Louisa Johnson's X Factor winner's single Forever Young enters the Top 10 after 24 hours on sale
X Factor winner Louisa Johnson is on course to enter the Official Singles Chart Top 10 with her winner’s single Forever Young after just 24 hours on sale, Official Charts can confirm.
Released too late on Sunday evening (December 13) to make an appearance on yesterday’s Official Chart Update, Louisa’s Bob Dylan cover debuts at Number 9 on today’s Sales Flash (December 15).
Currently ahead of her are the likes of Adele, Coldplay, Fleur East and three Justin Bieber songs, including current Number 1 Love Yourself. Will she be able to muscle out the competition by this Friday’s Official Chart?
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While Forever Young has been up for download and streaming since late Sunday evening, a physical CD single will also be available to buy from tomorrow (Wednesday, December 16), featuring two additional live recordings of her X Factor performances of God On ly Knows and Let It Go.
Proceeds from downloads, CDs and streams of Forever Young will go to children’s charities Together for Short Lives and Shooting Star Chase.
Louisa triumphed over fellow finalists Reggie ‘N’ Bollie and Che Chesterman on this year’s X Factor final, claiming 53.9% of the vote compared to Reggie ‘N’ Bollie’s 38.9% and Che’s 7.2%. The voting stats revealed by ITV showed that Louisa finished in first place in all but two of the this year’s live shows.
Her final result on this week’s Official Singles Chart will be announced this Friday (December 18) at 5.45pm by Dev on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show and here on OfficialCharts.com. See the latest Top 100 singles chart here.
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Darren Crabby Biggs
There has been another winner who only made number 2 at Christmas!
Bebbit Faux
She wont even make the top five tomorrow - mark my words
Gameplaya
Fan of the show from South Africa.Louisa is amazing.Forever Young is at number 22 on our Itunes ZA chart.
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David Martin
Hope "Forever Young" reaches number 1, it'll be disappointing If Louisa's the only X Factor winner that doesn't get the number 1 spot.
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Matt
Where can i find the the information that Anna has regarding the actual amount of downloads?
I Am A Stegosaurus
Is this just another contestant who complains about her granddad dying 20 years ago?
RStaple-Hurst
I love the passion music brings out in people. have you bought the single yet Anna? I thought she was pretty much the front runner for a few weeks. Great voice. Bit of a nod to Leona?
Anna, there was a position here at official charts to help on the editorial team. I believe it is filled now but you certainly bring something to the table with your comments and research.
Do you use our Artist hub a lot as this is all based on official data! will help you out should you need it!
We have all the data supplied to us by over 6500 retailer including Spotify and i-tunes. So although Official Charts gives as up to date information there are lots of factors which make up a full and true story. You should definably subscribe to Spotify Premium/Apple music even Tidal* if you are a fan of music, this way at least you are giving back to the artists whilst you stream. Of course buy the CD/ EP/Vinyl too. I'm a sucker for Vinyl
*can of worms open!
Brett
Hopefully it won't be announced at 5:45, I'm hoping the announcement is much earlier than that and this isn't Number 1!
RStaple-Hurst
Was so excited to present P. Presley with her Number 1 Album. Elvis at the top spot. #oldschool
Anna Jaudas
she enters at No 9? The article is somewhat unclear what that means and what timeframe the No 9 entry is including. Why do you call it a strong start when in fact it is the worst start of a X Factor winner song in history? Havent X Fctor Winner Songs usually entered the chart at No 1 in a comparable timeframe? Why are u giving misleading information? As I write Louisas song has lost 12% of market share on iTunes UK today compared to yesterdays peak. Rob, you write she has a good start but in fact she is plummeting on iTunes (and of course her song is not available on spotify). I expect Louisa has sold just about 20k on iTunes till monday evening. My prediciton is that 'Forever Young' may loose the iTunes No 1 spot tomorrowin the late afternoon or early evening.Will the release of a physical CD save her from not reaching the No 1 spot? You tell us, Rob :-)
Official Charts
Hi Anna, sorry if we're not being clear. Given she has three days less sales and streams than everyone else on the chart (it is also available on Spotify), we'd consider a Top 10 entry after just 1 day of sales a pretty strong start!
Anna Jaudas
Thank you so much for the info. I have checked the official spotify charts on spotifycharts.com. Her song surprisingly is not listed among yesterdays Top 200 (12/14/2015). As I can see her song is available since today. Yesterday it wasn't available (maybe only for premium users which I am not). Anyway...ok No 9 in one day. So my guess of about 20k is somewhat correct. Last weeks No 9 was at about 17k at the same time monday evening. So sales and a bit of streaming may bring her song to 60K maybe 70K for the week + an unkown number of physical sales. 60K would mean No 5 (if compared to last weeks chart). Compared with 'usual' entries it might be a pretty strong start but for a X Factor winner? Joe McElderry in 2009 made it to more than 100K on his first day. Last years winner i guess had about 40K to 50K.
Brett
Yep, looks like it's going to fail, yaye!
Zoltán Oskovits
I love your analysis and predictions, Anna! Great thinking!
Howie Roscoe
Spot on Anna on the latest itunes updates (11am) Louisa has dropped to No 2, she was no 105 in yesterday's streaming chart (45,000 odd streams = 450 sales) . This will not make No 1, unless C*well employs a buying in team (like he did last year) !!!!