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Yep I agree I'd have said the lower end your range there, but with Alan Carr on Friday that might just push her over the line to bag a #6.

No-one's really doing that though - just trying to put a bit of context out there for the posters (not yourself) that are claiming that she is getting great promo for this single. The once, twice, three times benefit that repeated radio plays can have on people initially disliking a song but that can grow to love a song shouldn't be underestimated either!

Agere and what people also need to remember is that whilst X Factor gets 9-10 million viewers, the #50 on Radio Airplay got 17.68 million listens last week, and Leona as you say isn't top 50 herself on Radio play.

Of course she'll go top 10/20 - its almost pretty certain now she'll go top 10 given she's #6 on iTunes, she should be top 10 on iTunes until later on in the week and will probably reenter if she drops out due to the Alan Carr promo on Friday night/

Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait 15 Florence + The Machine – Spectrum 30 Paloma Faith - Never Tear Us Apart 33 Jake Bugg – Two Fingers 63 Jason Mraz – I Won’t Give Up 28 Rudimental – Feel The Love 34 David Guetta etc. – Play Hard 55 The Other Tribe - Skirts 75 Taylor Swift - Red 38 Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon 65 Stooshe – Black Heart 49 fun. - Some Nights 21 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 32 Otto Knows – Million Voices 14 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of one word song titles in the top 40 (on the OCC website) be a) odd or b) even? A Bonus 2) - 12 points Will Muse – Madness be above Wiley - Heatwave? Yes Bonus 3) - 12 points How many new entries will there be in the top 40 Singles Chart? 5

1 SHM - DYWC 2 Adele - SF 3 Rihanna - Diamonds 4 PSY - GS 5 Ellie - ACH 6 Leona - Trouble 7 Wand - LWWY 8 Taylor - WANEBGT 9 Flo - IC 10 Script - HOF 11 David - SW 12 Conor - TA 13 Neyo - LMLY 14 Otto - MV 15 Mumford - IWW #1 The Other Tribe - Skirts #2 Maroon - OMN #3 7 #4 7 #5 3 #6 Mika

Of course I'm counting the +1, why wouldn't that be counted? Therefore X Factor had more viewers at peak and on average. It's irrelevant whether BBC has a +1 or not.

Um, no it didn't, X Factor had a higher peak and average than SCD.

Definitely SOMETHING wrong with the kworb %'s, doing the same calculation using the #40 bar (0.0372) gives a rate of 222,000 for the week or 63,000 for today/tomorrow (based on 2/7ths of 8,300 sales for #40 last week and the 0.0372 above). I'm inclined to believe the pro-rata from the #40 bar given that (a) this is much more realistic! and (b) because kworb rounds to the nearest 0.05 all the estimations below 0.05 are likely to be out by quite some distance, the closer we are to 0.05 the better for estimation purposes.

Based on that 0.0012, Adele is selling 833 copies for every one that the #100 is selling. Based on last week, #92 sold 2,740 for the week, multiply that by 833 and that means Adele is selling at a rate of 2,283,333 copies for the week, right now (which would put her on for 650,000 copies today/tomorrow based on a straight pro-rata 2/7ths). There must be something wrong with those kworb %'s.

1 ADELE - Skyfall 1.0000 2 Rihanna - Diamonds 0.5500 3 PSY - Gangnam Style (강남스타일) 0.4000 Almost double Rihanna already and x2.5 against PSY - this could/should go top 3 if it continues at this pace, as the gap is only likely to continue to get bigger until this evening at least!

An ampersand and a couple of vowels?

1 Rihanna - Diamonds 2 Wand - LWWY 3 PSY - GS 4 Ellie - ACH 5 Script - HOF 6 Flo - IC 7 Conor - TA 8 Taylor - WANEGBT 9 David - SW 10 Jason - IWGU #1 Public - HTYT #2 6 #3 Muse

Alex Clare – Too Close 49 Florence + The Machine – Spectrum 27 Paloma Faith - Never Tear Us Apart 30 The Killers – Runaways 65 Ellie Goulding – Anything Could Happen 4 Rudimental – Feel The Love 40 Muse - Madness 22 Cheryl - Under The Sun 33 DJ Fresh feat RaVaughn – The Feeling 20 Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon 38 Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know 49 fun. - Some Nights 24 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 33 Otto Knows – Million Voices 14 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of song titles in the top 40 (on the OCC website) containing the words I, You or Me be a) odd or b) even? B Bonus 2) - 12 points Will the lowest non-mover within the top 40 be a) between 1 and 15, b) between 16 and 30, c) between 31 and 40 or d) there won’t be any non-movers? B Bonus 3) - 12 points How many new entries will there be in the top 40 Singles Chart? 7

Ah that makes sense, explains why there are no/very little cover versions of Uk artists songs prior to their release on UK iTunes as at that point the track hasn't been released elsewhere therefore the record company can pull the fake / the fakes don't even bother as its too much bother to record/release knowing they'll get pulled.

You're not and I completely echo your sentiments. I hope its a turd and starts the downfall. How much did SLY sell first week, compared to WMYB? Adele sells well singles wise if she has a good song, and only if she has a good song, whereas comparatively OD sell well single wise regardless.

It must be more than that - if the Script drop 10% on the week then they'd be heading for approx 57,500 for the week in total, which would put them on about 30k at the moment, so PSY on 35k. Still a decent lead though (17%).

Alex Clare – Too Close 43 Florence + The Machine – Spectrum 23 Paloma Faith - Never Tear Us Apart 15 The Killers – Runaways 30 Lana del Rey – Blue Velvet 40 Angel - Wonderful 41 Muse - Madness 35 Cheryl - Under The Sun 21 DJ Fresh feat RaVaughn – The Feeling 16 Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon 32 Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know 45 fun. - Some Nights 7 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 25 Otto Knows – Million Voices 20 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of songs credited to ‘X feat. Y’’ in the top 40 (on the OCC website) be a) odd or b) even? A Bonus 2) - 12 points Will the lowest climber within the top 40 be a) between 1 and 15, b) between 16 and 30, c) between 31 and 40 or d) there won’t be any climbers? B Bonus 3) - 12 points How many new entries will there be in the top 40 Singles Chart? 3

1 PSY - GS 2 Script - HOF 3 Flo - IC 4 Taylor - WANEGBT 5 Neyo - LMLY 6 Example - SN 7 Fun - SN 8 Amelia - YBMJ 9 Mix - Wings 10 David - SW #1 Nicki - PTA #2 6 #3 Mumford

I just hope it sells ridiculously well next week and the week after before starting to stabilise to give Leona a chance of the #1.

Very current Leona. :o

Probably the fact that it is an enduring world wide hit, similar to Fun which just missed out on #1 initially but crept back up over a long period of time, a hit which conveniently you also "wrote off" minutes into its chart run. I do hope Eric has a Good Time in his bedroom :o

Completely agree, the price of an album and single have absolutely plummeted compared to (a) their price in the 70's, 80's, 90's and early 00's; and (b) even further if you apply inflation to the prices in the 70's-00's to bring it to today's prices. The price of a single/album compared to average income levels is at its lowest its ever been, and by quite some distance, probably half of what ti was in the late 90's, yet that period saw MASSIVE single and MASSIVE album sales. The reason illegal downloading is so high is that people are greedy, and if the option exists to obtain that music for free then I suspect the majority of people will do it. Everyone I know under the age of 40 illegally downloads, its only the older age group that don't. With that in mind, the only thing stopping illegal downloading becoming even more prevalent is to make it more difficult to do. I've already started to encounter problems trying to download various albums as the vast swathe of sites that used to host illegal music has dropped off either through site shutdowns (Limewire) or the blocking of certain sites by UK ISP's (ThePirateBay). Its now I would say 100% more difficult to download illegal music than it was a year ago, although its still not so difficult that it has pushed me to start buying a lot of music again. Another thing to throw into the mix is that the price of attending a concert/gig has absolutely sky rocketed given the changing business model used by labels. That in itself is a vicious circle as the astronomical cost of attending gigs (£100+ for the Killers) means less disposable income to actually buy the singles/albums of said artist which in itself contributes back towards more illegal downloading, and in turn even higher costs of gigs, etc etc ad nauseum.

1 Script - HOF 2 Example - SN 3 Taylor - WANEGBT 4 Neyo - LMLY 5 Pink - BM(OLK) 6 Amelia - YBMJ 7 Mix - Wings 8 David - SW 9 Flo - IC 10 Owl - GT #1 Wiley - Heatwave #2 5 #3 Pink

Rudimental - Feel The Love 41 Florence + The Machine – Spectrum 28 PSY – Gangnam Style 11 The Killers – Runaways 18 Emeli Sande - Read All About It Pt III 15 Angel - Wonderland 37 Tulisa feat. Tyga – Live It Up 25 Cheryl - Under The Sun 15 Coldplay & Rihanna - Princess Of China 44 Professor Green feat. Sierra Kusterbeck – Avalon 42 David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo & Akon – Play Hard 22 fun. - Some Nights 16 Of Monsters And Men - Little Talks 24 Otto Knows – Million Voices 20 Bonus 1) - 8 points Will the number of songs contain the word ‘the’ in the top 40 be a) odd or b) even? A Bonus 2) - 12 points How many non movers will there be in the Top 40 Singles chart? 3 Bonus 3) - 12 points How many new entries will there be in the top 40 Singles Chart? 4