Likely genuine sales figures for the christmas number 1.
At least, that's how it seems. The sales figures for the UK Christmas top twenty have been circulating, and here they are.
1 KILLING IN THE NAME RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 502672 2 THE CLIMB JOE MCELDERRY 450838 3 BAD ROMANCE LADY GAGA 61677 4 THE OFFICIAL BBC CHILDREN IN NEED MEDLEY PETER KAY'S ANIMATED ALL STAR 52605 5 STARSTRUKK 3OH3 FT KATY PERRY 40742 6 YOU KNOW ME ROBBIE WILLIAMS 38435 7 3 WORDS CHERYL COLE 36232 8 RUSSIAN ROULETTE RIHANNA 34094 9 DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' JOURNEY 33337 10 MEET ME HALFWAY BLACK EYED PEAS 32517 11 TIK TOK KESHA 26571 12 YOU ARE NOT ALONE X FACTOR FINALISTS 2009 24404 13 DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING ALICIA KEYS 23415 14 DECEMBER SONG (I DREAMED OF CHRISTMAS) GEORGE MICHAEL 22243 15 LET THE BASS KICK IN MIAMI GIRL CHUCKIE & LMFAO 21556 16 MORNING AFTER DARK TIMBALAND/NELLY FURTADO/SOSHY 19687 17 FIGHT FOR THIS LOVE CHERYL COLE 18859 18 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL 18457 19 WHATCHA SAY JASON DERULO 18278 20 LOOK FOR ME CHIPMUNK FT TALAY RILEY 17775If true, as you can see RATM have secured the #1 spot this Christmas, and by a healthy 50,000.
This is still unofficial. At the time of writing, I'm listening to Mariah Carey at #21 in the charts with "All I Want For Christmas Is You". You can monitor the countdown from this point forward and if any of the songs above is not in the correct place then the entire list is likely a little suspect. However, it has been completely right from #40-#21 thus far. Make of that what you will.
UPDATE 17:31 - Accurate up to #'18, Fairytale Of New York, thus far.
UPDATE 17:47 - Correct up to #14, December Song.
UPDATE 17:55 - X Factor finalists at #12!
UPDATE 18:15 - 100% accurate up to #8, Rihanna.
UPDATE 18:05 - Bring on the top ten. 100% accurate so far.
UPDATE 18:29 - We're all good to #5...
UPDATE 18:39 - Okay, 100% accurate up to Lady Gaga at #3. Should be Joe next...
UPDATE 18:45 - Joe is the #2, RATM are number one. The leak was 100% accurate. Thanks to everybody who took part. If you enjoyed this post, I normally write about Twitter at Twittercism.com. Cheers!
Check out that jump between positions 2 and 3.
There was much rejoicing last night :) Really surprised Simon didn't buy up a whole load of records himself just to keep his unbroken string of X Factor hits.
I do wonder how many sales it takes to normally reach number 1 at Christmas? Regardless of only coming second, I wonder if this years X Factor winner made more money than the winners in previous years?
I doubt that there's any way you can look at this chart battle without Simon Cowell coming out as a winner.
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