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The Mercury Effect (winners edition)

2 November 2012

My previous post tracking the iTunes chart placings of the Mercury nominated artists seemed to go down pretty well. And now – as I’m sure anyone reading this knows already – we know that Alt J were the deserving winners.

So, how does winning effect your iTunes chart placing? This is all about cold, hard, sales – right?

If you go back and look at the graph on my previous post, it’s getting a bit… messy. Quite pretty, but pretty eligible. So, for your curious enjoyment, here’s just Alt J’s graph, starting yesterday morning, so it’s easy to see what effect it has (at the time of writing they’re at #2 so that’s not a bad start…):

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2 November 2012