Re: Moz has apparently closed the gap on No 1, but...
Lutewhine,thanks a lot for your interesting respons!
> Just had an email from my a chart-following pal about this. Reprinted with
> her permission:
> "Moz is a lot closer to Gnarls Barkley than he was on Monday, but
> meanwhile he's actually been overtaken by Ne-Yo. Close of play yesterday,
> Ne-Yo was 200 ahead, and Sanctuary responded to this with a rabble-rousing
> email to try and get fans to buy another couple of copies each. Barkley's
> only a couple of thousand ahead now, and the gap from 3 to 1 is closing
> rapidly all the time.
> Basically, this is because Gnarls Barkley is only available on 1 format
> (download) whereas many Moz fans are buying 2 CDs + the 7" at the
> same time. There was a huge splurge on Monday and Tuesday for the Gnarls
> track, but it's slowed down dramatically. It will be number 1 by miles
> next week when it comes out on CD. The Ne-Yo track has been selling
> consistently this week - it's selling well on 12" actually - but this
> will probably peter out later in the week. HMV and Virgin Oxford Street
> both tell me that sales on Moz today have been better than Ne-Yo, so he
> may have No 2 back by the end of the day on physical sales. His downloads
> numbers are still appalling, however. He'll definitely finish the week
> with the lowest downloads figures on a top 3 single since they started
> counting in the charts. Frightening stat: at the moment, He's being
> outsold 5-1 by MC Hammer's U Can't Touch This on iTunes!
> So yeah, at the very least, Morrissey is going to get No 3. Embrace and
> Orson are close together in the battle for 4th, but are miles behind. The
> Kooks are next, and were closing the gap on Tue, but Wed sales for their
> single were way down, so 6th is probably the best they can get."
