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Boy Band: Never Forget/ Back For Good - Take That & Everybody (Backstreet's Back) Backstreet Boys Girl Group: Wannabe/Say You'll Be There/ Too Much - Spice Girls Hard to distinguish between the three Spice Girls songs but they are the three best imo. Same with the boy bands.

Hoping that Bastille can nab the no.1 this week but its not flying up iTunes at the moment which doesn't give me much hope.

Glad All I Ask has took off. I think its the standout track on the Album for me and thought it would do well if it had a decent exposure or pushed as a single. Unless she performs it at The Brits I doubt it will stay in the top 10 for long.

Yeah I'd have to agree the 2000 Christmas Chart was one of the best just to see Westlife fail for the first time as they were being incredibly smug about having just had 7 no.1s in a row and beating the Spice Girls in the Album chart so to see them fail to get to no.1 was brilliant made even more better because they were very sore losers. Also in general the Christmas chart that year was very competitive loads of hype and just loved the build up. I'd be interested to know the sales from the top 10 from that year. I also loved the build up to the 2003 Christmas chart however i was throughly disappointed when the Darkness lost but it was still a great chart battle and I think its the last time we had a proper traditional christmas chart battle that wasn't a campaign of some sort against the X Factor.

I reckon with the right exposure HONNE could be quite popular next year and really hope they are. They sound very much like if Sam Smith & Disclosure did a full album together with a hint of 80's thrown in for good measure. Warm on a cold night is just flawless!

I wonder what the next highest cherry picked song from 25 will be. All I Ask will be a killer of a single if its ever picked. I can see When We Were Young dropping off as the week progresses. Also with Hello I think its performed pretty well, not sure it will sell a million downloads but with Christmas coming up if its performed anywhere I'll keep fairly steady sales. But also Hello will become her 6th consecutive single to be sell 600K+ of downloads, across three albums. I think the Spice Girls may have been the last act to have 6 consecutive singles sell over 600k which just shows how amazing her success has been.

This album has grown on me. I like more tracks on this album than his last three albums, if some of it had been combined with Take The Crown it would have made for one of his best albums. If you removed, Be a Boy Different Sh** On The Radio Hey Wow blah blah And added H.E.S The Edge The Pilot National Treasure With Surrender as extra bonus I reckon it would have made a brilliant album.

I think Bully, H.E.S, The Edge and Bullet are my favs from this. Sounds like a lot of material that was meant for the TTC album, though All Climb On sounds like his very early stuff. Nice mixed bag though, not bad for a collection of songs that didn't make an album. Will be interesting to see if there's a vol. 2 and how that sounds.

Just downloaded the mp3 version, so far not too bad. Like Raver, H.E.S is my favourite so far but only on The Climb. Apparently according to wikipedia, the album sold 211,000 copies last week off his website which would have, if was able to chart beat TT to no.1. However this is wikipedia soI'm taking this with a large pinch of salt.

Thank you, downloaded it now. Yes I saw the commercial earlier and hoped it would be on the Under The Radar Album but this will do nicely! Absolutely love this! Still think this would have been a great single release, miles better than his last few singles thats for sure.

Just stumbled across this, I'm assuming this is on the Album but a cracking tune from Mr Williams, very James Bond-esque, should have been a single. Can't wait to get my hands on this Album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNfzW5FT9c

I think they'll still manage around 300K and sell around 150k-200k every week for the rest of the year. Robbie managed 100k+ for three weeks I think during the Xmas period last year and that was without any real success on the singles chart. I think Robbie and Jason leaving will dent their sales a bit overall but it'll easily do 1 - 1.5 Million I reckon.

Go on Take That! Really hope they can nab a 12th no1 at last it's well overdue for them, still going to be too close to call this weekend unless they really pull ahead tomorrow and Saturday.

Don't understand all the hate for it but I really like Jealous I think its one of his better ones, along with beneath your beautiful, although express yourself is my favourite of his. Earthquake I think is one of his worst, its just boring and was rather un-inspiring at the time and to me just seemed like an attempt at pass out part 2. Really hoping TT somehow overthrow Band Aid this week but I knew it was a bit of a long shot, they'll walk their way to no1 with the album i'm sure.

May have underestimated its performance doing fantastically well will be interesting to see its sales in the mid-weeks, wonder if it can be no.1 by tomorrow that would be an impressive feat. Reckon this should hold onto the no.1 spot until xmas week and with a bit of luck take that week at no.1 as well from X-Factor, but something tells me Simon will probably donate money from the winners single to the cause as well, not that its a bad thing but I would rather this be no.1 at christmas than the usual cheap tacky cover version that is the winners single.

I actually quite like this version, I'd rank it behind the original still but its better than the other two. The last one just sounded a mess I thought at times, this one has echo's of the original towards the end and is nice and stripped back, glad it hasn't turned out to be a dance version of the original as i thought they may have done. I don't see the point that some have made about that it should have been held back just so it would sound better, the original was done the exact same way and is a classic and didn't sound rushed. By releasing it this way they've got a longer period for the song to sell well and raise more money. Will be interesting to see how it does, i have an inkling its not going to be a huge as everyone thinks it will could be wrong though, i thought the same about the last one and was proven wrong. Really do hope it nabs the Xmas No.1 from X-Factor, its about time we had an actual Christmassy no.1 and its all for a good cause which makes it all the more better.

Love the song and the John Lewis advert but doubt it will actually top the charts as much as i'd love it to. The charts for once look like being pretty active during the rest of November, its best chance will be the week before the usual x-factor no.1. Glad that Ed is finally caught up with Cheryl but I doubt he'll hold her off the no1 spot would be great if he somehow manages to

Its been advertised far more widely this year and nearly every song that gets released now has a pre-order, whereas before songs were either just held back a few weeks or released on air on sale, except for a select few who would do the ep thing as you mentioned. Its partly why we've had so many no.1s this year as they hold back the releases and get everyone to pre-order for maximum first week impact, but they loose sales in the run up to the release as people won't want to wait that long to get their hands on it. Comparing to last year, sales were quite noticeably lower before streaming came in and the only comparable difference I can see is pre-orders becoming more popular so that why I came to that conclusion, theres obviously other factors as well. The main point I was trying to make though was that pre-orders don't really work the same way they used too and they loose sales because people find other means of getting hold of the music they want rather than wait 5-6 weeks for it and they make the charts boring :)

I personally think the whole pre-order thing is ridiculous, it makes the charts boring and predictable and caused a big drop in sales this year until streaming was added. I know its how things worked up until downloads really took off but thats the point. Back in the 90's, for the majority you couldn't get hold of music another other way than actually buying it from a shop when it got released so you had no choice but to wait. But now there just is absolutely no point in holding a song back for 4-6 weeks when people can just download it anywhere, also in the day and age we live in now people don't want to wait to buy things as soon as they see them and thats how music should be people should be allowed to buy a song as soon as its released to radio and not have to wait for several weeks for it. Rant over lol.

Didn't realise it was Robbie on the first listen as i heard it from Radio 1. Stupid how they don't credit him on this as he's got to be the biggest artist he's collaborated with, plus if this goes to no.1 Robbie will miss out on an 8th chart topper :/

I can't comment on the 90's so much as i only remember from 96 onwards and they were all fab in my opinion, there was something for everyone and there was a real mix mash of all types of music, although cheesy pop dominated towards the end and most the really huge songs actually spent several weeks at no.1. Something that just doesn't happen anymore. From the 2000's it has to be 2007, followed by 2002. I had really got into the Indie music scene the year before and in 2007 we were left with rap/urban domination and very little else. 2003 had a similar theme but I found the urban scene then a lot more better and funky plus there was some brilliant punk rock, rock music around as well. The Umbrella's 10 week stint annoyed the hell out of me as well. 2008 I actually liked as there was a bit more variety and despite the charts being slow it was nice to actually see the chart reflect what was actually popular at the time, there wasn't very many fluky no.1s that year which was great. Of the 2010's it has to be this year although 2012 wasn't great. This year has been very boring and predictable for the charts with it being more about who can get the most pre-orders rather than whats actually popular but combined with quite a poor music scene its just made the year terrible I feel. If I was to pick the best years from the 00's and '10's then it would have to be; 2006 and 2011. Both brilliant years.

Absolutely love this! Sounds like something Adele would come out with as a comeback song, really hope this smashes its way to no.1 I can see it being huge with the right airplay think it will be a grower on the chart though

Ah lovely that clears that up for me :) yeah sorry forgot the conversion factor but thats what i thought it was but then i read something that suggested otherwise. So we could see a lot of the poor selling hits from tis year getting a sort of new lease of life in terms of sales then which is good.

I'm a bit confused about the sales from when it changes as i thought that streaming sales were to be added to single sales totals. Are streaming sales going to be counted as total sales for songs now along with the downloads or will they have their own sales separately? I.e. Calvin Harris's summer sells for example 350,000 downloads and 50,000 streams would that make his official sales total 400,000 or just 350,000?

So glad they are adding this to the chart it will help revive some of the poor sales for all the one week no.1s we've had that would have sold a lot more had they not been held back for so long, Calvin Harris looks to do quite well from this seeing as summer is still quite high as is sing seeing as its sales have plummeted. But looking back over this years no.1s to say it the changes would only be felt further down the charts it actually would have meant we wouldn't have had four months of 1 week no.1s if streaming had been included at the start of the year. Route 94 were pipped to a second week at no.1 by 5,000 sales but on Spotify that week they would have had an extra 5,600 sales just about allowing them to just about be no1 for a second week. Then Mr Probz which after rather be has had very persistent high weekly streams would have had an extra 10,000 sales to put him ahead of Calvin giving him three weeks. Also Sam Smith would have just about clinched a second week ahead of second city. Also I can see theres a couple of songs already on spotify that will chart before the digital version is released, Nico & Vinz being the main example. This I think is a good way forward and gets round the held back release rubbish and i can see a lot of labels maybe following this tactic allowing the song to build up on spotify then release the single so a song could sell 30-60k before its officially released and help boost sales in the long run and as It becomes more popular the bigger the sales will become.