A first download million seller shifting between 40-90k a week for 18 weeks? Is that a real possibility? Discuss! With Rihanna’s sales last year dipping as low as 27k-23k-22k in weeks 8-10 I’d say there is real potential for a massive mainstream crossover breaking through and destroying Bryan Adams record for most consecutive weeks at No1 if not Frankie Laine’s non-consecutive record… Obviously it would have to be a record that captures a lot of people but don’t they often come at the end of decades?

 

With my luck, it'll be a song I can't stand... :)

 

Seriously though, downloads are gradually raising sales levels, even towards the upper regions of the charts, so I think that there will be fewer #1's on very low sales figures.

 

Last week, the top 3 all sold 30k plus, and none of them were on their first chart week, even with this being a traditionally quiet time of year for singles sales.

Most million sellers are appalling awful novelty records :lol:

 

I'm not sure. I think a song could in coming years break the record but it won't sell half as much as what Wet Wet Wet or Bryan Adams sold.

yeh i think so, i think gradually the gov r destroyin illegal downloads, i find it harder last year than say 2005, and now, i download all my tracks on iTunes unless its not released on there. I dont mind payin 79p for a song i like, as apposed to £1.99-£3.99 for a CD that has a poop bside and a boring remix. Although i do buy CDs of long-running artisits i support (Spice Girls, Mel B, Mel C, Emma, Rachel Stevens - although that was a while ago!)

yeh i think so, i think gradually the gov r destroyin illegal downloads, i find it harder last year than say 2005, and now, i download all my tracks on iTunes unless its not released on there. I dont mind payin 79p for a song i like, as apposed to £1.99-£3.99 for a CD that has a poop bside and a boring remix. Although i do buy CDs of long-running artisits i support (Spice Girls, Mel B, Mel C, Emma, Rachel Stevens - although that was a while ago!)

 

thats kinda like me though i've never illegally downloaded

 

I used to buy loads and loads of singles per year then last year i think i only brought about 9. Though i worked out how to work itunes in late 2006 and now i more download.

 

I think if its a song i like but i have no connection with the artist, then i download, but if i love the artist then i buy the cd, and if i'm a massive fan, i'll buy the 2 track and the maxi cd, download all possible versions seperetly on itunes and on hmv and woolworths download sites - (I only did this last year with Girls Aloud and Darren Hayes, and i'll be doing that this year with them as well as Delta Goodrem as well)

yeh i think so, i think gradually the gov r destroyin illegal downloads, i find it harder last year than say 2005, and now, i download all my tracks on iTunes unless its not released on there.

 

Same with me.

 

I dont mind payin 79p for a song i like, as apposed to £1.99-£3.99 for a CD that has a poop bside and a boring remix.

 

Which is the same reason I download songs as well.

 

Although i do buy CDs of long-running artisits i support (Spice Girls, Mel B, Mel C, Emma, Rachel Stevens - although that was a while ago!)

 

But I can't do that - the Woolies in Preston doesn't stock singles anymore (well, they do, but only a handful, and the "newest" one was released in December) and I don't really fancy spending my lunch break trying to find somewhere that stocks singles.

Nope, even with downloads being the norm now, I honestly can NEVER see Bryan Adams or indeed Wet Wet Wet's sensational UK chart records EVER being broken. Anyone wanna bet me a gold disc on it? :blink: :D