Looks like RATM will drop out of the top 40 from No.2 this week . Today's mids show them almost out. Previous drops were from 5 - out by Gnarls Barkley and 9 - out by Pogues & Kirsty McColl. Mids show Lady Ga Ga at No.1 in both singles and albums.


I looked up the record drop from No.2 - it is currently held by Elvis - Crying In the Chapel, which dropped 2-33 on 22/4/05. It was a limited edition re-release though!

A lil O/T but regarding albums, it's got to be The Saturdays- Wordshaker.

I was trying to buy that for my son for Christmas and couldn't find it anywhere.

Didn't Wet Wet Wet's 'Love is all around' dive out of the charts as the record company pulled the record out.

I think this will be the record.

Wasn't Gnarls Barkley pulled by the record company?

Lets be fair here, the majority of people who bought RATM bought it for the campaign only. Then a few stragglers the week later.

Now it's over no one is buying it. Fans of the song have had 17 years to get their hands on it.

The first 'proper' (ie pre-download obfuscation/not limited release or pulled from sale) WTF tumble out of the top 40 I became aware of was Pet Shop Boys' in at number 9, gone the following week 'Red Letter Day' in 1997. It seems to be a very rare phenomenon outside of those two excepted circumstances.

Didn't McFly once drop from No. 1 to about 25 in one week? Surely the biggest 'natural' drop from number 1?

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley spent about 7 weeks at #1, fell to #5 and then went out of the charts altogether but only because they stopped selling the song as GB wanted to focus on their next single.

McFly dropped from #1 to #20 in 2007 with Baby's Coming Back/Translvania (when Umberella arrived on the scene and knocked them off the top)

I thought Gnarls Barkley were just pulled straight from Number 1? I know it was 9 weeks at the top, but I dont remember them dropping to 5.

Im sure thats the case, because I remember feeling bad for Sandi Thom, because her number 1 seemed a lot more "by default" than it should have done

http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=1243

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley chart run. ^

wet wet wet's weightless fell from 10-96, that must be one of the biggest ever falls

LOL at the irony considering the title


It was pulled while still at #1, the same went for Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around, but there were still a few physical copies left in the shops so those kept the songs in the top 40 for another week or two.

Saturday Night by Whigfield could similarly be seen as a No1 by default.

Aside from Gnarls Barkley which was an artificial drop, the highest charted record to drop out the top 40 is Cliff Richards "21st Century Christmas" which fell out the top 40 from number 7. Particularly impressive as it had entered straight in at number 2.

There was previous artificial drop in 1969 when Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson EP fell out of the chart completely from no 9, but in this case it was because EP's were excluded from the charts after a rule change.

Another four records have dropped out of the top 40 from number 9 (including the David Bowie/Bing Crosby duet "Little Drummer Boy/Peace On Earth" and the Pet Shop Boys mentioned previously)

The biggest fall inside the top 40 was Elvis Presley's "She Not You" which fell 33 places from no 3 to no 36 in March 2005 and the re-release of Elvis's "A Little Less Coversation" in May 2005.

The Doves entered the charts in 2002 with "There Goes The Fear" at number 3 but was pulled by the record company the following day so with only residue sales available fell 31 places the following week.

However the biggest natural fall inside the top 40 (i.e. not a anniversary re-release, rule change or record company interference) is Eddie Holman's "(Hey There) Lonely Girl" which fell 21 places from number 7 to 38 in 1974. (Even this is technically a re-issue of a 1970 track but it is it's only appearance on the chart).

All this courtesy of Every Hit

Garbage spent one week at #20 with Shut Your Mouth before dropping out of the top 100 the following week.

It was limited and deleted on the day of release though.

So RATM didn't actually fall outside of the top 40 but landed at 40.

That's 38 places and takes Eddie Holmans record which, has stood for over 35 years, for biggest fall within the top 40.

In the old physical sales days when a record company "deleted" a single they would stop selling it to shops, but shops could still sell their existing stock to customers and those sales still be eligible for the chart (as with Love Is All Around)

In the early days of downloads on the chart when a record company "deleted" a single they were in effect giving three weeks notice for the single to be totally removed from the chart- with Crazy it was deleted whilst still at number 1, as remembered by kyle123, but after that three week notice period it had dropped naturally to number 5, and then after that was "removed" from the chart.

Thankfully these rules are no longer valid.

I would say the saturdays second album (wordshaker). that dropped very quickly! It's out of the top 100 now!!