Robbie

The website is owned by Dean Jackson, who presents a music show on some BBC local radio stations on a Saturday evening. He did once say that he intended to update the website though that was more than a decade ago. I'm assuming that it's not too expensive to continue to pay the hosting fees and website registration costs.

It lives on at the Wayback Machine! https://web.archive.org/web/20120918204205/http://www.chartstats.com/ As does the version of the website after the OCC requested that all chart data be removed https://web.archive.org/web/20130115201722/http://www.chartstats.com/ Many of the links in the archive of the website work.

'Wuthering Heights' by Charli XCX is now £4.99 on iTunes. It was £8.99 the last time I checked which was a couple of days ago.

From 1977 until the end of its chart contract at the end of 1982, BMRB did compile a revised end of year chart which would be printed in Music Week a few weeks into the new year. The revised chart did include sales for the entire chart year other than one week around Christmas when no sales data was collected. It does appear though that no revised chart was compiled for 1979 and also possibly 1982.

I meant, how many copies? A few thousand, or a lot more?

How many physical singles of 'Xmas' did Kylie release?

I think the 1.5m figure is the one that was given in the 1980s, possibly at the decade end, after the top 100 chart of the decade had been compiled. That was an Alan Jones compiled chart. In 2002, the Top 100 Best Selling Singles Of All Time chart (compiled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the singles charts) had 'Last Christmas' on 1,421,000. That chart was also compiled by Alan Jones. The pre-1994 figure will include sales from the 1984 original release plus the two re-releases from 1985 and 1986. There would have been virtually no pre-1994 sales from after 1986 as George Michael forced Epic Records to agree to never re-release the single in future.

Raye thoughTaylor Swift and even Golden has a chance.

Definitely on ACR, as confirmed by Alan Jones. The track will likely be outside of the top 10 next Friday.

I voted 80k-100k.

The correct charts should be the ones compiled at the time but I suppose in theory, the ones in the archive are now the correct ones. Something subtle must have changed which has caused some charts to have titles move up or down by 1 place. Quite what it was, we'll most likely never find out.

An interesting list. Many of the albums are various shades of rock music, which doesn't do as well on the singles chart these days. A lot of the albums are by fan based acts too. I don't know how many albums there are listed above but it would be interesting to find out what % of the albums listed actually managed to climb to number 1, what % of the albums stayed at number 1 for more than a week and what % of the albums actually managed another week in the top 40 albums chart after being at #1.

'You Might Need Somebdoy' by Shola Ama had already been certified Silver back in 1997 so this is a duplicate certification by the BPI. Sales back in 1997 were 343,860 (it was the 36th best selling single of the year) and I'm assuming the 200,000 sales needed for the duplicate certification are in addition to any sales from back then. In which case, the track will have passed Gold a while ago.

It does look like it's just the way that the OCC have exported the chart from their database to the archive. kingofskiffle gave a good explanation at Haven: That particular chart was missing from the archive when it was first uploaded - that whole week was, with 10 Sep being the first since 30 April for a whole host of charts. On 18 Mar 2021 I downloaded that week and the download matches the chart as now shown on their website. 23 Dec 1995 is also in error on their website (10 and 9 swapped, and new entry for the same record at 61 for the version LOCDP376 which, when combined, elevates it to 9 overall). I agree that something would be missing from the lower down sales on 3 Sep, or they just pulled slightly differently. This is not a case of July 1999 but rather that the OCC have updated the rules for export from their database and not put in exactly what was at the time.

Interesting. Has this new version of the chart just recently appeared or might it have been like this since the archive was added a number of years ago? The differences are very subtle so I'm wondering if it's just that when the archive was added it amounted to a rerun of the chart. I'm sure there are a number of other charts where there has been what seems to be a rerun of the chart. There's an old thread here at Buzzjack about some of the changes including one where a record was suddenly elevated into the top 40 when it didn't make it at the time (or maybe it was the other way around and it was demoted from the top 40).

I went for the Klaxons, Razorlight and David Bowie.

An excellent playlist. I've saved it to my Spotify library.

Gold for 'Second Hand News' by Fleetwood Mac. It's another non-single / album track only from 'Rumours' to be certified at least Gold. It's track 1 on the album. Has every track from 'Rumours' now had at least a Silver (or Gold) certification?

Disappointing that 'Paranoid' didn't get played.

Being pedantic, the chart week for many years was Monday to Saturday as there was no Sunday trading until 1994. The big chart reveal for many people in the pre October 1987 Tuesday chart reveal days wasn't necessarily the new chart on a Tuesday lunchtime or the chart recap on a Tuesday late afternoon but most likely when the next recap happened on the Wednesday breakfast show (supposedly with 10m+ listeners) or on Top Of The Pops on a Thursday (again circa 10m viewers). I think by a Sunday most people were likely aware that the chart was a recap, albeit a longer one, timewise. That said, the Sunday top 40 show was supposed to be the most listened to programme on Radio 1. Possibly because there was nothing else to listen to or watch on a Sunday!

Yes, Oasis! According to Music Week, yesterday Oasis had 14 tracks in the top 100 with no ACR and a 3 track rule applied. Hopefully Alan Jones will give a full sales rundown of what they are, with sales to date.

Thanks. I didn't realise things had got that bad for the TV music channels.

Why has the TV Airplay chart suddenly become full of oldies? It seems to have suddenly started to be like this just a few weeks ago.

I use Polyhex the most but I do find myself occasionally using everyhit.com, especially when looking up a list of number 1 hits (obviously pre-2011) or a list of the biggest hits by month (again, pre-2011). It was quite strange how the site owner just suddenly stopped updating the site in January 2011 when he had maintained it every week for years. When asked a couple of years later, he did say he would update the site at some stage but that he was currently too busy to do so. I guess he still is too busy (the site owner is Dean Jackson, who, among doing many other things, presents a music programme on a Saturday evening on some BBC local radio stations).

'Some Might Say' by Oasis was the biggest selling single of the week back in 1995 but its sales were split across 5 formats which meant one (the 12") was allocated its own position (#73). Had sales been amalagamted with the other 4 formats it would have remained at number 1. Also, 'Dreamer' by Livin' Joy was the first single to benefit from an agreement between the BPI, BARD (the record dealers association) and CIN (OCC) that records would be distributed to record shops ahead of the release date for maximum sales impact. With effect from May 1995, shops would receive stock on the Friday or Saturday with strict instructions not to sell the single before the Monday. Any record shop that broke the embargo on a regular basis could be removed from being a chart return shop or at the very least not be given stock ahead of the actual release date. Labels could also ask for a record to be removed from the charts if it was sold too early. This was a regular feature of the charts for the next decade, with singles regulalrly being removed from the charts when sold too early. The effect of the agreement was that instant number 1s became more common. In fact they became the norm for the next decade too.