Posted November 14, 20213 yr Since nobody has come forward to host a quiz this week, having checked with Wardy, I've put together a simple, minimal-effort Chart Predictions quiz. There are ten questions to answer and the scoring for each answer is shown. These questions all relate to the chart announced on Friday 26th November. Answers needed to be submitted strictly by 10am on Monday 22nd November (i.e. well before any midweek sales information is available). You may want to wait until First Look is revealed on Sunday to help you make your predictions, although if you want to send in your predictions earlier and then amend them before the deadline that's fine. The first five questions relate to the album chart and the remaining five questions relate to the singles chart. 1. How many copies will Adele's '30' sell in its opening week? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) 2. Who will have the second highest new entry on the album chart behind Adele? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if your answer is the third highest entry, 3 if your answer is the fourth highest entry, nothing otherwise) 3. How many copies will the #10 album sell? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) 4. How many Greatest Hits collections will there be in the Top 100? * (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) 5. How many new entries will there be in the top 10? ^ (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) 6. Who will be at number one in the singles chart? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if your answer is at #2, 3 if your answer is at #3, nothing otherwise) 7. How many copies will the number one single sell? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) 8. What number will 'Tell Me Something Good' be? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) 9. How many songs in the Top 40 will be on ACR? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) 10. How many Christmas songs will there be in the Top 100? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) * In the event that there is some ambiguity over what counts as a greatest hits collection, I will have the final decision on this matter! ^ Re-entries do not count as new entries. In the interests of fairness, I won't be taking part in this quiz as I'd have the unfair advantage of knowing everyone else's predictions. I think that's about it. PM me your answers by the deadline of 10am on Monday 22nd November. Edited November 14, 20213 yr by Mangø
November 14, 20213 yr Great idea Mangø! Thanks for filling the void. FYI I’m planning to start my intros quiz for the following week this coming Friday.
November 17, 20213 yr Author Just giving this a lil bump. Though I guess most people are gonna wait for First Look on Sunday before submitting their answers.
November 17, 20213 yr I could have a stab at this earlier, although First Look will definitely influence my final answer for Q8 and maybe some of the other singles questions, while we sometimes get early sales flashes for the top album or two over the weekend.
November 19, 20213 yr Author Another bump. Predictions have started coming in but just to remind you, the deadline is 10am on Monday - although if you could get them in to me on Sunday evening that would be a massive help.
November 21, 20213 yr Author 8 entries in so far. Remember you have strictly until 10am tomorrow to submit your predictions.
November 22, 20213 yr Author Predictions have been submitted as follows... 1. How many copies will Adele's '30' sell in its opening week? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) Coffin A Feel: 235000 | rio309: 288850 | chrissmith276: 506000 | PeteFromLeeds: 700000 | n4yr: 326713 | Doctor Blind: 285450 | jimwatts: 262144 | LewisGT: 263000 | Ansel: 300000 | JulianT: 248000 | Jade: 337000 | Danvember: 269000 2. Who will have the second highest new entry on the album chart behind Adele? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if your answer is the third highest entry, 3 if your answer is the fourth highest entry, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: Ed Sheeran | rio309: James Blunt | chrissmith276: D-Block Europe | PeteFromLeeds: Elbow | n4yr: D-Block Europe | Doctor Blind: Elbow | jimwatts: Elbow | LewisGT: Oasis | Ansel: Elbow | JulianT: Elbow | Jade: Oasis | Danvember: Elbow 3. How many copies will the #10 album sell? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) Coffin A Feel: 10000 | rio309: 10250 | chrissmith276: 9678 | PeteFromLeeds: 10500 | n4yr: 8724 | Doctor Blind: 8500 | jimwatts: 8192 | LewisGT: 9000 | Ansel: 6000 | JulianT: 7800 | Jade: 5770 | Danvember: 8500 4. How many Greatest Hits collections will there be in the Top 100? * (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: 6 | rio309: 12 | chrissmith276: 21 | PeteFromLeeds: 10 | n4yr: 12 | Doctor Blind: 9 | jimwatts: 24 | LewisGT: 21 | Ansel: 21 | JulianT: 19 | Jade: 23 | Danvember: 21 5. How many new entries will there be in the top 10? ^ (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: 3 | rio309: 3 | chrissmith276: 3 | PeteFromLeeds: 6 | n4yr: 4 | Doctor Blind: 7 | jimwatts: 5 | LewisGT: 5 | Ansel: 3 | JulianT: 6 | Jade: 4 | Danvember: 5 6. Who will be at number one in the singles chart? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if your answer is at #2, 3 if your answer is at #3, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: Adele | rio309: Adele | chrissmith276: Adele | PeteFromLeeds: Adele | n4yr: Adele | Doctor Blind: Adele | jimwatts: Adele | LewisGT: Adele | Ansel: Adele | JulianT: Adele | Jade: Adele | Danvember: Adele 7. How many copies will the number one single sell? (points: 10, 8, 6, 4 and 2 for the five closest guesses respectively) Coffin A Feel: 72000 | rio309: 116750 | chrissmith276: 92000 | PeteFromLeeds: 78000 | n4yr: 98132 | Doctor Blind: 87500 | jimwatts: 98304 | LewisGT: 85000 | Ansel: 100000 | JulianT: 94000 | Jade: 98000 | Danvember: 78000 8. What number will 'Tell Me Something Good' be? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: 7 | rio309: 15 | chrissmith276: 13 | PeteFromLeeds: 15 | n4yr: 15 | Doctor Blind: 13 | jimwatts: 16 | LewisGT: 17 | Ansel: 16 | JulianT: 17 | Jade: 19 | Danvember: 16 9. How many songs in the Top 40 will be on ACR? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: 23 | rio309: 4 | chrissmith276: 9 | PeteFromLeeds: 7 | n4yr: 7 | Doctor Blind: 8 | jimwatts: 9 | LewisGT: 8 | Ansel: 8 | JulianT: 8 | Jade: 5 | Danvember: 6 10. How many Christmas songs will there be in the Top 100? (points: 10 if correct, 6 if 1 out, 3 if 2 out, nothing otherwise) Coffin A Feel: 10 | rio309: 3 | chrissmith276: 16 | PeteFromLeeds: 6 | n4yr: 7 | Doctor Blind: 12 | jimwatts: 10 | LewisGT: 9 | Ansel: 6 | JulianT: 13 | Jade: 5 | Danvember: 9 Edited November 22, 20213 yr by Mangø
November 22, 20213 yr Quite a spread of guesses for most of those! Intrigued to see how it pans out. Suspect I've cocked up on the Christmas and new entries questions
November 23, 20213 yr A few observations on this from yesterday's mids (aware that today's could drop any minute or not at all): Q1: All to play for, though mine is the 3rd lowest guess and I'll get nothing if the #1 (whoever that is) does 282k or more. Q2: Looks a good call by Lewis and Jade, not so much the rest of us. No one went for Plant & Krauss which looks like it'll be 2nd, and I'm not feeling confident about Elbow hanging onto 3rd, think DBE will snatch it. Q3: With the #5 already on 13.5k, think I might have gone too low here and I'll get nothing if the #10 does at least 9k. Q4: Surprised my guess was the highest, that's about as many as I thought there were in last week's chart. There were about 17 in the mids so I've probably gone too high, though I'd expect a few to come back in by Friday. Q5: This one's going better for me, though I expected last week's top 5 new entries to hold up a bit more - maybe an older album will come to the rescue instead. Q6: Looks like points all round, yay, do we get extra points if Adele has the #2 and #3 as well? :lol: Q7: I went 3rd highest - will get some points if the #1 does at least 93k, but would have to be within less than 1k to get maximum points with others guessing very close by! Q8: I hadn't factored in the CIN single dropping like a stone. I actually hope I'm wrong and it is #15 for a 4th week in a row as that would be a first (it'll probably be #14 now I've said that). Q9: Surprised to be joint highest. From the mids it looks like I'm spot on, but all of #39 to #43 are on ACR so it could go either way. Q10: Looks like I've gone too low here, even allowing for the weekend boost wearing off, but could still scrape a few points maybe.
November 23, 20213 yr Oops had not read properly that #5 was related to album chart.... Me neither!! that’s what I get for blitzing through it at the last minute (…glad Oasis was a good choice elsewhere though!)
November 24, 20213 yr Only just remembered this quiz today and gutted I forgot to enter. Sorry Mango! :(
November 25, 20213 yr Author So I'm not sure when I'm going to do the results for this. Obviously the chart will be announced tomorrow but I'm out tomorrow night and Saturday night (I'm making up for the last 18 months lol) so I'll hopefully have a chance to do it on Sunday night.
November 25, 20213 yr I guess we don’t strictLy need a host to work out the results for this one. ^_^
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