Elton John :: Charts & Sales History

[RyanS]

I made a thread for the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour since there wasn't one:

https://www.ukmix.org/forum/music/to...rick-road-tour

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RIAA-The Lion KING songs certification in US (updated 24/08/22)

Elton John - Can you feel the love tonight (oscar winning song)
GOLD physical (> 500.000)
PLATINUM digital (> 1.000.000 sps)

Lion King Cast / Joseph Williams - Can You feel the love tonigt
PLATINUM (> 1.000.000 sps)

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Elton john - Circle of life
GOLD digital(> 500.000 sps)

Lion King Cast / Carmen Twillie - Circle of life
PLATINUM (> 1.000.000 sps)


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Lion King Cast / Jason Weaver - I just can't wait to be king
PLATINUM (> 1.000.000 sps)

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Lion King Cast / Various _ Hakuna Matata
PLATINUM (>1.000.000 sps)

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DIAMONDS
24 (lw:19 / approx 3.500 sps; total 999.000), 36 USA (total approx 314.000); 17Canada, 23 Australia x Irish

The Lockdown Sessions
82 Canada

COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
59 uk ( x sales); 36 Usa (47 sales, 1 Adult cont, 2 hotdance); 15 Canada (33 sales)
14 Australia, 13 New Zealand

22 billboard global chart ( lw: 19/ 54 wks)

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Mid-week sales in uk:

Source: Music Week
Missing Data:

Singles

1 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All) (25,676)
2 LF SYSTEM - Afraid to Feel (25,206)
3 Elton John & Britney Spears - Hold Me Closer (22,295) *

[Choley]

Elton's Australian chart history so far (only #1s)

1976 - Don't Go Brekaing My Heart - #1 (1 week)
1986 - That's What Friends Are For - #1 (1 week)
1997 - Candle In The Wind - #1 (6 weeks)
2021/22 - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) - #1 (10 weeks)
2022 - Hold Me Closer - #1 (1 week)

19 weeks at number one

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Hold me closer
1st week on the charts


# 1 - Australia
# 2 - Ireland
# 3 - UK
# 3 - Canada
# 4 - New Zealand
# 5 - Belgium FL
# 6 - USA
# 7 - Switzerland
# 21 - Sweden
# 23- Norway
# 23 - Austria
# 23 - Belgium WA
# 31 - Germany
# 36 - Denmark
# 41 - Portugal
# 45 - Netherlands
# 65 - France
# 83 - Italy

[RyanS]

GERMANY
31 (New) Hold Me Closer

IRELAND
2 (New) Hold Me Closer

NETHERLANDS
45 (New) Hold Me Closer

NORWAY
23 (New) Hold Me Closer

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UK
# 3 - Hold me closer (new entry)

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From Music Week Uk:

#3 / 32,188 Elton John & Britney Spears - Hold Me Closer [8,957 downloads]

Leading the way – and completing a top three unusually made-up entirely of duos - Hold Me Closer (No.3, 32,188 sales) pairs Elton John and Britney Spears, and is based on Tiny Dancer, once a virtually ignored track on John’s 1971 album Madman Across The Water but now one of the most-loved songs in his canon. Given a substantial makeover by US producer Andrew Watt and Canadian producer Cirkut (Henry Walter), the track supplies Britney Spears’ 34th hit in all – and first since 2016 – and John’s 93rd. It is Spears’ first Top 10 hit since Work Bitch! in 2013, and 24th in total, while it lifts Elton’s tally to 37. It is No.1 on the singles sales chart, with 8,957 digital downloads.

Elton’s last three hits – Dua Lipa collaboration Cold Heart, Ed Sheeran collaboration Merry Christmas and LadBaby & Ed Sheeran collaboration Sausage Rolls For Everyone – all reached No.1, and the success of Hold Me Closer means that he has had four straight top five hits for the first time in his career.

Tiny Dancer, incidentally, sees a 25.35% increase in consumption week-on-week to 5,573 units raising its consumption since its March 2007 digital release to 1,379,226 units. Not bad for a song which was never a single in the UK, and which peaked at No.70 in 2015.

Diamonds reaches 1.000.000 sps in Uk
#16 Elton John - Diamonds [total: 1,002,121]

The previous double GHIts were:
- Greatest Hits 70-2002 (2002 - total: 1.648.657)
- The Very Best of EJ (1990) - total: > 2.700.000

We can also estimate single GHIts compilation
Love Songs (1995) > 900.000
Rocket Man - definitive hits (2007) approx 500.000

Elton John is back in the singles top three just as his compilation album Diamonds becomes a million-seller. In the Top 75 for all but three of the 251 weeks that have elapsed since its release, Diamonds – which debuted and peaked at No.5 in 2017 – is Elton’s second million-selling compilation of the 21st century, joining 2002 release Greatest Hits 1970-2002, which has sold 1,648,657 copies. Moving 24-16 this week on consumption of 3,622 units, Diamonds has thus far sold 1,002,121 copies. John’s 1990 compilation, The Very Best Of, was certified nine times platinum as long ago as March 1995, which would indicate sales well in excess of 2.7m – but it was No.1 for just two weeks.

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DIAMONDS
16 (lw:19 / total: 1.002.121 sps), 38 USA (total approx 3.155.000); 16 Canada, 18 Australia x Irish

The Lockdown Sessions
77 Canada

HOLD ME CLOSER - duet with Britney Spears
3 uk (total: 32,188 sps) / ( 1 sales: 8,957 downloads); 6 Usa (1 sales, 13 adult cont, 1 hot dance), 3 Canada (1 sales)
1 Australia, 4 New Zealand
31 Germany, 45 Netherl, 5 Belgium FL, 7 Switzerland, 21 Sweden, 23 Norway, 23 austria
36 denmark, 65 France, 83 Italy, 2 irish, 34 denmark
6 global chart ( n.e)

COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
61 uk ( 27 sales); 41 Usa (25 sales, 4 Adult contemp; 3 hotdance); 14 Canada (x sales)
12 Australia, 9 New Zealand,
27 billboard global chart ( lw: 22 / 55 wks)

Tiny Dancer
100 (re) Uk sales


SPOTify WEEK WWIDE
Hold me closer 25 / 14,768,366 (new entry)
Cold Heart 27 / 14,445,455 (55 wks)
WWIDE TOP ARTISTS 49,9 (lw:47,1)
RANK: 23

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From BILLBOARD - Elton John & Britney Spears’ ‘Hold Me Closer’ Launches in Top 10

Elton John and Britney Spears’ “Hold Me Closer” roars in at No. 6 on the Hot 100.
The mash-up of three John hits, released Aug. 26, on Interscope, opens with 20.9 million in radio airplay audience, 11.1 million streams and 48,000 sold. It debuts at No. 1 on Digital Song Sales (marking Spears’ eighth leader and John’s second), No. 17 on Streaming Songs and No. 31 on Radio Songs.

John’s 29th Hot 100 top 10

John banks his 29th Hot 100 top 10, and his second this year. He notched his first top 10 since 1998 when his previous multi-song re-imagination of his own work, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” with Dua Lipa, reached No. 7 in January.

John has logged the seventh-most Hot 100 top 10s. Among solo males, he has earned the third-most, after Drake and Michael Jackson, as he breaks out of a tie with (his good friend) Stevie Wonder.

Most Billboard Hot 100 Top 10s:

• 59, Drake (digital*)
• 38, Madonna
• 34, The Beatles
• 31, Rihanna(digital*)
• 30, Michael Jackson
• 30, Taylor Swift (digital*)
• 29, Elton John (27 physical + 2 digital*)
• 28, Mariah Carey
• 28, Stevie Wonder
• 27, Janet Jackson

John sports his highest Hot 100 rank since the chart dated Jan. 24, 1998, when his “Candle in the Wind 1997″/”Something About the Way You Look Tonight” placed at No. 5 after 14 weeks at No. 1.

John also expands his span of Hot 100 top 10s to 51 years, seven months and three weeks, dating to his first frame in the top 10 with “Your Song” (Jan. 23, 1971) – the longest such span among all acts not involving holiday titles.
Spears’ 14th Hot 100 top 10


Spears achieves her 14th Hot 100 top 10 and her first since “Scream & Shout,” with will.i.am, hit No. 3 in 2013. She first appeared in the top 10 on the chart dated Dec. 12, 1998, when her debut smash “…Baby One More Time” surged 18-9 (before becoming her first of five No. 1s). Overall, Spears places on the Hot 100 for the first time since the chart dated Dec. 10, 2016.

Spears also joins John and 10 other stars with Hot 100 top 10s in at least four decades, padding her résumé to include top 10s in the 1990s, 2000s, ’10s and now ’20s. The other acts in the exclusive (and eclectic) club: Aerosmith, Mariah Carey, Cher, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Jay-Z, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, Barbra Streisand and Andy Williams.

‘Tiny Dancer’ & ‘The One’ hit new heights

Just as “Cold Heart” brought newfound chart success for four John classics, “Hold Me Closer” does the same for three more songs from his iconic catalog. The new mash-up blends the chorus of his 50-year-old “Tiny Dancer” and the verses of his 30-year-old “The One.” It also includes elements of “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart,” his four-week 1976 Hot 100 No. 1 with Kiki Dee. (Says Erik Bradley, assistant program director/music director at WBBM-FM Chicago, citing the latest among numerous current hit reboots, “Familiarity always is a bonus.”)

While not outranking “Breaking,” “Hold Me Closer,” upon its No. 6 start, marks new Hot 100 highs for the songs that make up the bulk of the mash-up: “Tiny Dancer” fell a spot shy of the top 40, reaching No. 41 in April 1972, and “The One” rose to No. 9 in September 1992. Despite its relatively modest Hot 100 history, “Tiny Dancer” previously received renewed attention thanks to the composition’s prominent sync in the acclaimed 2000 film Almost Famous. Plus, Tim McGraw’s cover spent 15 weeks on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2002-03 (with he and John having performed it on the 30th American Music Awards in 2003, and McGraw having served up an impromptu version this February on CBS’ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert).

“The One,” meanwhile, marks John’s impressive fifth song to have hit the Hot 100’s top 10 via two interpretations each.

(“Breaking” previously returned to the Hot 100 thanks to John and RuPaul’s update, which hit No. 92 in 1994, and the Glee Cast’s cover, which spent a week on the chart at No. 50 in 2010.)

Just duet

John charts his fourth top 10 duet, and his fifth top 10 collaboration, on the Hot 100, as “Hold Me Closer” follows “Cold Heart”; “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me,” with George Michael (No. 1 for one week, 1992); and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart.” He also led for four weeks in 1986 with “That’s What Friends Are For,” credited to Dionne & Friends, the foursome of Dionne Warwick, John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder.

Spears scores her fourth accompanied Hot 100 top 10, after “Scream & Shout”; “Till the World Ends,” featuring Nicki Minaj and Kesha (No. 3, 2011); and her featured turn on Rihanna’s “S&M” (No. 1, one week, 2011).

No. 1 Dance/Electronic

“Hold Me Closer” additionally arrives at No. 1 on the multi-metric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart. John and Spears each claim their second leader on the list, after “Cold Heart” and “Scream & Shout,” respectively.

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* i specify the digital ones

[BadMan125]

I'm just awaiting on his new remix with Lady Gaga so he can tie with MJ.

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Hold me closer (2nd week on charts)

Australia
# 5 (- 4)


Netherlands
# 45 (=)


Germany
# 39 (- 8)


UK
8 (- 5)


New Zealand
# 10 (- 6)


France
# 68 (- 3)


Norway
# 34 - (- 11)


Sweden
# 30 (- 9)


Switzerland
# 24 (- 17)


Canada
# 11 (- 8)


USA
# 23 (- 17)


Belgium FL
# 7 (- 2)


Ireland
# 8 ( - 6)

Belgium WA
# 12 (+ 11)


Austria
# 34 (- 11)


Netherlands
# 45 (=)


Portugal
# 63 (- 22)


Denmark
# 40 (- 4)

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DIAMONDS
21 (lw:16 / this weel: 3250 -total: 1.005.500 sps), 46 USA (total approx 3.168.000); 13 Canada, 26 Australia 17 Irish

The Lockdown Sessions
88 Canada

HOLD ME CLOSER - duet with Britney Spears
8 uk (total 56.509 sps - 3 sales); 23 Usa (1 sales, 12 adult cont, 2 hot dance), 11 Canada (2 sales)
5 Australia, 10 New Zealand
39 Germany, 45 Netherl, 8 irish, 68 france, 12 belgium, 7 belgium fl, 30 sweden, 34 norway, 24 switzerland, 40 Denmark, 34 austria
19 global chart ( lw: 6 , 2 wks))

COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
71 uk (40 sales); x Usa (32 sales, 4 Adult contemp; 4 hotdance); 17 Canada (25 sales)
15 Australia, 9 New Zealand, Irish 49, 43 austria
31 billboard global chart ( lw: 27 / 56 wks)




SPOTify WEEK WWIDE
Hold me closer 31 - 14,121,702 streams
Cold Heart 38 - 13,155,224 streams
WWIDE TOP ARTISTS 50,9 (lw 49,9)
RANK:19

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Hold me closer (3rd week on charts)


Australia
# 10 (- 5)


Germany
# 50 (- 12)


UK
# 10 (- 2)


Canada
# 12 (- 1)


Austria
# 39 (- 5)


Ireland
# 9 (- 1)


France
# 92 (- 24)


New Zealand
# 21 ( - 10)


Switzerland
# 35 (- 11)


Norway
# 38 (- 4)


Sweden
# 41 (- 11)


USA
# 26 (- 3)


Belgium FL
# 13 (- 6)


Belgium WA
# 12 (=


Netherlands
# 42 (+ 3)


Portugal
# 68 (- 5)

[BadMan125]

Hold me closer (3rd week on charts)


Australia
# 10 (- 5)


Germany
# 50 (- 12)


UK
# 10 (- 2)

I didn't ask this in the Britney thread but what happened in Germany???

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COLD HEART estimations are now > 10.000.000 sps sales WWide

DIAMONDS
18 (lw:21 / this week: 3250 -total: 1.008.750 sps), 48 USA (total approx 3.180.000); 12 Canada, 27 Australia 18 Irish

The Lockdown Sessions
100 Canada (47 wks), 80 italy (re)

HOLD ME CLOSER - duet with Britney Spears
10 uk (this week 21519., total 78028 sps - 4 sales); 26 Usa (6 sales, 12 adult cont, 2 hot dance), 12 Canada (2 sales)
10 Australia, 21 New Zealand, 50 germany, 92 france, 42 Netherland, 12 belgium Wl/ 6 fl; 24 Switzerland, 39 Austria, 9 Ireland

26 global chart ( lw: 19 , 3 wks))


COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
70 uk (48 sales); x Usa (41 sales, 3 Adult contemp; 4 hotdance); 19 Canada (25sales), 82 Sweden, 53 Nz, 82 Italy, 43 austria, 27 Switzerland.
14 Australia, 9 New Zealand
27 billboard global chart ( lw: 31 / 57 wks)




SPOTify WEEK WWIDE
Cold Heart 35 - 13,156,327
Hold me closer 40 - 12,465,935
WWIDE TOP ARTISTS 53,09 (lw 50,9)
Elton Rank: 15

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Www.bpi.co.uk certifications

I’M STILL STANDING- Elton John 2 x PLATINUM (>1.200.000 sps)

ROCKETMAN soundtrack - GOLD (> 100.000 sps)

Elton 6th multi-platinum digital single; I’m still standing was also certified SILVER in 1983 as a physical release, and also Taron Egerton’s version from the movie is SILVER.
The song is now > 1.500.000 sales in Uk, fighting with Don’t go Breaking my heart and Cold Heart as Elton’s best-selling uptempo track
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Australia

Cold Heart is 7 x platinum
(> 490.000 sps)

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This week chart 38


DIAMONDS
20 (lw:18 / this week: 3250 -total: 1.012.000 sps), 45 USA (total approx 3.195.000); 19 Canada, 31 Australia 19 Irish

Lockdown Sessions
76 italy

HOLD ME CLOSER - duet with Britney Spears
12 uk(this week 20534., total 98562 sps - 4 sales); 28 Usa (7 sales, 12 adult cont, 3 hot dance), 14 Canada (2 sales)
11 Australia, 25 New Zealand, 48 germany, 91 france, 38 Netherland, 11 belgium Wl/ 13fl; 42 Sweden, 38 Switzerland, 32 Austria, 10 Ireland

30 global chart ( lw: 26 , 4 wks))


COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
80 uk (43 sales); x Usa (39 sales, 2 Adult contemp; 5 hotdance); 23 Canada (38 sales), 81 Sweden, 56 Netherland, 50 Austria , 31 Switzerland.
14 Australia, 12 New Zealand

28 billboard global chart ( lw: 27 / 58 wks)




SPOTify WEEK WWIDE
Cold Heart 39 - 12,960,216
Hold me closer 50 - 11,124,819
WWIDE TOP ARTISTS 54,05 (lw 53,09)
Elton Rank: 14

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Hold me closer (4th week on charts)

UK
# 12 (- 2)


France
# 91 (+ 1)


New Zealand
# 25 (- 4)


Australia
# 11 (- 1)


Sweden
# 42 (- 1)


Canada
# 14 (- 2)


Germany
# 48 (+ 2)


Austria
# 32 (+ 7)


USA
# 28 (- 2)


Switzerland
# 38 (- 3)


Belgium FL
# 7 (+ 6)


Belgium WA
# 11 (+ 1)


Netherlands
# 38 (- 4)


Portugal
# 78 (- 10)

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Hold me closer (5th week)

Italy
# 97 (re-entry)


UK
# 15 (- 3)


Germany
# 43 (+ 5


Netherlands
# 39 (- 1)


Belgium FL
# 5 (+ 2)


Belgium WA
# 7 (+ 4) new peak


Australia
# 12 (- 1)


New Zealand
# 25 (=)


Canada
# 12 (+ 2)


USA
# 27 (+ 1)


Austria
36 (- 4)


Switzerland
# 36 (+ 2)


Sweden
# 45 (- 3)


France
# 93 (- 2)


Netherlands
# 39 (-1)


Portugal
# 99 (- 21)

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This week chart 39


DIAMONDS
18 (lw:20 / this week: 3250 -total: 1.015.250 sps), 49 USA (total approx 3.208.000); 17 canada , 28 Australia, 18 Irish

Lockdown sessions
79 italy

HOLD ME CLOSER - duet with Britney Spears
15 Uk ( this week approx 20.500; total 118.928 sps - 8 sales); 27 Usa (11 sales, 9 adult cont, 2hot dance), 12 Canada (5 sales)
12 Australia, 25 New Zealand, 43 germany, x france, 39 Netherland, belgium 5 Wl / 7 Fl; 45 sweden, 93 italy; 36 Switzerland, 36 Austria, 11 Ireland

32 global chart ( lw: 30 / 5 wks)


COLD HEART - duet with Dua Lipa ( pnau remix)
93 uk (53 sales); x Usa (43 sales, 2 adult contemp; 4hotdance); 24 Canada (39 sales), 93 Sweden, 62 Netherland, 52 Austria, 31 Switzerland.
17 Australia, 12 New Zealand

29 billboard global chart ( lw: 28 / 59 wks)




SPOTify WEEK WWIDE
Cold Heart 39 - 12,603,906
Hold me closer 45 - 11,510,574
WWIDE TOP ARTISTS 53,07 (lw54,05)
Elton Rank: 13

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bpi.co.uk certs

Dionne Warwick*

That's What Friends Are For

Rca

Silver

Single

30.09.2022

(> 200.000 sps)

*not credited to Elton, but is "Dionne Warwich & Friends" (Elton John, Stevie Wonder, G.Knight), so it's another for elton (as a featured artist)

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Hold me closer (6th week on chart)


UK
# 17 (- 2)

Canada
# 11 (+ 1)

USA
# 26 (+ 1)

Sweden
# 45 (=)


Australia
# 15 (- 3)


Austria
# 52 (- 16)


New Zealand
# 29 (- 4)


Switzerland
# 36 (=)


Italy
# 96 (+ 1)


Germany
# 56 (- 13)


Netherlands
# 39 (=)


France
# 103 (- 10)


Portugal
# 114 (- 15)


Belgium FL
# 6 (- 1)


Belgium WA
# 8 (- 1)