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He did have a follow-up, “Easy Way Out” (though weirdly I think that was out in the UK before “Somebody That I Used To Know” took off).

One of THE biggest omissions and casualties of this list is yet another Oakenfold mix - Not Over Yet from Grace (also peaking at #6) a few months later in April 1995.

 

8-6-9-13-21-34-42-65 (8 weeks)

 

Whilst we wait then, let's discuss some DANCE hits that didn't quite make the list from early 1995. First up Perfecto Allstarz (aka early Paul Oakenfold). The Skeleton in the video used to scare my sister! :D

 

17-8-9-7-6-7-13-24-41-67-75 (11 weeks)

 

Love Yourself up to #1 today!

Did you just get bored of it really quickly?

 

I wouldn't say that - it just seemed to sound out of place once the Olympics/Paralympics had finished and I stop listening to it as much.

Cliff Richard “The Millennium Prayer” is also a mystery - just WHO was buying it?

 

27/11/1999 - #2 - 88,000

04/12/1999 - #1 - 143,000

11/12/1999 - #1 - 157,000

18/12/1999 - #1 - 159,000

25/12/1999 - #2 - 170,000

 

What??!

Similarly in 1992 Wet Wet Wet managed a massive #1 with “Goodnight Girl” after a series of seemingly doomed flops (#30, #37 and #56 respectively) - there seems to be a period in January/February in the new year where a band on the edge of total collapse can be given one final chance, or maybe just catch a break with a song just seems to strike a chord with the general public and runs away for no good reason.

 

They increased sales dramatically in week 2 and continued to increase further in week 3 which was sort of unheard of in the post-1995 chart hyping era.

Well done to Joe and Dan! Both great choices. :D

Worth mentioning that 3 weeks so far have had a >50% contribution from streaming to the number 1 single.

 

All 3 weeks were by Justin Bieber, the highest being the 59.8% for the 5th week of “What Do You Mean?”

Happy 600th chart Martin!

Fantastic #1, and yay at us sharing number 1s for the first time in a while~

 

Really sad that LoneLady was unable to get you into the final, it got my 10 points. You were robbed.. : ( Excellent new entries tho from Grimes, Blood Orange and Neon Indian - all in my chart too at the moment.

Looking forward to Adele being played thrice (twice for the same song :lol: ) in the Big Top 40 top ten later. *.*

The shortest run for a #1 since 2010 has been:

 

Underworld “Caliban’s Dream” 10-01-01-02-02-04-08-16-25-29-39-46 (12 weeks)

 

 

..which also has the distinction of being the highest debut of the 2010s on my chart when it went in at #10 on 29th July 2012 - the Sunday after the opening ceremony of the London olympics.

 

Kölsch remix of “Wide Open” featuring the vocals of Beck. Hopefully they'll do a proper video for the single (which is due for release on 11th December).

The K-Klass remix makes the track, worth mentioning that “Rhythm Is A Mystery” was their biggest hit and despite peaking at #3 in November 1991 was not mentioned in this thread due to peaking below 2 Unlimited. They also made The Corrs’ “So Young” into a Top 10 hit in November 1998 (#6).

Well it will increase sales this week which will put it way past 600k, it will almost certainly be over the million mark in Jan. You are basically just digging for something that isn't there.

 

So you think the sales this week will be 88K+ ? When the current #1 on iTunes is barely selling 7K per day!? Not going to happen!

You thought she'd sell 1m downloads in 4 weeks, with no performance and everything geared towards the album? If she/her label wanted single download sales she'd have been on X factor or CIN or Strictly this last few weeks. Instead the first bit of promo is basically an hour long advert for the album on the BBC the night the album dropped.

 

I didn't say 1 million in 4 weeks, I meant in total! Obviously it could still get there but given the rate of drop off, it's unlikely at least for many months.

You can't count :)

 

You obviously can't. :D

It's actually 0.9674 combined. :D

I'm not trying to downplay Adele's success, just commenting that I am surprised how quickly her sales have dropped off (here in the UK, whilst elsewhere she continues to dominate). I thought she'd get quite close to selling 1 million downloads with “Hello” after that first week sale, however there is no denying the single hasn't quite held up as well as other big hits from the year. I take your point that admittedly streaming has taken away a lot of her potential sales yes, but I still expected the all conquering Adele to overcome that!

Well the campaign that has been going for over 12 months seems to be really successful so far doesn't it? Well apart from strengthening their propaganda and their recruitment but if you conveniently ignore that and then it's all FINE AND DANDY.

 

Clearly the reaction that Daesh wants, and I don't think we should give it to them but I expect we will. Predictably we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Actually it has sold 512K, which is less than Uptown Funk managed (pure sales = 555K) in 4 weeks. #chartfact

I hope they delete the single version of Hello. I don't want two Hellos in the iTunes top 10.

 

Agreed, although worth it for messing up the Big Top 40.

Doctor Blind Chart - 15th November 2015

 

TW - LW / Artist / “Song” /

 

01 - 03 MØ “Kamikaze” *New #1*

02 - 06 Neon Indian “Slumlord”

03 - 01 LoneLady “Silvering” (01)

04 - 02 Kurt Vile “Pretty Pimpin” (01)

05 - 07 Suede “Outsiders”

06 - 09 Special Request “Amnesia”

07 - 04 Daughter “Doing The Right Thing” (04)

08 - 16 Grimes “Flesh Without Blood”

09 - 13 Susanne Sundfør “Accelerate”

10 - 05 Kelela “Rewind” (02)

 

11 - 14 Deerhunter “Breaker”

12 - 17 Chairlift “Ch-Ching”

13 - 15 Roots Manuva “Don't Breathe Out”

14 - 08 FKA twigs “In Time” (01)

15 - 11 Alex G “Kicker” (11)

16 - 22 Jack Garratt “Breathe Life”

17 - 10 !!! “Freedom ’15” (06)

18 - 29 HÆLOS “Pray”

19 - 26 C Duncan “For (Autumn Rebuild)”

20 - 24 Adele “Hello”

 

21 - 12 Beach House “PPP” (09)

22 - 36 Kurt Vile “Dust Bunnies”

23 - 31 Blossoms “Charlemagne”

24 - 34 99 Souls ft. Brandy & Destiny's Child “The Girl Is Mine”

25 - 38 Santigold ft. B.C. “Can’t Get Enough of Myself”

26 - 23 Seinabo Sey “Pretend” (23)

27 - 19 Bicep “Just” (04)

28 - 33 Tame Impala “Let It Happen” (02)

29 - 40 Blood Orange “Sandra’s Smile”

30 - 18 Oneohtrix Point Never “I Bite Through It” (05)

 

31 - 39 Pleasure Beach “Dreamer To The Dawn”

32 - 21 Julia Holter “Sea Calls Me Home” (02)

33 - 43 Stealing Sheep “Apparition”

34 - 49 SOAK “Reckless Behaviour”

35 - 45 CHVRCHES “Empty Threat”

36 - 32 Format:B “Chunky” (32)

37 - 20 Majical Cloudz “Downtown” (17)

38 - NE Everything Everything “No Reptiles” *Highest New Entry*

39 - 25 Drake “Hotline Bling” (06)

40 - NE The Chemical Brothers “Wide Open” *New Entry*

Could Semi 1 voting be extended perhaps? We did have a bit of a delay to the opening of the voting didn't we?

Is Xmas Day itself the biggest day for streams - I remember checking last year and the whole top 100 was 95% Xmas tracks so they may lose one days big sales I guess if you know what I mean.

 

Yes. 25 December 2014 was the biggest streaming day (until the massive days >400K achieved by Wiz Khalifa, Justin Bieber and Adele) with 378,523 for Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.