PaulM1983

This is what I just don't understand. I thought I had finally got my head around the whole instant grat thing, but this doesn't make sense now. So, for example, I paid 99p for Do What U Want and Venus, but didn't preorder the album. Now, I can use the complete my album function surely but those two purchases of the individual songs did not count towards sales as the tracks had been deemed ineligible. Isn't it the case that it's only after the album is released that this applies? So, for 1D for example, the sales of those tracks last week will just be lost forever, like Gaga's promo tracks. So, if the complete my album is used now, but the tracks had been purchased last week, the sale will rightly only count towards the album chart? But if I was so inclined to go on and buy Midnight Memories (the song) tonight but then used complete my album next week, would that count as a sale for both album and single? God, I'm confusing myself now :blink: but it really doesn't make any sense at all.

Really pleased to see Gaga getting big increases tonight. The video is out on 3rd December and she has Alan Carr a couple of days later so she should be able to hold steady.

Ach, I'm disappointed that Do What U Want is about to be pushed right down. With no more UK promo for it lined up, I can't see it climbing again either. If she'd just released it as a bloody single weeks ago, she'd have already had a half decent run with it. I'm not Lily's biggest fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I don't mind her song. It's fun with the video, but isn't something that I think holds up that well as a standalone track.

I'm just in disbelief. This is her finest vocal moment ever.

We've heard her say she had classical vocal training in the past, but holy jesus, that Ave Maria snippet is absolutely astonishing. By an absolute mile it is her finest recorded vocal ever. I cannot think of any contemporary pop female vocalist that could even consider competing with that. Incredible.

Agnetha is performing live for the first time in 25 years on the CIN concert. She's singing her duet with Gary Barlow. I hope that gets a boost. What a legend. What a voice.

Cory was set up to fail on this one. I'm not even sure why they have let him get this far if that's clearly not what they want. They're not exactly spreading the "love thyself" message by hammering home that he needs to butch up all the time. I also don't understand why the preview for next week showed all 3 models on the catwalk in the final show, when we're expecting one of them to be eliminated. Could there be a tie in the score between the 2 boys perhaps?

I'm being very optimistic and putting Gaga at 150k. In theory she should do it. She's a decent album seller and she's going into the week with a song that will probably be top 5 after a Graham Norton performance. Fingers crossed. Even if she managed to do 100k I'd be pleased, given the poor state of the album market at the moment.

This season has given me some of the very best drama I've watched in years. It's absolutely, hands down, the best show around in terms of acting and writing. The last 2 episodes in particular have been absolutely stellar. Alicia, Kalinda, Diane, David Lee, Jackie and Elsbeth are all outstanding characters, perfectly played, with everyone else a very close 2nd to them all. It's a shame this is likely to be the last season, even though this week's episode had the best ratings and viewings figures of the season so far. I'll really miss this show if it gets cancelled.

That's really quite unfortunate timing for the single but good the album. She'll no doubt get a considerable boost in sales on the Saturday and Sunday following the performance but those sales still won't count to Do What U Want's chart position. Only sales from Monday 11th will count. She's going to lose the 2 days that will probably contribute most to the single's sales. Unless of course she's got more UK promo planned. Do What U Want is going to be quite a good seller in the long run though I think. It'll be interesting to see how its sales are reported when it is finally able to chart. I can't remember how it worked with Paradise. Do you get the weekly sale and an update of the total including the ineligible chart weeks?

Ok, I'm confused. Can someone please explain to me the difference between this and the Billboard album chart? Their sales figures differ hugely. I'm looking at Cher's figure in particular, for the last 2 weeks. I don't understand. Her sales according to this chart are way higher than Billboard has for her.

Thrilled to see these two here. Two of my favourite songs ever. Particularly Lay All Your Love On Me. Never thought I'd see the day it was in the iTunes charts.

Devastated she re-recorded the verses in such a boring, non-descript and disinterested manner. I absolutely loved her vocal in the verses before. They were just as good as that glorious chorus. The demo version is infinitely better than this one. I'm so disappointed.

At the rate Pearl Jam are falling, Applause will be back in the top 10 in the next 2 hours I'd imagine. With any luck, Bieber will continue to fall like a brick and she can climb to number 9 to get more of a foothold again :P

Yep, Billboard is reporting different sales and positions. Cher is apparently number 8 instead with 24,000.

Absolutely thrilled at Cher having such a good 2nd week. I expected her to nosedive right out of the top 10, but that is an excellent result.

Britney's song is utter garbage, and I really can't see that smashing in the UK at all. At least I bloody hope not. It's completely void of any sort of melody and is so irritating. Very disappointing. I'm totally shocked to see Jessie J so high up. To my ears, this song sounds like a number 14 then out kind of deal. I just don't get it. :unsure: Pity that Applause has seen its last days in the top 10 now. I'd hoped for a bit more longevity. Such a shame she didn't do any promo while she was here for the iTunes festival.

I'm hopeful that, with Coldplay dropping on iTunes, it'll fall out of the top 10 by Sunday, giving Gaga another week in there.

Really? I'd count them as different songs. They have a different sound and a lyric change. I'm not sure it would be right to combine them.

Not really. It makes perfect business sense to get it released to take full advantage of the fact that, at that point, the Internet was going nuts for it. If she'd waited, the hype would have eased off and it would probably cost her quite a few sales. I think she did the right thing. Maybe she didn't want her fans listening to a shitty quality rip when there is a considerable difference in how the song sounds when you hear it in HQ.

Jesus, really? Born This Way didn't have to catch up with a song that was on course for a 500k week. It'll take time to catch up with Katy, but given that most folk have only been up for a couple of hours in the US, I'd say she's doing pretty well to be at 2 already.

Indeed. And it's an absolute banger!! I love it. Hope she releases in the UK too.

I've never been a huge fan of Ellie Goulding so I'm slightly surprised at Burn taking off as well as it has. I personally think Leona's demo of the song is far, far superior to Ellie's version. Also, Anything Could Happen, being the glorious masterpiece it is, was never the hit I expected it to be. I clearly just don't get her like other people do. I hope Avicii manages another week at the top anyway.

Miley has been dark red for the last 2 updates and Avicii has made up about 2%. Wonder if she could be losing steam already. I hope so. I'd much rather Avicii made it another week. Miley's song just does nothing for me at all. I'm shocked it's proving to be as popular as it is.

Is it too optimistic to think that Icona Pop are already outselling The Wanted? They're number 1 on the albums chart to The Wanted's number 4. Surely that difference would more than cover the percentage difference on the singles chart? I'm really hopeful they can still get number 1. At the rate they're climbing I think they will. Yeah that's pretty much it I think. It means that in their first day on sale, Icona Pop have sold 77% of what Robin Thicke has sold in the last 2 days. So they're technically outselling him today (assuming it's still a 48 hour rolling chart).