The Trashmen started the chart week at #3 on itunes and is already out of the official top 20 in the Wednesday update which inspired me to ask what the record is for the highest position a song has reached on itunes but failed to make it to the official top 40 in the same week. The song must have been on itunes all that week and was actually eligible for the official chart. Hope I'm not complicating you.

Edited December 22, 201014 yr by zenon

I somehow don't think Trashmen will miss the top 40 this week officially.

I remember there being a song that this girl recorded in memory of her mom. It was a cover of Paolo Nutinni's song 'Autumn' & that started the week low 75ish & then on the thursday rose to number 11 or 10? Then dropped & missed the top 40.

I remember there being a song that this girl recorded in memory of her mom. It was a cover of Paolo Nutinni's song 'Autumn' & that started the week low 75ish & then on the thursday rose to number 11 or 10? Then dropped & missed the top 40.

 

Sarah Phillips - Autumn

 

Was a really lovely cover, was surprised at the time it didn't make the Top 40 overall. Was probably too late in the week.

Record broken, charted at #41 in the offical chart today.

Incredible! And I thought it was bad when Ridin' Solo and Alors on danse went top 20 on iTunes and missed top 40. :lol:

 

I can't really imagine that record ever being broken. The only realistic scenario I can think of is if a facebook campaign is started to get a song #1 on the Big Top 40 Show, and it succeeds, and then nobody buys the song the rest of the week? But I don't think that would happen, because nobody really cares about that chart.

 

I guess the other way this could happen is if, in the future, iTunes starts becoming really unpopular, and ends up with like 4% of the overall sales or something, in which case we could be seeing songs going high on iTunes, and doing nothing in the chart. Like I remember an Adam Lambert song being #1 on another download site earlier this year, and that missed the top 40 (I think it was What Do You Want From Me).