So excited to see LM surpass Elvis today! :D

I really don't understand how people get excited by such a trivial thing.

I really don't understand how people get excited by such a trivial thing.

 

Neither do I, but everybody's got their own thing I guess.

Hope Michael & Alfie can hang onto the #1 position

I think it's pretty certain for this week - hope they make 90k at least!

Little Mix closing the gap on Rolling Stones! I wonder if they can overtake by Friday?

 

Really hope so!

I'd say they have a very good chance - I'm surprised the Rolling Stones have held up so well this week - ok for 70k more sales!

Hope so too!

I really don't understand how people get excited by such a trivial thing.

Neither do I, but everybody's got their own thing I guess.

Guys it's a chart thread, people are allowed to be excited by their faves being higher! :P Seems a bit pointless to moan about it really!

I really don't understand how people get excited by such a trivial thing.

Neither do I, but everybody's got their own thing I guess.

 

It's a chart forum, pretty much the only purpose of this thread is the discuss the movement of the potential chart. We should encourage activity on the forum, as long as it's friendly and not spam.

 

Edit: Oops, Joseph beat me to it.

Top 5 flash:

 

Singles

1. Clean Bandit (42.1k)

2. Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki (32.4k)

3. Matt Terry (30.4k)

4. Rag 'n' Bone man

5. Weeknd

 

Albums

1. Michael & Alfie (66.8k)

2. Rolling Stones (49.8k)

3. Little Mix (44.4k)

4. Elvis

5. Olly

 

Little Mix's Touch is up to #29 and for BigMixer and the other Gaga stans, Million Reasons is up at #35.

so less than 9k for Matt yesterday

Looking like Rolling Stones will stay number 2.

Little Mix's Touch is up to #29 and for BigMixer and the other Gaga stans, Million Reasons is up at #35.

 

Great news! Thanks.

 

I don't think last night's iTunes boost is counted in this update, so Gaga might end up being a bit higher.

 

LM coming for that top 20 debut :dance:

Edited December 14, 20169 yr by BigMixer

Top 5 flash:

 

Singles

1. Clean Bandit (42.1k)

2. Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki (32.4k)

3. Matt Terry (30.4k)

4. Rag 'n' Bone man

5. Weeknd

Based on those sales (and assuming 5k missing streaming for Clean Bandit yesterday) it looks like both Louis and Matt are going to end up within a couple of thousand sales of #1 on Friday if all continue to sell at the same rate - it's going to be very close!

Matt should over take Louis now

I'm so surprised at how quickly the X Factor winner singles fell out of favour. Ben Haenow's track still seemed pretty big with 214,000 copies on its first week and then suddenly we went right down to under 40k for Louisa's opening week and Matt will barely sell 5k more than that, even though it's a decent enough song and he was a relatively popular winner.

I'm so surprised at how quickly the X Factor winner singles fell out of favour. Ben Haenow's track still seemed pretty big with 214,000 copies on its first week and then suddenly we went right down to under 40k for Louisa's opening week and Matt will barely sell 5k more than that, even though it's a decent enough song and he was a relatively popular winner.

and where is ben haenow now? proof that those sales were inflated, not indicative of his market potential

and where is ben haenow now? proof that those sales were inflated, not indicative of his market potential

 

Yeah but my point was that the initial impact of the show's winners singles has suddenly evaporated after being reliably consistently huge for a decade.

Based on those sales (and assuming 5k missing streaming for Clean Bandit yesterday) it looks like both Louis and Matt are going to end up within a couple of thousand sales of #1 on Friday if all continue to sell at the same rate - it's going to be very close!

 

I think Matt will need a big boost in streams today/tomorrow to make it this week. If I've worked it out right he's doing about 2-3k more per day than Clean Bandit but there's not enough days to take over now I think.

 

Next week though God knows what's going to happen. Still can't decide whether the Jo Cox one is going to be big or not.

Edited December 14, 20169 yr by AcerBen

I'm so surprised at how quickly the X Factor winner singles fell out of favour. Ben Haenow's track still seemed pretty big with 214,000 copies on its first week and then suddenly we went right down to under 40k for Louisa's opening week and Matt will barely sell 5k more than that, even though it's a decent enough song and he was a relatively popular winner.

 

Firstly, singles sales had shrunk by about 20% in between those two releases.

Secondly, Ben's song was uplifting and suited his style and voice. Louisa's failed on all those counts, so people just weren't interested.