Snow Spiider

Is his name a play on an oceanic word? :o (albeit, if it is, it doesn't use the correct letters :S)

It needs to fall to a position within the top 75 - Glee's IWTHYH fell out of the top 75 so is ineligible for counting for that bonus question.

SECTION A Adele – Make You Feel My Love 36 Chipmunk – Champion 2 Eric Prydz – Niton (The Reason) 60 Glee Cast – One Love (People Get Ready) 75+ Glee Cast – Start Me Up / Livin’ On A Prayer 75+ Glee Cast – Stop! In The Name Of Love / Free Your Mind 75+ Glee Cast – Teenage Dream 75+ Lethal Bizzle et al – POW 2011 35 Loick Essien - Stuttering 24 Modestep – Feel Good 40 Nicki Minaj & Drake – Moment 4 Life 29 P!nk – F**kin’ Perfect 11 Rihanna – S&M 12 Tiesto & Diplo ft. Busta Rhymes – C’Mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise) 65 SECTION B David [highest] Tinie Martin JLS Dre Britney [lowest] Wow, I really mucked up the Glee tracks this week!!! :blush: :(

Spiidey's Chart Singles Prediction Game Chart Sunday 13th February 2011 :cheer: :yahoo: :dance: :cheer: WEEK 06 IN 2011!!! The predictions are broken down into two sections:- SECTION A In this section, you will predict where 14 songs are going to be in the following Sunday's Top 75 chart. In this section, you should predict for each song a position between 1 and 75 based on where you think that song will chart within the Top 75. If you think the song will chart outside the top 75 (i.e. position 76 or lower) you should use the notation "75+". The point scoring for these 14 songs is:- 10 pts if spot on with your prediction (therefore a maximum of 140 points to play for in this section);9 pts if your prediction is out by 1 position, 8 pts if your prediction is out by 2 positions, down to 1 pt if your prediction is out by 9 positions and zero points if your prediction is out by 10 or more positions;If you think a song will not make the Top 75, you can predict that song to be 75+ (i.e. any position outwith the top 75). If this is correct, you will get 5 points;If a song charts in a position between 76-84 (e.g. 77), and you have predicted that song to chart at a position between 67-75 (e.g. 70), you will still score the "normal" points - in the example given, you would score 3 pts;If a new single is pulled from release or non-chart eligible then everyone's prediction for that question will be void and everyone will be awarded 5 points;Due to physical singles sales declining I have scrapped the old rule of awarding points should the physical release be postponed so long as the download release goes ahead as scheduled.+ SECTION B In this section, you should put the songs in the order they will chart, from highest to lowest. For the avoidance of doubt, you do NOT have to put the position you think the songs will chart at; you should only put the order that you think the songs will chart in. For each song that you place in the correct order, you will get 10 points, making a maximum of 60 points in this section. Therefore there will be a maximum of 200 Points [140 points in Section A, and 60 points in Section B] to gain. ============================================================ THE PREDICTIONS:- Sales Period: Sunday 06th February – Saturday 12th February SECTION A Adele – Make You Feel My Love Chipmunk – Champion Eric Prydz – Niton (The Reason) Glee Cast – One Love (People Get Ready) Glee Cast – Start Me Up / Livin’ On A Prayer Glee Cast – Stop! In The Name Of Love / Free Your Mind Glee Cast – Teenage Dream Lethal Bizzle et al – POW 2011 Loick Essien - Stuttering Modestep – Feel Good Nicki Minaj & Drake – Moment 4 Life P!nk – F**kin’ Perfect Rihanna – S&M Tiesto & Diplo ft. Busta Rhymes – C’Mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise) SECTION B ***Note see rules section*** Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me David Guetta ft. Rihanna – Who’s That Chick? Dr Dre, Skylar Grey & Eminem – I Need A Doctor JLS – Eyes Wide Shut Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello Tinie Tempah ft. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman ============================================================ You have up until circa 10:00am UK Time on Tuesday 08th February to get your entries in (I'll be keeping the thread open) but entries altered after the midweeks have arrived will be excluded. Each Game counts towards the Overall Leaderboard (The Best 48 Games). Whilst I will maintain the last 6 weeks Leaderboard for newer players If you have never played in previous years, then here is a great opportunity to join in the fun! :cheer:

I like whapping this one out every now and again:- http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9367/runitunes.png

I always seem to do better in the bonus rounds (cue epic fail in Week 10 :S). Nice to be near the top now after falling down the leaderboard after last week :cheer:

Yeah that's a point actually - it might have to go and shift some to beat Grenade. However, its likely to sell incredibly well this week and for pretty much the whole of February due to the Brits and in fact into March with her album being brought forward. It also seems the kind of song Capital will hammer to death for pretty much the rest of the year, so I can see this sticking around the top 100. I agree with the first sentence, but disagree with the latter two. I really don't see how it is too early to start speculating - its obviously too early to start confirming, but I don't understand, or agree, with the assertion that it is too early to speculate - surely that's part and parcel of this forum for a start, but in any case, the song is clearly off to a good start and for the reasons I've given above, that's why I'm speculating that it may sell over a prolonged period thus making it a contender for #1 YTD.

I'd be astonished if it isn't in the top 10 at the end of the year. In fact, with it being released so early in the year, I already think it has a pretty good shot at year end #1 :o

I think new releases in the US have always been on a Tuesday; hence why most American acts release their single world-wide on that day, irrespective of whether other territories have the same release dates/chart weeks. I can't ever see the case where they switch that around and the release is Sunday world-wide, as they'd be more focused on getting the largest sales possible (from America), and also, the American chart sales week runs from Monday-Sunday so releasing on a Sunday would lose them a day of initial sales in the first full chart week in a sense. I think maybe a hybrid of release US Tuesday and then UK the following Sunday might work, but even then the risk of UK piracy between Tuesday-Sunday is still there. The #1's that you've tracked more than likely will have got to #1 on iTunes by the end of Sunday - IIRC Jessie didn't do this and was still #2 on Tuesday morning. That's why her sales haven't started to tail off yet as other iTunes #1's would have done by now - her effect is probably the same, just delayed a couple of days / a day and a half due to her not hitting the #1 spot until Tuesday morning-ish.

I agree,it's definitely where is the love that I hear in "Price Tag", especially right before PT hits the chorus.

Its only a matter of time. :cheer: I can see this selling 80k ish this week, and more in Week 2 (possibly upwards of 100k) before levelling out at around 90k Week 3 and 70k Week 4. That could well give it 4 weeks @ #1.

Hilarious, really :lol:

01. Jessie J - PT 02. Bruno Mars - Grenade 03. Ke$ha - WRWWR 04. Adele - RITD 05. Diddy - CH 06. Jessie J - DILAD 07. Enrique - T(IFY) 08. P!nk - FP 09. Chris Brown - Y3X 10. Taio Cruz etc – Higher 11. Chase & Status - BF 12. Wretch 32 - Traktor 13. Tinie Tempah - Wonderman 14. RiDrake - WMN? 15. JLS - EWShut #1 Beady Eye - The Roller #2 Tinie Tempah - Wonderman #3 6 #4 4 #5 3 #6 Adele - 19

Adele – Make You Feel My Love 27 B.o.B – I’ll Be In The Sky 75+ Devlin & Labrinth – Let It Go 70 Enrique Iglesias, Ludacris & DJ Frank E – Tonight (I’m F***ing You) 08 Glee Cast – Lucky 75 Glee Cast – River Deep, Mountain High 70 Jessie J ft. B.o.B – Price Tag 01 Ke$ha – Cannibal 75+ Nelly, Akon & T-Pain – Move That Body 75+ Nicki Minaj & Drake – Moment 4 Life 75+ Pitbull ft. T-Pain – Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) 40 Taio Cruz ft. Travie McCoy & Kylie Minogue – Higher 09 Tinie Tempah ft. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman 13 Yasmin – On My Own 39 SECTION B Bonus #1: Will Ke$ha – We R Who We R be higher than Adele – Rolling In The Deep in the chart? Yes Bonus #2: Who will be highest in the chart out of the following tracks:- (i) Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me; (ii) JLS – Eyes Wide Shut; or (iii) P!nk – F***in’ Perfect? (iii) P!nk – F***in’ Perfect Bonus #3: Will Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello be higher than Tinchy Stryder ft. Melanie Fiona – Let It Rain in the chart? Yes

Spiidey's Chart Singles Prediction Game Chart Sunday 06th February 2011 :cheer: :yahoo: :dance: :cheer: WEEK 05 IN 2011!!! The predictions are broken down into two sections:- SECTION A In this section, you will predict where 14 songs are going to be in the following Sunday's Top 75 chart. In this section, you should predict for each song a position between 1 and 75 based on where you think that song will chart within the Top 75. If you think the song will chart outside the top 75 (i.e. position 76 or lower) you should use the notation "75+". The point scoring for these 14 songs is:- 10 pts if spot on with your prediction (therefore a maximum of 140 points to play for in this section);9 pts if your prediction is out by 1 position, 8 pts if your prediction is out by 2 positions, down to 1 pt if your prediction is out by 9 positions and zero points if your prediction is out by 10 or more positions;If you think a song will not make the Top 75, you can predict that song to be 75+ (i.e. any position outwith the top 75). If this is correct, you will get 5 points;If a song charts in a position between 76-84 (e.g. 77), and you have predicted that song to chart at a position between 67-75 (e.g. 70), you will still score the "normal" points - in the example given, you would score 3 pts;If a new single is pulled from release or non-chart eligible then everyone's prediction for that question will be void and everyone will be awarded 5 points;Due to physical singles sales declining I have scrapped the old rule of awarding points should the physical release be postponed so long as the download release goes ahead as scheduled.SECTION B In this section, you will predict the answer to THREE bonus questions (by answering "Yes" or "No"). Each bonus question is worth 20 Pts (therefore giving a maximum of 60 points from this section). Therefore there will be a maximum of 200 Points [140 points in Section A, and 60 points in Section B] to gain. ============================================================ THE PREDICTIONS:- Sales Period: Sunday 30th January – Saturday 5th February SECTION A Adele – Make You Feel My Love B.o.B – I’ll Be In The Sky Devlin & Labrinth – Let It Go Enrique Iglesias, Ludacris & DJ Frank E – Tonight (I’m F***ing You) Glee Cast – Lucky Glee Cast – River Deep, Mountain High Jessie J ft. B.o.B – Price Tag Ke$ha – Cannibal Nelly, Akon & T-Pain – Move That Body Nicki Minaj & Drake – Moment 4 Life Pitbull ft. T-Pain – Hey Baby (Drop It To The Floor) Taio Cruz ft. Travie McCoy & Kylie Minogue – Higher Tinie Tempah ft. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman Yasmin – On My Own SECTION B Bonus #1: Will Ke$ha – We R Who We R be higher than Adele – Rolling In The Deep in the chart? Bonus #2: Who will be highest in the chart out of the following tracks:- (i) Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me; (ii) JLS – Eyes Wide Shut; or (iii) P!nk – F***in’ Perfect? Bonus #3: Will Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello be higher than Tinchy Stryder ft. Melanie Fiona – Let It Rain in the chart? ============================================================ You have up until circa 10:00am UK Time on Tuesday 01st February to get your entries in (I'll be keeping the thread open) but entries altered after the midweeks have arrived will be excluded. Each Game counts towards the Overall Leaderboard (The Best 48 Games). Whilst I will maintain the last 6 weeks Leaderboard for newer players If you have never played in previous years, then here is a great opportunity to join in the fun! :cheer:

Wow, a win!!! :cheer: Not going to do so well this week though ... :o

:rofl: There's a turn up for the books ... :o Have Ke$ha's EP sales been dumped in the iTunes singles chart (and therefore her pop bar @ #1) or are they still sitting in the iTunes album chart?

SECTION A B.o.B – I’ll Be In The Sky 75 Beady Eye – The Roller 21 Chase & Status – Blind Faith 5 Chris Brown – Yeah 3X 22 Devlin & Labrinth – Let It Go 68 Glee Cast – I Want To Hold Your Hand 65 Glee Cast – One Of Us 60 Ke$ha – We R Who We R 2 Nelly, Akon & T-Pain – Move That Body 70 Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. 40 The Vaccines – Post Break-Up Sex 27 The Wombats – Jump Into The Fog 36 Stryder & Melanie Fiona – Let It Rain 11 Tinie Tempah ft. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman 66 SECTION B Bonus #1: Will Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me be higher than JLS – Eyes Wide Shut in the chart? YES Bonus #2: Will Tinie Tempah ft. Kelly Rowland – Invincible be higher than Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello in the chart? NO Bonus #3: Will Rihanna – S&M be higher than P!nk – F**kin’ Perfect in the chart? NO

1. Bruno - Grenade 2. Ke$ha – WRWWR 3. Adele - RITD 4. Diddy Dirty Money - CH 5. Chase & Status - BF 6. Jessie J - DILAD 7. Britney Spears - HIAM 8. Wretch 32 - Traktor 9. RiDrake - WMN? 10. Katy B - LO Bonus questions: 1. (for 5 pts) Which song will be # 40 next week? Avril Lavigne - What The Hell 2. (for 3 pts) How many new/re/chart entries will be altogether in the top 40 next week? 8 3. (for 2 pts) Which album will be higher next week: Imelda May - Mayhem or Olly Murs - Olly Murs?

Actually really, really, like this song; its very quirky and catchy. :wub: Plus, anyone that can write the pop masterpiece that is Party In The USA gets my support. I'm even starting to like Do It Like A Dude (I feel dirty saying that). :unsure:

Any weekend effect Ke$ha's can muster will be more than reversed by the "new-release" effect which sees every single new release start to fall from Thursday afternoon onwards (if not before). Therefore you're also forgetting that new releases are massively front-loaded which will count against Ke$ha as the week goes on. In addition, as you say its been on pre-order for ages so all this is going to mean is that its even more front loaded that Adele. And she started off ahead of Bruno in the midweeks on both Tuesday and Wednesday, yet ended the week 23k behind him. Ke$ha may be #1 on iTunes by comparing individual versions but at the moment she is still behind when combined versions are taken into consideration. She's going to need to build a considerable lead on iTunes to have any chance at the #1 spot.

Spiidey's Chart Singles Prediction Game Chart Sunday 30th January 2011 :cheer: :yahoo: :dance: :cheer: WEEK 04 IN 2011!!! The predictions are broken down into two sections:- SECTION A In this section, you will predict where 14 songs are going to be in the following Sunday's Top 75 chart. In this section, you should predict for each song a position between 1 and 75 based on where you think that song will chart within the Top 75. If you think the song will chart outside the top 75 (i.e. position 76 or lower) you should use the notation "75+". The point scoring for these 14 songs is:- 10 pts if spot on with your prediction (therefore a maximum of 140 points to play for in this section);9 pts if your prediction is out by 1 position, 8 pts if your prediction is out by 2 positions, down to 1 pt if your prediction is out by 9 positions and zero points if your prediction is out by 10 or more positions;If you think a song will not make the Top 75, you can predict that song to be 75+ (i.e. any position outwith the top 75). If this is correct, you will get 5 points;If a song charts in a position between 76-84 (e.g. 77), and you have predicted that song to chart at a position between 67-75 (e.g. 70), you will still score the "normal" points - in the example given, you would score 3 pts;If a new single is pulled from release or non-chart eligible then everyone's prediction for that question will be void and everyone will be awarded 5 points;Due to physical singles sales declining I have scrapped the old rule of awarding points should the physical release be postponed so long as the download release goes ahead as scheduled.SECTION B In this section, you will predict the answer to THREE bonus questions (by answering "Yes" or "No"). Each bonus question is worth 20 Pts (therefore giving a maximum of 60 points from this section). Therefore there will be a maximum of 200 Points [140 points in Section A, and 60 points in Section B] to gain. ============================================================ THE PREDICTIONS:- Sales Period: Sunday 23rd January – Saturday 29th January SECTION A B.o.B – I’ll Be In The Sky Beady Eye – The Roller Chase & Status – Blind Faith Chris Brown – Yeah 3X Devlin & Labrinth – Let It Go Glee Cast – I Want To Hold Your Hand Glee Cast – One Of Us Ke$ha – We R Who We R Nelly, Akon & T-Pain – Move That Body Noah and the Whale - L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. The Vaccines – Post Break-Up Sex The Wombats – Jump Into The Fog Tinchy Stryder & Melanie Fiona – Let It Rain Tinie Tempah ft. Ellie Goulding – Wonderman SECTION B Bonus #1: Will Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me be higher than JLS – Eyes Wide Shut in the chart? Bonus #2: Will Tinie Tempah ft. Kelly Rowland – Invincible be higher than Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello in the chart? Bonus #3: Will Rihanna – S&M be higher than P!nk – F**kin’ Perfect in the chart? ============================================================ You have up until circa 10:00am UK Time on Tuesday 25th January to get your entries in (I'll be keeping the thread open) but entries altered after the midweeks have arrived will be excluded. Each Game counts towards the Overall Leaderboard (The Best 48 Games). Whilst I will maintain the last 6 weeks Leaderboard for newer players If you have never played in previous years, then here is a great opportunity to join in the fun! :cheer:

Happy with a top 5 finish this week :cheer:

Just to point out - that list of all-time sales in the US is for DIGITAL sales only; I'm sure the days where physical sales were more prominent would push most of those down, but hey what the hell do I know?! ;)

Adele – Rolling In The Deep 2 Avril Lavinge – What The Hell 37 Britney Spears – Hold It Against Me 6 Edie – Loved 75+ Ellie Goulding – Your Song 18 Glee Cast – Baby One More Time 57 Glee Cast – I’m A Slave 4 U 61 Glee Cast – Stronger 75+ Glee Cast – The Only Exception 31 Glee Cast – Toxic 29 Rihanna – S&M 48 Taio Cruz – Higher 40 Tinchy Stryder & Melanie Fiona – Let It Rain 28 Tinie Tempah ft. Kelly Rowland – Invincible 15 Bonus #1: Will Jodie Connor – Now Or Never be higher than Kanye West & Jay-Z – H.A.M in the chart? Yes Bonus #2: Will both Aggro Santos ft. Kimberley Walsh – Like You Like AND Wretch 32 ft. L – Traktor be higher than JLS – Eyes Wide Shut in the chart? Yes Bonus #3: Will Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello be higher than Diddy – Dirty Money ft. Skylar Grey – Coming Home in the chart? No