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Well there were the Spotnicks from Sweden. I tried to post a a Youtube link but it wouldn't let me. Very strange, what's with the space suits?

But at the moment it's simply adding on sales due to the fact that it's a rolling 48hr chart and there are no sales dropping out from 48hrs ago (apart from pre-orders) The way it's made progress this morning I can't see it *not* getting to iTunes no.1. I hope to be proved wrong though :)

Unfortunately that looks like being the case. It will be a few hours yet of course but it will be iTunes no.1 by late afternoon. Robin Thicke has 2 other versions currently at no.75 & 129, so Blurred Lines will hang on a little while longer combined but Derulo looks unstoppable. It's a pity as a track that is selling as massively as Blurred Lines is really should have more than a mere 3 weeks at no.1 although it could always return there if 'The Other Side' turns out to be front loaded. At the moment I'm just hoping it's so frontloaded that Robin Thicke can hang on for the coming week.

Bloody Hell, not that! Much as I like long running no.1s, that really was too much. Week after week after week, it had become quite ridiculous. I was pretty relieved when that was finally knocked off no.1.

Thank you sir :) I think it's more likely we've just had 3 mega-hits released in a short time, made even more noticable coming after a period of rather sluggish sales at the top end of the chart. Remember Duke Dumont making no.1 with just 58k? I don't think that there has been much of an overall sales increase, no.10 I'm pretty sure sell much the same as it has done the last copule of years or so. In the last few weeks *overall* sales have sometimes been down compared to the same week last year.

A few weeks ago you'd have been daft to think that. Now you'd be thicke not to......

Although it's been pretty stable since the Norton boost. If it really kept this up, using the 70k Daft Punk sold at the Weds mids the week they sold 163k as a benchmark it would be on 210k! No I don't imagine it will do that but the Norton boost is taking it's time to wear off. Just think, it will have probably sold 500k by now.....

I like the track but it always did strike me as being rather 'un-ABBA like'. £3 is the equivalent of £10.91 today, that's outrageous for a single! But if the regular price of a 7" single was £1.50 back then that's still over a fiver in today's money. Makes you think just how cheap our 99p downloads are.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that it will sell 202k this week.

I'd forgotten about downloads, was merely thinking of sales 'at the time'. That said, this is hardly one of ABBA's better known tracks, in fact I think it's relatively obscure. I wonder how many downloads it's sold. The early 80s were good for sales, a lot better than the late 80s, but the late 70s (78/79) were surely a lot better.

I didn't know that was only a 12" single and regarded as 'poor value for money'. I always thought that it did badly (by their standards) because it felt very different from the normal ABBA sound and probably scared away many of their regular fans. I must admit sales of 208k for a track that went 17-{7}-9-14-24-28-66->7 (yes, copied from Polyhex!) seems incredibly high.

Robin Thicke is even further ahead than that, given that he has versions at no. 63 (1.97%) no. 103 & no.853. Naughty Boy has fewer sales from other versions at no.160, no.509, no.824, no.893 and no.1408. I don't think even Daft Punk at their height ever had quite this lead.

<Gasp> at the two people who think that there will be no million sellers released this year. The world would have to end in the next few weeks to stop Daft Punk making it.

Absolutely no chance of making it. It's currently at no.33 and this week's no.29 sold 11.3k.

Ah right, OK. Perhaps I was getting confused between the two tracks.

I voted 3, those two and A N Other yet to be released.

Indeed. I always think of 'Moves Like Jagger' it was released at the end of August and didn't quite make the million by the end of the year. So realistically speaking you're talking anything beyond September probably wouldn't make it unless we had another 'Get Lucky' type monster hit.

I don't see how that doesn't count. Sales weren't inflated by charity/talent shows. Yes, sales are higher at Christmas but they always have been. People were hardly buying it to keep another track off no.1 in a RATM manner.

Now 5 for me.

I really like Blurred Lines. It's very 'quirky'. It's insanely catchy, that said if it became overplayed I reckon it could get rather irritating.

That was a bit early, even for me. I'm very much a morning person though. There's a lot going on at work at the moment and I like to get in early to keep on top of things. Thing is with MLJ, it's a fantastic pop song but that's it. There's nothing particularly innovative let alone groundbreaking about it. Somebody I used to Know is not only excellent but it's very different, there's nothing quite like it and that's why it ultimately won over MLJ.

It was a tough choice between Moves Like Jagger & Somebody I Used to Know, but Gotye just shaded it.

iTunes no.1 a certainty then. The way this is moving I wonder if it will dislodge those silly punks from no.1 on the official chart as well. I know 'Get Lucky' will get a boost from the album release but will it be enough?

Do people seriously still record tracks off the radio? That's like me in 1980!

It would make them sell more as there would always be people who investigated the track once it made the top 10, found they liked it and bought it, compared to not making the top 10 and them not being made aware of it.