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Chart Listings: UK Charts
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Originally posted by Dizzy
Can't believe Rihanna has only ever had 2 #1 UK singles.  |
Some people count "Run This Town" as her third #1.
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Member Since: 9/18/2010
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Originally posted by Celestial
Some people count "Run This Town" as her third #1.
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IT's stil pretty shocking. Imagine if all those #2's went to #1. Wow. It could of been possible if Def Jam didnt mess some of them up
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
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Originally posted by fabian_phipps
IT's stil pretty shocking. Imagine if all those #2's went to #1. Wow. It could of been possible if Def Jam didnt mess some of them up
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At least Rihanna has those no.1s in the US
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She's one of the few acts who are actually much more popular in the US, its normally the other way around
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Rihanna is MUCH BIGGER in the UK than in the US.
MUCH MORE.
She sold out most of her tour there and all of her singles perform well.
It doesnt matter if her singles have peaked at #2.... She sells LOADS
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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I beg to differ 
She has more top 10's and #1's in the US, thats what more people are here for
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Member Since: 9/29/2010
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Originally posted by zzmyth
Rihanna is MUCH BIGGER in the UK than in the US.
MUCH MORE.
She sold out most of her tour there and all of her singles perform well.
It doesnt matter if her singles have peaked at #2.... She sells LOADS
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Rihanna is Huge in the UK......Hopefully she becomes even bigger in the US with Loud ...Im sure it will....the response to her material thus far has been phenomenal
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Originally posted by zzmyth
Rihanna is MUCH BIGGER in the UK than in the US.
MUCH MORE.
She sold out most of her tour there and all of her singles perform well.
It doesnt matter if her singles have peaked at #2.... She sells LOADS
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Her albums have sold far more copies over here too. She would have had more #1s if they planned the releases of her singles better.
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Originally posted by PopBoi
I beg to differ
She has more top 10's and #1's in the US, thats what more people are here for |
no.
She has sold much more per capita in the UK.
Rated R is 2xPlatinum in the UK
GGGB is 5xPlatinum in the UK
Even Te Amo is SILVER!!!
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Member Since: 9/24/2008
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Originally posted by zzmyth
no.
She has sold much more per capita in the UK.
Rated R is 2xPlatinum in the UK
GGGB is 5xPlatinum in the UK
Even Te Amo is SILVER!!!
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Exactly. OG sold 126k in the UK this week. The US equivalent would be 630k. (126k x5).
Also, if we're discussing sales on a per capita basis, GGGB sold 1.6 million copies in the UK, the US equivalent is 8 million copies. The UK's standard for platinum is higher than the US standard in proportion to both countries' population.
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^ 630k ?
imagine selling that in the first week in the US lmaoo ..
WOW
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Member Since: 9/21/2010
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I think Rihanna is bigger in the UK sales wise.
GGGB 5x platinum
Rated R 2x platinum
Shes more successful there. Dont watch the 8 #2s . Most of those could have gone to #1 shes just always facing UK heavyweights.
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Originally posted by Channy<3
^ 630k ?
imagine selling that in the first week in the US lmaoo ..
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Yes, but sales over here tend to be more front-loaded. In the UK songs normally peak very early on, your best chance to go to #1 is usually the opening week for new singles. OG was unlucky this week but it will be #1 next week. 126k was the third highest weekly sales for a song this year, behind Cheryl (#1 this week), and Helping Haiti, which was a charity single.
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anyway.... the sales are more or less the same....
LTWYL 750K in the UK x5 = 3.750.000 in the US
LTWYL 305K in Australia x14 = 4.270.000 in the US
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Member Since: 2/6/2010
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Wow!!! Good job RiRi!! On your way to a number ONE!!
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i guess people are not understanding sales wise is less in the UK
for instance keri hilson song i like went platinum in germany for selling 300,000k copies and if it was the U.S. it would take 1,000,000 copies to go platinum. same thing works with the UK. It is not that hard ppl by the way i listed keri hilson accomplishment beause thats who i stan for and i do not know of rihannas accomplishment so im not gonna post false statements. So please do not respond to me. It was just a way of explaining
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Originally posted by zzmyth
^ you guys know nothing about music....
have you ever heard a DRUM AND BASS song???? plz...
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The biggest mistake of ANYONE who enters this forum:
Think they know everything about music or they have a superior taste
Not going to go further on this anyway.
Taylor at #6 on albums chart, how many copies?
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Singles
Cheryl Cole effortlessly sprints to her second number one single as she claims the highest non-charity sales of the year.
"Promise This" is the introductory single from Cole’s second solo album Messy Little Raindrops and her performance of the track on The X Factor results show eight days ago (October 24) helped it to secure first week sales of 157,210 – the best for a single by a female solo artist since her own "Fight For This Love" opened with sales of 292,846 a year ago last week, and the best for any single any week this year, except for the 453,426 copies that Helping Haiti’s charity cover of "Everybody Hurts" sold on its first week in the shops some 37 weeks ago. Including her hits as member of Girls Aloud and collaborations, "Promise This" is Cole’s 27th Top 75 entry, her 20th Top five entry and her sixth number one. More curiously, although there have been 1,147 number ones, only two have had Promise in their titles – Cole’s current hit, and "The Promise", the last number one for Cole and her Girls Aloud colleagues, two years ago this week.
Cole’s fast start means more frustration for Rihanna, who logs her eighth number two single from 23 hits in little more than five years. She spent four weeks in runners-up position earlier this year, partnering Eminem on "Love The Way You Lie", and finds herself second best again, with new single "Only Girl (In The World)". First-week sales of 126,612 would be enough to make it the number one single in all but one of 42 previous chart weeks in 2010, and are the highest for a number two single since Joe McElderry lost the battle for Christmas number one with Rage Against The Machine last December, despite selling 450,838 copies of "The Climb". In 565 weeks in the 21st century, it is the 12th highest sale recorded by a single at number two. Its excellent first week also coincides with the aforementioned Eminem collaboration "Love The Way You Life" topping the 750,000 sales mark. Comfortably the biggest-selling single of 2010, "Love The Way You Lie" dips 28-29, with sales of 12,065 lifting its 19-week tally to 755,483. It has eclipsed Rihanna’s previous best-seller, "Umbrella" (708,750 sales) but is not yet Eminem’s biggest hit, remaining adrift of "Stan" (794,294 sales).
Unable to resist the charge mounted by Cole and Rihanna, Bruno Mars’ "Just The Way You Are (Amazing)" retreats from number one for the second time, dipping to number three (73,088 sales). Another former number one, Cee Lo Grant’s "Forget You", holds at number four (63,981 sales), while Mike Posner’s debut hit moves 6-5 with sales of 50,025.
After debuting last week at number 11, Nelly’s "Just A Dream" is also a grower, climbing to number eight (41,950 sales). It is the rapper’s 21st hit, and the 12th to make the Top 10 since he made his chart debut 10 years ago next week with "(Hot S**t) Country Grammar".
An appearance on The X Factor results show helped turned around the fortunes of Michael Buble’s "Hollywood", which has progressed 17-27-11. Its bounce, on sales of 30,296, make its Buble’s second highest-charting single, behind 2009’s number five hit "Haven’t Met You Yet". His newly-expanded album Crazy Love improves again, too, moving 7-2 (42,456 sales), while his entire back catalogue – singles and albums – shows distinct improvement week-on-week.
Swedish DJ Tim Berg’s club smash "Seek Bromance" debuts at number 13 (24,883 sales), a place ahead of "Defender", the new hit by Peter Andre (22,106 sales), with "Runaway", the second hit by UK rapper Devlin feat. Yasmin, following at number 15 (21,316 sales).
For the fourth year in a row, Halloween scares up enough sales for a trio of perennials to chart. Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" (number 68, 3,118), Bobby Boris Pickett’s "Monster Mash" (number 73, 2,920 sales) and Ray Parker Jr.’s "Ghostbusters" (number 75, 2,787 sales) are the records in question. All chart lower than in the last three years – possibly because Halloween itself fell on Sunday, in a different chart week to the days immediately before. And a fine performance of Shakespears Sister’s "Stay" by Cher in The X Factor’s very-loosely themed Halloween show on Saturday helped the 1992 chart-topper – which has previously sold an average of 334 copies a week in 2010 - to rack up 3,433 sales to re-enter the chart at number 62.
Overall singles sales, at 2,898,963, are up 8.13% week-on-week, and 5.69% above same week 2009 sales of 2,742,825.
1 Cheryl Cole 157,210
2 Rihanna 126,612
3 Bruno Mars 73,088
4 Cee Lo Green 63,981
5 Mike Posner 50,025
8 Nelly 41,950
11 Michael Buble 30,296
13 Tim Berg 24,883
14 Peter Andre 22,106
15 Devlin 21,316
29 Eminem/Rihanna 12,065 (755,483)
64 Shakespears Sister 3,433
68 Michael Jackson 3,118
73 Bobby Boris 2,920
75 Ray Parker Jr 2,787
YTD:
Rihanna - Umbrella 708,750
Eminem - Stan 794,294
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Albums
The first album to successfully defend its position at the top of the chart since Eminem’s Recovery in July, Kings Of Leon’s Come Around Sundown does so despite a big intake of new entries, and a 60.4% dip in its own sales week-on-week to 72,611.
Number two on early sales flashes, Joe McElderry never looked likely to become the fifth of six X Factor champions to debut at number one with his first album. Steve Brookstein, Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke all managed it, but it was beyond season four champion Leon Jackson, who had to settle for a number four debut/peak. McElderry does better than that, with Wide Awake entering at number three (39,405 sales). First season winner Brookstein’s Heart And Soul (50.989), second season winner Shayne Ward’s self-titled set (201,266), third season winner Leona Lewis’ Spirit (375,872), and fifth season winner Alexandra Burke’s Overcome (132,065) all had higher first week sales than McElderry too – but Jackson’s album sold just 37,197 copies on its first week.
After reaching number one with debut hit "All Time Low" and number two with follow-up "Heart Vacancy", new boy band The Wanted snare a number four debut (38,670 sales) with their eponymous first album.
Twenty-year-old Taylor Swift is sure to score her third straight number one album in America with Speak Now later this week, with sales projections of up to a 1m. It debuts at number six here (28,223 sales).
Barbra Streisand made her album chart debut in 1966, more than 23 years before Swift was born, and scores the 29th chart entry of her career at the age of 68 with new compilation, The Ultimate Collection arriving at number eight (24,736 sales). Streisand is not the only sexagenarian to have a new entry in the Top 10 this week – the team of Elton John (63) and Leon Russell (68) debut in 12th place (14,070 sales) with The Union. Also featuring fellow sixty-somethings Brian Wilson, Neil Young and Booker T, it’s Elton’s 44th chart album, 28 of which have made the Top 10 – but for Russell it is only the second ever chart entry, coming 39 years after the first, Leon Russell & The Shelter People, reached number 29. In a chart which also includes albums by Cliff Richard (70), Bob Dylan (69), Rod Stewart (65), David Gilmour (64), Chris De Burgh (62), Robert Plant (62), Phil Collins (59) and AC/DC (average age: 58), there are new entries for Bryan Ferry (65) and Elvis Costello (56). Ferry’s Olympia debuts at number 19 (9,119 sales), while Costello’s National Ransom enters at number 71 (2,494 sales).
Completing a busy week, there are also debuts for The Soldiers’ Letters Home (number 10, 17,324 sales), Charlotte Church’s Back To Scratch (number 23, 7,224 sales), Los Angeles rock band Warpaint’s debut disc, The Fool (number 41, 4,313 sales) and The Harmonies’ Voices Of The WI (number 42, 4,268 sales).
Album sales are up 11.22% week-on-week at 2,012,654 – 12.47% below same week 2009 sales of 2,299,291.
1 Kings Of Leon 72,611
2 Michael Buble 42,456
3 Joe McElderry 39,405
4 The Wanted 38,670
6 Taylor Swift 28,223
8 Barbra Streisand 24,736
10 The Soldiers 17,324
12 Elton John/Leon Russell 14,070
19 Bryan Ferry 9,119
23 Charlotte Church 7,224
41 Warpaint 4,313
42 Harmonies 4,268
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It was close between Joe and The Wanted. And I didn't know "Umbrella" is only over 700k. For a song that was 10 weeks at No. 1, I thought she'd sell more and be somewhere near a milli.
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Originally posted by M.R.
It was close between Joe and The Wanted. And I didn't know "Umbrella" is only over 700k. For a song that was 10 weeks at No. 1, I thought she'd sell more and be somewhere near a milli. |
Sales werent as good as they are now then.
this are Rihanna's sales when she was #1.....
21 26 May 34.164 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
22 02 Jun 38.482 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
23 09 Jun 60.650 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
24 16 Jun 48.370 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
25 23 Jun 39.038 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
26 30 Jun 32.166 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
27 07 Jul 29.504 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
28 14 Jul 26.757 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
29 21 Jul 23.092 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
30 28 Jul 22.143 Rihanna featuring Jay-Z Umbrella
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