DanChartFan

I've been looking at the Scottish charts further, and have compiled a list of those UK toppers that missed number one in Scotland, and those Scottish toppers that did not do so in the UK as a whole. These lists so far cover the period w/e 27th February 1994 to w/e 1st January 2000, although there is a large number of weeks missing in April-July 1994, and one or two missing thereafter, including the week in Nov 1999 when Geri had a UK number one, so this list may not be 100% complete and accurate. Songs that missed the top spot in Scotland 1994 - ?Prince ?Stiltskin ?Manchester United FC - Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy 1995 - Livin' Joy - Dreamer - Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone - Shaggy - Boombastic 1996 - The Prodigy - Firestarter - Mark Morrison - Return Of The Mack - George Michael - Fastlove - Baddiel and Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions - Gary Barlow - Forever Love - The Fugees - Ready Or Not - The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun - Peter Andre - I Feel You 1997 - Tori Amos - Professional Widow (It's Gotta Be Big) - White Town - Your Woman - LLCoolJ - Ain't Nobody - The Chemical Brothers - Block Rockin' Beats - R Kelly - I Believe I Can Fly - Michael Jackson - Blood On The Dancefloor - Gary Barlow - Love Won't Wait 1998 - Usher - You Make Me Wanna - All Saints - Under The Bridge/Lady Marmalade - Baddiel And Skinner And The Lightning Seeds - 3 Lions 98 - Billie - Because We Want To - Another Level - Freak Me - The Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next - All Saints - Bootie Call - Melanie B and Missy 'Misdemeanour' Elliott - I Want You Back - Spacedust - Gym And Tonic 1999 - Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me - Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away - B*Witched - Blame It On The Weatherman - Westlife - Swear It Again - Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate - Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca - Westlife - If I Let You Go - Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle - Westlife - Flying Without Wings Songs that only hit the top spot in Scotland 1994 - MC Sar and The Real McCoy - Another Night - The Stone Roses - Love Spreads 1995 - U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Oasis - Roll With It - The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You - N-Trance ft Ricardo Da Force - Stayin' Alive - Meat Loaf - I'd Lie For You (And That's The Truth) - The Beatles - Free As A Bird - Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall 1996 - Robert Miles - Children - Mark Snow - The X Files - Robbie Williams - Freedom - The Charlatans - One To Another - Robert Miles ft Maria Nayler - One & One 1997 - QFX - Freedom 2 - Texas - Say What You Want - No Mercy - Where Do You Go - The Charlatans - North Country Boy - DJ Quicksilver - Bellissima - Blur - Song 2 - Robbie Williams - Old Before I Die - 911 - Bodyshakin' - The Seahorses - Love Is The Law - The Cardigans - Lovefool - The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony - Sash! ft Rodriguez - Ecuador - Boyzone - Picture Of You - Chumbawumba - Tubthumping 1998 - Madonna - Ray Of Light - Del Amitri - Don't Come Home Too Soon - Dario G - Carnaval De Paris - 911 - More Than A Woman 1999 - DJ Sakin & Friends - Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A...) - Texas - In Our Lifetime - The Offspring - Why Don't You Get A Job? - Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much - Steps - Loves Got A Hold Of My Heart - Five - If Ya Gettin' Down - Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone - Ann Lee - 2 Times - The Vengaboys - Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine) I would seem that Scotland's boyband of choice was 911, when the rest of the UK was Westlife mad! Westlife having to wait until their 4th single to get a Scottish number one!

And the 1997 Christmas number 1 was The Teletubbies! I have to say though I've paged through from Feb 1994 (the first Scottish chart) to Dec 1997, and anything that was distributed by Virgin seem far more likely to bomb in Scotland for some reason, even the Spice Girls in this particular xmas week.

Research done up to and including Sunday 22nd February 2015's chart show, and I believe this is how the current chart of chart show presenters looks. Though it's worth remembering that if the shows from the Light Programme era were added in to this list then Alan Freeman would surely be number one pop pickers... not arf! 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 5. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 6. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 7. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 8. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 9. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 10. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 11. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 ^12. Jameela Jamil (1 with Clara Amfa) 97 2013-2015 !13. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 14. Scott Mills 73 (1 with Nemone, 1 with Edith Bowman, 63 solo) 1999-2014 (+?) !15 Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 16. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 17. Greg James 6 2010-2012, 2015 18. Clara Amfa (1 with Jameela Jamil) 5 2015+ !19=. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 19=. Dev 4 2009-2010, 2014 !21=. Pete Murray 2 1968 !21=. Neale James 2 1994 !21=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 !21=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 !21=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 !26=. (14 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance)

I did that a quite a while ago on page 3 of the thread, but only up to 10th Nov 2013, and not including the Light Programme era. I might do an updated version of this list soon, but the only real difference will probably be Jameela climbing up to no higher than 12th, Scott possibly overtaking Richard Skinner, and a new entry in the lower regions for Clara: 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 5. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 6. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 7. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 8. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 9. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 10. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 11. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 12. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 13. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 14. Scott Mills 65 (1 with Nemone, 1 with Edith Bowman, 63 solo) 1999-2013+ 15. Jameela Jamil 42 2013+ 16. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 17. Greg James 5 2010-2012 18. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 19=. Pete Murray 2 1968 19=. Neale James 2 1994 19=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 19=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 19=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 19=. Dev 2 2009-2010 25=. (14 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance)

61/158 which is kinda disappointing considering how interested I've been in the topic, and for how long, although I knew I'd be poorer on the ones in this decade as I lost interest in current music around 2010 and only keep a toe in the water of current music and charts now, whilst still been very interested in the past decades of music and charts. I think I'll try again in a few days time and hope for a better score.

I don't know for sure, but has certain exclusion criteria used in the lower positions at the time been reversed in the ones on the OCC site now? Also did the RR and RM versions ever vary back in the day? If so the OCC may have used the other magazine to what Chartwatch used.

Ah I see what you mean popchartfreak, but at least they have a list of sorts I guess. The mismatched photo in the OCCs video charts that I mentioned earlier in the thread seems not to have been a one off. When Disney's animated classic Hercules was topping the video chart in May 1998 the OCC have illustrated it with a picture of a live action version of the story (not sure exactly which version). And more bizarrely when the period drama Mrs Brown, about Queen Victoria, and starring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly, is shown to have been in the top 3 of the video chart in summer 1998, the OCC have managed to illustrate this movie with a picture of Brendan O'Carroll in drag... one is not feckin' amused!

So like this new feature of the new look site then? http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-singles__6907/

There are two versions of Thinking Out Loud in the previous weeks physical chart.

Interesting, I will have to spend a fair bit of my free time looking at the new site in the next few weeks methinks. Found two errors so far, the duplication of Uptown Funk in the current Physical chart being one. And totally randomly I started looking at the Video charts, and a chart topping video from 1994 called 'Police Stop', some sort of real life Police docu series, has bizarrely been illustrated by the OCC with a picture of 'World Police: Team America' which wasn't even released until 2004ish.

I was just about to post about this too. Has anyone else noticed that for the first time the OCC is saying their chart archive goes back to 1952!? As much as I'd like a complete archive, it would imply that the OCC has somehow obtained the copyright, or a licence, for the NME charts that previously NME would not give them.

I have to agree with that for sure.

I assume they are actually limited to 10 plays per track, per album. So if a normal and deluxe version where both available separately on streaming, and if the OCC were then choosing to combine the separately calculated 'chart sales' for each together, then a fan could contribute a maximum of 20x12=240 streams towards it in a week, or 0.24 of a chart sale. So say Union J (or similar with a dedicated sizeable fanbase) have both a regular and deluxe availlable, and that the OCC decides to combine the 'chart sales' of each for the purposes of the album chart, and estimate that they have, say, 100k fans prepared to do this sort of mass streaming, then they could amass 24000 extra Album sales in a week (or 12000 per version of an album) from the addition of streaming.

Hi Taizu, I'm really interested to read about your idea and learn more about your method, as I have done a very similar thing for my own benefit. My method was to start with the first week of the chart and note down the highest placed single that wasn't already on my list. So a new entry at number was always add straight to my list, but if a song stayed there then I moved down to the 2 or 3 or whatever. My method leads to a list of between 51 and 53 hits for all full chart years, which I've always felt to be more fair and consistent than the lists of chart toppers, which gives the impression of 12 hits being had in 1984 and 1992, but 48 in 2000! If I understand your method correctly you strike out everything that has reached 1, is at 1, or will reach 1, and note the highest non-chart topper? This would mean that your method could never be fully implemented for say a chart publication since you would have to keep revising past weeks as things climb to the top and became retroactively ineligible. My chart works on a week-by-week basis without needing to be revised, however my list gives no indication of longevity for any hit, so yours is better for that particular measure. You can see how method pans out for most of the teenies by looking at my webpage here: http://www.spanglefish.com/webbyswonderful...p?pageid=288578 although I have been putting updates on hold for a while now whilst I debate whether to use the pure sales chart or combined main chart in future.

I don't think streaming even comes close to a comparable format to purchases (either virtual or physical), and I don't see how they make any money. I now have a free account on deezer, and almost never see or hear any adverts, so I'm paying nothing to stream dozens of tracks a week, and neither really are the advertisers who supposedly fund the service. I'm not complaining in the short run, if the music industry wants to give me totally free and legal access to the majority of all the recorded music that's ever existed then that's their look out, but in the long run they will end up not having the financial means to contract new artists or retain existing ones etc. IMHO streaming will eventually be pay only and the subscription fees will increase considerably over time to allow a viable income, which in turn will cause people to go back to downloading (legal or illegal) and listening to the radio rather than streaming, so it's definitely not a certainty that streaming will become the main format in the future. To answer the original question, keep million sellers as sales only, and have a separate list for say billion-streamers or something. As far as overall sales tallies are concerned mixing two totally different concepts makes no sense to me and is totally different to when download sales were considered the same as physical sales.

Learned their lesson then... I worked for Sainsburys in the past, and they always always ordered far too many copies of the X Factor single. I left in late 2012 and at that point they still had a small pile of the Leon Jackson one priced at 1p each that they had yet to shift!

I think that core few hundred thousand people is getting eroded away slightly year on year as the show slowly fades from it's former glory, plus the sales of physicals will drop anyway, since the core people will gradually go over to download/streaming if they haven't already. Then there is streaming, which is more likely to benefit a genuinely listenable track (with possibly many listens per user) than it is a winners single (which is most likely bought then played once or twice before being placed on a shelf to gather dust). All things considered I think it is very likely that there will come a time when genuine tracks (non xfactor/charity/campaign) will once again battle for xmas #1, indeed I see Mark Ronson is now ahead of Ben on the itunes chart, but given how late into the week that reversal of fortunes is, and remembering to add in the physicals for Ben (and I'm assuming either no physicals or a modest number of 12"s for Ronson) and I don't think it will happen this year. But maybe, just maybe, in the next few years......

I might as well add the list of chart show producers on here before I go: 1. Denys Jones - produced Alan Freeman (and Pete Murray and Ed Stewart) on Pick of the Pops from the Light Programme era and throughout the Radio1 era, until the end of it's run on 24th Sept 1972, with the exception of three weeks in 1971. 2. Keith Stewart - produced Alan Freeman on Pick of the Pops for the weeks of 15th, 22nd and 29th August 1971. 3. Johnny Beerling - produced Tom Browne (and Brian Matthew) on Solid Gold Sixty, from it's launch on 1st October 1972, until 11th February 1973. 4. Dave Price - produced Tom Browne (and Johnnie Walker) on Solid Gold Sixty/The Top 20 from 18th February 1973 until 29th December 1974. 5. Mike Hawkes - produced Tom Browne on the Top 20 from 5th January until 21st September 1975. 6. Pete Ritzema - produced Tom Browne (and Simon Bates) on the Top 20 from 28th September 1975 until 15th May 1977. 7. Bernie Andrews - produced Tom Browne, Simon Bates, Tony Blackburn and Tommy Vance (and Andy Peebles) on the Top 20/Top 40 from 22nd May 1977 until 19th June 1983. 8. Harry Parker - produced Tommy Vance (and Andy Peeble) on Top 40 from 26th June to 30th October 1983. 9. Don George - produced Tommy Vance and Simon Bates (and Richard Skinner) on Top 40 from 6th November 1983 until 23rd September 1984. 10. Dave Price - produced Richard Skinner (and Simon Bates) on Top 40 from 30th September 1984 until 22nd September 1985. 11. Paul Williams - produced Richard Skinner and Bruno Brookes on Top 40 from 29th September 1985 until 27th April 1986, except the edition on 29th December 1985. 12. Louise Musgrave - produced Richard Skinner on Top 40 for one edition on 29th December 1985, which was a chart of the year, owing to there being no new weekly chart from the compilers that week. (NB I have only researched the Chart of the Year shows that actually were a regular Sunday chart show using an annual chart to fill in for the seasonal lack of a weekly chart, so there may be other Charts of the year on other weekdays in other years to Louise's name). 13. Martin Cox - produced Bruno Brookes (and Tommy Vance) on Top 40 from 4th May 1986 until 29th March 1987. 14. Paul Williams - produced Bruno Brookes (and Simon Bates and Gary Davies) on Top 40 from 5th April to 27th September 1987. His name was subsequently listed as a one-off on the Chartbusters segment on 10th April 1988, but not on the Top 40 proper. 15. Chris Lycett - produced Bruno Brookes (and Mark Goodier) on Top 40 from 4th October 1987 until 25th September 1988. 16. Roger Pusey - produced Bruno Brookes on Top 40 from 2nd October 1988 until 26th March 1989, except the 25th/26th December 1988 weekend. 17. Jo Anne Nadler - produced Mark Goodier on UK Top 40 on Monday 26th December 1988 (the only non Sunday show I have included, since it was a regular weekly chart that was delayed by a day), she then went on to produce Bruno Brookes and Mark Goodier (and Tommy Vance) on Top 40/The Complete UK Top 40 from 2nd April 1989 until 24th March 1991. 18. Christine Boar - produced Mark Goodier and Bruno Brookes (and Tommy Vance) on The Complete UK Top 40 from 31st March 1991 until either 20th or 27th September 1992 (the latter has no producer credit in RT). 19. Simon Sadler - produced Bruno Brookes (and Mark Goodier) on The Complete UK Top 40 from either 27th September or 4th October 1992 until at least 30th May 1993, at which point RT no longer lists a producer credit for the show.

Finally for the period covering January - March 2005, the changeover from Wes to JK and Joel, RT does have what we have, albeit with Colin and Jo listed the other way round that week (and her surname spelt Whiley, as we have), and Spoony and Nemone spelt as in this sentence, not as we have on the relevant dates on our list.

I have yet to fully research the era from post millenium Mark Goodier, through Wes Butter, JK and Joel and into Fearne and Reggie, with the exception of a short period in 2002/2003 and again in 2005, both due to the gap between regular host being plugged by various other one-offs and cover hosts. For the period from 3rd November 2002 to 23rd February 2003 I have found the following discrepancies 2002 November 23rd - RT listed Mark Goodier for the final time, where we have Jo Whiley (incidentally shouldn't it be Wiley?). Likely RT weren't notified of the changes in time to amend the first week, but Jo defintely presented as the first female presenter of the BBC chart show (after a mere 47 years of exclusively male BBC chart show hosts on the Light Programme and Radio 1). 2003 January 5th - we and RT both list Tim Westwood, but previous commentators state that this show never happened, so need a source to corroborate Scott filling in for Tim. January 12th - RT listed John Peel, which would have been a truly historic chart show, though not sure if he would have been comfortable with Girls Aloud topping that week, but perhaps Electric Six entering at No 2 would have been to his liking. Anyway, as stated elsewhere, I'm pretty sure Peely never did the chart show in the end, and indeed we have Scott Mills on our list here.

1995 January 8th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno Brookes as usual. October 15th - we have Dave Pearce listed, in the first of two consecutive weeks, but RT only listed for him on the 22nd and had Mark Goodier listed as usual on the 15th. December 24th - in a bizarre anomaly Genome has no knowledge of a chart show on radio 1 on that day at all. But as the listed show, Soul on Sunday, appears to run from 14:00 to 19:00, a total of five hours, I'm assuming that somehow the chart show either got missed/lost during Genome's OCR scanning process (perhaps a symbol in the listings of RT directed the reader to a separate box on the page, which wasn't then incorporated into the Genome data?), or else it got accidentally missed in the original edition of the Radio times. 1997 January 12th, February 2nd, 9th and 16th, March 2nd, 9th and 16th, May 4th and 18th, June 1st, 15th, 22nd and 29th, July 6th, 13th and 27th and August 10th and 17th - RT really gave up bothering to list anything beyond 'UK Top 40' half the time this year, so on all these dates there is no presenter credit in RT, and in all cases we have Mark Goodier as usual. August 31st - Ironically RT did bother to credit Mark Goodier this week, but in the event the show was famously postponed due to the outpouring of grief following the news that Diana, Princess Of Wales had died in the early hours of that day. September 7th, October 12th and December 14th and 28th - No presenter credited in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. 1998 February 8th, March 8th and 22nd and June 7th and 14th - No presenter credited in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. August 23rd - RT has Mark Goodier as usual, but we have Clive Warren, so presumably there is some source for this. 1999 May 30th - No presenter listed in RT, but we have Mark Goodier as usual. That is all the differences I have found so far between 1967 (R1 only) and 2nd January 2000, so all the other weeks presenters match on our list and in the respective issue of Radio Times (though of course we both have been unaware of a last minute change in at least the odd case).

A year on from the original thread, and now we have the fantastic (if somewhat glitchy) resource BBC Genome to help us further with this project. For those who don't know, BBC Genome is a database on the bbc website that contains all the radio and tv listings published by Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. It therefore gives us instant access to the original RT listing for the majority of the BBC's chart shows, and those beyond 2009 are detailed (in vary degrees of helpfulness) on the previously reference existing bbc database. You can find genome at genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. I have been spending most of the last week or so, making use of my time off of work, by paging through every Sunday in Radio 1's history and recording the presenter, producer and description (if any) in a spreadsheet. I have so far done 1967-Jan 2000 plus a few isolated periods beyond that, and hope to finish the whole lot before too long. I have now compared my spreadsheet to the list at the start of this thread, and now will listed the differences I have spotted (and also the weeks when no presenter was listed in RT). Bear in mind though that such discrepancies may be due to either a last minute substitution being made due to illness or sudden departures from the station, or simply Radio Times publishing incorrect information. Genome itself may also have some errors due to problems in the OCR scanning process (a particular problem throughout the database is that the new year lstings in a festive issue have, on several occasions in the database, been accidentally wrapped around to the start of the outgoing year, rather than put into the correct incoming year, which causes incorrect data in the outgoing year, and total absence of those days in the database in the incoming year). Interestingly the Producer is credited more or less every single week from 1967 to May 1993 (spanning Denys Jones to Simon Sadler) and then seemingly never listed again since. I will probably post the producer list with dates if anyone is interested. 1968 Sep 22nd and Sep 29th - We have Pete Murray as a cover presenter for Alan Freeman in these weeks, owing to Alan being in the US, however the Radio Times lists Alan and Pete as effectively co-presenters (with Alan first of the two) for those weeks, and explains that Alan is in New York and Pete in London, and that the show features both the UK top 20 and the US top 20! 1972 March 12th - Alan was credited as usual in RT throughout March 1972, so Ed Stewart was a last minute replacement whichever week it was. November 5th - A special chart show was broadcast, retitled 50 years of pop, to mark the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast by the BBC (then still a company rather than a corporation). According to the description for the programme, Brian Matthew recalled earlier hits while Tom Browne played those of today. 1977 June - RT had Simon Bates credited for 3rd and 10th of June, not 10th and 17th, though they could have been incorrect at the time I guess. 1981 August 2nd - RT was not printed for the week covering that show, due to a printing dispute. It is very likely, however, to have been Tony presenting, as we have listed, since it has been said that he never missed a show. 1983 April 3rd and 10th - Again no RT covering these weeks, again due to a printing dispute, so would be interested in finding another source to corroborate those two weeks (did say The Times or another reliable newspaper publish listings during the strike periods?). Tommy then Simon, which we have, does seem plausible though, as RT agrees that Simon did do the 17th April chart. December 4th - Once again no RT for that week, and once again due to a printing dispute, though thankfully this was the final one to affect the 'official organ of the BBC' as it was once described. Our list gives Tommy, but a source would be good for corroboration here. 1985 January 27th - RT listed Richard Skinner, but we have Tommy Vance. Could have been last minute cover I suppose. 1986 March 31st and April 6th - We have Bruno for both of these shows, having taken over from Richard Skinner at this time, but RT still listed Richard for both of these weeks (possibly no one told RT about the presenter change, or it was in someway unplanned?). 1988 February 21st - we have Mark Goodier, but RT listed Bruno. Again could have been last minute cover. 1989 March 26th - again we have Mark G and RT listed Bruno. Another last minute cover perhaps. June 11th - just to mix things up, on this occasion we have Bruno, but RT listed Mark Goodier (who it also listed, as do we, the following week). 1991 May 8th - we have Tommy Vance this week, as well as the following one, whereas RT only lists Tommy on the 15th, and Mark as usual on the 8th. 1992 April 19th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. September 27th - in a sign of things to come RT managed, for the first time, not withstanding strike hit editions, to not credit any presenter at all for the chart show. Bruno, as we have, does seem likely though. October 25th - we have Simon Bates, RT listed Bruno as usual. November 8th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. 1993 July 4th - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. August 1st - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual. 1994 March 6th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. March 20th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. May 8th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. June 26th - no presenter credited in RT, we have Bruno as usual. July 3rd - we have Mark Goodier, RT listed Bruno as usual (the previous weeks lack of credit not withstanding). September 25th - no presenter credited in RT, interestingly we listed the chart show debut of Neale James that week, so I assume we have a source for that somewhere. October 2nd - we have Neale James for a second week, but RT lists Bruno as usual (again the previous weeks lack of credit not withstanding). October 23rd and 30th and November 6th - no presenter listed in RT any of these weeks, in which we have Bruno as usual throughout. I'll do 1995-Jan 2000 in another box as this is getting quite long, and as missing RT presenter credits begin to dominate the list.

I haven't bought it yet, and haven't decided yet whether or not I will, so there wasn't really an accurate second choice in this poll for me. In the end I chose the middle first option and the top second option, because if I do buy it, it will be primarily to help the charity, and also to buy a moment in pop history. Not really sure who most of the artists are this time round tbh, and not overly keen on this version, but it may yet grow on me.

I'm fairly sure that Woolworths DID stock the X Factor single in it's last week of trading (seem to remember a pile of them in Swindon Woolies on closing down week anyway), and it's clearance price on it for the last day or two was said to have contributed to slightly higher sales of it than would otherwise have been the case.

And me please. Thanks.