The 2020 Christmas #1 'race'

santaphone said:
There's 4 versions - put them on a loop - 40 minutes, 40 streams.
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At the end of the week, 2.8 sales if you're a paid subscriber, 0.47 sales if you're not. Assuming you streamed every day.

Not that I'm saying it isn't worth it - but you're better off buying it. And I hope those who are buying it are streaming it as well.
 
santaphone said:
Oh. Well, that's that, then.

I still think Kunt going top 10 would be sufficiently newsworthy.
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It'll make seeing Christmas Day TOTP for the chart countdown (assuming they do it) worthwhile, at least. Although I assume they would just go with the sausage roll title.
 
I love the idea of 'Boris Is A Fucking CUNT' lasting FAR BEYOND Christmas, and racing to the top of the chart every single time the buffoon fucks up YET AGAIN!

It will be killing him inside if it does get to number 1 :D
 
It’s ladbaby’s craven desperation for the #1 that irks me every year. Yes the cause is good, but it really rubs me up the wrong way.

I’m especially bitter about the time he denied Ava Max :evil:
 
Surely it’s easier to just donate a couple of quid to a charity rather than do it by listening to three minutes of UTTER SHITE.
 
Frosty the Snoldi said:
Surely it’s easier to just donate a couple of quid to a charity rather than do it by listening to three minutes of UTTER SHITE.
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Or just buy a few tins and chuck them in the foodbank box at practically every supermarket.

Still, I guess that's not how it works, is it? For a lot of people who buy it, they just wouldn't donate any other way, so it serves a purpose.
 
The lolly and the ivy said:
Or just buy a few tins and chuck them in the foodbank box at practically every supermarket.

Still, I guess that's not how it works, is it? For a lot of people who buy it, they just wouldn't donate any other way, so it serves a purpose.
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This is the thing. I did an online music festival in the autumn. If I picked it up correctly, they usually have a bucket collection for the local foodbank on the doors of the actual event but, in the absence of this, they put together a compilation asking the participating artists for tracks (I happily obliged) and they put it up on Bandcamp as a fundraiser. It raised £1500, which is much more than the bucket on the door would have managed. I guess some people need to get something for their money.
 
Think I might cough up for this then. No real chance of #1 but there certainly a chance for a high enough position to cause a stink.
 
Boris Johnson is a Fucking Cunt debuts at #66 on Spotify :D

Ladbaby still not top 200.

Realistically the sales gap ain't closing, but I love that it's the one people are actually choosing to listen to.
 
Also, total streams to date for Fucking Cunt with all 3 versions combined is at 1.582 million :D

Ladbaby a mere 323,000
 
Will we get another update before Friday? If Kunt goes top 5 it's unavoidable.
 
Kunt's released another version and is now inbetween the two versions of Ladbaby on Amazon at #2.
 
Wham! overtook Mariah on Spotify streams yesterday, by less than 300 streams. Both over 903k streams.

Last year they overtook her on Christmas Day. I wonder why they suddenly climb after consistently being behind her until this late?
 
The lolly and the ivy said:
Wham! overtook Mariah on Spotify streams yesterday, by less than 300 streams. Both over 903k streams.

Last year they overtook her on Christmas Day. I wonder why they suddenly climb after consistently being behind her until this late?
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this day last year they had 630-650k streams apiece. huge climbs this year
 
Kunt lobbed up an instrumental version at the death. 7 different versions in the end. Currently at 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 on Amazon. The "dance" mix and the instrumental seem to be only on Bandcamp.
 
OMG. Mimi just absolutely decimated the record for most streams on a day on (global) Spotify with 17m yesterday. I think the previous record was 13m ish?

17.2m IIWFCIY
15.8m Last Christmas
12.2m Santa Tell Me

Kelly top 10 with Underneath the Tree (9.3m). It's all gone SILLY this year :shock:
 
and on Spotify GB

1.8m Last Christmas
1.76m IIWFCIY

The entire top 10 has over 1m!
 
The sausage roll man did it again.

  1. Don't Stop Me Eatin' - LadBaby
  2. All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey
  3. Last Christmas - Wham!
  4. This Christmas - Jess Glynne
  5. Boris Johnson Is A F**cking C**t - The Kunts
 
Elsewhere in the singles chart, an expletive-laden song about PM Boris Johnson, by an Essex synth-pop outfit (whose name we can't really mention here without losing our jobs) also made the festive top five; and was at one-point the UK's second most-downloaded song of the week.

Shitebags.
 
For albums though the story is not pretty. For the second week running (unprecedented for late December) total sales are down, standing at 2,326,141. Physical purchases, normally surging to new levels as everyone grabs discs to hand over as gifts, also slump and are down 9.15% to 853,904. Yes, these are exceptional times and with many high street shops shuttered you would expect there to be a hit. But the days of purchased music hitting record levels in the final weeks before Christmas now appear to be long behind us, unless consumer habits suddenly switch again.
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:(
 
Streaming was SO HUGE on Christmas Day that Mariah is back at #1 in the midweeks. Wham! #2.

LadBaby #64, The Kunts out of the top 100.
 
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Ed Sheeran #29, so I don't see him being the #1 many predicted, although I assume he will climb significantly. He's #1 on iTunes and #7 on Spotify.
 
I imagine that a significant number of households have no means of playing physical product any more.
 
Yeah, I think we've probably hit a tipping point of a CD not being a viable gift any more.

Also, I did notice that a lot of the bigger supermarkets have either stopped selling them altogether or have significantly downsized their selections. With the high street closed over Christmas, Amazon would pretty much be the only resource for physicals.
 
The great untold story in the collapse of music sales is the part played by the supermarkets. They came into the market squeezing prices with special offers; chart CDs that were £12.99 in HMV were £9.99 and heavily advertised as such. People starting picking up their chart albums in Morrisons or Tesco rather than a music store, which was a contributor in the demise of many smaller stores who couldn't afford to lose the "safe" sales. However, in the last 10 years, they have reduced their ranges massively. Where it once had a full top 50, my nearest Tesco now has about 7 or 8 CDs on sale, mostly cheap compilations. The margins became too small and, ultimately, they no longer attract customers.
It amazes me that, in the rush to blame Amazon and streaming for the collapse of both sales and income from music, the supermarkets - who created a price squeeze on CDs from which the format never recovered - have absolutely got away with it.
 
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