Justin

Even so, I hope all record labels learn from this BAD mistake, theres releasing a single early, and theres releasing a single EARLY! :angry: :unsure:

How much has she done so far on dowloads? since it was put on Itunes, (from the end of June or sometime ridiculous like that! :wacko: ) do we know?!?!

I can't see why CDs and dowloads can't work hand-in-hand together to make the charts as acurate as possible. And when cassettes died out, we were moving onto somthing better, no messing around rewinding and fast-fowarding, CDs were still somthing that you could SEE and HOLD. moving from CD's to just downloads is just wrong! :mellow:

To bin the CD single would be complete stupidity, and alienate thousands of people, believe it or not, people DO still buy CDs :blink: (and in many cases, prefer them) in this digital world we now live in. To be honest I don't care much for downloads, all though I will get the odd song occasionaly, I do own an Ipod and use itunes I'm not completely anti download, there good to have when you on the move, but I don't use my Ipod at home, most songs I have on it I own on CD. Downloads are easy to get and are cheap, but thats about it, in the end, you've got to ask your self do they really exsist and do they really belong to you?!?! :huh:

GA have been in the media ALOT since the tour, the wedding an all that!, I can see them beeing quite sucsessful with their comeback

i agree with you there on both counts, records stay around for longer in the top 40 and don't drop out as quickly, with steady sales, an TOTP should be kept on, putting it on Sunday killed it, it was best on Thursday night!

Is that the one with the beat in the background? I preffer that aswell!

Singles sell albums, without them there'd be no albums..

Singles get nowere near enough promo these days, don't you think? the reason is because there are hardly any shows for artists to come and perform on anymore! face it good sataday morning TV shows for kids are dead and gone! there is the odd advert every now and again but thats it!, last time I saw a performance by an artist on terrestrial TV was Rihanna on Richard and Judy weeks ago?!

Wouldn't Christina's downloads only count the following week?

Is Christina Aguilera released on the 24th or 31st?!?

You've got to wonder though, WHY?! have singles sales dropped so much, even with downloads now (which has helped, if only a little), have people just stopped liking/buying music nowdays?!? or is it the music it's self?

91,000 for Britney Spears 4th single from the album, in January aswell!?! madness! :lol:

WOW! thatnks alot Mikey!

Has anyone got a list of the first week sales for number 1 singles in 2000, the OCC website sales info only starts from 2001, oddly enough??

I remeber that channel 5 thing, just before it launched, there just used to be a loop with loads of promo for it for days!

Great news!

We've had Chico aswell this year.

Christina Aguilera is in desperate need of beeing put forward! at least 2 weeks

*Video exclusive* for 'Ain't No Other man' showing at 11:45pm tonight on channel 4!

WHHHY!? is this song officialy added to Itunes now?! it's over a month (about 6 weeks) until it's released, what is the point?! the people who buy it now won't go back to buy it gets its release, losing thousands of sales?! :huh: OK so you can say it stops people from getting hold of it illegaly, but for law abiding people (like myself ;) ) that PAY for the songs off Itunes, will be snapping it up in their thousands?! The OCC should get the act together and sort out this mess with early releases...quick!

Jus noticed this is on Itunes, (the exclusive part)!

When is Rihanna - Unfaithful out!?

Singles Jamie Foxx feat Kanye West - Extravaganza (love the song, but probably won't do well..) Sergio & BEPs