Except some moron ruined it in the iTunes thread like an hour before saying Chipmunk tweeted he was #2, and it was fairly obvious to deduce the order from that :lol: So it wasn't even remotely exciting for me. Maybe it might have been otherwise though.

 

And I disagree totally on Rage vs Joe - Joe was catching up all week and many people thought he'd overtake from the physical sales (as it was the weekend before Xmas which is always big for shopping) over the weekend. Indeed, if it wasn't for the Rage "Download Day" on that Saturday, Joe surely would have won. But clearly you had some special intuition on the matter, or maybe as I more suspect you're simply biased as you just said you didn't enjoy the songs - which is fair enough.

 

To be honest, I think chart battles used to be more exciting back in the physical days. The media used to really get involved with them and the acts involved really went all out to get the #1 spot. Victoria Beckham was working her butt off doing signings up and down the country the week of her battle with Spiller. These days it can be close but there's no extra effort involved to try and snatch it. Rage vs Joe was the only recent one anything like that.

 

Plus, in those days I didn't know midweeks either - only the small bits the press reported!

 

Yeah, I saw the spoilers aswell. :( The first one was Chipmunk saying he was #2 on 90,000 sales or something on Twitter. At that point, I still wasn't sure if it was Lady Gaga or Jessie J at #1. But then in the actual chart thread someone posted that Gaga sold ~60,000, and then from that Jessie J was clearly #1. I don't think the guy who posted Gaga's sales figure's knew that some of us already knew the #2 was Chipmunk, and had sold more than that, but even so, I think we knew Jessie J and Chipmunk both would've sold more than that anyway.

 

About Rage vs. Joe, I don't know if it was intuition or what! :lol: It was just literally 100% as I expected. The week was shocking, but it was shocking that the campaign had worked, and I'd kind of gotten over that by about the Wednesday or Thursday. :lol: Kind of like that Black Eyed Peas vs. Leona week. It was shocking during the week at the prospect of Leona potentially not getting the #1, but by about the Friday, it was obvious who'd win. Similar with Adele a couple of weeks ago. It was incredible that she was in the running for #1, but when she was announced as #2 on the Friday mids, I thought it was clear she'd get the #1 in the end.

 

Some of the #1s have been surprising in the "This time last week, I would NEVER have predicted this would be #1" sense, but I didn't find myself all tense waiting for the #1 to be announced.

Here's the BuzzJack midweek thread for that week: (or the last part of it, it had to be split up due to all the discussion! :lol:)

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=104531

^ Did Robbie Williams get #4 that week aswell!? :o Make that the worst top 4 since I've started following the charts then...

 

EDIT: No he didn't! Thank goodness! :drama: :P

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Here's the BuzzJack midweek thread for that week: (or the last part of it, it had to be split up due to all the discussion! :lol:)

 

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=104531

OMG Sunday Chart Predictions PART 3 wtf? that's a big discussion! Please tell me that part 1 & 2 wasn't 50 pages each! Unbelievable!

I'm surprised none of the Britney stans have mentioned the Eminem/Destiny's Child/Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera/Usher battle in 2004. I remember Cool Clarity were all exploding with excitement that week. I'm pretty sure Jamelia limped into the top ten somewhere too.

 

NE 01 Eminem - Just Lose It

NE 02 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

NE 03 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

NE 04 Christina Aguilera - Carwash

NE 05 Usher - Confessions/My Boo

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Similarly, I remember being majorly shocked when Cher's 'Believe' won the battle of the NEs for #1 ahead of George Michael, U2, Culture Club and Alanis Morissette. I was 99% certain it would be George Michael.

I'm surprised none of the Britney stans have mentioned the Eminem/Destiny's Child/Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera/Usher battle in 2004. I remember Cool Clarity were all exploding with excitement that week. I'm pretty sure Jamelia limped into the top ten somewhere too.

 

NE 01 Eminem - Just Lose It

NE 02 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

NE 03 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

NE 04 Christina Aguilera - Carwash

NE 05 Usher - Confessions/My Boo

Totally forgot that one! another huge battle! 2 cover songs "Car Wash" and "My Prerogative" by that time pop princesses! but both faded in the glory of (deserved number 1) Lose My Breath and Just Lose It!

Totally forgot that one! another huge battle! 2 cover songs "Car Wash" and "My Prerogative" by that time pop princesses! but both faded in the glory of (deserved number 1) Lose My Breath and Just Lose It!

 

I always presumed Lose My Breath would eventually get to number one, the power of Eminem I suppose. I remember about 70% of the Cool Clarity personal charts would spell it "Loose My Breath". Haha. Idiots.

Wow, and all the top 5 were new entries! :o I loved Carwash at the time! I literally thought it was the best song ever created! :lol: Eminem is my favourite out of those 5, but ironically he probably had the poorest song there...

Similarly, I remember being majorly shocked when Cher's 'Believe' won the battle of the NEs for #1 ahead of George Michael, U2, Culture Club and Alanis Morissette. I was 99% certain it would be George Michael.

 

What's more shocking is that the average age of the artists involved in that top four tussle at the time was about 43! :lol: Imagine four artists that old at the top end of the charts now! Most artists in the top ten these days are younger than me, and I'm only 23!

I think the snow may have lost Joe the #1 - perhaps 50k lost physicals is a bit overboard but you never know.

Blaming it on the snow? Are you George Osborne? :o

Wow, and all the top 5 were new entries! :o I loved Carwash at the time! I literally thought it was the best song ever created! :lol: Eminem is my favourite out of those 5, but ironically he probably had the poorest song there...

 

Lose My Breath aside, all of those songs were amongst those artists' poorest work for me personally...and I didn't even particularly like Lose My Breath that much either, but it would have been a great #1 because it was very fresh and ahead of its time.

I'm surprised none of the Britney stans have mentioned the Eminem/Destiny's Child/Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera/Usher battle in 2004. I remember Cool Clarity were all exploding with excitement that week. I'm pretty sure Jamelia limped into the top ten somewhere too.

 

NE 01 Eminem - Just Lose It

NE 02 Destiny's Child - Lose My Breath

NE 03 Britney Spears - My Prerogative

NE 04 Christina Aguilera - Carwash

NE 05 Usher - Confessions/My Boo

Yes, that one was quite hyped up as the big all-American star battle. They were easily five of the biggest exports from there at the time. An equivalent battle now would definitely send BuzzJack into meltdown, ha. I was expecting an Eminem victory there, though, even if it was a rank song... but Eminem was at the peak of his popularity here and was pretty much guaranteed a #1 with every lead single.

 

Similarly, I remember being majorly shocked when Cher's 'Believe' won the battle of the NEs for #1 ahead of George Michael, U2, Culture Club and Alanis Morissette. I was 99% certain it would be George Michael.

I think I was expecting a U2 victory, but I was generally quite musically/media clueless at the time and didn't even know who Cher or George Michael were, let alone their songs, before they charted. George Michael did have the 'controversial' video though so I don't blame you for coming to that conclusion (U2 had Boyzone in their video though!! :lol:). Alanis did ridiculously well to get to #5 in that week.

 

What's more shocking is that the average age of the artists involved in that top four tussle at the time was about 43! :lol: Imagine four artists that old at the top end of the charts now! Most artists in the top ten these days are younger than me, and I'm only 23!

Yep, I think it's the oldest top 5 ever, though don't quote me on that! Amazing really.

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I always presumed Lose My Breath would eventually get to number one, the power of Eminem I suppose. I remember about 70% of the Cool Clarity personal charts would spell it "Loose My Breath". Haha. Idiots.

 

HA, I remember that "Loose My Breath" :lol:

What's more shocking is that the average age of the artists involved in that top four tussle at the time was about 43! :lol: Imagine four artists that old at the top end of the charts now! Most artists in the top ten these days are younger than me, and I'm only 23!

 

43!! :o That would just NEVER happen now! :o

 

Yes, that one was quite hyped up as the big all-American star battle. They were easily five of the biggest exports from there at the time. An equivalent battle now would definitely send BuzzJack into meltdown, ha. I was expecting an Eminem victory there, though, even if it was a rank song... but Eminem was at the peak of his popularity here and was pretty much guaranteed a #1 with every lead single.

 

Yeah, I wish we'd get something like that this year (although not neccessarily with American artists, although I wouldn't mind :lol:). It's always weird seeing charts from back then though, because I didn't follow them back then, and the results sometimes surprise me, because they're sometimes really don't reflect what I thought was popular at the time (although what I thought was popular at the time was based on what a thousand teenagers were listening to, so I guess I can't expect it to be accurate :lol:).

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43!! :o That would just NEVER happen now! :o

 

 

It might Cliff Richard and Madonna :D

I think I was expecting a U2 victory, but I was generally quite musically/media clueless at the time and didn't even know who Cher or George Michael were, let alone their songs, before they charted. George Michael did have the 'controversial' video though so I don't blame you for coming to that conclusion (U2 had Boyzone in their video though!! :lol:). Alanis did ridiculously well to get to #5 in that week.

 

Yep, I think it's the oldest top 5 ever, though don't quote me on that! Amazing really.

 

The only way it could happen now is if Kylie and Madonna both released sensational new lead singles right now, to go up against the new Jennifer Lopez song and the new Foo Fighters song made a 30 place song climb :lol: so basically, it's never going to happen again, the music industry is incredibly ageist! Although I guess Take That can still pull off huge hit singles and they must all be approaching or over 40 by now...

 

As for that battle, I started listening to the charts basically at this time, in fact precisely on this week! I'd heard the Cher song and I was dying for it to be #1, I remember being on holiday on the Isle of Wight at the time listening to the radio in some caravan park :lol: I too expected her to come in behind George Michael and U2 but was ecstatic to hear that she'd got the top spot - I think this joy is probably why I continued listening to the charts in such a big way, so this chart battle played a major part in my obession!

I always presumed Lose My Breath would eventually get to number one, the power of Eminem I suppose. I remember about 70% of the Cool Clarity personal charts would spell it "Loose My Breath". Haha. Idiots.

Yep...me too. I mean the comeback of biggest girl group with such an amazing song! And Just Lose It won..no comment!

Bob The Builder v Westlife!

 

There were no midweeks posted that week (at Dotmusic, the board that existed before buzzjack / coolclarity) and it was a genuine, but welcome, surprise when BTB was #1. A genuine "YES!" moment!

Joe vs Rage was a huge battle, it was all over the news and the internet and not just all over Buzzjack like some chart battles :P .