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  1. Whigfield counts though because she didn't make top 75 with that import version.
  2. I always say forever is a long time. It'll continue to be rare but sure, someone will do it again one day.
  3. Ed's trick with the physicals is that it has an exclusive B-side so that might tempt people. Officially out on the 30th for now. Also I've been seeing the snippet popping up on TikTok a lot the last couple of weeks. I feel like I already know it and am only about to press play on the full version. There is a remix coming out in a couple weeks too, sounds like it might be featuring Arash.
  4. Azizam confirmed for April 4 with a CD/vinyl release too
  5. Plumb - Free new single Mar 21
  6. Sam Ryder - White Lies single confirmed for March 21
  7. Grace Davies - Do Or Die - single out Feb 14
  8. Måns Zelmerlöw - Revolution single out Feb 21, favourite to be Sweden's ESC entry
  9. Plumb - Fighter (I’m Not Afraid) single Feb 7 (from her Facebook)
  10. Tom Walker - You’ll Get There In The End new single out on Friday.
  11. Will was actually supposed to duet on Suspicious Minds but he refused. I don't suppose Simon Cowell was worried about it looking weird from a chart point of view so wouldn't have demoted it on that basis.
  12. I think that's always been a thing, mostly used by independent labels for new artists. One more high profile one I remember buying was when Shola Ama and The Divine Comedy released a special tribute single to the music of Noel Coward. That made the top 30.
  13. You were still only allowed 3 songs on a single in the 2000s, though you could have 40 minutes of remixes again from some time in 2001. More obscure stuff was probably more likely to chart in the physical era because there were finite amounts of each single available. The sales threshold to chart was quite low in the last years of it. It's not that difficult to see why an underground club record might sell a few hundred copies on 12" and make it to #97.
  14. And maybe an honourable mention to Fleur East's X Factor performance of Uptown Funk making #1 on iTunes, but excluded from OCC chart.
  15. Do I get a half point for this? Adele's Someone Like You went to #1 largely off the back of downloads of the Brits performance, IIRC? Edit - think fair to say yes for week 1 anyway. I always preferred it to the studio version. http://www.itunescharts.net/uk/artists/mus...from-the-brits/
  16. Lauren Spencer Smith's new single Pray is out on the 24th https://www.instagram.com/p/DE0LrUqStUT/
  17. dearALICE (that BBC Made In Korea band) are releasing their debut single "Ariana" on Feb 21. They've been performing it in Korea already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frBbwMY1FSY https://www.mk.co.kr/en/musics/11216016
  18. Just put greatest hits albums in a separate chart. Ridiculous that The Weeknd's Highlights album was the 2nd biggest album of 2024.
  19. Granny Harmers making it to #1 suggests as I've always thought that iTunes sales have a very big percentage of the chart make-up
  20. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Probably been the worst year for British music ever commercially. The chart of the year is a depressing read.
  21. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Come on Wham! - if only because the more times it gets Christmas Number 1, the more likely it'll be OCC will do something about it.
  22. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    I want to see big changes to the charts, but it's the music industry that's broken, in that it struggles to break new artists.
  23. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    About 1.3 million I believe
  24. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Yeah I don't see why it would've sold more than a couple thousand
  25. AcerBen posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    I think it'll be a bit sad if it flops really badly. I actually think Trevor's done a really nice job on the new version. I can see both sides in the political debate but the previous versions + Live Aid did raise huge amounts of money and led to other things like Comic Relief. Bob Geldof can be annoying but his heart's in the real place, so I don't think he deserves the indignity of this version flopping.