Talk:Cliff Richard singles discography

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AngusW🐶🐶F (bark • sniff) 19:09, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

The Next Time/Bachelor Boy was Gold

[1]. Scroll down to "Supplement". Under King of the Silver Discs. 197.87.135.139 (talk) 13:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Good spot! DPUH (talk) 16:33, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

[2] Page 6, under "Disc News In Brief". 197.87.135.139 (talk) 16:46, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Interesting. EMI internally awarded Gold for the same four singles (Living Doll, The Young Ones, The Next Time, Congratulations) as per Peter Lewry/Nigel Goodall's "The Ultimate Cliff (updated edition)" book, but the Official Charts have only recognised The Young Ones as selling over a million solely in the UK. Dave MacAleer also only had a record of the The Young Ones as awarded Gold by Disc. I contacted him about Living Doll a long time ago, as there are mentions about it attaining Gold, and he had a recollection about it attaining Gold, like a TV presentation of it I think. However, what is not clear, is if such Gold awards included international sales rather than solely UK sales. AusChartMan (talk) 17:23, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Lucky Lips?

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Read in bottom-right corner. It says that "Lucky Lips" got a Gold Record.

And it's listed also here [4]

197.87.135.139 (talk) 06:55, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Have amended. Interesting list, surprised "Summer Holiday" was never certified gold. DPUH (talk) 18:18, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Cliff's estimated world-wide sales of singles (as at 1989 or 1990) were published in 1996, in the same book mentioned in the section above. The Summer Holiday single sales were estimated to be 1.59M, which is more than the estimated Lucky Lips sales of 1.22M, so it may seem like it should have earnt a world gold record, but it seems it didn't because it didn't perform as exceptionally in any one country like Lucky Lips did in West Germany (seven weeks at at no. 1, sales 0.5M). It would be nice to know what was actually qualification of a world gold record, as Cliff had many singles with estimated world sales over a million (including all between Living Doll and Don't Talk to Him), although it was sales over many years that got many of them to that figure. The Next Time / Bachelor Boy cracked 2M estimated world-wide (only just). Living Doll 1.855M, Congrats 2.258M, Young Ones 2.555M AusChartMan (talk) 15:43, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

A side note on Summer Holiday. The album would have been by far Cliff's biggest selling album in the 60's. The Young Ones album was the first British album to sell a million including international sales, which is a good anecdote of its sales performance back in the day (and which I added to the album page). However, I've yet to find any such statistical anecdote on the Summer Holiday album, to indicate its exceptional sales for the time. So if either of you come across such a stat, it would be great for the album page, particularly as very few countries even had album charts in 1963. AusChartMan (talk) 16:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

The Lucky Lips gold record was for the international sales performance - particularly West Germany, where the English and German language versions of it sold half a million. The German version also was number one in Austria and Switzerland. The English version was number one in many countries, as per Lucky Lips#Chart performance. AusChartMan (talk) 15:17, 12 May 2024 (UTC)