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New chart rule on downloads may deny Morrissey his first UK #1 to Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"

posted by davidt on Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:00AM
houdini72 writes:
Due to the new chart rule that downloads count towards the UK top 40 Morrissey will miss out on his first UK number 1.

Full story at Music Week:

Crazy downloads propel Barkley to top of chart
28 March 2006 - 11:14:42

The recent change in singles chart rules concerning the inclusion of downloads continues to break new ground this week, with Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy (Warner Bros) looking on course to enter at number one, based on digital sales alone for the first time in chart history.

Early retail reports suggest the single, which gets its physical release next Monday, will deny Morrissey his first number one after comfortably outselling the Attack/Sanctuary-released You Have Killed Me yesterday.

Crazy, which has been at the top of the iTunes download chart for some time, would also have made the top three last week if digital sales had counted towards chart places that far in advance.
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Belligerent Ghoul also sends the link:

Download-only release could make number one - Drowned in Sound

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...

Gnarls Heading for UK Chart First! - MTV UK News

Crazy, but he's on the verge of a download-tastic first... Gnarls Barkley looks set to enter at number one in the UK Singles Chart on Sunday (April 2), purely on download sales, a feat never achieved before.

Barkley’s much raved about track ’Crazy’ currently leads the midweek charge, despite not actually being officially released until next week. Its current position is based purely on download sales, so if it holds on until Sunday it will be the first ever to do so. Crazy.

Giving Gnarls a run for his money though is Morrissey with his cheerfully titled new outing ’You Have Killed Me’.

Other new entries looking destined to penetrate the top 20 are the new ones from Depeche Mode, Michael Jackson (a re-release of ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’) and The Streets.
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  • Morrissey deserves a number one single! But not now. This chart is joke, no self-respecting fan surely wants morrissey at the top of a chart that highlights just how terrible the record (single) buying public has become....Remember that frog ringtone!!
    A known Vulgarian -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:18AM (#206678)
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  • Incredible, incredible, IN-CRE-DI-BULL. My cat is laughing-
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:24AM (#206687)
  • Dear God, please help me, the world is full of crashing bores.

    Meh, a number one single may not be entirely credible in this day and age, but if Morrissey wants one then he should bloody well get one.

    The downside of including downloads is that the only people silly enough to use iTunes are teenagers, who for the most part have horrendous taste in music. Hence the reason Crazy Frog got to number one as well.
    Amatis -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:29AM (#206690)
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  • The one time that Morrissey's the comfortable front-runner, only to be ousted by a new rule on download counts; how odious. 'You have killed me' indeed. Perhaps they might have 2 separate counts? It doesn't seem fair to diverge so far from the traditional method. Did Morrissey already have a number 2 spot, to look on the bright side in case the worst comes to the worst?
    goinghome -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:32AM (#206693)
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    • Re:The pits by A known Vulgarian (Score:1) Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:36AM
  • down the chart after the first 2 or 3 days, which is when the obsessives all rush out to purchase 2 copies.

    If this song was being downloaded at such a high level last week and it's already ahead of him, there's no way moz can make number 1unless his song suddenly gets a huge amount of publicity, which isn't going to happen.

    So it's probably a number 3 or 4 for moz.

    broken
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:37AM (#206702)
  • Morrissey number 1!
    Just three years ago, the prospect of him getting into the top 10 would have been unthinkable!
    Let's hope he grabs the number 2...
    J
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @11:44AM (#206709)
  • over 1800 people in a reecent poll here admitted they had downloaded the track for free. All the free MP3's have been linked on this website also. Perhaps if you paid for his downloads Morrissey would be number one?

    it only took 17,000 sales for last weeks number one, and out of the 1800 that admitted it here I am sure the real number is a lot higher.
    this site, and you the users of it only have yourselves to blame to be honest. And to say teenagers have bad taste in music is almost worse than embarrasing, Pop music is a medium mainly aimed at teenagers ffs. Which poses another question about the complainers...but I won't go there now.

    Quentin.
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @12:08PM (#206727)
  • sadly this download thing will scupper moz's first number 1 single . i work for hmv and his single is by far our best seller this week, the streets single has not done very well so far but may pick up at the weekend. why dont we all go out and buy it again and maybe .. just maybe..
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @12:31PM (#206741)
    • Re:moz no1 ? by Amatis (Score:1) Tuesday March 28 2006, @12:53PM
      • Re:moz no1 ? by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday March 28 2006, @03:34PM
        • Re:moz no1 ? by Amatis (Score:1) Tuesday March 28 2006, @03:41PM
        • which hmv? by Anonymous (Score:0) Tuesday March 28 2006, @04:00PM
          • Re:which hmv? by deaf witness (Score:1) Wednesday March 29 2006, @07:40AM
          • Re:which hmv? by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday March 29 2006, @08:23AM
  • this is his punishment for his inane canadian stunt!!!
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @12:38PM (#206749)
  • I just bought the new single. It is a great, great song. I love it. And "Human Being" is flat-out awesome. I have been a fan of The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers for years and I have to say, Morrissey's version of "Human Being" kicks the crap out of the Dolls' song. I am NOW looking forward to the new album! I haven't been this excited about a new Moz release since "Viva Hate!"
    Anonymous -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @02:49PM (#206815)
  • If there was ANY justice...

    Depeche Mode would be #1

    Morrissey would be #2

    but there ain't no justice, so it ain't gonna happen.

    Morrissey at number 3! Oh well, ho hum...
    Morrissey Sucks -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @03:23PM (#206832)
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    Morrissey Sucks (and all is well)!
    • Re:Depeche Mode by A known Vulgarian (Score:1) Tuesday March 28 2006, @10:16PM
    • Re:Depeche Mode by inlovewiththepast (Score:1) Wednesday March 29 2006, @01:08AM
  • at least on the u.s. single www.true-to-you.net is listed on the back of the single. good for julia! and i'm not being ironic. i really think that's awesome!
    VIVAMOZ <[email protected]> -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @05:22PM (#206900)
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    blame me! i didn't vote!
  • this is fucking fabulous! this is the first listen for me and it is just fabulous! these b-sides have me wondering: remember months ago when some were saying this was going to be his most "rocking" album yet? i wonder if some of the faster/harder stuff was taken off the album proper and relegated to b-sides. just a thought.


    i'm not running away
    i'm running to
    corruption of the spirit isn't in it for
    a good looking man about town

    are you afraid
    of someone alive
    are you feeling heartbroken cause you'll
    never be mistaken for a
    good looking man about town

    you got your degree
    and then you flew to mars (?)
    but you still feel wretched cause
    you'll never be naked with a (!)
    good looking man about town.

    are you afraid of someone alive
    are scared to death
    of even looking at the flesh of a
    good looking man about town

    hear the gang say:
    marry me marry me (merry?)
    hear the gang say:
    marry me marry me (merry?)
    hear the gang say:
    marry me marry me (merrry?)

    on the midnight streets
    no moon and no stars
    no one around to calm you down
    and to soften the stings to my heart

    on the midnight streets
    no moon and no stars
    no one around to come on down
    and to soften the stings to my heart

    the dream is sand in my hands
    the dream becomes sand in my hands

    two minutes and fifty-three seconds of bliss!

    VIVAMOZ <[email protected]> -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @05:46PM (#206910)
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    blame me! i didn't vote!
  • At least in pop music. I'm only a whippersnapper, but I just can't get with this download thing; I love owning cd's. I'm sure 20 years ago some people were saying the same thing about cd's compared to vinyl, but when it comes to my favourite artists, there's no way I'd just own a download. I need something solid to hold onto (insert jokes here).
    As for the chart, Moz could have done more publicity for the single, but I don't think it would have made a bit of difference, I've been hearing that Gnarls Barkley song absolutely everywhere. It's been all over Sky Sports like a rash and every teenybopper shop in town plays it at least once a day. One of my hip hop loving friends sent it via email to me around Christmas, so it's certainly had more time to circulate around the net than YHKM. Therefore, under the circumastances, I think #2 will be a brilliant position for Moz to chart, it'd be his highest position in the UK wouldn't it? Ever the outsider; slowly creeping towards the top.
    And put it this way, is Gnarls Barkley going to be charting as high with their next single? Indeed, in a few months the fickle youth of this scruffy island will have forgotten they ever existed.
    Mozzersgirl -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @12:57AM (#206978)
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    "There's more evil in the charts than in an al-Qaeda suggestion box" - Bill Bailey
  • ...its fated against him.

    Heres yet another example.

    With todays charts being so vile having a number 1 isn't the honorable achievement it once was. 'Its Chico Time' anyone?

    Its like Martin Scorsese- he'll never win a Best Director Oscar. Should he care?
    Strutting Rooster -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @02:00AM (#206990)
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  • You Have Killed Me sounds like it was put together using an algorithm of Moz's previous songs. And, after this week's anti-Canada sentiments, my buck goes to Gnarls Barkley. Crazy is a far better song then YHKM.

    I fully realize that the absence of my royalties to you, Morrissey, is unlikely to bring your net worth to its knees, but it is my small protest against this horrific ignorance towards my country (which stands at the forefront of human rights and social equality). Maybe you can recoup your losses by suing me for plagiarism?

    Sadly, after over 20 years, I am your fan no more.
    Anonymous -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @10:22AM (#207132)
  • just be nice!

    http://pymwymi.blogspot.com/
    VIVAMOZ <[email protected]> -- Wednesday March 29 2006, @10:32AM (#207137)
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    blame me! i didn't vote!
  • Charming.
    bm20950 -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @01:38PM (#206783)
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  • You, my friend, are a silly cunt.
    Amatis -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @02:35PM (#206811)
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  • ARRAY(0x55f52f4ec488)
    The Riddler -- Tuesday March 28 2006, @04:07PM (#206860)
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