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Chart Listings: UK Charts
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Originally posted by StarryEyed
I wonder why it's so much harder to get certification for singles in the UK than the US, singles in the US frequently hit platinum but I think 3 or 4 songs in the whole of 2009 did here. If UK population is about 65 million and US is 300 million and you need to sell 1 million to be platinum for a single or album in the US and 600,000 for a single or 300,000 for an album in the UK it doesn't add up...
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It's adjusted. The same in the US - Not many songs sell more than 3,000,000 copies. Less than 10 songs did it in 2009 (?).
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Originally posted by simon2011
Not Myself Tonight is not even in TOP 10
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12 still good...
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for the UK, 12 is like 40
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Originally posted by RudeBoy
It's adjusted. The same in the US - Not many songs sell more than 3,000,000 copies. Less than 10 songs did it in 2009 (?).
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Except that doesn't work because in the US platinum is 1 million and if you say 9 songs sold 3 mil (3x platinum) then why have only 3 or 4 gone once platinum in the UK? Obviously it isn't adjusted properly
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Originally posted by StarryEyed
Except that doesn't work because in the US platinum is 1 million and if you say 9 songs sold 3 mil (3x platinum) then why have only 3 or 4 gone once platinum in the UK? Obviously it isn't adjusted properly
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Every country has different standards for Platinum certification, the UK has much tougher standards than they in the US. It's more exclusive here. 8 songs went platinum in the UK last year. If you're going to make a point then don't use random figures
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^ Fight For This Love, The Climb, Killing in the Name, Poker Face, possibly Bad Boys? what were the others? And it's still not very fair or accurate...
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Originally posted by StarryEyed
^ Fight For This Love, The Climb, Killing in the Name, Poker Face, possibly Bad Boys? what were the others? And it's still not very fair or accurate...
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What are you talking about? There's no international standard for what constitutes a platinum selling single. In the UK the mark is high because traditionally singles have sold very well here, that has not always been the case in America. If you want to compare sales between countries then do it on a per capita basis, not on the amount of platinum certifications they have achieved, because like we have already established every country has its own standards. I'll post the list in a minute...
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Top 40 of 2009
1 Lady Gaga Poker face 882055
2 Black Eyed Peas I gotta feeling 848650
3 Lady Gaga feat Colby O'Donis Just dance 767510
4 Cheryl Cole Fight for this love 745740
5 Joe McElderry The climb 716360
6 La Roux In for the kill 670390
7 Black Eyed Peas Boom boom pow 616980
8 Rage Against the Machine Killing in the name 596035
9 Alexandre Burke & Flo Rida Bad boys 576020
10 Black Eyed Peas Meet me halfway 567950
11 Tinchy Stryder & N Dubz Number 1 547255
12 David Guetta feat Akon Sexy chick 517240
13 Kings of Leon Use somebody 496375
14 Lily Allen The fear 485980
15 Dizzee Rascal Bonkers 480305
16 JLS Beat again 459090
17 Lady GaGa Bad romance 458560
18 Kings of Leon Sex on fire 451570
19 James Morrison feat Nelly Furtado Broken strings 451560
20 David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland When love takes over 447855
21 Lady GaGa Paparazzi 447725
22 Flo Rida feat Kesha Right round 436215
23 Calvin Harris I'm not alone 434680
24 La Roux Bulletproof 429790
25 Beyonce Halo 428295
26 A R Rahmann feat Pussycat Dolls & Nicole Scherzinger Jai Ho! 415500
27 Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band The Official BBC Children in Need Medley 415475
28 X Factor Finalists 2009 You are not alone 382980
29 Taylor Swift Love story 379785
30 Jay Z feat Alicia Keys Empire state of mind 377075
31 Cascada Evacuate the dancefloor 376810
32 Lily Allen Not fair 375540
33 Kid Cudi vs Crookers Day n Nite 374485
34 Beyonce Single ladies (Put a ring on it) 373485
35 Agnes Release me 360500
36 Daniel Merriweather Red 360280
37 Taio Cruz Break your heart 360270
38 Mr Hudson feat Kanye West Supernova 348000
39 Beyonce Sweet dreams 347240
40 Jason Mraz I'm yours 345085
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Stones hit chart's Main Street
11:12 | Tuesday May 18, 2010
Source: MW
By Paul Williams
Singles
Having topped the US singles chart, Atlantic’s B.O.B. featuring Bruno Mars' Nothin' On You is now on course to do the same in the UK after more than doubling the sales at this stage of the week of its nearest rival, Warner Bros act Jason Derulo with Ridin’ Solo. Just a handful of sales behind Derulo in third place, the Syco-issued All Night Long by Alexandra Burke featuring Pitbull is enjoying a sales lift of around 70% on the week.
There are just a few weeks to go before the World Cup and this Sunday could well see the first footie song this year to make the Top 10. However, rather than being inspired by next month’s tournament in South Africa, this marks Leeds United’s promotion to the Championship. Leeds, Leeds, Leeds by Leeds United Team & Supporters, issued on the Laserdiscs label, is the seventh biggest seller at this stage of the week.
Twenty-two places lower, the World Cup does starts to make its mark on the chart with the arrival of the EMI-issued 3 Lions 2010 by The Squad, which is produced by Trevor Horn and includes Ribbie Williams and Russell Brand.
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Albums
The Rolling Stones’ revamped Exile On Main Street is looking to pull off the rare feat of a catalogue title topping the UK albums chart after opening up a narrow sales lead over Faithless.
The re-issued Polydor album, which adds an additional 10 tracks to the original 1972 set, is currently around 1,600 sales ahead of the newly-issued Faithless album The Dance, with DFA/Parlophone’s LCD Soundsystem completing a top three of new entries.
If the Stones do hold on to the top spot by the end of the week, Polydor and the band would have pulled off a very rare chart achievement. Although catalogue titles have topped the singles chart on numerous occasions, it is very unusual for a catalogue release to reach number one on the albums chart outside of best of sets, although it has happened before. T Rex’s first two 1968-issued albums, Prophets, Seers And Sages The Angels Of The Ages, and My People Were Fair And Had Sky In Their Hair But Now They’re Content To Wear Stars On Their Brows, reached number one in May 1972 in a double package. Coincidently, a month after T Rex made number one, Exile On Main Street hit the top during its original release. More recently, the Traveling Wilburys' two albums were united as Collection, which reached number one in June 2007.
Behind Exile… this week, Faithless’s album is also looking to make a bit of history itself as it is being exclusively stocked physically by Tesco, setting itself up to achieve a new chart benchmark for an exclusively-sold album. The album is out on the band’s Nate’s Tunes label.
Two other new albums are presently sitting among the top 10 positions: Berlin-based rock ‘n’ roll band The Baseballs are in fifth place with the Rhino-issued Strike, while Seattle’s Band Of Horses are ranked seventh with their first Columbia album Infinite Arms.
The number of high-ranking new entries could end up sending Island act Keane’s Night Train, which debuted at one last Sunday, out of the top five. It is presently ranked in sixth position.
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Top 40 Only
Singles
1 B.o.B./Bruno Mars
2 Jason Derulo
3 Alexandra Burke
4 Roll Deep
5 Edward Maya/Vika Jigulina
Top 10
Leeds Utd
Top 15
12 The Pretty Reckless
15 Alicia Keys
Top 20
17 Rihanna
Top 30
Train
Tinie Tempah
28 Ellie Goulding
The Squad
Top 40
Muse
Sean Kingston/Justin Bieber
Keane
36 Ke$ha [YLIMD]
40 BEPs [IGF]
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Albums
1 Rolling Stones
2 Faithless
3 LCD Soundsystem
4 Plan B
5 The Baseballs
Top 10
7 Band Of Horses
Top 15
14 Fyfe Dangerfield
The Black Keys
Top 20
Ellie Goulding
17 Alicia Keys
Top 30
Nas & Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley
Train
Michael Buble
Top 40
33 Kelis OUCH
Tracey Thorn
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ARTIST UPDATES
Singles
Plan B 5+5
Lady GaGa 10+6
Rihanna [RB] 30+4
Christina 10+10
Pendulum 20+2
Diana Vickers 20+6
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36 Ke$ha [YLIMD]
YAY!
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Why does Crackhead gets censored on the TV
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Top 40 Sean Kingston/Justin Bieber
FINALLY!
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Alexandra
Although after the iTunes screw up I can't see it staying top 3
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Originally posted by £100
Alexandra
Although after the iTunes screw up I can't see it staying top 3
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What happened with that? The album version vanished then her entire album went then reappeared...
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Originally posted by Celestial
Singles:
09 (**) The Glee Cast – Total Eclipse Of The Heart
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Originally posted by StarryEyed
What happened with that? The album version vanished then her entire album went then reappeared...
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Just like what happened with Telephone.
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3 Alexandra Burke
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Alex will fall towards #6.
"The Remix" is still Top 10. "Telephone" at #16.
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Jason will peak at #2
Alexandra
Kesha to debut!
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