Is this the start of the new era - internet buzz dance track goes to No1?

Before we get your comments thoughts and observations - interesting to note the online site responsible was not My Space, You Tube or Facebook but Bebo.

Also that the areas responsible seem to be Scandinavia and Dance - two well worn routes to success in the OLD model.

Who is distributing Physicals? What's the proportion of physicals to downloads?

Will the chart success make any serious media impact? I like the non story in the Sun today - Gordon Smart seems quite bright.

Crap track but then so were Eric Prydz and Crazy Frog.

Firstly, I can`t clarify this , but I do believe this may well be the first Tunecore hit.
Anyone know for sure?
Secondly, the You Tube campaign on this one was quite large for a while as well.

I do actually believe this is the actual beginning of the turn around now, there seems to be a very different air and buzz about with all the current major turmoils, rather like an independent uprising now that the walls have been weakened.

My only concern is, how long it will take for it to matter again for an event like this to happen?
It surely will need a more quality and lasting track.

This was all over Sweden last summer
And before that in the clubs
So this has been going a long time

from youtube:

HAHHHAAH OMFG, thing is, this is a a swedish artist who just have remade this lame a as song to the Usa,aus and UK version..the orginal song is called "Boten-anna", and that suck ASSSSS was played in sweden for 2 years!!

As a matter of interest...

About 9500 PHYSICALS to 25,000 Downloads - showing how even the world of DANCE has moved online.

35,000 sales in a week for the Number One chart hit. In 1965 I did far more than that in one DAY for a top five hit - seven inch vinyl then, of course.

And even in the days of more recent hits I've been involved with, like Who Let The Dogs Out and Chumbawamba, sales were far greater.

Decline decline - no wonder Guy Hands is nervous.

I hadn't even heard of this track. I'll have to check it out.

JK2006 wrote:
As a matter of interest...

About 9500 PHYSICALS to 25,000 Downloads - showing how even the world of DANCE has moved online.

35,000 sales in a week for the Number One chart hit. In 1965 I did far more than that in one DAY for a top five hit - seven inch vinyl then, of course.

And even in the days of more recent hits I've been involved with, like Who Let The Dogs Out and Chumbawamba, sales were far greater.

Decline decline - no wonder Guy Hands is nervous.

Yes, but in your day, the only way to consume the muic was to buy the record. I suspect that there may have been only 35,000 sales, but I bet it's already loaded on at least double that amount of I-Pods/MP3 players!! So, the key is to get music consumers to pay for what they consume - Can Guy Hands sort that one out?

Quite correct, it has been around a lonnnnnnnnnngg time. Yet another example of a slow burn coming through and going mainstream. There are many records out there packaged in different formats, mixes and edits and I have to say I'm not in the least bit surprised that a "dance" version has come through via the clubs and the net.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that "Don't Impress me Much" took a year to break mainstream as a radio edit of a dance mix?

There will be more of this and while I would agree that sales may not be enough to support a major corporation, smaller operations will do very well indeed.

I'm interested in another aspect. There are mountains of hit music that are never released in the UK because they are "foreign". This despite the that the German band Tokio Hotel are absolutely huge in France, Belgium and Poland - none of which speak German (and all of which were devastated by German military might twice). I have to ask: why can't the UK also sell those records? Why do the songs have to be re-recorded (hi, JK) before reaching a UK audience. If you look back to Eros Ramazoti, Mecano and even Umberto Tozzi, you are talking about multi-platinum artists in numerous countries - except one.

Yes, Michael, but they're foreign, aren't they? Yes, they were foreign everywhere they sold millions of copies.

35,000 sales of air vs 35,000 sales of vinyl

lets not forget where this is all leading and how quite staggering the download sales have a chance of becoming