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From Music week The international recording industry trade body IFPI has named Taylor Swift as the world’s best-selling recording artist of 2019. IFPI Top 10 Global Recording Artists of 2019 1. Taylor Swift 2. Ed Sheeran 3. Post Malone 4. Billie Eilish 5. Queen 6. Ariana Grande 7. BTS 8. Drake 9. Lady Gaga 10. The Beatles LINK: click The IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year Award and top 10 chart is the only ranking to accurately measure consumption across all formats (including streaming channels, digital and physical album and singles sales) and all countries. It is weighted based on the relative value of each method of consumption. "The ‘top ten’ showcases some of the brightest and most talented artists from around the world, from newer stars, such as Billie Eilish and BTS, to legacy acts like The Beatles and Queen. This range demonstrates how people’s love of music can be continually ignited by new and diverse artists and yet endures across decades."

This article on the OCC web site 9/12/15 gave sales of 989,000. By 19/9/17 pure sales were 991,563. Not yet a million seller on 14/6/18 when 4 more songs were added to bring total to 175. By 16/12/18 it was finally listed as a million seller. Mr Brightside was also added to bring total up to 177. With Iris that total is now 178. Don't think there was any Frank Sinatra specific announcement.

On 19/9/17 it had sold 754,754 pure sales and 2,121,706 streaming sales, or 2,876,460 combined sales. By 11/12/19 it had combined sales of 4.5m.

The OCC list on 19/9/17 gave the following titles as just short of a million SALES. SEXY AND I KNOW IT LMFAO 5 - 999,080 GRENADE BRUNO MARS 1 - 997,862 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP RICK ASTLEY 1 - 997,005 PARADISE COLDPLAY 1 - 995,808 MY WAY FRANK SINATRA 5 - 991,563 HELP THE BEATLES 1 - 987,769 DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER OASIS 1 - 987,063 IRIS GOO GOO DOLLS 3 - 975,953 MR BRIGHTSIDE KILLERS 10 - 967,180 Of those titles only the Beatles Help is still short of a million UK sales, but it has surpassed one million when streams are added on.

From the OCC 14/2/20 The best-selling singles of all time on the Official UK Chart Every million-selling song in the UK counted down. They're the very top of the pops – the UK's million-selling singles, the tracks that have achieved one million paid-for sales, whether they be physical singles or downloads. It's still a relatively rare feat, with currently only 178 songs making it to seven figures. [No streams] Not all of them managed to make it to Number 1 – 28 million-sellers never hit the top spot – but they've earned their place in British pop history. Way out in front, with 4.93 million sales is Elton John's double-A Candle in the Wind 97/Something About the Way You Look Tonight, released after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Another charity record is in second, the original Band Aid with Do They Know It's Christmas? on 3.8 million, and the next five songs have all sold over two million copies. POS TITLE - ARTIST - PEAK - YEAR - SALES 1 CANDLE IN THE WIND 97 - ELTON JOHN - 1 - 1997 - 4.93m 2 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID - 1 - 1984 - 3.8m 3 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - QUEEN - 1 (1975 & 1991) - 1975 4 MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL - WINGS - 1 - 1977 5 YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT - JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - 1 - 1978 6 RELAX - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - 1 - 1983 - 2.07m 7 RIVERS OF BABYLON/BROWN GIRL IN THE RING - BONEY M - 1 - 1978 - 2.03m 8 HAPPY - PHARRELL WILLIAMS - 1 - 2013 - 1.95m 9 SHE LOVES YOU - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1963 - 1.92m 10 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS - WHAM! - 2 - 1984 - 1.9m 11 LOVE IS ALL AROUND - WET WET WET - 1 - 1994 - 1.9m 12 MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD - BONEY M - 1 - 1978 13 I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU - STEVIE WONDER - 1 - 1984 14 UNCHAINED MELODY - ROBSON GREEN & JEROME FLYNN - 1 - 1995 - 1.89m 15 (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU - BRYAN ADAMS - 1 - 1991 - 1.86m 16 BARBIE GIRL - AQUA - 1 - 1997 17 BELIEVE - CHER - 1 - 1998 - 1.84m 18 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1963 19 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN - WILL YOUNG - 1 - 2002 - 1.79m 20 IMAGINE - JOHN LENNON - 1 (1980) - 1975 21 UPTOWN FUNK - MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS - 1 - 2014 22 EYE OF THE TIGER - SURVIVOR - 1 - 1982 23 BLURRED LINES - ROBIN THICKE/TI/PHARRELL - 1 - 2013 24 I'LL BE MISSING YOU - PUFF DADDY & FAITH EVANS - 1 - 1997 25 SOMEONE LIKE YOU - ADELE - 1 - 2011 - 1.66m 26 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - WHITNEY HOUSTON - 1 - 1992 - 1.66m 27 DON'T YOU WANT ME? - HUMAN LEAGUE - 1 - 1981 28 SUMMER NIGHTS - JOHN TRAVOLTA & OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - 1 - 1978 29 THREE LIONS - BADDIEL & SKINNER & LIGHTNING SEEDS - 1 - 1996 30 TWO TRIBES - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD - 1 - 1984 31 GANGSTA'S PARADISE - COOLIO FEATURING L.V. - 1 - 1995 32 MY HEART WILL GO ON - CELINE DION - 1 - 1998 - 1.6m 33 ...BABY ONE MORE TIME - BRITNEY SPEARS - 1 - 1999 34 PERFECT DAY - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 1 - 1997 35 CAN'T BUY ME LOVE - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1964 36 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - MAROON 5 FEATURING CHRISTINA AGUILERA - 2 - 2011 37 CARELESS WHISPER - GEORGE MICHAEL - 1 - 1984 38 KARMA CHAMELEON - CULTURE CLUB - 1 - 1983 39 WONDERWALL - OASIS - 2 - 1995 40 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW - GOTYE FEATURING KIMBRA - 1 - 2011 41 TEARS - KEN DODD - 1 - 1965 42 YMCA - VILLAGE PEOPLE - 1 - 1978 43 WAKE ME UP - AVICII - 1 - 2013 44 I GOTTA FEELING - BLACK EYED PEAS - 1 - 2009 45 GET LUCKY - DAFT PUNK FT PHARRELL WILLIAMS - 1 - 2013 46 KILLING ME SOFTLY - FUGEES - 1 - 1996 47 THE POWER OF LOVE - JENNIFER RUSH - 1 - 1985 - 1.47m 48 COME ON EILEEN - DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS - 1 - 1982 49 (WE'RE GONNA) ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK - BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS - 1 - 1955 50 IT WASN'T ME - SHAGGY FEATURING RIKROK - 1 - 2001 51 WE FOUND LOVE - RIHANNA FEATURING CALVIN HARRIS - 1 - 2011 - 1.43m 52 THE CARNIVAL IS OVER - THE SEEKERS - 1 - 1965 53 I FEEL FINE - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1964 54 SEX ON FIRE - KINGS OF LEON - 1 - 2008 55 WE CAN WORK IT OUT/DAY TRIPPER - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1964 56 WANNABE - SPICE GIRLS - 1 - 1996 57 RELEASE ME - ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK - 1 - 1967 58 THINK TWICE - CELINE DION - 1 - 1994 - 1.39m 59 NEVER EVER - ALL SAINTS - 1 - 1997 60 TAINTED LOVE - SOFT CELL - 1 - 1981 61 CALL ME MAYBE - CARLY RAE JEPSEN - 1 - 2012 62 (IS THIS THE WAY TO) AMARILLO - TONY CHRISTIE FT PETER KAY - 1 - 2005 63 JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) - BRUNO MARS - 1 - 2010 64 UNCHAINED MELODY - GARETH GATES - 1 - 2002 - 1.35m 65 IT'S LIKE THAT - RUN-D.M.C. VS JASON NEVINS - 1 - 1997 66 HEART OF GLASS - BLONDIE - 1 - 1979 67 TITANIUM - DAVID GUETTA FT SIA - 1 - 2011 68 HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA BURKE - 1 - 2008 69 IMPOSSIBLE - JAMES ARTHUR - 1 - 2012 70 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE - 1 - 1973 71 GANGNAM STYLE - PSY - 1 - 2012 72 ALL OF ME - JOHN LEGEND - 2 - 2014 - 1.29m 73 RATHER BE - CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE - 1 - 2014 74 PARTY ROCK ANTHEM - LMFAO FEATURING LAUREN BENNETT AND GOONROCK - 1 - 2011 75 LOVE THE WAY YOU LIE - EMINEM FEATURING RIHANNA - 2 - 2010 76 IT'S NOW OR NEVER - ELVIS PRESLEY - 1 - 1960 77 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL - 2 - 1987 78 GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME - TOM JONES - 1 - 1966 79 BLUE MONDAY - NEW ORDER - 3 (1988 Remix) - 1983 80 LET HER GO - PASSENGER - 2 - 2012 81 THINKING OUT LOUD - ED SHEERAN - 1 - 2014 82 DIANA - PAUL ANKA - 1 - 1957 83 ANGELS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 4 - 1997 84 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU - MARIAH CAREY - 2 - 1994 85 PRICE TAG - JESSIE J FEATURING B.O.B - 1 - 2011 86 BRIGHT EYES - ART GARFUNKEL - 1 - 1979 87 HEARTBEAT/TRAGEDY - STEPS - 1 - 1998 88 EARTH SONG - MICHAEL JACKSON - 1 - 1995 89 TORN - NATALIE IMBRUGLIA - 2 - 1997 90 I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING - AEROSMITH - 1 - 1998 91 CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD - KYLIE MINOGUE - 1 - 2001 92 SATURDAY NIGHT - WHIGFIELD - 1 - 1994 93 CHASING CARS - SNOW PATROL - 6 - 2006 94 POKER FACE - LADY GAGA - 1 - 2009 95 STRANGER ON THE SHORE - MR ACKER BILK AND HIS PARAMOUNT JAZZ BAND - 2 - 1961 96 MARY'S BOY CHILD - HARRY BELAFONTE - 1 - 1957 97 THE LAST WALTZ - ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK - 1 - 1967 98 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID 20 - 1 - 2004 99 GHOSTBUSTERS - RAY PARKER JR. - 2 - 1984 100 ONLY GIRL (IN THE WORLD) - RIHANNA - 1 - 2010 101 DON'T GIVE UP ON US - DAVID SOUL - 1 - 1976 102 SPACEMAN - BABYLON ZOO - 1 - 1996 103 NO MATTER WHAT - BOYZONE - 1 - 1998 104 ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PART 2) - PINK FLOYD - 1 - 1979 105 HEY JUDE - THE BEATLES - 1 - 1968 106 WE ARE YOUNG - FUN FT JANELLE MONAE - 1 - 2011 107 DANCING QUEEN - ABBA - 1 - 1976 108 COUNTING STARS - ONEREPUBLIC - 1 - 2013 109 I LOVE YOU LOVE ME LOVE - GARY GLITTER - 1 - 1973 110 2 BECOME 1 - SPICE GIRLS - 1 - 1996 - 1.14m 111 CRAZY - GNARLS BARKLEY - 1 - 2006 112 BLUE (DA BA DEE) - EIFFEL 65 - 1 - 1999 113 I FEEL LOVE - DONNA SUMMER - 1 - 1977 114 ROAR - KATY PERRY - 1 - 2013 115 HIT ME WITH YOUR RHYTHM STICK - IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS - 1 - 1978 116 THE A TEAM - ED SHEERAN - 3 - 2011 117 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' - JOURNEY - 6 (2010) - 1982 118 USE SOMEBODY - KINGS OF LEON - 2 - 2008 119 BACK FOR GOOD - TAKE THAT - 1 - 1995 120 I BELIEVE/UP ON THE ROOF - ROBSON & JEROME - 1 - 1995 121 BLEEDING LOVE - LEONA LEWIS - 1 - 2007 122 THAT'S MY GOAL - SHAYNE WARD - 1 - 2005 123 DIAMONDS - RIHANNA - 1 - 2012 124 LOSE YOURSELF - EMINEM - 1 - 2002 125 UNCHAINED MELODY - THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS - 1 - 1965 126 FIREWORK - KATY PERRY - 3 - 2010 127 TELETUBBIES SAY "EH-OH!" - TELETUBBIES - 1 - 1997 128 I REMEMBER YOU - FRANK IFIELD - 1 - 1962 129 ROLLING IN THE DEEP - ADELE - 2 - 2011 130 PURE AND SIMPLE - HEAR'SAY - 1 - 2001 131 RIDE ON TIME - BLACK BOX - 1 - 1989 132 I WILL SURVIVE - GLORIA GAYNOR - 1 - 1979 133 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT - 2 - 2007 134 FAME - IRENE CARA - 1 - 1982 135 RED RED WINE - UB40 - 1 - 1983 136 LA LA LA - NAUGHTY BOY FT SAM SMITH - 1 - 2013 137 UPTOWN GIRL - BILLY JOEL - 1 - 1983 138 SAILING - ROD STEWART - 1 - 1975 139 THE YOUNG ONES - CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS - 1 - 1962 140 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD - SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA/MARTIN - 1 - 2012 141 STAND & DELIVER! - ADAM AND THE ANTS - 1 - 1981 142 GIVE ME EVERYTHING - PITBULL FEATURING NE-YO, AFROJACK AND NAYER - 1 - 2011 143 BAD ROMANCE - LADY GAGA - 1 - 2009 144 WHITE CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY - 5 (1977) - since 1952 - 1942 145 THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT - TIGHT FIT - 1 - 1982 146 MYSTERIOUS GIRL - PETER ANDRE FEATURING BUBBLER RANX - 1 - 1995 147 HERO - ENRIQUE IGLESIAS - 1 - 2002 148 SUGAR SUGAR - THE ARCHIES - 1 - 1969 149 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE - CHERYL COLE - 1 - 2009 150 DON'T GO BREAKING MY HEART - ELTON JOHN & KIKI DEE - 1 - 1976 151 MAMBO NO.5 (A LITTLE BIT OF...) - LOU BEGA - 1 - 1999 152 WHERE IS THE LOVE - BLACK EYED PEAS - 1 - 2003 153 DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA - JULIE COVINGTON - 1 - 1976 154 JAR OF HEARTS - CHRISTINA PERRI - 4 - 2011 155 MR BRIGHTSIDE - KILLERS - 10 - 2004 156 CAN WE FIX IT? - BOB THE BUILDER - 1 - 2000 157 SAVE YOUR KISSES FOR ME - BROTHERHOOD OF MAN - 1 - 1976 158 WHOLE AGAIN - ATOMIC KITTEN - 1 - 2001 159 DON'T SPEAK - NO DOUBT - 1 - 1997 160 YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE - GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS - 1 - 1963 161 STARSHIPS - NICKI MINAJ - 2 - 2012 162 MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE - ADELE - 4 - 2008 163 WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL - ONE DIRECTION - 1 - 2011 - 164 DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER - OASIS - 1 - 1996 165 WHEN WE COLLIDE - MATT CARDLE - 1 - 2010 166 I'D LIKE TO TEACH THE WORLD TO SING - THE NEW SEEKERS - 1 - 1971 167 UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE - SHOWADDYWADDY - 1 - 1976 168 TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLE OAK TREE - DAWN - 1 - 1973 169 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - RICK ASTLEY - 1 - 1987 170 ESPECIALLY FOR YOU - KYLIE MINOGUE & JASON DONOVAN - 1 - 1988 171 PARADISE - COLDPLAY - 1 - 2011 172 GRENADE - BRUNO MARS - 1 - 2011 173 EYE LEVEL - THE SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA - 1 - 1972 174 FORGET YOU - CEE LO GREEN - 1 - 2011 175 MY WAY - FRANK SINATRA - 5 - 1969 176 LONG HAIRED LOVER FROM LIVERPOOL - LITTLE JIMMY OSMOND - 1 - 1972 177 SEXY AND I KNOW IT - LMFAO - 5 - 2011 178 IRIS - GOO GOO DOLLS - 3 (2011) - 1998 - 1.03m ©2020 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. * Sales for White Christmas have only been counted since the inception of the chart in 1952.

Apparently he's been banned.

Thanks. I appreciate all his hard work over the years.

But why was he banned? What did he do wrong?

Do you have post-1994 (OCC era) sales estimates for these Beatles albums? Sgt. Pepper 1967-1970 Abbey Road I am interested to know whether any of these albums is close to being re-certified by BPI soon. Thanks.

Below Top 10 Should Beatles Abbey Road on 119,200 be included?

Any estimate for pre-1994 sales? Reached no. 9 in 1973 with 14 weeks in Top 75. Perhaps 40k?

From Music Week The Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has issued its UK consumer spending figures for 2019. And while physical music and downloads are down again, streaming is surging ahead with strong year-on-year growth in subscription services. The headline figure is £1 billion – that’s how much UK consumers spent on music streaming services in 2019 (£1.002.9bn to be precise). The year-on-year increase in streaming spending was 23.5%. The performance of subscription services including Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Deezer helped total UK consumer spending on music reach £1.41bn, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%. It’s a result in line with the BPI’s latest figures for 2019. ERA has divided the music retail sector between access (ie streaming) and ownership (physical and downloads), with a split of 71.1% and 28.9%. According to the BPI’s unit measurements for 2019, streaming accounts for 74.4% of consumption. Based on preliminary data compiled by ERA, the streaming spend is four times the total of five years ago. That’s helped the music sector record its fifth successive year of growth. ERA CEO Kim Bayley said: “The rise of digital entertainment services has created the biggest revolution in UK leisure habits in history, enabling people to access the music, video and games they love wherever and whenever they want, and transforming the fortunes of record labels, filmmakers and games developers. The fact that in 2019 over 80% of entertainment spending was on digital services shows the scale of that revolution.” That result is contrasted by a continued decline in physical music, which is down 17% year-on-year to £318.1m. For the decade as a whole, spending on physical music is down 63.5%. The rise of vinyl continues – up 6.4% year-on-year to £97.1 million. While BPI unit stats have vinyl accounting for one in eight album sales in 2019, in retail value terms it’s more like a third (30.8%). Last year HMV significantly expanded its vinyl offer. The strength of vinyl in proportional sales terms is partly down to the decline in CD sales, which fell by 24.7% in retail value last year (£216.99m) – less than the unit decline of 26.5%, which suggests prices of deluxe editions are holding up. Cassette sales are growing but remain niche: ERA’s ‘other physical albums’ spending total is £1.14m. Downloads are the real losers from the switch in consumption. Some music consumers clearly still prefer the ownership model, though downloaders are converting to subscription streaming. Consumer spending on digital albums was down 27.5% year-on-year to £53.2m. Despite falls in sales of physical music, video and games formats, strong demand for digital services was sufficient to produce overall entertainment market growth of 2.4% to £7.8bn, its seventh consecutive year of growth. “There is no doubt retailers of physical product had a tough time in 2019,” said Bayley. “But physical entertainment was still a £1.4bn retail business. Sales of vinyl and 4K Ultra HD discs are buoyant and still growing and we still have huge hit phenomena like FIFA 20 which can sell 1.5m physical units at around £40 a time. Physical is down, but it’s definitely not out.” The year’s biggest-selling album was Lewis Capaldi’s Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (EMI), which moved 641,000 units across all formats. Bayley added: “As more and more people sign up to streaming services, it obviously becomes a challenge to maintain the same rate of growth, but the fact is UK music fans spent £190m more on subscription streaming services in 2019 than they did the year before – that’s more than twice the value of the entire vinyl market.” Digital video sales grew by 21.5% to £2.11bn, while physical revenues decreased 22.7% to £500m. The biggest video hit of 2019 was the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody with 1.7m copies sold, two thirds of them on physical formats. Games remains entertainment’s biggest sector, but after years of growth in 2019 it shrunk by 3.4% to £3.77bn - its first year without growth since 2012. ERA blamed the decline on a slowdown in sales ahead of the expected launch in late 2020 of the new PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

UK recorded music market up 7.5%, hits 114 billion streams in 2019 From Music Week The UK recorded music market has just had its fifth consecutive year of growth. According to the BPI and Official Charts Company data, consumption across all formats was up 7.5% year-on-year for volume in 2019. Based on the year’s AES total, the equivalent of 153.5 million albums were either streamed or purchased in the last 12 months. The annual rate of increase is up on the 5.7% recorded in 2018. Streaming equivalent albums (SEA) increased by 26% year-on-year to 114.2m units, 74.4% of the AES total (the industry metric used to measure sales and streams on a comparable basis). December saw the highest weekly total of streams – 2.7 billion – ever recorded, and the 2019 total of 114 billion plays on audio streaming services marks the first time the 100 billion landmark has been surpassed in a year. In contrast to the streaming result, physical sales were down 22.8% year-on-year and now account for less than 20% (18.2%) of the total. CDs slumped by 26.5% year-on-year to 23.5m units, although the value of boxsets will likely soften the blow. Digital albums were down 28.2% to 7.3m units, as the industry faces up to a future in which downloads are likely to be a niche business. Digital albums now account for 4.8% of the total, compared to 21.1%in 2015. Vinyl LP sales rose for a 12th consecutive year, with Liam Gallagher’s Why Me? Why Not the most in-demand title, selling over 29,000copies. The top 10 included new album releases by Billie Eilish and Lewis Capaldi, alongside catalogue classics such as Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures and Queen’s Greatest Hits. Vinyl LPs now account for one in every eight albums bought, with 4.3m purchased in 2019 – up 4.1% on the previous year and a rise of over 2,000% on the format’s low point in 2007.

Cliff Richard CD £5 in Tesco and Amazon.

The OCC contradict themselves. Heading for article is, The Official Top 20 bestselling Christmas Number 1s Heading for top 20 list is, The Official Top 20 biggest selling Christmas songs

I assume these are pure sales only without streams added? EDIT: Just noticed the OCC reply, All time lists will differ depending on context. Consistently, any list focusing on sales only will be marked as 'bestselling', while all-time charts that include streaming are 'biggest'. Hope this clarification helps.

From Music Week Official Charts Company adds streaming 'sales' to compilations chart There’s been a shake-up on the compilations chart. The Official Charts Company has changed the rules so that streaming data will count towards sales for compilations featuring original material. The rule change is set to have a significant impact on the chart and sales totals. The Frozen 2 soundtrack (UMC/Walt Disney) climbed 7-2 on the compilations chart on Friday (November 29). The album has weekly sales of 12,041 (38.6% from streams), according to the Official Charts Company. “The scale of consumption will be fully reflected, as the Official Charts Company changed the rules governing the compilation chart to also include streams where tracks constitute new, previously unreleased material,” said an Official Charts Company spokesperson. Other beneficiaries this week include the original Frozen soundtrack, the Children In Need Got It Covered album (Silva Screen) and the Top Boy (Warner Music) soundtrack. The compilation inspired by the Netflix series has made an impact with Dave’s track Professor X (228,969 sales), streams for which have been registered for the singles chart. But now streams for the digital-only album also count towards the compilation chart. The previous rule depressed sales figures for albums that had heavy streaming consumption, such as The Greatest Showman Reimagined. However, the change will not include compilations such as the Now series, which do not feature original songs. Now’s co-MD Peter Duckworth has previously spoken to Music Week about how the absence of streaming ‘sales’ has made a 100,000 weekly total more difficult. Now That’s What I Call Music recently reported that revenues were down in what has become a challenging physical compilations market. Compilation album sales are down 35% year-on-year so far in 2019.

What is the total please for Abbey Road in the OCC era?

Another triple platinum this week. Britney Spears - … baby one more time http://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49033993801_533c4f52b3_b.jpg

Now corrected on OCC web site. Adele's triology of albums have a combined total of 11.17 million chart sales, including 5.16 million for 21. The record is the UK's best-selling album of all-time by a solo artist, certified 17x Platinum. So 11.17 - 5.16 - 3.56 = 2.45m for 19. Also, from Music week, Adele’s 21 (XL Recordings) has sales of 5,162,672, according to the Official Charts Company.

Some Beatles albums on iTunes for £7.99. Not advertised so how are purchasers to know? Revolver With the Beatles Please please me Magical mystery tour Live at the Hollywood Bowl On the Play Store all the Beatles single albums are £8.99 with Please please me at £6.99. Abbey Road (2019 mix) on pre-order for £7.99.

Unlikely to be video streams. OCC has closed down discussion on this topic after several errors were highlighted. Not very democratic.

Yet on 13/8/18 OCC said for digital sales for tracks released in the 60s, 10 MY GIRL TEMPTATIONS 566,000 Why the discrepancy?

They keep deleting comments (including mine) when errors are pointed out.

But its The Beatles - you must have heard of them. ;)