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No sign of Terry Wogan yet in the iTunes top 1500......

If member of groups count then I'm thinking The St Winfred's School Choir.

How can that possibly be correct? Al Martino's 'Here in my Heart' was at no.1 from the time the chart was first published in November 1952 until the end of the year. The Vera Lynn track managed just one week at no.10.

Who can forget Motorhead's appearance on 'The Young Ones'. To the *station*! ?v=YOAz4nPNvLI

I've just voted for them over on the poll thread although I still hope that I am wrong. The 'momentum' is with them now and over the next couple of days there will be further doses of high-profile promo and things on social media are likely to become pretty frenzied.

Why is streaming date slower to obtain than downloads?

Tuesday :)

I think it's very unlikely however where money is involved it would be enough to sow the seeds of doubt in my mind. Anyhow, I just want a 'proper' Christmas no.1 this year. No X-Factor/charity or campaign songs please. I can't believe I'd ever see the day when i would be rooting for Justin Bieber to be no.1!

It may just be a blip but the latest Kworb update shows a jump for both NHS choir versions. If I had money on Bieber I would be getting just a little nervous!

Very little probably. When The Beatles were first made available to download there were all kinds of outlandish predictions, like the entire top 20 being comprised of Beatles songs. Nothing of the sort happened of course, I think 'Hey Jude' crept into the top 40, but that was about it.

I wonder how many weeks Adele will spend at no.1 on the album chart. Through Christmas and into the New Year is a certainty but beyond that, 10 weeks perhaps?

It was just a jokey throwaway comment, that's all.

I assume you aren't being entirely serous here. You have 'Uptown Funk' on 1.674m so far this year., I can't see Adele selling that amount by year end. Not sure how many weeks there are left until the end of the year but let's say 9. That's an average of 186k every week. No chance!

It's actually spent 91 weeks in the top 100, not 92. Still, this could be it's last (consecutive) week.

Obviously some kind of correlation between new and pre-streaming tracks can always be made but as streaming becomes more dominant this will become ever more theoretical. Consider a time when 99%+ of music is accessed via streaming. Does 100 million streams equate to 1 million sales under the old system? Who knows, and we never can know. I don't think it will be too many years before the term 'million seller' won't be used any more as nothing really 'sells' much anymore in the old-fashioned download sense, rather we will be talking about '100 million streamers'.

Yes. *Mine* However I am only trying to be realistic here. This isn't what I want to happen, it's what I think will almost certainly happen in the long run.

In 5 years' time streaming may become so dominant that the very idea of converting streaming points into a 'sale' will seem hopelessly archaic. The year's most popular tracks will be measured in the tens or even hundreds of millions of streams. What genuine sales that do occur we will think of as being converted into streaming points at the rate of 100 points per sale, or whatever ratio exists at that time. The idea of a 'million seller' will become redundant. It is only at the moment as we go through the transition period when both concepts are running in parallel that everything is a bit messy.

10 years? Must be 25 years for me. Probably would have been 1990 when I bought my first CD player, never looked back since.

A minor error, but the OCC (and Polyhex) quote this as having had 70 weeks on the chart, not 71.

That is correct. AFAIK there has been a Sunday chart show on Radio 1 since it started in 1967 but only since Oct 1987 has said show actually aired the *new* chart.

:blink: I'd be intersted to know who exactly you think the charts were aimed at back then, given that they have always been first aired on Radio 1, a station very much aimed at young people.

Presumably you consider the old Tuesday lunchtime chart reveal to be 'retarded' too as the kids were still in school, but that is what I grew up with. There was however another chart rundown on Tuesday evenings, 6-7pm, something like that. May have been a little longer.

39. Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines (feat T.I & Pharrell) 62. Marvin Gaye - Got to Give It Up, Pt. 1 (Single Version) No.32 combined :)

That's a pretty sweeping statement, don't you think? My Grandma lived to be 100 and although her short-term memory had gone she was just as lively as she ever was. She was no 'vegetable', that's for sure!

How could I forget Ceefax, the internet of the 1980s!