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62 singles this week (plus 5 albums and 1 video). This is unexpected, Trashmen - Surfin' Bird - Charly - Silver - Single - 08.03.2024 - 20.03.2006 Spent 4 weeks in the Top 100. Chart run (2/5/2009) 50, 79; then a year and a half later 3, 41. Unusual. Their only hit. No albums.

How did The Beatles ever allow their song to be in the movie? Maybe they got a huge royalty fee?

OK - I was wrong!! Probably around 3k per week for the last 7 weeks, mainly physical sales.

At last!! 'Now And Then', the single by @thebeatles, is now #BRITcertified Silver. Obviously the 25,000 or so chart ineligible singles are not included. But they were real sales!

50 Hey Jude 49 Let it be 48 I Want to hold your hand 47 Twist and shout 46 I saw her standing there 45 Help! 44 Yesterday 43 Here comes the sun 42 Eleanor Rigby 41 All you need is love 40 All my Loving 39 Penny Lane 38 In my life 37 Please please me 36 A hard day’s night 35 Strawberry fields forever 34 From me to you 33 She loves you 32 With a little help from my friends 31 Sgt Pepper 30 Nowhere man 29 Can’t buy me love 28 Back in the USSR 27 The long and winding road 26 Now and then 25 Get back 24 Come together 23 Something 22 Love me do 21 Michelle 20 Ticket to ride 19 Here there and everywhere 18 While my guitar gently weeps 17 And I love her 16 We can work it out 15 Hello Goodbye 14 Blackbird 13 Drive my car 12 I feel fine 11 Day tripper 10 Yellow submarine 9 Eight days a week 8 Norwegian wood 7 Across the universe 6 Octopus’s Garden 5 Real love 4 This boy 3 Magical Mystery Tour 2 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 1 The ballad of John & Yoko EDIT: changed some of my selections.

Sza - Sos Rca - Platinum - Album - 02.02.2024 - 19.05.2023 Just a wee mistake.

We would all like to know that! Probably still suffering from a Christmas hangover. And if you search for Taylor Swift her last certificate is way back on 24/11/23. Similar for other artists. Recent certs not yet added.

Certs for singles now available at HAVEN foruns (care of UKChartsPlus). https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...crollTo=2596848

No Silver cert last Friday so around 25,000 chart ineligible sales don't count for BPI certification, and presumably all-time sales. It might never go Silver.

Will need to see if Now And Then was certified last Friday. Counting ineligible sales, I have it at just over 200,000 sales. They may be ineligible for the chart but they are recorded on the OCC database because Alan Jones gave us the sales figures. All sales should therefore contribute to certification. I'm sure this applies to other artists. I would agree that the Beatles Thursday streams are lost forever.

Do you know whether chart ineligible sales are taken into account e.g. when there are more than 3 variants released for songs? They don't count for chart sales but what about BPI certifications?

From BPI. Vinyl LP purchases have risen for the 16th consecutive year in the UK in 2023 and are growing at their fastest rate this decade. Following a 2.9% improvement in unit sales last year, the vinyl market in 2023 has, with just a few more days to go to year-end, increased more than four times as fast with an 11.7% rise to 5.9 million units. This is according to analysis of Official Charts data by the BPI, the association for the UK’s record companies and labels and the representative voice of British recorded music. The increase has been led by brand new releases from artists including Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey, Lewis Capaldi, The Rolling Stones, and Taylor Swift. While more than four-fifths of recorded music consumption in the UK is now made up of streaming, demand for vinyl LPs continues to surge, with the market at its highest annual level since 1990. This includes over a quarter of a million vinyl albums having been sold during the course of last week, making it the highest sales week for the format this century. Additionally, the CD market has sustained its smallest annual decline in nearly a decade this year as it moves closer to plateauing. Nearly 11 million CDs, which remain important commercially and to Official Charts success, were sold across the year, while sales of cassettes topped 100,000 units in a calendar year for the fourth consecutive year. Chart 1 – OFFICIAL VINYL ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023* – © Official Charts Company Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version) The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Blur – The Ballad Of Darren Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon Taylor Swift – Midnights Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent *Up to Chart Week 51 2023 Chart 2 – OFFICIAL COMPACT DISC ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023* – © Official Charts Company Take That – This Life Taylor Swift – 1989 (Taylor’s Version) The Rolling Stones – Hackney Diamonds Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent Ed Sheeran – - (Subtract) P!nk – Trustfall Foo Fighters – But Here We Are Metallica – 72 Seasons Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Council Skies Kylie Minogue – Tension *Up to Chart Week 51 2023 Chart 3 – OFFICIAL CASSETTE ARTIST ALBUMS CHART 2023 – © Official Charts Company Olivia Rodrigo – Guts Ed Sheeran – - (Subtract) Kylie Minogue – Tension Inhaler – Cuts & Bruises Blur – The Ballad Of Darren Lana Del Rey – Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Sleep Token – Take Me Back To Eden Lewis Capaldi – Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent Hozier – Unreal Unearth The 1975 – Live With The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra *Up to Chart Week 51 2023

HAVEN had the BPI list for 22nd December last Thursday. https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/thread/10...cations?page=12 Care of https://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk

Simon & Garfunkel The Sounds Of Silence Columbia Silver Single 15.12.2023 21.10.2008 That should be the album. The single, The Sound Of Silence was released in 2004, and is already Platinum. There was a previous album, awarded GOLD, based on shipments. Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence - Unknown - Gold - Album - 21.02.1984 - 13.03.1981

'(What's The Story) Morning Glory?', the album by @oasis, is now #BRITcertified 17x Platinum. That's 5,100,000. BPI must be using the revised OCC sales for 1994 and 1995.

+18 THE BEATLES – I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND +15 THE BEATLES – DAY TRIPPER/WE CAN WORK IT OUT +13 THE BEATLES – HELLO, GOODBYE +12 THE BEATLES – I FEEL FINE +11 WINGS – MULL OF KINTYRE/GIRLS' SCHOOL +10 CLIFF RICHARD – MISTLETOE AND WINE +9 SHAKIN' STEVENS – MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE +8 CLIFF RICHARD & THE SHADOWS – I LOVE YOU +7 CLIFF RICHARD – SAVIOUR'S DAY +6 WHAM! - LAST CHRISTMAS +5 ELVIS PRESLEY – RETURN TO SENDER +4 JOHNNIE RAY – JUST WALKIN' IN THE RAIN +3 SLADE – MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY +2 BONEY M – MARY'S BOY CHILD – OH MY LORD +1 MR BLOBBY – MR BLOBBY Because I am a Beatles and Cliff fan!!

Another Brit Billion award. Joel Corry - Date Awarded: 13 December 2023 Joel Corry@JoelCorry · 18 Dec . @BRITs BILLION AWARD!! 🥳 Thank you to everyone out there streaming my music ❤️ This just gives me more motivation to keep working!! Happy Xmas & bring on more bangers in 2024 🚀

On iTunes 1 NEW Creator Universe - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday 9 NEW LadBaby - We Built This City Wham vinyl sold out on HMV. (£12.99 plus £2 postage)

On iTunes right now. 1 NEW Creator Universe - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

From the OCC. It's been announced that the Pogues will be releasing a very special, limitied edition vinyl release of Fairytale of New York featuring Kirsty MacColl next week. The new release of the modern festive classic will certainly see its chances for success as 2023's Christmas Number 1 single heavily increased. With a new physical release expected to drop December 19, this puts The Pogues in direct competition for the most important Number 1 of the year. The lead contenders so far, Wham! with Last Christmas, also announced yesterday that their 1984 classic would be issued on CD for the first time ever, in a bid to secure Last Christmas its first-ever stint at Number 1. The Official Christmas Number 1 race 2023 kicks off Friday December 15 with sales and streams counting up until midnight (11.59pm) on Thursday, December 21.

Notice that the OCC now refers to combined sales and streams as UK chart units.

The Official Top 40 biggest Christmas songs of the 21st century revealed https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...s-21st-century/ Taking into account combined sales and streams of yuletide songs released this century. 1 IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS - MICHAEL BUBLE - 1.9 million UK chart units (including 206 million streams) 2 SANTA TELL ME - ARIANA GRANDE - 1.6 million UK chart units (181m streams) 3 SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW - LILY ALLEN - 1.5 million UK chart units (104m streams) 4 ONE MORE SLEEP - LEONA LEWIS - 1.46 million UK chart units 5 UNDERNEATH THE TREE - KELLY CLARKSON - 1.37 million UK chart units 6 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID 20 7 MISTLETOE - JUSTIN BIEBER 8 HOLLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS - MICHAEL BUBLE 9 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS - COLDPLAY 10 CHRISTMAS TIME (DON'T LET THE BELLS END) – DARKNESS Michael Bublé also boasts a further 12 songs in the Top 40 list.

Another Brit Billion award. Ella Henderson Date Awarded: 01 December 2023

6. Jane McDonald- Believe in Christmas Eve for Christmas number one.

A bargain on iTunes if you like Slade. Six number ones for only £1.99. The No.1's - EP 1. Coz I love you 2. Take me bak 'ome 3. Mama weer all crazee now 4. Cum on feel the noize 5. Skeeze me, pleeze me 6. Merry Xmas everybody NOTE: Their spelling, not mine.