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Posted by: N-S Sep 22 2014, 05:02 PM

1 - Which song will be covered by the X-Factor winner?
2 - Which song will be covered for the John Lewis Christmas TV ads?
3 - Will Rihanna release an album?
4 - Which old songs will have a campaign for them (not) to become Christmas number ones?
5 - How many Q4 songs will remain in the top 20 well into March of the following year?
6 - Will a Q4 album sell by the bucketloads enough to be the best-seller of the year?
7 - Which relatively unknown singer will be huge in the next year after featuring in a Q4 dance/urban track?
8 - Which major star will release a Christmas album?
9 - What song will be #1 (or have the most increased sales) in the iTunes giftcard week (i.e. the week after the Christmas chart)?
10 - When will the Christmas oldies begin to creep into the top 40 and how high will FONY and AIWFCIY peak this year?
11- How many Q4 singles will be in the year-end top 20?

Can you think of any others?

Posted by: jsilv Sep 22 2014, 05:10 PM

8 - The Saturdays

Posted by: FM11 Sep 22 2014, 05:16 PM

What song will be Christmas #1?

(too obvious)

Posted by: N-S Sep 22 2014, 05:18 PM

12 - Will a Q4 Number One song bounce back to #1 in January?

Posted by: ▬Mart!n▬ Sep 22 2014, 05:22 PM

13, When will the 1300 no.1 appear
14, Will there be a charity track release the same week as the X Factors Winners track

Posted by: zenon Sep 22 2014, 06:15 PM

15 Which long established artist or band will release a Christmas song for the very first time this year?

Posted by: { bré } Sep 22 2014, 06:42 PM

I feel like someone will inevitably bring up that one obscure Christmas song that should apparently be a classic (but that I've literally never heard of outside of a couple of posts on BuzzJack). I don't remember what it's called.

Posted by: Suedehead2 Sep 22 2014, 06:57 PM

16. Will The Killers finally get a big hit with their Christmas single?

Posted by: Col1967 Sep 22 2014, 06:58 PM

16. Is 'The Power of Love' a Christmas song?

Posted by: n4yr Sep 22 2014, 06:59 PM

17. Is "Stay Another Day" a Christmas song?

Posted by: Therm• Sep 22 2014, 07:01 PM

This one I assume



i may actually bother to listen to it this christmas lool

Posted by: fchd Sep 22 2014, 07:05 PM

Or perhaps Bre means "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" by Elmo & Patsy?

Posted by: { bré } Sep 22 2014, 08:06 PM

No, Thermo's was the one.

Posted by: N-S Sep 22 2014, 08:20 PM

Yes, I'm the one who always keeps bringing up the Florin Street Band.

And yes, I still think that this should be a classic and haven't lost hope on it.

Posted by: { bré } Sep 22 2014, 08:43 PM

I don't think it's only you!

Posted by: Doctor Blind Sep 22 2014, 09:45 PM

When will the winner of the X-Factor from last year (who I've inevitably forgotten the name of and will likely be irrelevant very soon), be releasing their debut single/album/cash-in full of covers with full promotion to tie-in with the new X-Factor series?

Oh wait, Sam Bailey has already done that - bring on the next flop please.

Posted by: Robbie Sep 22 2014, 10:14 PM

18. How many albums this year will sell over 100,000 copies the week before Christmas?

Last year it was 3. Five years previous it was 9. Ten years ago it was 12.

What will it be in 2014?

Posted by: gooddelta Sep 22 2014, 10:20 PM

Me as well. LOVE it. I feel like Hitstastic used to rave about it too although I could be wrong? I can imagine AH Gold and Popchartfreak raving over it too, although I'm not sure if they actually ever have, or have even heard it

Posted by: Mango Sep 23 2014, 12:47 PM

I don't think people ask that *every* Q4 although what number are we on now?

Posted by: mr_aly Sep 23 2014, 01:45 PM

A common one is "who will get X-Factor guest performance slots?".

(It's relevant-ish in terms of boosting a single or album by a particular artist)

Posted by: LeeWallace Sep 23 2014, 01:47 PM

Would have the album done better had it not been released in the Q4

Posted by: Jonjo Sep 23 2014, 02:14 PM

Why is 'What Now?' so high?

Posted by: Mango Sep 23 2014, 02:37 PM

Ha, I'd forgotten about that

Posted by: Dircadirca Sep 23 2014, 04:54 PM

Clearly needs to be on the John Lewis ads

Posted by: N-S Sep 28 2014, 03:43 PM

18. What will be the Children In Need single?

Posted by: Eric_Blob Sep 28 2014, 03:51 PM

About this one, I actually think it'll be even less than usual as streaming will favour songs from earlier in the year, as the big hits from early on will have had many months to accumulate streams, so songs released at the end of the year will need to be super successful to catch up.

Posted by: James1987 Sep 28 2014, 05:56 PM

Particularly if its a Cowell artist......

I wonder how many number ones we will have this year as the release schedule for October/November is looking pretty dire! Though I know we're only just going into October so there'll be more tracks added soon!

Also where will The Pogues/Mariah Carey peak this year?!