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But those 'latest hits' received heavy rotation on the radio, just as they do today so people still had every chance to hear them.

It was much the same prior to Oct 1987 though. The chart was released on a Tuesday, yet the 'flagship' chart show wan't until the following Sunday, a whole 5 days later. Obviously you couldn't find out the new chart by clicking on the OCC website but the chart was announced on the Tuesday lunchtime and again that evening. Many newpapers would carry the chart on the Wednesday morning, and of course there was TOTP on Thursday evening. More than enough opportunity for people to know what the new chart was, but they still listened on the Sunday.

Meghan currently 0.53 of Mark Ronson and hasn't really put on that much since the pre-orders were dumped in. To be only just over half the no.1 at 11am doesn't bode well for her and I think Uptown Funk will get another week at no.1. I'm not sure it's even going to be that close.

The week between Christmas and New Year always was stale.

Before the Sunday trading laws were relaxed 20 years ago you wouldn't have been able to buy a single on that day. Now ironically Sunday is the biggest sales day of the week.

658K in a day?! Had that come out timed to the start of the chart week sales would have been over 2 million.

Now this is the proper use of the word 'slaying' :)

I certainly recall James Arthur approaching 0.1 over the no.2. I've certainly never seen anything like this before.

Around two thirds of the population of Ethiopia are Christians, the famine in that country was of course the reason for Band Aid in the first place. So to answer the question 'Do They Know it's Christmas?' Yes, they probably did.....

Not the first one, surely?

This is more something that I *want* to be a massive hit than I think will actually be one. It has already made the top 200. yBZgHVXGyBg

I was just finishing secondary school when the *first* one came out :)

Just like George Michael in 1984!

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'.......