iPod touch outsells the iPhone this Christmas

The iPod touch's breakout Christmas

Downloads grew 1000% on Christmas Day, surpassing the iPhone's for the first time

Judging from data scheduled for release Monday morning by Flurry Analytics, Apple's (AAPL) iPod touch was one of the hot gifts this holiday season. "It appears that an influx of new iPod Touch devices has flooded the market over Christmas," Flurry reports, "and that users of the handset, primarily pre-teen and teen audiences, are voracious downloaders."

In the chart above, iPhone downloads on Christmas Day are set at 1 to show relative growth. As Flurry reports, the data show:



App Store downloads on the iPod touch exceeded the iPhone's for the first time, eclipsing iPhone downloads by 172%.
iPod touch 3G downloads increased by more than 900% on Dec. 25, compared with the average of all previous Fridays in December.

Total iPod touch downloads (all generations) jumped by more than 1000% on Christmas Day, suggesting that iTunes gift-card giving may have helped drive downloads to older-generation iPod touches, as well as to the new 3G models found under the tree that morning.



Downloads from phones powered by Google (GOOG) Android also popped on Christmas Day, but their growth trailed behind Apple's by a significant margin.

Motorola's (MOT) Droid led the way, with nearly 49% of the Christmas download share. Droid app downloads increased 93% on Dec. 25 over previous Fridays in December.

Overall, however, Apple's App Store download volume was 13 times greater than downloads from all Android phones.

Source: CNN

This years big album sellers

For all you number crunchers out there, here is a list of some of this years biggest selling albums

1,576,982 Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream
1,332,805 Lady Gaga - The Fame
1,153,065 Michael Buble - Crazy Love
1,084,566 Beyonce - I Am.... Sasha Fierce (sales up to Dec 20th)
1,049,899 Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
943,860 JLS - JLS
752,377 Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up
728,189 Robbie Williams - Reality Killed The Video Star
608,127 Cheryl Cole - 3 Words
548,569 Leona Lewis - Echo
538,561 Snow Patrol - Up To Now
524,186 Queen- Absolute Greatest
414,450 Take That - Circus Live
412,607 Will Young - The Hits
411,378 Westlife - Where We Are

2,199,509 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night - sales combined from 2008 and 2009 (over a million copies sold in 2009)

This weeks top albums

In something of a surprising uprising in recent weeks, Michael Buble has managed to topple the juggernaut that is Susan Boyle to claim this weeks No.1 album, with close to 1/4 million album sales. Michael has now firmly cemented himself as the artist that all mum's and grans love and youngsters too, replacing the previous owners of the title Westlife who still managed to sell over 80,000 copies of their album this week.

Here is a list of the Top 20 albums as well as their sales.

1) 243226 Michael Buble
2) 234651 Susan Boyle
3) 148676 The Black Eyed Peas
4) 143252 Lady Gaga
5) 108999 JLS
6) 102283 Robbie Williams
7) 102083 Take That
8) 93946 Snow Patrol
9) 84831 Will Young
10) 84754 Cheryl Cole
11) 81016 Westlife
12) 76724 Leona Lewis
13) 75988 Rod Stewart
14) 75874 Queen
15) 72047 Paolo Nutini
16) 56858 Michael Jackson
17) 52703 Alicia Keys
18) 48649 Rihanna
19) 47292 N-Dubz
20) 46709 Soldiers

Hits Daily Double Project Sales for Billboard 200

Susan Boyle has for the 4th consecutive week in a row secured the No.1 spot on the Billboard 200 Album charts, with projected figures of over 650,000 copies sold in the past week, bringing her 4 week US total to nearly 2.5 million copies and nearly 5 million copies worldwide in the last month. An astonishing feat by any means. Also making debuts on the chart are Alicia Key's with her 4th studio album "Elements of Freedom" bring in sales of over 400,000 and Robin Thicke at No.9 with his album Sex Therapy.

Michael Buble's crosses the 1 million sales mark in the US this week, with nearly 150,000 copies sold, and the album looks a dead cert to claim the No.1 album in the UK this weekend by also reaching 1 million copies, and dethrowning Susan Boyle and marking his status in the UK as the biggest selling male of 2009.


1 1 SUSAN BOYLE COLUMBIA 659,382 +13% I DREAMED A DREAM
-- 2 ALICIA KEYS J RECORDS 405,762 --ELEMENT OF FREEDOM
2 3 ANDREA BOCELLI DECCA 384,928 -2% MY CHRISTMAS
4 4 TAYLOR SWIFT BIG MACHINE 230,045 +39% FEARLESS
5 5 CARRIE UNDERWOOD 19/ARISTA 159,423 +44% PLAY ON
-- 6 MICHAEL BUBLE REPRISE 149,437 -- CRAZY LOVE
7 7 LADY GAGA INTERSCOPE 135,045 +32% FAME
8 8 JUSTIN BIEBER ISLAND 130,012 +28% MY WORLD
-- 9 ROBIN THICKE STAR TRAK 120,018 --SEX THERAPY
12 10 MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC 115,086 +41% THIS IS IT

The race is now well and truly on to see if the Boyle can become the biggest selling album of the year, which is currently being held by Taylor Swift and with her sales increasing this week it looks like it will be a fight all the way to the end. Current figures are:

Susan Boyle 2,465,000
Taylor Swift 2,933,000

Who will win? Taylor swifts margin seems to big to catch but if Susan posts another 2 weeks above 500,000 and Taylor around 250,000 then Susan may just sneak it but a whisker....

Billboard Top 50 Digital Songs - December 23rd

BILLBOARD HOT DIGITAL SONGS - TOP 50

Black Eyed Peas this week manage to get a 2nd single over 4 million digital sales with "I Gotta Feeling" and Kesha climbs to the top of the digital sales and looks a dead cert to get the Christmas No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 tomorrow. Other notable artists include debuts from Eminem at No.12 and No.31 and Alicia Keys at No.26 with her interpretation of her current No.3 digital sales song Empire State of Mind, which is at No.3 on the digital songs chart.

2 1 KE$HA TIK TOK 221493 22 181834 1438285
1 2 LADY GAGA BAD ROMANCE 169886 -7 182527 1348555
3 3 JAY-Z + ALICIA KEYS EMPIRE STATE OF MIND 147699 8 136720 1945231
4 4 IYAZ REPLAY 129464 24 104490 1602277
5 5 OWL CITY FIREFLIES 114365 12 102058 2047970
12 6 SEAN*JAY FEAT. LIL WAYNE DOWN 95192 59 59752 2518981
7 7 BLACK EYED PEAS MEET ME HALFWAY 88717 -3 91398 1218258
8 8 GUETTA*DAVID FEAT. AKON SEXY CHICK 87678 1 86959 1258556
9 9 DERULO*JASON WHATCHA SAY 86885 11 78443 2211121
6 10 LUDACRIS HOW LOW 83248 -11 93120 176368
10 11 YOUNG MONEY FEAT. LLOYD BEDROCK 76929 17 65572 239828
-- 12 EMINEM FEAT. DR. DRE HELL BREAKS LOOSE 74331 999 0 74331
15 13 SEAN*JAY FEAT. SEAN PAUL & LIL DO YOU REMEMBER 64074 15 55679 351602
13 14 CYRUS*MILEY PARTY IN THE U.S.A. 61637 8 56870 2697285
11 15 SPEARS*BRITNEY 3 61404 -5 64975 1278548
22 16 RIHANNA FEAT. YOUNG JEEZY HARD 61212 35 45285 232509
16 17 BLACK EYED PEAS I GOTTA FEELING 58452 5 55664 4044882
19 18 BROWN*CHRIS FEAT. LIL WAYNE & I CAN TRANSFORM YA 56935 21 47093 569711
14 19 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW 52325 -8 56835 1058432
25 20 BOYS LIKE GIRLS FEAT TAYLOR SW TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE 52320 25 41839 401449
21 21 DRAKE, KANYE WEST, LIL WAYNE & FOREVER 50698 11 45631 1002385
30 22 TRAIN HEY, SOUL SISTER 50469 47 34267 470930
61 23 KEYS*ALICIA TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEA 50442 139 21129 164951
17 24 CAREY*MARIAH ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YO 48386 -11 54142 1492173
20 25 LADY GAGA PAPARAZZI 48185 3 46712 1543841
-- 26 KEYS*ALICIA EMPIRE STATE OF MIND (PART II) 42836 999 0 42836
27 27 CASCADA EVACUATE THE DANCEFLOOR 40983 12 36475 760586
28 28 ALLEN*KRIS LIVE LIKE WE'RE DYING 40355 14 35553 290216
34 29 CLARKSON*KELLY ALREADY GONE 38575 18 32608 918287
37 30 LADY GAGA FEAT. BEYONCE TELEPHONE 36778 18 31073 169862
-- 31 EMINEM ELEVATOR 36246 999 0 36246
39 32 NEW BOYZ FEAT. RAY J TIE ME DOWN 34539 16 29672 290888
26 33 SHAKIRA FEAT. LIL WAYNE GIVE IT UP TO ME 33969 -7 36625 228237
38 34 BIEBER*JUSTIN ONE TIME 33747 9 30951 1115310
32 35 RIHANNA RUSSIAN ROULETTE 33054 -2 33567 494727
36 36 UNDERWOOD*CARRIE COWBOY CASANOVA 32840 3 31919 708766
59 37 MUSE UPRISING 32016 47 21830 459603
44 38 SWIFT*TAYLOR YOU BELONG WITH ME 31083 10 28279 2530208
48 39 BIRDMAN FEAT. LIL WAYNE & DRAK MONEY TO BLOW 30938 18 26209 352791
40 40 BEYONCE SWEET DREAMS 30696 4 29500 991845
42 41 JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST RUN THIS TOWN 30399 6 28745 1835396
43 42 BLACK EYED PEAS BOOM BOOM POW 29657 3 28686 4544087
66 43 ORIANTHI ACCORDING TO YOU 29472 47 20000 88041
18 44 TIMBALAND FEAT. JUSTIN TIMBERL CARRY OUT 27660 -45 50077 102254
52 45 SWIFT*TAYLOR FIFTEEN 26936 11 24251 546084
46 46 LADY GAGA POKER FACE 26902 2 26396 4374716
51 47 KINGS OF LEON USE SOMEBODY 26430 7 24675 2619677
49 48 SNOOP DOGG FEAT. THE-DREAM GANGSTA LUV 25542 2 25048 202368
45 49 GUCCI MANE FEAT. USHER SPOTLIGHT 25277 -7 27038 142532
57 50 BEYONCE SINGLE LADIES (PUT A RING ON I 24966 11 22552 3368803

Nexus One (aka Google Phone) video run through

Here is a 5 minute video run through of one of the most talked about phones in the last 6 months.



It looks extremely promising and as long as it can host emails from other domains than gmail and google wave, then my decision over the iPhone and Blackberry is made.

With a release date scheduled for January 5th, hopefully I will be getting a belated Chrimbo pressie from Santa!!!! Eyes crossed hey!

One for all the girls - Sex In City 2 trailer

Here is the trailer for what is set to be one of the most anticipated films of 2010.



Unfortunately the trailer doesn't reveal much of the storyline, but with more trailers due in the new year in the lead up to the film, it looks like SITC 2 may actually be bigger than the first film!

Rage Against The Machine secure Christmas No.1

After the massive backlash about X Factor's dominance over the Christmas No.1's in recent years, the facebook group that was set up to challenge the Christmas No.1 has been successful. The song chosen to challenge Joe's "The Climb" was Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name". The final figures were 502,600 to Rage Against The Machine's "Killing In The Name" and 450,800 to Joe McElderry's "The Climb".

Rage against the machine pulled an early lead at the start of the week, but it was feared that Joe would pull ahead when the physical single was released this Wednesday (RATM didn't have a physical single available for release). With close midweek figures on Friday's midweeks, it was thought that Joe would pull away come Sundays official announcement, but with all the press coverage garnered from the facebook campaign, the British public rallied behind the campaign and ensured that RATM secured the coverted No.1 spot (full breakdown of day by day sales figures at the bottom).

Here are the video's for each song as well as an amazing mash-up of "Killing In The Name" to X Factor clips.

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name



Joe McElderry - The Climb



Parody of Killing in the Name with X Factor clips



Below is a list of sales figures for each day, along with the final figures:

Tuesday Midweeks
1 Rage Against The Machine 83k
2 Joe McElderry 77k

Wednesday Midweeks
No data released

Thursday Midweeks
1 Rage Against The Machine 253k
2 Joe McElderry 216k

Friday Midweeks
01 Rage Against The Machine 306,115
02 Joe McElderry 297,192

Final Figures
01 Rage Against The Machine 502,600
02 Joe McEldery 450,800

I Got You - Leona Lewis

The second single to be released from Leona's album Echo is "I Got You" and is to be serviced to airwaves worldwide this week.

I GOT YOU - LEONA LEWIS



She also has a couple of other songs that have been tied in with two of the biggest releases in the coming weeks.

She will be singing the main song for the most anticipated film of the year Avatar called "I See You" an exclusive track that is not on the Echo album, as well as her song "My Hands" being featured on the latest Final Fantasy release. So no matter where you go or look, Leona's music will be there, on the radio, at the cinema and on computer consoles.

I SEE YOU - LEONA LEWIS

Vevo - New Music Video Platform launched today

It’s December 8th, the day we finally get to see 2 very well kept secrets: Vevo and Bada. Vevo, is a new music service by Google, YouTube, and Sony in partnership with Universal Music Group. Back in November, we reported that the official Vevo account on Twitter sent out the following tweet:
“VEVO is launching the night of Tues, Dec 8th. Get ready!!”
The music service has further confirmed it’s big launch tonight with new tweets responding to questions by its followers.

Bada, on the other hand, is Samsung’svery own mobile platform, which is expected to be unveiled today. At the end of last month, Samsung announced it would be unveiling the OS at a press conference in London, where Samsung’s EVP and Head of Media Solution Center, Dr. HS Lee will be speaking along with the Head of Mobile at Twitter, Kevin Thau.

Cutest Cat ever!

Mariah Carey UK tour Spring 2010

Mariah Carey has already started to announce dates in the US for her "Angels Cry" tour including a NYE show at Madison Square Gardens in NYC and Jacadimus' World can exclusively reveal to you that the tour will be working its way to England in 2010.

Dates at the moment are just being tied up with tentative dates booked in for the end of Spring (April/May) and back-up dates in October dependent on scheduling and routing for the tour in the rest of the world.

Tickets are currently being set at the price of 60GBP, which considering the prices a lot of the artists have been charging recently is definitely value for money! An official announcement is scheduled soon, with tickets planning to go on sale just before Christmas.

A stocking filler for all you lambs out there if ever there was one.

Jay Z's take on Tiger Wood's affair scandal

If you having girl problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one

Susan Boyle - Breaking Records

The scottish lass is a force to be reckoned with as her album in its second week on the UK charts once again hits the top spot selling a whopping 303,708 copies this week, bringing its 2 week total to 715,528!!!!

She is on course to get the record for the fastest selling debut record to sell a million copies. That title is currently held by another reality artist, Leona Lewis who managed the feat in just under 4 weeks, though Susan looks likely to achieve this in around 21 days.

A true hollywood story if ever there was one, Susan Boyle should be an inspiration to everyone and definitely has proved to a lot of people that you should never judge a book by its cover!

Top 40 Selling Songs of the Decade

Below are the Top 40 biggest selling songs of this decade - an updated list will be published once this year is out.

Unsurprisingly, the top 10 records are full of reality contestants, with 5 of the 10 records in the Top 10 being from Talent Competitions such as X Factor and Pop Stars.

It is also refreshing to see that in the last 12 months, we have had a couple of artists rapidly approach the 1 million mark who aren't from a reality show, proving that the industry is still alive and capable of producing big selling singles (Kings Of Leon and Lady Gaga)

However this decade's title goes to Will Young the winner of the first Pop Idol show with his debut single "Evergreen/Anything Is Possible"

Below is a list of the Top 40 singles of the decade with their respective sales.


1. Will Young - Evergreen/Anything Is Possible 1,795,000
2. Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody 1,400,000
3. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me 1,200,000
4. Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah 1,161,650
5. Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas 1,150,000
6. Tony Christie - Is This The Way To Amarillo 1,137,000 (1,197,000)
7. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head 1,104,000
8. Shayne Ward - That's My Goal 1,100,000
9. Hear'Say - Pure & Simple 1,080,000
10. Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It 1,010,000

11. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love 971,500
12. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 970,000
13. Atomic Kitten - Whole Again 965,000
14. Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire 865,705
15. Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This 862,000
16. Lady GaGa – Poker Face 848,580
17. Enrique Iglesias - Hero 835,000
18. X Factor Finalists – Hero 802,000
19. DJ Otzi - Hey Baby 776,000
20. Eminem ft Dido - Stan 772,000

21. Westlife - Uptown Girl 768,000
22. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling 762,790
23. Lady GaGa – Just Dance 749,115
24. S Club7 - Don't Stop Moving 742,000
25. All Saints - Pure Shores 721,000
26. Nelly & Kelly Rowland - Dilemma 710,000
27. Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out 707,000
28. Elvis vs JXL - A Little Less Conversation 700,000
29. Take That - Rule The World 686,925
30. Kings of Leon – Use Somebody 681,310

31. Rihanna - Umbrella 670,000
32. La Roux – In For The Kill 651,225
33. Sonique - Feels So Good 650,000
34. Black Eyed Peas - Where Is The Love 641,500
35. Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 635,000
36. James Blunt - You're Beautiful 635,000
37. Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love 632,090
38. Shakira - Whenever Wherever 631,000
39. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True 630,000
40. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ 629,000

Song Of The Day - Alicia Keys and Beyonce 'Put It In A Love Song"

Got smash hit written all over this song, surefire hit for the number one spot when it eventually gets released as a single.

Loving the retro vibe this song has.

X Factor this week

Who do you think was the best performer this week?

Though many people have criticized his performance, Danyl's vocal performance on Man In The Mirror was my highlight of the show, the first verse and chorus were shockingly bad, but the last 45 seconds were better than the rest of the performances, even if it didn't match up to my favourite Jackson song...






The other highlight of the show for me was Stacey's 'Somehow, Someday, Somewhere", though she messed up the last note, she still knocked it out the park.









The person I think that will be going home this week is Olly, I always thought he was gonna win the show, but now he is definitely the weakest of the three, his dance moves this week were ridiculous and just embarassing and his vocals were sub par.

Thought of the day

Life is too short, and we spend so much time trying to seek approval in others that we will never get. So rather than strive to get that approval which will never come, focus your energies on the things in life that will make a difference, your dreams, your true friends and other important factors.