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LOL, I'm 44 and I bought it!

Or it will just tell us something we already know like Sunday is the highest sales day.

I think it was probably 'Millennium' by Robbie Williams.

I doubt the results would be any different. It's not as if people have a special day of the week when they do illegal things......

I did hear CS but considered it to be just a rather forgetable, non-entity of a track rather than something genuinely awful.

I liked PRA but 'Sexy and I Know it' is truly abysmal.

Ah, but 'Quirk's Exception' states that any deliberate attempt to end a discussion by invoking Godwin's Law, means it does not apply :)

Have you heard of Godwin's Law?

Point taken but I would have expected the Goo Goos & Sak to have declined quicker than M5 anyway, so I'm not sure you can really tell what is a Strictly Come X-Factor boost for one track anf the more rapid decline of sales of it's two major competitors. Oh, and congratulations for replying in that 30 seconds or so before I had time to correct my typos, most impressive :)

Why is it expected that this will be their best sales week? I know they increased slightly last week, but I put that down to the SCD/X-Factor boost, which has already worn off. Is this just the iTunes no.1 effect I have heard about, whereby a track which hits that position for any length of time can expect futher boosts in sales simply by being in that most prominent of positions?

I say good on him for standing up for what he believed in. It was after all his field and has every right to decree what goes on there. He apparently had never heard of her so my only criticism wold be that he should have a little bit of research beforehand so he knew what he was letting himself in for.

In the UK at least the Brits appearance *was* the video for SLY. That was what sent the track towards it's mega sales. I doubt it will have much effect here.

Well considering that M5 will probably be selling around 65k next week, it will be a rather 'soft' no.1 and vulnerable to any surprises. Let's hope some random X-Factor thing doesn't thwart it.

I can't see it. If even now they are still behind overall, they'd have to build up a massive lead very quickly to claw back the excess sales Sak has been making all week. As ever with Maroon 5, there is always next week.....

In 1994, All 4 One spent 7 weeks at no.2 with 'I swear' behind 'Love is All Around' by Wet Wet Wet. I'm sure that you are thinking of 'I'm too Sexy' by Right Said Fred which spent 6 weeks behind Bryan Adams in 1991.

For fans ol MLJ (like me!) surely the danger isn't from The Goo Goo dolls, which as you say will surely start to tail off soon but Sak Noel. MLJ will show a very slight decline day on day but should be well ahead of Iris by week end. The danger is that Sak Noel isn't just front loaded but stabilises and starts selling more consistently. Personally I think Maroon 5 will do it with a reasonably comfortable margin.

Agree totally, but I wanted to broaden my point out to all those people who just casually follow the charts, to whom no.1 is just no.1. Perhaps it's because I'm old enough to remember the time when you never got weekly sales info of any kind and if you wanted to know who was no.1 you had to just listen to the charts on Radio One..... I guess you could see it as some kind of 'recognition' for all those high sales weeks at no.2. At the end of the day the chart is merely a sales list. Any track can only compete with those around it.

I don't like the term, though I can understand why some people use it. To me, no.1 is no.1. If you sell more copies of your track than anybody else then you are no.1, whatever actual sales might be. The vast majority of people who follow the charts i.e. listen on a Sunday afternoon won't know (or care) what sales levels are. They will just see a record at no.1. Given sales so far you could argue that MLJ is a very 'deserving' no.1. And indeed given what total sales this track is likely to amass would be considered very unlucky to miss out on the top spot. Indeed one of the highest selling singles not to make no.1, were that to happen.

I didn't know you could add something to somebody else's post. I think the moderators would take a very dim view of that..... Of course iTunes isn't the entire download market let alone the market as a whole so the effect (if it exists) could simply be drowned out. This has got me intrigued now. I have seen people talking about this effect but never really considered it much. I think it would be an interesting statistical exercise to work out the difference (divisor method) between no.9 & 10, 10 &11 and 11&12. I'll do this every evening for a month and we'll see.

One snapshot proves nothing but the popbars right at this very moment show the effect very nicely.

What was added? Not 'Vidcapper is talking nonsense' by any chance :)

I'd say it was comfortably outsell all of them. Maroon 5's sales are starting to dip now though are still very respectable. If there is a quiet week for new releases coming up they might just make it but I doubt it. Even if they do somebody will point and shout 'default no.1!' as if it somehow counts for less if it's achieved on relatively modest sales.

Possibly, but only time will tell which tracks are regarded as 'classics'. Ultimately such a status is achieved by being a well-loved & memorable track, not by being thwarted week after week in getting to no.1. The most famous 'should have been no.1' of them all, 'Ultravox' by Vienna would be remembered today as a classic regardless of whether it reached no.1 or not. Actually, the whole Joe Dolce thing only seemed to come to peoples' attention a few years later. At the time I don't recall any complaints that it was being held off the top by some novelty nonsense.

Simon Cowell's having a go.....

I was aware that sales rose, but not by that amount. Where did all those people come from who hadn't bought the single in all those preceeding weeks but suddenly felt they had to have it when deletion was threatened?