Posted September 7, 200915 yr Lady GaGa is queen of the downloads, according to exclusive new figures which reveal how the rapid growth in digital over the last few years has helped reboot the singles market. The New Yorker’s 2009 chart-topper Poker Face tops the list of the Official Charts Company’s Top 100 downloads of all time in the UK with nearly 800,000 sales, while she also takes third spot with her introductory hit Just Dance. But, if Gaga is download queen, Kings of Leon live up to their name. They also have two tracks in the Top 10 – taking second spot with their 2008 anthem Sex On Fire, around 70,000 units short of Poker Face, and fourth spot with the follow-up Use Somebody. Leona Lewis comes in at six and eight with Run and Bleeding Love respectively. The rundown, compiled to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of iTunes and the start of digital downloads, clearly shows how quickly the digital market has matured in the last two or three years: in 2008 Duffy’s Mercy topped the annual chart selling more than 450,000 units, almost 30 times more downloads than notched up by 2004’s best-selling digital track Do They Know It’s Christmas by Band Aid 20. Similarly, the number 10 top seller in 2008, Leona Lewis’ Run, sold almost as many downloads as her track Bleeding Love, which topped the 2007 chart with more than 400,000 sales. OCC managing director Martin Talbot calls the charts a fascinating snapshot of the first five years of download sales in the UK. He adds, “The thing that jumps straight out is how the Top 100 chart is dominated by records from the last two years; there has been significant growth in digital over that time frame.” With digital downloads now accounting for 98.6% of all singles sales Talbot also points out that downloads have rejuvenated the singles market, despite widespread criticism that the digital market has simply led to “cherry picking” tracks from albums. “That might be happening, but the singles market is growing exponentially,” adds Talbot. In 2004 weekly sales figures of around 500,000 were considered respectable; now weekly singles sales in the order of 3m are not uncommon. Thus the 86m singles sold in 2007 was easily eclipsed in 2008 when 115m were sold and many expect sales to top 150m this year. The oldest track in the list is Nickelback’s Rockstar, originally released in 2005, which has now racked up more than half a million digital sales to sit at number 10. La Roux’s In For The Kill is the most recent release in the Top 10; however, strong competition this autumn with releases from Robbie Williams and Cheryl Cole, could change all that. Source: MW ================= 1 Lady GaGa - Poker Face 800,000 2 Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 730.000 3 Lady GaGa - Just Dance 4 Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 5 La Roux - In For The Kill 6 Leona Lewis - Run 7 Alexandra Lewis - Hallelujah 8 Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 9 Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars 10 Nickelback - Rockstar
September 7, 200915 yr Here's the full Top 40, source: Radio 1 website 1 Lady GaGa Poker Face (Interscope) 2 Kings of Leon Sex On Fire (Hand Me Down) 3 Lady GaGa Just Dance (Interscope) 4 Kings of Leon Use Somebody (Hand Me Down) 5 La Roux In For The Kill (Polydor) 6 Leona Lewis Run (SYCO Music) 7 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah (SYCO Music) 8 Leona Lewis Bleeding Love (SYCO Music) 9 Snow Patrol Chasing Cars (Fiction) 10 Nickelback Rockstar (Roadrunner) 11 Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl (Virgin) 12 Beyonce If I Were A Boy (Columbia) 13 Rihanna ft Jay-Z Umbrella (Def Jam) 14 Take That Rule The World (Polydor) 15 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado Broken Strings (Polydor) 16 Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow (Interscope) 17 Duffy Mercy (A&M) 18 Gnarls Barkley Crazy (Warner Bros) 19 Katy Perry Hot n Cold (Virgin) 20 Dizzee Rascal/Calvin Harris/Chrome Dance Wiv Me (Dirtee Skank) 21 Tinchy Stryder ft N-Dubz Number 1 (4th & Broadway) 22 The Killers Human (Vertigo) 23 Pink So What (LaFace) 24 Lily Allen The Fear (Regal Recordings) 25 Estelle ft Kanye West American Boy (Atlantic/Homeschool) 26 Flo Rida ft T-Pain Low (Atlantic) 27 Sam Sparro Black and Gold (Island) 28 Timbaland Pts One Republic Apologise (Blackground/Interscope) 29 Girls Aloud The Promise (Fascination) 30 Mika Grace Kelly (Casablanca/Island) 31 Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling (Interscope) 32 Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse Valerie (Columbia) 33 Rihanna Disturbia (Def Jam) 34 Coldplay Viva La Vida (Parlaphone) 35 Dizze Rascal/Van Helden Bonkers (Dirtee Stank) 36 Flo Rida ft Kesha Right Round (Atlantic) 37 Madonna ft Justin Timberlake 4 Minutes (Warner Bros) 38 Sugababes About You Now (Island) 39 AR Rahman ft Pussycat Dolls Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) (Interscope) 40 Calvin Harris I'm Not Alone (Columbia) Compiled by The Official UK Charts Company Edited September 7, 200915 yr by eightiespopkid
September 7, 200915 yr Good to see Her leading the Pack,although it looks as though KOL will overtake her shortly.
September 7, 200915 yr Lady GaGa is queen of the downloads, according to exclusive new figures which reveal how the rapid growth in digital over the last few years has helped reboot the singles market. The New Yorker’s 2009 chart-topper Poker Face tops the list of the Official Charts Company’s Top 100 downloads of all time in the UK with nearly 800,000 sales, while she also takes third spot with her introductory hit Just Dance. If she sold nearly 800k on downloads alone, her physicals must be dismal because she sold around 800k combined :o
September 7, 200915 yr I'm kinda confused... there are so many of 2008/09 reached the Top 40. :o Why download sales have gone up.
September 7, 200915 yr Why download sales have gone up. I guess that makes sense. I just couldn't get my head into the sales atm. I know sales back then were low but didn't think that there will be a lot in this year to be Top 40. :lol:
September 7, 200915 yr GAGA. Should've been "Just Dance" :snif: which IMO is far superior but greeat to see both top 3. Hopefuly she gets some X Factor fame as well to extend those sales totals even more and get some much needed hype surrounding "LoveGame"'s release ;o If it doesn't go top 10 I honestly don't know what I'll do in retaliation but it won't be good :lol: What also suprises me is how KOL's 3rd and 4th singles, "Revelry" and "Notion" aren't getting any decent sales or chart peaks they're equally as good as their first two singles but I guess any Indie rock band having even two hit singles from an era is quite an achievement anyway. Just "Revelry" and "Notion" deserved so much more, even if 3/4 of the UK have the album it didn't stop them from buying SOF and US almost a year on, so why not Revelry/Notion? TSK guluable UK public. ;(
September 7, 200915 yr But - as the 'Physical' Singles Market has died out, it stands to reason that a big Selling Act, (like Lady GaGa), would have massive Download Sales. Just as MANY Hits will overtake 'Poker Face', in Downloads, as the Years go by. There will be 800,000 Selling Download Hits, & 900,000, & 1 Million+..... I'm sure that there was a Hit Single that had the Most Sales on CD at one stage, (when Vinyl was dying out) - but, who recalls which Hit it was now? You always get 'The Biggest Sellers' in a New Format, when an old one dies out..... Edited September 7, 200915 yr by zeus555
September 7, 200915 yr If she sold nearly 800k on downloads alone, her physicals must be dismal because she sold around 800k combined :o The figure I saw on BBCi was 779k downloads. She has definitely passed 800k combined - in fact I have her on 801.4k
September 7, 200915 yr I think it was January 2005 when downloads overtook physicals for the first time...and even that must have only been about 51% downloads and 49% physical. Back then the number 1 was selling about 20k a week. Imagine how low it would have sunk if they'd have waited longer to add downloads :o
September 7, 200915 yr This definitely shows how much legal downloading has grown within the past year, the top 5 consists of this year's top 3 sellers and two tracks from the latter part of last year.
September 7, 200915 yr Interesting, but I could swear KoL's SOF was still ahead not even that long ago. Don't even know HOW PF is 70k ahead :o SOF should challenge taking back the crown in the next few months though. I doubt they will but they may get pretty damn close.
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