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Never understood why Elvis got another 16 Top Ten hits with re-issues. Surely they should have been classed as re-entries? And he got an extra 3 number 1 hits as well. Unfair.

Previously, Should total not be total sales since 1994?

The Top 40 bestselling cassettes of 2018 On your marks, cassette, go! 2018 was the biggest year for cassette sales in over a decade, with music fans across all age ranges getting their hands on a cassette by their favourite chart act. The BPI revealed sales of the format were up 125.3% year-on-year, reaching 50,000 sales in 2018 compared to just under 30,000 sold in 2017, according to Official Charts Company data. While some cassettes are stocked in high street retailers, the majority are available through artists' official webstores and at live gigs, often in collectable limited edition runs. Last year saw the highest number of cassettes purchased in the UK since 2004. So which artists are helping the phoenix format rise from the ashes? The 1975 scored 2018's bestselling cassette with their Number 1 album A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships. Available in white, red, purple and green, the group sold 7,500 copies of their studio album on cassette in its first week of release, making it the fastest-seller on the format since July 2002. Kylie Minogue was also a big seller on the vintage platform, shifting an impressive 6,262 tapes of her Number 1 album Golden. Following it's initial release, Kylie also released a Collector's Edition and a Winter Collector's Edition. Kylie's BMG labelmates The Prodigy finish third in the 2018 countdown, having sold 2,148 cassettes of their Number 1 album No Tourists. Should they have not released a cassette, they would only have topped the Official Albums Chart by five combined sales. Released in 2017, Guardians of the Galaxy's Awesome Mix 2 continued to sell well last year, ranking in fourth, while streaming supremo Ariana Grande proved she's also popular on the retro format in fifth. Elsewhere, Delta by Mumford & Sons is in sixth, ahead of the first ever Now That's What I Call Music! album (reissued alongside the release of NOW 100) at 7, and Guardians of the Galaxy's Awesome Mix 1 at 8. Snow Patrol's latest album Wildness, and Take That's reimagined greatest hits Odyssey close out the Top 10 at Numbers 9 and 10. 2018 releases that also sold well on cassette include Thirty Seconds To Mars, twenty one pilots and Manic Street Preachers, while Rick Astley, Courteeners, 5 Seconds of Summer, Arctic Monkeys and Blossoms also feature in the year-end Top 20. POS TITLE ARTIST PEAK 1 A BRIEF INQUIRY INTO ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS THE 1975 1 2 GOLDEN KYLIE MINOGUE 1 3 NO TOURISTS PRODIGY 1 4 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 2 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2* 5 SWEETENER ARIANA GRANDE 1 6 DELTA MUMFORD & SONS 2 7 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC VARIOUS ARTISTS 2* 8 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - AWESOME MIX 1 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 2* 9 WILDNESS SNOW PATROL 2 10 ODYSSEY TAKE THAT 1 11 AMERICA 30 SECONDS TO MARS 4 12 TRENCH TWENTY ONE PILOTS 2 13 RESISTANCE IS FUTILE MANIC STREET PREACHERS 2 14 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - OST QUEEN 3 15 BEAUTIFUL LIFE RICK ASTLEY 6 16 ST. JUDE RE:WIRED COURTEENERS 5 17 YOUNGBLOOD 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER 3 18 TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL + CASINO ARCTIC MONKEYS 1 19 COOL LIKE YOU BLOSSOMS 4 20 MY MIND MAKES NOISES PALE WAVES 8 21 COLLAPSE APHEX TWIN 11 22 BUILD A TOWER SLOW READERS CLUB 18 23 NATURAL REBEL RICHARD ASHCROFT 4 24 PALO SANTO YEARS & YEARS 3 25 LIVING IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES JAMES 6 26 BACK IN BLACK AC/DC 27 27 THE 5.98 EP - GARAGE DAYS RE-REVISITED METALLICA 42 28 BE MORE KIND FRANK TURNER 3 29 THE STARS THE OCEANS & THE MOON ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN 11 30 SIMULATION THEORY MUSE 1 31 VI YOU ME AT SIX 6 32 THE NOW NOW GORILLAZ 5 33 THE LAST KING OF POP PAUL HEATON 10 34 RITUALS DEAF HAVANA 8 35 YOU ARE SOMEONE ELSE FICKLE FRIENDS 9 36 ENTER THE WU-TANG (36 CHAMBERS) WU-TANG CLAN 83 37 TECHNOLOGY DON BROCO 5 38 WORLD BEYOND ERASURE 47 39 STAYING AT TAMARA'S GEORGE EZRA 1 40 BLACK HONEY BLACK HONEY 33 ©2019 Official Charts Company. All rights reserved. * Peak on the Official Compilations Chart

To my ears it sounds just as good. (but then I am a golden oldie) :yahoo:

You can get With the Beatles for £4.99 on Google Play.

They are all off on their holidays now. So probably in 2019.

As expected. The Greatest Showman – the film’s hugely successful cast recording takes this year’s Christmas Number 1 album with its strongest week of sales yet. The collection shifted 69,000 units across sales and streams to rack up a 23rd non-consecutive week at Number 1. 85% of its sales this week were pure sales (CD, vinyl and download). The album, which was released in December 2017, hasn’t exited the Top 5 all year and, according to the BPI, has officially gone 5x platinum this week. 1,567,599 to date.

Some new BPI certifications awarded yesterday. Queen Greatest Hits Virgin Platinum 21X Album 20.12.2018 03.01.2011 Abba Gold - Greatest Hits Polydor Platinum 18x Album 20.12.2018 05.04.2004 Fleetwood Mac Rumours Rhino Platinum 13x Album 20.12.2018 24.04.1984 Bob Marley & The Wailers Legend Tuff Gong Platinum 12x Album 20.12.2018 20.05.2002 Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell Epic Platinum 11x Album 20.12.2018 05.03.2001 U2 The Joshua Tree Island Platinum 9x Album 20.12.2018 01.03.1987 Paul Simon Graceland Warner Bros Platinum 8x Album 20.12.2018 01.09.1986

Sgt. Pepper has 28 weeks at number 1.

Following ITV's documentary Cliff's Rise Up is now no. 16 on iTunes albums chart.

It has - I suppose they did not want to play 3 versions of the same song. Or OCC confused the different versions.

For comparison, here's MTV's version. VH1 and MTV December 2018 Official Top 50 Christmas hits (based on OCC sales figures, rounded to nearest 10,000). Sales only, no streams, not updated from last year. Not all are Christmas themed, probably only those records released in December. Some big hits left out – for example 3 Beatles December hits, Tom Jones, Brenda Lee, Band Aid 30, Harry Belafonte (probably due to lack of videos). Top 50 Christmas hits 1 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID 3.80m 2 BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY - QUEEN 2.54m 3 MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL - WINGS 2.08m 4 MARY'S BOY CHILD/OH MY LORD - BONEY M 1.89m 5 LAST CHRISTMAS/EVERYTHING SHE WANTS - WHAM! 1.83m 6 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - WHITNEY HOUSTON 1.64m 7 DON'T YOU WANT ME? - HUMAN LEAGUE 1.64m 8 HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA BURKE 1.28m 9 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE 1.26m 10 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - THE POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 1.26m 11 EARTH SONG - MICHAEL JACKSON 1.21m 12 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID 20 1.18m 13 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU - MARIAH CAREY 1.15m 14 2 BECOME 1 - SPICE GIRLS 1.14m 15 THAT'S MY GOAL - SHAYNE WARD 1.11m 16 WHITE CHRISTMAS - BING CROSBY 1.05M 17 CAN WE FIX IT? - BOB THE BUILDER 1.03M 18 WHEN WE COLLIDE - MATT CARDLE 1.02M 19 HAPPY XMAS - JOHN & YOKO 0.94M 20 A CHILD IS BORN - JOHNNY MATHIS 0.92M 21 A MOMENT LIKE THIS - LEONA LEWIS 0.92M 22 MILLENIUM PRAYER - CLIFF RICHARD 0.92M 23 MISTLETOE AND WINE - CLIFF RICHARD 0.90M 24 GOODBYE - SPICE GIRLS 0.90M 25 STAY ANOTHER DAY - EAST 17 0.86M 26 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE - SHAKIN’ STEVENS 0.86M 27 LONELY THIS CHRISTMAS - MUD 0.85M 28 MAD WORLD - MICHAEL ANDREWS 0.80M 29 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY - WIZZARD 0.80M 30 KILLING IN THE NAME - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 0.80M 31 THE POWER OF LOVE - FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 0.74M 32 WHEREVER YOU ARE - MILITARY WIVES 0.72M 33 TOO MUCH - SPICE GIRLS 0.68M 34 SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND - GIRLS ALOUD 0.67M 35 I HAVE A DREAM - WESTLIFE 0.65M 36 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - GREG LAKE 0.51M 37 WHEN YOU BELIEVE - LEON JACKSON 0.51M 38 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? - BAND AID II 0.48M 39 STOP THE CAVALRY - JONA LEWIE 0.47M 40 WOMBLING MERRY CHRISTMAS - THE WOMBLES 0.47M 41 CHRISTMAS TIME (DON’T LET THE BELLS END) - THE DARKNESS 0.46M 42 HE AIN’T HEAVY - THE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE 0.4M 43 SOMETHIN’ STUPID - ROBBIE WILLIAMS AND NICOLE KIDMAN 0.39M 44 PIPES OF PEACE - PAUL MCCARTNEY 0.38M 45 ROCKIN' AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE - KIM WILDE & MEL SMITH 0.33M 46 WONDERFUL CHRISTMASTIME - PAUL MCCARTNEY 0.31M 47 SAVIOUR'S DAY - CLIFF RICHARD 0.31M 48 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - CHRIS REA 0.26M 49 PEACE ON EARTH / LITTLE DRUMMER BOY - BING CROSBY & DAVID BOWIE 0.24M 50 IN DULCE JUBILO - MIKE OLDFIELD 0.22M

There was a feature on Buddy Holly on BBC Breakfast this morning. I saw it later on the iPlayer.

Why the large jumps for Buddy Holly albums on iTunes? 3 (56) True love ways 41 (155) The very best of Buddy Holly

The first week yes, but not the second week. 20 The Beatles 8,553 21 Muse 7,982

The OCC have now clarified re Music Box. The 1.5m figure from the BPI is shipments. Our figure is sales, including DUS figures pre-1994.

The OCC have now confirmed that this list is pure sales. They have now included Queen's top 20 most streamed songs in the UK. The release of the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic has also given a healthy boost to Queen's music on streaming services. Rhapsody remains their most popular, with 50.4 million streams, followed by Don't Stop Me Now on 46.1 million plays.

Great to see Spice Girls Greatest Hits album at No. 1 on iTunes today.

Beatles White album to remain at no. 1 for a second week. :lol:

World sales of Thriller album were given as 55 million.

Just for information. The Top Ten of Everything 2019 has just been published and there are lots of facts and figures for the music scene. The book does not say so but they all refer to US charts/sales. Nothing for UK at all. The facts were compiled by BuzzAngle Music for 2017. You can download the statistics by clicking here.

It works OK for me. Beside the magnifying glass where it says "Search BPI Awards" type in name of artist e.g. Elvis Presley.

But Billboard may be different. Eminem’s Kamikaze may hold at No. 1 on next week’s Billboard 200 albums chart, according to industry forecasters. Those in the know suggest the set could earn around 120,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Sept. 13, which might be enough for it to hang on to the top slot. Kamikaze launched at No. 1 with 434,000 units earned in the week ending Sept. 6, according to Nielsen Music. Meanwhile, Paul McCartney’s new Egypt Station — which was released on Sept. 7 via MPL/Capitol Records — could arrive in the No. 2 slot, and is flirting with a No. 1 debut. The album could tally 115,000-plus units for the week. If Egypt starts at No. 1, it will earn McCartney his eighth leader on the list, and first since 1982’s Tug of War. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The top 10 of the Sept. 22-dated Billboard 200 chart (where Egypt Station will debut) is scheduled to be revealed on Billboard’s websites on Sunday, Sept. 16.

And for next week (don't want to start a new thread). From HitsDailyDouble. Such a variation in streams.

From Billboard. Apple Music Gains Popularity Worldwide, Spotify & Amazon Hold Market Shares Apple Music's global market share grew 2 percent in the first half of the year, reaching 19 percent of worldwide streamers, according to a study by MIDiA. Meanwhile, the report shows Spotify and Amazon holding relatively steady with 36 percent and 12 percent, respectively. MIDiA's Global Streaming Music Subscription Market H1 2018 report found music subscribers grew 16 percent in the first half of the year, reaching 229.5 million people worldwide -- up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. (That's a 38 percent increase year-over-year, up 62.8 million subscribers from the same time last year.) Global music subscription revenue was $3.498 billion. "This represents strong but sustained, rather than strongly accelerating, growth: 60.8 million net new subscribers were added between H1 2016 and H1 2017. This indicates that subscriber growth remains on the faster-growth midpoint of the S-curve," writes MIDiA managing director Mark Mulligan. MIDiA expects strong, sustained growth to continue in the second half of 2018, hypothesizing ​this streaming growth phase will last until mid-2019, at which point the "early-follower segments will be tapped out in developed markets." Then, growth will be driven my mid-tier streaming markets, such as Japan, Germany, Brazil, Mexico and Russia, which are showing potential to drive strong subscriber growth but -- particular with the latter three -- will require more mid-tier product offerings. One such product could be inexpensive content bundles, as the Brazilian market has already seen with telco brands. If streaming companies fail to make their products accessible to lower income consumers, their services will be constrained to affluent elites, the study warns. Of course, with a content bundling strategy, revenue per user decreases, likely leading to revenue growth glowing even as subscribers tick upward. Specific to services, Spotify has either gained or maintained market share every six months since Q4 2016. Its current 36 percent marketshare comprises 83 million subscribers, adding 11.9 million new subscribers in the first half or 2018 -- 39 percent of all net new subscribers, more than any other music service in the time period. Apple Music's 19 percent market share is up three points from the same time last year, totaling 43.5 million subscribers. Of the 9.2 million subscribers added over the first six months of 2018, the study states the United States was the key growth market -- where Apple Music is now reported to lead Spotify in paying subscriptions. Amazon's Prime Music and Amazon Music services added just under half a point of market share, staying relatively stable at 12 percent. The most growth coming to Amazon Music tier, adding 3.3 million to reach 9.5 million in H2 2018. Overall, Amazon had 27.9 million subscribers at the end of the period. As well, Tencent Music ended the half year with 8 percent of the global marketshare, while Deezer, Google and Pandora each had 3 percent.