Depends who you work for. Most labels have access to a service that allows them to see how much a record has sold, in any part of the country at any time. Thus if an artist is doing badly midweek they know to beef up the promotion.

Gary Jules.

And yes, if a song ever deserved to be Christmas No.1, it is he.

But we'd settle for the Darkness.

Music taste: contemporary classical (Gavin Bryars, Mark Anthony Turnage, George Benjamin, Andrew Keeling, Jonathan Harvey, Ligeti etc.), minimalism (Reich to Part etc.), he he he he..

Award to Sharon for getting this to no. 1.
That was the most brilliant PR stunt ever. And she kept in the papers every single day it wa on sale.
Good work.

Further Osbourne gossip...

Many years ago, in the days of Big Breakfast, a reality TV star wife called a friend of hers at ch4 and got her family on the "family of the week" section of BB. It was all made to look like the kids had written in without their parents knowledge, after this appearence the wife got a bee in her bonnet and started pestering any tv execs to do a follow up of the family.

There was no interest until much later when she struck up a *cough* friendship with a mr bigwig at MTV, she put this idea to him and agreed to do a one off, only problem was that her husband wasn't up for it. As time went on she was spending more and more money on the new house he finally relented, although he didn't know it was to be a series and not a one off. When he found out he went ape and made things as difficult as possible, when the crew would turn up he'd go to bed or dissapear or just be so abusive they couldn't use the clips.

Eventually the wife's *friend* told her unless the husband co-operated, they would have to scrap the whole thing.

She had one last trick up her sleeve...
...the only way to keep hubby in the bosom of his family was to UP his prescribed medication of which she had sole control.