Posted October 14, 200915 yr Jackson's 'This Is It' Rules U.K. Airplay October 13, 2009 - Global | Rock and Pop By Andre Paine, London Michael Jackson's posthumous radio single "This Is It" (Sony Music Entertainment) is currently No. 1 on the U.K. Radio Airplay Chart (week to date) and given its performance to date is likely to top the final Airplay Chart on Sunday (Oct. 18), according to data from Nielsen Music Control. In the 24 hours after the track went to radio at 5.00am BST on Monday (Oct. 12), it received 800 plays across Europe. It was only today (Oct. 13) that it emerged that the 'new' song actually originated from 1983 as a Jackson co-write with Paul Anka. The U.K. Airplay Chart week runs from midnight at the beginning of Sunday to the end of Saturday (23:59), and even though "This Is It" hit radio on Monday morning it has still raced ahead of Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole's debut solo single "Fight For This Love" (Fascination/Polydor), based on data covering number of plays and stations' audience from Nielsen Music Control. Early support from national top 40 station BBC Radio 1, which played the song five times, has helped its cause, and it has also garnered several plays on U.K. commercial networks including Kiss 100 FM and Heart FM. It also had two plays in the first 24 hours on AC network BBC Radio 2, the most popular station in the U.K. with an audience reach of 13.4 million, according to official audience research body RAJAR. The total of 800 plays across Europe in the first 24 hours includes strong support in Germany from stations such as Oldie 95 (16 plays) in Hamburg, Radio Hamburg (11 plays) and Energy Berlin (seven plays). It has also been aired in countries including Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Romania and Sweden http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_dis...d6dea4da35da882 Edited October 14, 200915 yr by Who Me?
October 14, 200915 yr oh well there are a lot of rubbish songs around at the moment so it's not a big deal.
October 14, 200915 yr It's really bad that his album comes at the same time like Cheryl's, but I do hope that Cheryl's get number one before Michael's album.
October 14, 200915 yr Ew, the song is garbage. As respectful as I am to him, I don't think his death should be a ticket to number 1.
October 14, 200915 yr Yup, the song is bad. It sounds like a demo that's un-finished, so to know that it's a finished song makes it even worse. But we all know it's popular due to the fact he's dead. If he were alive, it would be a top 30 at most if it got a release.
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