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Figure I found for Can't Get You Out of My Head on Twitter: 1,912,683 as of this week. Not sure how accurate this is.

Third time? There was a 10 year gap between Tears On My Pillow and Spinning Around, and then a 22 year gap between Slow and XMAS. What was the other ten year gap?

It's also almost time for her once a decade slightly more insightful than usual release (Impossible Princess - X - Golden)!

Wait is Kylie Christmas actually in the running for the top spot? It didn't even occur to me that it would be getting a major chart boost. If it reaches the top ten, it would leave Let's Get To It as Kylie's only album to miss the top ten. 35th anniversary vinyl push next year to get it into the top ten?

Top 40 already and it's only for the week starting 21 November? I sense Kylie's highest charting song in 15 years incoming!

When Alexa pushes Kylie's XMAS song to number one and queues Santa Baby right after it on every play as well so Kylie ends up getting two Christmas top tens 🤩

Can Lily make the top ten this week?

Chinese or I Could Say would also have made great singles.

I don't think so unless there's a big pure sales push later down the week.

I'm very shocked, as this album seemed to be having more buzz than the previous one which still managed to get a top ten placement. I was thinking she'd make it into the top 20, but I won't hold out hope.

Number 72 on the Updates Chart.

I think the success of this album is hinging less on who Lily's divorce was or the mid-2000s being 'cool' again (which has been going on for like 5 years now), and more on the quality of the album and how much people are connecting to Lily's songwriting and sense of humour in the face of what must've been a highly difficult situation for her. David Harbour is well-known, but certainly not enough to influence the British charts of all rankings through an unconfirmed divorce from his ex-wife who was a big star almost 2 decades ago. For the same reason, Katy won't come back anywhere near the top of the charts unless the next album is undeniably a major return to form for her and helps her shrug the disdain/disregard the public has had for almost a decade now.

Come through Lily!

Do we know the sales for all of Lily's albums thus far?

How brilliant would it be if they lowered the platinum certification threshold for albums released after 2017 to 200,000 and retroactively applied it to all the albums released since then.

I just checked and was shocked to find out Where The Wild Roses Grow is not even silver! It's one of her most-streamed songs so I would've expected better certifications for it. I guess the plays probably come mostly from Australia.

Based on today's news, we know that the track is now averaging close to 500 chart sales if not more.

Very cool post, thank you for sharing these figures. I always love reading what you have to say! While On Your Radar's sales weren't dastardly, surely they must've gotten a boost from being released around the holidays. Perhaps had they released in September, they would've sold less and still missed out on the top ten? I did check the sales though, and the week after All Fired Up's release, the girls would've gotten a number 7 peak with 18,000 units. Considering Wordshaker made it to 85,000 sales after it was taken off in August 2010 (10 months after release), it's crazy that On Your Radar couldn't even pull anything above a silver certification 2 years after its release in October 2013. In a perfect world, My Heart Takes Over would've been performed on X Factor and become the Saturdays' I'll Stand By You, and that would've helped the album well throughout the winter, and then in early 2012 White Lies and Get Ready, Get Set would've followed as singles and done decently as well. Maybe the album could've ended up with a multi-platinum certification and Living For The Weekend's performance could've gone from its meagre 9.5K first week to the top spot with like 30,000. I'm not surprised Wordshaker is not doing too well, as almost of its sales probably go to Finest Selection. Even if they weren't going there, I would've assumed they were going to Headlines! as that album also has Forever Is Over and Ego (the only tracks with any notable streaming activity) on it.

Why did On Your Radar underperform so much? A measly number 21 peak and still only silver after all these years. Chasing Lights is Platinum and if we count the collective of Wordshaker + Headlines (in my mind Headlines was basically a re-issue of Wordshaker) that should be Platinum too. Notorious did alright and All Fired Up did quite well, and I feel like the album had a lot of potential hits like White Lies, Get Ready, Get Set, and the Travie McCoy collab. The album's sales have been a mystery to me, I think it is one of their strongest ones.

Did it not sell anything at all in the period between 1989 and 1994? I have no idea how catalogue sales worked in the early 90s lol. Also, before this update the last update we had was in August 2019, when The Loco-Motion was at 455,000 units. That means it moved around 80,000 units between 1994 and 2019, and a further 120,000 units in the past 6 years. At this rate (around 20,000 units a year), it'll go gold in another 10 years. However if we rely on the Spotify figures, The Loco-Motion had around 80,000 non-physical units when it was at 14 million streams in August 2019. It is now at 73 million streams, so that implies that for every 10 million streams, the song gained 20,000 units. Therefore, the song will have to gain another 100 million streams to go gold. At its current daily streaming rate of around 30,000 to 35,000 spins per day, this will happen in roughly 8 years. If the rate continues to go up, we can expect it to hit gold in 5-6 years.

To be fair, Spinning Around was at 245,000 units by the end of 2000. By the end of the decade, it had only sold another 31,000 units to get to 276,000 sales. Then by early 2014 it was at 300,000 sales, but downloads died down so that by 2018 it had 314,000 units. I would guess it's probably around 325,000 pure sales now, with the rest of its figure (~275,000 units) coming from streaming. That means the bulk of its sales has happened in the past 10 years or so, so the 25 years figure is a bit misleading

Oh but wow, what a moment.

By my estimates, Finest Selection: The Greatest Hits should now be at ~185,000 units. I think it'll go platinum in mid-2029.

The OCC said it was at 21.1 million in June 2023 when it was at 36.4 million Spotify plays; now it's at 39.6 million, so it should be at some 23 million UK-only plays. That alone should put it at 201,000 units. I'm going to add another 10,000 units just to be sure. I'm not sure exactly how many downloads/physical singles Dancing sold, but Chartmasters estimates it at being 40,000 downloads based on its chart run. I would throw in another 5,000 for any growth since then or physical singles, so all in all I would put Dancing at over 250,000 units; 260,000 units if we're being optimistic. I remember older estimates putting Dancing at 270,000 units like 2 years ago, but it has torpedoed in streams (Slow earns twice as many streams on the daily) so I'd be shocked if it was much higher than 270,000 units even now.

I would put Spinning Around a little bit higher, maybe around 580,000 units. It was at 314,000 pure sales as of April 2018, and was certified gold in August 2020, indicating it had earned some 86,000 units from streaming by then. At the time it was at 21.6 million streams on Spotify. Now it's at 66.3 million plays, and if overall streams increased in proportion with that, the streaming units should be around 270,000. That should put its total units over 580,000 units. Hopefully platinum happens before the year's end. All The Lovers was at 383,000 pure sales as of April 2018, but it went gold in February 2017. If we compare those units to the ones we got from the 2019 update here (440,000 units), we get a rate of 320 units per week so it should be at 540,000 units by now. It has shown considerable growth in streaming since then though, so I would actually estimate it to be over 560,000 units. Hopefully platinum will happen in 2027 or earlier. Love at First Sight was at 200,000 pure sales as of April 2018, and it took 5 years to sell another 200,000 units to go gold. That would put it around 475,000 units by now, but it saw a decent growth in streaming in 2024, averaging around 40,000 daily plays compared to 30,000 daily in the years prior. That's like a 33% growth in 2024, so that would put it close to 490,000 units by now. Either way, by the year's end it should be well above 500,000 units and hopefully it'll go platinum in 2027. Another song I'd like to look out for is Higher. It has almost doubled its streams since March 2022 when it was certified gold (it was at 56 million plays then and now it's at 104 million). It should've added another 60,000 units since then, so it should be at around 460,000 units by now. I think if it continues to show growth in streaming it will go platinum before the end of the decade.