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Barrowman also sells a lot of physicals. He also had a lot of presales (both physical and download) via Pledgemusic as the entire album was fan funded. (By 2219 pledgers, who would have bought at least 1 album each, as the minimum pledge was a preorder of the download album).

I assume that albums sold at gigs aren't included in the official charts? (I'm not saying that loads are sold at gigs, just curious)

Yes they are included. "retailers representing more than 3,500 over the counter shops, home delivery retailers and a wide range of digital stores. These stores span independent retailers (such as Rough/mail order Trade, Jumbo, Chalky's and many others, all around the country), high street chains (such as HMV, Fopp and WH Smith), supermarkets (such as Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda and Morrisons), internet mail order (such as Amazon, Play.com and Recordstore.co.uk) and download services (iTunes, 7Digital, Amazon MP3, HMV, and others). As a result, we estimate that we capture around 99% of all singles sold, 98% of all albums and 90% of all videos/DVDs". Source: theofficialcharts.com FAQS You can also add QVC to the list as well (who only sell physical albums), they were added to the official sales list last year.

28 Nov Joe McElderry - Classic Christmas :o (as on Play.com)

Whats your definition of British? What about someone with dual nationality?!