mariah carey newsMobile downloads will, for the first year ever, help determine who is number one in the pop parade on Christmas day.
The news that downloads now count as record sales has had a mixed reaction from the nation's older pop pickers who point out that this new music company practice increases the chances of older artists winning chart positions from younger acts.
Never will this more true than at Christmas time when downloads are likely to propel 'classic' songs that haven't even been released as singles into the upper reaches of the top forty.
Irish hell-raisers The Pogues are just one band taking advantage of this sales trend, their Fairytale of New York is just outside this week's top ten, while falsetto-lunged diva Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You occupies the number eight spot.
Competing with the download-only contenders will be Eva Cassidy and Katie Melua's cover of the Louis Armstrong standard What A Wonderful World which is released today, as is denim-clad rockers Status Quo's It's Christmas Time.
The novelty market will be represented by Life's A Treat by Shaun the Sheep and Theme From Fraggle Rock, both hoping to knock Leona Lewis's Bleeding Love from the coveted number one position.
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