1 GNARLS
2 NEW SHAYNE WARD... miles behind
3 MARY U2
4 ORSON... still up there; we can spot a hit (why can't others?)
5 KOOKS
6 NE YO
7(115)HARD FI
8 BLACK EYED
9 PUSSIES
10 NEW WACKO SmOOTH cRIMINAL


aLBUMS
1 new streets

7(115)HARD FIThat 7 from 115?

Yes; these days the normal "second week of downloads/first physical" move.

115 through digital sales though... and I thought digital was taking off. How many need to be sold to get to 115?

Kev asked:
"How many need to be sold to get to 115?"

At least 1 and no more than 15 I would guess


BTW, according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart
the Gorillaz reacted against the chart rule (downloads are only counted if there is also a physical releases)
last year with a limited edition of 300:

"This new chart rule was controversial and - to highlight it - Gorillaz released 300 copies of their single Feel Good Inc. on April 12 2005, a month before its general release. This allowed it to chart at 22 and remain in the top 40 for a longer period."

You see, that's the problem with downloads, you can't download the excellent yellow vinyl version of the single!!

Mind you, still playing vinyl makes me feel old sometines. My niece was over and I was playing the Gnarls Barkley 7" pic disc and she asked me what it was!! She hadn't seen a record being played before!

I was playing the Gnarls Barkley 7" pic discYou can get it as 7" picture disc?! Wow, didn't know that!

Am I right in thinking that, on downloads, MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This outsold the new Hard-Fi by something like 3-1 last week?

What a mess.

both MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice sold more than 250,000 downloads of their hits in the first 6 weeks of this year.
It's bye bye to those awful Greatest Hits albums by one hit wonders but hello to huge new sales to the iPod over 40 year olds repurchasing the hits of their youth.
The article radically affected my own approach to retail.