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So it seems we're still waiting for a massive international popstar to emerge from Northern Ireland. Hope it happens soon!!

Future hit for this thread - Janet Devlin's first single! :-)

Joy Rider had a T40 hit with Rush Hour in about July 1996, I think it made about #22! One of the guys in the band used to be married to a friend of mine in Portadown!

And it was only four years earlier that Whitney was #3 (with It's Not Right But It's Okay) in a top 3 which all sold - well in excess of - 100k. Not sure, though, if the #4 track that week passed 100k...

Sad Midnight City has already begun its decline

Room for improvement, mind! haha :lol:

Yeah, I thought it was only about 5k away - was thinking maybe it might have sold that across Sunday, yesterday and today? Can't see anything else passing 1m for a while yet, though. Any ideas on how to get 5,000 people to download Matt's When We Collide?? :lol:

So can we now presume that We Found Love has passed a mill...?

But Rumours and Gold etc have all spent the quivalent of 7 or 8 years in the T75 - I can see Lungs and Crazy Love etc hanging around for a good while yet, but do you really think they've got four or five years' worth of T75 mileage left? It'd be great to see it happen, though!

Will we ever see a post-90s album racking up hundreds of weeks on the chart such as these classics?

If Steps were going to make a comeback, shouldn't they have released a new track to tie in with their greatest hits (while they were back in the media spotlight) rather than wait several months for all the hype to die down?

I think it had sold just over 270k by last week - not bad for a track that missed the top 15!

Yeah, Mr Brightside seems to be a fixture in the T200 - I thought it would've sold 90-100k at least. Ah well...

shouldn't the killers be on this list?

Sorry to be a pest, Vidcapper, but would you have a rough estimate of how many copies Cliff Richard's Saviour's Day sold last week?

Thanks Vidcapper - I'd completely forgotten all about that Tiesto track!

Hi Vidcapper! Just out of curiosity, you say that 104 tracks have sold over 200k this year so far - what do you reckon is ranked YTD #105 and do you have a rough estimate of this track's sales? Ta in advance!

Does anyone know if these sales will count when calculating Paradise's total sales, should they sell enough to - say - make the year-end top 100?

and five other non-top 5 hits still making the grade too! that wouldn't have happened in the 90s or the early noughties!

Oh yeah, forgot about Black and Yellow! I don't know why, but I've tended to find that - across the years - there are a surprisingly low number of phenomenally-selling number 5 hits! Strange, but when I look at the year-end top 75 singles every year I always seem to have to look way down for the number 5 tracks, or maybe I'm just imagining it!

What's this year's top-selling number 5? It doesn't appear to have sold enough to make the YTD top 40... Same goes for the top-selling number 7... Make You Feel My Love perhaps?

92 - I was close! Ta for the info, Vidcapper!

Hi Vidcapper - just wondering how many tracks have passed 200k this year, it must be about 90, right? Last year just over 100 tracks did it, but there looks set to be a lot more this year! Can you tell us which track is just about to pass 200k and which track has just edged past the mark? That'd be really interesting to know! And thanks again for all your hard work!

Funny, I was just thinking about this sort of thing the other day as one of my favourite performers from the 1980s kind of falls into this category with a few of her tracks. Taylor Dayne had back to back top 10 hits in 1988 with Tell It To My Heart and Prove Your Love. Her next single, I'll Always Love You, spent 7 weeks in the Top 75, but got stuck at #75. The following single, Don't Rush Me, was even more unlucky: it hit #78 towards the end of 1988 and, when reactivated a few months later, charted at #76. How infuriating!!!!!!!!

From knowing just Ambitions, and the tracks on Classic, it's difficult to think of another artist who has changed their musical style so radically (although Everything But The Girl did a bit of a turnaround in the mid-90s) - and in such a short space of time, less than a year! Shame about the sales, though. I'm 30 now and hardly ever get time to listen to music - i tend to just have Viva or whatever on in the background. I'd really have appreciated those reduced prices 10 or 15 years ago when i bought anything and everything!