Eric_Blob

Nice analysis, and of course we have the far more sinister cases of charity where some have turned out to be fronts for human trafficking or child abuse, so I'm always suspicious of charities to be honest, I'd hate to give money to help enable something so bad. Labour and Conservatives are honestly 90% (or more) the same as each other. So I wouldn't really get too wound up in who supports who. I remember in 2010 when it changed hands, I was really scared that I would become even poorer, but in the end pretty much nothing changed. It will be the same whenever it changes hands again. It's a waste of time getting so invested in it all. And yes, I had to use a food bank before, and I also had to live in supported housing for a while, and I am currently on Universal Credit, so nobody have a go at me telling me that "I don't know what it's like to be poor" please.

I don't think so necessarily. People like PewDiePie, iDubbbz, Jake Paul, etc, have released singles and not got anywhere near #1. There's many other factors at play.

Yeah that's true and I do remember that. I think I only watched it briefly once but it was just a camera in the Radio 1 studio + music videos where the songs were playing. Which was a bit half-assed really but a nice attempt at something. But I was thinking something more like Graham Norton show I guess, but with as many live performances and guests from the chart as they can get each week.

That's a guaranteed segment on Kate Bush but I can't remember what other big stories there were in pop music this year's unless I'm missing something obvious. A weekly chart show on TV might have some viability if we had lots of old hits (or artists) entering the top 40. The TV audience is getting quite old now I don't think there'd be much interest in the charts as they are now. The other thing I think could be viable could be doing the Radio 1 chart show in video form with as many performances and interviews as they can get each week and streaming it on YouTube or TikTok.

It's really Incredible that it avoided the #3 position for so long.

In the US, Brenda Lee has been gaining on Mariah gradually each year. And also WITHIN each year she gains on Mariah as well as it gets closer to Christmas like how WHAM do in the UK. So, I think it's inevitable she will get #1 one day.

She even had 3 in the top 10 around this time in 2010. Which I guess doesn't sound impressive anymore but it was very impressive at the time. But one of them was a feature on a David Guetta song. And amazing stats Tuttavilla, thanks for sharing them!

Also I Ain't Worried. :lol:

Why is this in the chart?! :o I used to love this song, the lyrics are a bit cheesy though. :lol:

That's funny but it's ridiculous to read into that. A hundred under 50's can phone in and they just ignore them and claim nobody did. You wouldn't pull a stunt like that in the first place if you liked the song. They obviously hated it and just wanted to ridicule it using the "Young people GOOD. Old people BAD" narrative that we have to put up with in Western countries. I'm 30 now and I like the song.

The thing about TikTok is that it sounds a lot like California Gurls.

^2011 having a whopping 17 songs on this list supports my theory that it would have been the best time to achieve a 2 million seller. It just makes Happy's sales even more impressive though. I know it's all subjective but Blurred Lines and even Get Lucky seemed bigger to me. I don't really care though, it's just surprising.

I can't believe Happy has sold so much given that it became big after sales had a big drop. I would have thought a song that was a hit in 2011 or 2012 would have been better positioned to sell 2 million.

I don't know if anybody here has noticed, but David Guetta seems to have released about 5 songs since I'm Good. The only one that's done moderately well is the one with Sam Ryder.

I noticed that Ed Sheeran has re-overtaken Harry Styles in the past few weeks in the album chart. So I'm wondering if he can overtake in time for the year-end chart. Although Harry might benefit more from Christmas sales as his album is actually from this year. Taylor Swift might be the year-end #1 by the looks of things though anyway. I'm glad Dance Monkey has dropped out. I've asked people why they like this song and the usual response is that it's apparently insanely catchy. Well, I am glad there are modern pop songs out there which people enjoy, but I genuinely never found it catchy in the slightest and never once wanted to play it for myself.

Is this some kind of joke that I'm not getting? Why would MGMT care, or have any say in, how long these threads are?

Personally I noticed that during Miley's comeback in 2013 (I think it was) I started hearing Party In The USA again sometimes, after not hearing it at all for years. So that might be a factor.

It may partially be because it was a hit in 2016 where streaming was a LOT higher than 2015, so it has an advantage over all the 2015 songs which were actually hits in 2015 and had died down by the time streaming figures got even larger.

Yeah. Everybody hates it. :lol: It's like a typical AATW dance cover that they make for their compilation albums.

Does it sample Tulisa's version of Sweet Like Chocolate or the original?

According to this there is an official radio edit now: https://twitter.com/adeledailynet/status/1585383424532979712 Who knows if it will ever be available to the public though.

Well on the streaming playlists they resort to putting things like Man-eater, Toxic and Disturbia on the Halloween playlists probably for that reason. :lol:

Yeah. I'd love to time travel to 2006 and tell people that SOS would be her 32nd best-selling song. See how they would react. :lol:

About Umbrella, look at it this way. Don't Stop The Music and Disturbia were bigger than Needed Me, SOS was literally one of THE biggest hit songs of 2006, so obviously bigger than Love On The Brain or Bitch Better Have My Money. So it's the same with Umbrella vs. We Found Love and Love The Way You Lie. Only Girl was released between those two and was able to sell like 120,000 a week at #1. Umbrella was probably doing less than a quater of that on some of its weeks at #1. OCC should maybe try something like this. For Umbrella: (Umbrella sales in 2007 / total sales in 2007) + (Umbrella sales in 2008 / total sales in 2008) + (Umbrella sales in 2009 / total sales in 2009) + etc.... And do this for every Rihanna song and then total up the results. In fact that's probably what they should do for all their artists rankings, and their all-time charts. And even the past couple of decade-end charts had very weird results and maybe might have looked more normal if they were weighted by year.

Sunset Strippers actually released a new version of Falling Stars just a few months ago! Although it's credited as Pink Panda & Sunset Strippers.