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Yes, it does rip off the guitar riff from The Clash's 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go'. However, it will be No.1, with big Sales. It will certainly give them their 3rd Week at No.1 in the Singles Chart, & their 2nd Album will give them their 1st Week at No.1, in the Album Chart.

It will almost certainly be his 7th UK No.1 Single. However, it reminds me of a speeded up Nursery Rhyme - perhaps 'Ring A Ring Of Roses'.

ABBA Single - Dancing Queen Albums Greatest Hits (1976) Arrival (1976) The Album (1978) Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (1979) Super Trouper (1980) Gold (1992)

'Imagine', by John Lennon, becomes only the 3rd Non-Christmas Single to reach the Top 20 in 4, (or more), entirely different Chart Runs. And only the 5th Single to manage it as many as 4, (or more times), if we do count Christmas Hits:, HITS WITH FOUR - OR MORE - SEPARATE TOP 20 CHART RUNS 1) Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues Ft. Kirsty MacColl 1987 - No.2 2005 - No.3 2006 - No.6 2007 - No.4 2008 - No.12 2009 - No.12 2010 - No.17 2011 - No.13 2) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets 1955 (January) - No.17 1955 (October) - No.1 1956 - No.5 1968 - No.20 1974 - No.12 3) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey 1994 - No.2 2007 - No.4 2008 - No.12 2009 - No.18 2011 - No.11 NOTE - In 2010 it Peaked at No.22 4) All Right Now - Free 1970 - No.2 1973 - No.15 1978 - No.11 (The lead Track on a Free EP) 1991 - No.8 (A Remix) 5) Imagine - John Lennon 1975 - No.6 1981 - No.1 (It entered in December 1980) 1999 - No.3 2012 - No.18

Bre - Well done for spotting One Direction's 2nd No.1 Hit. I keep forgetting that both they & JLS were credited on the 2011 X Factor Finalists No.1 - 'Wishing On A Star'. I've now added it to my original Post. 'The Sun' features an item on One Direction nearly every single day. Every move they make is talked about. You'd think that they were the biggest Group since The Beatles! Indeed, a few Weeks ago, the 'Sunday Mirror' actually called One Direction, 'The most successful UK group since The Beatles'. (These 'Journalists' feed off the hysteria that they create. They never actually do any research, to see if the hype is really true.....).

Here is a List that I up-dated a few Weeks ago, when Elton John was No.1 in the Album Chart. His Week at No.1 made him only the 8th Act to spend a Year, (or more), at No.1, in the UK. (The 9th Act, if we add Cliff Richard & The Shadows No.1 Weeks to The Shadows No.1 Weeks). THE UK's TOP 10 CHART ACTS - BY WEEKS AT NUMBER 1 (S = Singles + A = Albums) 1) BEATLES - S = 69 + A = 174.....TOTAL = 243 WEEKS 2) ELVIS PRESLEY - S = 80 + A = 63.....TOTAL = 143 WEEKS 3) ABBA - S = 31 + A = 57.....TOTAL = 88 WEEKS 4) CLIFF RICHARD - S = 46 + A = 30.....TOTAL = 76 WEEKS 5) ROLLING STONES - S = 18 + A = 45.....TOTAL = 63 WEEKS 6) MADONNA - S = 29 + A = 30.....TOTAL = 59 WEEKS 7) TAKE THAT - S = 28 + A = 28.....TOTAL = 56 WEEKS 8) ELTON JOHN - S = 23 + A = 29.....TOTAL = 52 WEEKS 9) MICHAEL JACKSON - S = 16 + A = 30.....TOTAL = 46 WEEKS 10) ROD STEWART - S = 18 + A = 27.....TOTAL = 45 WEEKS NOTE - The Shadows would be in 4th place, if we add in their No.1 Singles & Albums with Cliff Richard - S = 44 + A = 42 = 86 Weeks. I've only counted their No.1's as The Shadows, for this List. Which is enough for 15th place - S = 16 + A = 21 = 37 Weeks. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ NOTE - The 3 biggest Acts in recent Years have all been Female Soloists. In the List of the biggest Acts by UK No.1 Weeks, they feature as follows:, A) ADELE - S = 5 + A = 24.....TOTAL = 29 WEEKS (25th=) B) RIHANNA - S = 22 + A = 5.....TOTAL = 27 WEEKS (30th=) C) LADY GAGA - S = 10 + A = 10.....TOTAL = 20 WEEKS (47th=) And One Direction & Justin Bieber - who get a huge amount of UK Tabloid Press - have done this - so far:, ONE DIRECTION - S = 2 + A = 0 = 2 WEEKS JUSTIN BIEBER - S = 0 + A = 1 = 1 WEEK @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Adele's 21 Album is now on its 75th Top 10 Week, in the UK. It over-takes the 74 Top 10 Weeks of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, which, (by coincidence), re-enters the Album Chart at No.66. UK ARTIST ALBUMS - THE MOST TOP 10 WEEKS (Excluding Film Soundtracks & Original Cast Albums) 1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 135 (1970) 2) THE BLACK & WHITE MINSTREL SHOW - THE GEORGE MITCHELL MINSTRELS - 120 (1960) 3) THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON - 88 (1982) (Includes 7 Top 10 Weeks with Thriller 25) 4) 21 - ADELE - 75 (2011) 5) TUBULAR BELLS - MIKE OLDFIELD - 74 (1973) 6)=BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE - 72 (2006) (12 Top 10 Weeks with the Deluxe Edition) 6)=THE FAME - LADY GAGA - 72 (2009) (Includes the Sales of The Fame Monster) 8) BROTHERS IN ARMS - DIRE STRAITS - 65 (1985) 9) THE SINGLES 1969 - 1973 - THE CARPENTERS - 64 (1974) 10) PLEASE PLEASE ME - THE BEATLES - 62 (1963) 11) GREATEST HITS - SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 59 (1972) 12) GOLD - ABBA - 58 (1992) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ ALL UK ALBUMS - THE MOST TOP 10 WEEKS (Including Film Soundtracks & Original Cast Albums) 1) SOUTH PACIFIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 276 (1958) 2) THE SOUND OF MUSIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 234 (1965) 3)=THE KING & I (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 153 (1956) 3)=WEST SIDE STORY (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 153 (1962) 5) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 135 (1970) 6) MY FAIR LADY (ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 122 (1958) 7) THE BLACK & WHITE MINSTREL SHOW - THE GEORGE MITCHELL MINSTRELS - 120 (1960) 8) OKLAHOMA! (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 113 (1956) 9) THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON - 88 (1982) (Includes 7 Top 10 Weeks with Thriller 25) 10) GIGI (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS - 79 (1959) 11) 21 - ADELE - 75 (2011) 12) TUBULAR BELLS - MIKE OLDFIELD - 74 (1973)

In 2002 The Official Charts Company, & Radio 2, held a National Poll, to find the UK's Top 100 favourite No.1 Singles, to that point. (November 2002 being the 50th Anniversary of the UK Singles Chart). You could Vote for any No.1, & were allowed as may as 50 Hits to Vote for! Anyhow - here are the results. They were published in November 2002. THE UK's TOP 100 FAVOURITE NO.1 HITS 1) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 2) John Lennon - Imagine 3) Beatles - Hey Jude 4) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water 5) George Harrison - My Sweet Lord 6) Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 7) Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun 8) ABBA - Dancing Queen 9) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations 10) Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure 11) Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights 12) Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall 13) Police - Every Breath You Take 14) Righteous Brothers - You've Lost That Loving Feeling 15) Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 16) Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 17) Beatles - She Loves You 18) Soft Cell - Tainted Love 19) Beatles - All You Need Is Love 20) Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock 21) 10 CC - I'm Not In Love 22) Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) 23) Rod Stewart - Maggie May 24) Roy Orbison - Oh Pretty Woman 25) David Bowie - Space Oddity 26) Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U 27) Beatles - I Want To Hold Your Hand 28) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen 29) Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine 30) Monkees - I'm A Believer 31) Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays 32) Beatles - A Hard Day's Night 33) Beatles - Help! 34) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax 35) Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 36) Queen - Innuendo 37) Byrds - Mr Tambourine Man 38) ABBA - Waterloo 39) Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation 40) Kinks - You Really Got Me 41) Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger 42) Elvis Presley - All Shook Up 43) Fleetwood Mac - Albatross 44) Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight? 45) Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You 46) Rolling Stones - Paint It Black 47) Nilsson - Without You 48) Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You 49) Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World/Cabaret 50) Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick 51) ABBA - The Winner Takes It All 52) Blondie - Heart Of Glass 53) Beatles - Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out 54) Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling In Love/Rock-A-Hula Baby 55) George Michael - Careless Whisper 56) Beatles - Ticket To Ride 57) John Lennon - Woman 58) Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love 59) Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never 60) Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile 61) Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 62) Beatles - Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby 63) Human League - Don't You Want Me 64) Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely 65) Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock 66) Beatles - Paperback Writer 67) Jam - Going Underground 68) T Rex - Get It On 69) Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody 70) Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe 71) Kinks - Sunny Afternoon 72) Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart 73) Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends 74) ABBA - Mamma Mia 75) Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone 76) David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes 77) Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody 78) Beatles - Get Back 79) ABBA - Knowing Me Knowing You 80) Madonna - Like A Prayer 81) Elvis Presley - Return To Sender 82) Bangles - Eternal Flame 83) Freddie Mercury - Living On My Own 84) U2 - Beautiful Day 85) Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star 86) Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash 87) Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) 88) Michael Jackson - Billie Jean 89) Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) 90) Beatles - From Me To You 91) Alice Cooper - School's Out 92) A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV 93) Bee Gees - Night Fever 94) Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive 95) Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women 96) Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother 97) Beatles - Hello Goodbye 98) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears Of A Clown 99) Police - Message In A Bottle 100) Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

The Legend Album, (Bob Marley & The Wailers), re-enters the Top 20, for the first time since W/E 16th August 2003, when it was at No.17. Despite 405 Chart Weeks, (375 Top 75), it is only its 40th Week in the Top 20. NOTE - Remember, from W/E 8th August 1981 to W/E 14th January 1989, the entire Top 100 of the Album Chart was used for UK Chart Statistics. Here are how many Weeks 4 of these 5 Albums gain, from that period. (Gold by ABBA is the only one of the 5 to have its Chart weeks soley from the Top 75. It was released in September 1992 - over 3.5 Years after the Top 100 stopped being used for Chart Statistics). The Weeks they gained from No.76 to No.100 Positions:, 1) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 112 Weeks 2) Greatest Hits - Queen - 62 Weeks 3) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 34 Weeks 4) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 30 Weeks THE TOP 5 UK ALBUMS WITH THE MOST CHART WEEKS (Various Statistics) 1) Rumours - Fleetwood Mac - 493 Weeks - (526 - Top 100)...(381 - Top 75)...(106 - Top 40)...(74 - Top 20)...(41 - Top 10)...(15 - Top 5)...(1 Week at No.1) 2) Greatest Hits - Queen - 476 Weeks - (635 - Top 100)...(414 - Top 75)...(152 - Top 40)...(47 - Top 20)...(23 - Top 10)...(13 - Top 5)...(4 Weeks at No.1) 3) Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf - 474 Weeks - (506 - Top 100)...(440 - Top 75)...(244 - Top 40)...(54 - Top 20)...(2 - Top 10)...(0 - Top 5)...(Peaked at No.9) 4) Gold - Greatest Hits - ABBA - 449 Weeks - (649 - Top 100)...(449 - Top 75)...(215 - Top 40)...(100 - Top 20)...(58 - Top 10)...(29 - Top 5)...(8 Weeks at No.1) 5) Legend - Bob Marley & The Wailers - 405 Weeks - (375 - Top 75)...(104 - Top 40)...(40 - Top 20)...(20 - Top 10)...(17 - Top 5)...(12 Weeks at No.1)

Spicefunk - Yes, The OCC commissioned the people to do the Book, so they, (OCC), have given the Guys their Sales Data.

I believe that The OCC are going to do more than just announce the 123, (so far), UK Million Sellers. There is more to it than that. It is probably going to be in November, that they reveal them all - hopefully with Sales. By then there could be more than 123. Here is the reason for the delay - a Book. I knew that Mini Essays - about each Million Seller - were being worked on. On that basis, I've just been to Amazon, & put Million Sellers into their Book Department Search Engine - and this came up. It is called The Million Sellers, & it is out in November - after being delayed from October. It only mentions 113 Million Sellers, in the Amazon description of it. Hopefully all 123, (& more?), will be in the Book, when it is published:, http://goo.gl/IkR6n

Let face it - Mr.Barlow will only be No.1 on Sunday due to the attention & hype that 'Sing' has got from the Jubilee Celebrations. Likewise for the 'Sing' Album. Neither would be No.1 if they had to get there on merit, rather than hype & publicity. 'Sing' is utter garbage. What a pity that it was not The Carpenters Hit, of the same name. That is a decent Song.

Someone called ThunderRoad, (UKMIX), has come up with Sales for the entire Top 60. No.13 to No.60 are estimates. Some of the Acts have equal Totals. (Presumably, there are 10,000 here, & 20,000 there, seperating those Acts). 01 THE BEATLES 21.9m 02 ELVIS PRESLEY 21.6m 03 CLIFF RICHARD 21.5m 04 MADONNA 17.6m 05 MICHAEL JACKSON 15.3m 06 ELTON JOHN 14.8m 07 QUEEN 12.6m 08 ABBA 11.2m 09 DAVID BOWIE 10.6m 10 RIHANNA 10.4m 11 PAUL McCARTNEY 10.2m 12 KYLIE MINOGUE 10.1m 13 ROLLING STONES 9.9m 14 ROD STEWART 9.9m 15 TAKE THAT 8.9m 16 STEVIE WONDER 8.9m 17 OASIS 8.9m 18 EMINEM 8.6m 19 WHITNEY HOUSTON 8.4m 20 SPICE GIRLS 7.9m 21 GEORGE MICHAEL 7.8m 22 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 7.5m 23 BEE GEES 7.5m 24 U2 7.4m 25 SHAKIN' STEVENS 7.3m 26 BRITNEY SPEARS 7.2m 27 STATUS QUO 7.2m 28 LADY GAGA 7.2m 29 BOYZONE 7.0m 30 BLONDIE 7.0m 31 SLADE 6.9m 32 THE BLACK EYED PEAS 6.8m 33 BONEY M 6.8m 34 WESTLIFE 6.8m 35 CELINE DION 6.6m 36 BEYONCE 6.6m 37 UB40 6.6m 38 OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN 6.6m 39 MARIAH CAREY 6.6m 40 TOM JONES 6.3m 41 MADNESS 6.1m 42 THE POLICE 6.1m 43 WHAM! 5.9m 44 PHIL COLLINS 5.8m 45 DIANA ROSS 5.7m 46 THE JAM 5.7m 47 BRYAN ADAMS 5.6m 48 PET SHOP BOYS 5.6m 49 DAVID GUETTA 5.6m 50 ADAM ANT 5.5m 51 DURAN DURAN 5.4m 52 FRANK SINATRA 5.4m 53 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 5.3m 54 PRINCE 5.3m 55 KATY PERRY 5.2m 56 WET WET WET 5.1m 57 THE EVERLY BROTHERS 4.9m 58 THE SHADOWS 4.9m 59 PINK 4.9m 60 COLDPLAY 4.8m

Take That have had just 5 Top 10 Singles in Germany. Both The Beatles & ABBA, had over 20 German Top 10 Singles. If you look at the Take That Discography you will see that the only Countries where they have had several Top 10 Hits are the UK & Ireland, (AKA The British Isles), & Denmark - Population less than 6 Million. 'Progress' was a No.1 Album in Germany, etc. but, outside the UK its Sales were less than a Million. It sold twice as many in the UK, as it did outside the UK. I never said that Take That had never had Top 10, (or No.1 Hits), outside the UK. I said that in terms of consistent big Hits, they were not in the same League as The Beatles, ABBA, Queen etc. Their one true Mega-Hit was 'Back For Good', but that was way back in 1995. They never had another Hit close to being so big. Indeed, Take that were bigger in Europe, in the 1990's than they have been since their 2006 'Come Back'. They have only had 2 really big European Hits since then - 'Patience' & 'The Flood'. They are truly not as big as the UK makes them out to be. (Or as their Fans make them out to be). And looking at their Discography, I can't find 35 No.1 Albums for Take That. Which you are supposed to get by adding up each time one of their Albums reached No.1, in a different Country. Look at their Wikipedia Discography:, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_That_discography Hopefully, we can have a decent No.1 for the W/E 23rd June Chart.....

Gary is clearly after a Knighthood. I'm sure that, (eventually), he'll get one. But, I don't care what anyone says, the 'Sing' Single is one of the most awful, vacuous, flimsy, pieces of tripe, that has ever reached No.1. Hopefully it will have a huge drop in Sales, once the Jubilee Celebrations die down. A big drop from No.1 would be a nice treat for Music lovers..... I give to 3rd World Charities a lot - throughout the Year. I don't need to buy garbage Singles to contribute.... And those who go on about Gary's achievements, should realise, that most of his Hits & Songs have not reached the Top 10 in most of Europe etc. It is only the UK & Ireland, where he has had consistent success. He, is not in the same League as The Beatles, Queen, Rolling Stones, Madonna, ABBA etc. He is just a British Isles 'phenomenon' really. (That goes for Take That, too).

At the same time as being 'simple', the method used has not been consistent. Why have The Shadows not been given the Sales from their Hits with Cliff, where those Hits were credited to Cliff Richard & The Shadows? That is an equal credit. The Shadows would be far higher than No.58, had they been allowed those Sales. They include 7 No.1's - one of which, ('The Young Ones'), was a UK Million Seller.

Blackjane - The OCC counted Duo's as both Acts being allowed those Sales. So John Travolta & Olvia Newton-John both got the Sales from their 'Grease' Duets. (Olivia would not be as high as No.38 had that not happened). Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan, both got the Sales from 'Especially For You'. The OCC regarded such Acts as sharing equal credit. However, if an Act was 'Featured', The OCC do not regard that Act as having equal credit, & they were not allowed those Sales. So Rihanna lost over 3 Million Sales, from Hits that she was 'Featured' on. And any Acts 'Featured' on her Hits, were not allowed those Sales. With her 'Featured' Hits added in, Rihanna would have well over 13,000,000 Sales, & she would rise from 10th place to 7th place.

Did anyone else notice, that Tony Blackburn seemed to misunderstand the Chart, when he got to The Beatles at No.1? Both before & after he played 'She Loves You', he announced it as the All Time Best Selling Single, in the UK. He seemed to forget that he was playing The Beatles biggest Seller, & not the UK's biggest Seller.....

THE NATION'S FAVOURITE NUMBER 1 The Public can Vote for the Nation's Favourite No.1 here:, http://www.itv.com/nationsfavouritenumberone/

One of my OCC 'Contacts' has explained to me that Rihanna will not be the 7th Act in Monday's Radio 2 Singles Acts Chart. She will be lower, as she will not be allocated every Hit that she's been credited on. Some of her Hits - that have not been added in - Run This Town, (No.1 in 2009), Love The Way You Lie, (No.2 in 2010), Who's That Chick?, (No.6 in 2011), & Take Care, (No.9 in 2011). Here is what he told me:, "Our chart is ranked on sales where the artist has the main artist credit – so it excludes sales where the artist has been featured. For example, Rihanna would appear lower in our chart because it doesn’t include sales where she was a featured artist". @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ It also means that Drake can't have any Sales from What's My Name?, (No.1 in 2011), & Jay-Z can't have any from Umbrella, (No.1 in 2007). Nor can Christina Aguilera have any Sales from Moves Like Jagger. Madonna can't have any from Me Against The Music, (No.2 in 2003), & Justin Timberlake can't have any from 4 Minutes, (No.1 in 2008). And many other Artists will have some of their Sales excluded too. Ironically both Kylie & Jason will get the Sales from Especially For You, as that was credited to both of them equally - the word 'And' did that. Likewise for John Travolta, & Olivia-Newton John.

It will likely Peak at 1, 2 or 3, in the UK. However, I do not really like it. It sounds like dozens of other Dance Hits - from the early 1990's. It has all been done before. One day Sweden may give the World a ESC Winner as good, (and long lasting), as 'Waterloo'. Unfortunately - 'Euphoria' is not it.....

Madonna won't be No.1 - The Beatles, Elvis Presley, & Cliff Richard, have all sold more UK Singles than her. She will be about 4th.

Rihanna will be 7th in the Top 60, having over-taken ABBA, (8th & now 9th), & Queen, (7th & now 8th), in the past Year. She next has Michael Jackson in her sights - he's 6th - if I'm correct.

They might have to do it, now. The 'News' is spreading, & a lot of people may not buy the current version. They may hold off for a 'New' version, that never gets released.....

According to this Article, 21 is to be re-issued - with extra Tracks - as her Record Company want it to be the UK's Best Selling Album:, LINK:, http://goo.gl/9SfdW