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    I got, for my Christmas...

     

    The Saturdays - On Your Radar

    Rihanna - Talk That Talk

    One Direction - Up All Night

     

    And ordered a couple of items I asked for for Christmas but didn't get...

     

    Kylie - Aphrodite, Les Folies - Live 2CD/DVD

    Selena Gomez and The Scene - When The Sun Comes Up

    Westlife - Greatest Hits - 2CD/DVD

    Hmm, that sounds kind of the way HMV used to be here! All the mainstream stuff at the front, which is quite fair considering that is what will make them money, and then an unbelievable selection of albums old and new towards the back of the store. How I miss those days! Now the last two thirds of the store are dedicated to ipods/ipads/i-this/i-thats.

     

    Are the two for £10 offers the same in every store? Or are they selected locally? I'm thinking of heading into Birmingham to find a HMV that actually has products. If I succeed then my answer to the original question is that I would try to get my hands on Diana Vickers and a physical copy of Paloma Faith's album! But that's a little optimistic.

    I would imagine it will be the same albums in every store, however the bigger stores will have a larger selection of albums so going to a bigger store may well increase the number of albums that are available to choose from. :)

    Also, you have to take into account that shops have far more overheads than internet based retailers. For instance HMV.com is actually alot cheaper than HMV the shop in a lot of cases. I, for one, would be gutted if HMV ever folded as Im sure most members here would. I try not to shop online too much as its killing the high street but I did do a bit at Christmas. I bought the Harry Potter complete 8 film set for £25 at HMV.com and it was £32.99 in HMV.

     

    Oh and regarding the HMV sale...its shit! Sorry, but I go every year and I was so dissapointed this year :(

    Yeah, I don't know what to make of acts like Queen and The Verve in this list -- either it's a testament to how huge those songs are many years later, or it shows how comparatively few UK acts have had big selling hits in the digital era. Probably a bit of both.

    In my opinion it says more about the fact that so few British acts have commercial success in America. Actually not just British but non-American acts. I guess its got a lot to do with the size of America and the whole radio airplay thing but also that (and I dont mean to offend any Americans here) America is very self centred and isn't too interested in any other countrys' music, that didnt sound right but i cant think of a better way to put it. I feel sorry for real pop lovers, you see so many americans on these boards loving British pop music such as Girls Aloud, Sugababes, Kylie, etc etc but the only way they can keep up with them is online, shame really but at least the net is here to save them lol.

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    Yeah I find it hard to believe that Lets Get To It has sold more than KM94...and also agree that I would have thought Put Yourself In My Place would have sold more as not only did it have a decent chart run but it was also out around Christmas time.

    Yes, I'm a teenager. :lol:

     

    To be honest, it's not that I don't believe someone your age can physically like those artists, just that pretty much everybody I know in real life that's over the age of about 25 hates all chart music with a passion (except Lady Gaga and Adele).

     

    But clearly that's not the case, based on the age of the average Radio 1 listener. :lol: Just a bit of a surprise to me. Not that I don't believe a 32 year-old could like The Saturdays and Tinie Tempah, just that I was previously under the impression that they generally hated them.

    To be fair, I go out clubbing about twice a week and hang out with younger people so I probably act alot younger than alot of people my age, obviously im gay and don't have any children so I like to enjoy myself, oh and im at uni. Personally I think, when it comes to gay men, they do tend to have younger music taste etc.

    I am a bit surprised the average age of Radio 1 listeners is so high. I mean, I just can't imagine people in their early 30's listening to Pixie Lott, Tinie Tempah and The Saturdays, if you know what I mean. But evidently they do listen to that.

    Im 32 years old and know more about todays pop music than probably all of my friends who's ages range from 18 to about 25. I listen to Pixie, Cher Lloyd, Demi Lovata, One Direction, kylie, The Saturdays, Gaga...the list goes on. What does someones age have to do with what kind of music they like? Im gonna take a wild guess that you're a teenager?...

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    http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart-watch/w...in-october.html

     

    Katy Perry this week becomes the first artist in digital history to sell 5 million or more copies of three different hits. She achieves the feat as "Firework" tops the 5 million mark. The exhilarating smash follows "Hot N Cold" (which is up to 5,044,000) and "California Gurls," featuring Snoop Dogg, which is up to 5,033,000). (All three smashes have topped the 5 million mark in just the past two months.)

     

    Three artists, the Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga and Flo Rida, have each had two 5-million digital sellers. (Make that four artists if you count Ke$ha, who was featured on Flo Rida's "Right Round." Billboard removed Ke$ha's credit when the smash was midway through its six-week run at #1.)

     

    Looks like E.T. will make 5 million in the next few months too!

    Three British artists have got US #1s this year aswell (Adele, Lauren Bennett and Calvin Harris)! :o

    To be fair Adele is the only one of those artists that really had a number 1. It's like when Xtina fans proclaimed 'the Queen is back at number 1' when we all know it's a Maroon5 song, same for the whole 'Britneys 5th US number!' when S&M hit number 1.

    P.s. Im the biggest supporter for British artist being successful worldwide especially in the US.

    Healthy *sales*, yes, but the actual revenue has gone down a lot because of the rapid decline of the physical single.

     

    The reason is simply because as an earlier post mentioned CDs are far cheaper in the UK. This list is made up of simply money made from music sales and not actual units. CDs are getting cheaper and cheaper in the UK, when I was 15 (17 years ago) a cd was about £15 now you can get a brand new released cd for as little as £5/6.

     

    also if you consider the size of the US, Japan and Germany compared to the UK its actually amazing that we are up there with our sales. The UK sells more music than any other country in the world, by a long way, when compared with its population.