2005 Year End Charts

beLIEve · 12-28-2005, 11:52 PM

Some of the radio-play only charts have started to compile their year-end "top played song charts" for 2005, including mediabase, Radio and Records, and Net Music Countown. These charts, with the exception of the NMC, are based only on total number of "spins" or plays for a song on each radio format. What it shows, IMO, is that while U2 did not have any smash hits of HTDAAB, they did get a fair amount of radio play in the U.S. over time.

Here are the results for Radio and Records for calendar year...Christmas to Christmas...2005:

Hot AC Top 100
Vertigo = 30
Sometimes = 48

Mainstream Rock Top 100
Vertigo = 16
ABOY = 36
COBL = 69
Sometimes = 99

Active Rock Top 100
Vertigo = 66
ABOY = 98

Alternative Top 100
Vertigo = 55
ABOY = 69

Triple A Rock Top 100
Sometimes = 5
COBL = 17
Vertigo = 20
ABOY = 25

Here are the 2005 total results from Net Music Countdown, which tracks the most played songs on the Web, including audio streams, video streams, and downloads:

Mainstream Top 40
Vertigo = 33

Alternative Top 40
ABOY = 13

Hot AC Top 40
Vertigo = 5

Album Streams & Downloads: Top 40
HTDAAB = 9

And here are the 2005 year-end charts from mediabase.com, which like R&R, ranks songs by format based on the total number of spins or plays tallied on the radio stations monitored by them, which is meant to be a statistical representation of how a song has done (or is doing) nationwide. R&R does the same thing, but each service has their own unique set of stations that are tracked for each format. Mediabase only tracks the Top 50 for each format for the year-end chart, while R&R showed the Top 100:

Mainstream Rock Top 50
Vertigo = 26
ABOY = 44

Triple A Rock Top 50
Sometimes = 4
COBL = 14
Vertigo = 36
ABOY = 39

The year-end charts for mediabase only show the Top 30-50, and with the exception of the Hot AC format, they are generally in line with Radio and Records for U2's singles in 2005...especially for Triple A Rock. R&R's sample size (i.e., total # of stations monitored) is much larger than mediabase, and the chart positions on Radio and Records were very similar to the Billboard charts when there was an "apple-to-apples" comparison. For example, the "Alternative" radio format from R&R is very close to BB's "Modern Rock" chart. Hot AC tracks very close to BB's Adult Top 40. Triple A Rock does not yet fit into a BB format, and BB combines Mainstream & Active Rock into one format, calling it Mainstream Rock.

The end results do show that U2 songs did get more airplay in 2005 than you would think if you only looked at Billboard charts each week. The formats are fragmented, especially the ones that tend to play U2 songs. Also, U2 never did get enough plays for a given song, simultaneously across multiple formats, to make it onto the BB Hot 100. Sometimes made it briefly when it was charting in the Top 30 on Modern Rock, Top 20 on Hot AC, and #1 on Triple A Rock. As soon as the song faded from Modern Rock, though, it disappeared from the Hot 100.

Sometimes and COBL did well on Triple A Rock and then Adult Top 40. Neither of these songs made much noise on Mainstream, Modern, or Active Rock Formats, which are large enough to get a song onto the radar screens of mainstream radio. Me thinks that Love and Peace would have cracked these three rock formats, and it might just have been the biggest hit for U2 in '05 had it been properly released and promoted. OOTS is a great song, but it appears to be following the same pattern as the last two singles in the U.S., leaving it destined to play out on Adult Rock Radio.

All in all, though, I think U2 had a decent year on U.S. radio, and a great year on the Net. It almost seems as if U2 themselves were content to just slowly leak out the singles in the U.S. after the Vertigo marketing blitz, possibly on purpose. They pushed themselves and this album to the limit last fall with all the shows, commercials, awards, etc., and just when a backlash seemed to be rising, they sort of disappeared into the tour and their fans, where they belong anyway.

I'll post the OOTS update from mediabase and mediaguide weekly charts in that thread later.

bsp77 · 12-29-2005, 07:13 AM

You da man, beLIEve. Great summary.

ChargedVT · 12-29-2005, 07:01 PM

End of year results for Austria...

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

edge3 · 12-30-2005, 10:51 AM

Peru : Bomb was 20th best seller of 2005 - not sure how many though (30k also ?)

UK : Bomb is now 53rd best selling artist album of 2005 with, most probably, 347K (was 48th with 344K last week).... still 1 more week to go though.

Mediatraffic world chart : Bomb 16th best seller of 2005 with 2.899M (last year 8th with 5.289M)

mikeuk · 12-30-2005, 03:16 PM

Bomb - 36

Also vertigo DVD comes in at 419 on the same album chart

Mike

ChargedVT · 12-30-2005, 07:12 PM

I saw an end of year chart for Belgium, but I reckon it said "Wallonie" at the top so it would only be one half.
Either way, HTDAAB was at #25 for the year....

As for Peru the sales there would be VERY low... I was reading on the UKmix forums that apparently most weeks the #1 album only sells 100-150 copies!!!!

ChargedVT · 01-01-2006, 09:01 PM

In Netherlands, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was #11 for the year 2005.

Here is the link...

http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=...8416/sc=6e9b60

patske · 01-02-2006, 02:54 AM

Here's the official end of the year charts for Belgium..

Flanders:

Position, Artist, Label, Titel, Highest position,N° of weeks, weeks at N° 1

1 COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE / EMI
X&Y 1 29 4
2 LAURA LYNN ARS / UNIVERSAL
DROMEN 1 24 9
3 ANOUK DINO / EMI
HOTEL NEW YORK 1 51 1
4 MOBY MUTE / EMI
HOTEL 1 26 3
5 FAITHLESS CHEEKY / SONY BMG
FOREVER FAITHLESS - THE GREATEST HITS 1 27 2
6 DEUS ISLAND / UNIVERSAL
POCKET REVOLUTION 1 15 4
7 FRANS BAUER SONY BMG / SONY BMG
10 JAAR HITS 1 10 2
8 U2 ISLAND / UNIVERSAL
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 1 38 3
9 ADMIRAL FREEBEE UNIVERSAL / UNIVERSAL
SONGS 1 28 3
10 50 CENT INTERSCOPE / UNIVERSAL
THE MASSACRE 3 36 -

Last year u2 were also N° 8 in the end of year list with only 5 weeks in the album chart). (3 weeks at N°1)

8 U2 island / universal
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 1 5 3

In Walloon:

They are 25th in year end chart of Walloon

25 U2 ISLAND / UNIVERSAL
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 4 36 -

In 2004:
20 U2 island / universal
HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 2 4 0

Cheers and best wishes for 2006... Hopefully a new album..

edge3 · 01-02-2006, 05:25 AM

Belgium & Holland rock

Should be in top 20 on Italian EOY chart too (i think it was 8th last year with 350k)...

Zoovation · 01-02-2006, 06:02 AM

Year End Charts Austria: HTDAAB #36

fitz · 01-02-2006, 02:33 PM

Year End Charts Switzerland: HTDAAB #12

Popmartijn · 01-03-2006, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by ChargedVT
In Netherlands, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was #11 for the year 2005.

Here is the link...

http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=...8416/sc=6e9b60

And to add, U2 appears twice in the singles charts:
52 - All Because Of You
62 - City Of Blinding Lights

Unfortunately, Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own did not make it to the 100 best-selling singles of the year...

ChargedVT · 01-04-2006, 09:22 PM

Soundscan top 200 albums for the calendar year in US...

#73 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 828,722

Zoovation · 01-06-2006, 04:15 AM

Mediatraffic.de

Year End Charts

Bomb #16 with 2.899.000 copies

Last year, the bomb sold 5.810.000 copies according to mediatraffic. That would be 8.709.000 in total.

I'm not sure if the sales of this year are only based on the time the album was in the Top 40.

ybird3k · 01-06-2006, 05:10 AM

on the all time chart it is still 13th with - 8.188.000 copies.

8.7M would move it to #10

mikeuk · 01-06-2006, 08:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zoovation
Mediatraffic.de

Year End Charts

Bomb #16 with 2.899.000 copies

Last year, the bomb sold 5.810.000 copies according to mediatraffic. That would be 8.709.000 in total.

I'm not sure if the sales of this year are only based on the time the album was in the Top 40.

Although these overall figures look about right, a little surprised that Mediatraffic appears to be reporting sales when Bomb wasn't on their chart - as they don't update the all-time list with sales for weeks outside the chart !

Mike

STING2 · 01-06-2006, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zoovation
Mediatraffic.de

Year End Charts

Bomb #16 with 2.899.000 copies

Last year, the bomb sold 5.810.000 copies according to mediatraffic. That would be 8.709.000 in total.

I'm not sure if the sales of this year are only based on the time the album was in the Top 40.

Thats incorrect. In 2004, BOMB sold 5,289,000 copies according to Mediatraffic. I just checked the year in total on their 2004 chart.

Zoovation · 01-06-2006, 11:31 AM

Yes, I think you are right. I checked it again and 5.810.000 was only an estimation by mediatraffic.

edge3 · 01-06-2006, 02:09 PM

I've long assumed that 5.810.000 figure to be a mistake. The 2004 EOY figure should have included the 1st 6 weeks of Bombs run on their chart. So :

week 1 : 84k (Japan only)
week 2 : 1.854M
week 3 : 862k
week 4 : 840k
week 5 : 820k
week 6 : 827k
Total = 5.289.000 (8th best selling album)

So 5.289M + 2.899M (2005 figure) = 8.188.000 (correct overall total)

edge3 · 01-06-2006, 03:59 PM

UK best selling singles EOY chart :

# 81 - SYCMIOYO with *66,170 (57th on EOY physical sales only chart)
# 115 - COBL with 51,076

*this total is virtually 100% for physical sales only as downloads only became eligible for inclusion 10 weeks after 'Sometimes' first entered - if downloads were included then i believe it's overall total is about 72k (& probably # 72 on the list too).

Also, Vertigo would have only missed out on the EOY top 200 because of this downloads rule : it was actually on the top 200 for 36 weeks in 2005 & was still # 1 / top 10 on the download chart throughout the beginning of 2005.

ABOY must have sold about 30,000 on the dot so would have just missed the top 200 (the qualification was 31,179).

12-30-2005, 03:16 PM	#5
mikeuk War Child Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Derbyshire, UK Posts: 875 Local Time: 12:25 AM	Germany Bomb - 36 Also vertigo DVD comes in at 419 on the same album chart Mike

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edge3 Refugee Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 1,385 Local Time: 11:25 PM	UK best selling singles EOY chart : # 81 - SYCMIOYO with 66,170 (57th on EOY physical sales only chart) # 115 - COBL with 51,076 this total is virtually 100% for physical sales only as downloads only became eligible for inclusion 10 weeks after 'Sometimes' first entered - if downloads were included then i believe it's overall total is about 72k (& probably # 72 on the list too). Also, Vertigo would have only missed out on the EOY top 200 because of this downloads rule : it was actually on the top 200 for 36 weeks in 2005 & was still # 1 / top 10 on the download chart throughout the beginning of 2005. ABOY must have sold about 30,000 on the dot so would have just missed the top 200 (the qualification was 31,179). __________________

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12-28-2005, 11:52 PM	#1
beLIEve Refugee Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Earth Posts: 1,081 Local Time: 06:25 PM	2005 Year End Charts Some of the radio-play only charts have started to compile their year-end "top played song charts" for 2005, including mediabase, Radio and Records, and Net Music Countown. These charts, with the exception of the NMC, are based only on total number of "spins" or plays for a song on each radio format. What it shows, IMO, is that while U2 did not have any smash hits of HTDAAB, they did get a fair amount of radio play in the U.S. over time. Here are the results for Radio and Records for calendar year...Christmas to Christmas...2005: Hot AC Top 100 Vertigo = 30 Sometimes = 48 Mainstream Rock Top 100 Vertigo = 16 ABOY = 36 COBL = 69 Sometimes = 99 Active Rock Top 100 Vertigo = 66 ABOY = 98 Alternative Top 100 Vertigo = 55 ABOY = 69 Triple A Rock Top 100 Sometimes = 5 COBL = 17 Vertigo = 20 ABOY = 25 Here are the 2005 total results from Net Music Countdown, which tracks the most played songs on the Web, including audio streams, video streams, and downloads: Mainstream Top 40 Vertigo = 33 Alternative Top 40 ABOY = 13 Hot AC Top 40 Vertigo = 5 Album Streams & Downloads: Top 40 HTDAAB = 9 And here are the 2005 year-end charts from mediabase.com, which like R&R, ranks songs by format based on the total number of spins or plays tallied on the radio stations monitored by them, which is meant to be a statistical representation of how a song has done (or is doing) nationwide. R&R does the same thing, but each service has their own unique set of stations that are tracked for each format. Mediabase only tracks the Top 50 for each format for the year-end chart, while R&R showed the Top 100: Mainstream Rock Top 50 Vertigo = 26 ABOY = 44 Triple A Rock Top 50 Sometimes = 4 COBL = 14 Vertigo = 36 ABOY = 39 The year-end charts for mediabase only show the Top 30-50, and with the exception of the Hot AC format, they are generally in line with Radio and Records for U2's singles in 2005...especially for Triple A Rock. R&R's sample size (i.e., total # of stations monitored) is much larger than mediabase, and the chart positions on Radio and Records were very similar to the Billboard charts when there was an "apple-to-apples" comparison. For example, the "Alternative" radio format from R&R is very close to BB's "Modern Rock" chart. Hot AC tracks very close to BB's Adult Top 40. Triple A Rock does not yet fit into a BB format, and BB combines Mainstream & Active Rock into one format, calling it Mainstream Rock. The end results do show that U2 songs did get more airplay in 2005 than you would think if you only looked at Billboard charts each week. The formats are fragmented, especially the ones that tend to play U2 songs. Also, U2 never did get enough plays for a given song, simultaneously across multiple formats, to make it onto the BB Hot 100. Sometimes made it briefly when it was charting in the Top 30 on Modern Rock, Top 20 on Hot AC, and #1 on Triple A Rock. As soon as the song faded from Modern Rock, though, it disappeared from the Hot 100. Sometimes and COBL did well on Triple A Rock and then Adult Top 40. Neither of these songs made much noise on Mainstream, Modern, or Active Rock Formats, which are large enough to get a song onto the radar screens of mainstream radio. Me thinks that Love and Peace would have cracked these three rock formats, and it might just have been the biggest hit for U2 in '05 had it been properly released and promoted. OOTS is a great song, but it appears to be following the same pattern as the last two singles in the U.S., leaving it destined to play out on Adult Rock Radio. All in all, though, I think U2 had a decent year on U.S. radio, and a great year on the Net. It almost seems as if U2 themselves were content to just slowly leak out the singles in the U.S. after the Vertigo marketing blitz, possibly on purpose. They pushed themselves and this album to the limit last fall with all the shows, commercials, awards, etc., and just when a backlash seemed to be rising, they sort of disappeared into the tour and their fans, where they belong anyway. I'll post the OOTS update from mediabase and mediaguide weekly charts in that thread later. __________________

12-29-2005, 07:13 AM	#2
bsp77 Refugee Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,956 Local Time: 05:25 PM	You da man, beLIEve. Great summary. __________________

12-29-2005, 07:01 PM	#3
ChargedVT Refugee Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South Australia Posts: 1,798 Local Time: 08:55 AM	End of year results for Austria... HTDAAB #15 album (wild estimate 30k) Live in Chicago #4 DVD

12-30-2005, 10:51 AM	#4
edge3 Refugee Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 1,385 Local Time: 11:25 PM	Peru : Bomb was 20th best seller of 2005 - not sure how many though (30k also ?) UK : Bomb is now 53rd best selling artist album of 2005 with, most probably, 347K (was 48th with 344K last week).... still 1 more week to go though. Mediatraffic world chart : Bomb 16th best seller of 2005 with 2.899M (last year 8th with 5.289M)

12-30-2005, 07:12 PM	#6
ChargedVT Refugee Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South Australia Posts: 1,798 Local Time: 08:55 AM	I saw an end of year chart for Belgium, but I reckon it said "Wallonie" at the top so it would only be one half. Either way, HTDAAB was at #25 for the year.... As for Peru the sales there would be VERY low... I was reading on the UKmix forums that apparently most weeks the #1 album only sells 100-150 copies!!!!

01-01-2006, 09:01 PM	#7
ChargedVT Refugee Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South Australia Posts: 1,798 Local Time: 08:55 AM	In Netherlands, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was #11 for the year 2005. Here is the link... http://www.planet.nl/planet/show/id=...8416/sc=6e9b60

01-02-2006, 02:54 AM	#8
patske Refugee Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Belgium, Leuven Posts: 1,311 Local Time: 12:25 AM	Here's the official end of the year charts for Belgium.. Flanders: Position, Artist, Label, Titel, Highest position,N° of weeks, weeks at N° 1 1 COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE / EMI X&Y 1 29 4 2 LAURA LYNN ARS / UNIVERSAL DROMEN 1 24 9 3 ANOUK DINO / EMI HOTEL NEW YORK 1 51 1 4 MOBY MUTE / EMI HOTEL 1 26 3 5 FAITHLESS CHEEKY / SONY BMG FOREVER FAITHLESS - THE GREATEST HITS 1 27 2 6 DEUS ISLAND / UNIVERSAL POCKET REVOLUTION 1 15 4 7 FRANS BAUER SONY BMG / SONY BMG 10 JAAR HITS 1 10 2 8 U2 ISLAND / UNIVERSAL HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 1 38 3 9 ADMIRAL FREEBEE UNIVERSAL / UNIVERSAL SONGS 1 28 3 10 50 CENT INTERSCOPE / UNIVERSAL THE MASSACRE 3 36 - Last year u2 were also N° 8 in the end of year list with only 5 weeks in the album chart). (3 weeks at N°1) 8 U2 island / universal HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 1 5 3 In Walloon: They are 25th in year end chart of Walloon 25 U2 ISLAND / UNIVERSAL HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 4 36 - In 2004: 20 U2 island / universal HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB 2 4 0 Cheers and best wishes for 2006... Hopefully a new album..

01-02-2006, 05:25 AM	#9
edge3 Refugee Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 1,385 Local Time: 11:25 PM	Belgium & Holland rock Should be in top 20 on Italian EOY chart too (i think it was 8th last year with 350k)...

01-02-2006, 06:02 AM	#10
Zoovation War Child Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 943 Local Time: 12:25 AM	Year End Charts Austria: HTDAAB #36

01-02-2006, 02:33 PM	#11
fitz Acrobat Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Munich / Germany Posts: 402 Local Time: 01:25 AM	Year End Charts Switzerland: HTDAAB #12

01-04-2006, 09:22 PM	#13
ChargedVT Refugee Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: South Australia Posts: 1,798 Local Time: 08:55 AM	Soundscan top 200 albums for the calendar year in US... #73 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb - 828,722

01-06-2006, 04:15 AM	#14
Zoovation War Child Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 943 Local Time: 12:25 AM	Mediatraffic.de Year End Charts Bomb #16 with 2.899.000 copies Last year, the bomb sold 5.810.000 copies according to mediatraffic. That would be 8.709.000 in total. I'm not sure if the sales of this year are only based on the time the album was in the Top 40.

01-06-2006, 05:10 AM	#15
ybird3k War Child Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Wales - UK Posts: 705 Local Time: 11:25 PM	on the all time chart it is still 13th with - 8.188.000 copies. 8.7M would move it to #10

01-06-2006, 11:31 AM	#18
Zoovation War Child Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 943 Local Time: 12:25 AM	Yes, I think you are right. I checked it again and 5.810.000 was only an estimation by mediatraffic.

01-06-2006, 02:09 PM	#19
edge3 Refugee Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hampshire, UK Posts: 1,385 Local Time: 11:25 PM	I've long assumed that 5.810.000 figure to be a mistake. The 2004 EOY figure should have included the 1st 6 weeks of Bombs run on their chart. So : week 1 : 84k (Japan only) week 2 : 1.854M week 3 : 862k week 4 : 840k week 5 : 820k week 6 : 827k Total = 5.289.000 (8th best selling album) So 5.289M + 2.899M (2005 figure) = 8.188.000 (correct overall total)