Gary also has another version at #44. :o

Get in Gary! Don't understand where this hate comes from..he is one of our most successful singer songwriters, sold 45 millions records with Take That, 8 number 1 albums, 13 number 1 singles and has broken so many tour and sales records i can't even begin to list.

 

On a week where we are celebrating Britain lets get behind one of our own, Id much rather have a song that was written with meaning, emotion and thought being it such as Sing rather than an American over produced autotuned ramble etc

 

Feeling very patriotic right now after watching that magnificent concert! Congrats to Gary on that as well!

 

I'd much rather have something actually DECENT, be it 'American over produced autotuned ramble etc' or not, than Sing, which is awful.

 

Gary also has another version at #44. :o

 

That's not another version. It's a different song.

 

Did someone really suggest 'Sing' would outsell 'Somebody That I Used To Know'? It's going to sell bugger all outside this one week (and the 32k it sold last week), I'd be very surprised if it even sells 400k overall. Might not even reach 300k.

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by Bré

I really cannot see Sing outselling Somebody That I Used To Know at all.

 

I don't think he was referring to sales wise, only the massive lead it has along with another version being so high at the same time.

I'd much rather have something actually DECENT, be it 'American over produced autotuned ramble etc' or not, than Sing, which is awful.

 

Your opinion alone Bre. Judging by iTunes not many people would agree with you :cheer:

68. All Around the World (feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber

 

This IS going to knock Princess Of China out of the top 10 isn't it :manson:

 

Your opinion alone Bre. Judging by iTunes not many people would agree with you :cheer:

 

You think the majority of people would prefer something awful over something decent at #1?! :huh:

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by Bré

68. All Around the World (feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber

 

This IS going to knock Princess Of China out of the top 10 isn't it :manson:

 

That's actually pretty slow for Justin I think. It was #73 a while ago, but it is almost midnight I guess. I seem to remember Mistletoe "debuting" in the first update of the feed in the top 20 or top 30 or something ridiculous.

68. All Around the World (feat. Ludacris) - Justin Bieber

 

And more than rightly deserved so, I find the song highly addicting as it's not the usual Justin Bieber typed song at all tbh.

All Around the World is the song I was saying a couple of weeks ago that sounds like Till the World Ends, etc. But I heard the iTunes version is different to the leaked one.

 

On another note, I just listened to Nelly Furtado's B-Side. MARVELLOUS! :heart:

You think the majority of people would prefer something awful over something decent at #1?! :huh:

 

 

I think that the people would not call it awful and instead are enjoying it and the meaning surrounding it. Im sure the iTunes placements back me up there :dance:

Your opinion alone Bre. Judging by iTunes not many people would agree with you :cheer:

 

You're making the mistake of thinking that iTunes popularity = a high proportion of people liking it. It'll sell less than 200k this week, so that makes still over 60 million people in the country who haven't bought it. When you're playing with such weird numbers there is zero way of telling that it's a more popular song than any of the others in the top 10.

 

:cheer:

 

 

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:cheer:

Yes we know, you don't have to harp on about it. :rolleyes:

I only metioned it once ;)

Combined, an 85% lead? JESUS CHRIST.

Wow, that's impressive!

I think that the people would not call it awful and instead are enjoying it and the meaning surrounding it. Im sure the iTunes placements back me up there :dance:

 

There's nothing to support the fact there's a majority opinion that 'Sing' isn't awful. It's just had two very big promotional pushes seen by tens of millions of people. Only a very small amount of those people would have to be convinced to buy the song for it to be doing this well. If any more than a tiny handful of those people are still listening to 'Sing' regularly in a few weeks - or if it's even still anywhere in the chart in a few weeks - then maybe you're right, but I somehow doubt that.

Interesting to see Nelly Furtado's "Big Hoops" in the top 20, as it's completely bombed everywhere else (except Canada). But I like the song still, and its creative video. I hope it goes top 10.

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by Ne Plus Ultra

There's nothing to support the fact there's a majority opinion that 'Sing' isn't awful. It's just had two very big promotional pushes seen by tens of millions of people. Only a very small amount of those people would have to be convinced to buy the song for it to be doing this well. If any more than a tiny handful of those people are still listening to 'Sing' regularly in a few weeks - or if it's even still anywhere in the chart in a few weeks - then maybe you're right, but I somehow doubt that.

 

There's also nothing to support the fact that the opinion that the majority find it awful. Out of the 60 million you're including children, unemployed, pensioners, no access to computers etc but i cant be bothered to go into that. Fact is Gary is doing fantastically and well done to him, fully deserved.

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by jay727

iTunes Chart Flashback: 5th June 2011 (Morning)

 

01| Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything

02| Example - Changed The Way You Kiss Me (Extended Mix #94)

03| Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat (Extended Mix #112)

04| Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar (also #39, #242)

05| Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

06| LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennet & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

07| Nicole Scherzinger - Right There (feat. 50 Cent #58)

08| Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

09| Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

10| Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne - I'm Into You

 

11| Alex Gaudino feat. Kelly Rowland - What A Feeling

12| Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi - Beautiful People (Felix Cartal Club Remix #97)

13| Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta - Sweat

14| Dev feat. The Cataracs - Bass Down Low (Tinie Tempah Remix) (also #223)

15| Templecloud - One Big Family

16| Rihanna - California King Bed

17| Jessie J - Nobody's Perfect (also #70)

18| Nicola Roberts - Beat Of My Drum

19| The Black Eyed Peas - Don't Stop The Party

20| Inna - Sun Is Up

 

21| Nicki Minaj - Super Bass

22| Swedish House Mafia - Save The World

23| David Guetta feat. Nicki Minaj & Flo Rida - Where Them Girls At

24| Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor (also #100, #210, #294)

25| Adele - Someone Like You

26| Chris Brown - Yeah 3X (also #188)

27| The Saturdays - Notorious

28| Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk

29| Katy B - Easy Please Me

30| Beyoncé - Run The World (Girls)

 

31| Lady GaGa - Judas (also #69)

32| Adele - Rolling In The Deep

33| Josh Groban - To Where You Are

34| Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

35| Lady GaGa - The Edge Of Glory (Album version) (also #121)

36| The Calling - Wherever You Will Go

37| Nicole Scherzinger - Don't Hold Your Breath (also #195)

38| Take That - Love Love

39| Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

40| Shakira feat. Freshlyground - Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)

 

Selected Others

 

49| LMFAO feat. Natalia Kills - Champagne Showers

67| Adele - Set Fire To The Rain

71| Linkin Park - Iridescent

75| Rihanna - Man Down

95| The Wombats - Techno Fan

98| Alexis Jordan - Hush Hush

 

132| Lil Wayne - How To Love

140| Wonderland - Starlight

141| Mike Posner feat. Lil Wayne - Bow Chicka Wow Wow

148| Ross Copperman - Holding On And Letting Go

 

202| Mann feat. Snoop Dogg & Iyaz - The Mack

219| Kanye West, Jay-Z, Bon Iver, Rick Ross & Nicki Minaj - Monster

293| Glee Cast - Back To Black (Glee Cast Version)

298| Far East Movement & Snoop Dogg - If I Was You (OMG)

 

Example later in the day rose up to number 1 and Coldplay rose up to number 4.

There's also nothing to support the fact that the opinion that the majority find it awful. Out of the 60 million you're including children, unemployed, pensioners etc but i cant be bothered to go into that. Fact is Gary is doing fantastically and well done to him, fully deserved.

 

Now isn't exactly the best time to judge whether or not people like it anyway - I guarantee a lot of the buyers of 'Sing' are just caught up in the moment and the patriotism of the Jubilee and won't be listening to 'Sing' any more even in a week's time. Like I say, if it can prove itself to be a sustained hit that actually stays high in the chart following all the Jubilee hype then maybe you have a point, but at the moment it's selling in its tens of thousands because it's related to the Jubilee (and isn't it a charity single as well?) and if the exact same song was released without the Jubilee connection it'd be doing far worse.

 

(Still, congratulations and whatnot to Gary Barlow and co. for turning this into such a success anyway, they clearly must have done something right, unlike 'Teardrop' which ompletely bombed despite its charity connection and having a line-up far more appealing to downloaders than a bunch of unknowns and the Military Wives...)

Edited June 4, 201213 yr by Bré

iTunes Chart Flashback: 5th June 2011 (Morning)

 

01| Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer - Give Me Everything

02| Example - Changed The Way You Kiss Me (Extended Mix #94)

03| Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat (Extended Mix #112)

04| Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar (also #39, #242)

05| Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall

06| LMFAO feat. Lauren Bennet & GoonRock - Party Rock Anthem

07| Nicole Scherzinger - Right There (feat. 50 Cent #58)

08| Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song

09| Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

10| Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne - I'm Into You

 

Right There and I'm Into You. :heart: :heart: Two of the best songs from that year imo.

 

Pitbull and Ne-Yo dominated so hard that summer. :drama: 12 weeks in the top 10! Let's Go and Back In Time aren't doing that well in comparison really. :lol:

 

Give Me Everything must be close to a million now. I wasn't even sure it would go top 40 when I first heard it!

Edited June 5, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob

85% combined is massive, well done Gary, is that the biggest lead we have seen on itunes?