For the last three years there has been absence of million-sellers. Has it taken Alexandra Burke to put them right?

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by paulakin

she should pass a million sales, she's sold 887,933 copies so far.

 

In fact three singles have passed a million sales in the past 2 years - Wonderwall by Oasis and Torn by Natalie Imbruglia though of course most of their sales were in the 90s. From the 1980s, Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor has finally passed the million sales mark. Download sales have taken them all over the million mark.

Shanye ward has past 1 million.

hasn't Bleeding love gone over 1million by now. last published figure had it very close to 1million.

no its about 940000 i think there was a program about it on T4 this morning.

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by BUY NO CAN DO!!!

she should pass a million sales, she's sold 887,933 copies so far.

 

In fact three singles have passed a million sales in the past 2 years - Wonderwall by Oasis and Torn by Natalie Imbruglia though of course most of their sales were in the 90s. From the 1980s, Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor has finally passed the million sales mark. Download sales have taken them all over the million mark.

 

But there has hasn't been the new singles on sold a million sales since 2005, has it taken Alexandra Burke to put them right?

 

Would it ever be the record break for the first download track to sold a million sales?

But there has hasn't been the new singles on sold a million sales since 2005, has it taken Alexandra Burke to put them right?

 

Would it ever be the record break for the first download track to sold a million sales?

 

Hallelujah also had a physical release, so nearly half of it will be that. With woolies shutting down there might just be more physical copies.

I am suprised in the digital download era with songs being more available 24/7 with no stocking issues that we have not had more million sellers tbh.

 

Many Stores ONLY stocked the Alexandra CD. So, will we now see

a situation where many Stores only stock 1 or 2 Singles a Year? The

Winner of The X Factor, & - maybe - a Charity Single?

 

Not exactly fair competition is it?

Could someone post all the million sellers from the 1990?

Could someone post all the million sellers which have been released since 1990?

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by This Time

Many Stores ONLY stocked the Alexandra CD. So, will we now see

a situation where many Stores only stock 1 or 2 Singles a Year? The

Winner of The X Factor, & - maybe - a Charity Single?

 

Not exactly fair competition is it?

 

But in a dead physical market would anyone really want to stock a 'standard' single in the hope of picking up 3 or 4 sales per store?! Its the reason Zavvi, Woolworths, Tesco and Asda stopped stocking singles.

 

People make a big thing about physicals but sales are dead - Even Take That only managed 9,000 physicals on week of release with 'Greatest Day' with the download selling 61,000.

no its about 940000 i think there was a program about it on T4 this morning.

 

But it was first broadcast Novenber?

But it was first broadcast Novenber?

it's still not sold a million though and probably won't either, at least in this decade.

 

Could someone post all the million sellers which have been released since 1990?

from various charts:

 

Best Selling Singles of the 90s

 

01. 4,868,000 1997 1 Something About The Way You Look Tonight / Candle In The Wind 1997 - Elton John

02. 1,840,000 1995 1 Unchained Melody - Robson Green & Jerome Flynn

03. 1,783,000 1994 1 Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet

04. 1,722,000 1997 1 Barbie Girl - Aqua

05. 1,672,000 1998 1 Believe - Cher

06. 1,550,000 1997 1 Perfect Day - Various Artists

07. 1,530,000 1991 1 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Bryan Adams

08. 1,450,000 1999 1 ...Baby One More Time - Britney Spears

09. 1,410,000 1997 1 I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy & Faith Evans

10. 1,350,000 1992 1 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston

 

11. 1.310,000 1998 1 My Heart Will Go On - Céline Dion

12. 1.269,841 1996 1 Wannabe - Spice Girls

13. 1.268,000 1996 1 Killing Me Softly - Fugees

14. 1.254,000 1997 1 Never Ever - All Saints

15. 1.246,000 1995 1 Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio featuring LV

16. 1.234,000 1994 1 Think Twice - Céline Dion

17. 1.152,000 1998 1 Heartbeat/Tragedy - Steps

18. 1.110,000 1998 1 It's Like That (remix) - Run DMC vs Jason Nevins

19. 1.100,000 1997 1 Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh! - Teletubbies

20. 1.098,000 1996 1 Spaceman - Babylon Zoo

 

21. 1.093,000 1995 1 I Believe / Up On The Roof - Robson Green & Jerome Flynn

22. 1.092,000 1994 1 Saturday Night - Whigfield

23. 1.074,000 1998 1 No Matter What - Boyzone

24. 1.072,073 1996 1 2 Become 1 - Spice Girls

25. 1.038,000 1995 1 Earth Song - Michael Jackson

26. 1,023,000 1999 1 Blue (Da Ba Dee) - Eiffel 65

 

plus now Torn by Natalie Imbruglia and Wonderwall by Oasis, so 28 million sellers from the 90s. In addition, Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives by Queen and Angels by Robbie Williams shipped a million copies, although neither sold that amount over the counter.

 

 

Best Selling Singles of the 00s

 

1 - Anything Is Possible / Evergreen - Will Young - 1789000

2 - Unchained Melody - Gareth Gates - 1338000

3 - It Wasn't Me - Shaggy featuring Ricardo "Rikrok" Ducent - 1182000

4 - Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band Aid 20 - 1138000

5 - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo - Tony Christie Feat. Peter Kay - 1111000

6 - Can't Get You Out Of My Head - Kylie Minogue - 1084000

7 - That's My Goal - Shayne Ward - 1081000

8 - Pure And Simple - Hear'Say - 1079000

9 - Can We Fix It? - Bob The Builder - 1009000

 

so that's a total of 37 million sellers released since 1990.

 

 

 

Alexandra will probably pass a million within next few days

She's been very lucky to get a perfect storm of sales with this release:

 

We have a creditable X-Factor winner

We have a song considered to be an all-time classic, and far better than the three previous winners were given

We have a chart "battle" which generated intense hype and publicity all week

We have four strong shopping days after hitting number 1 until Christmas ensuring great on-running sales

We have the strongest singles market for 4-5 years thanks to the continuing establishment of legal downloading

We have the closure of Zavvi's and Woolworth's with big discounts - in some of the Woolies stores that have already closed the single was being hawked off for 10p on the final day

 

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On the digital sales front, the highest seller as of Music Week on 15th December was:

 

"Lewis’s Bleeding Love is the only track to sell more than 500,000 downloads, with a current tally of 527,360"

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by 6weeksatnumber7

I am suprised in the digital download era with songs being more available 24/7 with no stocking issues that we have not had more million sellers tbh.

 

ISTM there are several main factors why not.

 

1. Album sales in the past few years have been significantly higher then when million-selling singles were relatively common.

 

2. Music piracy is easier than it ever has been before.

 

Additionally, when you actually look at the recent high-sellers list, you notice how few are there purely on their own merit - most are either X-Factor or Charity-boosted, and would only have sold a tiny fraction of what they did without that help :-

 

2001 M Shaggy featuring Rikrok It Wasn't Me

2001 M Hear'Say Pure And Simple

2000 M Bob The Builder Can We Fix It?

2001 M Kylie Minogue Can't Get You Out Of My Head

2002 M Will Young Anything Is Possible / Evergreen

2002 M Gareth Gates Unchained Melody

2004 M Band Aid 20 Do They Know It's Christmas?

2005 M Tony Christie (Is This The Way To) Amarillo

2005 M Shayne Ward That's My Goal

 

FYI : http://www.everyhit.com/awardmill.html

 

AFAICS, from the above list, only Shaggy, and Kylie genuinely reached 7 figures on merit alone.

Edited December 30, 200816 yr by vidcapper

in some of the Woolies stores that have already closed the single was being hawked off for 10p on the final day

:unsure:

I seem to recall the OCC have a minimum cost for singles to be illegible. Does anyone know the exact figure or wording?

'Angels' Shipped 1.2 Million to UK Stores. About 864,000 of them were sold -

but it keeps the 2 x Platinum Disks that it got. Its Sales are now well over 900,000.

 

It will be interesting - at the the end of the 2000 to 2010 period, to see how many

Million Selling Singles, & Biggest 1st Week Sales Singles, actually did well because they

were simply released, & people loved them - and how many did it, (really), because

they were by people who Won TV Talent Shows - and the hysteria that so many people

feel about buying the 1st Single - as fast as possible.

 

It's this mentality:, 'I voted for him/her! He/She Won! I simply MUST buy his/her

Single now!'. (Irrespective of whether it's any good!).

Edited December 30, 200816 yr by zeus555