2005 Year End Charts

[beLIEve]

Top Hits Online has been gaining traction in terms of relevance and was recently reviewed on CNN Entertainment. It's updated every week and tracks the top 100 songs being streamed, downloaded, and played online. The year end chart for 2005 includes 3 U2 songs in their final, year-end tally:

Peak Weeks Top 10 Weeks Top 40 Weeks Top 100
26 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, U2
Lyrics | Reviews 6 3 21 28
82 City Of Blinding Lights, U2
Lyrics | Reviews 19 0 12 20
91 Vertigo, U2
Lyrics | Reviews 4 6 9 11

Here's the Top 100 online artists for 2005 - just U2's position:

11 U2 Chart History

Finally, here's how U2 has done on this chart since it's creation in 1998:

U2
THO Chart History

Artist Song Debut Peak Weeks
U2 The Sweetest Thing 10-19-1998 2 19 Lyrics Reviews
U2 The Ground Beneath Her Feet 04-03-2000 47 8 Lyrics Reviews
U2 Beautiful Day 09-18-2000 1 34 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 Walk On 01-27-2001 17 20 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of 02-10-2001 20 31 Lyrics Reviews
U2 Elevation 05-12-2001 24 21 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 Electrical Storm 09-28-2002 13 20 Lyrics Reviews
LMC vs. U2 Take Me To The Clouds Above 01-31-2004 37 11 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 Vertigo 10-15-2004 3 22 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 All Because Of You 01-14-2005 40 13 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own 01-28-2005 6 28 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy
U2 City Of Blinding Lights 06-18-2005 19 20 Lyrics Reviews Listen / Buy

[ajax]

u2log.com has these interesting news:
Billboard has published Paul McGuinness’ reflections on 2005:
“This was such a great year for U2. A No. 1 album in 20 countries, 110 shows all sold out, 3.3 million tickets sold, 100% of the tickets we put on sale. Nine million-plus sold of the current record, 3 million catalog, 2 million DVDs. U2 have never been bigger or better. Next year after Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, we will end the Vertigo tour in Honolulu.”

[STING2]

Originally posted by ajax
u2log.com has these interesting news:
Billboard has published Paul McGuinness’ reflections on 2005:
“This was such a great year for U2. A No. 1 album in 20 countries, 110 shows all sold out, 3.3 million tickets sold, 100% of the tickets we put on sale. Nine million-plus sold of the current record, 3 million catalog, 2 million DVDs. U2 have never been bigger or better. Next year after Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, we will end the Vertigo tour in Honolulu.”

Actually Mr. McGuinness, thats 3,414,556 tickets sold in 2005 bringing in a $294,795,607 dollar GROSS.

[beLIEve]

Excerpt from Billboard article regarding the overall increase in DVD sales in 2005:

In the music DVD category, a variety of musical genres ended the year at the top of the charts.

The Jay-Z/Linkin Park CD/DVD combo "MTV Ultimate Mash-Ups Presents: Collision Course" (Roc-a-Fella/Warner Bros./Warner Music Vision) rules the Top Music Video Sales Titles chart, while projects from Creed, Josh Groban, U2 and the Eagles hold the No. 2 through No. 5 positions, respectively.

[mikeuk]

Originally posted by ajax
u2log.com has these interesting news:
Billboard has published Paul McGuinness’ reflections on 2005:
“This was such a great year for U2. A No. 1 album in 20 countries, 110 shows all sold out, 3.3 million tickets sold, 100% of the tickets we put on sale. Nine million-plus sold of the current record, 3 million catalog, 2 million DVDs. U2 have never been bigger or better. Next year after Mexico, South America, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, we will end the Vertigo tour in Honolulu.”

Clearly he is referring to the year Bomb was out rather than the calender year 2005 - impressive figures all round, although thought it went to number 1 in 30+ countries ?

mike

[Zoovation]

Originally posted by mikeuk


Clearly he is referring to the year Bomb was out rather than the calender year 2005 - impressive figures all round, although thought it went to number 1 in 30+ countries ?

mike

I'm sure that it went to #1 in 30 countries or even more.

[edge3]

It was definitely # 1 in 32 or 34 countries. He probably meant # 1 in 20 countries THIS YEAR.

Btw, surely if they've sold 2M DVD's in total then the Chicago DVD has probably sold more like 1M (?) - my guess is now 700k (with 70k in UK).

[edge3]

US Soundscan EOY - Best Selling album artists :

# 29 U2 with 1.750M (828k for Bomb + 922k for Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 sold 2.914M (2.156M for Bomb + 758k for Back Catalogue)

[edge3]

UK :

Bomb has ended up as the 54th Best Selling Artist Album of 2005. The # 55 album sold 347,897...

Also, i just got the following info from last weeks Musicweek : during week 5 of Bomb's run (Xmas week 2004) Bomb sold 150,944 followed by 28,795 (in week 6). This then gave an exact 2004 total of 850,764.

So the current, exactly scanned, UK total must now be at about 1.2M on the dot, which is actually about 8k lower than my estimated figure.

[ChargedVT]

Edge3, that's interesting
I saw two different sources quoting 855k and 860k for Bomb for 2004. I would guess just over 350k for 2005 so yeah just over 1.2 million...
I remember Music Week quoting sales for HTDAAB a few times throughout 2005, and I reckon they were posted up in this forum somewhere.
I have these two... wk29 - 7407, wk30 - 19563
Do you have any of these, Edge3?

[edge3]

Originally posted by ChargedVT
Edge3, that's interesting
I saw two different sources quoting 855k and 860k for Bomb for 2004. I would guess just over 350k for 2005 so yeah just over 1.2 million...
I remember Music Week quoting sales for HTDAAB a few times throughout 2005, and I reckon they were posted up in this forum somewhere.
I have these two... wk29 - 7407, wk30 - 19563
Do you have any of these, Edge3?

19,563 for wk30 is correct & 7,400 was my estimate for wk29 so 7,407 seems spot on.

The 855k figure comes from a source which i now know, for sure, to be not exactly correct : they obviously just rounded the figures up or down incorrectly/correctly. The 860k figure was my estimate mainly based on the fact that i didn't have the exact figure for Xmas week 2004 (wk5) & partly based on this 855k figure.

Now, Musicweek actually published an EOY figure of 850,764 in their EOY album sales round up of 2004, but i couldn't be sure that that was for right up to the last minute of 2004 because of this missing wk5 figure.

So now we have the exact wk5 figure we can be sure that my estimate of 860k was 9,236 too high.

[fitz]

With 350K alone in UK, the bomb must be very close to the 4m in Europe! Remember, the last (3m) certificiation was in December 2004, so all 2005 Europe sales counts for the next certification.

[ybird3k]

Originally posted by edge3
US Soundscan EOY - Best Selling album artists :

# 29 U2 with 1.750M (828k for Bomb + 922k for Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 sold 2.914M (2.156M for Bomb + 758k for Back Catalogue)

a lot of back catalogue sales in the US, when will the RIAA update their bestsellers list? / when was it last updated?

[mikeuk]

Originally posted by edge3
US Soundscan EOY - Best Selling album artists :

# 29 U2 with 1.750M (828k for Bomb + 922k for Back Catalogue)

Last year U2 sold 2.914M (2.156M for Bomb + 758k for Back Catalogue)

With an extensive tour in the US during 2005 you might have expected the back catalogue to have a greater sales increase than 21-22 % ?

Mike

[mikeuk]

Originally posted by ybird3k


a lot of back catalogue sales in the US, when will the RIAA update their bestsellers list? / when was it last updated?

the website www.ukmig.org has some interesting analysis on sounscan sales etc, including U2s performance- although I recall someone reporting U2 had overall sales of almost 4m last year in the US so the figures might be a bit out

Mike

[ChargedVT]

in regards to the UK charts, the forum UKMix has the top 200 albums for the year with sales...
As was already reported HTDAAB is at #53 with 348,200
But Best of 1980-1990 is at #177 with 100,000 sold.

[cjboog]

Pretty good numbers last year and this year but the album was realeased at just the wrong time so that it can't be among top sellers in 2004 and it can't be among top sellers in 2005. I guess it is done to build buzz before Chrismas though, probably smart for the bottom line.

[Popmartijn]

I just saw the year-end chart for Australia. How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was #26 for the year 2005. That same newsgroup posting (in aus.music) also gave the chart runs of the singles:

U2 - ALL BECAUSE OF YOU
Charted: 20/11/2005 - 25/12/2005 (6 weeks)
Peak: #23 (for 1 week)
Positions: 23 32 40 48 42 48
(still charting)

U2 - CITY OF BLINDING LIGHTS
Charted: 26/6/2005 - 3/7/2005 (2 weeks)
Peak: #31 (for 1 week)
Positions: 31 47

U2 - SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR OWN
Charted: 27/2/2005 - 10/4/2005 (7 weeks)
Peak: #19 (for 1 week)
Positions: 19 21 31 36 42 43 46

U2 - VERTIGO
Charted: 21/11/2004 - 23/1/2005 (10 weeks)
Peak: #5 (for 1 week)
Positions: 5 16 17 21 21 25 26 29 32 36

[Popmartijn]

Maybe a little late, but I just saw these two posts:

Originally posted by ChargedVT
End of year results for Austria...

HTDAAB #15 album (wild estimate 30k)
Live in Chicago #4 DVD

However, Zoovation reported:

Originally posted by Zoovation
Year End Charts Austria: HTDAAB #36

So which one is the correct chart result?

[ChargedVT]

Here is the link....

http://charts.orf.at/oe3/o-y2k1/2005/longplay2005

#36 was the German position