December 1, 201114 yr As I said I have no idea what they have sold but for it to be EXACTLY the same just seems odd. You're right it could be roughly the same, anything is possible but I just see it as unlikely they sold exactly the same amount of copies. MW do make a lot of mistakes. I guess we'll know if they give us any sales info tomorrow. Sales for the two could be as much as 1,000 apart and the gap could remain 19,000 to the nearer thousand. In other words, the gap could have narrowed from almost 19,500 to just over 18,500. It's possible that both albums could have had a "mini weekend effect" yesterday with so many people taking a day off work.
December 1, 201114 yr If it being December affects 'Christmas' as much as it has done all the Xmas songs, Olly could still be in trouble. I hadn't considered that might have an effect but I guess it makes sense.
December 1, 201114 yr Sales for the two could be as much as 1,000 apart and the gap could remain 19,000 to the nearer thousand. In other words, the gap could have narrowed from almost 19,500 to just over 18,500. It's possible that both albums could have had a "mini weekend effect" yesterday with so many people taking a day off work. I think I read on twitter somewhere earlier, might have been his manager but they said he had increased his lead.
December 1, 201114 yr Sales for the two could be as much as 1,000 apart and the gap could remain 19,000 to the nearer thousand. In other words, the gap could have narrowed from almost 19,500 to just over 18,500. It's possible that both albums could have had a "mini weekend effect" yesterday with so many people taking a day off work. Yes that makes sense :)
December 1, 201114 yr Author I cant believe Adele has jumped to 6! Perhaps she could go over 60k this week. You can actually buy her album for £5 on play.com :(
December 1, 201114 yr There are 12 Christmas songs in the top 200, and here are the current 10 best-selling: 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT - SLOW MOVING MILLIE No idea how they class Slow Moving Millie as a Christmas song, but whatever. From OCC. If anyone wants to enter the Christmas Prediction Competition I shall not be counting Slow Moving Millie as a Christmas song in the tie-break question!
December 1, 201114 yr If anyone wants to enter the Christmas Prediction Competition I shall not be counting Slow Moving Millie as a Christmas song in the tie-break question! Why would you not count 'Stay Another Day' as a Christmas song? Christmas is clearly the only reason it always re-enter this time of year (although I doubt it'll chart this year). I am going to enter by the way, I just haven't got around to it yet. Edited December 1, 201114 yr by Bré
December 1, 201114 yr Why would you not count 'Stay Another Day' as a Christmas song? Christmas is clearly the only reason it always re-enter this time of year (although I doubt it'll chart this year). I am going to enter by the way, I just haven't got around to it yet. I will be. I just used that as an example of a song which isn't about Christmas, so people may argue that it's not a Christmas song with a question "how many Christmas songs will be in the Christmas singles top 75?"
December 1, 201114 yr I will be. I just used that as an example of a song which isn't about Christmas, so people may argue that it's not a Christmas song with a question "how many Christmas songs will be in the Christmas singles top 75?" Oh, whoops, I read that as 'will not be counted' :blush:
December 1, 201114 yr I did wonder how you meant the question, whether you'd mis-read it, or that you felt it was so obviously a Xmas song it didn't need an explanation.
December 1, 201114 yr As I said I have no idea what they have sold but for it to be EXACTLY the same just seems odd. You're right it could be roughly the same, anything is possible but I just see it as unlikely they sold exactly the same amount of copies. MW do make a lot of mistakes. I guess we'll know if they give us any sales info tomorrow. Watch OCC say Olly is 19k ahead tomorrow. ;) :P
December 1, 201114 yr If it being December affects 'Christmas' as much as it has done all the Xmas songs, Olly could still be in trouble. I hadn't considered that might have an effect but I guess it makes sense. Slightly off topic but does anyone agree that Dance With Me Tonight sounds very Xmasy? It sounds like something that would be in a Home Alone movie. :lol:
December 1, 201114 yr Slightly off topic but does anyone agree that Dance With Me Tonight sounds very Xmasy? It sounds like something that would be in a Home Alone movie. :lol: A little, reminds me of You Know Me by Robbie Williams a bit too.
December 2, 201114 yr I see Buble has overtaken Olly on Itunes, how damaging is that to Olly's chances of number 1? Too little, too late for Buble this week or can he still do it? Edited December 2, 201114 yr by BuzzLightyear
December 2, 201114 yr I see Buble has overtaken Olly on Itunes, how damaging is that to Olly's chances of number 1? Too little, too late for Buble this week or can he still do it? iTunes positions doesn't have as much as a impact on the albums chart as it does with the singles.
December 2, 201114 yr I hope Joe hits 35k in first week like he did with Classic. Decca is probably lining up some promo for next weeks because so far it's been very modest. And there's that Last Christmas single release, which I don't understand at all, unless it's some superb remastered version.
December 2, 201114 yr There are 12 Christmas songs in the top 200, and here are the current 10 best-selling: 01 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME GET WHAT I WANT - SLOW MOVING MILLIE 02 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK – THE POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 03 ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU - MARIAH CAREY 04 LAST CHRISTMAS – WHAM! 05 I WISH IT COULD BE CHRISTMAS EVERYDAY – WIZZARD 06 DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS - BAND AID 07 WHITE CHRISTMAS - LADY GAGA 08 MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY - SLADE 09 MISTLETOE - JUSTIN BIEBER 10 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS - CHRIS REA No idea how they class Slow Moving Millie as a Christmas song, but whatever. From OCC. ChartsPlus does a similar list of Xmas songs in the run-up to Christmas.
December 2, 201114 yr Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 X Factor Finalists 2011/JLS/One Direction 2 Olly Murs 3 Rihanna/Calvin Harris 4 Flo Rida 5 Avicii Top 10 Jessie J Top 15 Bruno Mars 14 LMFAO Charlene Soraia Top 20 Jason Derulo Top 30 21 Emeli Sande Olly Murs [HSAB] Katy Perry 28 Pogues/Kirsty MacColl Slow Moving Millie Beyonce Top 40 31 Mariah Carey Example [MR] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Olly Murs 2 Michael Buble 3 Rihanna 4 One Direction 5 Il Divo Top 10 6 Adele [21] Ed Sheeran Top 15 11 Take That [Progress Live] Bruno Mars 13 Joe McElderry [Classic Christmas] Top 30 22 Jessie J Cee-Lo Green Top 40 Tony Bennett N-Dubz David Guetta Rod Stewart NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Kelly Rowland 5+4 Maroon 5/Christina 10+1 Coldplay 10+3 Lady Gaga [MTN] 10+8 :D One Direction [GBY] 20+3, [WMYB] 20+4 Kelly Clarkson 20+5 Rebecca F 20+7 JLS 30+6 Albums Coldplay 5+4 JLS 5+5 Susan Boyle 10+4 Snow Patrol 10+5 Florence 10+6 Noel Gallagher 10+7 Lady Gaga [bTW] 20+1 Cher Lloyd 20+5 Will Young 20+6 Nickelback 20+7 James Morrison 30+2 Matt Cardle 30+5 Rihanna [Loud] 30+7 Adele [19] 30+8
December 2, 201114 yr Great to see the Pogues top 30, I listened to it for the first time this year yesterday :wub:
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