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By the way to correct myself looks like Robbie has some promo ( B-) ) on friday after all. (Text Santa :rolleyes:)

An exciting week for albums then! I had expected 1D to have a significant lead at this stage of the week, following their X-F performance. Robbie would have this in the bag, but appearently he has no big promo lined up for this week so it should still be very close.

Ooops, I guess I miss-counted 2! :lol: I was talking about this curious week stretched between 2013 and 2014, but I got my answer anyway.

:wacko: Seriously now, how many chart weeks remaining for 2013? Xmas week should be the last of this year. It should be so even if Saturday was January 1st, not to mention a Wednesday January 1st. Regardless what I may believe, did the week following xmas count for the current years chart before? If there is only one week remaining 1D will have to sell at least 220k to get the no1 B-) In this case 1D could even finish 3rd behind Buble's 600k. (there is little chance of that happening though) If for some bizarre reason the week after xmas still counts they still need to do 150k-70k.

I don't like it. (this is the first time I watch her sing mind you). I am not a fan of this song and I don't see any real potential in this woman. She is a good singer but no significant colour and character in her voice. And of course she lacks the rest alltogether... Impossible was definitely a billion times better. In terms of sales I can see her doing 300k.

Saturday night will count for the next week though :lol: Shame he may have to settle for a no2...

-Edit - Great for Robbie, looks like he will have one of the best selling albums of 2013! It has been a long time since his last return to no1. Normally, he should still be no1 or no2 next week too. Is there any promo lined up? (main rivals 1D have the XF B-) )

Not really :dance: (Lily is already gaining on Avicii and she has physicals on her side)

:o Leona She will be no1 in the next update by the looks of it...

I prefer Lily's song among these 3 too. "Hey brother" is a bit of an abomination certainly... "One more sleep" has grown on me (especially after the cute video) and I wouldn't mind it getting a week at no1. (perhaps next one?) It has to be the only original xmas song I can stand that has been released during the last decade or so. Other than that, my xmas playlist is usually a mix of a few classic xmas songs with Carey, Buble and Sinatra and lasts for a single week...

:cheer: Yes please!

No4 when there are 1D, Robbie , Gary and Rich&Ad around? :blink: Is she even expected to do better than Eminem's 40k? Perhaps I am underestimating her, but hell I don't even know who she is! :lol:

And guess what's the new single! http://www.robbiewilliams.com/news-blogs/d...d-15th-december 15 december release date! Ι love "Dream a little dream" :cheer:

Album sales are lower than that now. Even if sales increase for xmas, 1D have to be the most frontloaded act around right now. I would be shocked if 1D could shift 200k for 3 weeks with any album. :mellow: I do not remember the sales pattern of the previous 1D albums (?) but there is every reason to believe it is going to be even steeper this time. (huge 1st day sales, a lot of 'promo song' downloads, higher celeb status and so on). Midnight Memories needs the following sales pattern to have a shot : (220-120-160-160-50) Whereas a more likely (imo) would be: (220-120-100-80-30) Hopefully in bold for no reason. :teresa:

No. Even starting with an impressive first day 100k, 1D sales already have shown their hugely frontloaded pattern. Emeli should do over 700k untill the end of the year. If 1D sell 20k/day already on week 1 they should normaly get down to a 100k-ish 2nd week. Then, they will have 3 weeks to sell the remaining 400k to stand a chance in beating Emeli... It seems at least highly unlikely to happen. Perhaps the YTD will look like: 1. Emeli (750k) 2. Buble (550k - ish) 3. 1D, Robbie, Bruno, Rod (500k- ish) 7. Les Miserables, Eminem (450k- ish) Robbie, 1D, or even Gary Barlow could do something more, but not too much more imo.