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The Voice artists plummet in ARIA sales

A week ago they dominated the ARIA single charts, but now The Voice artists barely crack a note.

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Cynics suggest that Reality show winners are forgotten within weeks of their instant glory and judging by the latest ARIA charts, the singers from The Voice have their work cut out for them.

A week ago there were 26 positions by The Voice singers in the week’s top 100.

This week it’s a very different story.

Karise’s ‘Stay With Me Baby’ (last week’s #1) has plummeted to #54 within a week. It is believed to be the biggest drop ever by an ARIA #1 song.

Karise’s ‘I Was Your Girl’ (#3 last week), Darren Percival’s ‘Damage Down’ (#8 last week), Karise’s ‘Nothing’s Real But Love’ and ‘Landslide’ (#11 and #15 respectively) are all out of the Top 100.

Darren Percival is at #78 with ‘I Believe When I Fall In Love’.

Rachael Leahcar fails to make the top 100.

But the news is not all bad.

Karise’s ‘You Won’t Let Me’ stays at #5 and her album ‘My Journey’ debuts at #1, which is surely a reason to celebrate.

Sarah de Bono’s ‘Beautiful’ drops from #4 to #37.

Nine has announced a special concert Voices Reaching Out to air before the Olympics.

Source: AusPOP, ARIA

23 Responses

  1. @John Jackson, that only goes to show that a track from The Voice has even less likelihood to chart for more than a week.

    Though, this said, Glee singles are also only released online (and some tracks released in the same week as an album do not have a “single” release at all), and while in Australia they may be available on Bigpond Music(?) as well as iTunes, 99%+ of sales will be from iTunes.

  3. Davis – they’re different because the Glee tracks were available on commercially available recordings all over the world. The only place the tracks with The Voice were able to be taken from was on iTunes and were found on no other release. They were simply released as another method to vote instead of just using phones.

  5. How many Glee singles charted for more than a week? Maybe half a dozen, and Glee has put dozens and dozens of tracks on the Singles chart. Why would anyone expect The Voice to be any different?

  6. I don’t think ARIA should change a thing. Whether one like the show or not, these charts accurately reflect the music buying in this country no matter how they were conned into it. At least it wasn’t like Madonna ‘giving away’ her album with concert tickets.

  7. JB – Maybe ARIA shouldn’t count purchases which are only made for voting systems which is what these were. These people weren’t signed artists. They were only singing on a show to get exposure, and hopefully be signed afterwards. It is afterwards that you are supposed to make the charts, not before.

    Also the reason for the previous biggest drop with ‘my heart will go on’ was not because people didn’t want to buy it anymore, but it was because the single was removed from sale as they preferred that people would have purchased the soundtrack to titanic instead.

  8. Pretty much what Luke W said. The real main reason the songs were charting in the first place was because people were buying them as they counted as votes. They weren’t buying them as they were such great songs.

    It’s another reason they never should have been counted. Different shows but you never saw idol and x factor placing up the songs to count as votes and the voice shouldn’t have either, or if they were going to they should never have been allowed to chart.

    Furthermore the whole allowing them to chart, people knew where the votes were going. In idol, x factor, big brother etc, they never showed who was getting what votes, yet all you had to do here was look on iTunes and you knew who was getting the most votes and they’d be safe that round from elimination.

  9. JB- From a sales perspective 1.3% of total audience is good in one week. This will grow in time as fave performers continue to get exposure. Career longevity is a true indication of success, not a few weeks

  10. massive tolja so moment. this is supposed to be the pinnacle of their careers, it’s only downhill from here.

    and people say Idol and X factor only produce short living stars. yet you look at the chart today and there are some idol singers from almost a decade ago which are charting ahead of voice stars from a fortnight ago.and from memory all winners bar one had a winner single that had lengthy stays at #1. Reece Mastin spent an entire summer in the top 5 with 4 weeks at #1..

  11. As i said in the Lounge, ARIA needs to change their eligibility rules because this has made a complete joke of the charts. They changed the rules a few years ago to include digital and physical sales of singles. Now it’s mostly digital, but something needs to be changed to stop ridiculous situations like this. Maybe exclude one off performances. This crap doesn’t happen on the UK charts.

    Saw an article that stated that despite 3 million viewers for finale, only 1.3% of those cared enough to purchase the single. So it’s a singing competition but no ones cares about the songs?

    And the previous biggest drop was “my heart will go on”. Dropped from #1 to #24, but at least it spent 26 weeks in the top 50.

  12. Radio has alot to do with it. I haven’t heard any of The Voice’s songs on radio which does impact sales. Flo Rida’s song are constantly being replayed to the point of exhaustion and that’s why he’s been at the top of the charts.

    Let’s not even talk about that Call Me Maybe song

  15. I was flabbergasted when I saw last week’s ARIA charts which had about 20 songs from ‘The Voice’ contestants.

    And to see Karise make history by having the top 3 songs was even more baffling.

    I didn’t think they would last in the charts very long – same thing happens with contestants from AGT, X-Factor and other reality shows.

    But to go from Number 1 to outside the top 50 was gobsmacking.

    I think this is only the second time a song has debuted at Number 1 on the Australian charts and then dropped out of the Top 50 altogether.

    The previous occassion was some singer who sold her CD singles at one of those churches. Forgot her name – but she debuted at Number 1 purely on the basis of CD sales and then disappeared completely.

    I think ARIA should exclude all future downloads that are really votes from future charts.

    What has happened here is just a huge embarrassing joke.

  16. Karise’s ‘Stay With Me Baby’ didn’t fall as far as We’re Sending Our Love Down the Well did in the Simpsons episode Radio Bart.

  17. Saw that, but everyone who wanted those songs now has them, and maybe they sold a hell of a lot more than what is currently in the top 50.. For example, Delta’s song has been around for ages, selling slowly but solidly, whereas these Voice songs probably sold heaps more in one night!

  19. I knew this would happen. What you forgot to state though David was that every time you brought a Voice song it counted as votes towards them winning / trying to win. Now that the show is over, there is no more incentive to download those songs. Now the Singles chart is starting to get back to normal thank goodness!

  20. I have to take you to task on something David. It isn’t ‘believed to be’ the biggest drop from number one is ARIA chart history, it is the biggest drop.

  22. It doesn’t surprise me – during the last few weeks of the series, the songs would debut and then fall away – now that the show is off air, and there are no music videos to promote the songs, or youtube clips or the tv show to keep the momentum – the songs were bound to drop. Some of them achieved gold status – other artists would give their right arm to attain that!

  23. Digital downloads make the Aria charts more susceptible to popular shows! I would have hoped for Karises sake that if the CD wasn’t released she might have not dropped so far! Good on her for staying @ No.5 & debuting @ No.1 with her CD

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