Kylie Minogue

I doubt it'll top 300k. The lead looks impressive but the #1 sold less than 50k this week so sales are already low on the singles chart.

#1. It's a smash hit in the making.

At least there's SOME video play then!

No. The Queen's death wouldn't evoke such an act of recording a charity single because she will die of old age and people will accept it. Even if Kate Middleton were to have a tragic death it still wouldn't compare.

According to comparemyradio.com, it has had 60 plays in the last 30 days which is quite poor. I'm assuming TV play is near non-existent thanks to the daytime ban. Based on her fanbase alone I think it stands a chance at making the lowest end of the top 10 but will plummet quick without any sustained air/videoplay.

Britney won't perform, more's the pity! 3rd November will be a busy one, Robbie will likely get on as he has a strong relationship with the show and Little Mix will too, but then they always championed Westlife so perhaps Shane as well? Remember some weeks they do have three guest performers (I think this should be the case every week, scrap the pointless group one). I'm really annoyed Ellie is being given a wasted slot to do "Burn". The Saturdays, John Newman, Conor Maynard all would have loved that.

This and Storm Queen will be the two biggest dance hits of the last quarter.

Storm Queen, and MK, are American :P

This will be #1, no doubt.

will.i.am & Britney Spears hopefully! They're gaining.

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I absolutely love it, but I just mean as far as All Saints go I don't think anybody remembers it much let alone that it was #1.

I love the Roll Deep ones but definitely think they're mainly forgotten now. From the 2000s: A good handful of Westlife, Busted and McFly #1s that only went there briefly because of their loon fans. Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against The Classes (doubt many could hum that one) Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me (brilliant, but you never hear it) All Saints - Black Coffee (never mentioned/played when it comes to AS nostalgia) Bob The Builder - Mambo No. 5 (astonished it ever made it especially only 2 years after the original) Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake) (bet 95% of people could only name "Unchained Melody" or "Spirit In The Sky") David Sneddon - Stop Living The Lie (most people would only associate Lemar with Fame Academy) Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side (it was "IYNTO" pt. II anyway) Sam & Mark - With A Little Help From My Friends/Measure Of A Man (terrible and very flash-in-the-pan) Nelly - My Place/Flap Ya Wings AND Ja Rule ft. Ashanti & R. Kelly - Wonderful (god 2004 WAS an awful year!) U2 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (great song but I had completely forgot if even got near #1) Nizlopi - The JCB Song (again, could anyone even hum this now) Eva Cassidy & Katie Melua - What A Wonderful World (zzzzzzzzz) Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain (all down to BGT, probably stayed in public conscious for not long after) Kid Rock - All Summer Long (has anybody ever heard this since summer 2008?!) Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West ft. Sir Tom Jones & Robin Gibb - (Barry) Islands In The Stream (one joke too far, just dire) Peter Kay's Animated Allstar Band - The Official BBC Children In Need Medley (cute for about a week) Hope For Haiti - Everybody Hurts (I could barely name 5 people who were on this) Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee Disco (nobody will ever remember him for this one) Shout For England ft. Dizzee Rascal & James Cordon - Shout (YAY ITZ DA WORLD CUP... OH FFS WE'RE OUT *drops 25 places*) JLS - The Club Is Alive (came from nowhere and got left firmly in 2010) Give it a few years... Nero - Promises Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra - Don't Go Cover Drive - Twilight

I compile mine from #40 to #1 too, it makes it easier for me to rank from least favourite to favourite and I often get to my Top 3 without having decided what will be #1.

Sorry for the late reply. "Music" by John Miles is one and "Girls Girls Girls" by Sailor, I really like them both and I'd not heard of them before watching the re-runs! I'll have a think if there's more.

The 70s repeats are OK, I'm discovering new music through them but the feel of the show is very pedestrian and formal. Not the TOTP I knew and loved. I know what you mean about CD:UK, I remember 911 with "More Than A Woman", Five with "If Ya Gettin' Down" and Steps with "Love's Got A Hold On My Heart" all performing as the Saturday Chart #1 but being beaten by the Sunday. So was the Saturday Chart was based on sales up to the close of business on Friday or simply based on the actual industry midweeks and branded as a Saturday Chart for transmitting purposes?

I just generally miss a weekly music TV show, X Factor and BGT performances are all well and good but those live shows only run for a limited amount of time and only cater for the big name acts. Even XF is getting repetitive with Michael Buble and Take That making constant repeat appearances. TOTP in the 90s was magic for me, Thursday nights and even Friday nights, although Thursday was better. The move to Friday was to make way for a new weekly episode of EastEnders IIRC. I used to look forward to it immensely. They played around with the format too much, the late 2003 revamp was the first nail in the coffin then the move to BBC2 on Sunday was the final straw - I even remember one episode where Fearne interviewed the cast of X Men... seriously, on a MUSIC show?! They could bring it back easily and acts would flock to it, they used to get all the international big names back in the day because it was an institution and it was worth artists making the effort to go and perform. Nobody wants to fly over to the UK just to go on Daybreak or This Morning in front of less than a million viewers, I'm not saying TOTP would ever get XF type viewing figures these days but in its heyday it was viewed in the same regard. Acts used to dream about performing on TOTP and knew they'd made it when they did - now they all say that about XF. They'd just need to get the scheduling right (how about a Wednesday night, they could even base it around the official chart update and have Greg, Fearne etc. present?) and keep it simple and all about the music. CD:UK was brilliant between 1998-2003, the Saturday chart was excellent in the early days especially when midweeks were a lot less easy to get access to. I was always excited at the Top 10 rundown and even discovered some songs through that which I'd never heard before. I remember The Offspring and Armand Van Helden being #1 in early '99 and I was utterly gobsmacked when they were announced as #1, never heard of them! CD:UK also used to invite acts on (again especially in the early days) who would eventually miss the Top 40, such as Babylon Zoo with "All The Money's Gone". It was a risk for them because they were more pre-release based than TOTP but it made it exciting and gave people a chance to experience music that wasn't just in the Top 10 and we'd heard a hundred times before. I always loved the fact it was live and more unpredictable, like the time Kele Le Roc performed "My Love" and someone dived on stage with a huge banner knocking her mic stand over, Louis Walsh and Mel C's argument, Pete Waterman getting wound up about the death of pop music, Bob Geldof swearing... the death of CD:UK was in 2004 when they started focusing on the same acts too often with Westlife, Busted and McFly absolute overkill. Then Cat left, they shipped in lots of useless Z-List presenters (even BB's Anthony Hutton co-presented in 2005) and then came the awful revamp, Myleene and Lauren were OK but that Johnny guy was awful and the MiTracks countdown was the most ill-advised thing ever taking the whole show away from the official chart rendering it basically useless. I'm disappointed ITV killed it off in such a way and turned Saturday mornings into nothing but news, cookery shows and Formula 1. I guess we have multi-channels and YouTube to blame for all of this really <_<

Whenever Example decides to release "Changed The Way You Kiss Me" it'll go to #1, it's this year's "I'm Not Alone".

#1 all the way, she has no competition, the fake version is already doing well on iTunes, Radio 1 are behind it... plus it's an awesome tune!

I don't think this is happening. Jodie's new single is called "Bring It" featuring Tinchy Stryder.

She doesn't sing on it, that report is wrong. She just features in the video. The credit is Roger Sanchez & Far East Movement featuring Kanobby.

Steps - Love's Got A Hold On My Heart Five - If Ya Gettin' Down

Spot on post, Mark Goodier was the best host and I grew up listening to him do it. You could tell he was a true chart music fan, professional and loved the statistics which is what it's all about. The shoddiness of it today is awful, the hosts make a lot of mistakes and the show is more about reading texts and being annoying than anything else. Every song should be played in the 40 regardless of how good it is and the DJs should be impartial.

Ah for the days when we had no alternative but to patiently wait until the CD was actually in the shop! I bet record companies are kinda wishing the download had never happened.

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