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I know that there is a weighting towards more recent sales, I'm just surprised that it has had such a marked effect so early on, if indeed this is the reason for the decline.

Even if sales fell to zero that wouldn't explain why as a new release it's actually *declining* on KWORB. Surely at worst the figures would be static.

Any idea why Gareth Malone is declining rapidly? It's not as if it's been deleted fron iTunes or anything.

I'm not certain but I think both 'Get Lucky' & 'Blurred Lines' may have done it.

And where do you imagine most plastic comes from?

X-Factor? OK fair enough, I don't watch that rubbish.

After 3 years still in the iTunes top 200, that's impressive!

The longest time to peak in a single chart run, and what a great track too! I wonder how much this has sold now, sorry wrong thread, must ask Vidcapper when he puts his YTD thread up later.....

They are certainly the more interesting. Many of the others are just re-issues/re-enties appearing sometimes many years after original release that just happen to peak higher 2nd time round.

16. Is 'The Power of Love' a Christmas song?

Be careful what you wish for :) I can remember Bryan Adam's 16 week run at the top in 1991 and while it was interesting from a chart watching point of view it was getting completely riduculous and I was quite relieved when it was finally knocked off the top. 6 or 7 weeks at no.1 is enough to demonstrate what a really massive hit looks like in chart terms. 10+ weeks and that's too long really. Interestingly long runners seem to be associated with low sales periods. The mid 2000s as already mentioned but also the early 1990s were a low sales period too. As well as Bryan Adams we had long runners from Shakespears Sister (8 weeks), Whitney Houston (10 weeks) and Wet Wet Wet (14 weeks).

I think I know the one he means, and why it's a good idea to keep it 'under the radar'.......

I think 'Dancing Queen' got to no.1 in the US though, but they never really had any sustained success stateside.

Not exactly a 'Wordwide hit' as such but Thomas Dolby's 'She Blinded me with Science' reached no.5 in the US and no.1 in Canada yet only got to no.49 in his native UK.

So no 'Sat in Your Lap' in the top 20 then despite it reaching no.11. This has always seemed to me to be one of Kate's forgotten hits and perhaps that not surprising as it's rather bizzare even by her standards. The video is very weird! It's one of my favourite tracks of hers anyway.

ISTR they would announce 5 to 2, then run down the top 40. Ater starting at 12.45 and announcing the no.1 at 1pm, the next hour would be a run down of new entries/highest climbers. I never listened at school, nobody I knew seemed particularly interested in the charts so I associate the Tuesday lunchtime chart with school holdays so it was always a bit special to be able to listen to it. The rest of the time there was a more conventional chart run down 6-7pm (I think) on Tuesday evenings.

I had a look at the 'Confirmed Million Sellers' thread and it's in the 'nearly there' section at 955k.

Billie Jean must surely be almost on a million sales by now.

Well this came from the BBC One O'Clock News. Just allowing one stream per day seems very restrictive, I'm sure we've all listened to a track more than once in a day. But more than 10 times? That's going beyond innocent fandom.....

10 streams per day, apparently.

I'm sure iTunes doesn't much like it either. I know they have to report what is selling but I think they would far prefer people to arrive on their site and be presented with a top 10 of at least a reasonably varied diet of music, rather than one in which day by day is becoming increasingly dominiated by one artist. Personally, I wouldn't allow even one instant grat from an album to chart. It distorts the chart because they aren't all buying the single 'on merit' but merely as an incentive to pre-order the album. Obviously this is a compromise though.

I hope this isn't the start of a trend of 'mass instant gratting'. If so the iTunes chart could become so clogged up with chart ineligable tracks that it will become almost useless as a means of determining what the official chart will be.

Two whole weeks? I hate these long running no.1s..... They will but will probably perk up again in the run up to the next mach.

So every Kylie record you've ever bought was solely 'on merit', then?

I don't expect it to, it's not like a normal campaign that after an initial surge naturally runs out of steam. The increasing excitement as England's game nears will keep it going. Should England win or at least draw, there will be another big boost, though of couse by then it will be Sunday morning and would count for next weeks' chart.