UK Singles Sales 2003

[Mikey]

UK Singles 2003 Year-to-date Top Fifty - Week 51

Sunday 29th December 2002 to Saturday 20th December 2003 [Chart date w/e 27-12-2003]
[with estimated sales rounded to nearest 5,000; (more exact sales in brackets)]

Sources:
MWM = Music Week Magazine, MWW = Music Week Website, ROY = The Record of the Year, and TOTP = Top of the Pops Website

TW LW

1 1 Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas 630,000 (545,000 MWM 01-11-03; 634,000 ROY 02-12-03)
2 2 Spirit In The Sky - Gareth Gates with Special Guests The Kumars 550,000 (551,527 MWM 25-10-03)
3 3 Ignition - R Kelly 475,000 (476,590 MWM 11-10-03)
4 4 All The Things She Said - Tatu 335,000 (336,000 MWM 14-06-03)
5 10 Leave Right Now - Will Young 335,000
6 5 Breathe - Blu Cantrell feat. Sean Paul 325,000 (another few thousand on import)
7 6 Make Luv - Room 5 feat. Oliver Cheatham 315,000 (315,000 MWM 01-11-03; 311,000 ROY 02-12-03)
8 7 Bring Me To Life - Evanescence 300,000 (298,000 ROY 02-12-03; another few thousand on import)
9 8 White Flag - Dido 290,000 (290,000 ROY 02-12-03)
10 9 In Da Club - 50 Cent 270,000
11 11 Crazy In Love - Beyonce 265,000 (260,000 ROY 02-12-03)
12 12 Turn Me On - Kevin Lyttle 265,000
13 13 Move Your Feet - Junior Senior 250,000 (250,000 MWM 01-11-03)
14 14 Stop Living The Lie - David Sneddon 245,000
15 71 Changes - Ozzy and Kelly Osbourne 230,000
16 18 I’m Your Man - Shane Richie 230,000
17 NEW Mad World - Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules 225,000 (227,500 MWW 21-12-2003)
18 NEW Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End) - Darkness 225,000 (222,500 MWW 21-12-2003)
19 16 Be Faithful - Fatman Scoop feat. Crooklyn Clan 220,000 (235,000 ROY 02-12-03)
20 15 Sound Of The Underground - Girls Aloud 210,000
21 17 Sweet Dreams My LA Ex - Rachel Stevens 210,000
22 19 Beautiful - Christina Aguilera 200,000
23 20 Pretty Green Eyes - Ultrabeat 195,000 (197,000 MWM 29-11-03)
24 21 Lose Yourself - Eminem 195,000
25 22 Superstar - Jamelia 185,000
26 40 Shut Up - Black Eyed Peas 180,000
27 23 Are You Ready For Love? - Elton John 175,000
28 24 Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake 175,000
29 25 All I Have - Jennifer Lopez feat. LL Cool J 175,000
30 26 Stole - Kelly Rowland 170,000
31 28 Fly On The Wings Of Love - XTM & DJ Chucky Pts Annia 165,000
32 27 I Believe In A Thing Called Love - Darkness 165,000
33 29 Year 3000 - Busted 165,000
34 30 If You're Not The One - Daniel Bedingfield 165,000
35 37 Mandy - Westlife 160,000
36 31 Fast Food Song - Fast Food Rockers 155,000
37 32 I Know What You Want - Busta Rhymes And Mariah Carey 150,000
38 33 Baby Boy - Big Brovaz 150,000
39 34 Scandalous - Mis-Teeq 150,000
40 35 Born To Try - Delta Goodrem 150,000
41 36 Hole In The Head - Suga****s 145,000
42 38 Never Leave You (Uh Oooh Uh Oooh) - Lumidee 140,000
43 39 Favourite Things - Big Brovaz 140,000
44 43 Jump - Girls Aloud - 135,000
45 41 Loneliness - Tomcraft 130,000
46 42 The Boys Of Summer - DJ Sammy 130,000 (128,000 MWM)
47 44 No Letting Go - Wayne Wonder 120,000
48 50 Crashed The Wedding - Busted 120,000
49 45 03 Bonnie & Clyde - Jay-Z feat. Beyonce Knowles 115,000
50 46 Being Nobody - Richard X Vs Liberty X 115,000

<A class=bodytext_info href="http://www.dotmusic.com/charts/ytdsingles.asp" Target="_Blank[/img]Link Top 75 YTD Singles Chart on dotmusic w/e 27-12-2003

Figures are estimated to the nearest 5,000, which means that there will be more inaccuracies than rounding to the nearest 10,000.

Will Young’s Leave Right Now continues to build steady sales and is now in the top 5 with around 335,000. However, Michael Andrews ft. Gary Jules and Darkness should overtake him next week. This week the latter two sold over 450,000 between them whilst the top 3 sellers approached 595,000 sales - over 25,000 more than the average weekly sale this year for the whole singles market.

It was a very close battle for the top spot with Mad World outselling Christmas Time by 4,986 sales.

Information taken from Chartfacts on Dotmusic.

[XxsuziexX]

thanks 4 that mikey-so it looks like will will finish 4th!!

i dont think jules and darkness will overtake him-maybe 8th but not top 5!!

[Hitstastic]

Firstly to Mickey, I read on Channel 4 teletext that 'Mad World' sold 236,000 last week with 'Christmas Time' selling 220,500. I guess Channel 4 got it wrong....AGAIN!!!
Last week Will Young had sold 265,000, so to climb to 335,000 this week mean he probably sold around 70,000 this week. If the sales figures are similar for this week then Will Young could sell over 400,000 by the end of the year putting him fourth place.
BUT, Michael Andrews & Gary Jules and The Darkness have done extremely well in terms of first week sales - if these are maintained, both these songs could sell over 400,000 too.
I think 50 Cent 'In Da Club' and Dido 'White Flag' won't be in the final UK Top 10 of 2003.

See ya later

[DSQ]

White Flag sure needs to be in the top 10 of 2003 :(

[rmbod]

Great to see such strong sales for the Xmas week. I'm not so sure Gary Jules will overtake Will Young before the end of 2003. Leave Right Now is still selling very well and could climb back into the top 5 this week.

Dido can take heart from having the #1 selling album of 2003 even if White Flag falls out the top 10 singles

[Hitstastic]

To rmbob, you say "Dido can take heart from having the #1 selling album of 2003 even if White Flag falls out the top 10 singles". How do you know about her album being best seller of 2003??? If there's a website that lists the UK best selling albums of 2003 then I would be greatful for the web address.
Mind you, you'll probably reply back saying "No, I'm just guessing". Doh!!!

See ya later

[rio]

dido's album is the best seller of this year by about 500k copies i think! it's sold pretty much 2 million by now. and i can see gary jules approaching 400k by the 31st, the darkness just shy of tatu probably

[DSQ]

There is only 4 days sales this week - there is no way that either song will top 100k surely? This is 2nd week of releases! Plus - they only really sold 200k plus because of:

1) Media hype for Christmas number 1
2) Media hype for The Darkness
3) Media hype for The Idols

It was sure to be the biggest chart of the year, its just Mad World was the Dark Horse - although I can't understand this 227500 - its on Now 56 already!

[DJ Dan]

Mad World is on Now 56 but is a more unknown song on the album so people probabbly didn't realise.

[rmbod]

To rmbob, you say "Dido can take heart from having the #1 selling album of 2003 even if White Flag falls out the top 10 singles". How do you know about her album being best seller of 2003??? If there's a website that lists the UK best selling albums of 2003 then I would be greatful for the web address.
Mind you, you'll probably reply back saying "No, I'm just guessing". Doh!!!

See ya later

I found information on the best selling albums on Dotmusic, but i've had another look in the hope of posting further information here, and can't find it now, lol!!

Dido will definitely be #1 album though, it sold 270,000 copies last week. Its great to see the album charts looking so healthy.

[rio]

apaarently mad world did 70k across sunday and monday, and it was the only single i saw people buying in the record shops this week. and since when has there never been any shopping on the 26th and 27th?!