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Sadly, this is an April Fools.

Keep going Faded!!!

GTL never did anything for me. Get Busy is light years better.

I meant it feels underrated now, in the present. It doesn't seem to be remembered as well as it should with casual music fans.

God, I loved Gwen during the Love, Angel, Music, Baby era. So underrated looking back on it.

Meghan Trainor is no big loss, as No hasn't taken off yet. Plus as gooddelta said, the Now compilers wouldn't have had access to either song when the tracklisting was being finalised. Either way, it's certainly not a case of the Now team being "bothered" to put certain songs on or not. There's no personal agenda behind the compiling of the tracklisting.

It's not that they can't be bothered, it's just they don't always get the licensing rights to put every song on.

Now 93

I don't this Mike will do enough to be no.1 this week - but fingers definitely crossed for next week.

Some Girls is so wonderfully out of place from the usual Sport Relief dirge.

I remember being so gutted when War Of Nerves only got to #7. But then I was stanning for them pretty hard back then...

6 weeks total. Although I could see it doing longer.

There's never really pressure on Adele, even if she does have an off performance. She's so powerful and loved, she can get away with almost anything.

Such tragic news about Viola Beach.

Agree - almost cringeworthy.

I'm so mixed on streaming. Overall, the worst thing about it is how repetitive it can make listening to the chart these days.

Lol at Stooshe. To be fair, what did they expect?

The best time to launch WWWY is to coincide with the BRITS.

I just find it hard to believe you think Adele will struggle to sell 500k in almost a year.

If you want to act like 25 is somehow a flop, then fine. 21 may have been on sale longer by the point it reached 29k sales, but you have to remember that 21 never went above 300k sales in a single week. 25 had five consecutive weeks where it sold a minimum of 350k, and for three of those weeks, it sold over 400k. 25's sales were far more front loaded than 21's, so it isn't in any way a surprise that it's total sales dropped of quicker. You say most fans already have it? Most fans already had 21 at the beginning of 2012, yet it still sold more than 500k for the rest of that year. Plus you say its sales have already "collapsed"? Selling 29k in its eighth week when it's already sold over 2.5 million is not a "collapse". It will sell a large amount the week of the Brits, we still have no idea how many singles are to come, plus the album will almost certainly still be Top 15 come Christmas, when the sales will be higher. So of course it will hit 3 million this year.

Hopefully? With a Brit awards performance and several more singles to come, you think there's a chance this won't be able to shift another 500k copies. This is Adele we're talking about.

I can see it doing 4 million. It will remain in the Top 10 for most, if not all of the year. But it will probably fall short of 21.

What is your beef with Fleur?

I'm not particularly a Leona fan, but I disagree hugely with this post. It's clear to me with the line-up revealed that they are going for a "Best Of X Factor" vibe, with all the big stars from the past performing. If this is the case, Leona HAS to be there - she is the second biggest act the X Factor has ever had!!!! Yes, so she hasn't been commercially relevant in a while, yet that does NOT detract from what she did achieve since winning the show. The way I see it, it was Leona who put the X Factor on the map (not One Direction), as she was the first international success story from the show, and she broke the American market at a time when it wasn't an easy thing to do (I'm not saying it's easy now, but it's definitely gotten easier since 2008). She still has, by far, the biggest opening week sales for an X Factor debut album in the UK (and that's including One Direction), and Bleeding Love and her version of Run are still very known amongst the general public. Honestly, how can she not be at an event celebrating X Factor's biggest successes? The fact that she is no longer successful doesn't change that she once was very successful. She is still the biggest winner to come from the show (at her peak, she was far bigger than Little Mix) and the show simply cannot ignore that. And whilst her star has undoubtedly waned, I still read articles and comments on forums referring to her (amongst others) as being one of the big success stories of X Factor, so most people would still be aware of who she is. So whilst I see the merit in what you're saying in regards to her no longer being a big star, I don't see any merit whatsoever in suggesting that she shouldn't be performing at the final.