I was going to join you but isn't there a limit to streams counted per day or something?

Yes, ten plays per day. That leaves plenty of time to stream Wizzard, The Pogues, Jona Lewie and Sringsteen's Santa Claus Is Coming To Town :D

Heh heh, I'm sure I could listen to Slade, Mike Oldfield, Johnny Mathis, Greg Lake and Jona Lewie ten times a day until Christmas.

 

The campaign (and the madness) starts here!

Get that Santa Baby top 40 please for Kylie Xmas.......

 

just a quick question. How does an album get a stream in the chart? Do you need to listen to whole album all the way through at the same time for it to count?

I'll be streaming Slade all day long on Christmas Eve then :D

 

Only the first ten plays will count however.

this year is totally open

 

surprised there's no charity record or some campaign to get a random song to #1

 

Im kinda thinking that if Louisa wins XF she will be #1 for 3 weeks so will be Xmas #1

Re-recording and brand new catalogue number so sales will be split! The CD is on Amazon and should be on general sale. Proceeds go to the Salvation Army and aparently will be available from their shops too but I'd imagine those won't count towards the chart.

 

Just been reading the chart rules on the OCC site and something caught my eye:

 

4.1

Criteria for Combining Transactions

a Sales of different formats and variants of a single are combined for chart purposes where each format contains the featured song(s), and not the featured song(s) from any other chart single.

b For chart purposes, the sales of different formats are combined where they can reasonably be held to be variants or alternative formats of the same piece of product.

 

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In addition to 3 physical formats and 3 digital bundles, an unlimited number of digital variants of the featured song may be combined for a chart position.

Note: The featured song across all formats of a single need not be identical for their transactions to be combined, but should be substantially the same - that is, an identical OR extended OR remixed OR live OR alternative version of the basic song

 

Would this mean that sales of the new version - Echoes of Merry Christmas - could be combined with sales of the original version?

Edited November 28, 20159 yr by Shaky Fan

hopefully they are combined, as more people are gonna buy and stream the original I imagine so with the new version it could peak higher this year than it normally would.

Yeh I've no doubt radio 2 will playlist it in December tho!

Has the Xmas No.1 started to fade into irrelevance due to the X Factor's dominance of the last decade? Nobody seems to be releasing anything as a realistic competior to X Factor and the media don't seem that bothered about the race this year.

 

With X Factor releasing the week before the Xmas chart this year it would have been the perfect opportunity for a few major contenders to have a real battle, but there's nothing... :(

I wonder if the facebook campaign to get the Star Wars Theme to number one will inform people they have to stream the track a lot as well

Any sales-based competitor will need to overcome a streaming deficit worth 50-60k going by recent figures. I wonder how quickly the X Factor winner will pick up streams? If it sells something like 70k downloads and 15k streams in its second week (I can't imagine it's going to be a huge streaming smash) then something like Bieber could edge it out with 60k streams and 40k downloads.

I expect the X Factor Winner will be #1 this year. I'm not keen on the Eagles song at all so I don't want that to be #1. Getting the Star Wars theme to the top would be rather amusing :kink: but having Adele get it would be a bit boring IMO.

 

Aurora's song would be a great #1 though!

 

 

Grace would be Christmas #1 in an ideal world :angel:

If I were to put money on anyone right now it would be Justin Bieber. His streaming is insane so he should easily overtake the X Factor winner in her second week

Has the Xmas No.1 started to fade into irrelevance due to the X Factor's dominance of the last decade? Nobody seems to be releasing anything as a realistic competior to X Factor and the media don't seem that bothered about the race this year.

 

That plus the fact there is less interest in the chart in general nowadays (due to it being slower and there being a lot more music available). Also, the period after Christmas is now the biggest sales period of the year (due to the gift-card effect), whereas pre-downloads the biggest sales period was the run-up to Christmas (and thus there was more interest).

6/1 does seem like a good price for Bieber.

 

I have no idea how many sales the X factor winner will open with, ratings are down so much this year but Louisa does seem very popular.

All I know is that it looks like it will be incredibly BORING at the minute. 2003 is such a distant memory.