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It's a web address where you can download the singles and albums charts from 1952 in Excel CSV format.

Ah well - better late than never! Only just noticed it today. :D

Live Pop Bars now display the top 1,500 tracks on iTunes. Click here.

Yes, if you are lucky to get a shop which includes the supplement. Apparently some shops only had the magazine for sale. If you are a digital only subscriber to Music Week you can ask them to post you out the special supplement.

Official UK Singles Chart celebrates 60th birthday with singles sales survey. Click here to read article. Click on link at end of article to download 32 page brochure (you will need a special URN code).

How come The Beatles Penny Lane/Strawberry fields forever was number one for 3 weeks in Melody Maker yet Englebert's Release me sold over a million copies? It must have been outselling The Beatles in 1967, as every other chart indicated.

Yes, dated Saturday 10th November. They were loose copies, not in a shrink wrapped bag.

Actually Easons had 4 copies of Music Week on sale yesterday, but none of them had the Chart Supplement. I was told that they were not sent to Belfast. The staff told me an alternative explanation might be that they were stolen! They have asked their supplier to send over a copy of Music Week with the supplement. So phone up Easons and order one. I have downloaded the digital pdf copy of Music Week but there was no supplement in it. Can you download a pdf of the supplement if you are a Music Week subscriber?

In the 2002 book OCC said its sales were 2.05m. How has it lost 50,000 sales in 10 years??

According to Music Week 29/9/12 Hey Jude had topped 80,000 download sales. So were vinyl sales really 980,00? Most think pre-download sales were 925,000. Are all sales figures rounded to nearest 10,000? What is the sales figure for She loves you? Amazon says my book won't be delivered until next week - how did you get yours today?

It's on it's way! Latest from Amazon "Preparing for dispatch". Should receive it by next Monday (I hope).

Email from Omnibus Press, "It will be published on the 1st November 2012. " And that's official!

This book has been delayed. Price on Amazon has increased to £11.66 from £9.06. My Amazon account states, "Dispatch Estimate Monday 29 Oct 2012 - Thursday 1 Nov 2012. Delivery estimate Thursday 1 Nov 2012 - Wednesday 7 Nov 2012." According to Book Depository it has been delayed to 1st May 2013. Their price is £9.71. But they say there were only 113 million sellers. Confusing!

LivePopBars not working on my PC. Seems some advert gets in the way and blocks any display.

True! From BPI site there is a pdf download. It shows, 21 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE 2000 2.480m

From printed version of Music Week. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8035/8044117245_991dfd67d4_z.jpg Also included are selected other artists. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8176/8044115135_eca016d8ef.jpg

Thanks very much - greatly appreciated. Some fantastic sales figures given. Hope to get the print version in WH Smith. Will it have any more figures?

From MusicWeek.com, The Beatles’ worth to Universal has been spelt out by new Music Week research naming the group as one of the biggest-selling acts this century. Universal made a point of extracting The Beatles as a band and as solo acts from its EMI concessions last week. The business logic of that stand is underlined by a Music Week study of The Beatles’ recorded music sales since 2000, which reveals they are this century’s sixth most successful albums act in the UK. In this period they have sold 8.2 million albums, according to the Official Charts Company – despite the band not having recorded together as an active unit for 43 years. The continuing commercial might of The Beatles is also felt overseas with their compilation 1 the century’s biggest-selling album globally. It is also the post-millennium No.1 in the US. Universal’s takeover of The Beatles’ catalogue comes just ahead of the 50th anniversary of the release of the band’s first single Love Me Do in the UK on October 5. See this week's Music Week magazine for further Beatles analysis on pages 14 and 15. Can anyone reproduce this sales analysis please?

Go Gerry!! Excellent news - the very first record I bought (in 1963 for 33p).

I have re-checked Guinness and it refers to Groups, so MJ is excluded.

Update: You'll never walk alone now at no. 22 (and also at nos. 671 and 749). Should make this week's Top 75 chart.

The Independent Report on the tragedy was released on Thursday and got wide coverage in all the newspapers and BBC and SKY television. Fans sung You'll never walk alone outside the cathedral and this was shown several times on SKY News. Hence the renewed interest in this track.

Reply from Guinness, "The UK singles chart of 27 March 1976 (not 20 March 1976 as your correspondent says) was officially a Top 50 rather than a Top 75, as it was in February 1983 for the Jam entries and as it is today, so in fact only three of The Beatles' 17 chart entries that week were in the published portion of the chart (at Nos.. 10, 45 and 46). Unfortunately, the length of both the singles and albums charts has varied over the years, and in an ideal world we’d have room in the book to explain this. All historical music records are based solely on the official lengths of the charts, so we have stated correctly that The Jam hold this record with 13 tracks in the Top 75." No mention of Michael Jackson.

Apparently there was an industry chart for the Top 100 but it was not published. The Top 75 was introduced in 1978. I must re-read the Guinness Book because it may be restricted to groups.

Good to see You'll never walk alone by Gerry & the Pacemakers now at no. 27 (although under tragic circumstances). And also at no. 885 and no. 1017 in iTunes latest update.