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+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 :(

You have to love the fact that there are two songs in a row with the same name! :lol:

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. :(

I think you will be wrong there since it's at 14 on iTunes, and it hasn't even been released yet! :lol:

I can't believe Ho Hey has been in the top 20 for 12 weeks - and easily could be next week too, based on iTunes right now! :o

Sales of the top 3 are going to be so close. I'd be excited, if I actually liked any of them :lol:

+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 :)