February 5, 200916 yr The best Comic Relief single was Bananarama with Lanananeeneenoonoo...(a la Franch and Saunders and Kathy Burke).... surprised it's not one of the biggest sellers, too, it was top 3 in an age when singles sold far more than they do now.... It was the 35th biggest seller of 1989. Unfortunately I don’t have the accurate sales total for it, although I’d imagine it’d be in the range of 200-300k. If anyone would know it’d probably be Robbie.
February 5, 200916 yr Mcfly's All About You has sold 408,789 that was the figure music released in sept last year
February 5, 200916 yr First/Peak week sales: 1995 Cher, Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry & Eric Clapton Love Can Build A Bridge 150,000 1997 Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are / Mama 248,000 1999 Boyzone When The Going Gets Tough 213,000 2001 Westlife Uptown Girl 292,318 2003 Gareth Gates Feat. The Kumars Spirit In The Sky 273,508 2005 McFly All About You / You've Got A Friend 158,013 2005 Tony Christie (Is This The Way To) Amarillo? 266,844 2007 Sugababes vs Girls Aloud Walk This Way 51,500 2007 The Proclaimers Feat. Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles 126,000
February 5, 200916 yr Come on - He was only making a comment and wasnt to know there was a thread in a completely different forum regarding this! If people keep acting like this, the its gonna get to the stage where people are afraid to post incase someone snaps at them!! Quite. Shush, Aidan.
February 5, 200916 yr spice girls sales are phenomenal considering it was the forth single off an album that spawned 2 million seller singles (a 3rd in the next few years when SYBT reached 1m) and the album itself sold over 3,000,000 copies in the UK alone.
February 5, 200916 yr It was the 35th biggest seller of 1989. Unfortunately I don’t have the accurate sales total for it, although I’d imagine it’d be in the range of 200-300k. If anyone would know it’d probably be Robbie.and here he is! I have 276,000 but that is a sale someone estimated. Probably not far off though.
February 5, 200916 yr Oh and:- 1991 Hale And Pace The Stonk 89,000 Edited February 5, 200916 yr by Ethan.
February 5, 200916 yr and here he is! I have 276,000 but that is a sale someone estimated. Probably not far off though. Cheers Robbie. :)
February 5, 200916 yr The best Comic Relief single was Bananarama with Lanananeeneenoonoo...(a la Franch and Saunders and Kathy Burke).... surprised it's not one of the biggest sellers, too, it was top 3 in an age when singles sold far more than they do now.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJY7KW_YAac...feature=related Sales wise by 1989 single sales had fallen dramatically compared to the early to mid 1980s. Besides its Chart run was not spectacular: 25/02/1989 Bananarama And Lananeeneenoonoo Help! 3 12-5-{3}-3-6-9-24-37-68->9 © Polyhex.com So I reckon it would have sold in the 250,000 - 300,000 region.
February 5, 200916 yr Isn't the Gavin and Stacey one the official one? I see "dodgy cover as a charity single" is still high on the career path of pop groups today :D Now, what about these ones? 1987 - "Mel and Kim" - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree 1989 - Bananarama and Lanananeeneenoonoo - Help! 1991 - Hale and Pace - The Stonk 1992 - Mr Bean & Smear Campaign - Elected 1993 - Right Said Fred - Stick It Out 1994 - Pet Shop Boys - Absolutely Fabulous 1987 - "Mel and Kim" - Rocking Around the Christmas Tree about 200,000 1989 - Bananarama and Lanananeeneenoonoo - Help! about 276,000 1991 - Hale and Pace - The Stonk about 270,000 1992 - Mr Bean & Smear Campaign - Elected no idea! 1993 - Right Said Fred - Stick It Out about 100,000 1994 - Pet Shop Boys - Absolutely Fabulous 108,000 all are estimates posted at Haven a couple of years ago except for Ab Fab which is the actual (rounded) sale.
February 5, 200916 yr that was its sale when at #1. True, I hesitated from posting that with the other first/peak week sales as I’m unsure how accurate the weekly sales from 1990-1993 are...
February 5, 200916 yr True, I hesitated from posting that with the other first/peak week sales as I’m unsure how accurate the weekly sales from 1990-1993 are... not very accurate if the truth be told. Alan Jones would sometimes give actual sales of the number one (at both Record Mirror and then at Music Week) but on the whole he didn't. His current chart report style with actual sales only started a few years ago. Most of the sales from the early 90s are estimates and not entirely accurate either (they tend to be a little on the high side).
February 5, 200916 yr not very accurate if the truth be told. Alan Jones would sometimes give actual sales of the number one (at both Record Mirror and then at Music Week) but on the whole he didn't. His current chart report style with actual sales only started a few years ago. Most of the sales from the early 90s are estimates and not entirely accurate either (they tend to be a little on the high side). That’s unfortunate; music week published Wet Wet Wet’s 15 weekly sales from 1994 a few years back so hopefully they’ll publish some more data from that era at some point, as they must have it.
February 5, 200916 yr They also published Bryan Adams' 16 weekly sales when he was at #1 a few years back but at the time very little appeared. The reason is simply that the chart wasn't compiled "in house" by the music industry but rather by Gallup and Alan Jones only really got to see sales after Record Mirror / Music Week went to press. I can recall him mentioning the sales of a handful of number ones at Record Mirror but they were always from the previous week. I'm assuming it was pretty much the same at Music Week until the chart went in-house in 1994 and Alan Jones got access to the chart database.
February 5, 200916 yr Oh that explains why information from that time was so sparse. I guess sales were relatively poor at the time so the powers that be might not have wanted to see too much data published. I’d love them to do a yearly double page retrospective feature series with a box with the weekly No1 sales, another with the top50 sellers ect from 1980 to 1994. Perhaps I should start e-mailing them! Although I suppose OCC copyright restricts what they can publish.
February 11, 200916 yr :o This year it's The Saturdays covering Just Can't Get Enough. Can you please look around before. I agree with the person who commented previously on this post. Posts like this discourage me from posting more on this forum. Casual visitors don't read every topic so stop jumping down their throats. It's not a big deal really, is it? Would I be right in presuming most of the men are this site are gay? Not all are. Is it relevant? I'm pretty sure they don't. Depeche Mode are a highly respected act (and deservedly so) but this is seen generally as a dud among their back catalogue. Generally considered to be a dud??? I'm a huge DM fan and "JCGE" is up there with their best work. Yes, they've moved on artistically but it's a great song and their first big hit. I'd be p*ssed off if I went to see them in concert and they didn't perform this song. Edited February 11, 200916 yr by RPM
February 20, 200916 yr Back on topic, I'm pretty sure the Gavin and Stacey one is the official one. In any case it'll be the one that gets number one for weeks.
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