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Murder On The Dancefloor 3x Platinum :wub: Pure, Chandelier, Love On My Mind, and Perfect (Exceeder) too :wub:

Much prefer Disease to Die With A Smile but I think it's genuinely hard for a song to catch on without TikTok these days.

Take A Bow suffered from being released in the Christmas market of 1994. I think it would have done better had it been released in January. I wonder if Secret will ever go Silver. It was an airplay #1 back in 1994. Top 200 Best Selling Singles of 1994: 83 Secret - Madonna (Maverick) 135,000 138 Take A Bow - Madonna (Maverick) 81,000

Love the video. This deserves to be a smash hit.

Christmas music this early?! :unsure: Nice to see Sophie getting strong radio support at least.

Lack of huge competition. Plus I really do think the great music video gave it strong longevity for people to listen to the song over & over again.

Don't Dream It's Over also being boosted by the Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle & Erik Menendez Story along with probably TikTok.

Though it peaked at #16 in 1994, it never even made the top 200 year end singles chart selling less than 47K. Though I am incredibly pleased it's had great recurrent stats as it's always been one of my favourite singles of hers (in spite of the backing vocals of that monster on the track).

Finally a new certification for Janet :heart:

I mean with Zootopia being a huge hit and on Disney+, I'm not surprised that it's a strong recurrent streamer. Even Dwayne The Rock Johnson's "You're Welcome" from the Moana movie is 2x Platinum :lol:

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice could provide a boost for Bee Gees' Tragedy, Richard Marx's Right Here Waiting, and Donna Summer's McArthur Park all brilliantly used in the movie.

Thanks, Daniel! Britney's Circus was also certified Platinum today.

Ahead of the festival, Radio 2 has revealed that listeners have voted West End Girls – which reached No. 1 in the UK in 1985 - their favourite Pet Shop Boys song of all time. It’s A Sin (1987 was in second place, and Always On My Mind (1987) in third place. The full Top 30 countdown will be featured in Your Ultimate Pet Shop Boys Song hosted by Mark Goodier, which is available on BBC Sounds (from Monday, August 19) and will be broadcast on Radio 2 on Saturday, August 24 (1-3pm). In July, Radio 2 listeners were asked to vote for their favourite Pet Shop Boys song. They could select up to five of their tracks from a list of their songs that have charted in the Top 100, including songs where they were a featured artist, plus album tracks chosen by a panel of experts, including Radio 2's Gary Davies. Also available on BBC Sounds (from August 19) is Your Ultimate Pet Shop Boys Song – The Extras featuring Pet Shop Boys songs that didn’t make the Top 30 chart. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe said: “When this vote was launched we said we’d be very interested to hear what Radio 2 listeners chose as their favourite Pet Shop Boys song and the full Top 30 list of songs is fascinating. We are very pleased and not totally surprised that West End Girls has topped the chart! It’s a song we still love performing in concerts, 40 years since its first release.” The full Top 30 chart, as voted for by Radio 2 listeners, is: 1 West End Girls (1984) 2 It's A Sin (1987) 3 Always On My Mind (1987) 4 What Have I Done To Deserve This? (with Dusty Springfield) (1987) 5 Left To My Own Devices (1988) 6 Suburbia (1986) 7 Go West (1993) 8 Rent (1987) 9 Being Boring (1990) 10 Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money) (1985) 11 Heart (1988) 12 Domino Dancing (1988) 13 Love Comes Quickly (1986) 14 Se a vida e (That's the Way Life Is) (1996) 15 Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You) (1991) 16 Paninaro / Paninaro ‚'95 (1995) 17 Jealousy (1991) 18 King's Cross (1987) 19 It's Alright (1988) 20 Hallo Spaceboy (with David Bowie) (1995) 21 A New Bohemia (2024) 22 Can You Forgive Her? (1993) 23 In The Night [The Clothes Show theme] (1985) 24 So Hard (1990) 25 I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (1993) 26 You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk (2000) 27 New York City Boy (1999) 28 Shopping (1987) 29 Love Etc (2009) 30 The Way It Used to Be (2009) https://www.musicweek.com/media/read/bbc-ra...-line-up/090310

Thank you so much for the totals for all the songs, hugely appreciated :heart:

It's an error, the BPI website have it only at 4x Platinum.

Neither have released music videos yet so I think both still could if they release their videos before ACR hits.

Hopefully it provides enough of a 25% boost for a full reset back to SCR

Would be great to see Forever Young get a new peak. It's far too much of a classic to have only peaked at #98 on its initial release.

Next certification I Will Always Love You is eligible for its 3x Platinum when it reaches 1.8 million units after 1994 (or in digital consumption really). I Wanna Dance With Somebody's 4x Platinum certification is basically all from the digital era. We are never going to get "accurate" certifications for most songs before 1994 again.

It was released before 1994 and the automatic certifications we get from the BPI now are only based on sales from the OCC's database going as far back as February 1994.

Thank you for compiling this list! Some very interesting and unusual results.

From 1994 to 1996, after Millward Brown took over chart compilation duties from Gallup to compile the charts for what is now the OCC, the research company began to increase the amount of record shops that supplied sales information to them. The intention was to get enough shops that sold records to provide sales information that there was no need to estimate sales under the old method (chart panel sales x multiplier). By 1997 about 99% of all shops that sold singles were providing sales information to Millward Brown. However in 1994 it was only about 75% or so and during the period 1994 to 1997 it increased every few months. The outcome is that the OCC sales database (which is used for certification purposes) only contains the actual sales data it received from all these stores. Remember that in February 1994 this only accounted for about 75% of all stores, increasing over time to 99% in 1997. As a result the sales data held by the OCC underestimates what singles sold in the period 1994 to 1996.

For the umpteenth time, this doesn't include the original sales before 1994. It's original sales were 910,000 pushing the new total to 1.51M.

Wow at You & Me basically as big as the other Settle singles. The Flume & Rivo remixes helped hugely.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/why-uk-strugg...k-new-pop-acts/ Fascinating article. My roundabout answer is that we are in an age where TikTok almost exclusively makes or breaks the hits. :P