That's because Louisa is falling faster than JB is selling.

 

 

Exactly, white means it's holding steady. In relation to Louisa who is obviously dropping rapidly, hence why his Kworb number is getting closer to hers.

Ok thanks I understand now.

Fingers crossed, I suppose they'll be low sales battles between already long-charting songs from now on, as few people will wait to release huge smashes on Xmas week.

 

If they do they'll be OA/OS, so only the very biggest artists would be able to get a Xmas No.1 debut. And I can't see the biggest artists leaving a single debut to Xmas week as they'll release their music earlier in Q4 to rack up album sales.

I wonder if ITV will do the same Xmas week release trick with The Voice, or whether they'll screen it at a different time of the year. Either way, the public are well and truly sick of winners singles from these shows by the looks of it, so it's doubtful they'll ever have the same impact again. It's just a shame that the decade of 'damage' is already done and now the Xmas No.1 is much less of 'a thing'/far less people care about it now. Hopefully the media can whip it into a big event again over the coming years.

 

Loadsa Xmas no1s in the past were released early in December and either managed to remain at no1 on the day itself or rapidly increase in sales as we edge closer to Xmas which if OAOS is still in place in the coming years will most likely happen. I doubt we will have songs like The Darkness in 2003 held back until Xmas week and have 1/2 huge weeks and falling quick more likely it'll be like say Mariahs original chart run - 5-{2}-2-2-8-28-50-59R(7)->8 or The Pogues in 1987 - Chart run: 40-19-8-{2}-2-4-19-39-68- 9!

 

2. Justin Bieber - Love Yourself 0.9073

 

3. Stormzy - Shut Up (Studio Version) 0.8005

 

Louisa could drop to #3 if her supporters don't get a move on!

Just realised that Louisa looking like missing #1 entirely buys me more time of being younger than every artist who's ever had a #1. Slayyy. (I assume this will finally be broken fairly early into 2016).

 

That happened to me way back in 2007 with Sean Kingston :( Unless you count that baby sun-face thing in Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh.

 

Interesting to see the X-Factor festive domination looks to be at an end. I genuinely didn't see a time when we'd ever have a non-charity, non-reality track for Christmas #1 ever again - even if X Factor went I assumed someone would knock together a quick charity single using some old song and a few mildly-famous singers every year. 'Love Yourself' isn't anywhere near an all-time classic but it's still probably the worthiest Xmas #1 since Mad World in 2003 for me. Even if I was firmly on Team Darkness that year :P

I'm guessing 'Love Yourself' will be back at number one on iTunes on early Thursday and will no doubt start building a lead strong enough to be #1 officially at Christmas, Louisa's physicals will not be strong enough to overcome Justin's streaming.

LOL

It's going to be this Wednesday morning.

Laughing so much with this X Factor flop. :yahoo:

How big is this facebook fanpage to get the Star Wars theme to number one

combined now...

Louisa 1.00

Love Yrself 0.99 :)

Louisa could drop to #3 if her supporters don't get a move on!

Or maybe her supporters are waiting till Friday to buy the song to get her to Xmas #1. Also, expect her sales to pick up from today as she's just released her physical equivalent

Or maybe her supporters are waiting till Friday to buy the song to get her to Xmas #1. Also, expect her sales to pick up from today as she's just released her physical equivalent

 

He was talking about iTunes, sales including streaming will very likely be worse than that.

I don't think 1000s of fans are waiting like the cavalry to save this one, her only saving grace is she has a full week next week and she is up against ever weakening competition. It would have been horrendous if a few more big names had released nearer Xmas.

combined now...

Louisa 1.00

Love Yrself 0.99 :)

is it sure it's going to be combined? Where is the second version from?

is it sure it's going to be combined? Where is the second version from?

 

Love Yourself has 2 entries in the top 60; one from the deluxe album and the other from the standard album so yeah off course they'll be combined

Edited December 16, 20159 yr by ElectroBoy

So Bieber has taken back No.1 already! ...

louisa down to #2

Louisa falling at a comical rate :lol:

I don't think this flop is going to affect her long-term viability. Remember Little Mix's winners' single did relatively poorly, they turned out just fine. It all depends on the strength of her actual material.

 

Are you sure. I thought Cannonball sold really well. It still remains their highest selling single

Are you sure. I thought Cannonball sold really well. It still remains their highest selling single

'Black Magic' says hello.

 

'Cannonball' ""only"" did about 210k first week which was quite the comedown from the 3 previous winners' efforts (Matt Cardle, Joe McElderry, Alexandra Burke), hence the 'flop' image it got. Of course later on 'Skyscraper' did even worse and now 'Forever Young' seems to be the biggest XF-Winner flop to date.

'Black Magic' and 'Wings' are both above 'Cannonball' in sales. In terms of coronation singles 'Cannonball' was, at the time, a disaster (it didn't help when the year after James Arthur's single became a monster hit).

 

I'm really loving 'Forever Young' atm. It reminds me a tiny bit of 'Footprints In the Sand'. I can see why people consider it one of the weakest efforts, but the more I listen to it, the more I'm loving it!

Just realised that Louisa looking like missing #1 entirely buys me more time of being younger than every artist who's ever had a #1. Slayyy. (I assume this will finally be broken fairly early into 2016).

 

Do you mean in relation to the current charts or the whole of it? cos I'm pretty sure Billie Piper was #1 when she was 15 with Because We Want To and Girlfriend (and 18 with Day and Night)

 

X Factor winners singles look like they've gone the way of charity singles where no one is really caring or buying them anymore (the song itself really has to connect), Little Mix have managed to survive Cannonball and Word Up so hopefully Louisea will get over this.

As much I hate to say this...rather Louisa than that little twerp #1.

The novelty of the X-Factor single has worn off, same with the songs from the John Lewis Christmas adverts which aren't doing as well as they used to