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I'm kind of pleased really - for TT - I think if they had had as many as they could sell it would have heavily spiked sales of the album and it would have basically done all its business by week 3 and quickly go from the charts - probably taking any chances of another big single with it. So bad for shoppers, but good for TT.

Yeah - I did wonder how many they would actually have - but I'd still have thought more than that - just goes to show - lots of publicity for them with little actual outlay - mind - bound to have some very annoyed customers now!

Its worth pointing out some of the singles mentioned were deleted. I think Crazy was. Raving I'm Raving used a sample and was only cleared to be released if limited to a certain number of physical copies. Also a number of the singles are Christmas songs which usually suffer immediately following the end of Christmas. But its still an interesting list. Be interested to know the reason Maneater fell so fast...

What Are You Doing New Year? probably the most famous - its a Standard - lots of versions: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y1idhwIW_n4 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_BBNeumLI http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=G1YbfCQmr4o http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PGOid0TxB_Q http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cxoq1Q2DY0&...feature=related also - personal fave: New Year's Eve - Eg and Alice.

What do you mean by Merit? You do realise that Pop Chart stands for Popular Chart - it IS a popularity contest - not a quality contest - whatever you define quality as - and since X Factor is a mix of music ability and likeability - hence 'x factor' not 'sing factor' or 'like factor' then I'd have to wonder what you think the pop charts are for if not for the likes of the X Factor.

Here's an idea - how about banning you from posting? What do you reckon? Does it seem fair - because I don't think your thread has much merit so why don't I just decide on behalf of everybody else? No, I thought not. The charts have been going about 50 years - i that time there have been plenty of good bad and indifferent songs, plenty of classics that didn't chart as highly as you might imagine, plenty of No.1s all but forgotten - plenty of chart wars/battles, plenty of fads, plenty indeed for everybody and plenty enough to go around. Just get over it.

Not releasing it till 1st Dec is a bad decision - they have just denied Leona a smash hit no.1 single.

I think they need to do one of two things - either 1) Re-record and release The Greatest Show on Earth as the next single or otherwise 2) Give up ad go and do a new album. I'd agree that in comparison to the first the second album is pretty sucky - the first album had singles to spare - but something went majorly wrong with the second. I really liked them previously - and I'd like to think they have enough of a clue to regroup and deliver a classic third album but if they don't then that will be the end of them. Great shame.

I think you should buy it if you like it and you think you'd like to listen to it. I think if you don't like it then ignore it - its not going to hurt you - and if the thought of a sweet likeable young guy just starting out getting the joy and excitement of a Christmas number one is really too much to bare - well - that kind of reflects more on you then on him.