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Where I live, they still stock quite a few CDs and DVDs anyway! But, this is good news!

+5 Bastille - Pompeii +4 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +3 Pink feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason +2 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors +1 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop -1 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man -2 Bridgit Mendler - Ready Or Not -3 Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One -4 Baauer - Harlem Shake -5 One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) One Direction for the lowest total points score of all time :lol:

Has anyone else noticed that I Knew You Were Trouble has now occupied every position between 2 and 13 at least once? Pretty impressive. Hoping for #14 next week :lol:

Damn, if Gangnam Style is still in it means no re-entry for Birdy (probably) :cry:

+5 Bastille - Pompeii +4 Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble +3 Justin Timberlake - Mirrors +2 Pink feat. Nate Ruess - Just Give Me A Reason +1 Bruno Mars - When I Was Your Man -1 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis feat. Wanz - Thrift Shop -2 Avicii vs. Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One -3 Baauer - Harlem Shake -4 Wiley feat. Chip - Reload -5 One Direction - One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks)

Maybe it's just me, but I heard this and instantly thought it was a future number 1 for sure. It all depends on promotion though to be fair, but it's in the iTunes album chart on pre-order and that's usually a sign of at least going top 10!

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life How on Earth did this get four weeks?!

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 :(

I agree that it was a good decision to get One Direction to do the comic relief song this year, because it will raise loads of money... However, it would be nice if they hadn't completely murdered 2 great songs to raise that money :cry:

This is a surprise - after the first couple of weeks, you wouldn't have predicted Suit & Tie to outsell My Life, but now it looks like it will :lol:

Did Jameela just reveal how many places Justin Timberlake has climbed this week, or was I imagining things? It kind of ruins the surprise...

Stereophonics for the top 40 please! And although he won't be this week, I hope Justin Timberlake can be number 1 next week because Mirrors is far better than anything else doing well right now :lol:

+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

Indian Summer by the Stereophonics really deserves to be top 40, I hope it can get there at some point :cry:

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!

That was Chad Kroeger, the lead singer.

Why do they never admit that a song re-enters because it's 59p? It was nothing to do with Huw Stephens :lol:

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

I think Biffy Clyro have grown in popularity since the last album (maybe because of how good it was) so a good opening week for Opposites would be expected, but in this climate it'll probably fall quite quickly and sell far less overall. Still, I bought the album on Monday and have to say, it's even better than Only Revolutions in my opinion. So I really hope it can get an amazing first week sale of 100k :lol: (we can always hope)