fak Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 How can X be a flop? Has nt it sold close to 500,000 - if it has then its nearly 170,000 more than Hard Candy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexz Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 500,000 is the Worldwide figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fak Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 HC did not benefit from a strong/big lead single. Even Music and ROL sales were not immediate. COADF must have been the only album where Madonna sold the most just because of a strong lead single and sold very little later. Sorry did nt push COADF back in the top10 but I think that weak there were big increases for Brits winners - of which Madonna was a part of course. Come to think of it LAP was not immediate too - it was in the top 50 or top 75 best sellers of 1990 too. Yes, but Fever's sales were gradual, not immediate the way Madonna's are on the back of a strong lead single, same with ABBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny86 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 From Haven 2008 Album Sales The Script - The Script 544.028 Adele - 19 479.328 Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark 921.607 Madonna - Hard Candy 323.113 Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy 293.420 Dido - Safe From From Harm 192.355 Leon Jackson - Leon Jackson 122.030 Same Difference - Pop 105.927 Rhydian - Rhydian 350.785 --- What a difference the release date makes ... look at Rhydian! Try to tell that to Dido though. So "Give It 2 Me" only sold 30k less than "Sorry"? The sales climate really changed when a #7 single can sell nearly the same as a #1 from a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franxisco66 Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 500,000 is the Worldwide figure. I thought it was closer to 1 million? Check worldwide albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 How can X be a flop? Has nt it sold close to 500,000 - if it has then its nearly 170,000 more than Hard Candy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hafo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Zavvi closes 19 stores Music, games and DVD company Zavvi has decided to close another 19 stores, including its outlet at Blanchardstown, Dublin and the main high-street shop in Castlecourt, Belfast. The closures which were ordered by the group’s administrators Ernst & Young will result in 366 job losses. Included in the closures today is the group's flagship store in London’s Piccadilly which employs 110 people. The administrators closed 22 stores and cut 178 jobs on January 8th. Ernst & Young - appointed as administrator on December 24th, said the remaining 73 stores throughout the UK with a view to selling all or part of the Zavvi business as a going concern. ---- Last week the #1 physical single sold 2K copies. With Zavvi closing, the death of the physical is all but sealed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Last week the #1 physical single sold 2K copies. With Zavvi closing, the death of the physical is all but sealed I read something last week about the chart that runs on the other radio stations is no longer including physical sales. As long as physical singles continue then I'm all for them being included in the OCC's chart but they do seem to be the most FUTILE format at this stage. I'm also thinking that the days of multiple singles from albums are over, with any more than two being a rarity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I read something last week about the chart that runs on the other radio stations is no longer including physical sales. As long as physical singles continue then I'm all for them being included in the OCC's chart but they do seem to be the most FUTILE format at this stage. I'm also thinking that the days of multiple singles from albums are over, with any more than two being a rarity. Agree as we are seeing album tracks beginning to chart immediately once the album is released to itunes etc. e.g. Britney and lady gaga. It is going to be hard for record companies to hold back songs when they are so easily obtainable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Ultimate FLOP was in the BARGIN BINS for £5 for months. Hardly, it was always around £7 or more until very recently. And most catalogue albums are £5 almost straight away. I love how the haters apply general market factors to Kylie. Of course, no one else sell their albums cheaply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Ultimate FLOP (a double CD) was £8.99 out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Ultimate FLOP (a double CD) was £8.99 out of the box. It then went into the bargin bins after Christmas for a fiver in Woolworths and WH Smith. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promise to try Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 So "Give It 2 Me" only sold 30k less than "Sorry"? The sales climate really changed when a #7 single can sell nearly the same as a #1 from a couple of years ago. well, since the download market started, it´s become huge, so the singles7songs are selling more nowadays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hafo Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 The Script now up to #1 in albums!!!! HMV to snap up some Zavvi stores Entertainment retailer HMV has said it is to buy 14 stores from troubled chain Zavvi, funded by selling new shares. Proceeds will also be used to fund a move into the live music market, taking a joint stake in a firm running 11 venues including Hammersmith Apollo. ZAVVI STORES BOUGHT BY HMV Bournemouth Castlepoint Crewe Dundalk (IE) Dundrum (IE) Glasgow Fort Glasgow Silverburn Liffey Valley (IE) Limerick (IE) Newbridge Peterborough Plymouth (Drake Circus) Salisbury Southend Stockton-on-Tees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fak Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 There are plenty of songs which dont chart highin the top 10 but end up outselling the lower selling no1's. I think Sorry was the lowest selling no1 that year and its m's lowest selling no1 ever in the UK - is not even in her top 30 best sellers list. I must add those top 10's that sell more than low selling no1's end up spending quite a long run in the top 10 not 2 weeks as GITM managed. Dido could end doing better as she may start to promote her album. Try to tell that to Dido though. So "Give It 2 Me" only sold 30k less than "Sorry"? The sales climate really changed when a #7 single can sell nearly the same as a #1 from a couple of years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Sparro has overtaken 4 Mins in overall sales incl 2009, but in 2008 4 Mins was ahead. Radio 1 is where the official top 40 is counted down each week. This is the same chart that Music Week will use and its the official chart. Radio 1 best selling singles of the year is always counted down on new years eve and im guessing this will be the same chart Music Week will use. Well obviously Radio 1 use the official chart, but their year end list was on December 31 and didn't quite have the final sales tally. I remember years ago when I followed the charts, that Music Week would publish the actual final year end charts at the start of January. Speaking of which, I have them here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loomer Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 I think you may already have posted these, Hafo, so sorry for repetition Best Selling Singles Of 2008 1 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 887933 2 X Factor Finalists Hero 751000 3 Duffy Mercy 536000 4 Katy Perry I kissed a girl 479455 5 Nickelback Rockstar 468000 6 Estelle feat Kanye West American boy 458500 7 Kings of Leon Sex on fire 448645 8 Basshunter feat DJ Mental Now you're gone 441000 9 Madonna 4 minutes 430000 10 Sam Sparro Black and gold 429080 11 Flo Rida feat T Pain Low 394000 12 Dizzee Rascal Dance wiv me 386820 13 Leona Lewis Run 362370 14 Pink So what 359210 15 Ne-Yo Closer 356510 16 Beyonce If I were a boy 356030 17 Girls Aloud The promise 349450 18 Rihanna Disturbia 339680 19 Kid Rock All summer long 333000 20 Rihanna Take a bow 327160 21 Jordin Sparks feat Chris Brown No air 322000 22 Ting Tings That's not my name 303000 23 Katy Perry Hot n cold 302000 24 Rihanna Don’t stop the music 301340 25 Coldplay Viva la vida 295815 26 Gabriella Cilmi Sweet about me 285000 27 Adele Chasing pavements 284500 28 The Script The man who cant be moved 283175 29 H Two O feat Platnum What's it gonna be? 260000 30 Duffy Warwick Avenue 252915 31 Will I Am Heartbreaker 252000 32 Usher feat Young Jeezy Love in this club 251000 33 Britney Spears Womaniser 245660 34 Wiley Wearing my Rolex 240750 35 September Cry for you 240500 36 Killers Human 240340 37 Leona Lewis Better in Time/Footprints in the sand 237500 38 TI feat Rihanna Live your life 226465 39 Chris Brown With you 225500 40 One Republic Stop and stare 225250 41 Guru Josh Project Infinity 2008 224115 42 Alphabeat Fascination 220000 43 Kanye West Love lockdown 215210 44 Take That Rule the world 215075 45 Pussycat Dolls When I grow up 211750 46 Chris Brown Forever 211000 47 Britney Spears Piece of me 210750 48 Alesha Dixon The boy does nothing 208345 49 Take That Greatest day 205930 50 Basshunter All I ever wanted 203150 51 Kings of Leon Use somebody 202590 52 Kelly Rowland Work 202500 53 Madcon Beggin' 193000 54 Timbaland feat One Republic Apologize 190000 55 Sara Bareilles Love song 189000 56 Soulja Boy Crank that (Soulja Boy) 188000 57 Ne-Yo Miss Independent 181000 58 Jeff Buckley Hallelujah 176000 59 Akon Right now (Na na na) 175500 60 Utah Saints Something good 174000 61 Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse Valerie 166000 62 David Jordan Sun goes down 165000 63 Ting Tings Shut up and let me go 163000 64 Kylie Minogue Wow 162500 65 Jennifer Hudson Spotlight 158400 66 Sugababes Girls 154840 67 Ironik Stay with me 154500 68 Lupe Fiasco Superstar 154250 69 Girls Aloud Cant speak French 153000 70 Gym Class Heroes Cookie jar 151785 71 Saturdays Up 151705 72 Taio Cruz Come one girl 151000 73 Madonna Give it 2 me 149000 74 Scouting for Girls Elvis aint dead 148000 75 Eric Prydz Pjanoo 145000 76 Leona Lewis Bleeding love 144000 77 Scouting for Girls Heartbeat 143500 78 Noah and the Whale 5 years time 142000 79 Coldplay Violet Hill 141000 80 Pendulum Propane Nightmares 134000 81 Mint Royale Singin' in the rain 133000 82 Verve Love is noise 132500 83 Jack White & Alicia Keys Another way to die 130000 84 Girls Aloud Call the shots 123000 85 Leona Lewis Forgive me 121500 86 One Night Only Just for tonight 121000 87 Scouting for Girls She's so lovely 119000 88 Iglu & Hartly In this city 118000 89 Busta Rhymes feat Linkin Park We made it 117000 90 Alicia Keys Noone 116000 91 Kanye West Homecoming 115000 92 Pussycat Dolls I hate this part 114000 93 Mariah Carey Touch my body 113750 94 Robyn with Kleerup With every heartbeat 113000 95 Rihanna feat Jay Z Umbrella 109200 96 Snow Patrol Chasing cars 109000 97 James Morrison & Nelly Furtado Broken strings 107545 98 Biffy Clyro Mountains 107500 99 Timbaland feat Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger Scream 107000 100 Sugababes About you now 106750 Best Selling Albums 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 819,000 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 542,000 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 479,000 17 The Promise - Il Divo 468,000 18 A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol 424,000 19 Gold - Greatest Hits - Abba 409,000 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 323,000 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 292,000 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 192,000 78 Safe Trip Home - Dido 191,800 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Ultimate FLOP (a double CD) was £8.99 out of the box. No, it was £11.99 or more 2004. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 There are plenty of songs which dont chart highin the top 10 but end up outselling the lower selling no1's. I think Sorry was the lowest selling no1 that year and its m's lowest selling no1 ever in the UK - is not even in her top 30 best sellers list. I must add those top 10's that sell more than low selling no1's end up spending quite a long run in the top 10 not 2 weeks as GITM managed. Dido could end doing better as she may start to promote her album. Yes, downloads have really taken off now, though Sorry will be adding regular download sales because of its general public popularity. Whilst not her biggest number 1, it was still a big hit (released when downloads hadn't taken off and physical sales were declining) and so will pass 200,000 and beyond in the future. HU will pass 600,000 soon too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Anyhow, back to this weeks midweeks and there is a strong chance Girls Aloud will miss the top ten. They are at number 10 with the Loving Kind with the physical release too but their downloads are pretty low. Is their run of top tens about to end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny86 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 ^I love how every other week a certain "string of top 10s/20s/40s" comes to an end lately yet people only called Madonna's as a flop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 GA holding at 10 in today's update but Kayne West closing in from 11, as download only. Hope they don't make it as it makes me retch when Cheryl highlights how GA have had 19 consecutive top tens. Time is running out love. ^Re Danny post. Well MA was certainly a major flop as it limped in at 38 and did nothing for an already underperforming album. As much as GA are irritating, their latest album has done brilliantly in the UK so it makes sense that their follow up single will do less well (why download a track when you have the album) plus physical sales are next to nothing. So not really a flop single, just a moderate hit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny86 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 ^Re Danny post. Well MA was certainly a major flop as it limped in at 38 and did nothing for an already underperforming album. As much as GA are irritating, their latest album has done brilliantly in the UK so it makes sense that their follow up single will do less well (why download a track when you have the album) plus physical sales are next to nothing. So not really a flop single, just a moderate hit. I'm not debating that it was a flop, just that nowadays it's so easy for anyone to score a flop or something underperforming. HC had no promo and "Miles Away" was released way too late and didn't get a video, so it just couldn't compete with newer songs. But unless you're Duffy, Leona or Take That, you can't have an immaculate chart run anymore. Dido's single didn't even break the top 40, Sugababes second single missed top 10 (and both albums did badly), Oasis didn't even reach double platinum yet their second single broke their top 10 singles run, Coldplay's latest single didn't get into top 40, McFly & Boyzone string of hits ended, and so on. Even Duffy & Leona cheated because their later singles were released from a re-release, Duffy's 3rd missed the top 20 and Leona didn't even have a proper 3rd single. I'm not saying all that is an excuse of the "Miles Away" fuck-up but considering the circumstances, Madonna did well with the Hard Candy project and the era when an established act can place 3-5 singles from the same album in the top 10 is long gone and it shouldn't be a measure of success or relevance anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroco Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 I'm not debating that it was a flop, just that nowadays it's so easy for anyone to score a flop or something underperforming. HC had no promo and "Miles Away" was released way too late and didn't get a video, so it just couldn't compete with newer songs. But unless you're Duffy, Leona or Take That, you can't have an immaculate chart run anymore. Dido's single didn't even break the top 40, Sugababes second single missed top 10 (and both albums did badly), Oasis didn't even reach double platinum yet their second single broke their top 10 singles run, Coldplay's latest single didn't get into top 40, McFly & Boyzone string of hits ended, and so on. Even Duffy & Leona cheated because their later singles were released from a re-release, Duffy's 3rd missed the top 20 and Leona didn't even have a proper 3rd single. I'm not saying all that is an excuse of the "Miles Away" fuck-up but considering the circumstances, Madonna did well with the Hard Candy project and the era when an established act can place 3-5 singles from the same album in the top 10 is long gone and it shouldn't be a measure of success or relevance anymore. Yes, very easy for an established act to miss the top ten singles now that physical sales are a minor contribution. GA are or will be another addition to the list of casualities. I suppose, further to your earlier post, the reason people don't post about these other artist flops is that they only feel passionate about Madonna and so use the forum to post their thoughts. Fingers crossed Westshite are next to the list. They only seem to release 1 or 2 single per album though but this tactic should backfire soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny86 Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 ^Yes but I was also thinking about those articles the online media (i.e. DigitalSpy) had about "Madonna scores her biggest flop since 1984" and such which were so one-sided. I'm sure Westlife is the next in line, they will probably fare like McFly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queen Bitch Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 It's good - the age of fanbase hits for completion sake is over - which is why the release of MA was POINTLESS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fak Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 this is the same as the radio 1 list right? I think you may already have posted these, Hafo, so sorry for repetition Best Selling Singles Of 2008 1 Alexandra Burke Hallelujah 887933 2 X Factor Finalists Hero 751000 3 Duffy Mercy 536000 4 Katy Perry I kissed a girl 479455 5 Nickelback Rockstar 468000 6 Estelle feat Kanye West American boy 458500 7 Kings of Leon Sex on fire 448645 8 Basshunter feat DJ Mental Now you're gone 441000 9 Madonna 4 minutes 430000 10 Sam Sparro Black and gold 429080 11 Flo Rida feat T Pain Low 394000 12 Dizzee Rascal Dance wiv me 386820 13 Leona Lewis Run 362370 14 Pink So what 359210 15 Ne-Yo Closer 356510 16 Beyonce If I were a boy 356030 17 Girls Aloud The promise 349450 18 Rihanna Disturbia 339680 19 Kid Rock All summer long 333000 20 Rihanna Take a bow 327160 21 Jordin Sparks feat Chris Brown No air 322000 22 Ting Tings That's not my name 303000 23 Katy Perry Hot n cold 302000 24 Rihanna Don’t stop the music 301340 25 Coldplay Viva la vida 295815 26 Gabriella Cilmi Sweet about me 285000 27 Adele Chasing pavements 284500 28 The Script The man who cant be moved 283175 29 H Two O feat Platnum What's it gonna be? 260000 30 Duffy Warwick Avenue 252915 31 Will I Am Heartbreaker 252000 32 Usher feat Young Jeezy Love in this club 251000 33 Britney Spears Womaniser 245660 34 Wiley Wearing my Rolex 240750 35 September Cry for you 240500 36 Killers Human 240340 37 Leona Lewis Better in Time/Footprints in the sand 237500 38 TI feat Rihanna Live your life 226465 39 Chris Brown With you 225500 40 One Republic Stop and stare 225250 41 Guru Josh Project Infinity 2008 224115 42 Alphabeat Fascination 220000 43 Kanye West Love lockdown 215210 44 Take That Rule the world 215075 45 Pussycat Dolls When I grow up 211750 46 Chris Brown Forever 211000 47 Britney Spears Piece of me 210750 48 Alesha Dixon The boy does nothing 208345 49 Take That Greatest day 205930 50 Basshunter All I ever wanted 203150 51 Kings of Leon Use somebody 202590 52 Kelly Rowland Work 202500 53 Madcon Beggin' 193000 54 Timbaland feat One Republic Apologize 190000 55 Sara Bareilles Love song 189000 56 Soulja Boy Crank that (Soulja Boy) 188000 57 Ne-Yo Miss Independent 181000 58 Jeff Buckley Hallelujah 176000 59 Akon Right now (Na na na) 175500 60 Utah Saints Something good 174000 61 Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse Valerie 166000 62 David Jordan Sun goes down 165000 63 Ting Tings Shut up and let me go 163000 64 Kylie Minogue Wow 162500 65 Jennifer Hudson Spotlight 158400 66 Sugababes Girls 154840 67 Ironik Stay with me 154500 68 Lupe Fiasco Superstar 154250 69 Girls Aloud Cant speak French 153000 70 Gym Class Heroes Cookie jar 151785 71 Saturdays Up 151705 72 Taio Cruz Come one girl 151000 73 Madonna Give it 2 me 149000 74 Scouting for Girls Elvis aint dead 148000 75 Eric Prydz Pjanoo 145000 76 Leona Lewis Bleeding love 144000 77 Scouting for Girls Heartbeat 143500 78 Noah and the Whale 5 years time 142000 79 Coldplay Violet Hill 141000 80 Pendulum Propane Nightmares 134000 81 Mint Royale Singin' in the rain 133000 82 Verve Love is noise 132500 83 Jack White & Alicia Keys Another way to die 130000 84 Girls Aloud Call the shots 123000 85 Leona Lewis Forgive me 121500 86 One Night Only Just for tonight 121000 87 Scouting for Girls She's so lovely 119000 88 Iglu & Hartly In this city 118000 89 Busta Rhymes feat Linkin Park We made it 117000 90 Alicia Keys Noone 116000 91 Kanye West Homecoming 115000 92 Pussycat Dolls I hate this part 114000 93 Mariah Carey Touch my body 113750 94 Robyn with Kleerup With every heartbeat 113000 95 Rihanna feat Jay Z Umbrella 109200 96 Snow Patrol Chasing cars 109000 97 James Morrison & Nelly Furtado Broken strings 107545 98 Biffy Clyro Mountains 107500 99 Timbaland feat Keri Hilson & Nicole Scherzinger Scream 107000 100 Sugababes About you now 106750 Best Selling Albums 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 819,000 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 542,000 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 479,000 17 The Promise - Il Divo 468,000 18 A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol 424,000 19 Gold - Greatest Hits - Abba 409,000 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 323,000 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 292,000 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 192,000 78 Safe Trip Home - Dido 191,800 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fak Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Danny86 it is not one sided. Madonna did not have her biggest flop since 1984. She had her biggest flop ever. 1984 she was a newcomer,she was not well known. For 24 years she did not peak lower than 16 and then suddenly a 39 peak? Not surprising really she did not promote it. She could have promoted it and raised interest in the song which believe me would have got some attention becaus eof the lyrics and divorce issue. if M A missed the top 10 i dont think anyone would have minded but barely scrape the top 40 and that too after 2 hits off the album.....thats a major flop.... On the UP side...GA may have their top 10 run broken ....I HOPE THEY MISS THE TOP 10! I cant wait for Weestlife to flop too.....its 10 years too late! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Danny86 Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 ^OK I'm sorry but you're repeating yourself way too many times and refuse to accept facts. It's simply nonsense to believe songs like "One More Chance", "Another Suitcase In Another Hall" or "Love Profusion" were any bigger than "Miles Away" and would have made it into the top 20 if the chart had worked the same way back then as it is now. It's not like she promoted ANY of those songs either. In fact, the majority of Madonna's singles were only promoted by a video. It makes no sense to compare peaks of 1995 with 2008. It's very common *now* that after 2 hits a 3rd or a 4th single would do badly, I even pointed out some red-hot acts of 2008 didn't even take an attempt to check if their later singles could do well, they chose to do a re-release instead, with new songs that previously were *not* available as a download! So yes, it could have peaked higher if she promoted it or she at least made a video for it, but she didn't, so it was a flop, but the concept of "only getting hits from a Platinum certified album" is over and Madonna is not invincible to the changes of the charts and that has nothing to do with the supposed quality of her current music! Like the "physicals make a single peak high for at least a week" is gone now when the #1 physical single sells 2,000 copies, that doesn't even mess up the chart based on iTunes popularity. Oh and "Miles Away" could have been successful on the back of the divorce is just as a weird fan/press wish as Kylie having a hit single because of cancer. The general public does not buy songs based on things like that. And yes, the single itself was pointless, blame that on an irrelevant record label, but it doesn't mean the "UK hates her" or "the song is crap". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hafo Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 Singles chart 147. (118) 4 MINUTES (Madonna feat Justin Timberlake) Around 1.500 more to its tally, could be over 434K by now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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