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Interesting that there's only one pre1990s track in the top 20...

Thanks guys for clearing that up! :-)

Great thread! Just wondering about sales for Sunshine After The Rain, though. On the year-end 1995 chart it finished one place lower than Baby D's Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime on 275k, and I don't think either release fell across two years, so how did Berri get those extra sales to take her up to 338k? Just wondering, in case I missed something! :-)

Luvvit! :-)

Are kylie and madonna mates?

Hear'say: the way to your love. So cheesy! Liked it at the time, though!

No worries. I just appreciate the list - thanks again for posting!

Thanks for posting, OutstandingMike. Interesting sales for some of those tracks. Vanessa Carlton jumps out at me the most! Hasn't she pretty much sold again on download what she sold when the track was a hit? And I don't even recall seeing it make many appearances in the top 75 - must be a real steady seller!

This looks great! Nice work fchd!

If the X factor winner is Sam Bailey, I'll be happy with an X factor winner-related Christmas number one :-)

Rather grim, but the premature death of Kate and/or George, possibly? Not likely to happen, mind...

Diana Vickers - Cinderella!

I was a teen in the 90s, grew up with the charts every week and remember the chart careers of pretty much every one of those 90s tracks mentioned. Most of them, while being big-hitters, haven't really felt a great chart benefit from the download age, so I'd be glad to see any of them back in the T40! But, I do have a particular soft spot for Scarlett's independent love song - such an underrated gem. I'd also love to see a revival of Joshua kadison's Jessie or Robert miles's one & one, or even tori Amos's professional widow!

The one that springs to mind for me is atomic kitten's whole again. It was the fifth release from their debut album, following peaks of 10, 6, 10 and 20 I think. None of the other tracks passed 200k but, as we all know, whole again has to date sold over a million! It was also the track which gave them a future as, iirc, they were about to be dropped by their record company who weren't happy with their lacklustre performance in the charts to that point. Another biggie iis Robbie Williams' angels. The fourth release from his debut album, again this was the track which effectively launched his career. It followed peaks of 2, 8 and 14 I think, making number 4 in early 1998, but has sold well over a million now.

Thank you so much for this! You're a star! Cant believe they're all so low, though :-( you'll get extra points if you can make some of those totals a bit higher, haha! Thanks again, much appreciated :-)

No worries, thanks anyway. I just wondered if any of her sales tallies might've been given, what with the addition of downloads now, but I guess she'd have to have a current hit or a reactivated old one for them to prompt them to release that info - I'll live in hope! :-)

I don't suppose you have any sales info for Taylor Dayne, who released singles and a few albums between 1988 and 1996? Long shot, I know...

Yes, well done Vidcapper! And thanks again for all your hard work every day/week/year, I can't tell you how much I'd miss your threads if they stopped! I started becoming an avid Chartwatcher in about 1994 - I've no idea why, and I always thought I would've grown out of it but I never did! I always regret that these sort of week-by-week sales threads weren't available back then, but you would've had a much harder job back then as, as I remember from music week, hardly any sales were ever divulged except those of the number one - you were really lucky if even they gave sales for the number two single! I really hope OCC never find a way of shutting down these threads as they have done with others! Thanks again!

Did they say when this announcement was going to happen?

Over on Haven, the chart of 2000 has Rise on 448k, while the chart of the noughties has it on 462k, so presumably in the last three-and-a-half years it has sold 8k. So it's not quite the catalogue seller that Dreams is! Strange that, I always felt that - alongside Out Of Reach - Rise was Gabrielle's signature song. Personally though, I preferred Give Me A Little More Time!

I always thought katrina and the waves' 11 years (between sun street in 1986 and love shine a light in 1997) was quite impressive!

Ooooohh! Jann arden's insensitive from the summer of 1996! Had forgotten about that one! Lovely track, thanks for the reminder!

Dana international - DIVA!!!

Not sure if this one's been mentioned yet, but Chris De Burgh's Christmas classic A Spaceman Came Travelling only ever peaked at number 40, way back in 1986 I think. Had hoped it might've seen a return to the T40 after the download era but I'm still waiting!

So funny, the Maria Rubia track was the first to pop into my head as soon as I saw the title of this thread! Not sure why though, but I did love it at the time! Didn't think anyone else would've remembered it! :-)