Best One-Week Sales for Digital & Retail Singles

[bubblepop15]

Did Soundscan usually always release sales numbers for the best-selling singles to the public? For some reason, I find it interesting to see how much the #1 commercial single has sold throughout the weeks of the different years.

Here are some I know:
3,440,000 Candle In the Wind, Elton John
632,000 I Will Always Love You, Whitney Houston
393,000 This Is The Night, Clay Aiken
360,000 My Heart Will Go On,, Celine Dion
307,000 The Boy Is Mine, Brandy & Monica
286,000 Flying Without Wings, Ruben Studdard
280,000 Livin' La Vida Loca, Ricky Martin
271,000 Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey
236,000 A Moment Like This, Kelly Clarkson
156,000 Music, Madonna
154,000 My All, Mariah Carey
145,000 I Get Lonely, Janet Jackson
142,000 I Believe, Fantasia
129,610 Inside Your Heaven, Carrie Underwood

Digital sales:
267,000 Hips Don't Lie, Shakira
175,000 Laffy Taffy, D4L (*)
170,000 SOS, Rihanna
149,000 Photograph, Nickelback (*)
147,000 Gold Digger, Kanye West (*)
140,000 My Humps, BEP (*)

[bubblepop15]

Anyone know any other big 1 week sellers?

[Pink Champagne Ricochet]

393,000 - This Is The Night, Clay Aiken

[bubblepop15]

splitchick59 said:

393,000 - This Is The Night, Clay Aiken

Thank you!! That is not too shabby! I'll add it to the list.

[Adonis the DemiGod!]

Janet's I Get Lonely sold 145k the first week of release. Mariah's My All sold 154k during that same week.

[bubblepop15]

adonis said:

Janet's I Get Lonely sold 145k the first week of release. Mariah's My All sold 154k during that same week.

Thank you! Does anyone know about Elton's "Candle In the Wind"?

I have seen numerous reports saying it sold an astonishing 3 million in its first week, and some say under a million.

I kind of assumed the average single sold about 100-150k throughout the late nineties... Does that seem right?

[shai]

Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This / Before Your Love - 236,000
Ruben Studdard - Flying Without Wings / Superstar - 286,000
Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven / Independece Day - 129,610

[bubblepop15]

shai said:

Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This / Before Your Love - 236,000
Ruben Studdard - Flying Without Wings / Superstar - 286,000
Carrie Underwood - Inside Your Heaven / Independece Day - 129,610

Thank you!

I just noticed that it would be a better comparison to put the songs in chronological order...

[EmersonDrive13Rocks]

bubblepop15 said:

adonis said:

Janet's I Get Lonely sold 145k the first week of release. Mariah's My All sold 154k during that same week.

Thank you! Does anyone know about Elton's "Candle In the Wind"?

I have seen numerous reports saying it sold an astonishing 3 million in its first week, and some say under a million.

I kind of assumed the average single sold about 100-150k throughout the late nineties... Does that seem right?

I think 3 million is the official number. I know I saw it posted in another thread on this board recently but I can't remember which one.

[bubblepop15]

I added digital stats following the crazy amount of downloads "HDL" sold this past week.

[derek]

If 50,000=Platinum, Shakira went 5 times the first week of her single release!!!

[EmersonDrive13Rocks]

200,000 is platinum.

[Longshot]

Look for Usher to smash the digital sales record with his next release.