Blackjane

:dancing: Here's something I created in honour of another UK Number 1 album KYLIE ALBUMS PAGE

Kylie Audlist, that is (featured vocalist on: Kungs vs Cookin’ on 3 Burners - "This Girl") 2Y6Nne8RvaA It'll probably be a cold day in hell before Kylie Minogue reaches the top of the UK singles chart again, or indeed the top 10. Top 40 also seems a distant hope these days, although maybe the 'Ab Fab' track might just sneak in with the publicity surrounding the film?

It is current selling 12x its nearest challenger on itunes, so I would expect it to be at least 500k by the end of the week. However, both the Band Aid 20 & Band Aid 30 versions are very poor compared to the original Band Aid and Band Aid II versions from '84 & '89.

Can anyone point me to the thread which indicates all the songs that wouldn't have charted if downloads had never been included in the charts :huh: Seriously, though, while this topic may be of limited interest in the short term, while the inclusion of streaming is still new to everyone, surely we now just have to accept that the singles chart is now calculated using the current methods.

Just found this information: No 1 Facts & Feats The Westlife one was 'Unbreakable', and climbed from #196 to #1, also DJ Sammy and Yanou with Heaven climbed from #191 to #1 The biggest genuine jumps within the top 75 have been: (70 places) 72-02 It's The Way You Make Me Feel Steps (13.01.01) (66 places) 68-02 Addicted To Bass Puretone (12.01.02) (63 places) 74-11 Macarena Los Del Rio (20.07.96) (62 places) 66-04 Every Loser Wins Nick Berry (11.10.86) (61 places) 74-13 Star Trekkin' The Firm (13.06.87) (55 places) 62-07 Coming Up Paul McCartney (26.04.80) (51 places) 60-09 Only You Flying Pickets (03.12.83) Of these, Every Loser Wins, Star Trekkin' and Only You reached #1. All the rest peaked at #2. (There may have been others more recently than this)

I think that Steps' 'It's The Way You Make Me Feel' climbed from #72 to #2, if I remember correctly. Also, there was one Westlife song (can't remember which one) which climbed from c.# 200 to #1. Both instances were due to limited number of physical copies (CD singles mainly - remember them?) being sold in shops on the Saturday, before they were supposed to.

Although the introduction of downloads, and now streaming, are indeed major milestones in the history of the UK singles chart, the move to having Sunday countdowns is the one that really stands out for me. It's difficult now to comprehend having to wait until the middle of the week, rather than Sunday, to hear the brand new singles chart countdown.

Wasn't 'Teardrops' by Cecil Womack, rather than Bobby?

What a ridiculous situation

And it has also been made available to buy from Amazon for 99p (I've just done so) for those of us who are averse to using iTunes...

It was still ridiculous in 2013!

I can fully understand songs being skipped due to their explicit nature or on the grounds of taste/decency. However, I would argue that so called 'fake' versions of songs should still be played on the Top 40 show if their sales have merited a place in the chart that week.

Isn't it based on sales in the last 48 hours? - hence it would still be registering sales from an active period, even though the track was no longer available to buy?

It must be top 100 (combined) by now - perhaps we'll see another return to the official end of week top 100 chart, for the chart that will be announced on 15th December? I wonder if it'll ever make it to the top 75?...

FAVOURITE John Newman - Love Me Again Bastille - Pompeii One Direction - Best Song Ever Rudimental - Waiting All Night Martin Garrix - Animals Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Ellie Goulding - Explosions Ke$ha - Crazy Kids Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop LEAST FAVOURITE

FAVOURITE Ylvis - The Fox Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You Lana Del Rey vs. Cedric Gervais - Summertime Sadness Avicii - Wake Me Up Lady Gaga - Do What U Want Avicii - You Make Me Jessie J - Wild Little Mix - Move Zedd - Clarity Iggy Azalea - Work LEAST FAVOURITE

Do you have the cumulative sales for Ylvis - 'The Fox' please? PS: Those graphs of iTunes positions across the year look cool!

I had not heard of the track until seeing this thread, but I voted Top 40 in the poll. Having liked a lot of Bastille's output to date, I wasn't that impressed on first listen, but maybe it'll grow on me? Personally, I think that the track should have been given the title 'Rhythms' instead, bearing in mind that it includes elements of both 'RHYTHM of the night' and 'RHYTHM is a dancer'

The whole situation is ludicrous. Looking at the latest itunes chart, Eminem has three tracks in the Top 10, but only one, Monster, is chart eligible. It's about time the OCC and retailers started to collaborate to ensure that the singles chart is a proper representation of the best-selling tracks each week.

I don't have access to full week-on-week sales for any of the current YTD T40, in order to graph the trends - but are there many more singles, other than the obvious ones (One Republic etc.) that look likely to sell 500k by the end of the year?

Voted top 40. But it does sound to me rather like a 45rpm 'Get Lucky' played at 33rpm by mistake. (I hope that comment isn't too 'lost' on younger readers)

08 = Locomotion (it would've been 04 for the Aussie original, the 08 is for the UK single version) 08 = I Should Be So Lucky 09 = Got to Be Certain 09 = Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi 07 = It's No Secret 10 = Turn It Into Love 08 = Hand on Your Heart 09 = Wouldn't Change a Thing 09 = Never Too Late 09 = Especially For You (with Jason Donovan) 07 = Tears on My Pillow 10 = Better the Devil You Know 09 = Step Back in Time 10 = What Do I Have to Do 09 = Shocked 06 = Word Is Out 08 = If You Were With Me Now (with Keith Washington) 06 = Give Me Just A Little More Time 08 = Finer Feelings 10 = What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before) 06 = Celebration 08 = Confide in Me 07 = Put Yourself in My Place 06 = Where Is the Feeling? 06 = Some Kind of Bliss 06 = Did It Again 07 = Breathe 05 = Cowboy Style 08 = Keep on Pumpin' It (Visionmasters and Tony King feat. Kylie Minogue) 06 = Where the Wild Roses Grow (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Kylie Minogue) 04 = GBI: German Bold Italic (Towa Tei feat. Kylie Minogue)

Thanks for the heads-up, although personally I'll probably only be looking at the 70's and later.

Update: I've just discovered the program HTTrack, which appears to be in the process of automatically downloading the entire directory to my hard drive. Hopefully this will work (it may take some time, but at least it is running in the background without me needing to do anything manually.)

This website (http://scans.chartarchive.org/UK/) is amazing! Does anyone know of a quick and easy way to download all the pages to my local drive for future reference, just in case it were to disappear?