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I would honestly buy Mirrors if it didn't have the three minutes at the end. I'm sure if he released a radio edit he'd get far more sales!

+5 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors +4 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +3 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +2 Ben Howard - Only Love +1 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop -1 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man -2 Emeli Sande - Clown -3 Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One -4 One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) :puke2: -5 Baauer - Harlem Shake :puke2: This would be a good top 10 if White Noise hadn't dropped out :(

+5 Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge - White Noise +4 Gabrielle Aplin - Please Don't Say You Love Me +3 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +2 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man +1 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop -1 Emeli Sande - Clown -2 Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One -3 Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) -4 Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle -5 Baauer - Harlem Shake

Thanks for the suggestions, I have edited it now. In fact there are 16 bonus answers, I basically just copied all the ones that I knew were close to a million and were likely to make it soon - the number of bonus answers has decreased recently because so many songs which were close have made it, and become real answers. Glad you enjoyed it :D

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Yorkiebar357/...selling-singles http://www.sporcle.com/games/Yorkiebar357/...er-1-singles-uk http://www.sporcle.com/games/Yorkiebar357/...number-1-albums Made these months ago, but they seem relevant :lol:

As far as I'm concerned, any concept of what effect it will have on the songs in the chart and how long they stick around for is irrelevant. The original idea of the chart (in the UK, at least) was to say which songs sold the most copies in that week - any other measure of popularity shouldn't be included in my opinion, because that was the whole concept of the chart. Songs get loads of views on YouTube but we don't include that in the chart. Streaming's not really buying the track, you pay a subscription to be able to listen to whatever you want, which is not the same as buying a particular song. It's true that if streaming takes over the singles market then the current singles chart will have extremely low sales, but that doesn't matter - just because there are low sales, doesn't mean the original point of the chart has been changed. There is a streaming chart separate to the singles chart, and whether or not that becomes the chart that's more relevant to what people are listening to in the future, in my opinion they should never be combined. Also, if they are combined, I think any rule which involves manipulating the chart so that a song that's been in there for ages leaves more quickly, will completely devalue the whole thing. If a song is popular enough to be in the chart, it shouldn't be removed just because people will get bored of it, it would just make a mockery of the whole system.

+5 Disclosure feat. AlunaGeorge - White Noise +4 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +3 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +2 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop +1 Emeli Sande - Clown -1 Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark -2 Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle -3 Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) -4 Dizzee Rascal - Bassline Junkie -5 will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout You can tell how much I hate Scream & Shout by the fact that I put that monstrosity above it!

What happened to "later today"? :blink: :lol:

Both of the stores in my city appear to be staying open then. I can't say I'm surprised considering how busy they both are, you can barely move for people most of the time!

+5 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +4 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +3 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop +2 Devlin feat. Diane Birch - Rewind +1 Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) -1 Emeli Sande - Clown -2 Conor Maynard feat. Wiley - Animal -3 50 Cent feat. Eminem & Adam Levine - My Life -4 Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle -5 will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout

+5 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +4 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +3 Emeli Sande - Clown +2 Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) +1 Conor Maynard feat. Wiley - Animal -1 50 Cent feat. Eminem and Adam Levine - My Life -2 Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle -3 James Arthur - Impossible -4 Pitbull feat. TJR - Don't Stop The Party -5 will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout I strongly dislike all but the top 3 though :(

I only buy CDs usually, in HMV, because I love having the physical copy, but occasionally I download an album if I can't find it in a shop. Also I get iTunes gift cards occasionally, which I usually use to download individual songs from albums if I don't want to buy the whole album. Sometimes I do get the whole album, but I always regret not getting the physical copy afterwards, especially if I really like the album. Once HMV has closed though, there will be nowhere in my city where I can get a good selection of CDs, and I might have to resort to buying off Amazon - which I have done in the past but don't like doing, it's not really the same as browsing through the huge selection at HMV. I refuse to convert to downloads whatever happens in the future. :(

+5 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +4 Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker +3 Rihanna feat. Mikky Ekko - Stay +2 David Bowie - Where Are We Now? +1 Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven -1 PSY - Gangnam Style -2 Pitbull feat. TJR - Don't Stop The Party -3 Calvin Harris feat. Tinie Tempah - Drinking From The Bottle -4 James Arthur - Impossible -5 will.i.am feat. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout Yet again, there is nothing I really like in the top 10 :(

Biffy Clyro for number 1!!! That would make My Life (see what I did there?) :lol:

The sales are going to be so low, why is nothing big being released in the next couple of months? Last January we at least had people like Jessie J releasing big singles and some big anticipated albums like Lana Del Rey's, but this year there seems to be nothing :( On the other hand, this month will be great for those people who like to complain about the albums market collapsing!

+150 Coldplay - Paradise +140 Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know +130 Gabrielle Aplin - The Power Of Love +120 Jessie J - Domino +110 Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa - Payphone (would be higher if not for Wiz Khalifa) +100 The Script feat. will.i.am - Hall Of Fame (would be higher if not for will.i.am) +90 Florence + the Machine - Spectrum +80 Olly Murs feat. Flo Rida - Troublemaker +70 David Guetta feat. Sia - Titanium +60 fun. feat. Janelle Monae - We Are Young +50 Sam and the Womp - Bom Bom +40 Robbie Williams - Candy +30 Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child +20 Gary Barlow & the Commonwealth Band feat. Military Wives - Sing +10 Katy Perry - Part Of Me -10 James Arthur - Impossible I was torn between this and Heatwave to vote down, but in the end I chose based on the massive injustice that is the X Factor getting yet another rubbish cover version to sell a disgustingly large amount of copies :angry:

+5 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +4 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida - Troublemaker +3 Robbie Williams - Candy +2 The Justice Collective - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother +1 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande - Beneath Your Beautiful -1 Rihanna - Diamonds -2 Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven -3 PSY - Gangnam Style -4 James Arthur - Impossible -5 will.i.am ft. Britney Spears - Scream & Shout Saw this and it looked like a great idea so I decided to join in :dance: It's a shame that the top 10 is so awful this week (imo of course) - I don't even really like Taylor Swift...

Well this is depressing. All the songs I like have gone down or not benefited from the gift card effect yet. And it now looks pretty certain that James Arthur will sell a million copies, and that PSY will probably overtake Gotye eventually. Not by the end of the year, but still... :(

Looking on iTunes James Arthur is currently selling around 10 times the amount will.i.am is selling. Assuming that will.i.am would have had first week number 1 sales of around 80k (I have no idea to be honest) that puts James on roughly 800k, which is a ridiculous amount. Taking into account the obvious trail off in sales towards the end of the week I'd say it's possible he'll do 500k... I know X Factor winner sales have been suffering lately, but I think the decision to make this a charity single has paid off on Simon Cowell's part. It's obvious he's done it in an attempt to rescue the show which is clearly on a popularity decline, but it appears to have worked, and whatever the intentions it can only be seen as a good thing that so much money will go to charity :)

Ed Sheeran - Give Me Love - 27 Maroon 5 - One More Night - 28 McFly - Love Is Easy - 50 Disclosure - Latch - 23 Naughty Boy feat. Emeli Sande - Wonder - 49 DJ Fresh - Gold Dust - 39 Sub Focus - Tidal Wave - 36 Ellie Goulding - Anything Could Happen - 57 Pitbull - Don't Stop The Party - 8 Adele - Skyfall - 13 Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody - 51 Girls Aloud - Something New - 21 Christina Perri - A Thousand Years - 18 Otto Knows - Million Voices - 73 Bonus 1 - Odd Bonus 2 - No Bonus 3 - 3 :lol:

So glad you are doing this era, it's when I started to get into the charts for the first time (I was about 10) although I do remember many of the songs before that, this is the first time from which I remember all of them. Listening to them now makes me realise how bad the charts were at the time, but I still can't help liking them because they represent my childhood. I have to say though, Put Your Records on was one of my favourite songs, and I have to say I still really like it! Anyway, looking forward to 2007-9 and hearing your opinions from that period :)