I could've sent mine early but decided not to and it seemed some of my predicted positions for next week were far off from the Wednesday positions. Plus I would be predicting all positions of albums without much thought whatsoever.

Sent in my entry. Fingers crossed.

I will be on it tonightt

Sent in my entry as well. Most of it was just random guessing so don't expect some competition from me :P

 

f*** I forgot to save the message in my box, can you (Mark?? My namesake?) send them back to me?

Edited December 3, 201113 yr by Atonement

Will we get a weekly update?

Hopefully. Although I may not get a chance tomorrow night so this weeks may not be until Wednesday...

I sent my predictions in before Tuesday to get the reduction, but I'll bet I am very far off the actual positions!

I would have had a go had the competition related to the singles chart, but as I don't follow the album chart at all (I can't even tell you who is number one on it as of now), it would be a waste of my time putting a guess together and a waste of the marker's time marking it (and that means this message is also probably a waste of all your time reading it!)

This competition is now closed, thank you to the 35 people who have entered.

 

I've worked out the average [mean] predicted chart run for each act....

 

Florence: 16-19-20-20

JLS: 10-14-15-17

Kate: 17-30-42-49

Gaga: 20-21-20-20

Nickelback: 24-38-50-58

Noel: 16-18-20-20

Rihanna: 2-3-4-4

Snow: 16-21-25-28

Susan: 16-20-19-21

Westlife: 9-14-17-19

That's quite interesting. Are Westlife and JLS really likely to dip that much over the christmas period I wonder? The fact it's an average must mean that some people have predicted them being outside of the top 20?

I might do median average as well, some people's predictions are quite bizarre, I'm sure most people entering would LOVE to see Westlife at #70 in the Xmas chart but I don't think that's going to happen.

 

One thing that I did notice is that not many who posted from the last couple of days have predicted a 3rd week JLS climb after their scheduled X-Factor performance...

Oh I didn't even realise they had a scheduled X-Factor appearance! Guess I've not factored that in at all then...

Including the median average as the 2nd chart run.

 

Florence: 16-19-20-20 / 17-20-19-20

JLS: 10-14-15-17 / 10-14-17-16

Kate: 17-30-42-49 / 16-29-39-42

Gaga: 20-21-20-20 / 20-20-20-18

Nickelback: 24-38-50-58 / 25-39-48-60

Noel: 16-18-20-20 / 16-19-20-21

Rihanna: 2-3-4-4 / 3-3-4-3

Snow: 16-21-25-28 / 15-21-23-25

Susan: 16-20-19-21 / 16-20-18-19

Westlife: 9-14-17-19 / 8-12-15-17

 

Ok that's made almost no difference...

I predicted a third week climb for JLS :P Go me.

RabbitFurCoat, is there any way I find out how well I do over the weeks? :o

Yes, I shall post a leaderboard each Sunday. My spreadsheet is all set up so shouldn't take me more than 15 minutes each week to get an accurate leaderboard.

 

By the way one person missed off a chart run for one of the albums, if they don't PM me with it before the chart I shall use the average predicted position as their guess for this week.

F what? I wasn't aware JLS will be back at the X Factor finals! And I was thinking of Take That. Oh, well, I don't think my 3rd week prediction was that off!

Edited December 4, 201113 yr by FM11

I didn't think about X-Factor performances or singles to be released at all when I made my predictions. Oh well..

LEADERBOARD - WEEK 1

 

Those in blue predicted before the midweeks were in, and have had 15% of their score reduced, rounded to the nearest whole number. There's no need to get too down about being a bit behind at the moment, this week was always going to be the biggest disadvantage.

 

16 Florence + The Machine - Ceremonials

11 JLS - Jukebox

26 Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow

21 Lady Gaga - Born This Way

27 Nickelback - Here And Now

14 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

03 Rihanna - Talk That Talk

17 Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires

13 Susan Boyle - Someone To Watch Over Me

09 Westlife - Greatest Hits

 

01 CAMPBELL6977 8

02 SPIIDEY 13

02 FM11 13

04 DANDY 14

04 152CHRIS 14

06 BRE 16

06 TOM KAY 16

06 VIPER 16

09 DANIELXF 17

10 ▲▲▲ 18

10 CONDERELLA 18

12 CHARLIE 20

13 GARY 21

14 AARONTM 24

14 ROBOT 24

16 SOUNDSEEKERZ 25

16 ADZBROWN 25

18 DJC1996 28

19 THEO 29

20 CHIG66 30

20 WEST 30

22 SLLEWELLYN 31

22 EYES 31

22 THOMASHEY123 31

25 BRETT-BUTLER 32

25 JAHQ 32

27 GOODDELTA 33

28 CW 34

29 RANDOMFURLONG 36

29 JASON 36

31 ATONEMENT 37

32 RC741 38

33 ORICON 44

34 GRIFF 46

35 JURANAMO 46

I predicted a third week climb for JLS :P Go me.

As did I. Go me too :dance:

 

LEADERBOARD - WEEK 1

 

01 CAMPBELL6977 8

02 SPIIDEY 13

02 FM11 13

Delighted with that start! :)

omg so many points!

 

I was so far off for Kate Bush - 25 places - that one is gonna kill me for the rest of the game...

Edited December 4, 201113 yr by Atonement