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What did they say?

As a continuation of this thread, I've collated some stats. I'm still trying to work out how to categorise things; I opted not to include singers who became actors. I've aimed to include anything that either has a certification or available sales somewhere. Any help with missing figures would be appreciated. Sportspeople Singles 200,000 - Manchester United Football Squad: Come On You Reds (#1) [May 1994] 200,000 - 1996 Manchester United Fa Cup Squad: Move Move Move (The Red Tribe) (#2) [June 1996] 200,000 - WWF Superstars: Slam Jam (#4) [December 1992] Albums 60,000 - Gazza & Friends: Let’s Have a Party [November 1990] 11,202 - Chris Kamara: Here’s to Christmas (#8) [December 2019] Actors Singles 2,490,000 - John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John: You're the One That I Want (#1) [August 2022] 1,872,000 - Robson & Jerome: Unchained Melody / White Cliffs of Dover (#1) [september 2017] 1,800,000 - Zac Efron & Zendaya: Rewrite the Stars (#16) [June 2020] 600,000 - Baz Luhrmann: Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) (#1) [July 2013] 505,000 - Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman: Somethin’ Stupid (#1) [september 2022] 400,000 - Patrick Swayze: She's Like The Wind (#17) [March 2022] 202,140 - Kate Winslet: What If (#6) [December 2002] 200,000 - Ryan Gosling: I'm Just Ken (#13) [April 2024] 200,000 - Telly Savalas: If (#1) [March 1975] 200,000 - Bruce Willis: Under The Boardwalk (#2) [July 1987] 200,000 - Tracey Ullman: They Don't Know (#2) [October 1983] 200,000 - Dennis Waterman: I Could Be So Good For You (#3) [November 1980] 156,000 - Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon & Tom Jones: (Barry) Islands in the Stream (#1) [December 2009] 47,000 - David Hasselhoff: Jump In My Car (#3) [December 2006] 7,354 - Jack Black: Peaches (#28) [April 2023] Albums 100,000 - Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruno (#4) [July 1987] 100,000 - Nick Berry: Nick Berry (#28) [January 1993] 60,000 - Telly Savalas: Telly (#12) [July 1975] 60,000 - Tracey Ullman: You Broke My Heart in 17 Places (#14) [November 1983] Entertainers (Comedians, Presenters, Actors-Turned-Entertainers) Singles 2,172,000 - Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds: Three Lions (#1) [July 2021] 400,000 - Ant & Dec (as PJ & Duncan): Let’s Get Ready to Rhumble (#1) [september 2023] 336,138 - Peter Kay & Matt Lucas (as Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin): (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles (#1) [December 2007] 200,000 - Su Pollard: Starting Together (#2) [February 1986] 200,000 - James Corden & Dizzee Rascal: Shout (#1) [July 2013] 200,000 - Shane Ritchie: I’m Your Man (#3) [July 2013] Albums 300,000 - Ant & Dec (as PJ & Duncan): Psyche (#5) [December 1994] 187,671 - Alexander Armstrong: A Year Of Songs (#6) [November 2016] 143,541 - Bradley Walsh: Chasing Dreams (#10) [November 2017] 100,000 - John Barrowman: Another Side (#22) [January 2008] 60,000 - Su Pollard: Su (#86) [December 1986] 60,000 - Peter Kay: The Best Of - So Far (#62) [December 2005] 3,082 - Jason Manford: A Different Stage (#10) [October 2017] Novelty Singles 694,000 - Crazy Frog: Axel F (#1) [June 2020] 600,000 - Mr Blobby: Mr Blobby (#1) [December 1993] 600,000 - Chef: Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) (#1) [February 1999] 200,000 - Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers: Power Rangers (#3) [December 1994] 182,532 - LadBaby: Don't Stop Me Eatin' (#1) [December 2022] 60,086 - Wealdstone Raider (#5) [December 2014] 31,216 - RSPB: Let Nature Sing (#18) [May 2019] 11,613 - One Pound Fish Man: One Pound Fish (#28) [December 2012] Albums 100,000 - Crazy Frog: Crazy Hits (#5) [september 2005] 60,000 - Mighty Morph'n Power Rangers: Power Rangers (#50) [January 1995] Children's TV Shows Singles 1,113,000 - Teletubbies: Teletubbies Say “Eh-Oh!” (#1) [september 2017] 1,032,000 - Bob the Builder: Can We Fix It? (#1) [september 2017] 200,000 - Tweenies: Number 1 (#5) [December 2001] 40,000 - LazyTown: Bing Bang (Time to Dance) (#4) [December 2006] Albums 100,000 - Bob the Builder: The Album (#4) [October 2001] 100,000 - Tweenies: The Christmas Album (#34) [July 2013] Charity Groups Singles 631,950 - Military Wives & Gareth Malone: Wherever You Are (#1) [December 2011] 427,000 - Gary Barlow, The Commonwealth Band & Military Wives: Sing (#1) [November 2020] 163,123 - Gareth Malone's All Star Choir (#1) [December 2014] 147,897 - Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir: A Bridge Over You (#1) [January 2016] 102,307 - Michael Ball, Captain Tom Moore & The NHS Voices of Care Choir: You’ll Never Walk Alone (#1) [May 2020] 20,433 - The Choir for the Invictus Games & Gareth Malone feat. Laura Wright (#29) [May 2016] Albums 100,000 - Military Wives: In My Dreams (#1) [July 2013]

Will the Lib Dems end up splitting the Labour vote? That said, Reform may end up splitting the Tory vote too.

Separate category for Fishmongers it is. :D

Thanks for the responses! I'm not sure whether to include actors who did end up becoming professional singers, as opposed to just doing the odd thing here and there. Or the other way round. I suppose I could have a separate category - Sportspeople, Actors, Entertainers, Actors-Turned-Singers (and vice versa) etc. Thoughts?

I was thinking of doing another of my chart stats threads but for people who don't perform music as their primary career. Jason Manford, for example, has been in musicals, but is primarily a comedian. We've had albums from him, Bradley Walsh, Alexander Armstrong and Chris Kamara chart in the top 10. Nick Knowles just scraped into the top 75 in comparison iirc... Where the singles chart is concerned, it's primarily Christmas number ones I imagine. There's not many charity records outside of that which don't feature musicians at all. Finding total sales figures for a lot of these examples seems quite difficult but I thought maybe I'd have some luck via this thread.

Jesus. Politicians trying to be cool never works for me, which is why I don't get the criticisms about Starmer being dull. Give me dull any day if the person is actually competent.

The tournament feels like it has less of a stink this year, compared with previous ones. 2022 had the complications of being in Qatar, and people probably felt guilty for enjoying it, but also it just felt weird being in the autumn. 2021 had some COVID restrictions still and being in different countries was an interesting one-off but then spoilt a little by audiences booing players taking the knee. Hopefully it's different this year.

She's autistic and mentioned that she normally feels uncomfortable in studio settings. Taskmaster was the exception when it comes to the TV things she's done, at least in terms of the actual tasks.

I can fully picture the Tories going full Trump if they lose, with the whole "this election was fixed" angle. Hopefully the British public will be less tolerant of it.

He is a businessman in a sense so of course he wishes he could own the name. :D I am slightly worried that the boys they're casting are 16 to 18. I know the very nature of boybands are that they're supposed to be pretty young, but I think it's even harder for people to get into the industry at a young age now - in some respects. On the one hand, they'll probably be looked after better, but the social media aspect isn't all that kind.

This may not be a particularly popular thing to share here... but anyway, Simon Cowell has done Steven Bartlett's podcast: Within the last 10 minutes, he mentions that the amount of new UK artists to have broken globally has fallen off a cliff in the last 6-7 years, and only about 3 have managed it. It did make me wonder who those three are. Dua Lipa, Lewis Capaldi... anyone else? Harry Styles did release his debut in 2017 but he was already known. I'm reading into it a bit too much because I'm presuming he's talking about those who got their break specifically then - Ed Sheeran was already having worldwide success even before he released Divide.

I've not been deep in the interviews and stuff like that, I just want the day to come about. The Euros will distract us a bit.

That many people don't know? It's been unavoidable. :D I jest, I appreciate not everyone has followed it.

Why am I not surprised...

I do wonder how much of a part he had to play in what people were doing by the end anyway. With people like Labrinth (one of the few people on his roster who didn't come from one of his talent shows), he let him do his own thing but still oversaw the overall thing. With some acts (maybe with people like Susan Boyle) he took a more active role in picking the songs and stuff like that.

He doesn't. I believe Syco folded in 2020, though I don't think they had many artists on their roster by then. Most had moved to RCA or something else.

Thank you!

I wonder if Sunak realises why his D-Day mistake went down so badly? His whole thing during this campaign has been banging on about National Service and conscription. Who does he think the people celebrated by D-Day are?

I still think back to Alex Brooker (from The Last Leg) who, in 2015, made the observation that Tory Manifesto sounds like a porn star.

Plus if it was easy to have success with "cheesy" music, everyone would be doing it.

I think his presence does more harm than good at this point.

I think if they didn't rush through The X Factor: The Band and did it seriously over ten weeks, instead of the disastrous Celebrity series, they might have gotten more out of it. Creating.a group through a casting process is less of an issue than whatever they do to fit into the market.

Yes, they created two new bands with The X Factor: The Band and didn't do anything with them. No releases, nothing. I don't see this being any different, although at least he's only focusing on one band. I'm not sure the pop industry is where he's going to make headwinds these days. The problem I have with a lot of more newer boybands is that they seem too slick and polished. The whole appeal with One Direction was that they were the opposite.

It was very much lightning in a bottle with 1D, I think, and I say that as someone who remains a big fan of them. I think it was the market at the time. Early 2010s had quite a few boybands in the charts - 1D, Westlife, Take That, JLS, Boyzone, The Wanted etc.