Did you know there’s still a physical singles chart?
Absolutely fascinating. Prodigy at number 1. Pye Audio Corner in the top 10. The Besnard Lakes at 25, two places above Wannabee by the Spice Girls.
Would love to see the actual number of sales involved here.
Look at how many have been at no. 1 as well! Bizarre!
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So interesting!
A little insight into numbers of sales involved from what I know of the Mozart Estate one at number 6 in the charts. This is by Lawrence (of Felt, Denim, etc) under his new moniker. This single was released as a limited run of 500 10" singles on 4th November, and I don’t think there were any other physical formats. It doesn’t seem to have totally sold out (Juno and Rough Trade are saying ‘in stock’) so something less than 500 sales to get to number 6!
Excellent insight, thank you.
Conceivable that the stuff down towards 100 has only a handful of sales, isn’t it?
Assume it’s that Copycat Killers vinyl, it’s the lead track on that.
Which came out two years ago, so tells you the number of sales likely involved!
Good to see ol’ Bill Oddie at number 13
That cigarettes after sex track is quite old I reckon. Proabbly only 20 sales
Reading some dull nostalgia piece about the charts in the Guardian and remembered again this still exists.
Not a super fascinating one this week:
There’s 22 year old Streets single at number 3 and two Aphex Twin ones lurking around the 30s. Last Christmas is at 57 in the middle of July? because why not? And Lambrini Girls crash the charts at number 97, good for them.
Think there are some interesting things in there, like Texas Sun by Khruangbin/Leon Bridges has been in the top 100 physical sales every week since it was released over 4 years ago bar two weeks!
Yeah I’d glossed over those figures. Apparently Windowlicker has 651 weeks??