Robbie is 6?

Considering how that shitty rag treated George Michael, they've got a nerve to demand the re-release of his music so they can stick their logo all over it.

 

http://www.nme.com/news/music/wham-careles...reissue-1925012

You are spot on and credit to Andrew Ridgeley, he was often criticized but he has shown commendable judgement in this case.

Would be i fun - I'm def a fan of not just playing Xmas songs until Xmas day but playing them through the holiday season. Would love to see if we have a huge Xmas hit in future years to see I it falls as quick as other Xmas songs do on the chart. Leona was maybe the best modern example when it fell slow enough (on iTunes at least for a Christmas track)!

The best one was back in 1985 when Radio 1 were still playing 'Do They Know It's Christmas' and 'Last Christmas' on the chart show in late February because both were still in the top 40.

 

Really - I thought that the BBC only played the new entries and climbers between 40-21 back then?

 

Plus “Everything She Wants” was on the double A so they could switch to the less festive half of the single after the big day. :P

I assumed they would switch to Everything She Wants in January 1985 as well, still Band Aid is February would have been a lot of fun!!

I hope James Arthur will do one so that his new song (Safe Inside) will start to get somewhere

Ball/Boe are only 4.99 most places. Must be close at the top - hard to know about sales as Friday and Saturday will ne huge whereas the rest of the week slow - maybe 55k for no1?

I think it will be higher than 55K as many people (such as me) has spent their iTunes gift voucher, hmv voucher and money on music

I think it will be higher than 55K as many people (such as me) has spent their iTunes gift voucher, hmv voucher and money on music

 

Plus the chart includes the 23rd and 24th, when tons of last-minute buys will have been made!

I had taken those days into account but literally plucked the figure out of the air - I always think album sales will be lower than I think so tried to make a lower guess!

Really - I thought that the BBC only played the new entries and climbers between 40-21 back then?

 

Plus “Everything She Wants” was on the double A so they could switch to the less festive half of the single after the big day. :P

I'd forgotten that Radio 1 switched to playing the remix of 'Everything She Wants' after the New Year. And I'd also forgotten that R1 often (though not always) only played climbers and new entries between numbers 21-40 prior to the chart programme extending its hours to two and a half and then three hours.

 

I assumed they would switch to Everything She Wants in January 1985 as well, still Band Aid is February would have been a lot of fun!!

The other strange chart feat was 'All I Want For Christmas Is You' by Mariah re-entering the top 75 (along with 'Please Come Home For Christmas' by Bon Jovi) a month before Easter in 1995! Bon Jovi's record came very close to re-entering the top 40 when it crashed back into the chart dated 4 March 1995 at number 46. That would have made for a strange re-entry had it charted 6 places higher... or even 2 places hiher as there was a corrected chart compiled that week and the chart that was available when the Top 40 was broadcast had Bon Jovi at number 42.

 

I'm guessing the re-entries were caused by the record labels distributing left over stock just to get rid of it.

Even a new Adele Xmas song for example would probably fall away quickly in the modern era, it's just not the sort of thing people are going to download or stream past late December.

 

The physical era was different because everybody likes a bargain, and this probably kept seasonal songs hanging around for a lot longer. For example Asda used to sell off ex-chart singles for 1p even as late as the early 00s...it was worth it for the spare CD case alone even if you didn't care for the song! And they were still chart eligible!

Even a new Adele Xmas song for example would probably fall away quickly in the modern era, it's just not the sort of thing people are going to download or stream past late December.

 

The physical era was different because everybody likes a bargain, and this probably kept seasonal songs hanging around for a lot longer. For example Asda used to sell off ex-chart singles for 1p even as late as the early 00s...it was worth it for the spare CD case alone even if you didn't care for the song! And they were still chart eligible!

That was the reason why the OCC brought in the "sell-off singles" rule which applied from around 2002 to April 2005 whereby an ex-top 40 single would be excluded from the chart for 6 or so weeks if it outperformed the market by 5% or more unless the label could prove that the sales increase was geniuine and not due to the single being sold off cheaply. It led to a number of records being excluded from the chart including famously when 'Cannonball' by Damien Rice was excluded from the chart in error in August 2004 despite the fact that it was not an ex-top 40 single at the time and should have been inside the top 40 the week it was accidentally removed from the chart. The following week it was allowed back on to the chart after the label complained and was shown as a re-entry at number 40.

 

Sooo excited to tomorrow chart. Hope Little Mix are no. 1 with Glory Days, will be exciting if they get number 1 for a third week