Dave B

As well as on the computer, I have the last 12 months of album charts in a folder for easy access. They all have estimated sales figures on them, which I put there myself.

If you wait until October, you'll be able to get it for a fiver. The record company have no idea how this one's gonna sell over the coming months. So they are likely to make too many and sell some of them cheap.

I don't think anyone had access to Top 200s back in the 80s.

I have a combined total up to the end of 2008. Then I just add on the estimate for 2009 :)

The Virgin British Hit Albums Book in June. I believe they have taken over from Guinness

That's true. The figure includes compilations as well.

Yeah, it's from the 90s. I expected someone to say that Abba should be there. But as I have no idea how much it has sold this decade, I can't really put it in the chart.

Thanks for that. I didn't know there was an official figure available for Will. Must have missed it. I'll amend it now. The estimate was only around 4K out. :)

Yeah, sources at the OCC say that it will be combined for the forthcoming update of the all time chart.

Better late than never. It's the long awaited update of the decade album chart. It's completely unofficial with sales & positions based on my own data and guesswork. It's calculated by puting figures in boxes, so if you see anything that looks wrong or is missing, please let me know. The chart is compiled up to the end of December 2008 as I work by calendar year. Feel free to update Leona & Duffy, if you wish. Previous positions are from the end of 2007 (the last time I compiled the chart) The Top 60 Albums of the Decade 1 (1) Back to Bedlam - James Blunt 3,166,000 2 (2) No Angel - Dido 3,033,000 3 (23) Back to Black (Combined) – Amy Winehouse 2,907,000 4 (3) White Ladder - David Gray 2,904,000 5 (4) Life For Rent - Dido 2,838,000 6 (5) 1 - The Beatles 2,799,000 7 (6) Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 2,705,000 8 (7) A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay 2,687,000 9 (8) Hopes and fears - Keane 2,663,000 10 (47) Spirit - Leona Lewis * 2,658,408 11 (9) X&Y - Coldplay 2,542,000 12 (14) Beautiful World - Take That 2,536,000 13 (10) Come away with me - Norah Jones 2,444,000 14 (11) Parachutes - Coldplay 2,434,000 15 (12) The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem 2,248,000 16 (13) Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams 2,244,000 17 (17) Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 2,211,000 18 (15) Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams 2,202,000 19 (16) Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams 2,104,000 20 (18) Escapology - Robbie Williams 2,058,000 21 (21) Employment - Kaiser Chiefs 1,993,000 22 (19) By the way - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1,947,000 23 (20) Stripped - Christina Aguilera 1,944,000 24 (22) Songs about Jane - Maroon 5 1,933,000 25 (24) American Idiot - Green Day 1,924,000 26 (23) Justified - Justin Timberlake 1,884,000 27 (28) Greatest hits - Texas 1,866,000 28 (26) Call off the search - Katie Melua 1,862,000 29 (33) Hot Fuss - Killers 1,851,000 30 (30) Missunderstood - Pink 1,835,000 31 (27) Born to do it - Craig David 1,829,000 32 (29) Play - Moby 1,781,000 33 (31) Just enough Education to Peform - Stereophonics 1,754,000 34 (32) Lets go - Avril Lavigne 1,740,000 35 (39) Songbird - Eva Cassidy 1,715,000 36 (53) Never Forget - Take That 1,710,000 37 (34) Fever - Kylie Minogue 1,699,000 38 (36) Demon Days - Gorillaz 1,690,000 39 (35) Coast to coast - Westlfe 1,688,000 40 (NE) Rockferry - Duffy * 1,684,944 41 (37) Fridays Child - Will Young. 1,675,000 42 (46) Greatest Hits I II & III - Queen 1,672,000 43 (45) Final Straw - Snow Patrol 1,662,000 44 (38) Greatest hits - Whitney Houston 1,659,000 45 (55) Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits - Westlife 1,643,000 45 (43) Eye to the Telescope - KT Tunstal 1,630,000 47 (40) Gotta get thru this - Daniel Bedingfield 1,623,000 48 (41) Music - Madonna 1,617,000 49 (42) Intensive Care - Robbie Williams 1,611,000 50 (49) In Time The Best of - REM 1,602,000 51 (44) Number Ones - Michael Jackson 1,592,000 52 (48) Elephunk - Black Eyed Peas 1,562,000 53 (NE) Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 1,537,000 54 (51) Elvis - 30Number 1 Hits - Elvis Presley 1,504,000 55 (50) Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson 1,494,000 56 (52) Il Divo - Il Divo 1,490,000 57 (56) Greatest Hits 1970-2002 - Elton John 1,471,000 58 (54) Escape - Enrique Iglesias 1,467,000 59 (59) Razorlight – Razorlight 1,462,000 60 (61) In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson 1,451,000

Is there anything in it that could be seen as offensive ? TMF/VH1 don't play Pink or Kanye West on recent chart shows either. I still haven't been able to work out WHY ?

Is Dundee staying then ?

Celine will have 3 albums in the end of year Top 200. Who thought that she'd stopped selling albums ? :)

That's the Top 50 done. More in 2009

Not a lot of data around for week 52, but we do have official figures for 6 out of the Top 10. There's still the Music Week end of year report to come which should give us even more official figures. Hopefully they will give us The Killers, because the estimate above can be plus or minus 15K. As it's the end of year chart, both me and the admin will be correcting the figures as we go along, so don't print it just yet. The End of Year Album Chart of 2008 1 Rockferry - Duffy * 1,684,944 2 The Circus - Take That * 1,446,135 3 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon * 1,181,641 4 Spirit - Leona Lewis * 1,108,369 5 Viva la Vida or Death and all his Friends - Coldplay 1,089,000 6 Good Girl Gone Bad - Rihanna* 839,524 7 Day & Age - The Killers 693,000 8 Out of Control - Girls Aloud * 591,786 9 Funhouse - Pink * 587,983 10 Scouting for Girls - Scouting for Girls 575,000 11 All the Right Reasons - Nickelback 568,000 12 The Script - The Script 544,028* 13 Decade in the Sun - Best of - Stereophonics 528,000 14 Back to Black (Deluxe Edition) - Amy Winehouse 523,000 15 Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis 500,000 16 19 - Adele 479,328* 17 The Promise - Il Divo 468,000 18 A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol 424,000 19 Gold - Greatest Hits - Abba* 419,806 20 My Love - The Essential Collection - Celine Dion 398,000 21 This is the Life - Amy MacDonald 393,000 22 The Priests - Priests 391,000 23 We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings 378,000 24 Year of the Gentleman - Ne-Yo 371,000 25 Black Ice - AC/DC 370,500 26 Life in Cartoon Motion - Mika 363,000 27 Call me Irresponsible (Special Edition) - Michael Bublé 354,000 28 Home Before Dark - Neil Diamond 349,000 29 Rhydian - Rhydian 347,000 30 Let it Go - Will Young 343,000 31 Greatest Hits - Enrique Iglesias 339,000 32 Exclusive - Chris Brown 335,000 33 Beautiful World - Take That 331,000 34 Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 328,000 35 The Seldom seen Kid - Elbow 325,000 36 Hard Candy - Madonna 323,113* 37 The Best Bette - Bette Midler 312,000 38 I am Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé * 311,734 39 The Best of - Sash 297,000 40 Soul - Seal 292,500 41 Chinese Democracy - Guns n Roses 293,420* 42 Uncle B - N-Dubz 290,500 43 Jumping all Over the World - Scooter 290,000 44 25 The Greatest Hits - Simply Red 277,000 45 Now You're Gone - The Album - Basshunter 271,000 46 Version - Mark Ronson 265,000 47 One of the Boys - Katy Perry 261,000 48 Dreaming Out Loud - One Republic 259,000 49 Perfect Symmetry - Keane 255,000 50 Hand Built by Robots - Newton Faulkner 250,500 51 Songs for You, Thuths for Me - James Morrison 248,000 52 Never Forget - Take That 246,000 53 Death Magnetic - Metallica 240,000 54 Sacred Arias - Katherine Jenkins 239,000 55 Thriller 25 - Michael Jackson 238,000 56 Konk - The Kooks 235,000 57 Back to Black - Amy Winehouse 234,000 58 Back again .. No Matter What - Boyzone 230,500 59 The Trick to Life - Hoosiers 229,500 60 Frank - Amy Winehouse 228,000 61 Circus - Britney Spears 225,500 62 22 Dreams - Paul Weller 225,300 63 Forth - The Verve 222,500 64 And Winter Came - Enya 222,000 65 Oracular Spectacular - MGMT 221,300 66 Because of the Times - Kings of Leon 221,000 67 The Best of - Neil Diamond 218,000 68 Lessons to be Learned - Gabriella Cilmi 216,500 69 Sleep through the Static - Jack Johnson 215,000 70 The Age of the Understatement - Last Shadow Puppets 208,000 71 (Budget) Tangled Up - Girls Aloud 206,000 72 Pictures - 40 Years of Hits - Status Quo 202,000 73 In Silico - Pendulum 200,000 74 A Guide to Love Loss & Desparation - The Wombats 194,000 75 Join with Us - The Feeling 193,900 76 In Rainbows - Radiohead 192,500 77 Vivere - The Best of - Andrea Bocelli 192,400 78 Safe Trip Home - Dido 192.355* 79 (Budget) Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits - Westlife 191,300 80 Here I Stand - Usher 189,500 81 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 189,300 82 All the Lost Souls - James Blunt 187,000 83 Shock Value - Timbaland 186,000 84 Made of Bricks - Kate Nash 183,000 85 Mamma Mia - Origional Cast Recording 182,500 86 Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp 177,000 87 Melody - Sharleen Spiteri 175,000 88 Dark Horse - Nickelback 174,500 89 Some Guys Have all the Luck - Rod Stewart 173,000 90 Voices of the Valley - Home - From Male Voice Choir 171,000 91 Breakout - Miley Cyrus 170,000 92 Only Men Aloud - Only Men Aloud 169,500 93 Perfect Day - Cascada 168,000 94 Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters 166,000 95 We'll Live & Die in these Towns - The Enemy 164,000 96 Yours Truly Angry Mob - Kaiser Chiefs 161,500 97 Robyn - Robyn 161,000 98 King of Pop - Michael Jackson 160,500 99 Eyes Open - Snow Patrol 160,000 100 X - Kylie Minogue 159,000 Credits Sales Figures - Music Week, Various Fan Sites & Sources Official Positions - Official UK Charts Company & Charts Plus Chart Consultants - ManicKangaroo & Martin Calculations & Processing - Excel Guesswork - Dave B

It's one of the smaller ones. I always used to get off the bus a couple of stops early on a Monday, pop in and check out the latest releases and their chart. That was in the days before the internet.

I'll post an update of the decade chart from my own data in January. I need to get the end of year charts finalised first, then I'll have a look at the decade chart with sales up to the end of 2008.

I've got it ... But It wasn't me that did the numbers. [1] DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS - Band Aid (3,550,000) [2] RELAX - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1,910,000) [3] I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU - Stevie Wonder (1,775,000) [4] TWO TRIBES - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1,510,000) [5] DON'T YOU WANT ME - Human League (1,430,000) [6] LAST CHRISTMAS - Wham! (1,420,000) [7] KARMA CHAMELEON - Culture Club (1,405,000) [8] CARELESS WHISPER - George Michael (1,365,995) [9] THE POWER OF LOVE - Jennifer Rush (1,321,530) [10] COME ON EILEEN - Dexy's Midnight Runners (1,201,000) [11] TAINTED LOVE - Soft Cell (1,135,000) [12] EYE OF THE TIGER - Survivor (990,000) [13] BLUE MONDAY - New Order (987,000) [14] STAND AND DELIVER - Adam & The Ants (985,000) [15] ESPECIALLY FOR YOU - Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan (982,000) [16] THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT - Tight Fit (978,000) [17] FAME - Irene Cara (975,000) [18] GHOSTBUSTERS - Ray Parker Junior (974,500) [19] UPTOWN GIRL - Billy Joel (974,000) [20] RIDE ON TIME - Black Box (973,850) [21] SWING THE MOOD - Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers (940,000) [22] DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME - Culture Club (905,000) [23] HELLO - Lionel Richie (860,000) [24] I KNOW HIM SO WELL - Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson (820,000) [25] IMAGINE - John Lennon (810,000) [26] DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME - The Police (800,000) [27] AGADOO - Black Lace (790,000) [28] WOMAN IN LOVE - Barbra Streisand (780,000) [29] RED RED WINE - UB40 (770,000) [30] ANTMUSIC - Adam & the Ants (765,000) [31] INTO THE GROOVE - Madonna (760,000) [32] SAVE YOUR LOVE - Renee & Renato (760,000) [33] FEELS LIKE I'M IN LOVE - Kelly Marie (755,000) [34] PASS THE DUTCHIE - Musical Youth (755,000) [35] NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - Rick Astley (750,000) [36] PRINCE CHARMING - Adam & The Ants (750,000) [37] MISTLETOE AND WINE - Cliff Richard (745,000) [38] DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY - Communards (745,000) [39] I DON'T WANNA DANCE - Eddy Grant (745,000) [40] THIS OLE HOUSE - Shakin' Stevens (740,000) [41] LAND OF MAKE BELIEVE - Bucks Fizz (740,000) [42] NOTHING'S GONNA STOP US NOW - Starship (740,000) [43] VIENNA - Ultravox (735,000) [44] SEVEN TEARS - Goombay Dance Band (735,000) [45] FREEDOM - Wham! (735,000) [46] ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson (730,000) [47] MAKING YOUR MIND UP - Bucks Fizz (730,000) [48] SUPER TROUPER - ABBA (730,000) [49] BIRDIE SONG - Tweets (725,000) [50] 19 - Paul Hardcastle (725,000) [51] EVERY LOSER WINS - Nick Berry (725,000) [52] SHADDUP YOU FACE - Joe Dolce Music Theatre (720,000) [53] LIKE A VIRGIN - Madonna (720,000) [54] I WANT TO WAKE UP WITH YOU - Boris Gardiner (720,000) [55] REETE PETITE - Jackie Wilson (715,000) [56] D.I.S.C.O. - Ottawan (715,000) [57] FRANKIE - Sister Sledge (715,000) [58] I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS - Foreigner (710,000) [59] THE TIDE IS HIGH - Blondie (710,000) [60] LET'S DANCE - David Bowie (710,000) [61] TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART - Bonnie Tyler (705,000) [62] TRUE - Spandau Ballet (705,000) [63] CHAIN REACTION - Diana Ross (705,000) [64] WE ALL STAND TOGETHER - Paul McCartney & The Frog Chorus (700,000) [65] THE ONLY WAY IS UP - Yazz & the Plastic Population (700,000) [66] LIVING DOLL - Cliff Richard & The Young Ones (700,000) [67] EBONY AND IVORY - Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder (695,000) [68] ONLY YOU - Flying Pickets (695,000) [69] YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY - Shakin' Stevens (690,000) [70] WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO GO - Wham! (690,000) [71] LADY IN RED - Chris De Burgh (685,000) [72] GENO - Dexy's Midnight Runners (685,000) [73] DOWN UNDER - Men At Work (680,000) [74] DANCING IN THE STREET - David Bowie & Mick Jagger (680,000) [75] A TOWN CALLED MALICE - The Jam (675,000) [76] I SHOULD BE SO LUCKY - Kylie Minogue (670,000) [77] TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL - Fern Kinney (670,000) [78] COWARD OF THE COUNTY - Kenny Rogers (670,000) [79] I FEEL FOR YOU - Chaka Khan (665,000) [80] GHOST TOWN - Specials (665,000) [81] I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY - Whitney Houston (660,000) [82] MOVE CLOSER - Phyllis Nelson (660,000) [83] (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER - John Lennon (655,000) [84] IT'S MY PARTY - Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin (655,000) [85] BEING WITH YOU - Smokey Robinson (650,000) [86] WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU/FORGIVE ME GIRL - Detroit Spinners (650,000) [87] WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH - Billy Ocean (645,000) [88] BILLIE JEAN - Michael Jackson (645,000) [89] 9 TO 5 (MORNING TRAIN) - Sheena Easton (640,000) [90] A GOOD HEART - Feargal Sharkey (640,000) [91] BAGGY TROUSERS - Madness (635,000) [92] TAKE ON ME - A-Ha (635,000) [93] HAPPY BIRTHDAY - Altered Images (630,000) [94] HANDS UP (GIVE ME YOUR HEART) - Ottawan (630,000) [95] ASHES TO ASHES - David Bowie (625,000) [96] WOMAN - John Lennon (625,000) [97] LOVE AND PRIDE - King (620,000) [98] GOLDEN BROWN - Stranglers (620,000) [99] ALL NIGHT LONG (ALL NIGHT) - Lionel Richie (615,000) [100] LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE - Paul Young (615,000)

It finished 2007 at Number 13 in the end of year compilation chart. 13 JACKIE - THE ALBUM - VARIOUS ARTISTS 256,500 You can probably add on about another 50K for sales in 2008

Back to Black is still in the chart as seperate albums, so it has to get counted that way. I think Alan Jones is gonna combine it though, when he does the chart of the decade.

I'll add up Tiao when I get a minute

Never Forget - Take That 1,598,000

Now that you've seen the full Top 100 from the database, it's your turn to help me .... Is there anything that I've missed from the database that has sold 100K in 2008 ?

Kylie is now posted in the extended chart.

19 so far, and Leona set to make it 20. They're not in current chart order Back to Bedlam - James Blunt No Angel - Dido White Ladder - David Gray Life For Rent - Dido 1 - The Beatles Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay Hopes and fears - Keane X&Y - Coldplay Come away with me - Norah Jones Parachutes - Coldplay The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem Swing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams Beautiful World - Take That Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams Greatest Hits - Robbie Williams Eyes Open - Snow Patrol Escapology - Robbie Williams Back to Black (combined)– Amy Winehouse