I find the figure of 700-900 in one HMV in one day pretty hard to believe -- maybe nation-wide?

 

Even in London's flagship store in Oxford St. I only saw about 50 copies of the One Direction single in stock and that was also definitely not flying off the shelves.

 

 

Where in the flagship are the singles kept? I can never find them. I'm popping there after work today.

 

Fascination - I'm not buying Baily's CD.

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by joepassmore

Nice to see Leona holding on well at #3 and extending her lead on Avicii by 300 copies. She should be safe for #3 come Sunday! Also happy that her album is holding up and not falling with each update. :D

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by Envoirment

Where in the flagship are the singles kept? I can never find them. I'm popping there after work today.

 

Well 1D's were lumped in with the pop&rock album section under One Direction (I was just browsing by the way :P ), but I'm sure Sam will have a stand near the front of the store to make her single stand out.

 

The last time I saw a proper singles display was HMV Inverness in September 2010. That was when I bought Hurts "Wonderful Life". RIP CD singles. :(

Well 1D's were lumped in with the pop&rock album section under One Direction (I was just browsing by the way :P ), but I'm sure Sam will have a stand near the front of the store to make her single stand out.

 

The last time I saw a proper singles display was HMV Inverness in September 2010. That was when I bought Hurts "Wonderful Life". RIP CD singles. :(

 

 

I found a few singles on a stand upstairs in the Regent Street Street HMV (if that's still open) last year. But I've never been as lucky on Oxford Street - but that store is somewhat of a jungle.

 

 

Well 1D's were lumped in with the pop&rock album section under One Direction (I was just browsing by the way :P ), but I'm sure Sam will have a stand near the front of the store to make her single stand out.

 

The last time I saw a proper singles display was HMV Inverness in September 2010. That was when I bought Hurts "Wonderful Life". RIP CD singles. :(

HMV in Leicester is jam packed with copies- I think she's doing a signing there tonight- no idea how it's selling.

Well 1D's were lumped in with the pop&rock album section under One Direction (I was just browsing by the way :P ), but I'm sure Sam will have a stand near the front of the store to make her single stand out.

 

 

And the gap in her teeth should stand out ;)

Am I right in thinking that if Leona stays where she is, it will be her fourth time in the Xmas top three, in the past eight years? A Moment Like This was the Xmas #1 in 2006 and I'm pretty sure that Bleeding Love and Run were still hanging around in the top three in 2007/8. That's a hugely impressive statistic and it's great to see her back there after a few years!

Am I right in thinking that if Leona stays where she is, it will be her fourth time in the Xmas top three, in the past eight years? That's a hugely impressive statistic!

 

Eight calendar years, but only 7 years between 'A Moment Like This' and 'One More Sleep'. (Saying 'only', it definitely doesn't feel like 7 years have passed since that). She was only even top 40 in one of the other 4 Christmas charts since though ('Happy' scraping in at #38 in the 2009 Christmas chart). 'Hurt' was #8 the week before Xmas 2011 but plummeted to #68 on the actual week.

Skyscraper physicals at 14.913 :rofl: gooddelta wins a free copy of Sam Bailey's Skyscraper, 87 copies out.

Skyscraper physicals at 14.913 :rofl: gooddelta wins a free copy of Sam Bailey's Skyscraper, 87 copies out.

 

14,913 after what 1 day on full widespread sale?

 

I now definitely think 700-900 must have been the nationwide Monday sales for HMV, not the total sales from just 1 HMV for that day.

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by Doctor Blind

14,913 after what 1 day on full widespread sale?

 

I now definitely think 700-900 must have been the nationwide Monday sales for HMV, not the total sales from just 1 HMV for that day.

 

 

My guess all the people in Leicester bought it :lol:

Thursday Mid Sales - X Factor winners

 

86,700 Sam Bailey "Skyscraper"

>80,000 Little Mix "Cannonball" (80k ahead of the #2)

115,100 Leon Jackson "When You Believe"

216,795 Joe McElderry "The Climb"

245,000 Matt Cardle "When We Collide"

289,200 Alexandra Burke "Hallelujah"

<360,000 Leona Lewis "A Moment Like This" (sales figure taken from Friday update)

<378,935 James Arthur "Impossible" (sales figure taken from Friday update)

 

So yeah, Sam definitely doing a lot worse than everyone else. 200k doesn't seem possible now, will it even outsell 150k is the question?

 

So going off this list, they'd all done half of their eventual full-week total by this stage (except Joe McElderry, although he might have got a boost towards the end of the week because of the battle with Rage Against the Machine?), so that definitely suggests 200k is out of the question. That will make it the lowest sales for a Xmas #1 since...... atleast 2002, and I think Girls Aloud might have managed to do it even then, although I can't remember exactly. Anyone know if Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman managed it?

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by Danny

My guess all the people in Leicester bought it :lol:

Incorrect :D

So going off this list, they'd all done half of their eventual full-week total by this stage (except Joe McElderry, although he might have got a boost towards the end of the week because of the battle with Rage Against the Machine?), so that definitely suggests 200k is out of the question. That will make it the lowest sales for a Xmas #1 since...... atleast 2002, and I think Girls Aloud might have managed to do it even then, although I can't remember exactly. Anyone know if Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman managed it?

110k- that's the last time the Xmas No 1 old under 200k in the Christmas week

For what its worth, I was in my local HMV this week and I didn't see any copies of Sam's single (and this is in Westfield's, which is extremely busy at this time of year).

 

Those sales are one big OUCH for X Factor, wasn't there a charity element to this as well? Not that it would hava made a massive difference, but I thought it would be over 100k midweek surely!

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by Father Walrus

I wonder if Tamera would have made a bigger impression if she won the X Factor.

I wonder if Tamera would have made a bigger impression if she won the X Factor.

 

Oh don't be ridiculous.

I was hoping more for leona, ohh well.. at lest it isn't flopping hard

What a shame. Rubbish sales to round off a rubbish series. I hope next week's chart throws up some nice surprises with the gift card effect.

So going off this list, they'd all done half of their eventual full-week total by this stage (except Joe McElderry, although he might have got a boost towards the end of the week because of the battle with Rage Against the Machine?), so that definitely suggests 200k is out of the question. That will make it the lowest sales for a Xmas #1 since...... atleast 2002, and I think Girls Aloud might have managed to do it even then, although I can't remember exactly. Anyone know if Robbie Williams & Nicole Kidman managed it?

Robbie and Nicole sold 110,000 to make Christmas number 1 back in 2001, the worst sale for a Christmas number 1 in the whole of the 00s... so far! Sam should beat this total though.

Edited December 19, 201312 yr by Robbie