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True, but then there is the iTunes 'top 10 effect' whereby those tracks are given a higher profile.

Same age bracket as you!

People on here who closely follow sales tallies and mids will know that but your average chart fan won't. It's an important milestone and it seems reasonable to announce it even if it's blindingly obvious to us. They'll do the same when it reaches 1m, 1.5m etc....

Ferguson effect: 1485. Aberdeen F. C. Squad - European Song

Quite :) It's not just you, sometimes it works first time, but usually it takes quite a few refreshes to persuade it to load properly. It may well cheerfully say on the page that if it doesn't load properly just hit reload, so they are obviously aware of the problem, but that's been there for a while, are they doing anything about it?

Chris Malinchak looks like putting two versions into the iTunes top 10. Has this ever happened before, must be pretty rare if it has.

Although James Arthur didn't sell a million by year end. Impossible sold 897k.

True, but realistically the release would have to be by August/September or there wouldn't be enough time to amass 1m+ sales.

That's quite a prediction, given it would need around 1.5m sales to do that. But who knows? This track has constantly surpassed expectations. Remember after those first two days when it entered at no.3 people thought that it was just a fanbase buy and it would never sustain itself to be no.1 the following week? That seemed reasonable at the time. And who would have thought it would get anywhere near the 155k it sold in that first full week the following week, as it looks likely to do.

So 275K in 12 days for Daft Punk and still showing no sign of slowing. Normally it would be crazy to predict a (non-X-Factor winner) for a million seller after just 12 days sales but it's between one quarter and one third of the way there already! And to think just a couple of weeks ago people were wondering when the first mega-seller of 2013 was going to appear. I think we might just have found it :)

I took that comment as a joke to be honest.

'Ding Dong' now out of the top 1500. It was in the 500s when I checked yesterday. Will be a catastrophic fall from no.2 that's for sure!

But still more people bought 'Gangnam Style' last week than 'Gentleman'. Yeah I know it's only a part week for Gentleman but it just shows the longevity of Gangnam Style.

'Killing in the Name' fell from 2-40 though of course that was a no.1 single. 'Raving I'm Raving by' Shut up and Dance fell 2-15 though even that was due to copyright issues that meant it had to be withdrawn from sale. I don't actually think 'Ding Dong' will fall from the top 40 though. The 'funeral effect' will stabilise it or at least arrest it's decline.

LOL!

It won't be done like that. The intention is to play the 4-5 second clip in the context of a news story earlier in the show, which explains why the song will appear in the chart. Then they will just announce it at whatever position it ends up in and not play it at all at that point.

Correct. Yesterday the track was stabilising on Kworb. Today was the first day this got properly beyond internet sites & forums and into the mainstream media, i.e. TV & newspapers. On the BBC news it was considered second in importance only to North Korea starting a nuclear war FFS! And look what happens, the track surges in popularity.

I think the 'Ding Dong' campaign is highly tasteless but there is no way I'm going to download a track called "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher"! How about DDTWID for no.1 this week and IILWMT no.1 next week for the funeral? Sounds insane of course but I'd have said the same just a few days ago about DDTWID being comfortably at no.1 on iTunes by this time......

Or end up satisying neither? They'll be protests from one side that it will be acknowledged at all, and protests from the other that it won't be played in full. It's a 'fudge' basically. They should either play it because it's in the charts and that's what the chart show does, or refuse to play it as many people find it in poor taste, just as they do with tracks with offensive lyrics.

That's a bit of a jump compared to it's progress earlier today. It's not even as if Duke Dumont has taken a hit, looking at the figues for the rest of the top 5.

Well there's a far more positive 'death effect' track that will quite likely be hitting the charts in the next few years. Donate the proceeds to an African AIDS charity or something and you'd probably be looking at a no.1.

I couldn't decide between 'appalling' and 'just distasteful', in the end I plumped for the latter because poor taste is how I've described it in previous posts. But it's pretty sick really. I can understand how many people won't shed any tears because of what she did to their communities but that's no excuse to actively 'celebrate' the death of another human being. It's not a 'joke' and it's certainly not making a 'political statement'. Sadly this makes Britain look rather nasty in the eyes of the rest of the world. Unfairly of course because it will just be a few 10s of thousands from a population of 60 million doing it, but that's the impression it will create.

No way do I believe that! By that score charity singles shouldn't be counted either. There have been overtly political songs before which have charted and although the reasons for buying this are distasteful a sale is a sale whatever the motive for purchase. Besides, isn't it already no.54 so far this week so it must count.

Isn't the song from a film? Just show the relevant clip from that.

Yes but unlike other Facebook campaigns, it won't be getting any airplay. Plus I don't think it will get reported in the mainstream media all that much, nobody is going to want to look like they are encouraging this. Without this, it will soon fizzle. Amazed it's got this far to be honest.