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It'll probably a post-album single from a big album vs. a held-back single in its first week (now I think about it that was the scenario this week! :lol:). Let Her Go or Just Give Me A Reason could've got #1 with streaming last year (I can't remember what blocked them).

It's still selling more than anything else on the biggest download site. That's an achievement no matter what.

Bring Me The Horizon will surely get huge streaming if it's a rock song? So that will probably help it.

Well, technically every winner's single fits that description (and the group charity singles they used to do too). I think it was Cher Lloyd who performed Cooler Than Me and Jedward who performed Barbra Streisand? I remember the latter since Simon Cowell said he thought it would get to #1 despite the fact that Joe McElderry had his lead single out the same week! :o I was a bit surprised he said that about his own artist on the show that he won (even if it was obvious he wasn't getting #1). I remember someone performing an album track from an un-released album before, I think it might have been a Whitney Houston album? I think the X Factor performance could've even been its world premiere.

I think they might be able to tbh as they're crossing over, but they'll be pushed down a lot in the gift-card weeks when sales rise (and streaming means less), so perhaps depends if they can maintain themselves until January.

I think this will have similar success to the Adorn and Mercy re-releases.

It's #1 on VEVO for the same reason it's #1 on iTunes lol.

I Don't F With You should be #1 imo.

^ I agree. I think it's a good investment for a record label to promote a song like this each year for a few years, since after a few years it'll get to the point where it'll sell (and get airplay) without them needing to promote it at all.

This is what I mean when I was saying if I were an artist I'd prefer Capital support over Radio 1 support. Capital you can get 60+ plays a week and be in high rotation for sometimes over a year (see: We Found Love, Moves Like Jagger :drama:), compared to Radio 1 where you get 20+ plays a week and are in high rotation for a couple of months. As a listener obviously Radio 1 is better as you don't hear the same songs all the time (and they're more willing to play "weirder" songs), but if you're an artist looking for a chart hit Capital FM is probably better if you had to choose one of the two. This is going back a bit, but it surprised me a lot at the time that Heart FM played Let The Sun Shine. They played Beneath Your Beautiful too, but that's not so surprising.

I remember some people thought the song wouldn't even go top 40 (which I think was silly, since given how high the original was on iTunes before release, it was obviously going to get top 40 with the remix getting released, but I don't think many people expected #1). Also, I don't think Capital FM started playing the song until after it got to #1, so it got there just from Radio 1 support really.

There's a few I like on the list, but I'd hope Novelist wins out of all of them.

I'm sure there are other stations playing it, but for the charts it's mainly Capital FM that matters (Radio 1 also matters, and Heart FM a bit, the other stations have a negligible effect in my experience). But also this song is nowhere near as good as Am I Wrong (at least in my opinion).

It's a shame Ed Sheeran got to #1 already, since if next week was the first time he got to #1 it would have made his climb there even more impressive.

One of his songs I remember debuted at #2 and climbed to #1 later, so it's worth a try!

Also, I reckon about 50% of this year's year-end chart will be songs that originally premiered in 2013. The inclusion of streaming favours songs released earlier in the year when it comes to year-end. The OCC will always publish a year-end chart (top 200), but whether Radio 1 will dedicate a show to it is a different matter of course. On another note, I'm expecting some songs which missed top 40 to make the year-end top 200. It's happened a few times before in the download age I think, but it's still quite impressive imo, and it might become more common with streaming. For example, I think Demi Lovato's version of Let It Go could make it.

No idea. It could stay in the chart until January. Doesn't matter though, there will probably be dozens of songs spending 50+ weeks top 40 in the last half of this decade. I really see it becoming quite common now.

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Well, it got a fair amount of publicity lol. Will Young and Gareth Gates sold bucketloads! :o I always knew that, but this list really puts it into perspective.

^ My Life Would Suck Without You isn't THAT old is it? :lol: I thought it was 2009. I've heard Radio 1 play songs from as far back as the late 90's, so I can understand them playing Since U Been Gone occasionally, especially since that's one of the defining pop songs of the 00's imo. Yeah, I assumed he was talking about one of his local radio DJs that none of us would know (if it was a Radio 1 person he probably would've specified who).

Can't really remember that well, but I do remember expecting it to chart higher than it did... I think it might have had a messy release, and also no major radio stations played it iirc. It's a well-known song (even in the UK), regardless of where it charted.

I think this is a good single tbh. I think the fact that they're in a relationship will help the song's commercial success, it could have the success of Drunk in Love.

Looks like Let It Go is fighting to stay in the year-end top 10! :lol:

Well yeah, it's very pop-leaning, even playing stuff like Counting Stars and Avicii but it is technically a rhythmic/urban station. The only reason I found out it wasn't a proper pop station was because they sometimes put the station on in my old gym and I went to research it, if I hadn't read up about it I probably would've never known. :lol: See here (a list of some big UK radio stations by format): https://sites.google.com/site/urbrhypopradiostations/home/uk Also see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_(UK_radio_station) About the youngest format, in the US, rhythmic radio stations got the youngest audience in 2013 (younger than urban radio listeners). See here: http://www.arbitron.com/downloads/Radio_To...013_execsum.pdf Not sure if it'd be the same in the UK though. But here it says Radio 1's target audience is 15-29 year-olds, whilst Radio 1Xtra's is 15-24 year-olds: http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/radio/w...radio-one.shtml However, I would imagine Radio 1Xtra's audience is older than it's supposed to be (like Radio 1's and Capital's).

^ Kiss FM is technically a different format to Capital FM, but they probably get similar audiences, and Kiss isn't THAT different despite being a different format. Capital FM and Radio 1 are Top 40/pop/CHR stations (whatever you want to call it). Whilst Kiss FM is rhythmic/urban, but it is very pop-leaning. They even play songs like Counting Stars on Kiss, although they do play an edit with extra drums in it. Kiss does play some songs that Capital wouldn't touch though, for example they played 2 Chainz/Wiz Khalifa - We Own It whilst Capital didn't. Also Kiss tends to play rap remixes of songs more than Capital, for example they play the Kid Ink remix of The Man on Kiss, whilst I assume Capital played the original version, but overall you could mistake Kiss for another pop station like Capital FM. In terms of the demographics, last time I checked Capital FM's average listener was 30-something (which I find quite shocking, with an average age that high there must be a significant number of people 40+ who listen to the station!). Capital also gets more female listeners than males (which is normal for a pop radio station). I would assume the demographics of Kiss and Radio 1 listeners are quite similar to Capital's. There might be more up-to-date demographics info since last time I checked for Capital, but I doubt it's changed too much.