Place Your Hands

Weekly sales updates for the classic Reef single #placeyourhands. It sells way more than you think.

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Anyway, that’s it. That’s your lot. We’ve been RT’d by the likes of Caitlin Moran and Lenny Henry, Scott Mills mentioned the account on daytime Radio 1 once, Time Out did something on it, and some website even interviewed me for some reason. Been a ride. Cheers.

Alright now.

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The FINAL #placeyourhands update. Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,280 copies - a 2.8% drop from the week before, but still the second highest sales week of 2023, behind only the previous week. Guess you’ve all been cranking out the 90s playlists or something…

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Total sales for the track for the duration - 550 weeks - of this very silly endeavour come to 471,595, which in itself is enough to be classed as a Gold single (Place Your Hands is a Platinum selling single in total). The mean average weekly sales figure is 856 copies.

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A double #placeyourhands update! Two weeks ago, the @reefband classic sold 1,109 copies - a 1.1% increase from the week before. Last week, it sold 1,203 copies - a 7.3% increase from the week before.

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A #placeyourhands update! Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,109 copies - a 1.8% increase from the week before. I’m sure every single follower of this account will join me in wishing Jack Bessant a quick recovery from his recent injury. We’re all with you, Jack.

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A double #placeyourhands update! Two weeks ago, the @reefband classic sold 1,058 copies - a 2.1% decrease from the week before. HOWEVER… last week, the song sold a resurgent 1,089 copies - a thriving 2.1% increase from the previous week.

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A #placeyourhands update! Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,081 copies - a 3.2% drop from the week before, but still holding strong and true in the 1000s.

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A #placeyourhands update! Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,117 copies - a 3.7% increase from the week before and the highest weekly sales since November 2022. Alright now!

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A #placeyourhands update! Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,077 copies - a 0.7% decrease from the week before, but still the second highest sales in the last 13 weeks. A reassuringly strong beginning to the year.

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An ‘I’m really sorry I’m so slack at doing this now’ #placeyourhands update!

Six weeks ago, the @reefband classic sold 1,046 copies.
Five weeks: 1,066
Four weeks: 1,030
Three weeks: 1,064
Two weeks: 1,076
Last week: 1,085

Can’t believe I missed the surge back into the 1000s!

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A ‘have I really missed this many weeks?’ #placeyourhands update! Five weeks ago, the @reefband classic sold 1,013 copies. Four weeks ago, it sold 965 copies. Three weeks ago, it sold 848 copies. Two weeks ago, it sold 886 copies. Last week, it sold 876 copies. Not great, gang.

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A proper #placeyourhands update! Last week, the @reefband classic sold 1,059 copies - a 7.2% decrease from the week before and the lowest sales of any week in 2022 so far. Predicting we’ll see a three figure sales week before the year’s out 🙁

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An incredibly rare non #placeyourhands sales update!

Yesterday marked 10 years of this very silly account. TEN YEARS. It’s beyond stupid when you think about it and sort of explains the two occasions where I basically stopped bothering for a bit. A lot has changed in 10 years.

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Anyway, big thanks to @reefband and @mrgarystringer for being great sports with this account existing, a HUGE thanks to everyone who follows and RTs and whatnot, and if Twitter doesn’t collapse in on itself, here’s to another 10 years of utterly pointless updates!

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An incredibly rare non #placeyourhands sales update!

Yesterday marked 10 years of this very silly account. TEN YEARS. It’s beyond stupid when you think about it and sort of explains the two occasions where I basically stopped bothering for a bit. A lot has changed in 10 years.

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Consistent 4 figure 'sales' began the first week of 2020 and now, in the nearly 3 years since then, we’ve only had 3 weeks where sales have dipped into the 900s. You can decide for yourself how many of these count as real sales. I couldn’t tell you when it last sold a download.