Everything posted by JCM20
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Beyonce's new album
Early this morning Beyonce sent her first tweet since August 2013, detailing the release of her new album Lemonade. Looks like it's exclusive to Tidal for now, but there may be a proper release later.
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OCC: P!nk's Best Selling Singles
I'm very surprised to see another update already! As girlsaloudjunkie said, it's only been six months since the last one!
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Changes in top 40 weeks due to streaming (2016)
Prince has never allowed any of his music on streaming sites (except Tidal, of course), so he's gonna have a bummer of a time reaching the top 10 ever again singles-wise
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2016 BPI Certifications
Haven't got a scooby doo. I felt the same about 18 Months and Everything I Do (no certification at all and not quite 3x platinum despite over 1.8m sales, respectively)
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2016 BPI Certifications
Totally forgot about that one. The first this century anyway!
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2016 BPI Certifications
Pharrell Williams has now gained the first 4x Platinum single of all time in the UK! What an achievement!
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2016 BPI Certifications
I'm guessing that Bangarang and Little Lion Man must both be pretty close to joining that club though.
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Madonna ● SINGLES rate 2016: THE RESULTS
Die Another Day above 4 Minutes? Seriously?
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2016 BPI Certifications
I don't know. That's what I thought about Maroon 5 but their greatest hits bombed
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Music Purchases This Week: Week Beginning 8/4/16
Hope the release of Red Flag also helps One Strike to chart higher than number 198!
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2016 BPI Certifications
How close we talkin?
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From bad to good in the space of one hit
Chasing Cars? Are you guys mad? In my opinion that's the best song of the last 25 years!
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10 years ago today...
Let's be honest, if it weren't for Crazy and Chasing Cars, downloading would never have even become a thing. Those two songs showed the impact downloads were having before the OCC changed their rules in January 2007.
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2016 BPI Certifications
There were some more certifications on Tuesday. Purpose and All of Me both went 3x Platinum, Lush Life went Platinum and Say You Love Me by Jessie Ware went Silver
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OCC: Top 10 All Saints Best Selling Singles
Nope, I think it's still just behind Wannabe.
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Latest million selling single
The OCC have just announced that it was down to an error. It is actually 164, not 165.
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Latest million selling single
You're right about no overplay - in fact I'd never even heard of it until about two years ago, but I was familiar pretty much every other song that was a hit at the time. I can't recall hearing it on the radio on one single occasion in fact, same with Let Her Go.
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Latest million selling single
It may be Valentines Day, but that hasn't stopped one heck of an emotional breakup song - Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts - from reaching a huge sales milestone in the UK. The US singer-songwriter's debut single has hit the one million sales mark in the UK almost five years after its release, OfficialCharts.com can reveal. Jar of Hearts - written by Perri about a difficult ending of a relationship - joins an elite club of just 165 songs that have sold over one million (not including streams) in UK chart history. The track was a slow burner on the Official Singles Chart, initially entering the Top 100 at Number 90 in June 2011. Two months later, Jar of Hearts entered the Top 40 at 17 and hit its peak of Number 4 two weeks later. Notably, Jar of Hearts is one of the few million-selling songs that failed to hit the top spot. Only three tracks that have hit the milestone have peaked lower: Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars (6), Journey's Don't Stop Believin' (6) and Bing Crosby's White Christmas (5). Robbie Williams' Angels is the only other million seller to also peak at Number 4, which it did in 1998. Congratulations, Christina! Now, let's all have a singalong (and mini cry):
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Top 50 British Singles of the Decade
Uptown Funk's now at number 4 on the biggest sellers of the decade - only outsold by Happy, Blurred Lines and Someone Like You. Although unbelievably, Someone Like You still hasn't gone 3x Platinum yet, whereas Uptown Funk's more than halfway to 4x Platinum
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OCC: Top 20 Best Selling Love Ballads of All Time
Then again, Think Twice and Don't Give Up on Us both have a subject matter of "please don't leave me" - so it is a little confusing how only one of them made the list
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OCC: Top 20 Best Selling Love Ballads of All Time
I messaged the OCC and apparently Think Twice, Bleeding Love, Someone like You and I Just Called to Say I Love You are not Valentine's Day-appropriate. Hence their exclusion. They're kinda right, Stevie is just calling for the sake of saying "I love you", Leona's having a troubled relationship, and Celine and Adele are both going through break-ups - not really appropriate for Valentine's Day
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Top 50 British Singles of the Decade
Really? According to a Music Week article in November, Make You Feel My Love was on 955,055 (over 1 million with streams, but that's not important)
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OCC: Coldplay's Top 20 Best Selling Singles
Also, it just goes to show how terrible music sales were from 2002 to 2005 when two songs which reached number 2 (Speed of Sound and In My Place) don't even make the top 10
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OCC: Coldplay's Top 20 Best Selling Singles
No, they haven't. TBH I would have thought that Clocks would be higher than 300,000, but I guess not. Even more surprising than that is the fact that it's been outsold by ETIAW
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No.1 Single & No.1 Album by 1 act in the same week
I don't think Work will go to number 1, but Anti probably will