The Chart Thread

[Patrick Bateman]

Sounds like it Dave, wonder who it is slagging me off?

It was your mother. You should be used to it by now.

[homer1972]

Doubt it was my mother as she died when I was a toddler.

[Undertaker]

It's some sort of sick 'laugh' that one of homers mates is having. Strange how it took a day or so to pick up on. Whatever it is, can you take it elsewhere.

Back on topic ;- Depeche mode out the top 40 but they have good pre-orders of their new album.

[XTZ1969]

[Undertaker]

Depeche Mode - Wrong - 24 - out of the top 75.

[XTZ1969]

[Undertaker]

Yeah, didn't expect such a fall. Especially for their first single. For fan based acts, such a drop only normally happens with singles 2,3 etc.

[Blogo]

Depeche - Wrong - out of the top 75.

Pet Shop Boys did well considering this.

[Danny C]

More interested in stats for DM than Erasure as DM are the biggest synth group bar none in the world.

More hit singles than any other act on this list.

Quantity, innit. The top 6 selling DM singles put together still don't come close to The Human Leagues 1 biggest selling single.

I'm sure a lot of bands could put out 30 or 40 singles that sell 25 or 30 thousand units and be the "biggest selling singles act".

Average singles sales are where the wheat is going to be separated from the chaff. Let's see some of those.

[Undertaker]

Average singles sales are where the wheat is going to be separated from the chaff. Let's see some of those.

Here is some sort of top 40 for synth pop.

1. Duran Duran - 4,915k
2. Human League - 3,775k
3. Eurythmics - 3,495k
4. Depeche Mode - 3,460k
5. Spandau Ballet - 3,290k
6. Gary Numan - 3,015k
7. Kim Wilde - 2,945k
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - 2,870k
9. Tears For Fears - 2,850k
10. New Order - 2,680k
11. Soft Cell - 2,525k
12. Simple Minds - 2,520k
13. Ultravox - 2,430k
14. Thompson Twins - 1,875k
15. Yazoo - 1,490k
16. ABC - 1,370k
17. Sparks - 1,265k
18. Heaven 17 - 1,195k
19. Haircut 100 - 1,170k ***
20. Altered Images - 1,165k
21. Kraftwerk - 1,040k
22. Blancmange - 975k
23. M - 840k
24. Japan - 820k
25. Godley & Creme - 730k
26. Tourists - 720k
27. Visage - 700k
28. Buggles - 690k
29. Talk Talk - 670k
30. Jean-Michel Jarre - 630k
31. XTC - 600k
32. Giorgio Moroder - 575k
33. China Crisis - 555k
34. Associates - 485k
35. Jon & Vangelis - 480k
36. A Flock Of Seagulls - 425k
37. PhD - 405k
38. Landscape - 310k
39. Thomas Dolby - 300k
40. Psychedelic Furs - 230k

[Undertaker]

1 Don't You Want Me (1981) #6 : 1,430k
2 Love Action (I Believe In Love) (1981) #34 : 355k
3 (Keep Feeling) Fascination (1983) #40 : 310k
4 Mirror Man (1982) #49 : 285k
5 Open Your Heart (1981) #66 : 230k
6 Human (1986) #90 : 165k
7 Being Boiled (1982) : 155k
8 Louise (1984) #145 : 155k
9 Sound Of The Crowd (1981) : 120k
10 Tell Me When (1995) #96 : 115k
11 One Man In My Heart (1995) : 110k
12 The Lebanon (1984) #183 : 105k
13 Life On Your Own (1984) #237 : 70k
14 Don't You Want Me (remix) (1995) : 35k
15 Holiday 80 EP (Rock'n'Roll / Being Boiled) (1980) : 30k
16 Heart Like A Wheel (1990) : 30k
17 Love Is All That Matters (1988) : 20k
18 Boys And Girls (1981) : 15k
19 Filling Up With Heaven (1995) : 10k
20 Stay With Me Tonight (1996) : 10k
21 Empire State Human (1980) : 5k
22 I Need Your Loving (1986) : 5k
23 Soundtrack To A Generation (1990) : 5k
24 All I Ever Wanted (1996) : 5k

[Vince]

Average singles sales are where the wheat is going to be separated from the chaff. Let's see some of those.

Here is some sort of top 40 for synth pop.

1. Duran Duran - 4,915k
2. Human League - 3,775k
3. Eurythmics - 3,495k
4. Depeche Mode - 3,460k
5. Spandau Ballet - 3,290k
6. Gary Numan - 3,015k
7. Kim Wilde - 2,945k
8. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - 2,870k
9. Tears For Fears - 2,850k
10. New Order - 2,680k
11. Soft Cell - 2,525k
12. Simple Minds - 2,520k
13. Ultravox - 2,430k
14. Thompson Twins - 1,875k
15. Yazoo - 1,490k
16. ABC - 1,370k
17. Sparks - 1,265k
18. Heaven 17 - 1,195k
19. Haircut 100 - 1,170k ***
20. Altered Images - 1,165k
21. Kraftwerk - 1,040k
22. Blancmange - 975k
23. M - 840k
24. Japan - 820k
25. Godley & Creme - 730k
26. Tourists - 720k
27. Visage - 700k
28. Buggles - 690k
29. Talk Talk - 670k
30. Jean-Michel Jarre - 630k
31. XTC - 600k
32. Giorgio Moroder - 575k
33. China Crisis - 555k
34. Associates - 485k
35. Jon & Vangelis - 480k
36. A Flock Of Seagulls - 425k
37. PhD - 405k
38. Landscape - 310k
39. Thomas Dolby - 300k
40. Psychedelic Furs - 230k

Where are the PSB in that :s

[XTZ1969]

[kimphilby]

Yeah, didn't expect such a fall. Especially for their first single.

Neither did I.
Wrong: down from #24 to #78 in UK

Is it any wonder? Has anyone heard Wrong on a single radio station in the UK?

[Fugitive1979]

Yeah, didn't expect such a fall. Especially for their first single.

Neither did I.
Wrong: down from #24 to #78 in UK

Is it any wonder? Has anyone heard Wrong on a single radio station in the UK?

I haven't - very sad. I wonder what hypocritical nonsense our old friend Mastertwat has to say about it.