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5 Grammy nominations to be strictly accurate ... the problem with Jazmine is she has yet to cross over from the RnB charts in America let alone making it big in the UK. She's had two big RnB chart hits but has barely dented mainstream and sales remain poor. Can you really see her making a splash here? Not convinced with her live performances either.

wow didn't expect that!

I actually think the Sugababes single is the weakest of the three. Personal opinion of course.

iTunes gift card cherry-picking always happens this time of year. And TLK isn't a strong single hence the Saturdays' issues doing better.

She should storm past a million this week, particularly with the single being sold for 1p in some of the Woolworth closing down sales!

lol I did read it. Just wasn't letting you squirm off the hook so easily ^_^

*St Trinians - cough*

Eligibility is based on the price the album/single is sold to the retailer by the record company (the dealer price) not the price it is sold to the customer (the retail price).

yep think the img link is wrong - even cutting and pasting into its own tab doesn't work.

She's been very lucky to get a perfect storm of sales with this release: We have a creditable X-Factor winner We have a song considered to be an all-time classic, and far better than the three previous winners were given We have a chart "battle" which generated intense hype and publicity all week We have four strong shopping days after hitting number 1 until Christmas ensuring great on-running sales We have the strongest singles market for 4-5 years thanks to the continuing establishment of legal downloading We have the closure of Zavvi's and Woolworth's with big discounts - in some of the Woolies stores that have already closed the single was being hawked off for 10p on the final day ========== On the digital sales front, the highest seller as of Music Week on 15th December was: "Lewis’s Bleeding Love is the only track to sell more than 500,000 downloads, with a current tally of 527,360"

Hey Scherzland, welcome to the contest. Remember to pick your country's position on the world map here: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=70671 and btw you're entering BJSC XIII not XII this month ;)

Just Dance sounds so much like a Britney/Rihanna record.

There was huge hype over a couple of songs in BJSC XII (Frankmusik is one I remember) which I'm sure aided in the long run when voting came along.

I'm really surprised they released such a weak track. It just does nothing.

She guest starred on the Herzebania leg of the Inner Massivia BJSC XII promo tour and proved extremely popular singing a live version of Angel. Rumours have it she's penned in to support Melania Fiona the next time Inner Massivia visit Rontvia ...

It was combined in the Music Week Top 20 list of 21st Century sellers, even though it's not officially combined for chart purposes. The Robbie album was released in 1998 so won't be on this list.

Duffy was also on two big shows this week - Royal Variety Performance and the final of Strictly Come Dancing.

My estimate of the latest figures: 1 BACK TO BEDLAM – JAMES BLUNT 3,150,000. 2 NO ANGEL – DIDO 3,030,000. 3 WHITE LADDER – DAVID GRAY 2,900,000. 4 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 2,840,000 (combined) 5 LIFE FOR RENT – DIDO 2,830,000 6 1 – THE BEATLES 2,795,000 7 SCISSOR SISTERS – SCISSOR SISTERS 2,705,000 8 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD – COLDPLAY 2,665,000 9 HOPES AND FEARS – KEANE 2,655,000 10 BEAUTIFUL WORLD _ TAKE THAT 2,525,685 11 SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS 2,521,402 12 X&Y – COLDPLAY 2,515,000

Two confirmed set of figures from Music Week today: Take That - Beautiful World 2,525,685 Leona Lewis - Spirit 2,521,402 (10th biggest seller of 21st C) -------------- They've both almost certainly overtaken Coldplay's X&Y in the 21st Century list. Now onto the status of Back To Black. That has sold another 513,000 this year in the deluxe edition according to the BJ/Haven year-to-dates. I suppose it all depends on when that Music Week Top 20 in YorMomIsHot's post was published - by my calculation TT's Beautiful World had sold approx. 2,202,300 by the end of 2007 so it's clearly after that and quick search of the chart archive gives ... From the 3rd March edition of Music Week Back To Black [Deluxe Edition]- Amy Winehouse 424,395 (to date) Back To Black - Amy Winehouse 2,006,836 (to date) Total: 2,431,231 The week after that the Deluxe sold 31,118, and the original edition was two places behind Cascada who sold 5,508. This would take the total combined to 2.467m and almost identical to the figure in the top 20 listed above, so it looks like that 21st century chart is accurate up to the album chart of March 9th. How much has BtoB added since? BtoB DE this year: 513000 BtoB DE upto March 10th: 190186 (calculated from March 10th's figure minus the 2007 year end sales) BtoB DE after March 10th: 323000 So BtoB's total sales will be around 2.79m plus the dregs of sales from the original edition since March 10th - call it 50k as it only spent two more weeks in the top 75, taking overall sales to 2.83m and probably into 4th place above Dido and The Beatles. As such I'm assuming Alan Jones has split the Back to Black versions when he refers to Spirit being the 10 biggest seller of the 21st century.

Well he has sold 5.4m of his album worldwide so far and was huge in Europe. In 2007 he had the third biggest selling album in the UK and 4th worldwide. Adele was picked by the BBC and the Brits - Duffy was second in the BBC poll so hardly much between them and she was bigged up by a few in the media over Adele.

He did write Something and While My Guitar Gently Weeps which to be fair, are better songs than most songwriters will ever come close to penning.

Ah there may be a bit of controversy here - Hallelujah was released as a physical single in the UK last year. The B-side was a cover of The Smiths' "I Know It's Over". Record Label: SonyBMG Catalogue No: 88697098847

If there was a post of the year on Pulse, zeus should be awarded it. Now that's amazingly definitive answer!

Lady Gaga and Lily Allen are the two obvious ones for me. I just hope, for the love of mine and everyone else's sanity, that we don't see Peter Kay for another five years.

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