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Or are people just preordering the main track? (Or is this not possible - album only or similar?) Odd if not, as this would usually make it an "EP" by itunes definition and it would chart on their albums list if I'm not mistaken?

I expect Rihanna to gain ground as the week goes on - hopefully pass them ;-p sure she will win the war anyway (ie. Total sales of their respective singles)

Was anyone watching to post the 60? Shame to have missed...

Yeah I'm not sure what's keeping it so buoyant but recently it seems to be going strength to strength when I really thought fathers day in June was its somewhat desperate last gasp. Great sales esp when Beady Eye's album is now totally forgotten ;-s Noels sold more than last oasis album which is a fairly confident mark of success! Over 100k x10 for the band is great thought as previous would love some total sales there OCC...

wonder if Frank has passed the million yet (Vidcapper any idea maybe?). As always, some more complete info on the above would have been nice :moira:

What a weird random list the OCC has chosen this time. And more of their sales (except post 96 ones) revised down. Thanks for the list for comparison Gezza a really good comparison of that effect actually. Total sales would have been better OCC...

Gezza can you elaborate on your "bless the OCC" incorrect sales comment? (e.g. who/what sales?). I know you "were at Woodstock" so to speak and are often knowledgeable on these matters! :P

Beatles recently overtook, but are still 3rd in the Virgin book. Think they'll stretch their lead tbh over 2nd and 3rd now they have their downloads. I was about to post a similar thread actually- we have lists of most chart weeks for songs and artists in singles and albums, we have biggest selling singles and singles artists lists (I may Rihanna fifth - bloody hell!), and we have biggest selling albums list but WHY NO BIGGEST SELLING ALBUM ARTISTS? Maybe its too hard to count or something but love to see it, does anyone have even an older one? The Virgin Album book doesn't do one and the next book is overdue with no sign ;-(

not noticed this until now. Cool idea! and well needed in this age where it seems impossible to release a significant hit which isn't an all-base-covering collab

I think it may already be written and 113 is all we'll get. Shame because so many have finally passed in the last year or so. HAppy to be proved wrong though!

Lol agreed!

Looked at the link - by omnibus, with sales!

Cool! Who's publishing? Is it Virgin? Wish they'd update their chart books my album one is getting out of date and could do with a few more categories of info next time. If written in advance it may already be finalized for publishing and already be (technically) out of date. Wonder if it'll even have "official" sales

What's the cut off for these sales? I'm sure we found love has sold more than only girl for example... Also good point and quite right about the shadows, the OCC aren't being consistent with their own rules. Can anyone have a go at any estimates beyond top 12?

nice to see this. interesting to compare the sale levels at different positions to other decades especially recent ones. havent paid attention to the difference between panel and over the counter sales but the lists looked similar to me - does it make much difference really?

Hi Martin can you also add the above confirmed sales - i think the only ones which we don't have a higher/more up to date figure for already are HearSay and Amarillo :)

Updated sales figure/position in the biggest sellers of the millennium. Source: OCC (today) #190 About You Now (512k) Nice to see it officially clears the half mil!

More BJ friendly songs? With lyrics like "you spin me right round baby, right round, when you go down when you go down down" you're not wrong :kink: Well if you're going to use logic.... I thought the last figure i saw (which may be a VC estimate) was over the 1.2mil anyway Some totals from the last Virgin Book (sales until end 2009/Q1 2010) - only posted those which are higher in there (as sales will only have increased since): - Pure & Simple 1,085,000 - (incidentally they "only" have band aid at 1,150,000 but prob even that version gets some xmas sales) - (Is This the Way To) Amarillo 1,215,000 - Unchained Melody (Gareth Gates) 1,340,000 Every little helps... :P

Also, last estimate i saw for Kylie a bit ago was 1,140,000 and 927,000 for Just Dance? stellar work on the list, i wonder if certain artist fans may be able to triangulate even more accurate figures ;)

i really hope so. I have no facility to estimate sales *cough vidcapper* *coughcough gezza* but we could at least list the known sales next to current charters/last known (e.g. from the end of 2009 list). really has to be attempted to update some of these oldies with trickle sales!

Really interesting to see what's most picked up in the background. Sales of hits such as celebration, miles away and gimme all your luvin which were small but mostly digital (and MW usually tell you how many CDs in the 1st week which would be almost all I'll wager these days) could give estimates of how much the rest sold. Unsurprisingly her digital era hits are top of the list I guess Wish they'd just give us a proper bloody sales list!

GaGa's the fame should be good, also GGGB by Rihanna or Kings of Leon only by the night (though that may go back too far), Take That's Ultimate Collection (or any of their recent set really) I think you mean ECG (EKG for the Americans) - heartbeat wouldn't show up as much on EEG (brainwaves)! Seriously though, Buble's Crazy Love would be another great candidate!

Also, from the above the 4 Rihanna singles don't total 4.4mil (as stated in the OCC article), but from my knowledge of their previous sales this would be far too high.... :huh:

hey Liam, in total shock that it wasn't a VC response! Thanks! Couple look suspect there though, maybe a little out of date? I think the GaGa forum had a last figure of 927k (from memory) for just dance and VC estimated 966-968k ish for bad romance. Also 990k seems very high for Cheryl Cole, though if right she should pass the million pretty soon actually probably this year? Nice to see Kylie seems to have sold another 20k since the last figure i saw for it. Total classic!

could anyone (and by that i of course mean vidcapper or gezza) annotate this with sales? The positions should give some estimate to the level of increase of some old hits hopefully :)