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Yes, precisely!

JLS are so overrated. Without their X Factor fame they would be nothing and no-one would care about their MOR boyband songs.

This backing music is so annoying

Bieber misses top 10 again! :)

Tik Tok must be near 400k sales now

Alicia Keys has 3 songs in the top 40

Wordshaker is #37

Yay Florence :wub:

But Echo had huge airplay from Radio 1, whereas their last song managed #26 without being playlisted by Radio 1 at all.

Unless Girls Aloud return later this year to save the day! :D

I'm surprised this has made the top 20. Still can't work out what 'Many Of Horror' is supposed to mean - much like most of Biffy's lyrics!

I like this much more than Down.

And again he says former no.1 for Jason Derulo. Get some people who actually care about the charts to host the chart show.

Jason Derulo 'former no.1' ?!?!?! He's still making these errors!!!

Me too, surprisingly.

"Last week Iyaz made it 3 weeks at no.1" "Last week Paolo Nutini made it 2 weeks at the top of the album chart" What is Reggie on??

Oh come on, be realistic! You could say that about almost any song that's ever been in the charts!

I hate things like this. Yes it's for charity blah blah blah but how much will this raise - anywhere near what Cowell and all these big artists make in 1 year? No chance. It's just another big ego trip for Cowell to try and make himself look good - and of course to promote certain x factor singers no doubt.

It's already A-listed at Radio 1 as of yesterday, which should boost it's chances.

Wow, Owl City is really storming ahead fast on iTunes, hope it's enough to get him to no.1 by Sunday, there's still 3 more days left!

Brilliant post! Although to be honest I'd beg to differ about Alexandra :P The reason for the success of JLS (only in terms of record sales) is that they are probably the most marketable act ever to come from X Factor - they're a young boyband who are loved by young girls who watch the show (and are also the main target audience for the show) who think they are 'well fit' and go hysterical at the sight of them. It makes me laugh when people say 'they've done well considering they didn't win x factor'. Epic (their label) had no hesitation in snapping them up after they were on the show, because they saw the perfect opportunity to make quick money out of them, by marketing them into a group aimed directly at those fans in every way (the cheesy songs, lyrics about girls, silly dancing and shirt-lifting etc.) to ensure they sell loads of records. And because of all of that, and their X Factor fame, all the tv shows and concerts/festivals want them on as guests to pull in viewers, and in turn JLS get promo for their songs, so it's win-win all round. It's nothing to do with their music actually being any good. I'd give them their due if they made good music, but it's nothing but MOR boyband fodder, engineered purely to sell to their fans gained from X Factor. There is nothing about JLS that makes them any better than any other manufactured boyband that has come and gone in the last 10 years - the only difference with JLS is that they had the luxury of instant fame and a huge fanbase of teenage girls handed to them on a plate by X Factor, which is why they have been manufactured into just another formulaic cheesy boyband aimed at kids - and that's why they are selling so many records. They've had it so easy it's unreal.

Come on Owl City! I hope Glee doesn't catch him up by the end of this week. Next week perhaps? I'm sick of every version of Don't Stop Believin' so I'm hoping Fireflies can overtake Iyaz by Sunday and hold Glee off too.

But the worry is that by then, new songs like JLS One Shot and Gaga/Beyonce Telephone might be up there challenging also.

I'm worried about that too. If the album version was available it would do better I reckon. Don't see why they had to shorten it - the original is less than 4 minutes long anyway.

Quite an achivement for Fireflies to get no.2 at this very early stage. Still plenty of time for it to get to no.1, won't be easy but I really hope it does.