521,402 (10th biggest seller of 21st C) -------------- They've both almost certainly overtaken Coldplay's X&Y in the 21st Century list. Now onto the status of Back To Black. That has sold another 513,000 this year in the deluxe edition according to the BJ/Haven year-to-dates. I suppose it all depends on when that Music Week Top 20 in YorMomIsHot's post was published - by my calculation TT's Beautiful World had sold approx. 2,202,300 by the end of 2007 so it's clearly after that and quick search of the chart archive gives ... From the 3rd March edition of Music Week Back To Black [Deluxe Edition]- Amy Winehouse 424,395 (to date) Back To Black - Amy Winehouse 2,006,836 (to date) Total: 2,431,231 The week after that the Deluxe sold 31,118, and the original edition was two places behind Cascada who sold 5,508. This would take the total combined to 2.467m and almost identical to the figure in the top 20 listed above, so it looks like that 21st century chart is accurate up to the album chart of March 9th. How much has BtoB added since? BtoB DE this year: 513000 BtoB DE upto March 10th: 190186 (calculated from March 10th's figure minus the 2007 year end sales) BtoB DE after March 10th: 323000 So BtoB's total sales will be around 2.79m plus the dregs of sales from the original edition since March 10th - call it 50k as it only spent two more weeks in the top 75, taking overall sales to 2.83m and probably into 4th place above Dido and The Beatles. As such I'm assuming Alan Jones has split the Back to Black versions when he refers to Spirit being the 10 biggest seller of the 21st century. Edited December 22, 200816 yr by 6weeksatnumber7
December 22, 200816 yr My estimate of the latest figures: 1 BACK TO BEDLAM – JAMES BLUNT 3,150,000. 2 NO ANGEL – DIDO 3,030,000. 3 WHITE LADDER – DAVID GRAY 2,900,000. 4 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 2,840,000 (combined) 5 LIFE FOR RENT – DIDO 2,830,000 6 1 – THE BEATLES 2,795,000 7 SCISSOR SISTERS – SCISSOR SISTERS 2,705,000 8 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD – COLDPLAY 2,665,000 9 HOPES AND FEARS – KEANE 2,655,000 10 BEAUTIFUL WORLD _ TAKE THAT 2,525,685 11 SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS 2,521,402 12 X&Y – COLDPLAY 2,515,000
December 22, 200816 yr Back to Black isn't combined though. I read something about one of Robbie's Albums being just above TAke That in the music week report.
December 22, 200816 yr The two Wino albums were always counted separately for some reason... Thank God as well that she won't overtake Blunt. Overated bint doesn't deserve anymore acolades. Brilliant for Leona and Take That though. Interesting to see how well 'The Circus' continues to sell as well as Leona's next release.
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