I have a feeling that The Weeknd is going to pip Michael/Captain Tom at the last minute :drama: There has been no late surge yet for downloads it seems and even the fact Captain Tom got awarded the Pride Of Britain award today hasn’t caused media to talk about the single etc.,

I have a feeling that The Weeknd is going to pip Michael/Captain Tom at the last minute :drama: There has been no late surge yet for downloads it seems and even the fact Captain Tom got awarded the Pride Of Britain award today hasn’t caused media to talk about the single etc.,

There has been a HUGE boost for Captain Tom on iTunes in the latest update!

the occ are doing their bit to help too... the article says the difference today is "a few thousands"

 

 

 

Captain Tom Moore's race for Number 1 looks to be going right down to the wire as The Weeknd’s Blinding Lights is forecast to overtake the 99 year-old war veteran during the course of today, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

Downloads of You'll Never Walk Alone, Captain Tom’s duet with Michael Ball and The NHS Voices of Care Choir in aid of NHS Charities Together, have slowed down across the week, allowing The Weeknd's Blinding Lights to quickly catch up. While Captain Tom leads on this morning’s latest Official Charts sales flash, just a few thousand chart sales now separate the two songs.

 

The Weeknd’s reigning chart topper is proving a major powerhouse on streaming services, and with more streaming data to be added in at the end of the week, the Official Charts Company forecast this will tip the lead in favour of The Weeknd during the course of today. At this late stage of the week a Number 1 single is looking less likely for Captain Tom by the time tomorrow’s chart is published.

 

Downloads of You'll Never Walk Alone would need to accelerate significantly throughout today if it is still to be in with a chance of securing Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart for the 99 year-old war veteran’s 100th birthday.

 

The cut-off for sales and streams to count towards this week’s chart is midnight tonight. The final Official Chart Top 40 will be unveiled on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart with Scott Mills this Friday from 4pm, with the full Official Singles Chart Top 100 published on OfficialCharts.com from 5.45pm.

They certainly are trying to help! Not often do they give a "forecast" on Thursday for who will be number one :lol:

 

I do wonder how much 'a few thousand' might be as well, I find it unlikely that BL suddenly closed the gap by around 15k if it only managed 11k yesterday with missing data added too :thinking:

The download surge is back in full force so I wouldn’t worry tbh x

That 'few thousand' is probably going to turn out to be like 10k+, they're just being overdramatic I reckon. x

 

In any case the final day boost for YNWA is coming through now (it was always bound to happen somehow even if that one Michael Ball tweet yesterday seemed to have nearly no effect) so it should very much still be safe.

 

Just noticed the title of that OCC article is 'The Weeknd now expected to dash Captain Tom Moore's Number 1 hopes' :lol: definitely overdramatic...

Nothing like the OCC to get a chart battle into action and those extra paid for sales. Zoe Ball has just tweeted about it telling people it’s close and to download.

pretty sure it's not that close today

 

it's also funny how the occ tells people to go download the NHS single, they know no one is streaming it

Presumably they also know that Thursday streams don't actually count for anything... :kink:

 

(not from the biggest streaming services anyway)

Also a stream isn't going to give anything to the charity and it's obviously easier to make up a chart sale by purchasing than it is to stream.

According to LivePop the ratio is,

1:0.4849187935

So YNWA downloading is over twice The Weeknd.

I’d love it if Captain Tom was #1 then The Weeknd went back to #1 getting that fourth run at the top.

Has a #1 single ever had four separate runs at the top (not counting Three Lions)?

Has a #1 single ever had four separate runs at the top (not counting Three Lions)?

no - the weeknd would be the first to do it in one chart run.

Are Thursday YouTube and Spotify streams not included in the final pubished chart?

Are Thursday YouTube and Spotify streams not included in the final pubished chart?

 

No, they estimate Thursday streams based on what the tracks done through the week.

no - the weeknd would be the first to do it in one chart run.

That would be quite the record!

no - the weeknd would be the first to do it in one chart run.

 

has someone done it in separate chart ones? who was it?

has someone done it in separate chart ones? who was it?

as chart jack mentioned - 'three lions'

 

(twice in 1996, then 1998 and 2018)