Col1967

I can't properly answer question one as I don't have a favourite format. I prefer downloads for singles but CDs for albums.

Aren't new entries destined for the no.1 spot usually well inside the top 10 by this time?

If Blondie's 'Parallel Lines' was in the chart you'd have '=' :)

At first I didn't have a clue as to what information you were trying to impart. Then, when I got over the information overload and worked out exactly how you were presenting it, I'm thinking *wow* how long did it take you to collate all that lot (don't say one year)! It isn't obvious at first glance that you have months in columns and that is initially confusing, especially when one is confronted with such a mass of data, information overload again :) Edit -forgot to ask, do the different colours mean anything?

I know it got a boost after Dancing on Ice, but I was amazed to see it still no.10 on the R1 mids, quite obviously this can't last until Sunday but the sheer staying power of this track is incredible. Much as I love this track, I don't really care whether it manages another week in the top 10 or not, as it has already achieved so much. And it goes like this..... 16 consecutive weeks in the top 10 - check. 7 consecutive weeks at no.2 - check. A million copies sold by year end - check. Sales of 1.1m are only a few weeks away and beyond that overhauling SLY.

In a similar vein, Elvis - 'Way Down'. 46-42-4-1-1-1-1-1-2-6-10-19-30 I can only assume Elvis died part way through a chart week, or perhaps there were distribution problems the week it was no.4 due to the sudden unexpected demand for a track which hitherto looked like it might struggle to make even the top 40.

This one is easily explained. The video was released.

There is another version of MLJ at no.46 which when combined makes them no.11. It's been at no.11 combined on iTunes for at least 24hrs now and I wonder if it won't even reach the top 10 overall come Sunday if this quite steep decline from where it was earlier in the week continues. Is there a weekend effect for those tracks that are already benefiting from the gift card effect??

Approaching 2 million sales seems very optimistic to me. It's sold around 250k in the last 6 months, I can't see it selling 250k in the next 6 months, let alone the 6 months after that. Even then if it somehow maintained that rate it would still put it on just 1.75m. I think sales will eventually level off at around 1.5m.

That's not just a morbid thought, it's a completely unnecessary one. Adele has no addiction issues, well apart from nicotine unfortunately, so to speculate upon her death in that manner seems rather nasty to me.

Even after almost 50 years, this track is still in the top ten of the best selling singles of all time. Something like 1.8m I believe, that's what 18 weeks in the top 3 got you in the early 60s!

'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!

Dunno what it is now but when I was at school 21 was 5+16 :)

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

It seems to perform strongly with the weekend effect though, I'm wondering if it will just scrape in at no.10 this week. But this will be it's last week *surely*.

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'?

But there may be several different combinations of tracks that show the top 10 effect during any chart week. The same two tracks are very unlikely to be showing the effect all week, therefore it won't show up in the real chart.

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