December 29, 201015 yr Just watching the VIVA Official Best Selling Songs of 2010, and they kicked off by saying Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name was the best selling song of last year, is there any point in watching this when it kicks off with a blatant lie. A similar thing happened on the Big Top 40 Show's year-end chart last year. It's based on iTunes sales and airplay on commercial radio stations, yet The Climb, conveniently charted at #40, whilst RATM were in the top 10. I can't understand how that's possible. Neither had much airplay, as they were "released" like 2 weeks before the end of the year, and even discounting physicals, and including only iTunes downloads, Rage can't've sold more than double what Joe did. Still never figured out how that worked. I don't like the slow X Factor winner songs, but it just seems fashionable to be like "Haha, Joe was such a loser", "Look how rebellious the UK is, a song with swear words is top 10".
December 31, 201015 yr Author Sorry no mids this week, join us for the Sunday Chat show thread, should make an interesting topic, my guess Matt Cardle will hang on for another week.
December 31, 201015 yr Sorry no mids this week, join us for the Sunday Chat show thread, should make an interesting topic, my guess Matt Cardle will hang on for another week. IMO that's a no-brainer - but a 4th week will be far more problematic...
December 31, 201015 yr IMO that's a no-brainer - but a 4th week will be far more problematic... Only two winners have managed 4 weeks before :P 1 week Steve Brookstein 4 weeks Shayne Ward 4 weeks Leona Lewis 3 weeks Leon Jackson 3 weeks Alexandra Burke 1 week Joe McElderry 2 weeks+ Matt Cardle And anyway no single has managed 4 weeks since Lily Allen's The Fear way back at the start of 2009 Edited December 31, 201015 yr by ★ 2011 Bray ★
December 31, 201015 yr A similar thing happened on the Big Top 40 Show's year-end chart last year. It's based on iTunes sales and airplay on commercial radio stations, yet The Climb, conveniently charted at #40, whilst RATM were in the top 10. I can't understand how that's possible. Neither had much airplay, as they were "released" like 2 weeks before the end of the year, and even discounting physicals, and including only iTunes downloads, Rage can't've sold more than double what Joe did. Still never figured out how that worked. I don't like the slow X Factor winner songs, but it just seems fashionable to be like "Haha, Joe was such a loser", "Look how rebellious the UK is, a song with swear words is top 10". It happen (mostly because Big Top 40 is nonsense)...but in this case it's because there are no physicals used on Big Top 40 & RATM sold more iTunes downloads at that point, as the Big Top 40 of 2009 only had iTunes sales up to 26th December. With the top ten based purely on iTunes sales & the 11-40 mashed up with the "nonsense airplay" of Britain's boring Independant Radio chiefs. Will we all be tuning in tomorrow at 4pm, for the Big Top 40 Of 2010? I won't for sure, but at least they are doing it in a seperate show...unlike R1!
December 31, 201015 yr ^ Although in the Big Top 40 Show's year-end chart, airplay was factored in for the whole chart, not just positions #11 to #40 like they do in the weekly charts.
December 31, 201015 yr ^ Although in the Big Top 40 Show's year-end chart, airplay was factored in for the whole chart, not just positions #11 to #40 like they do in the weekly charts. Last Years Big Top 40 2009...RATM were only 21. 01 I Gotta Feeling 02 Pokerface 03 Just Dance 04 Fight For This Love 05 Boom Boom Pow 06 Bad Boys 07 In For The Kill 08 Sexy Bitch 09 Number One 10 The Fear 11 Use Somebody 12 Meet Me Halfway 13 Bullletproof 14 Broken Strings 15 Right Round 16 Beat Again 17 Paparazi 18 Jai Ho 19 When Love Takes Over 20 Halo 21 RATM 22 Sex On Fire 23 I'm Not Alone 24 Evacuate The Dancefloor 25 Empire State Of Mind 26 I'm Yours 27 Single Ladies 28 Sweet Dreams 29 Red 30 Not Fair 31 Bonkers 32 Break Your Heart 33 Love Story 34 Release Me 35 Supernova 36 Knock You Down 37 Shake It 38 Don't Upset The Rhythm 39 Breathe Slow 40 The Climb Only Peter Kay, Kid Cudi didn't make their chart of the year. So, not as bad as I first thought there.
December 31, 201015 yr Yeah, that's not too bad then. I thought it couldn't be possible for Joe to be #40 and RATM top 10! I wish he was #41 though, so the presenters couldn't have had the opportunity to mock him... Also, a random piece of trivia which nobody will care about. Once by Diana Vickers got its premiere during the Big Top 40 Show's year-end chart show. It was really annoying, because like 2 months later everybody was like "Have you heard Diana Vicker's song?". :lol:
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