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No,"Wherever You Are" was first performed publicly at the Festival Of Rememberance, and that was due to be that. Then Chris Evans picked up on it, and it was then decided to produce a single and release it.

Some do, some spring up from nowhere - e..g The Military Wives' single. That wasn't even scheduled to be a single until the second half of November 2011

JLS featuring Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut - (16 Weeks) 22/01/2011 -10-10-12-17-17-{8}-11-17-26-28-33-47-56-53-64-73 One Direction - One Thing - (12 Weeks) 28/01/2012 -28-36-38-26-{9}-24-42-55-65-69-x(1)-61-72

In 2006, over 68% of Top 75 entries peaked on their first week on chart, higher than 2007, 08 & 09.

Thanks, that's a new one on me.

Dot Dash Dash Dash Dash Dot?

15 - Martin Garrix - "Animals" 12 - Ylvis - "The Fox" 10 - Showtek etc. - "Booyah!" 8 - Britney Spears - "Work Bitch" 6 - will.i.am - "Bang Bang" 5 - Kanye West - "Bound 2" 4 - Dizzee Rascal featuring Teddy Sky - "Love This Town" 3 - Jessie J - "It's My Party" 2 - Lumineers - "Ho Hey" 1 - Ariana Grande "Last Christmas" -5 - Poppy Girls - "The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye)" -2 - Lorde - "Royals"

That may account for last year, but the year before the X-Factor single release date was set long before the Military Wives' single was put on the schedule.

As always? It hasn't been the last two years

Itunes, Amazon....

Back in the "Old Days" the Christmas song would be the A-side now, and then it would be flipped after Dec 25th and the other side instantly becomes the promoted side.

Merci beaucoup! It's just one of those things that bugs me

When you edit One Direction in, could you also please edit "Those with an Asterix" to "Those with an asterisk" please?

The X-Factor winner, for the first time, is now odds on to be Christmas Number One 10-11 X Factor Winner 4-1 AC/DC 6-1 Susan Boyle & Elvis Presley 9-1 Lily Allen 16-1 The Big Reunion 25-1 Altern 8 33-1 Katy Perry, Lucy Spraggan, Ylvis, Fynnjan 40-1 Jack Topping 50-1 Adele, Bruno Mars, Emeli Sandé, Gary Barlow, Georgina Anderson, James Arthur, Leona Lewis, One Direction, Rihanna, Robbie Williams 66-1 Bar

If that FM$ track made the Top 40 there'd be no point playing it, every single line appears to have something that would have to be censored for daytime play.

Icona Pop featuring Charli XCX - "I Love It" Imagine Dragons - "Radioactive" Taylor Swift feautring Ed Sheeran - "Everything Has Changed" Calvin Harris featuring Ellie Goulding - "I Need Your Love" Chris Malinchak - "So Good To Me" 1975 - "Chocolate" Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera - "Feel This Moment" Calvin Harris & Alessio featuring Hurts - "Under Control" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton - "Can't Hold Us" 2 Chainz featuring Wiz Khalifa - "We Own It (Fast And Furious)" The group of "featuring". Very rarely a good sign that a record has to have someone else "featured"

Group A Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert - "Same Love" AlunaGeorge - "Attracting Flies" Duke Dumont featiuring A*M*E - "Need U (100%)" Eminem featuring Rihanna - "The Monster" Then a huge gap to the rest Vamps - "Can We Dance" Storm Queen - "Look Right Through" Rihanna - "Stay" Jay Z featuring Justin Timerlake - "Holy Grail" MKS - "Flatline" - don't think I'd ever even heard this before checking it out for this vote Saturdays - "Disco Love"

"Dark Horse" would be a decent song with the Juicy J bits.

Rebecca Ferguson is about as exciting as watching paint dry, or even watching cricket.

Sorry I didn't mean to come over as rude. I just get a little fed up sometimes with people asking others to look up things that they could do just as easily themselves, especially as the links are given regularly on here

Surely you can look as easily as anyone else?

Surely it should be "Allez La Dion"?

Now you're realy clutching at straws. For a post-album single there's not worthwhile difference.

And plenty of promotional appearances. In fact it was pushed a lot more than many other "singles"

+15 - Ylvis - "The Fox" +12 - Iggy Azalea featuring Ti - "Change Your Life" +10 - Martin Garrix - "Animals" +8 - Lady Gaga - "Venus" +6 - 1975 - "Chocolate" +5 - Lumineers - "Ho Hey" +4 - Saturdays - "Disco Love" +3 - Dizzee Rascal featuring Teddy Sky - "Love This Town" +2 - Rizzle Kicks - "Skip To The Good Bit" +1 - Showtek etc. - "Booyah" -5 - Lorde "Royals" -2 - Poppy Girls - "The Call"