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  1. June 06, 2011 12:00 #1
    londoncalling

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    as the last of this year's songs leave the charts, here's a round up of their performances...
    The following countries songs topped their domestic singles charts: Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, Iceland, Holland, Hungary (airplay), These reached #2: Germany, Denmark; these #3: Estonia, Switzerland. Other top tens were Italy (8), Austria (9),Finland (6), Latvia (8), Slovenia (4), Bulgaria (3)... Spain, Slovakia and the UK went top 20 (19, 18 and 16), France #33, Belgium #50 (Wallonia only).

    The Azerbaijani winner didn't do too well: #61 in UK, #8 in Iceland, #11 in Switzerland, #59 Holland, #41 Ireland, #22 Austria, #37 Belgium (Flanders), #8 in Greece, #33 in Germany.

    One of the biggest hits was Jedward (#1 in Ireland, #3 Austria, #40 UK, #11 Sweden, #84 Holland, #22 Finland, #12 Germany, #28 Switzerland.)

    Blue did better in the German speaking countries than at home (#7 Germany, #8 in Switzerland and Austria)

    The 2011 compilation went top 5 in virtually every Western European country's compilation chart (incl. the UK for the first time), The only places it didn't sell at all being Italy and France). It even went top 10 in Australia.
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  2. June 06, 2011 20:02 #2
    MadeInHeaven

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    Surprised Jedward didn't do better in Sweden. Didn't I hear something about it being the biggest seller of the year there? I either dreamt that, or it's fallen foul of the freaky Swedish chart system...
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  3. June 06, 2011 23:50 #3
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    Originally Posted by MadeInHeaven
    Surprised Jedward didn't do better in Sweden. Didn't I hear something about it being the biggest seller of the year there? I either dreamt that, or it's fallen foul of the freaky Swedish chart system...
    Some sky high sales figure for Jedward in Sweden did the rounds until it became clear the decimal point was in the wrong place!
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  4. June 08, 2011 21:17 #4
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    Although wikipedia says Dana's Ding Dong went to #1 in Israel, I do know it at least got to #10 there. It was an iTunes top 200 smash in one of the Scandinavian countries, but I'd need to find the site I seen that information on again.
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  5. June 10, 2011 00:29 #5
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    Originally Posted by MadeInHeaven
    Surprised Jedward didn't do better in Sweden. Didn't I hear something about it being the biggest seller of the year there? I either dreamt that, or it's fallen foul of the freaky Swedish chart system...
    I think it is! It's just that the Swedish chart is mainly made up of Spotify streams nowadays. If it was just sales, I'm sure would've gone #1!
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  6. August 28, 2011 18:12 #6
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    Originally Posted by Undisco_Me
    Although wikipedia says Dana's Ding Dong went to #1 in Israel, I do know it at least got to #10 there. It was an iTunes top 200 smash in one of the Scandinavian countries, but I'd need to find the site I seen that information on again.
    The highest it got in Sweden was #48...

    http://www.music-chart.info/Sweden/a.../2011/05/13#48
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  7. August 28, 2011 18:16 #7
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    Originally Posted by popknark
    Originally Posted by MadeInHeaven
    Surprised Jedward didn't do better in Sweden. Didn't I hear something about it being the biggest seller of the year there? I either dreamt that, or it's fallen foul of the freaky Swedish chart system...
    I think it is! It's just that the Swedish chart is mainly made up of Spotify streams nowadays. If it was just sales, I'm sure would've gone #1!
    Jedward got to #1 on iTunes in:

    Sweden: http://www.music-chart.info/Sweden/a...0/2011/05/17#1
    Germany: http://www.music-chart.info/Germany/...0/2011/05/21#1
    Austria: http://www.music-chart.info/Austria/...0/2011/05/21#1

    And of course Ireland: http://www.music-chart.info/Ireland/...0/2011/05/19#1
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  8. August 28, 2011 19:05 #8
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    What we didn't know at the time was that iTunes wasn't counted in the official Swedish singles chart (and still isn't), which explains why Jedward didn't reach the top 10. After all they did amazingly well on iTunes for a couple of weeks, and iTunes is Sweden's biggest digital music store.

    Apparently Apple is pissed off because Spotify streams are counted in the Swedish charts, which is why they refuse to give them information about sales.
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  9. August 28, 2011 19:35 #9
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    And Apple is quite right!
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  10. August 31, 2011 07:35 #10
    MadeInHeaven

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    Originally Posted by popknark
    iTunes is Sweden's biggest digital music store.
    That's where Swedish people buy their music and yet it doesn't count towards the Swedish chart?

    That's like film box office charts not looking at cinema attendance, but at who caught a movie on television.
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  11. September 01, 2011 13:01 #11
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    What the fuck is wrong with Apple? They're not an official chart company worldwide, just a high selling online service for music that should accept that there is competition out there in the current market. Non-sensical greedy shit like this is what is preventing us for having representative charts in some particular countries around the world.
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