http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a182026/britney-song-to-debut-at-us-number-one.html

Bodes well for its UK release (8th Nov, apparently).
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 at 21:16:36, Robbie  wrote 
in uk.music.charts :

>Paul Hyett wrote:
>> 
>>http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a182026/britney-song-to-debut-at
>>-us-number-one.html    Bodes well for its UK release (8th Nov, 
>>apparently).
>
>It sold 254,640 copies on download, which was probably enough to give 
>it the edge on the Hot 100. I can't imagine its airplay has been 
>massive.

So when that builds up, she'll do even better.
>
>Incidentally, sales at the top end of the US digital sales chart now 
>seem to be levelling out - after a few years of continuing growth for 
>the past few months it's become the norm to see the number one digital 
>song selling between 200,000 and 260,000 copies. There appears to be no 
>growth any more.
>
>Relatively speaking, UK sales continue to grow faster. 250,000 digital 
>sales in the US is equivalent to about 50,000 sales here.

This years UK #1 singles have averaged 68k - of which it's safe to say 
65k will have been downloads.

As you say, UK downloads haven't yet reached a plateau, though there 
does seem to be some levelling off now. At the start of 2009, sales were 
40% up on 2008, now they are just 15% up.

>The number 10 on the new US Digital chart sold 105,564 which equals to 
>about 21,000 in the UK and the number 40 has sold 31,170, equivalent to 
>about 6,000 sales in the UK.

Both of which are very close to the averages I've calculated for this 
year's sales.

-- 
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

Paul Hyett wrote:
> http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a182026/britney-song-to-debut-at-us-number-one.html 
> 
> 
> Bodes well for its UK release (8th Nov, apparently).

It sold 254,640 copies on download, which was probably enough to give it 
the edge on the Hot 100. I can't imagine its airplay has been massive.

Incidentally, sales at the top end of the US digital sales chart now 
seem to be levelling out - after a few years of continuing growth for 
the past few months it's become the norm to see the number one digital 
song selling between 200,000 and 260,000 copies. There appears to be no 
growth any more.

Relatively speaking, UK sales continue to grow faster. 250,000 digital 
sales in the US is equivalent to about 50,000 sales here. The number 10 
on the new US Digital chart sold 105,564 which equals to about 21,000 in 
the UK and the number 40 has sold 31,170, equivalent to about 6,000 
sales in the UK.