Cheryl - "I Don't Care"

[Hefty Hanna]

Queen of England. :'(

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Buzzjack has an update:
1 Cheryl
I Don't Care

2 Ed Sheeran
Thinking Out Loud

3 Meghan Trainor
All About That Bass

4 Cheryl
I Don't Care

Only Queen Cheryl can have not one, but two versions of the same song in the top 5.

[Glove Slap]

Incredible. This is my favorite single from her since Parachute now (still mad they didn't push Screw You).

[Spidey]

1 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud 1.0000
2 Cheryl - I Don't Care 0.7573
3 Cheryl - I Don't Care 0.6818

Both versions are in the Top 3 now.

[Juan Carlos]

From BuzzJack Music Forum:

1 Cheryl - I Don't Care (24.6k) *
2 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (19.8k)
3 Megan Trainor - All About That Bass (13.4k)
4 John Legend - All of Me (10.5k)
5 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (8.6k)

This is the Tuesday update in the UK and "I Don't Care" is currently atop with 24.6k copies sold so far. Anyway, as a side note, "All of Me" is high because of John Legend's performance at X Factor UK.

[Glove Slap]

That's honestly a much smaller gap than I expected between her and Ed.

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Nov 4, 2014 16:59:10 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

That's honestly a much smaller gap than I expected between her and Ed.

Yeah. Even "Rude" took a longer time to overtake "Crazy Stupid Love".

[Juan Carlos]

Nov 4, 2014 18:19:12 GMT -5 Lahey's Lucky Star said:

Nov 4, 2014 16:59:10 GMT -5 Glove Slap said:

That's honestly a much smaller gap than I expected between her and Ed.

Yeah. Even "Rude" took a longer time to overtake "Crazy Stupid Love".

That's true, but there weren't two versions of "Crazy Stupid Love" when it came out.

Anyway, it's being said that some sales for the explicit one wasn't count in the first update, so I guess we have to wait and see how much is the gap in the midweek update, which is out in some hours.

[Glove Slap]

From UKMix

1 Cheryl - I Don't Care (49.2k) *
2 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (31.6k)
3 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass (20.9k)
4 John Legend - All Of Me (14.7k)
5 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (14k)

I guess there were a good amount of sales that weren't counted initially.

[Juan Carlos]

From BuzzJack Music Forum:

1 Cheryl - I Don't Care (57.4k) *
2 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud (41k)
3 Megan Trainor - All About That Bass (26.8k)
4 John Legend - All Of Me (17.7k)
5 Taylor Swift - Shake It Off (16.9k)

This is the Thursday update in the UK and the gap is 16.4k now. Also, I wasn't expecting to see the clean version to fall like a rock honestly.

[Juan Carlos]

She did it! "I Don't Care" debuts atop in the UK, becoming her fifth #1 debut there. As a consequence, she became the first British female artist with the most Number 1 singles there, overtaking Rita Ora and Geri Halliwell

#1: "Fight for This Love"
#1: "Promise This"
#1: "Call My Name"
#1: "Crazy Stupid Love" (featuring Tinie Tempah)
#1: "I Don't Care"

From the Official Charts:

The singer now claims the most UK Number 1s by a British female artist.

Congratulations to Cheryl, who has scored her fifth UK Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with "I Don't Care".

In doing so, the singer now holds the record for the most UK Number 1s for a British female artist. In addition to "I Don't Care", Cheryl has topped the chart with "Fight For This Love" (2009), "Promise This" (2010), "Call My Name" (2012) and "Crazy Stupid Love" (2014).

The star overtakes previous record sharers Geri Halliwell and Rita Ora, who each lay claim to four Number 1 singles.

[Hefty Hanna]

AMAZING.

[Glove Slap]

It was close too since Ed's streaming was massive. There was only about 4k between them in the end.

[Deleted]

Well deserved! I hope she follows up with either It's About Time or Waiting For Lightning.

[think pink.]

YAS CHEZZA!

How much did it sell?

[H.]

This grew on me a lot. I love the beat.

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Nov 9, 2014 16:39:23 GMT -5 @drag27 said:

Well deserved! I hope she follows up with either It's About Time or Waiting For Lightning.

YES THAT NEEDS TO BE A SINGLE

Go Cheryl! Looks like Rita and Geri are irrelevant now...

[Juan Carlos]

Nov 9, 2014 17:28:14 GMT -5 think pink. said:

How much did it sell?

No official info until tomorrow morning, but the 4k difference posted by Glove Slap earlier is also mentioned on BuzzJack.

From the Official Charts:

Despite slipping a place to Number 2 on this week's tally, the acoustic ballad ("Thinking Out Loud") was streamed 1,638,000 times in the last seven days, beating the record previously held by Mr Probz's "Waves" at 1,632,000 streams.

21% of "Thinking Out Loud"'s chart sales this week were attributed to streams. By comparison, streams of Cheryl's "I Don't Care" – which entered at Number 1 – accounted for 5% of its chart sales. This falls in line with the current trend of brand new tracks being boosted initially by downloads, while older songs tend to mature over a few weeks on streaming services as awareness of the song grows.

If it's taking into consideration this, we have that the Ed Sheeran track was streamed 1,638,000 times in its first week, which gives 16,380 additional chart sales to its total. Also, it's been said that it has contributed to 21% on the song chart sales, so the 100% of this is 78k. As a consequence, "I Don't Care" may have made 82k chart sales (combining streaming and sales).

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Congrats to her!

[Spidey]

Nov 9, 2014 18:48:46 GMT -5 Lahey's Lucky Star said:

Nov 9, 2014 16:39:23 GMT -5 @drag27 said:

Well deserved! I hope she follows up with either It's About Time or Waiting For Lightning.

YES THAT NEEDS TO BE A SINGLE

Go Cheryl! Looks like Rita and Geri are irrelevant now...

Rita is too busy getting facials to release a new single from her second album.

[Juan Carlos]

Nov 10, 2014 11:20:05 GMT -5 Spidey said:

Nov 9, 2014 18:48:46 GMT -5 Lahey's Lucky Star said:

Go Cheryl! Looks like Rita and Geri are irrelevant now...

Rita is too busy getting facials to release a new single from her second album.

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Anyway, sales are up and the margin was ~6k. "I Don't Care" made 82.3k chart sales (sales and streaming), while "Thinking Out Loud", 76.4k chart sales.

From Music Week/BuzzJack Music Forum:

It is a tradition for the first single from Cheryl albums to reach number one, with new album Only Human - which drops today (10th) - becoming the fourth in a row so to do when Tinie Tempah collaboration "Crazy Stupid Love" topped the list 15 weeks ago.

But Only Human breaks new ground this week by becoming the first album by Ms. Fernandez-Versini to spawn two number one hits. That is because second single "I Don't Care" makes its debut atop the list after selling 82,346 copies (4,500 of them streaming sales) last week.

Cheryl has thus had more number ones in her solo career (five, including collaborations) than any other British female, beating the tally of four posted by Geri Halliwell and latterly equalled by Rita Ora.

Cheryl also had four number ones as a member of Girls Aloud bringing her tally of number ones to nine - ten if you count her very minor role in Helping Haiti's cover of REM's "Everybody Hurts".

[Lahey's Lucky Star]

Geri's also irrelevant now why aren't we shading her