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BBC Radio 2 commemorates the 50th anniversary of The Beatles' Abbey Road album. Starting at 9.30am on Thursday 26th September to midnight on Sunday 30th September. That’s 44 programmes over 4 days. I’m looking forward to hearing the Official UK Top 60 most streamed and downloaded Beatles songs on Saturday 28th September at 5pm to 7pm and on Sunday 29th September again at 5pm to 7pm. So 60 tracks in 4 hours. Will they just add total digital downloads from November 2010 to streaming equivalent sales from December 2015? Or will there be 2 separate lists? I assume original physical sales will be ignored. Hope the OCC web site publishes the Top 60 list with the sales figures. See Radio 2 Beatles

Taylor Swift’s Official Top 20 biggest singles Read the article here. Her Top 100 biggest tracks have amounted to 17 million sales (when physical, downloads and streaming equivalent sales are combined. She’s managed to rack up over 550 million plays across her singles alone. She’s no slouch when it comes to albums either; shifting some 3.34 million across her five releases in the UK. TITLE ARTIST 1 SHAKE IT OFF 1,600,000 combined sales 2 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE 1,400,000 3 BLANK SPACE 4 LOVE STORY over 1,000,000 5 I DON'T WANNA LIVE FOREVER (FIFTY SHADES) 878,000 6 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER 7 LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO 749,000 8 EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED 9 BAD BLOOD 10 STYLE 515,000 11 22 12 WILDEST DREAMS 13 YOU BELONG WITH ME 14 READY FOR IT 15 ME! 16 DELICATE 17 GORGEOUS 18 YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN 19 END GAME 20 RED ©2019 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. Albums 1989 finishes top of the sales pile with 1.25 million combined sales. 2012’s Red is second with a very respectable 693,000 sales. 2008’s Fearless is third on 609,000. Taylor's most recent album Reputation is fourth, on 378,000. NOTE: Style is Taylor’s tenth biggest single in the UK, with 515,000 combined sales, split between 303,000 downloads and 23.7m streams. This gives a streaming equivalent ratio of 111.79. Shake It Off with 1.6 million combined sales in the UK, made up of 987,000 downloads and 72.9 million streams. This gives a streaming equivalent ratio of 118.9. Why are these ratios not exactly 100:1?

Beatles digital downloads only began on 16.11.2010 and Beatles streaming began in December 2015. Let it be has just passed 400,000 digital sales plus streams. So give it time to improve.

And where is You'll never walk alone?

Same for The Rolling Stones. Gimme shelter but not Satisfaction.

The Official Top 10 biggest '60s songs of the digital era POS TITLE ARTIST CHART SALES 1 I WANT YOU BACK JACKSON 5 842,000 2 BROWN EYED GIRL VAN MORRISON 830,000 3 AIN'T NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL 753,000 4 STAND BY ME BEN E KING 742,000 5 PAINT IT BLACK ROLLING STONES 679,000 6 HERE COMES THE SUN BEATLES 632,000 7 (SITTIN' ON THE) DOCK OF THE BAY OTIS REDDING 623,000 8 SWEET CAROLINE NEIL DIAMOND 617,000 9 GIMME SHELTER ROLLING STONES 568,000 10 MY GIRL TEMPTATIONS 566,000 ©2019 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. *Taking in downloads, audio and video streams from Week 1 2004 to Week 30 2019

New buyers enter the record market every week. People are continuing to buy CD players or turntables for the first time and need to buy records - CD, vinyl, downloads. And the UK population continues to rise. Same applies to other catalogue albums - Queen, Beatles, Bob Marley etc.

Yet another BPI award today. Beatles - Let It Be - Apple Corps - Gold - Single - 02.08.2019 - 16.11.2010 So in just over 2 years Let it be has added on an extra 200,000 downloads and streams. Just wait another 20 years and every Beatles track could be certified. Total sales approaching 700,000. Hey Jude probably next for a further certification.

So all these re-calculations will affect all-time sales. :wub: You can't really add physical sales to streaming sales? The history books need re-written.

What streaming ratio does BPI use for their singles certifications?

So when are the 150:1 and 300:1 ratios used? And what ratio is used for all-time sales?

They should have kept the price at 79p. And albums are far too expensive as well.

They have not updated the rank order positions or the sales figures. They are both out of date. :(

KWORB now does the top 1500 chart placings for UK and US. For example The Beatles positions today. Click here. United Kingdom iTunes: 422. Here Comes the Sun 523. Hey Jude 1309. Come Together 1337. All You Need Is Love Apple Music: 369. Here Comes the Sun 1045. Let It Be 1068. Twist and Shout iTunes Albums: 97. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 407. The Beatles 1967-1970 409. 1 447. The Beatles 458. Rubber Soul 1235. The Beatles 1962-1966 1236. Abbey Road Apple Music Albums: 356. Abbey Road 423. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 507. 1 751. Rubber Soul 796. The Beatles 825. The Beatles 1967-1970 895. Revolver 1266. A Hard Day's Night 1305. The Beatles 1962-1966 1319. Please Please Me 1385. Help 1411. Magical Mystery Tour

Belfast's HMV store is once again under threat just over a month after it was taken over by Canadian music retailer Sunrise Records. The Donegall Arcade outlet was included in the portfolio of shops sold as part of a rescue deal with Doug Putman's firm at the start of February. But the Belfast Telegraph now understands that the potential closure of the last HMV in Northern Ireland is not linked to the music chain's administration, but instead stems from a failure to agree new terms with Donegall Arcade's landlord, Sports Direct. Just weeks after heaving a sigh of relief when Sunrise rescued their jobs, staff at HMV were yesterday left to erect prominent closing down signs in the windows of the city centre premises. Announcing to customers that 'Everything must go', staff informed shoppers that the store is earmarked for closure on April 28, or sooner if all the stock is sold. At this stage it appears unlikely that HMV will seek another premises in Belfast.

It's in the Buzzjack Sales Vault. liamk97 says he will be updating the list shortly.

24)=PAUL McCARTNEY/WINGS - 16 plus 25 with The Beatles takes him to no. 3 with 41 Top 5 hits.

163 Roy Orbison - In Dreams (TV advert for beds)

Why are The Turtles moving up the chart? Just awarded a Silver Disc.

Never heard of a "bug ballad". Please explain. :dance:

You will find some here. https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Music_Week.htm

The OCC reveals the Top 25 biggest selling love ballads. RANK TRACK ARTIST YEAR 1 - LOVE IS ALL AROUND - WET WET WET - 1994 - 1.9m 2 - UNCHAINED MELODY - ROBSON GREEN & JEROME FLYNN - 1995 - 1.87m 3 - (EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU - BRYAN ADAMS - 1991 - 1.86m 4 - ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE/EVERGREEN - WILL YOUNG - 2002 - 1.79m 5 - I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - WHITNEY HOUSTON - 1992 - 1.65m 6 - MY HEART WILL GO ON - CELINE DION - 1998 - 1.59m 7 - THE POWER OF LOVE - JENNIFER RUSH - 1985 8 - THINK TWICE - CELINE DION - 1994 - 1.38m 9 - UNCHAINED MELODY - GARETH GATES - 2002 - 1.35m 10 - JUST THE WAY YOU ARE (AMAZING) - BRUNO MARS - 2010 11 - ALL OF ME - JOHN LEGEND - 2014 - 1.29m 12 - THINKING OUT LOUD - ED SHEERAN - 2014 13 - ANGELS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 1997 14 - I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING - AEROSMITH - 1998 15 - CHASING CARS - SNOW PATROL - 2006 16 - DON'T GIVE UP ON US - DAVID SOUL - 1976 17 - NO MATTER WHAT - BOYZONE - 1998 18 - 2 BECOME 1 - SPICE GIRLS - 1996 - 1.14m 19 - BACK FOR GOOD - TAKE THAT - 1995 20 - BLEEDING LOVE - LEONA LEWIS - 2007 21 - THAT'S MY GOAL - SHAYNE WARD - 2005 22 - UNCHAINED MELODY - RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS - 1965 23 - RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT - 2007 24 - JAR OF HEARTS - CHRISTINA PERRI - 2011 25 - MAKE YOU FEEL MY LOVE - ADELE - 2008 No change from last year. Looks like pure sales only (all million sellers).

No, it was combined sales. OCC said "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. Chart is based on album sales and streams from 1956 to week 39, 2018." I assume OCC database uses only DUS sales, and hence is lower.

Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory - Platinum 15x - 4,500,000. Yet on 13/10/18 the OCC gave sales of 4.94m. So where does the extra 440,000 sales come from? I assume BPI gets its sales figures from the OCC?

42 BPI awards today, including this one. Oasis - What's The Story Morning Glory - Big Brother - Platinum 15x - Album - 08.02.2019 - 01.10.1995