Posted December 16, 20231 yr Welcome to the results of the last quiz of the current season, which consisted of a series of prediction questions related to the chart of 15/12. I'll try and rattle through these quickly! We had 15 participants in the end: jimwatts Bjork JulianT Maestro LiamSime Roba rio309 Dobbo conorw LewisGT Riser chrissmith276 paulgilb PeteFromLeeds Jord But whose predictive powers were the most impressive? Let's find out... Q1. Who will have the #1 single? Unsurprisingly, Wham! was the unanimous answer here, and... unsurprisingly, Wham! have this week's #1 one single! Which means that everyone is off to a 10-point start :cheer: Q2. How many sales will the #1 single get? Wham! got 48,643 sales at #1 this week, and everyone was in roughly the right ball park here, but the scores are awarded as follows: jimwatts - 49152 (509 out) - 10 points Bjork - 48000 (643 out) - 7 points JulianT - 48000 (643 out) - 7 points Maestro - 47000 (1643 out) - 7 points LiamSime - 50324 (1681 out) - 4 points Roba - 51431 (2788 out) - 4 points rio309 - 54350 (5707 out) - 4 points Dobbo - 55000 (6357 out) - 0 points conorw - 55390 (6747 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 58125 (9482 out) - 0 points Riser - 58473 (9830 out) - 0 points chrissmith276 - 59000 (10357 out) - 0 points paulgilb - 59875 (11232 out) - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - 60000 (11357 out) - 0 points Jord - 61000 (12357 out) - 0 points A very good prediction from jimwatts there!
December 16, 20231 yr Was almost sure I was gonna win that one half way through the week purely due to having the lowest guess, sales ended up being a bit better than I thought, still not too bad.
December 16, 20231 yr Nice start there! I think the only question where I really fell down is the #1 album sales, that might have cost me!
December 16, 20231 yr Author Q3. How many sales will the #10 single get? The number #10 single this week was Sam Ryder's festive offering 'You're Christmas To Me' and it sold 28,958. Very impressively, Bjork was only 42 away from the correct answer! Bjork - 29000 (42 out) - 10 points LiamSime - 28567 (391 out) - 7 points rio309 - 30101 (1143 out) - 7 points jimwatts - 27648 (1310 out) - 7 points paulgilb - 30764 (1806 out) - 4 points Riser - 30883 (1925 out) - 4 points JulianT - 27000 (1958 out) - 4 points Roba - 26963 (1995 out) - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - 31000 (2042 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 31000 (2042 out) - 0 points conorw - 31025 (2067 out) - 0 points Maestro - 26000 (2958 out) - 0 points Jord - 33000 (4042 out) - 0 points Dobbo - 24000 (4958 out) - 0 points chrissmith276 - 22000 (6958 out) - 0 points
December 16, 20231 yr Author Q4. How many Christmas songs will be in the top 100? There were a total of 52 songs in the top 100 this week (less than most people predicted), as signified by the number of Christmas tree emojis in the top 100 sales thread (count them if you need to!) A couple of people were only 1 away from the correct answer but JulianT was bang on with 52! JulianT - 52 (0 out) - 10 points Maestro - 51 (1 out) - 7 points Riser - 51 (1 out) - 7 points LiamSime - 54 (2 out) - 7 points jimwatts - 54 (2 out) - 7 points PeteFromLeeds - 56 (4 out) - 4 points paulgilb - 58 (6 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 60 (8 out) - 0 points Roba - 60 (8 out) - 0 points rio309 - 61 (9 out) - 0 points Bjork - 42 (10 out) - 0 points conorw - 64 (12 out) - 0 points Dobbo - 66 (14 out) - 0 points Jord - 68 (16 out) - 0 points chrissmith276 - 69 (17 out) - 0 points Edited December 16, 20231 yr by Mangø
December 16, 20231 yr Author Q5. What position will 'Houdini' by Dua Lipa be? 'Houdini' was a non-mover at #31 this week (although without the Christmas songs she would have been #7 so I fully expect her to return to the top 10 in a couple of weeks). No one got this one spot on, so no one gets the full 10 points. We had a handful of quite close guesses but also some which were wildly out! jimwatts - 32 (1 out) - 7 points Bjork - 33 (2 out) - 7 points JulianT - 33 (2 out) - 7 points Maestro - 28 (3 out) - 4 points Jord - 37 (6 out) - 0 points rio309 - 39 (8 out) - 0 points LiamSime - 39 (8 out) - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - 41 (10 out) - 0 points Riser - 41 (10 out) - 0 points Roba - 42 (11 out) - 0 points paulgilb - 42 (11 out) - 0 points Dobbo - 43 (12 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 48 (17 out) - 0 points chrissmith276 - 52 (21 out) - 0 points conorw - 72 (41 out) - 0 points Edited December 16, 20231 yr by Mangø
December 16, 20231 yr Author And now we move on to the questions relating to the albums chart. Q1. Who will have the #1 album? The Killers were always the favourites this week, and indeed 11 out of 15 of you went for them. And of course they did indeed emerge victorious, so lots of points all round! chrissmith276 - The Killers - 10 points LiamSime - The Killers - 10 points Maestro - The Killers - 10 points paulgilb - The Killers - 10 points Jord - The Killers - 10 points Riser - The Killers - 10 points Bjork - The Killers - 10 points conorw - The Killers - 10 points jimwatts - The Killers - 10 points Dobbo - The Killers - 10 points JulianT - The Killers - 10 points rio309 - Rod Stewart & Jools - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - Michael Bublé - 0 points LewisGT - Michael Bublé - 0 points Roba - Michael Bublé - 0 points Edited December 16, 20231 yr by Mangø
December 16, 20231 yr Author Apologies for running this on a Saturday night when not many people are around, but I'm going to leave it there for tonight. I'll pick this up again at some point tomorrow, although I've got a few things going on, so I can't say exactly when!
December 16, 20231 yr I did initially have Killers down but stupidly changed to Bublé oops. That'll teach me and was kinda expecting most of the regular chart hits to keep tumbling for some reason hence the 42 for Dua guess oops. Nevermind!
December 16, 20231 yr Author I probably should have had a go at doing this myself before the results came in but I was thinking the same for Dua, I definitely would have predicted outside the top 40!
December 17, 20231 yr I'd've stolen 4 of PeteFromLeeds' points and gotten 10 points for the Killers so far had I submitted on time, not terrible but not a tragic loss so far, did terrible on nearly every other question if I'm not mistaken
December 17, 20231 yr Author I'd've stolen 4 of PeteFromLeeds' points and gotten 10 points for the Killers so far had I submitted on time, not terrible but not a tragic loss so far, did terrible on nearly every other question if I'm not mistaken Yeah, I've scored your predictions separately, I'll let you know at the end where you would have finished.
December 17, 20231 yr Author Q2. How many sales will the #1 album get? Answer: more than I expected. Or to be more precise: 25,360. Closest this time was rio309, who was only 140 sales away! paulgilb, on the other hand, was clearly a little too optimistic. rio309 - 25500 (140 out) - 10 points Bjork - 24000 (1360 out) - 7 points chrissmith276 - 27000 (1640 out) - 7 points Maestro - 27000 (1640 out) - 7 points Jord - 27000 (1640 out) - 7 points JulianT - 28000 (2640 out) - 4 points Dobbo - 18000 (7360 out) - 4 points LiamSime - 17421 (7939 out) - 0 points jimwatts - 16384 (8976 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 16000 (9360 out) - 0 points Roba - 15441 (9919 out) - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - 15000 (10360 out) - 0 points Riser - 15000 (10360 out) - 0 points conorw - 14955 (10405 out) - 0 points paulgilb - 43765 (18405 out) - 0 points (Incidentally, only two people pick up 4 points here due to a three-way tie for the second set of 7 points). Edited December 17, 20231 yr by Mangø
December 17, 20231 yr Author Q3. How many sales will the #10 album get? The #10 album was Stick Season by Noah Kahan and it sold 6,821 this week. This time the 10 points go to Riser, who was only a measly 16 sales away! Everyone's guesses were within a 3 digit number away, except for Jord, who clearly got a bit carried away with this one! Riser - 6837 (16 out) - 10 points Bjork - 6800 (21 out) - 7 points jimwatts - 6912 (91 out) - 7 points rio309 - 6940 (119 out) - 7 points conorw - 6985 (164 out) - 4 points chrissmith276 - 7000 (179 out) - 4 points PeteFromLeeds - 7000 (179 out) - 4 points paulgilb - 7021 (200 out) - 0 points LiamSime - 7096 (275 out) - 0 points Maestro - 7200 (379 out) - 0 points Roba - 6374 (447 out) - 0 points JulianT - 7500 (679 out) - 0 points Dobbo - 6000 (821 out) - 0 points LewisGT - 7800 (979 out) - 0 points Jord - 11000 (4179 out) - 0 points
December 17, 20231 yr I Messed the question about number of xmas songs in the top 100, I did it at random, should have counted how many were there last week
December 17, 20231 yr Author Q4. How many greatest hits collections will be in the top 100? I counted twice to make sure but by my reckoning there are 27 greatest hits collections in the top 100 this week. And it was the most correctly answered of the numerical type questions, with three people getting it spot on :cheer: rio309 - 27 (0 out) - 10 points jimwatts - 27 (0 out) - 10 points JulianT - 27 (0 out) - 10 points LewisGT - 29 (2 out) - 7 points Maestro - 24 (3 out) - 4 points Dobbo - 30 (3 out) - 4 points Riser - 31 (4 out) - 4 points Bjork - 33 (6 out) - 0 points paulgilb - 20 (7 out) - 0 points PeteFromLeeds - 19 (8 out) - 0 points Roba - 19 (8 out) - 0 points Jord - 13 (14 out) - 0 points chrissmith276 - 12 (15 out) - 0 points LiamSime - 8 (19 out) - 0 points conorw - 48 (21 out) - 0 points
December 17, 20231 yr Author And finally... Q5. What position will 'Midnights' by Taylor Swift be? 'Midnights' dropped three places to #16 this week, which was correctly predicted by two participants! Unsurprisingly, almost everyone scored points here for being within 5 positions of the correct one, it's just Jord who was once again overly optimistic with this one! jimwatts - 16 (0 out) - 10 points JulianT - 16 (0 out) - 10 points rio309 - 15 (1 out) - 7 points LiamSime - 14 (2 out) - 7 points Maestro - 14 (2 out) - 7 points LewisGT - 14 (2 out) - 7 points PeteFromLeeds - 12 (4 out) - 4 points paulgilb - 12 (4 out) - 4 points Riser - 12 (4 out) - 4 points Bjork - 12 (4 out) - 4 points Dobbo - 12 (4 out) - 4 points chrissmith276 - 11 (5 out) - 4 points Roba - 11 (5 out) - 4 points conorw - 11 (5 out) - 4 points Jord - 8 (8 out) - 0 points And that's your lot as far as the answers go! Results coming shortly. Edited December 17, 20231 yr by Mangø
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