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All the Glee songs are in the top 20! Now then, who was complaining that the Glee stuff never does anything interesting in the iTunes chart :)

I'm surprised MLJ has gone back up 5 places to no.30. It's not done anything on iTunes that would suggest that.

I think it will sink without trace.

I don't think Marcus will get to no.1 on iTunes, let alone overall. It will take him several hours just to claw through the 'top 10 effect' gap and Gotye's lead is *huge*.

On the latest kworb update it suddenly jumps from 0.6704 at 17.8hrs to 0.7011 at 15.5hrs. That's quite a sharp rise in that time and must have happened for a reason.

Even though I have never actually listened to Sgt pepper as such, of the 12 tracks on it (not counting the reprise of Sgt Pepper) I know 8 of them. I suspect many people are the same, being familiar with most of the album even though they don't actually own it. I can't imagine there is any other album that even approaches such familiarity.

I have 3, Bad, 21 and (What's the Story) Morning Glory.

How come you've been awarded 'person who represents the worst of Buzzjack 2011'? I don't recall seeing any contest being held. Right ungrateful lot here anyway, after all you do for them as regards sales info.

I've just Youtubed it up. I always feel very mean-spirited if I hope that charity tracks do badly because they aren't selling 'on-merit' but this is a pretty decent song, so yeah, I can't complain at that. At least they have made an effort, unlike many charity tracks whose producers seem to think that just because it's for a good cause they can get away with any old rubbish.

Just shows how low sales were at the time if 8 weeks at no.1 couldn't even sell half a million.

Agreed. I read them with interest but the numbers really speak for themselves. That said, it must be rather disheartening to put all that work in and receive little or no feedback.

What, like two? That's just a simple double negative!

And to think that just a few weeks ago people were saying singles sales at the top end of the chart were so low!

Yet this week SLY sunk to a career low of no.58 overall. Something tells me this won't be so low again for a while.....

Is this a boost in sales on pensions day?

Same here :)

It just seems an odd mentality to me that's all. People generally buy music because they like it, do they not? 'I Will Always Love You' is the same track now as it was yesterday, it hasn't got any better. If you didn't want to buy it then, why buy it now? This has puzzled me ever since the death of John Lennon in 1980, so I doubt I will ever understand it :)

No, because that is a general appreciation of her. Downloading a track that you would never have thought of buying were she still alive, isn't.

Well said. I said the same thing when Amy Winehouse died. It's all rather grisly. True Whitney fans will have her music anyway. It's not just Brits though. 'I Will Always Love You' is currently no.3 on US iTunes.

I think you will find that it's Titanium that's the 'non-event' of a song. Personal preferences - don't you just love 'em :) Go Gotye!

No, don't say that, another track I love spending an eternity at no.2, being thwarted every week, usually by 'non' no.1's! ISTR that the closest MLJ got was in it's *first* week at no.2, just 400 copies or something, is this correct?

I know that this isn't against the rules so I wouldn't call it cheating as such, however I do think it's a rather underhand method to employ, 'unsportsman like behaviour' if you like. And of course if too many tracks end up discounting like this then we'll end up going full circle back to the early 2000s when the CD singles were at reduced price in the first week which helped fuel the 'crash straight in at peak position then plummet' frenzy of the era. 'Somebody that I Used to Know' is a fantastic track, just downloaded it. The intro to this reminds me of the intro to XTC's 'Senses Working Overtime'.

The no.1 single shouldn't be decided by price!

Surely nobody wants to see the charts reduced to a mere 'price war' though. Reductions to 59p are fine to help a dying single sell a few more copies but it's a pretty cynical weapon to employ in order to make no.1. Of course this used to happen routinely in the early 2000s when CD singles were discounted in the first week which helped almost every no.1 single debut at the top, then fall rapidly. I hope this isn't the beginning of a new trend......

I'd say 'Material Girl' just edges it over 'Like Virgin'. Even today, people still refer to Madonna as being 'the material girl'.