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Old 08-05-2014, 20:48
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Curious...
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Old 08-05-2014, 20:56
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There was a documentary about him on BBC1 on Monday.
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Old 08-05-2014, 20:56
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Because this year's Eurovision entry for Malta sounds a lot like 'Let Me Go'

Listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi5C-lGX2Y
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Old 08-05-2014, 20:58
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There was that show on BBC1 the other night, 'When Corden Met Barlow', I'm guessing it's to do with that.
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Old 09-05-2014, 10:16
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Because this year's Eurovision entry for Malta sounds a lot like 'Let Me Go'

Listen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxi5C-lGX2Y
I'd say it's more like Mumfords Sons. So a copy of a copy really
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Old 09-05-2014, 12:16
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There was a documentary about him on BBC1 on Monday.
Definitely this. Very good it was too. I'm more curious as to why Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell is back in. Brilliant album and played to death by me when first out in 1978. But why has it suddenly charted again?
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Old 09-05-2014, 12:30
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Definitely this. Very good it was too. I'm more curious as to why Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell is back in. Brilliant album and played to death by me when first out in 1978. But why has it suddenly charted again?
I believe it was on a special 99p offer so lot's of people bought it.
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Old 09-05-2014, 13:25
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I believe it was on a special 99p offer so lot's of people bought it.
I think that would make it exempt from the album chart.
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Old 09-05-2014, 14:42
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I think that would make it exempt from the album chart.
Not really...Lily Allen had an offer for 99p of her brand new album this week and its going number one this week and that's a brand new album! Garys is six months old.
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Old 10-05-2014, 10:24
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Not really...Lily Allen had an offer for 99p of her brand new album this week and its going number one this week and that's a brand new album! Garys is six months old.
Unless rules have changed since this was published they are exempt:-

http://www.officialcharts.com/media/...hart-rules.pdf
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Old 10-05-2014, 13:13
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It was that tv show, one of Max Clifford's final piece of media manipulation (hopefully). Showing Barlow to be a great bloke who does so much for charity.

Hopefully the album drop like a brick now that "Cameron's mate" has been ordered by a judge to pay the £20 million he and his mates have stolen from the public through tax avoidance schemes.

In America he would have gone to prison. In the UK he'll probably get a knighthood as "The People's Tax Dodger".

Hopefully Cameron will rip into his Tory funder the way he did into Jimmy Carr.
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Old 10-05-2014, 14:11
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Unless rules have changed since this was published they are exempt:-

http://www.officialcharts.com/media/...hart-rules.pdf
The Official Charts Company confirmed that Lily's 99p sales would count because the minimum eligible price for an album to chart in the UK is set with the dealer, rather than the end price with the consumer.

Google may have paid more than 99p for the albums but because they sold them to the consumer for that price, the albums are still eligible to chart.
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Old 10-05-2014, 14:32
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The Official Charts Company confirmed that Lily's 99p sales would count because the minimum eligible price for an album to chart in the UK is set with the dealer, rather than the end price with the consumer.

Google may have paid more than 99p for the albums but because they sold them to the consumer for that price, the albums are still eligible to chart.
I find this rule quite confusing and does seem a little unfair as after all most us have no idea how much the album was priced with the dealer, it means you could buy an album for 99p and it counts but another for £4.99 and it doesn't. Personally, whatever price I'm paying I would like my purchase to count towards the charts.
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Old 10-05-2014, 15:10
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probably because the fans know he may need some dosh to help pay his tax bill. Sheer greed by an already multi millionaie
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Old 11-05-2014, 08:27
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Old 11-05-2014, 11:15
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probably because the fans know he may need some dosh to help pay his tax bill. Sheer greed by an already multi millionaie
Hated him and his "music" before this news broke and now find him beyond contempt. The rest of us have to pay our way, why do these rich types think they can get away with it?

The big downside is that we will be stuck with Take bloody That for years to come now as the try to pay the bill off.
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Old 11-05-2014, 12:13
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Hated him and his "music" before this news broke and now find him beyond contempt. The rest of us have to pay our way, why do these rich types think they can get away with it?

The big downside is that we will be stuck with Take bloody That for years to come now as the try to pay the bill off.
Was there any mention of the sums involved? I doubt it will make too much of an impact on them.
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Old 15-05-2014, 03:46
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The BBC show was an advertisement in disguise
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Old 15-05-2014, 11:20
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Some users here are full of pure molten hate.
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Old 15-05-2014, 12:16
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Some users here are full of pure molten hate.
And the rest are full of something else.
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