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With Christmas falling on a Thursday and Boxing Day falling on Friday and then the weekend which is essentially just extending the Christmas break into a four-day run, the week after Christmas is likely to still be full of festive songs. I don't think we'll get the tumble until the chart for first week of the New Year.

I think they'd be allowed if they were bought first, then Andrew signed them. It's a technicality, but they can't be offered as signed to begin with and the event would have to let you bring previously purchased items to swerve the risk of the charts company voiding all sales. I'm not sure if Wham or George have an active enough fanbase motivated enough to buy another set of physicals year on year. I mean, most of the fanbase must be in their fifties and it was hard enough trying to convince them the value in buying both a CD1 and a CD2 back in the 90s (or my dad "why do you buy singles when you already have the album?"). That said, this is the most invested in a #1 singles chart battle I've been in a long long time. The last 15 years I've been more stressed about whether a song could register in the top 100 never mind hit the top spot.

They need to get moving with: Pressing the CD single in different coloured sleeves like they did for the Tension CD singles. Extended version mp3 with the intro from the Capitol show (not bundled into a digital EP) Instrumental version mp3 (not bundled into a digital EP) MP4 video download. Alternate edit MP4 video download.

I genuinely can't understand why One More Sleep isn't smashing every Christmas like Underneath The Tree does. Is it the general public just playing American Spotify playlists over British ones?

SyCo/Sony specifically requested that the performances be chart ineligible to avoid influencing the competition and compromising the narrative of the TV show.

When did they start ignoring 3" CD sales? In 1998, Garbage's 3" CD format for "Push It" counted towards its chart entry, as the Music Week chart commentary on the charting week specifically mentions the percentage of the sales that the 3" CD generated. The other 5 3" CDs were not counted because they were a fourth format so released a week after the other formats, in addition to exceeding running time. I'm pretty sure Catatonia had a 3" CD for their 1999 lead single too.

"Negotiate with Love" EP out after midnight https://music.apple.com/nz/album/negotiate-...love/1774612688

There's at least 120 Scottish gay men out there with forged Cilla Black autographs that we did for a giveaway in our local club. The label rep gave us four boxes of (whatever her GH 2002 album was) stock to give out and we thought it would be a laugh to sign them. We got 120 H & Claire albums too, but those actually were signed.

To be fair to I Believe In You's sales, the album it was on was released two weeks before it and has sold a million copies in the UK. Perhaps just Kylie's fanbase felt the need to buy the CD single and everyone else was content with their copy of Ultimate Kylie. Also it *was* 2004.

If often wondered if the cumulitive sales stated by TOCC ever include sales from shops which dont report sales for the charts (a lot of indie shops), and if this explains why the totals given by TOCC and Music Week dont always match sales figures released by labels, etc. (apart from the obvious reason of sales embellisment). And what about when shops sell import albums instead of the UK pressing (parrallell importing, which was much more prevalent in the 90s before UK labels started pressing discs with UK-only bonus tracks). Are those figures included in either the charts or cumulitive totals?

Thats strange why it would be in that book about Garbage if there was others predating it by a decade.

Just checked for clarity 30/05/1992 Shut Up And Dance ''Raving I'm Raving'' {2}-15->2 05/10/2002 Garbage ''Shut Your Mouth'' {20}->1 Garbage must have been the first single to spend a single week in the Top 20 and then not appear in the Top 75 again. It's mentioned in a few editions of the Guinness Book of Hit Singles, but I think I forgot the single week part. Not the most enviable chart record to have.

Shut Your Mouth was in fact the very first single to drop out of the top 75 directly from the top 20. In all fairness, it was a limited edition single of 15K copies and it hung around the 75-80 mark for its second and third week.

Garbage released five 3" CD singles from 1998-1999. Subsequently a few other artists released them, Catatonia a year later sticks out in my mind. In 1999, Suede released Electicity as a MiniDisc single, and if memory serves right, it was the first one to be allowed to count towards the Singles Chart.

Interesting....:P I wonder if any other albums have done that, or what's the closest to reaching that achievement? I forgot to ask this as well a few weeks ago, but I was wondering... a) if any other tracks have got to #1 on downloads alone, and then dropped and never regained ground once the physical was released a la Poker Face, or is PF the first? and B) what's the highest a track has ever charted without an official promo video to support it (in the modern era obv, and previous videos cobbled together or using live performances don't count) and is the Alexander Rybak song the highest to do so?

Re: Dance Wiv Me.. was that not out in 2008?

When was the last time a track took as long as 10 weeks to get to #1? Congrats to Lady G!

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I'd quite like to know if you have a link to, or a scan of a page with these details for future reference - and where they charted in the Top 200.

I'm a huge Garbage collector, been hardcore since 1996: My collection runs to over 500 playable releases and a further 400 memorabilia, plus 12 years of media cuttings (Including Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, Angelfish, Fire Town and Spooner).

So did Dannii - So under pressure anyone