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We still have a record of pure million sellers. It’s there in The Chart Vault. 185 songs or so have got there and it’s virtually a closed group now - a few more songs might trickle over the line if you give it a couple of decades. Of course a million paid for sales is more of an achievement than a million streaming equivalent sales. But nothing will likely ever sell a million copies again. Likely nothing will ever even sell 300k paid for copies again. We can recognise that certain totals meant more in the past while still celebrating current hits reaching those milestones. Of course 1 stream = 1 sale and nothing further counts, while making the chart much faster, would mean first week “sales” could be in the millions. So that would surely only aggravate the distortion between old and new totals.

The playlist:

Sorry for the long gap… but we are returning! 🥳 2002 Weeks 1-3: #1090 15/09/2001 Shimon And Andy C Body Rock 28 58-74-{28}R(16)-41-59->5 #1091 12/01/2002 Backstreet Boys Drowning 4 {4}-17-29-45-64-64-72->7 #1092 12/01/2002 Ash There's A Star 13 {13}-45-71->3 #1093 12/01/2002 Dreamcatcher I Don't Wanna Lose My Way 14 {14}-26-41-73->4 #1094 12/01/2002 O.P.M. El Capitan 20 {20}-39-53-59R(4)->4 #1095 12/01/2002 Milk And Sugar/John Paul Young Love Is In The Air 25 {25}-40-54->3 #1096 12/01/2002 Public Domain Let Me Clear My Throat/Too Many MC's 34 {34}-58->2 #1097 12/01/2002 Puretone Addicted To Bass 2 68-{2}-4-8-5-4-8-13-15-21-30-35-41-62-67->15 #1098 19/01/2002 Aaliyah More Than A Woman 1 {1}-5-12-14-18-26-32-45-56-59-68-63->12 #1099 19/01/2002 Dr Dre Featuring Knoc-Turn'Al Bad Intentions 4 {4}-10-21-22-24-36-38-50-67-66-67R(99)->11 #1100 19/01/2002 DJ Aligator Project The Whistle Song (Blow My Whistle Bitch) 5 {5}-7-14-12-14-25-34-46-63-72->10 #1101 19/01/2002 Goldtrix Presents Andrea Brown It's Love (Trippin') 6 {6}-12-18-17-20-34-40-52-71R(2)->9 #1102 19/01/2002 So Solid Crew Presents Mr Shabz Featuring MDB And Haters 8 {8}-15-29-34-39-53-75->7 #1103 19/01/2002 Lange Featuring Skye Drifting Away 9 {9}-14-32-38-41-67->6 #1104 19/01/2002 Jay-Z Girls, Girls, Girls 11 {11}-23-35-40-43-63-74R(2)->7 #1105 19/01/2002 Mark Picchiotti Presents Basstoy Featuring Dana Runnin' 13 {13}-28-43-57-74->5 #1106 19/01/2002 Nelly Furtado On The Radio (Remember The Days) 18 {18}-31-47-58-66-67R(3)->6 #1107 19/01/2002 Mr Pink Presents The Program Love And Affection 22 {22}-34-55-75->4 #1108 19/01/2002 DJ Garry Dream Universe 36 {36}-55->2 #1109 19/01/2002 Psychedelic Waltons Featuring Roisin Murphy Wonderland 37 {37}-56->2 #1110 19/01/2002 Jon Cutler Featuring E-Man It's Yours 38 {38}-50->2

Year end #105 results: 1st: The Killers - Read My Mind 19/34 votes (56%) “Read My Mind” was the 7th Top 20 hit for The Killers, reaching #15 in February 2007, and having a good chart run for a #15 peak. Brandon Flowers described it as the best song he had ever written, and The Pet Shop Boys teamed up with them to make a remix. 2nd: Gorillaz - Dirty Harry 15/34 votes (44%) “Dirty Harry” was the 3rd single from “Demon Days” after “Feel Good Inc” and “Dare”, reaching #6 in November 2005. To date the funky number is their last Top 10 hit. Damon Albarn had included an early version on his album “Democrazy”. 3rd: Britney Spears - Circus 16/35 votes (46%) 4th: Fragma - You Are Alive 10/34 votes (29%) 5th: Ting Tings - Great DJ 10/36 votes (28%) 6th: Outkast - Roses 9/31 votes (29%) 7th: Shy FX & T Power featuring Di - Shake Ur Body 14/39 votes (36%) 8th: Jamelia featuring Beenie Man - Money 15/37 votes (41%) 9th: Christina Milian featuring Young Jeezy - Say I 9/33 votes (27%) 10th: Cheeky Girls - Hooray, Hooray (It’s A Cheeky Holiday) 20/36 votes (56%)

Some sad losses - Tori, Ram Jam, Blancmange and Yello just on this page, but it was a pretty stacked semi so inevitable. The highest wild card in Semi 1 came 39th so delighted to see that I’ve at least equalled that! 😎

Craig for me - what a dreary bit of sampling. At least Fergie tried to do something different even if the end product was a mess.

I went for Bob Sinclar - great but his #104 winner is even better.

Also Son Of Dork for me - quite a lot of meh here but that’s the mehest.

The motley crew have been banished to an island far far away. “Barry Islands In The Stream” was created by the “Gavin And Stacey” characters for Comic Relief. It reached #1 in March 2009 but had a rather ungraceful 1-3-23-51 chart run, leading to it missing the year end Top 100. At the time Sir Tom Jones’ feature on the record made him the oldest #1 artist: Captain Sir Tom Moore holds it now of course. 8th Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West featuring Sir Tom Jones and Robin Gibb - Barry Islands In The Stream 21/35 votes (60%) 9th: Ronan Keating featuring Yusuf - Father And Son 13/30 votes (43%) 10th: Leon Jackson - When You Believe 12/35 votes (34%)

It’s a case of the ex participant as Mya leaves. She had previously featured on Pras Michel’s huge #2 hit “Ghetto Superstar” and Blackstreet’s Top 10 hit “Take Me There”, and would feature on the #1 “Lady Marmalade” cover later in the year. This was her only solo Top 10, reaching #3 in February 2001. 5th: Mya - Case Of The Ex 10/34 votes (29%) 6th: Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks 17/32 votes (53%) 7th: U2 - Electrical Storm 15/34 votes (44%) 8th: Jamelia - DJ / Stop 11/32 votes (34%) 9th: Nickelback - Photograph 13/34 votes (38%) 10th: Chuckie & LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl 14/36 votes (39%)

Sorry I meant to go back to just showing the post ‘94 figure as there’s a lot of uncertainty around the total as discussed elsewhere.

Haha it only ended up as a table because it came out like that automatically when I copied from Excel, but glad it looks OK! Yes 4 for Fleetwood Mac for now. Note that they also had the same 4 for a few weeks in 2023 before “The Chain” dropped back out. I don’t believe “The Chain” has made a year end Top 100 (and it wasn’t a hit at all originally), but in 2021 it came very close - think it dropped out of the Top 100 in the final week.

Went for Sophie And The Giants. 2 dearALICE 3 Jennie / Doechii

Entered this week: 30 For 30 End Of Beginning The Chain 😮 Left this week: Save Your Tears Nights Like This Constellations

Week 8: 1 1 Lola Young Messy 390,000 570,000 2 2 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 369,000 720,000 3 3 Gracie Abrams That's So True 349,000 780,000 4 4 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 309,000 940,000 5 5 Chrystal The Days 241,000 410,000 6 6 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 236,000 830,000 7 7 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 227,000 1,450,000 8 8 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 224,000 1,430,000 9 9 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 196,000 1,950,000 10 10 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 191,000 980,000 11 11 Teddy Swims Lose Control 190,000 2,020,000 12 12 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 188,000 1,980,000 13 13 Teddy Swims The Door 167,000 830,000 14 15 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 162,000 400,000 15 14 Hozier Too Sweet 161,000 1,630,000 16 16 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 158,000 1,490,000 17 23 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 158,000 590,000 18 17 Noah Kahan Stick Season 153,000 2,670,000 19 32 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 152,000 770,000 20 18 Myles Smith Stargazing 152,000 1,160,000 21 25 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 148,000 1,290,000 22 19 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti Timeless 148,000 370,000 23 22 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 148,000 260,000 24 20 Gracie Abrams I Love You, I'm Sorry 147,000 630,000 25 21 Jimin Who 143,000 410,000 26 27 Sabrina Carpenter Bed Chem 137,000 530,000 27 26 Chappell Roan Hot To Go! 136,000 800,000 28 24 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 136,000 610,000 29 29 Billie Eilish Wildflower 129,000 640,000 30 28 Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Defying Gravity 129,000 250,000 31 36 Kendrick Lamar & Sza Luther 128,000 32 30 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose Kisses 116,000 770,000 33 31 Pawsa and The Adventures Of Stevie V Dirty Cash (Money Talks) 114,000 34 38 Doechii Denial Is A River 114,000 35 34 The Killers Mr Brightside 112,000 6,180,000 36 33 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen I Had Some Help 112,000 1,020,000 37 35 Sam Fender People Watching 111,000 38 37 Dasha Austin 104,000 1,250,000 39 49 Kendrick Lamar TV Off 103,000 40 62 Kendrick Lamar & Sza All The Stars 102,000 1,950,000 45 70 Lady Gaga Abracadabra 96,000 52 64 Tate McRae Sports Car 88,000 66 72 Central Cee & Dave CRG 77,000 69 73 Alex Warren Burning Down 77,000 71 75 Chappell Roan Red Wine Supernova 75,000 510,000 85 89 Disturbed The Sound Of Silence 69,000 1,680,000 97 - SZA with Kendrick Lamar 30 For 30 66,000

“Fine Line” and “Evermore” dropped out this week to make way for the 2 new entries.

Week 8: 1 1 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 105,000 480,000 2 2 Central Cee Can't Rush Greatness 75,000 3 3 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 68,000 170,000 4 4 Sza SOS 65,000 550,000 5 5 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 61,000 360,000 6 6 Elton John Diamonds 58,000 1,710,000 7 7 The Weeknd The Highlights 58,000 1,290,000 8 10 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 51,000 400,000 9 11 The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow 51,000 10 8 Robbie Williams Better Man (OST) 50,000 11 12 Charli XCX Brat 47,000 340,000 12 13 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 47,000 1,520,000 13 9 Taylor Swift Lover (Live From Paris) 47,000 50,000 14 14 Gracie Abrams The Secret Of Us 46,000 180,000 15 17 Kendrick Lamar GNX 46,000 100,000 16 15 Noah Kahan Stick Season 44,000 520,000 17 16 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 41,000 830,000 18 18 Arctic Monkeys AM 40,000 2,140,000 19 19 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 39,000 3,350,000 20 21 Michael Jackson The Essential 37,000 1,880,000 21 20 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 36,000 6,910,000 22 22 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 35,000 2,070,000 23 24 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 33,000 530,000 24 23 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 33,000 2,580,000 25 25 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 32,000 26 26 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 2 31,000 27 27 Linkin Park Papercuts 31,000 200,000 28 28 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 30,000 5,330,000 29 29 Fontaines D.C. Romance 29,000 150,000 30 30 Queen Greatest Hits 28,000 3,070,000 31 32 Calvin Harris 96 Months 26,000 100,000 32 34 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 26,000 150,000 33 31 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 26,000 180,000 34 33 Taylor Swift Folklore 26,000 870,000 35 35 CoCoMelon Nursery Rhymes By CoComelon 25,000 250,000 36 36 Eminem Curtain Call 2 25,000 400,000 37 38 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 25,000 360,000 38 37 George Michael Twenty Five 24,000 1,770,000 39 40 Maroon 5 Singles 24,000 860,000 40 39 Taylor Swift Lover 24,000 900,000 41 - Manic Street Preachers Critical Thinking 23,000 57 - PartyNextDoor & Drake $ome $exy $ongs 4 U 21,000

27/2: 1 3 Not like us (1) 2 1 Messy (1) 3 2 APT (2) 4 6 Die with a smile (3) 5 5 That’s so true (1) 6 7 Pink pony club (6) 7 16 Luther (7) 8 19 All the stars (5) 9 9 The days (5) 10 4 Abracadabra (4) 11 10 Birds of a feather (3) 12 8 Good luck, babe! (2) 13 11 Beautiful things (1) 14 36 Please please please (1) 15 - Busy woman (15) 16 13 Sailor song (2) 17 22 TV off (11) 18 14 Espresso (1) 19 12 Ordinary (12) 20 18 Taste (1) 21 17 Lose control (2) 22 15 Denial is a river (15) 23 23 Bad dreams (13) 24 27 The door (13) 25 20 Sports car (9) 26 - 15 minutes (26) 27 28 A bar song (2) 28 40 Bed chem (13) 29 29 Too sweet (1) 30 34 Nice to meet you (12) 31 32 Stick season (1) 32 30 Hot to go (10) 33 - Nokia (33) 34 24 Wildflower (17) 35 33 Stargazing (6) 36 - Gimme a hug (36) 37 - CN tower (37) 38 - Crush (38) 39 26 Timeless (8) 40 35 I love you, I’m sorry (7) 41 38 Somedays (10) 42 49 People watching (11) 43 47 Iris (3) 44 41 Dirty cash (31) 45 37 Guess (1) 46 43 Carry you home (37) 47 48 Mr Brightside (10) 48 31 Cry for me (15) 49 - Squabble up (8) 50 46 I had some help (2)

1 Mochakk 2 Joris Voorn 3 Campbell

We’ve had Green Day and Linkin Park not long ago so I’ll go for some slightly less obvious ones: Hate It Or Love It The Reason Work It

Avril - one of her best and the pick of this bunch apart from The Pogues

Love all 5 but reluctantly going for Mya - a really punchy piece of RnB pop though.

Whoops can’t edit it and missed your previous comment. “Barry Islands In The Stream” is off I’m sure but that Craig David Bowie mangling is slightly more obnoxious for me.

“Gossip Folks” was the 2nd time Missy Elliott had a Top 10 hit in collaboration with Ludacris, and reached #9 in March 2003. It was the follow up to the raunchy “Work It” from her “Under Construction” album, and was co-written by Timbaland. 6th: Missy Elliott - Gossip Folks 17/32 votes (53%) 7th: U2 - Electrical Storm 15/34 votes (44%) 8th: Jamelia - DJ / Stop 11/32 votes (34%) 9th: Nickelback - Photograph 13/34 votes (38%) 10th: Chuckie & LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl 14/36 votes (39%)