{"id":2532,"date":"2014-05-22T23:46:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2014-05-22T23:46:31","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T22:46:31","slug":"charts-18-may-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"Charts – 18 May 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Eurovision\u00a0time, as the spillover from last Saturday’s song contest feeds its way through to the chart. \u00a0If you’re wondering why none of the Eurovision songs were on\u00a0last<\/em> week’s chart, well, most\u00a0of it is because there were only a few hours of sales\u00a0between the contest itself and the cut-of period for sales. \u00a0But\u00a0another factor is that iTunes apparently failed to report sales data for last Saturday due to a technical glitch. \u00a0The chart compilers’ protocol when a retailer fails to report properly is to extrapolate from its sales\u00a0earlier in the week, but you can’t do that with records that only start selling on Saturday night, so\u2026\u00a0that’s a bunch of sales lost in the ether.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, the Eurovision songs were doing quite well in the midweeks, but pretty much nobody was still buying them by Wednesday, so their end of week performance is rather more muted. \u00a0Meanwhile, a couple of midweek releases shake things up a bit further…<\/p>\n

40. \u00a0Sanna Nielsen – “Undo”<\/strong><\/p>\n