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I posted what I have (back to 1996) for you over at UK Mix.

Boybands have never really been a big thing in America unlike the UK. There was only ever the Backsteet Boys that cracked the American market.

Amazing list. It took about 5 years to reach 31 500k sellers in the previous decade (2000-2010), weve reached that amount now in just 16 months :o Hopefully the top 4 will pass a million before the end of the year.

There is no definitive answer to that question, its all down to personal opinion.

endlessly fast forwarding and rewinding the casette to find the start of the track you wanted to play :lol: Never thought anything of it til Cd's were born

Phyllis Nelson Move Closer - 11 weeks 69-58-48-44-28-19-14-8-4-3-1

Dead Or Alive You Spin Me Round - 15 weeks 55-49-51-58-65-55-48-45-41-42-40-19-5-2-1

is she really goung out with him is a classic!

Yes your right it did sell 8 copies more. Heres An article from Record Mirror from Sept 1990, explaining it in more detail. "Controversy raged last week over the tussle for the Gallup Chart’s Number One spot between Steve Miller’s ‘The Joker’ and Record Mirror favourites Deee-Lite’s ‘Groove Is In The Heart’. The latter’s record company issued a press release last week attacking the fairness of the Gallup Chart for placing the Miller track at Number One, despite both records achieving the same “panel sales” – the first time it’s happened with the Number One spot. Here Alan Jones, Record Mirror’s chart statistician and a chart consultant with Gallup, explains the complexities of the situation from the chart compilers’ point of view, while on page 31 News Plus looks at the music industry’s response to the affair. The reality of the situation is that according to Gallup’s best guess, the Steve Miller Band single actually sold eight copies more than Deee-Lite’s and only the way in which Gallup presents the information to suit record industry tradition conceals the fact. The “panel sales” of 2595 mentioned by WEA in its press release are a distillation of a very complex mathematical logarithm. A panel sale represents about one in every 17 actual sales, even though Gallup actually monitor a good deal more. The notion of a panel sale exists because from when the British Market Research Bureau (BMRB) started to compile the chart in 1969 to when Gallup took over in 1983, the panel of shops used to compile the chart was 250 strong. Gallup immediately set about strengthening the panel for the good reason that a larger panel makes hyping very expensive and difficult, and provides statistically significant samples from which they can (and do) extrapolate a mass of marketing information for record companies. The chart is only the tip of the iceberg. Today more than 900 shops are equipped with the Epson machines into which they key, or more frequently ‘wand’ their sales by passing a light pen over a barcode. Gallup’s computer collects data from them all. The problem is that the record industry needs to see sales represented by a constant base of shops, so all the sales are distilled back down to a typical sample of 250 every week. Gallup breaks the UK record market down into small “cells” to analyse its sales. If for the sake of argument, there are 104 medium sized independent shops in London and Gallup has Epson computers in 26 of them which register 59 sales for a record, the assumption is that the record would sell 236 copies in the 10 [spelling error, should read 104] shops as a whole. Similarly, if Gallup has established the fact that there are, say, 30 small Woolworths branches selling records in the South East, of which the 12 on the panel sell 18 copies of a record, they wouldn’t be far wrong in estimating that a total of 45 would be sold by the 30 Woolies together. Sales from the shops on the Gallup panel are all “grossed up” in this way until the company has an estimate of the total number of sales for each of the 20,000 or so different titles on which it detects sales every week. It could represent this information to the industry as an estimate of actual sales. For example, last week’s number three by Bombalurina sold an estimated 40,596 copies. The problem is, as I said before, that the industry knows where it is with its weighted average of 250 shops so everything has to be reduced to represent the wider picture in microcosm. Two hundred and fifty shops represent about a 17th of the actual UK total. All sales are therefore reduced to a 17th of their grossed up totals. Bombalurina thus ended up with 2388 panel sales. ‘The Joker’ and ‘Groove is In The Heart’ you will recall both had published panel sales of 2595. But these are “rounded” figures. The Gallup computer actually adjudged that ‘The Joker’ sold 44,118 copies and that ‘Groove is In The Heart’ sold 44,110 copies, which equate to panel sales of 2595.2 and 2594.7 respectively. So either way you look at it, ‘The Joker’ was Number One".

Wikipedia is wrong, Cher's Believe did only sell 187000 in its third week http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/1998/UK%2...01998.11.14.pdf

Biggest One Week Sales Since 2000 1. 1,108,269 Will Young - Anything Is Possible/Evergreen (Mar 9 2002)* 2. 850,535 Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody (Mar 30 2002)* 3. 742,180 Shayne Ward – That’s My Goal (Dec 31 2005)* 4. 576,046 Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah (Dec 27 2008)* 5. 571,253 Leona Lewis A Moment Like This (Dec 31 2006)* 6. 549,823 Hear’say - Pure And Simple (Mar 24 2001)* 7. 502,672 Rage Against The Machine Killing In The Name (Dec 26 2009)* 8. 453,426 Helping Haiti Everybody Hurts (Feb 20 2010)* 9. 450,838 Joe McElderry The Climb (Dec 26 2009)* 10. 439,007 Matt Cardle When We Collide (Dec 25 2010)* 11. 377,074 Will Young - Anything Is Possible/Evergreen (Mar 16 2002) 12. 359,639 Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It? (Dec 30 2000) 13. 345,498 Shaggy feat. RikRok - It Wasn't Me (Mar 10 2001)* 14. 313,244 X Factor Finalists 2008 – Hero (Nov 8 2008)* 15. 311,887 Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah (Jan 2 2009) 16. 306,648 Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Sep 29 2001)* 17. 292,845 Cheryl Cole Fight For This Love (Oct 31 2009)* 18. 292,594 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Dec 11 2004)* 19. 292,318 Westlife - Uptown Girl (Mar 17 2001)* 20. 287,849 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Dec 18 2004) 21. 275,742 Leon Jackson When You Believe (Dec 30 2007)* 22. 273,508 Gareth Gates feat. The Kumars - Spirit In The Sky (Mar 22 2003)* 23. 266,844 Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (Mar 26 2005)* 24. 261,031 Tony Christie - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (Apr 2 2005) 25. 243,301 JXL vs Elvis Presley A Little Less Conversation (Jun 22 2002)* 26. 242,406 Hear’say - Pure And Simple (Mar 31 2001) 27. 240,973 Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Jul 20 2002)* 28. 231,929 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Jan 1 2005) 29. 231,747 Westlife - What Makes A Man (Dec 30 2000)* 30. 231,492 Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? (Dec 25 2004) 31. 228,477 Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody (Apr 6 2002) 32. 227,547 Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - Mad World (Dec 27 2003)* 33. 222,561 The Darkness - Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) (Dec 27 2003)* 34. 218,805 Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (Nov 3 2007) 35. 214,963 Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It? (Dec 23 2000) 36. 214,370 Shaggy feat. RikRok - It Wasn't Me (Mar 17 2001) 37. 213,140 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (Dec 28 2002)* 38. 207,906 Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland – Dilemma (Oct 26 2002)* 39. 202,617 Spiller - Groovejet-(Aug 26 2000)* 40. 199,307 Robbie Williams Rock Dj (Aug 12 2000)* " = 1st week on chart Biggest 1st week sales of the nineties Rank Title Artist (Sale-000’s) 1 CANDLE IN THE WIND’97 Elton John (658) 2 PURE AND SIMPLE Hear’ Say (549) 3 BABY ONE MORE TIME Britney Spears (463) 4 TWO BECOME ONE Spice Girls (429) 5 SPACEMAN Babylon Zoo (420) 6 PERFECT DAY Various Artists (385) 7 GOODBYE Spice Girls (381) 8 CHOCOLATE SALTY BALLS Chef (373) 9 D’YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN Oasis (371) 10 SAY YOU’LL BE THERE Spice Girls (350) 11 THOSE WERE THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES/BOHIEMIAN RHAPSODY Queen (350) 12 BACK FOR GOOD Take That (345) 13 SPICE UP YOUR LIFE Spice Girls (321) 14 TELETUBBIES SAY EH OH Teletubbies (317) 15 UNCHAINED MELODY Robson & Jerome (314) 16 FLAT BEAT Mr Oizo (285) 17 VIVA FOREVER Spice Girls (278) 18 NO MATTER WHAT Boyzone (277) 19 COUNTRY HOUSE Blur (274) 20 9PM (TILL I COME) Atb (270) 21 I BELIEVE/UP ON THE ROOF Robson & Jerome (258) 22 TOO MUCH Spice Girls (252) 23 SWEET LIKE CHOCOLATE Shanks & Bigfoot (251) 24 DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGER Oasis (250) 25 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE/MAMA Spice Girls (248) 26 MMM BOP Hanson (244) 27 IT’S LIKE THAT Run DMC vs Jason Nevins (243) 28 MY HEART WILL GO ON Celine Dion (234) 29 WORDS Boyzone (232) 30 THREE LIONS ’98 Lightning Seeds (232)

Goodbye was Spice Girls second fastest selling single selling 381,000 just beating Chef (373,000). The top 5 were all over 120,000 and you needed 50000 sales to make the top 10.

Back in the days before X Factor took over the Xmas no.1 spot. Those were the days!

Personally, for me I would only be interested in the YTD charts from C+ but I dont subsribe cause I know I can get them for nothing on here :kink:

Greg Lake - never get fed up of that one. Most other Xmas songs I have become bored of as they are played to death every year. Mariah's used to be a good one too but now that gets played to death thanks to DFS.

Gigolo Aunts Where I Find My Heaven (Game On)

Dennis Waterman I Could Be So Good For You (Minder)

Aerosmith I Dont Want To Miss A Thing 800k + Savage Garden Truly Madly Deeply 700k +

I dont want to go back to singles clogging up the no.1 spot for 4 months like Bryan Adams and Wet Wet Wet did or even 10 weeks like rihanna :zzz:

Top 20 Selling JT singles from MTV- has some n-sync singles in it too. 1 - Madonna ft Justin Timberlake = 4 Minutes :: 475k 2 - Justin Timberlake = Sexyback :: 410k 3 - TI ft Justin Timberlake = Dead And Gone :: 315k 4 - 50 Cent ft Timbaland & Justin Timberlake = Ayo Technology :: 300k 5 - Ciara ft Justin Timberlake = Love Sex Magic :: 295k 6 - Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake = Give It To Me :: 290k 7 - Justin Timberlake = Like I Love You :: 270k 8 - Justin Timberlake = Cry Me A River :: 265k 9 - Justin Timberlake = What Goes Around Comes Around :: 250k 10 - Snoop Dogg ft Justin Timberlake = Signs :: 240k 11 - N Sync ft Nelly = Girlfriend :: 230k 12 - Justin Timberlake ft TI = My Love :: 225k 13 - N Sync = Bye Bye Bye :: 205k 14 - Justin Timberlake = Rock Your Body :: 170k 15 - Rihanna ft Justin Timberlake = Rehab :: 160k 16 - Timbaland ft Justin Timberlake = Carry Out :: 150k 17 - N Sync = I Want You Back :: 150k 18 - N Sync = Tearing Up My Heart :: 145k 19 - Justin Timberlake = Lovestoned / I Think She Knows :: 120k 20 - N Sync = It's Gonna Be Me :: 90k

I predict 3 Bill Haley 2 FGTH 1 KOL

I gotta feelin top 4 :o

Have we had Release Me by Engelbert Humperdinck? :unsure:

Black eyed peas - I got a feeling 6 Kings of leon - Sex on fire 1 Lady Gaga Bad Romance 17 Lady Gaga - Poker Face 9 Rihanna - Umberella 11

Surprisingly high, as it only spent 4 weeks inside the top 10 and 1 week at the top. About half of its chart run outside the top 40