As previously reported on DiS, download single releases are now counted by chart compilers regardless of whether or not a physical version of the song in question is available in stores. This week, Gnarls Barkley's 'Crazy' could be the first song to reach number one before it's properly released on CD et cetera.
The song has been used to advertise Zane Lowe's radio show on BBC television channels, and is playlisted at Radio 1. According to the midweek sales information, Gnarls Barkley (the collaboration between producer Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo, pictured) is ahead of the chasing pack with only Morrissey mounting a challenge so far as new releases go. 'You Have Killed Me' is selling well enough to reach number one if download sales were not counted.
The Kooks look likely to make the top ten, too, with 'Naïve' flying out of Virgin Megastores swifter than Fearne Cotton goes through indie boys.
Should anyone be interested in the album chart, Massive Attack's Collected and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Show Your Bones are both expected to make the top ten. The recently reinvigorated Embrace are likely to stay in third place, behind X-Factor types Journey South and Andy Abraham.
Gnarls Barkley
isnt a guy...
was...
charles barkley a girl tho?
LOL
at fearne/indie reference.
Keeping Morrissey off the top
Wrong lads. Just wrong.
i dunno
Morrissey getting to number 1 would be kind of missing the point of Morrissey. Or am I over-thinking this?
Is it just me...
Or does anyone else read the name "Journey South" and immediately think of oral sex?
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Don't the rules say that the single must also be available to buy in the shops for it to count in the download stakes?
Don't that I'm complaining, it's nice to have a good song be obsessed over by the masses for once.
The rules were recently changed
So that downloads can chart, but only in the week before the physical product is released.
Oompa Loompa
does anyone else think Oompa Loompa when they look at that picture.
Here's hoping
that Moz can get to number 1!
I've not even heard this other song.
Oh, you have
You probably didn't know it, to be fair, but there's no way you could surround yourself with broadcast media in the last two or three weeks and not hear it.
Well
I've certainly not heard it in such a way that I've known what it is. And it's clearly not all that memorable, or I'd at least know of some sort of tune that I've heard everywhere.
stop
the kooks are shit the kooks are shit the kooks are shit, massive attack arnt they are boss yo!