French Kiss

Bad Romance would have made a great Xmas #1.

We can post the sales without saying who's won, right?

Sales figures have leaked. Expect spoilers!

LOL I'd say about 52K... -_-

Joe FTW!

Joe, I think.

100 La Roux - Bulletproof 90 Lily Allen - The Fear 80 Lady GaGa - Poker Face 70 Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling 60 Lady GaGa - Just Dance 50 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You 40 Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow 30 David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - When Love Takes Over 20 Pixie Lott - Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) 10 Flo Rida - Right Round -10 Cascada - Evacuate The Dancefloor

15+15

Friday Update The gap between Rage Against The Machine and Joe McElderry in midweek sales figures has narrowed to just under 9,000 copies, as the race for the Christmas number one single goes right to the wire. Rage Against The Machine’s Nineties hit Killing In The Name had established a 60% lead over McElderry’s The Climb earlier this week, only for this to be cut back as the CD single of The Climb hit stores. The latest OCC figures show that Killing In The Name is still ahead – but only just. Killing In The Name has sold just over 306,000 copies so far this week, while The Climb has shifted around 297,000. The Climb has been helped by sales of more than 150,000 CD singles, while sales of Killing In The Name have been entirely digital. Bookmaker Ladbrokes yesterday re-installed The Climb as favourite to top the Christmas charts. With the weekend likely to see many consumers doing their Christmas shopping – and the suitability of The Climb as a stocking filler – the race looks set to go right to the end of Saturday. ====================== Friday Update Singles http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/4722242.JPG 01 Rage Against The Machine 306,115 02 Joe McElderry 297,192 03 Lady GaGa 04 Peter Kay 05 3OH!3 feat. Katy Perry Top 10 6 Robbie Williams 7 Cheryl Cole 8 Journey Top 15 12 George Michael Top 30 Michael Buble Alexandra Burke 27 Leona Lewis (SCYHO) 30 Miley Cyrus Top 40 31 Saturdays 34 Pet Shop Boys 35 Queen & The Muppets Luther Vandross ----------------------------------- Albums http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/88697554542.JPG 01 Susan Boyle 02 Michael Buble 03 Black Eyed Peas 04 JLS 05 Lady GaGa Top 10 6 Snow Patrol 7 Robbie Williams 8 Leona Lewis Top 15 12 Will Young 13 Cheryl Cole Paolo Nutini Top 20 16 Alicia Keys Alexandra Burke Top 30 Fleetwood Mac Bette Midler Paul McCartney Top 40 Chris Moyles Katherine Jenkins [believe] Florence & The Machine Rod Stewart ----------- Artists Mini-Update Singles Alicia Keys 10+4 Cheryl "National Treasure" Cole FFTL 10+7 Pixie Lott 20+3 Pogues 10+10 JLS [EIL] 20+5 Mariah 20+4 Leona Lewis 30+6 Albums Take That 5+5 Michael Jackson 10+7 Rihanna 20+2 N-Dubz 20+1

The whole point of Leona's XF performance was to sell albums. She's back in the top 10 and that's what matters to them, I guess.

It wasn't THAT successful, she just peaked at #5 thanks to her XF performance (which was the same night as Cheryl's with a massive 14M audience) and spent only 2 weeks in the top 10. ILTY hasn't been promoted anywhere in the UK and it's not played on the radio, so I don't see how it would chart.

Pogues 11+11 Mariah 15+12 Band Aid and Wham! not top 40.

Wow @ this lead! I'm starting to think RATM could actually overtake Joe's advantage with physicals.

7+2

Not top 40. Edit: well, you've got your answer lol.

I guess if they had chosen Don't Stop Believin' as the winner song, everybody would have said Joe was favoritized. But yes, it would have sounded much better than this dull Miley cover. 3 Words is holding strong at #6!

There's absolutely ZERO chance Joe won't be #1 next Sunday. His physicals will be huge and he will outsell everyone by at least 2:1, including this RATM thing.

Joe now #3

Joe #5 Mini Viva #90

I expected Joe to *climb* wayyy faster. He will definitely be #1 with the physicals, though.

Joe #15

Maybe I Wish wouldn't have been a flop if one of the two girls didn't have such an HORRENDOUS voice. I love the song, but I can't listen to it because of her. She sounds like Alesha Dixon with a cold.

This Facebook page is hugely frequented! This is never going to work and it will be an epic #2 fail, but still, nice try.

Joe #19.

OMG. This is sick! Joe's going to outsell them in an hour, though. Cheryl.i.am #5!