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Brian W. 
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 Topic: Looks like everyone got an iPod for XmasPosted: 04 January 2006 at 8:02pm |
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The Billboard charts reflecting the week following Christmas are out, and there was a MASSIVE surge in downloads... For the first time ever, SoundScan registered over 100,000 downloads in one week for a single song... But the thing is, EVERY song in the top ten had over 100,000 downloads!
Laffy Taffy was the winner with an incredible 175,267 copies sold that week, propelling it to #1 on the Hot 100. And "Gold Digger" became the third million-selling download in history, following Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" and Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." |
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Posted: 22 February 2006 at 4:39pm |
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Didn't take long after the post-Christmas iPod rush for another single to sell over 100,000 in a week. James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" has scanned over 100,000 three weeks in a row. It sold over twice what Beyonce's "Check On It" did last week, but "Check On It" will still likely be #1 this week because of airplay. It'll be very close.
For anyone who cares, thanks to downloads, ten different singles have become million-sellers in 2005 and 2006, more than there were during the previous FIVE YEARS. They are: Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson Gold Digger - Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx Beverly Hills - Weezer My Humps - Black Eyed Peas Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day Mr. Brightside - Killers Photograph - Nickelback Sugar, We're Goin' Down - Fall Out Boy Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls (combined downloads and CD singles makes over a million) At the rate James Blunt is going, his single should pass a million within 3 to 4 weeks. Edited by Brian W. |
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Todd Ireland
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Posted: 22 February 2006 at 6:22pm |
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Brian:
I've been watching James Blunt's run toward the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with "You're Beautiful" and am dying to see a bonafide pop single make it to #1. Radio airplay has been so heavily skewed toward hip-hop/rap over the past five years that it's become nearly impossible for a song from any other music genre to reach the top of the Hot 100 (unless the song is performed by an American Idol winner). Last week, "You're Beautiful" was #19 on the Airplay chart. If the song can crack the Top 15 in airplay, I think it makes #1 on the Big Chart! |
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Posted: 22 February 2006 at 10:17pm |
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Chart's out. Sigh. Not this week. "Check On It" still #1. Maybe next week.
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Posted: 01 March 2006 at 3:11pm |
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Todd, you got your wish. "You're Beautiful" will be #1 on the Hot 100 next week, the first time since Clay Aiken that a pop song has hit #1.
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_ content_id=1002114268 It was close, too: James Hot 100 Airplay: 55.95 million Digital Sales (X2): 195.92 Total: 251.87 Beyonce Hot 100 Airplay: 139.88 million Digital Sales (X2): 102.51 Commercial Single (X2): 8.37 Total: 250.76 Difference: 1.11 Blunt also jumps from No. 16 to No. 11 in Hot 100 Airplay. Soundscan has monitored 881,882 downloads of the single so far, 97,961 this week alone. |
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Posted: 01 March 2006 at 10:48pm |
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Brian:
Yeah, I'm stunned to FINALLY see a pop song actually grace the #1 spot on the Hot 100 again. But it amazes me that even with close to 100,000 downloads and a #11 placement on the Airplay chart that "You're Beautiful" still only manages to eak out the top spot by the absolute slimmest of margins. The stay at #1 for James Blunt may very well be a brief one though as "So Sick" by Ne-Yo will have its first full week of download sales tallied toward the Hot 100 next week. Combined sales and airplay points will make that song a serious challenger for #1. Edited by Todd Ireland |
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Posted: 07 June 2006 at 2:41pm |
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I had to post this. Some of you may know that Shakira's record label has been withholding her song "Hips Don't Lie" from release as an individual download, waiting until airplay peaked to try to get a high charter on the Hot 100.
Well, their strategy worked: the pent-up demand for a single has led to a massive 266,664 downloads of the song on this week's chart! The previous record holder for most downloads in a single week was Laffy Taffy at 175,267, but that was the week after Christmas, when everyone was testing out their new iPods. This will certainly place "Hips Don't Lie" at #1 on the Hot 100, making it the Latin diva's first #1 hit. |
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Posted: 04 January 2008 at 3:08am |
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Two years on from my starting this thread, it seems incredible that I was impressed at "Laffy Taffy" selling 175,000 downloads during the post-Christmas week in 2005.
This year, the #1 download for the same week sold 467,000! What's more, every single in the top ten on Hot Digital Songs sold over 200,000! At least 49 songs peaking in 2007 sold -- or clearly will sell -- over a million copies. SouljaBoy's smash "Crank That" is about to cross the three million mark, making it the biggest-selling download so far. And Fergie's latest hit "Clumsy" just became her fifth million-selling single from her solo debut, making her the first artist to achieve such a feat. Here is a list (certainly incomplete) of all the million-selling downloads I know of to date, compiled from SoundScan figures and RIAA certs. They're roughly in peak-date order. Catalog Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd Don't Stop Believin' – Journey 2002 Lose Yourself – Eminem 2004 1.100 Years – Five for Fighting 2.Yeah! - Usher feat. Ludacris & Lil Jon 3.She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 4.Let's Get It Started - Black Eyed Peas 5.1, 2 Step - Ciara 6.Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day 2005 1.Somebody Told Me – The Killers 2.Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson 3.Mr. Brightside - Killers 4.Beverly Hills - Weezer 5.Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani 6.Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz 7.Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts 8.We Belong Together- Mariah Carey 9.Don't Cha - Pussycat Dolls 10.Pon De Replay - Rhianna 11.You and Me - Lifehouse 12.Sugar We're Goin' Down - Fall Out Boy 13.Gold Digger - Kanye West 14.Photograph - Nickelback 15.My Humps - Black Eyed Peas 16.Run It! - Chris Brown 2006 1.Dance, Dance - Fallout Boy 2.Dirty Little Secret - All -American Rejects 3.Grillz - Nelly 4.Check on It - Beyonce feat. Slim Thug 5.You're Beautiful - James Blunt 6.Temperature - Sean Paul 7.Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield 8.Everytime We Touch - Cascada 9.Jesus Take the Wheel - Carrie Underwood 10.Bad Day - Daniel Powter (2 million) 11.Move Along - All American Rejects 12.What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts 13.Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers 14.SOS - Rihanna 15.Over My Head (Cable Car) - The Fray 16.Ridin’ - Chamillionaire 17.Promiscuous - Nelly Furtado 18.Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira 19.Unfaithful – Rihanna 20.Life is a Highway - Rascal Flatts 21.Ain’t No Other Man - Christina Aguilera 22.Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 23.Crazy Bitch – Buckcherry 24.Waiting on the World to Change - John Mayer 25.Buttons - Pussycat Dolls 26.London Bridge - Fergie 27.I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At the Disco 28.Sexyback - Justin Timberlake (2 million) 29.Far Away - Nickelback 30.Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 31.Money Maker - Ludacris 32.How to Save a Life - The Fray (2 million) 33.Lips of an Angel - Hinder 34.Boston – Augustana 35.Smack That - Akon (2 million) 36.Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance 37.My Love - Justin Timberlake 38.It Ends Tonight - All American Rejects 39.Fergalicious - Fergie (2 million) 40.I Wanna Love You 41.Irreplaceable - Beyonce (2 million) 2007 1.We Fly High - Jim Jones 2.This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race - Fall Out Boy 3.Say It Right - Nelly Furtado 4.It’s Not Over - Daughtry 5.The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani (2 million) 6.Walk It Out - Unk 7.Cupid’s Chokehold - Gym Class Heroes 8.What Goes Around…Comes Around - Justin Timberlake 9.Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers 10.Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks 11.This is Why I’m Hot - Mims 12.Don’t Matter - Akon 13.Glamorous - Fergie (2 million) 14.If Everyone Cared – Nickelback 15.Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood (2 million) 16.Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne (2 million) 17.Give It to Me - Timbaland 18.What I've Done - Linkin Park 19.Face Down - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 20.U + Ur Hand - P!nk 21.Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5 22.Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin’) - T -Pain featuring Yung Joc 23.Thnks fr th Mrmrs - Fall Out Boy 24.Home - Daughtry 25.Party Like a Rockstar - Shop Boyz 26.Umbrella - Rihanna (2 million) 27.Rehab - Amy Winehouse 28.Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s (2 million) 29.Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal) - Fergie (2 million) 30.Bartender – T-Pain 31.Beautiful Girls - Sean Kingston 32.The Way I Are - Timbaland featuring 33.Stronger – Kanye West (2 million) 34.The Great Escape – Boys Like Girls 35.Crank That – Soulja Boy Tell 'Em (2 million) 36.Rockstar – Nickelback (close to 2 million) 37.How Far We've Come – Matchbox Twenty 38.Bubbly – Colbie Caillat 39.Cyclone – Baby Bash feat. T-Pain 40.Kiss Kiss – Chris Brown 41.Apologize – Timbaland feat. OneRepublic (2 million) 42.No One – Alicia Keys (close to 2 million) 43.Low – Flo Rida (close to 2 million) 44.Paralyzer – Finger Eleven 45.Teardrops on My Guitar – Taylor Swift 46.Clumsy – Fergie 47.*Ayo Technology – 50 Cent feat. Justin Timberlake (over 950,000) 48.*Who Knew – Pink (around 950,000) 49.*Shut Up and Drive – Rihanna (over 950,000) Edited by Brian W. |
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Posted: 19 February 2009 at 4:29am |
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Holy crap! For anyone who hasn't heard, the new Flo Rida single "Right Round" has sold an unprecented 636,000 downloads in its debut week! The only time we've seen numbers even approaching these has been the week following Christmas, when everyone was using their iTunes gift cards and new iPods. Unbelievable.
Incidentally, the RIAA certified 82 Platinum (million-selling) digital singles in 2008. That's the most certified million-sellers in one year, ever -- more than the 72 certified at the previous peak year of 1979 and the 71 in 1978. Seems it's time for the RIAA to upgrade Platinum to two million and Gold back to a million, like it was up until 1989. |
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Posted: 19 February 2009 at 6:38am |
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OK I'll bite. As a middle-aged guy who lives in a market with no CHR, what is "Laffy Taffy" Title? Artist? I didn't notice it on the list of top-selling singles.
Guess I'm getting old...at best I only knew maybe 40% of the listed million sellers (though I recognized most of the artists). Edited by Hykker |
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