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I've actually just watched him do it on his live stream, he's bought it 3 times in a row and it seemed to work, confirming the purchase. I wonder if it's actually charging him again though. And I think on the confirmation page you have to click Download to actually download the track. Does it count if you don't download?

Does anyone know if it's possible to buy multiple copies from Amazon? I would've thought you could only do it once per account, but he seems to think it's possible to download more than one

I think it's technically a better slot this year though really. And I think if they didn't want to do it at all they'd just stop.

He seems to think he's going to find out whilst he's on Zoe Ball's show tomorrow morning. I wonder if he's going to accidentally break the embargo haha. Don't think the figures come in till later in the morning though.

A bit Smash Hits Poll Winners Party isn't it? They showed the Summertime one earlier in the year too.

A Christmas #1 is more special though isn't it. I like his you only live once attitude. He's seen he's in with a shot of getting a Christmas #1 and decided why not go all out to try get it? And even if he doesn't, he's had some good press about it and it's something to tell the grandkids innit?

He's done it with a nice positive attitude though. He's done 26 shows around the country in 6 days. I'm rooting for him even if the odds are long! He's saying they're 5,000 behind, I'm guessing that will be on today's update. (I know, missing data blah blah)

I guess they know how many people have used their referal link, but yeah it doesn't mean all of those would've gone through with paying the 99p for the download. A lot of people don't understand how it all works and are asking "why isn't it on Spotify".

Don't get why he's moaning when it is as simple as that to download

It must be getting played somewhere :o :P

I Hope You Find It was playlisted by Radio 2 and she also did it on Graham Norton.

They're not showing any of them apart from the "Christmas Hits" compilation. I think they're all getting a bit old. Surprising they haven't made a "Christmas at the BBC" yet.

One of the others is making a slightly more coherent argument that the hyperlink either takes you to the streaming single or invites you to sign up to Amazon Music. So they think they're losing sales because people see that and give up, because they can't find where to click through to download.

One of the "Creators" is claiming on TikTok that Amazon are putting paid downloads of their song "through as streams" because they want "Scam Ryder" to be number 1. Haha sounds like BS but funny anyway.

Well he is doing his best to start a download campaign himself. Maybe if he does some press/TV/radio this week he can garner some more support?

Fair enough it's possible to break through without playlists, but it's still wrong to me that "passive" listening has such a direct impact on the charts.

The whole charts are now meaningless anyway. It's not just Christmas. Passive plays dominate the makeup of the charts all year round. Since Space Man, Sam has been shafted by the streamers, so good on him for playing the game I say.

I've just had an email from Amazon saying my Sam single has been dispatched. Does that mean it'll count this week now.

People usually complain when there isn't a chart of the year! Who wants to listen to 30 odd Christmas songs on the 29th Dec anyway

That only really works as an argument for producing educational/factual/niche interest programmes, the sort of thing that commercial broadcasters won't touch. That doesn't mean they have an obligation to produce a new episode of TOTP every Christmas - and as a broadcaster they can point to plenty of other ways how they give airtime to pop music throughout the year.

It was rather stinking up the schedule to be fair. They get more viewers putting a kids film in the slot. And I suppose it does cost quite a bit to put on 2 hours of live music. But it wouldn't hurt to make a little bit more effort on the show they do make. It was odd last year that they had Sam Ryder in the studio for a chat but he didn't even perform. I'm sure he'd have happily done a performance for him. A slightly shoddy clip show is still better than nothing for me though. Incidentally, last year's show got 523k on BBC Two.

It seems like it. Surely it wouldn't cost very much to get a few easy bookings to sing in front of the TOTP logo in the Live Lounge or something!

So are Alexa plays not included in Amazon's own chart?

Yes it's a properly good Christmas song too, which I hope could become a perennial.

Yes, it feels a bit of a throwback to her first album in places. Shocking that she doesn't even have enough fans left to guarantee a top 40 album, after how huge she was a decade ago.