JCM20

Astonishing that Duffy (and Nickelback!) used to be bigger than Adele

This one actually has the sales for the whole list!

By Rob Copsey Since beating the odds to be crowned winners of The X Factor in 2011, Little Mix have tirelessly turned out hit records and now rank highly among the UK's great girlbands of all time. In seven years, Jesy, Jade, Leigh-Anne and Perrie have amassed 12.7 million combined sales across their 20 Top 40 singles, including an eye-watering 774 million audio streams. View Little Mix's full Official Charts history here. Four of the group's singles have reached Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, but are they their four biggest overall? Here's how they stack up. Cannonball Official Chart Peak: Number 1 Released: 2011 Combined sales: 519,000 The group's lowest selling Number 1 is their X Factor winner's single - a cover of Damien Rice's folk song Cannonball. Placing 12th in their all-time Top 20, it's a song Little Mix rarely acknowledge these days, but knowing that Simon Cowell clearly never even considered them show champions when selecting the winner's single makes it slightly more palatable. Little Mix with their Official Number 1 Single Award for Wings Wings Official Chart peak: Number 1 Released: 2012 Combined sales: 716,000 Little Mix's first single proper was Wings; a life-affirming banger encouraging everyone to live their best life. It spent a week at Number 1 and has aged remarkably well, placing seventh on their Top 20 with 17.5 million streams logged to date, despite being released two years before streaming records began. Move Official Chart Peak: Number 3 Released: 2013 Combined sales: 596,000 It may be their lowest charting album lead single (heading up their second collection Salute), but Move is one of their most acclaimed, mostly for its killer harmonies and wonky structure. It places 11th on their Top 20 chart. Secret Love Song Official Chart Peak: Number 6 Released: 2015 Combined sales: 916,000 Little Mix's biggest ballad ranks at Number 5 in their Top 20, close to one million combined sales. The collaboration with Jason Derulo - who co-wrote the song - was apparently inspired by the group's Radio 1 Live Lounge cover of his single Want To Want Me. Touch Official Chart Peak: Number 4 Released: 2016 Combined sales: 1.25 million Despite missing the top spot, Touch is one of Little Mix's most successful singles; the MNEK-produced track spent ten weeks in the Top 10, six of which were spent stuck at Number 4. It narrowly misses out on being their most streamed song, with a massive 101.3 million plays to date. Little Mix with their Official Number 1 Single Award for Shout Out To my Ex Shout Out To My Ex Official Chart Peak: Number 1 Released: 2016 Combined sales: 1.4 million This kiss-off anthem - released a few months after Perrie's split from Zayn Malik, charged straight in at Number 1 and spent three weeks there, shifting 95,000 in it's opening week. It was also the only chart-topping single that year with a female lead - Girl Power! Little Mix's Top 20 biggest singles on the Official Chart POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK YEAR COMBINED SALES 1 SHOUT OUT TO MY EX LITTLE MIX 1 2016 1.4M 2 BLACK MAGIC LITTLE MIX 1 2015 1.32M 3 TOUCH LITTLE MIX 4 2016 1.25M 4 POWER LITTLE MIX 6 2016 993K 5 SECRET LOVE SONG LITTLE MIX FT JASON DERULO 6 2015 916K 6 REGGAETON LENTO (REMIX) CNCO & LITTLE MIX 5 2017 886K 7 WINGS LITTLE MIX 1 2012 716K 8 HAIR LITTLE MIX 11 2015 704K 9 NO MORE SAD SONGS LITTLE MIX 15 2016 682K 10 LOVE ME LIKE YOU LITTLE MIX 11 2015 622K 11 MOVE LITTLE MIX 3 2013 596K 12 CANNONBALL LITTLE MIX 1 2011 519K 13 SALUTE LITTLE MIX 6 2013 430K 14 DNA LITTLE MIX 3 2012 390K 15 ONLY YOU CHEAT CODES & LITTLE MIX 13 2018 328K 16 OOPS LITTLE MIX FT CHARLIE PUTH 41 2016 313K 17 LITTLE ME LITTLE MIX 14 2013 267K 18 CHANGE YOUR LIFE LITTLE MIX 12 2012 231K 19 HOW YA DOIN' LITTLE MIX FT MISSY ELLIOTT 16 2013 180K 20 WOMAN LIKE ME LITTLE MIX FT NICKI MINAJ 2 2018 157K ©2018 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Listen to Little Mix's Official Top 40 singles on Spotify and Deezer When it comes to albums, Little Mix have shifted 2.63 million across their four records. 2017's Glory Days finishes on top with a might 1.01 million combined sales, followed by 2015's Get Weird on 796,000. Their debut album DNA is approaching the half million mark with 442,000 combined sales, while their second collection Salute is fourth on 387,000.

Wonder if Stop the Clocks would have the sales of Time Flies had the latter not been released.

He's got enough material for a top 20 list

Correctamundo

Oasis - Time Flies

The Fame, Only by the Night and A Rush of Blood to the Head should join the 3 million club soon

Wonder if the OCC have any intention of updating this list

I kind of wish they'd just done the entire list of 60 again. The greatest significance, however, is Divide, the only album to only make it into this list thanks to streaming sales. UPDATE: Oops, I forgot Christmas by Michael Bublé.

The Beatles’ classic record Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been crowned the British public’s all-time favourite studio album, according to a brand new chart due to be counted down on BBC Radio 2 today (Saturday, October 13). The ground-breaking 1967 LP strides home with 5.34 million combined sales at the top of the all-time Official Studio Albums Chart, which has been compiled by the Official Charts Company to mark today’s National Album Day celebrations. The confirmation further cements the position of Sir Paul McCartney as the most successful albums artist in UK chart history, racking up 22 Number 1 albums across his illustrious career (15 with The Beatles, 2 with Wings, 4 solo and 1 with Linda McCartney). The honour will be confirmed this on Saturday, October 13 when the brand new chart will be counted down during a special National Album Day edition of Pick of the Pops hosted by Paul Gambaccini will be broadcast by BBC Radio 2 from 1-3pm. The full Top 40 is posted below. The chart - which ranks albums by combining physical sales, downloads and streams in the UK - reflects album sales of 135 million across more than 60 years. It is topped by an eclectic Top 5 which accounts for approaching 25 million sales on its own, reflecting the music from five different decades. Snapping at The Beatles’ toes are Adele’s 2011 album 21 in second place (5.11m), followed by 1995’s (What’s the Story) Morning Glory by Oasis (4.94m). In fourth place comes Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic The Dark Side of the Moon (4.47m), just ahead of Michael Jackson’s 1982 album Thriller (4.47m). Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (to give it it’s full name) is the only album from the Sixties to make the list, along with six albums from the Seventies, six from the Eighties and eight from the Nineties. The first decade of the new Millennium (2000s) claims most places, with 14 albums, while five albums from the current decade made the list. The act with most albums in the Top 40 list is Coldplay, with A Rush of Blood to the Head at 27, X&Y at 32 and Parachutes at 40. Five acts claim two albums in the list – Adele, Dido, Ed Sheeran, Michael Buble and Michael Jackson. In total 33 different acts are represented in the chart. The 40 albums have, between them, notched 343 weeks at Number 1 in the Official Albums Chart, with Simon & Garfunkel’s 1970 classic Bridge over Troubled Water claiming the longest spell, a total of 33 weeks. Sgt. Pepper’s follows just behind with 28 weeks, ahead of Adele’s 21 on 23 weeks. The highest ranking album not to reach the number 1 spot is Pink Floyd’s 1973 titles The Dark Side of the Moon (peaked at 2) – it is one of three albums in the rundown which never claimed the top spot, along with Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell (peaked at 9) and Jeff Wayne’s 1978 album The War of the Worlds (peaked at 5). Some 25 of the Top 40 are accounted for by British acts, 8 are by US artists, 4 by Canadian acts and 2 by Irish acts; the remaining album is by the US/UK band Fleetwood Mac. Across the list, 18 are credited to bands, 12 to male artists and 10 to females. Official Studio Albums Chart - all-time POS TITLE TITLE ARTIST YEAR PEAK WKS AT #1 SALES ACT 1 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES BEATLES 1967 1 28 5,34M UK BAND 2 21 ADELE ADELE 2011 1 23 5,11M UK FEMALE 3 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS OASIS 1995 1 10 4,94M UK BAND 4 THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON PINK FLOYD PINK FLOYD 1973 2 0 4,47M UK BAND 5 THRILLER MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON 1982 1 8 4,47M US MALE 6 BROTHERS IN ARMS DIRE STRAITS DIRE STRAITS 1985 1 14 4,35M UK BAND 7 BAD MICHAEL JACKSON MICHAEL JACKSON 1987 1 5 4,14M US MALE 8 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 1 1 4,09M UK / US BAND 9 BACK TO BLACK AMY WINEHOUSE AMY WINEHOUSE 2006 1 6 3,93M UK FEMALE 10 25 ADELE ADELE 2015 1 13 3,50M UK FEMALE 11 STARS SIMPLY RED SIMPLY RED 1991 1 12 3,45M UK BAND 12 COME ON OVER SHANIA TWAIN SHANIA TWAIN 1997 1 11 3,43M CAN FEMALE 13 X ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN 2014 1 13 3,38M UK MALE 14 BAT OUT OF HELL MEAT LOAF MEAT LOAF 1977 9 0 3,37M US MALE 15 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT JAMES BLUNT 2004 1 10 3,36M UK MALE 16 URBAN HYMNS VERVE VERVE 1997 1 12 3,34M UK BAND 17 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SIMON & GARFUNKEL SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1970 1 33 3,26M US BAND 18 SPIRIT LEONA LEWIS LEONA LEWIS 2007 1 8 3,17M UK FEMALE 19 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE MICHAEL BUBLE 2009 1 1 3,13M CAN MALE 20 DIVIDE ED SHEERAN ED SHEERAN 2017 1 20 3,10M UK MALE 21 NO ANGEL DIDO DIDO 2000 1 7 3,09M UK FEMALE 22 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY DAVID GRAY 1998 1 2 3,02M UK MALE 23 THE FAME LADY GAGA LADY GAGA 2008 1 7 2,99M US FEMALE 24 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON KINGS OF LEON 2008 1 4 2,98M US BAND 25 TALK ON CORNERS CORRS CORRS 1997 1 10 2,96M IRE BAND 26 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY COLDPLAY 2002 1 3 2,96M UK BAND 27 SPICE SPICE GIRLS SPICE GIRLS 1996 1 15 2,96M UK BAND 28 LIFE FOR RENT DIDO DIDO 2003 1 10 2,90M UK FEMALE 29 THE JOSHUA TREE U2 U2 1987 1 2 2,88M IRE BAND 30 BEAUTIFUL WORLD TAKE THAT TAKE THAT 2006 1 8 2,88M UK BAND 31 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE KEANE 2004 1 5 2,86M UK BAND 32 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS JEFF WAYNE JEFF WAYNE 1978 5 0 2,80M UK MALE 33 X&Y COLDPLAY COLDPLAY 2005 1 4 2,79M UK BAND 34 JAGGED LITTLE PILL ALANIS MORISSETTE ALANIS MORISSETTE 1995 1 11 2,78M CAN FEMALE 35 SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS 2004 1 4 2,76M US BAND 36 TUBULAR BELLS MIKE OLDFIELD MIKE OLDFIELD 1973 1 1 2,76M UK MALE 37 BUT SERIOUSLY PHIL COLLINS PHIL COLLINS 1989 1 15 2,75M UK MALE 38 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE MICHAEL BUBLE 2011 1 3 2,75M CAN MALE 39 TRACY CHAPMAN TRACY CHAPMAN TRACY CHAPMAN 1988 1 3 2,71M US FEMALE 40 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY COLDPLAY 2000 1 1 2,71M UK BAND ©2018 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Chart is based on album sales and streams from 1956 to wk 39, 2018.

Bon Jovi - Greatest Hits

How well has Wanted on Voyage sold this year?

Is Sunday Morning too far out of range to track?

This must include streams then, as WPSIATWIN was on 1.63m in May.

Do we know what Let Go sold?

Arctic Monkeys - WPSIATWIN

No sign of the original Love Don't Let Me Go (not the mash-up). I like that one.

One Kiss dropped in April. By June its sales were slowing down.

To be honest, all the songs which were denied top spot by One Dance (maybe except DOMY).

88,887 for Yours Truly as of last week

Say Say Say outselling Bad is a shocker for me as well

I love Michael Jackson, but I've never heard of One Day in Your Life. The fact that it's his 4th biggest solo song is astonishing.

Billie Jean must be a million seller. If streams make up 28% of 1.44 million, that means the remaining 72% is a total of 1,036,800. BTW, "physical (44%), downloads (29%) and streaming (28%)" equates to 101%.

I think he was pointing out the OCC's blunder