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Download-only Single Becomes UK Number One

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bit-by-bit dept.

Stuart Gibson writes "As predicted, the Gnarls Barkely single 'Crazy' has reached the number one spot on the official UK charts, based solely on legal downloads. The CD version of the single will not be released until tomorrow. This is the first single to be eligible for the honour as, until last month, download sales would only be counted if the track was also available to be bought as a physical copy."

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  1. Actually, no. by neoshroom · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Oh, wait, they're actually counting downloads people *paid* for? :-)

    They aren't. Nobody paid for the download; its simply available on their website. In fact, if you go there it autoloads and plays, so you get counted toward the total.

    I call that cheating. And its driving me crazy. Driving me craaaazy.

    Hmm...needs more cowbell.

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  2. Whoever posted this didn't RTFA. by mellon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The article says that the single *might* hit the number one spot. It doesn't say it *did* hit the number one spot. The person they were quoting said "mid-week sales figures are confidential," which means to me that we don't yet know that this single has in fact topped the charts. Maybe it will, though. Not sure why we should care.