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"The Youngest..." enters at #11 in US singles chart

posted by davidt on Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:00AM
"The Youngest Was The Most Loved" enters at #11 in the US singles chart on sales of 681 copies last week according to Soundscan.
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  • 681 copies lands a number 11 slot in the US? must be a slow week for gangsta rap and teeny bopper girls...
    Anonymous -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:11AM (#227267)
  • Heh, heh. Well, news is news.

    Some folks here, including myself, reported last week that they didn't find the single available at their favorite record store.

    So, I predict the single's position will move up by next week.
    mozmic_dancer -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:26AM (#227271)
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    "I am the fun and the fair, on a Mozsite for the criminally insane..."
  • How much does it cost in the US?
    I have paid almost 6 euro for the 3-track single
    in Italy, no wonder they sell so few singles now.
    Cavour -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:28AM (#227272)
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  • since i read that others were not having any luck finding the single, i've been taking my time about going over to my usual haunt to look for it as i've been a busy individual and don't have much time to hang around anywhere these days....
    suzanne -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:36AM (#227274)
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    I scare dead people.
  • I could not find the single at the two shops I frequent in Seattle, so I went home and downloaded it from iTunes...i then proceeded to bang my wife to the sounds of the undergorund.
    moz666 -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:58AM (#227283)
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  • Misleading (Score:4, Informative)

    It's misleading to say that Morrissey is #11 in the singles chart in the US, without pointing out that the Billboard Hot 100 is the de facto singles chart in the US, even more so since now digital downloads count towards positions in the Hot 100 (and popular songs sell tens of thousands of paid downloads a week in the US). Morrissey is, of course, nowhere in the Hot 100. His position quoted in the news item above is in a singles chart that is no more than a cheap gimmick, now that no major act releases physical singles in the US.
    2-J -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @11:58AM (#227284)
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    • Re:Misleading by Granvik (Score:0) Wednesday July 05 2006, @01:17PM

    • Re:Misleading (Score:3, Interesting)

      You bring up a good point.

      Billboard use SoundScan as a basis for sales of units when they compile these charts. Of course, once airplay and download reports are counted in, positions on the Billboard chart change.

      This news item seems to quote a basic SoundScan report of Morrissey's/Youngest Maxi CD released last week in the US. It is not clear whether this is a just regional report or national (I hope it's regional!)

      I'm not sure what you mean by a physical single. Are you refering to a package CD with a barcode, as opposed to a digital download? Well, SoundScan as far as I know only involved with retail sales of packages or units. Participating SoundScan retailers scan the barcode found on, in this case, a maxi cd during a transaction and that sale is reported.

      Artists and record companies use the data in many ways, but that's a whole other topic.

      mozmic_dancer -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @08:08PM (#227360)
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      • Re:Misleading by 2-J (Score:1) Thursday July 06 2006, @05:07PM
        • Re:Misleading by mozmic_dancer (Score:1) Friday July 07 2006, @08:12AM
      • Re:Misleading by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday July 06 2006, @06:12PM
  • This must be the singles "sales chart" but it is in no way the Billboard #11. The video has not been played and you don't hear the song anywhere.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @09:42PM (#227365)
  • there must be something horribly wrong with them, why such a great single isn't easily available for the americans?, and the billbored list is so devious and unreliable that is a waste of time to expect something good of it.. anyway, Morrissey is supreme, that's all.
    NovemberJesus -- Wednesday July 05 2006, @10:37PM (#227372)
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    ...maybe I'll even arrive?
  • It's nowhere to be found at all.

    Am I blind?

    Always

    KEN
    sycophantic_slag -- Thursday July 06 2006, @02:00AM (#227381)
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    "And I just can't explain/ So I won't even try to."
  • Record Mirror - Do you crave a number one single?
    Moz - "So many fools get to number one it's hard to consider the position to be totally holy.

    From a 1989 int following LOTFIP release...
    Elsie -- Thursday July 06 2006, @05:41AM (#227406)
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  • Jesse personally bought 600 copies!

    Only joking
    memphis <[email protected]> -- Thursday July 06 2006, @05:53AM (#227408)
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    • new song? by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday July 06 2006, @12:12PM
      • Re:new song? by memphis (Score:1) Tuesday July 18 2006, @11:15AM
  • I bought part 1 and part 2 weeks ago on import.But when I went to look for the US version it at our local mall store where I bought the deluxe version of Ringleader they didn`t have but the did have the Yhkm single go figure.
    tibby -- Thursday July 06 2006, @09:05AM (#227427)
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    ~I am a poor freezingly cold soul so far from where I intended to go ~I love Morrissey
    • new album? by Anonymous (Score:0) Thursday July 06 2006, @12:09PM
  • The music industries attitudes are very poor, downloads are now counted in the U.K..
    Anonymous -- Thursday July 06 2006, @03:30PM (#227484)
  • said they had completely sold out! However, they also said that they were NOT going to reorder!

    Strange.

    Anaesthesine -- Thursday July 06 2006, @08:39PM (#227520)
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    If Moz did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
  • Do people really care about chart rankings?

    This isn't 1986...

    dewdrop -- Friday July 07 2006, @10:48AM (#227558)
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