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It isn't even the worst single off Born this Way. As for The Wanted. The physical sales will slump but the fans will come out and download on Boxing Day especially if they have giftcards. It might be an easy number one for them

I like it. I want her to break out already. I'd like it even more if Far East Movement had no lines.

It had a poor slot in the sky guide. Right at the very end next to Clubland and Massive R&B as well as having no request function to generate income. If you are flicking throught the guide you are likely to have found a song you like before you got to NME.

In the spirit of voting for the best song on the list, I went for Nirvana

Thanks, that is quite small given its long run at number one but then it was 2003.

Didn't people drop a pound or something for their poppies? This is basically the same thing we did a month ago. Why didn't he arrange this for then, get them on X Factor and capitalise on that marketing?

Not sure you can answer this because its an older song but I saw Evanecence was one of the top 20 selling rock songs of the year so do you have a lifetime figure for it?

They advertised the song at the end of the last show and told people it was in shops and that they should buy it. Campaign enough for me.

No, I am too but as long as Cowell is going to campaign through X Factor then I don't mind people coming out to take him down. I like that Cowell can throw all that money into it and be beaten by facebook or youtube Kareoke or even Chris Moyles

There were a whole 40 memorable hits this year? :lol:

...and is backed by BBC Radio 1, Olly Murs, The Wanted, Professor Green and Emeli Sande... People who had fairly forgettable number ones and would quite like an award?

Which is why you should all buy Nirvana. A true classic. :angry:

What's worse is that these abominations will be stuck with us for years. They still play X factor songs as part of christmas countdowns on Music TV, they have no relevance to christmas. Which is how they peddle this crap. I bet that if any of us dissed this in public we'd be called bad people because of the emotional manipulation involved. Its immune to criticism

Flying without Wings is going to fly back in the chart. I can feel it.

Why a cover? Why a ballad? Why something Ellie Goulding did last year?

Remember Fame Academy? I don't see The Voice doing much better

Exactly, this was engineered to coincide with X Factor so people remembered she existed before she drops an album in March which will have no real TV promo opportunities.

This is a wildcard. It will be either a huge success or a crash and burn. I can't see physicals having that much power these days. This doesn't seem like a good 'gift' unless you are looking for something for grandma and even then, they aren't the granny's of my day. Today's grannys bought the Beatles and Stones in their prime. It doesn't suit the singles target demographic. It all hinges on the pity buy, and that did nothing for the X Factor Finalists either this year. Can it work more for a significantly less popular show?

Moment 4 Life was great, the annoying video prologue wasn't

Really? Its almost traditional after Many of Horror and Hallelujah that the X Factor attempt at XMas #1 will have wildly innappropriate lyrics for the festive period.

It depends on who is covering it really. People loved Johnny Cash's cover of Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana covered David Bowie's Man Who Sold the World, Jeff Buckley covered Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah all to no uproar at all. Pop artists cover pop artists with no uproar. Its the cross genre aspect that loses it. Indie becomes pop and seems sanitised. Pop becomes indie and seems like a joke (see Arctic Monkey's doing Love Machine on Live Lounge V1)

You can say that about every indie /rock song to ever be on a pop contest. Indie-Rock to Pop rarely ever works because of the different tones of the lyrics. It just seems out of place.

It is. It was played on Radio one about half an hour before the chart show.

Repeats, ITV Player, timeshift = Average 14 million. You are using overnights. Also, Sunday shows average 14 million showing that people do indeed catch up in various ways. His audience is also more mature and more likely to want physicals rather than downloads which skew younger. The itunes singles chart isn't everything is the main point.

The relevance is that Michael Buble was promoting his seasonal album which is currently the 7th best selling of the year. People who like his track are less likely to buy the single and more likely to buy the album, especially physical albums as gifts going into the last two shopping weeks. Michael Buble isn't a singles artist so its wrong to compare the two.