I'm predicting One Direction will drop to #3 by midday and #4 by this evening (possibly further). It will be interesting to see whether their performance can 'save' them. I think destined for another #3 hit with this; but I hope they get #2 or #4 just for something different in their discography!

Edited February 20, 201312 yr by APRIL minaJ

Rumour has it Emeli is singing Clown on the BRITs tonight. Could she do an Adele and hit #1?

Is the Explosions advert still being shown? I'm trying to work out if the sudden iTunes rise is still due to the advert, the reduced price or the fact that she is getting radio play (or a combination of all 3)

Combination of all three i would say - blist on radio 1!

 

Skyfall top 30 before the brits - could go top 20 if it does well tonight and the dvd only on sale this week!!

Edited February 20, 201312 yr by steve201

Is the Explosions advert still being shown? I'm trying to work out if the sudden iTunes rise is still due to the advert, the reduced price or the fact that she is getting radio play (or a combination of all 3)

 

Yeah, the advert is on all the time

I hope Mariah does well with this - first song by her for years that I've actually liked (Don't Forget About Us was the last one)

iTunes Update

 

[02] 01| Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop

[01] 02| One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)

[03] 03| Bauuer - Harlem Shake

[04] 04| Avicii & Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One

[05] 05| Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man

[06] 06| Rihanna (ft. Mikky Ekko) - Stay

[07] 07| Disclosure (ft. AlunaGeorge) - White Noise

[10] 08| Ellie Goulding - Explosions

[08] 09| Justin Timberlake (ft. Jay-Z) - Suit & Tie

[09] 10| Calvin Harris (ft. Tinie Tempah) - Drinking From The Bottle

 

[11] 11| Emeli Sandé - Clown

[12] 12| Dizzee Rascal - Bassline Junkie

[13] 13| Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble

[15] 14| The Lumineers - Ho Hey

[16] 15| Little Mix - Change Your Life

[17] 16| will.i.am (ft. Britney Spears) - Scream & Shout

[23] 17| Pink - Just Give Me A Reason

[18] 18| Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)

[19] 19| Rita Ora - Radioactive

[14] 20| Gabrielle Aplin - Please Don't Say You Love Me

 

[25] 21| Olly Murs - Army Of Two

[20] 22| Bingo Players (ft. Far East Movement) - Get Up (Rattle)

[26] 23| One Direction - Kiss You

[22] 24| Baauer - Harlem Shake

[21] 25| Drake - Started From The Bottom

[27] 26| James Arthur - Impossible

[24] 27| Foals - My Number

[28] 28| Zedd (ft. Foxes) - Clarity

[38] 29| The Script - If You Could See Me Now

[32] 30| Adele - Skyfall

 

[29] 31| Lawson - Learn To Love Again

[31] 32| Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

[30] 33| Pitbull (ft. TJR) - Don't Stop The Party

[33] 34| Justin Timberlake - Mirrors

[36] 35| Lil Wayne (ft. Drake & Future) - Love Me

[39] 36| Stereophonics - Indian Summer

[41] 37| The 1975 - Chocolate

[34] 38| Rihanna - Diamonds

[35] 39| Imagine Dragons - Radioactive

[42] 40| Example - Perfect Replacement

 

Selected Others:

 

[47] 41| Tyler James (ft. Kano) - Worry About You

[51] 54| Ke$ha - C'mon

[**] 69| Mariah Carey - Almost Home

Does anyone else think Macklemore could 'do a Gotye'? i.e. he'll have one week at #1, another front-loaded song knocks him off for 1 week and then he returns for multiple weeks? Looking at the release schedule nothing is looking to knock him off until Icona Pop/The Saturdays week (and they'll only do well if they get big airplay).

Does anyone else think Macklemore could 'do a Gotye'? i.e. he'll have one week at #1, another front-loaded song knocks him off for 1 week and then he returns for multiple weeks? Looking at the release schedule nothing is looking to knock him off until Icona Pop/The Saturdays week (and they'll only do well if they get big airplay).

 

But the difference is that he'll/they'll likely have a (multiple) pretty successful hit(s) after.

Does anyone else think Macklemore could 'do a Gotye'? i.e. he'll have one week at #1, another front-loaded song knocks him off for 1 week and then he returns for multiple weeks? Looking at the release schedule nothing is looking to knock him off until Icona Pop/The Saturdays week (and they'll only do well if they get big airplay).

 

I think so! What's funny is how I Could Be The One debuted at #1 on the same week that Hot Right Now went to #1 in 2012, Macklemore is definitely this year's Gotye :lol: Of course there is the possibility of the BRITS having an effect on the #1 single, or Baauer climbing to #1.

One of today's papers suggest Muse will open the Brits with Supremacy and Emeli Sande will close with Clown. Both could do well afterwards.

Yay at Muse opening but Emeli closing is surely going to be a bit of a non-event? It's hardly "Someone Like You". (I know that didn't close the show by the way)

People will just turn off when ms boring and overexposed comes on to close the show

People will just turn off when ms boring and overexposed comes on to close the show

 

Speaking of people calling Emeli overexposed, I read this article yesterday about her opinion on that subject matter: http://www.gigwise.com/news/79662/emeli-sa...-is-overexposed

 

She has a fair point tbf. :angel:

One of today's papers suggest Muse will open the Brits with Supremacy and Emeli Sande will close with Clown. Both could do well afterwards.

 

They can't end with Clown, they normally end with something fun or happy. Taylor Swift would be a good choice to close the show! Look at the past two years: they ended with Cee Lo Green/Paloma Faith and Blur - hardly a piano ballad ending.

I believe that 1D will top the chart after the Brits, all of the performances will end up top 20!

 

Does anyone else think Macklemore could 'do a Gotye'? i.e. he'll have one week at #1, another front-loaded song knocks him off for 1 week and then he returns for multiple weeks? Looking at the release schedule nothing is looking to knock him off until Icona Pop/The Saturdays week (and they'll only do well if they get big airplay).

 

Yeah said this when Thrift Shop was charging up the chart but its not quite selling as much as Gotye was, you never know though!!

Yeah said this when Thrift Shop was charging up the chart but its not quite selling as much as Gotye was, you never know though!!

 

It may not be selling as much, but it's having too similar a chart run!

Speaking of people calling Emeli overexposed, I read this article yesterday about her opinion on that subject matter: http://www.gigwise.com/news/79662/emeli-sa...-is-overexposed

 

She has a fair point tbf. :angel:

She does, after all being a self-publicist and an attention seeker is part of the job description for a pop star and she's far from the worst. It's just that her management can't seem to decide whether they want her to be a ubiquitous pop star or a likeable songstress, and for the latter she probably is overexposed.

It may not be selling as much, but it's having too similar a chart run!

 

 

Yeah but the 15-20k less sales may mean that its chart run gets ruined by held back releases. Same with Avicii it sold 94k this time last week whereas Hot Right Now sold 127k - less popular songs this year!