Xmas Loves Mr.I

Hopefully Rihanna will jump to the A-list next week!

Are you really surprised. They did quite a bit of promo and the song entered low in the top 10...and still arent really played on radio or tv...so their position was bound to fall! I'm doubting their career longevity already!

Woo Ri Ri Now no.8

Well done Ri Ri...hopefully no.2 on the Hot 100. Hope airplay picks up too, but with Take a Bow still doing so good on that score, it makes it tough for her to have two highly played songs! Mikal, have you got another link to that audience impression website mmr?

yeah 21-30 or lower....it hasnt taken off at all!

1 million for Lil Wayne :cheer: :D :D Fantastic achievement in the current climate! That's what you call a good promotion campaign!

lol @ Madonna's Guy Madonna is out of the top 10! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: p.s. I actually like the song but your constant parading annoys me!

Not being funny but, your waiting for something that will probably never happen. Their single hasnt been in iTunes top 100 for over a month and no radio support....means it won't be returning. It looks like their album when it comes out will bomb hard when it is released...maybe Charlye was right not to want to join the band, cos they've made them into sluts and it ain't gone down very well!

No.1 written all over it. Tbh I recon this song will do a 4minutes not DSTM, cos that was a relatively old album track which would also limit it's sales. I don't see most fans going out and buying the re-loaded version of the album in great numbers and it''s a new track...the more radio get the buzz, the more it will rise!

400 copies isnt a big increase...or am I not reading the same figures?!?! :rolleyes:

Sorry but stalling around 50 million (for now) doesn't get you anywhere, unless you have huge sales to back it up! And, I said by Mariah's standards........well she does hold the record 223 million and obviously every song she releases won't get near that, but 50 million is poor........if she managed to get audience impressions up 70 million, I think alot industry folks would die of shock! ;) Hence why she ain't promoting it anymore, cos she knows it aint gonna get to no.1....why make the effort on a song which probably won't reach the top 10, eh??!?

Personally, as much as I love this song....it has been pretty much a dud by Mariah's standards. The airplay has been really c**p to say the least. I thought this would be the 19th No.1...how wrong I was....I doubt it will go top 10 in the US and have reservations in this country (i see it getting like 11-13 when released physically)!

How does the report say there are less than 1000 sales between the top 2 (indicating the difference must be a good few hundred) but the sales figures given show 31 copies....what's going on?

I seriously doubt it! When combined they are 1 bar ahead (which evens out over other download sites), but Rihanna's physical will easily see her to victory, especially due to the fact she ALWAYS has high weekend sales!

Tbh, I don't care whether she went to no.1. But, to say Rihanna shouldnt have got to number 1 isn't really sensible, cos she sold 100K more than her competition and she didnt exactly wait til her airplay was really high to release the download (like others, hint hint my fave Mariah), cos it still only at 50million impressions. If anything, going along with the sales argument, Rihanna should still be there.

This a stupid remark! Because, if we wanted to take the no.1 as who sold the most, Leona still would only have been no.1 for 4 weeks, tbh the major casualty of not getting to no.1 was Madonna, cos her airplay stinks!

Yep, it gets ahead of Rihanna (50 million only) overwhelmingly cos of it's airplay, but this week I have hunch that he was probably right behind the downloads of Leona, cos her lead on iTunes has been by like a bar all week and he's consistently being narrowing the iTunes gap on alternative download sites! So, if we want a sales no.1 it's Rihanna If we want a combined no.1 it's Lil Wayne Take your pick!

You mean HMV are trying to shift them....artists don't suddenly come along and say reduce my single, midweek! The stores choose what price to sell them at, not the artists, they have already been paid for the stock! It seems to me like they are not flying off the shelves. And yes we have accounted them at no.2 and 34 (now), hence us saying combined!

exactly their even less likely to shift the physical..hence Rihanna being so close! tbh i still believe they will finish at no.1 but it will be extremely close come Sunday.

don't really matter...it wont change most people's mind! look at American Boy, that was HUGE but at 99p, the physical still hardly shifted anything! i also doubt that they changed it....HMV probably did cos although they are in top 2 on iTunes...they probably aren't selling much at all physically! tbh this probably the truth hence why Rihanna is still so close!

Personally i think the lead at the top should have been reduced, cos on weds when they increased it..that was the time when combined they were level with Rihanna on iTunes (hence the physical pushed them in front), but since then they have fallen away abit and are now 4 bars behind when combined (and falling)

Ting Tings will probably hang on then!

She was never gonna be! But, BIT won't go to number one. The best news is the album is going back up and that is all I really care about...

Well done Rihanna! A bit weird with the Lil Wayne and Leona scenario cos he's on 148 mil and she's on 131 million, hence why he's still bulleted, and the gap was only 10.5 K. could physicals and streamings have made such a difference.....this a strange one I must admit! It makes next week even more interesting....a 3 way fight for the top.....my money still is on Lil Wayne!

I also think that on Friday, the Ting Tings sales will suddenly decline...but, that's just a guess!