6weeksatnumber7

Can we knock this "deserve" thing on the head? Whoever sells the most in a week deserves the #1. End of story.

if anything the BEP track is easily the more derivative of the two. You don't get songs like Happy in the charts there days.

Be reassured, the overwhelming majority of Leona fans find Rob and JM1 totally annoying. Never has so much drivel been espoused by so few to so many.

Oh please JM stop laying it on so thick with this nonsense. Leona has had plenty of promo. All you're doing is irritating other forum members.

A bigger effect would be being "available" for the last 8 weeks in HQ for free.

Am I the only one to find AAG dreadfully generic with poor vocals? And I like the SBs normally. Perhaps it's Red One overkill.

There's a myth which exists about the Xmas number 1. There's been about two good songs in the last 25 years. It has at various times been monopolised by Cliff Richard, ropey Spice Girls, yawn-inducing Westlife, rubbish re-recordings of Band Aid, Mr Blobby + Bob The Builder etc. The X-Factor and Pop idol before it merely continued the trend.

As much as I detest this already, one thing you can't excuse Cowell of is not caring about "poor, starving chilldren". He's known to be a very generous benefactor in terms of finances, time etc to a number of children's charities. I'm also perplexed at what great songs will miss out at a chance of number 1. Recently very few artists have released singles late November/December for a couple of reasons: firstly there's the mad rush by late November to release albums to surf the seasonal wave of higher sales necessitating earlier single releases (see Lady GaGa's Bad Romance); secondly because of the change in radio playlists to reflect the Christmas season new songs get less of a chance to be heard and gain spins and airplay.

The big question: will Leona's Run and Black Eyed Peas' Boom Boom Pow both top 600k by year's end, making them the only two artists to have three platinum singles in the 2000s?

This is in America, not the UK.

All depends on when it is released.

Is this the first time the number 1 song has directly referenced the act with the number 2 song in the singles chart in its lyrics?

Even the bits when she kept singing and her mouth was closed? Clearly mimed quite heavily in sections of the song.

I don't think it will be number 1 anywhere near till Xmas but you underestimate Bleeding Love which was selling 110k in its 3rd week at the top and 60k in its 5th week, enough to top many recent charts despite sales being much higher overall now than 2 years ago. Also Run was only knocked off the top by the XF winner's song. . Incredibly strong sales.

Yet the counter argument to this is, it was the biggest selling single in the United States in 2008. Had huge success all over the world. If anything given the recent explosion of download sales in the last two years, we're perhaps undervaluing how much it did sell in the UK.

Two next candidates must be Gnarls Barkley "Crazy" and Leona "Bleeding Love" - both over 950k I think.

I'm not sure it's that well known a song.

Black Eyed Peas surely only a couple of weeks from being only the third act in the 00s to have three singles sell more than 500k.

I've still not knowingly heard the Madonna song which can't be a good sign.

Not even a chance of that. She's never shown that sort of sales surge in the USA even with Bleeding Love.

I've somehow still failed to hear the Madonna track on radio - what's its airplay like?

Given I love all three artists, I find Run This Town a very weak song.

Here's my submission: http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/9689/chartchat.png

Mariah now up to #77 - might be worth adding to the update.

Come on the Boots!