Posted January 20, 200916 yr Based on the sales figures published each week in Music Week, combined with some interpolation via Excel : Pos Avg Sales --- --------- 1 71540 2 36018 3 30162 4 26427 5 23467 10 15.3k 15 11.1k 20 8.8k 30 6.0k 40 4.5k 50 3.5k 60 2.8k 70 2.3k 75 2.1k 200 750-800 These are arithmetic means - if you take the median however, the figures are about 10-15% lower, except for #1, which is about 60% lower thanks to XF & charity sales dragging up the mean.
January 20, 200916 yr 1 is suprisingly high. I didn't think charity singles etc would affect it so much. That's very interesting though. It's nice to know roughly how many sales it takes for certain positions.
January 20, 200916 yr High sales for #1, #5 and #10. It seems a bit ridiculous to be a drop of a fifth between 40 and 50, and it would be even bigger a few years ago.
January 21, 200916 yr Author High sales for #1, #5 and #10. It seems a bit ridiculous to be a drop of a fifth between 40 and 50, and it would be even bigger a few years ago. There's probably a 5-10% or so error margin in the figures for lower positions, as they are published less often, therefore I have less definite data to work from.
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