Recent content by Robbie

There's also the few weeks LiveDaily put up with us all. There was never a danger of running out of data there as they kept deleting all our posts... that board has long gone too as Ticketmaster pulled the plug on it in 2010.

I had thought the 20th birthday date was tomorrow but seemingly not!

Happy 20th Birthday Moopy!

I don't mind you copying it here as I copy it from elsewhere anyway! I usually give a credit to Music Week simply because that's where the reports are from but it's not necessary to do so. The same reports are posted by others at other forums and there's usually no credit given.

The BBC have uploaded a preview from The Story Of 1989. Shaun Ryder looks like he should be an alien in Doctor Who and not on a pop music programme! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07yjm1p

Yup, the threshold was reduced 31 years ago this very week. At the same time compilation albums were booted from the main albums chart and into a Compilation Albums chart. The beneficiary from this was 'The Innocents' by Erasure which climbed to number 1 while the best selling album of the week...

I agree, there's simply no comparison. A million seller was considered to be a milestone, something that most records would never achieve. Now it's something that is fairly common with it being achieved on average once every 5 weeks.

The track at number 3, 'I Don't Care' by Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber, has one of the strangest chart runs of all time. On the chart dated 19/07/19 the track fell from number 2 to nowhere only to re-enter the chart the following week at number 3. The reason is that on the 19/07/19 it was the...

In years gone by this sales week would have been classed as the last sales week of the chart year as there are more days in the sales week that fall in December than in January but the OCC now seem to have a cut off point of the last Thursday in the year.

01 Lewis Capaldi – Someone You Loved 2,326,592 02 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road 1,745,442 03 Ed Sheeran feat. Justin Bieber – I Don’t Care 1,432,961 04 Billie Eilish – bad guy 1,341,900 05 Calvin Harris & Rag ‘n’ Bone – Giant 1,289,806 06 Ava Max – Sweet but Psycho 1,254,156 07 Stormzy – Vossi Pop...

^ from the above you can work out that without ACR the top 2 would have been 1. All I Want For Christmas Is You 144,699 2. Last Christmas 143,653 In fact without ACR the entire top 10 would be old Christmas songs. Ellie would be number 11.

Some limited sales information has been posted at BuzzJack so I'll copy it here. Thanks to the poster Jay. All comments below the sales figures breakdown are by Jay. #1. Ellie Goulding - River Total: 78,193 Audio Streaming Units: 77,795 [7,629,118 audio streaming: premium (divide by 100) |...

The track has to outpeform the streaming market by at least 25%. The track will then return to SCR from the following week. 'Dance Monkey' increased in streaming sales by 8% last week but the market grew as a whole. It's what happens this current sales week that matters. The streaming market...

09 Eminem/ Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie 07 Adele - Someone Like You 08 Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know 07 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines 07 Pharrell Williams - Happy 07 Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk 05 Drake - One Dance 06 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You 08 Calvin Harris - One Kiss 01 Lewis Capaldi -...

Yup! It's like the OCC don't know how to deal with streams, both when differentiating between subscription and free plays and how to compare them to being the eqivalent of one digital download.