Up (The Saturdays Song) - Chart Performance

Chart Performance

On 19 October 2008 "Up" debuted at number five on the UK Singles Chart with first week sales of 26,593. In turn outpeaking and outselling previous single "If This Is Love" which debuted at number eight with first week sales of 14,990. "Up" became The Saturdays' second consecutive top ten hit in the United Kingdom. It was the third highest new entry in its release week, debuting behind Geraldine's "The Winner's Song" which debuted at number two and Leon Jackson's "Don't Call This Love" which debuted at number three. On 26 October 2008 the single dropped one place to number six with sales of 22,539 for that week. In its third and final week in the top ten it dropped one place to number seven with sales of 22,491 before dropping six places to number thirteen in its fourth week on the chart. On 16 November it then dropped five places to number eighteen before dropping a further four places to number twenty-two in its sixth week on the chart. In its seventh week it fell four places to number twenty-six and on 7 December it dropped three places to number twenty-nine. The song spent its ninth consecutive week in the top 40 on 14 December at number thirty-five before dropping ten places to number forty-five the following week. The single, however, re-entered the top forty a week later at number thirty-five, staying in the top forty for an additional ten weeks before dropping out on 8 March 2009. In total "Up" spent nineteen non-consecutive weeks in the top forty and thirty non-consecutive weeks within the top seventy-five of the UK Singles Chart. It is currently the longest chart-sitting single released by The Saturdays as well as the group's best selling single to-date, selling over 311,000 copies in the United Kingdom alone, although it has been reported Ego has sold over 313,000, it is expected Up has sold over that since Up's last sales report was January 2010.

"Up" became The Saturdays' first chart hit in Ireland, it debuted at number fifteen on 16 October 2008. It was the third highest new entry of the week, behind The Saw Doctors' "About You Now" which debuted at number one and Leon Jackson's "Don't Call This Love" which debuted at number eight. In its second week on the chart it climbed four places to number eleven, where it peaked for one week. On 30 October it dropped two places to number thirteen and in its fourth week on the chart it dropped a further places to number fifteen. "Up" then dropped six places to number twenty-one on 13 November and on its sixth week in the chart it rebounded to climb one place to number twenty. The single dropped four places to number twenty-four on 27 November and then a further seven places to number thirty-one on 11 December. On its ninth week on the chart it fell four places to number thirty-five and the following week it dropped a further four places to number thirty-nine. Altogether it spent a total of twenty-four weeks within the chart's top fifty.

The single also garnered charting success for the group in Europe, where it reached number fifteen on the European Hot 100 Singles chart, becoming The Saturdays' second consecutive top forty hit on this chart.