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  1. zeus555 posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Here's the 10 Albums to be the fastest UK Million Sellers - so far:, 1) 'Be Here Now' - Oasis (1997) - 11 Days 2) 'The Circus' - Take That (2008) - 19 Days @ 3) 'Beautiful World' - Take That (2006) - 27 Days @ 4)='Robson & Jerome' - Robson & Jerome (1995) - 28 Days 4)='1' - The Beatles (2000) - 28 Days 6) 'Spirit' - Leona Lewis (2007) - 29 Days 7) 'But Seriously' - Phil Collins (1989) - 34 Days 8) 'X & Y' - Coldplay (2005) - 36 Days 9) 'The Immaculate Collection' - Madonna (1990) - 48 Days 10) 'Life For Rent' - Dido (2003) - 50 Days *** @ = So 'The Circus' has made Take That the only Act to have 2 such Albums in this List. *** = Some sources say 49 Days. So, Take That have the 2nd & 3rd fastest UK Million Selling Albums.
  2. I've added 'But Seriously' - Phil Collins, (1989), to the List - at No.6. NOTE - THESE? (Does Anyone Know?) Someone - elsewhere - has suggested that these Albums may well have sold a UK Million in less than 50 Days. Does anyone know how long they took to reach a UK Million? (It is MJDangerous, at UKMIX, who has suggested these - the words are his):, The following albums also sold over a million in less than 50 days: 1) 'Spice' by Spice Girls (1.78 million in 58 days according to the Year End Chart) (1996) 2) 'Ladies and Gentlemen' by George Michael (1.52 million in 52 days) (1998) 3) 'Swing When You're Winning' by Robbie Williams (1.49 million in 43 days) (2001) 4) 'Escapology' by Robbie Williams (1.41 million in 44 days) (2002) Other possible entries: 5) 'Bad' by Michael Jackson (1.65 million in 1987) 6) 'Dangerous' by Michael Jackson (#5 of 1991 in 36 days) 7) 'Greatest Hits II' by Queen (#3 of 1991 in 63 days) 8) 'Curtain Call' by Eminem (926k in 26 days) (2005)
  3. The OCC are expecting Take That to reach a UK Million Sale, with 'The Circus', in one of the fastest times ever. Here's the 8 Albums to be the fastest UK Million Sellers - so far:, 1) 'Be Here Now' - Oasis (1997) - 11 Days 2) 'Beautiful World' - Take That (2006) - 27 Days @ 3)='Robson & Jerome' - Robson & Jerome (1995) - 28 Days 3)='1' - The Beatles (2000) - 28 Days 5) 'Spirit' - Leona Lewis (2007) - 29 Days 6) 'But Seriously' - Phil Collins (1989) - 34 Days 7) 'X & Y' - Coldplay (2005) - 36 Days 8) 'Life For Rent' - Dido (2003) - 50 Days *** Have I missed any out? @ = So 'The Circus' looks like making Take That the only Act to have 2 such Albums in this List. *** = Some sources say 49 Days.
  4. Dave - I love those old Wizzard Hits. They were pastiches of Phil Spector Records, & were really 'throw backs' to what Spector was doing in 1963 & 1964. That's why 'Angel Fingers' & 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday' sound similar - they used similar instrumentation & production techniques. As did the Hit before those 2 - 'See My Baby Jive', & the one after all 3 Hits - 'Rock & Roll Winter'. (1974). And, I think Roy Wood's Solo Hit from December 1973 was a fantastic Single too - 'Forever'. (If you've ever heard Spector's 'Be My Baby', (1963), & Baby I Love You', (1964), by The Ronettes, you'd see that the sound/style/instrumentation, on those Hits are very similar to each other, too). When ABBA Won the ESC with 'Waterloo', Roy Wood felt that they'd 'borrowed' a lot of the sound/style/saxophone from 'See My Baby Jive'. He saw it as revenge, when he played Sax on the cover of 'Waterloo', by Doctor & The Medics, in 1986. (No.46). Finally - Alexandra sold 105,000 in Downloads on Sunday - not counting Monday's Sales. She's obviously going to sell several Hundred Thousand copies this Week. I believe the CD is out on Wednesday.
  5. Alexandra sold 105,000 Downloads yesterday. So, she already has the UK's No.1, (Best Selling), Single as I write. Leona won't have sold 105,000 copies - even with Sunday & Monday added together. However, it is all very, very safe, & predictable. We may as well decide on January 1st each Year, that the 'X Factor' Winner will be No.1 at Christmas. Hardly exciting is it? Alexandra = Le-Clone-A Lewis.
  6. Alexandra sold 105,000 Downloads yesterday. So, she already has the UK's No.1, (Best Selling), Single as I write. Leona won't have sold 105,000 copies - even with Sunday & Monday added together. However, it is all very, very safe, & predictable. We may as well decide, on January 1st each Year, that the 'X Factor' Winner will be No.1 at Christmas. Hardly exciting is it?
  7. I love the way so many 'X Factor' Fans get excited about the idea that yet another Cover version from that Show will be No.1. Let's see - that's 3 of the last 5 UK No.1's of 2008 that were Cover versions - and all 3 have 'X Factor' connections. No one can pretend that this is a creative time for what is reaching No.1 in the 'Singles' Chart! Anyhow, Simon Cowell says that on 'Advance Sales' alone, nothing will stop Alexandra having the Christmas No.1.
  8. Last Week, Gordon Smart. 'Bizarre page - 'The Sun'), joined the Campaign to get Jeff Buckley's verison to No.1 . He's encouraging 'The Sun' readers to Download it. (He already claims that it was down to his 'The Sun' Campaign that 'Run' became available as a UK Download. In fact, it was always going to be a 'Single' - Sony & Simon Cowell just wanted to force UK Leona Fans to buy her 'Deluxe' 'Spirit' - for a few Weeks - by making them think that it was the only way to get 'Run'). Anyhow, we could end up with 2 versions of 'Hallelujah' in the Christmas Top 10. I like the Jeff Buckley version, but I think the Intro. is far too long. Alexandra Burke will obviously have the Christmas No.1 with it. I find it all very depressing. It means that of the final 5 No.1's of 2008, 3 have been Cover versions - and all 3 have 'X Factor' connections. Whatever happened to creativity in Music?
  9. Does anyone have any idea which No.1 Albums spent the fewest Weeks on the UK Album Chart? Does anyone know the Top 10 such Albums? Thanks.
  10. In the end, it matters not. Duffy was Nominated too, last Year - but lost to Adele. However - Duffy ended up as a much bigger UK & International success, (than Adele), during 2008.....
  11. 'Be here Now' definitely came out on a Thursday - Thursday 21st August 1997. It sold, (UK), over 420,000 on that 1st Day alone. 'Viva La Vida', by Coldplay, came out on a Thursday too, in June. Wikipedia says it came out on June 11th - but, that was a Wednesday - it must have been June 12th. And some sources say that 'Dangerous', by Michael Jackson, was a Thursday release, in 1991. But other sources say it came out on a normal Monday. Wikipedia says 26th November 1991 - which was a Tuesday!
  12. zeus555 posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Zavvi are heavily in debt too. Virgin Media are helping to bail them out, apparently.
  13. Since their 2006 'Come Back', Take That have had 5 Singles Hits, & just 3 of them have spent 134 Weeks in the Top 75 between them! 'Patience' - 40 Weeks - About 540,000 to 550,000 sold 'Shine' - 42 Weeks - about 400,000(?) sold 'Rule The World' - 52 Weeks - 550,000 - 560,000 sold Yet, from 1991 to 1996 they had 16 UK Hits, & they spent 158 Weeks on the Chart between them - just 24 Weeks more than THREE of their 'Come Back' Hits have managed. (13 of the 16 reached the Top 10, & 8 of those 13 were No.1 Hits). To show how Singles used to often Sell more than now, but spent far, far less time on the Chart - none of Take That's 'Come Back' Singles has outsold 2 of their 1990's Hits:, 'Back For Good' (1995) - 13 Chart Weeks - 960,000 sold 'How Deep Is Your Love' (1996) - 14 Chart Weeks - 650,000 sold In fact many Singles now stay in the Charts for far longer than in past Decades - but, they are not actually even reaching 600,000 Sales - most of them. Take That are on about 297 Singles Chart Weeks. ABBA are on 260 Singles Chart Weeks. But, ABBA are the UK's 8th All Time Best Selling Singles Act - Take That are 27th. So, all of those extra Weeks On Chart, have yet to make Take That even one of the Top 20 Biggest Selling Singles Acts here.....Endless Weeks On Chart, actually mean little in relation to Sales. (For Singles, anyhow).
  14. Why? Do tell. In the meantime, go to UKMIX, & look at the Top 100 Positions for 'Gold', 'Greatest Hits' - Queen, 'Legend', & 'Immaculate Collection'. http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13100
  15. Kingofskiffle, probably due to your missing Data, several of the Albums in your List have too few Top 75 Weeks. You give 'Gold' by ABBA 338 Top 75 Weeks, but it was on that figure by June 30th 2004 - 4.5 Years ago. It is actually on 383 Top 75 Weeks now. I've used the Guinness Book - and others - to work out the Albums with Most Chart Weeks, since July 1956. Like you, I've used the Top 75 from January 14th 1989 onwards - as the 'old' Chart Books did. Below is the Top 20 'Most Weeks' Albums since 1956. The figure in Brackets is how many Weeks THIS Year that an Album has been in the Top 75. At present, 'Gold' is the only one of the Top 20 still in the Top 75. The final Guinness Book, (2006), gave 'Gold' 352 Chart Weeks. it was 1 too many - it should have been 351. You get its 383 Top 75 Weeks this way:, 1992 - 2005 - 351 Weeks 2006 - Zero Top 75 Weeks 2007 - 6 Top 75 weeks 2008 - 26 Top 75 Weeks (So far - to W/E 13th December). Total = 383 Top 75 weeks. 1) 478 Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 2) 474 Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf 3) 472 Greatest Hits - Queen (* = 10) 4) 383 Gold - ABBA (* = 26) @ 5) 382 The Sound Of Music - Film Soundtrack 6) 372 The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd 7) 370 Legend - Bob Marley And The Wailers (* = 28) 8) 315 South Pacific - Film Soundtrack 9) 307 Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon And Garfunkel 10) 283 Greatest Hits - Simon And Garfunkel 11) 282 War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne / Various Artists (* = 4) 12) 278 Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield 13) 274 Face Value - Phil Collins 14) 251 Making Movies - Dire Straits 15) 242 The Immaculate Collection - Madonna (* = 3) 16) 231 Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits (* = 3) 17) 203 Under A Blood Red Sky - U2 18) 201 Thriller - Michael Jackson && 19)=200 Love Over Gold - Dire Straits 19)=200 The King & I - Film Soundtrack This Thread - at UKMIX - by Hanboo - shows many Top 200 Weeks, for many Acts Albums. He's up-dated some to early 2007, & some to April 2008 - so, it is not fully complete at present. However, it is all very detailed. http://www.ukmix.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13100 The Chart of W/E 18th March 2004. Hanboo makes an odd decision in that Chart. 'Gold' was at No.125, (1992/1999 version), in the Top 200, that Week. But, the 2004 version - that had just been released - was in the same Chart - at No.4 - New Entry. Hanboo pretends that the No.4 Position did not exist, & he just counts the No.125 Position. So the next Week - W/E 25th March - when 'Gold' fell from No.4 to No.8, Hanboo pretends that it has really jumped from No.125 to No.8. It was the wrong decision. The No.4 Position should be counted, & the No.125 Position should be ignored. (The OCC tell me that THEY ignore the No.125 Position in the 18th March Chart. They count 'Gold' as a No.4 Hit that Week. As do Chart Books - as they give it a Top 75 place that Week).
  16. Katherine - I did not mean to sound rude to you, by the way. You can also see the Top 100 Positions for 'Legend', & 'Greatest Hits' by Queen - as well as 'Gold' - at chc Media Forums. Kingofskiffle does a Chart Analysis there, & there is a Chart from October, in which he Lists ALL the Top 200 Positions for those 3 Albums, as all 3 were in the Top 75 at the time. It is hell trying to count the Top 100 Weeks, as there are so many of them. The best way is to ignore their Top 75 Positions - as we already know them. So, No.1 to No.75 Positions are ignored. You ALSO have to ignore their No.101 to No.200 Positions - and that makes it even trickier. 'Greatest Hits' - Queen - 472 Weeks 'Gold' - ABBA - 383 Weeks (To W/E 13th December) 'Legend' - Bob Marley - 370 Weeks They are all Top 75* Weeks - so just add those in later. (*Except for any 1980's No.76 to No.100 Positions. They are already added in, as the Chart was a Top 100 for most of the 1980's. So the Queen & Bob Marley Albums include some 1980's Top 100 Positions in their above Totals). You then add in their Top 100 (No.76 to No.100), Positions - any AFTER the 1980's that is. Once you have all the No.76 to No.100 Positions, for the 3 Albums, you then add their Top 75 Positions Totals in - and you have ALL their Top 100 Positions. It took me ages to do 'Gold', as I kept getting a different Total each time. In the end, I got 539 Weeks 4 times in a row, so I knew that had to be the correct Total.
  17. Spicefunk, The Beatles had 18 Top 10 Hits in a row, if you count 'Ain't She Sweet', (No.29 in 1964). That is correct. However, you indicate that if you don't count that Hit, (as it was not an Official Beatles Single), they had 6 Top 10 Hits before it - making 24 in a row for The Beatles. This is NOT correct. You are misunderstanding the Guinness Book. That Book makes it look like 'Love Me Do' was a No.4 Hit in 1962. It wasn't. It Peaked at No.17. It did not reach No.4 until 1982. Guinness combined its 1962 & 1982 Entries, & made it look like it was No.4 in 1962. The Beatles never had more than 23 Top 10 Hits in a row. It was never 24. 'Love Me Do', should not be counted. As I said - it was a No.17 Hit in 1962 - not No.4.
  18. I know, because it is possible to see full Top 200 Weeks for those Albums at UKMIX. You simply count the Top 100 weeks in the Top 200, then add in any Weeks from 2007 & 2008 - as the UKMIX List has not been up-dated since early 2007. The Chart Stats Site only counts Top 100 weeks from August 8th 1981 to January 14th 1989 - when the Chart was Officially a Top 100 - not a Top 75 - and it then starts counting Top 100 Weeks again on December 9th 2000 - as if the Top 100 did not exist in the 1990's. It is a MESS. Unfortunately Wikipedia insists on using Chart Stats Data for its Top 100 Weeks for 'Gold'. I told the Guy at Wikipedia, that Chart Stats is way, way too low in its Top 100 figure for 'Gold', but he said that it is just my opinion. So, he will carry on using laughably incorrect Data - and I warn everyone whom I know, to NOT use Chart Stats Data - or Wikipedia - if they want accuracy, rather than nonsence.....
  19. And here is the rest of the Biggest 1st Weeks Sales List:, 51. Shayne Ward - Shayne Ward - 201,266 (2006) 52. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul - 200,866 (2008) 53. U2 - How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 200,863 (2004) 54. The Killers - Day & Age - 200,299 (2008) 55. Mariah Carey - Music Box - 200,675 (1993) 56.=U2 - Zooropa - 200,000 (1993) 56.=REM - Monster - 200,000 (1994) 'But Seriously' by Phil Collins, should be in the Top 50 too - quite high I'd say. When it entered at No.1, (W/E 2nd December 1989), it was said to be the UK's 'Fastest Selling Album', to date. However, it is not in the List, as no-one seems to remember its 1st Week's Sales.....I'm sure that Alan Jones, of 'Music Week', must know! He will have it in his collection of UK Chart Data.
  20. The Top 100 Data is obviously from the Chart Stats Site. It is full of mistakes. 'Gold' by ABBA is actually on 539 Top 100 Weeks! That's 383 Top 75 Weeks, plus 156 from No.76 to No.100 = 539. Chart Stats gives 'Gold' 369 Top 75 Weeks - it has 'lost' 14 somewhere. That gives it 369 Top 75 Weeks, instead of 383. The Site then adds in just 21 Weeks for No.76 to No.100 Positions = 390 Weeks. It is 'only' 169 Top 100 Weeks short! It is a similar story for 'Greatest Hits' by Queen, 'Legend' by Bob Marley, & 'Immaculate Collection' by Madonna. Those 3 Albums have far too few Top 100 Weeks too.
  21. A Track should only count as a Single Release, if it is meant to be a Single by the Record Company. That is whether it is only available as a Download, or as a Download & a CD, & whether it does or does not have a Video to Promote it. If a Track is NOT going to be a Single - if it is Downloaded off an Album, & the Record Company do NOT want it to be a Single, then it should just count as a Chart Entry for an Act. It should get added to their Weeks On Chart - but, it should not be regarded as being an Official Single - so such Tracks cannot break an Act's Top 10 Singles runs etc. (Like 'Ain't She Sweet' reaching No.29, for The Beatles in 1964. It was not on The Beatles UK Label, & it was not an Official Beatles Single - so it is not counted, as regards breaking their run of 23 Top 10 Hits in a Row. The Run would be 18 Top 10 Hits in a row, if you count 'Ain't She Sweet' as breaking the sequence). Otherwise - had we had Downloads in the 1960's & 1970's - no one would have been able to put together long runs of Top 10 Hits. The Beatles would never have had 23 Top 10 Hits in a row, from 1963 to 1976. ABBA would never have had 18 in a row from 1975 to 1981. Because BOTH Acts were so big, that every New Beatles & New ABBA Studio Album, would have seen many of the Tracks enter the Singles Chart - as Downloads. If you counted them as 'Hit Singles', neither Group would have strung many Top 10 Hits together at all - unless all their Downloaded Album Tracks made the Top 10, of course. Some of their Downloaded Album Tracks may well have made the Singles Chart Top 10 - but many - maybe most - would not have done so.
  22. Ej87 - 'South Pacific' IS in my List - at No.8 - 315 Chart Weeks. It spent 115 Weeks at No.1 - not 119 Weeks. I don't understand 'Katherine's List. If it shows Albums that spent longest in the Top 100, then where is 'Gold' by ABBA? That is on well over 500 Top 100 Weeks. The Queen Album - 'Greatest Hits' - only has 479 Top 100 Weeks in 'Katherine's List, but that is only 7 more Weeks than I get it to, & I'm only looking at its Top 75 Positions - except for some Years in the 1980's, when the entire Top 100 was used as the 'Official' part of the Charts. (Until January 1989). Zeus555
  23. Gooddelta - 'Greatest Hits', by Take That, was not a 1995 Album. It came out in 1996, & it was No.1 for 4 Weeks - all of April - that Year.
  24. To show how many Singles hang around the Charts for ages now:, 1) When they split up in 1996, Take That had, had 16 UK Hits, of which 13 had reached the Top 10 - with 8 at No.1. 2) Those 16 Hits had spent 158 Weeks on the Chart between them. 3) Since their 2006 'Come Back', they have had 5 Hits - and have spent 139 further Weeks in the Singles Top 75. 4) However, just THREE of their 5 'Come Back' Hits are responsible for 134 of those 139 Weeks:, a) Patience - 40 Weeks - About 540,000 to 550,000 sold B) Shine - 42 Weeks - about 400,000 sold - ? c) Rule The World - 52 Weeks - About 550,000 - 560,000 sold - still on Chart. (That's 134 Weeks - Plus 2 Weeks for 'I'd Wait For Life', 2, (so far), for 'Greatest Day', & 1 Re-entry - last Week - with the 1995 Song, 'Never Forget'). 5) The 3 Hits with over 40 Weeks each are not even their 3 Biggest UK Hits These 2 sold more:, a) Back For Good - 13 Weeks - 960,000 sold (1995) B) How Deep Is Your Love - 14 Weeks - 650,000 sold (1996) 6) We are now back to a time like the 1950's, when Singles can stay on the Chart for endless Months, but very few reach 500,000 or 600,000 Sales - because Sales are so low.
  25. zeus555 posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    The Leona Single was always going to be released in the UK. It has been No.1 in Ireland for the past 3 Weeks. That's a clue that a UK Release was planned. Keeping it on the 'Deluxe' 'Spirit' in the UK - rather than making it a Single 3 Weeks ago - was an obvious ploy,to force people to buy the 'New' version of her Album. They never bothered using the same trick in Ireland, as only 4 Million people live there, so there were no huge Album Sales to be gained by holding the release of 'Run' back for a few Weeks. It is manipulating Leona's UK Fans really - nothing to do with Simon Cowell being clever.