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Oasis' early singles stayed over 100 weeks in the uk top 200 as they were really EPs with 3 extra tracks that were unavailable elsewhere at the time.
The uk sales figures for Definitely Maybe,(What's the Story) Morning Glory and to a lesser extent Be Here Now are much higher than the figures given by the OCC - can you explain the difference?
Hi Kevin,
The OCC is much less accurate that it claims to be. Just like Soundscan, it excludes Music Club sales. Morning Glory alone sold nearly 400,000 units at Brittania Music Club. This is why the early albums (as long as Brittania was still going strong) have a sizable gap with their OCC figures.
Brazil has a lot of this "only famous there" artists, specially when it comes to One hit wonders. I'd love to see a detailed analysis of their market, which is very similiar to the UK market despite having a way bigger population
Hi,
I love your work and check your website frequently. Will you keep updating these figures? Or only with huge new sales (as I saw you did with for example Drake and Arianna Grande)?
Hi Chartmasters!
Do you think Morning Glory has already overtaken 21 as the best selling studio album of all time in the UK? The difference was about 110k in 2017 and MG is placed higher on the UK albums chart almost every week since then, I'm not sure how much pure sales that means, though.
Hi again! I'm sure you have other things on your mind and this probably isn't the major issue in the music bizz these days, but it is a relevant thing to know if it's a close race. I would say it's actually fun too. Morning Glory has sold somewhere in the range of 40-60k in vinyls since dec 17 and probably some cd's as well. Now I don't know Adele's sales, but MG probably hasn't caught up with 21. Might it happen soon? A vinyl re-issue is set for october, so that might help.
If the new Adele album is released, 21 will probably benefit, so MG might not reach the best-selling studio album in the UK after all, but still, a race would be nice to follow.
Hi there! In your receipt database I found an item about Dig Out Your Soul for a shipment of 70k in Italy by YE 2008 (12 weeks after its release). In this article it's only at 65k. Did the album stay on the shelves that much?
Hello, I might misunderstand this, but the daily increase (LD) of Definitely Maybe is lower than the Spotify increase. Isn't that physically impossible?
Hello, could you explain why the total Spotify numbers of definitely maybe is higher than the total auto update? That should also include video streams, so I expected the total auto update to be higher. Thanks in advance!
This is still the case: on Spotify, Morning Glory 's daily increase is 1,535 million, which generates a LD of 1640, which is in line with the formulas. Definitely Maybe however, has daily streams of 455k, so following MG's example, an LD of around 500 could be expected. Instead it's 'only' 390. I'd like to understand this, but I can't, so could someone explain?
Now, 6 years later, Oasis might get another UK no 1 album, with The Masterplan, a remastered album that didn't get to no 1 in '98. It'll probably be beaten by Swift, but their pure sales keep being healthy. Legendary anyway!
