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'She Loves You' by The Beatles spent seven weeks between it's two runs at no.1, though it never fell below no.3.

Nice sales increase for Maroon 5, 20k this week 18k last week. With the gift card effect should pass the million with quite a few thousand to spare by year end. Oh dear at LMFAO though, all those months painstakingly eroding Jessie J's no.2 position, only for when it finally overtakes a much higher selling track leapfogs over both of them!

If you want to help charities, great, But just give money, why buy a song you wouldn't otherwise buy just because it's for charidee? And I'm a lot older than 14......

I wonder if it's the case that once the pre-orders are taken into account, there aren't that many people downloading it. Little Mix & Coldplay are actually catching up.

I can't stand it either. Of all the wonderful selection of classic Christmas songs we have, why does this god-awful thing have to be the nation's favourite? I think I'm just going to blame iTunes for reducing all the Christmas songs to 59p *except* FONY.

Why is that disgusting? When someone dies, people always rush out and buy their records. If anything, it's *that* that is in bad taste.

Why on earth would it be deleted? It's only been out a few weeks!

Is that a not so subtle hint to stop asking for sales figures :)

Yuk, I almost threw up watching that! Awful, over-sentimental tosh.

Is your bedroom wall covered with posters of Kylie and various other 'hot babes'?

What, more than SLY which will be 1.2m+ come year end?

'Singing the Blues' by Guy Mitchell had three one week runs at the top early in 1957. It's final week was tied, but it still counts. 4 seperate runs at no.1 really would be quite something, but let's see if she can get a third first:)

I find it inconceivable that somebody as media savvy as Cowell simply didn't realise. Up to now the entire X-Factor format has been geared to getting the Christmas no.1. Love him or loathe him, he knows what he is doing.....

They are :) It's nothing to do with 'musical snobbery' X-Factor is popular because people just buy into all that stuff, and are willing to buy the winner's single *whatever* it is, apparently. Personanally I think the X-Factor is crap but my own opinion is of no real importance. The fact that all these people just download the bloody thing after the winner is announced is the disturbing thing.

The charts should be a dispassionate account of what is selling the most, nothing more, nothing less. That is 'true popularity'. It's nothing to do with your own personal opinion as to what makes good music, or what people 'should' be buying. I don't like the annual rubbish The X-Factor serves up, to which the drones obediently trot out to buy in their hundreds of thousands, but it is 'popular' so does well in the charts. Is there a little bit of musical snobbery going on here Iwonder. Most people just listen to the radio etc and buy tracks they like. I don't see how that's any less important than those who are *seriously* into music and consider every note an 'art form'.

Yes, I was only thinkimg of the download era, I'd forgotten about all the 80's re-entries.

Top 100 it's 31 weeks.

This didn't seem right to me. Chartstats shows it as 30 weeks top 75. http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=6092

I thought charity singes normally sold very well on physicals, so a poor performance in the iTunes chart might not necessarily mean the track is going to flop.

I just got the indignant 'Winzip is NOT free software' message. I'd forgotten about that :)

I'd say it was a notable chart statistic rather than an 'achievement' as such.

Do people really think this has anything to do with ghosts?

30 years ago albums were £5, I remember that because you could neatly buy one with a £5 record token. Adjusting for inflation that's an awful lot more than the £8 you pay today. In real terms albums today must be cheaper than they have ever been, yet some people will always whine about the price. Perhaps it's just a piracy generation thing, objecting to having to actually pay a few quid for music.

For a track that has sold so much so consistently, I wouldn't expect anything other than a very slow fall down the chart. It will be no.4 this week and I guess another 4/5 weeks in the top ten after that. It will get stuck in the lower reaches of the top 20 around Christmas, still shifting around 25k/wk I would imagine. Becoming a million seller early next year while still in the top 30. The MLJ haters on here who wish it a quick disappearance are going to be very disappointed.

It's not so much a protest at the X-Factor per se, it's the objection that they have ruined what was a fine old British tradition, the race to be Christmas no.1. I think few people would begrudge the winner a no.1 single in the middle of summer.