UK chart is based on sales alone and "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" is at no. 1 on UK ITunes the whole week. Does it mean it'll be no. 1 when the UK chart is released on Sunday?

omg

It will 99% be #1
I think I prefer US charts to the UK ones

trying to listen to the song but I can't find a clean version on youtube.

And the Fandango song will be Top 20 in the UK this week? I believed it peaked at no. 11 on UK ITunes .

1 Judy Garland (Et Al.) - Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead 1.0000 1.0000 1.0000
2 Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) [feat. A*M*E] [Radio Edit] 0.7002 0.7390 0.7915

My country

Thats...funny in a bad way

The campaign to get "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead," credited to the "Wizard of Oz" Film Cast from the classic 1939 film, to No. 1 on the U.K. chart in the week of former British Prime Minister's death is now approaching critical mass. Official Charts Company data up to last night (Thursday) at midnight shows the 51-second song at No. 3 and still climbing the “midweeks.”

The track, written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg. has sold just under 29,000 units, some 12,000 behind Duke Dumont’s “Need U (100%)” (Ministry of Sound), featuring A*M*E, which entered the official chart at No. 1 last Sunday. Pink’s “Just Give Me A Reason” (RCA/Sony), featuring Nate Ruess, holds at No. 2 with 34,000 sales so far this week.

By last night it was #3 on the midweeks and the difference with the #1 song was 12.000 copies.

I still didn't get why this went #1

EDIT: Oh, I posted together with Green. Now I got it

It wasn't #1 for the whole week. But it'll go #2-#3 for sure

a flawless song from a flawless album

A lot (and I mean A LOT) of people hated what Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party did during their rule in the 1980s (cutting milk from being provided for free in schools, closing mines, privatization, utilizing the riot police for everything, her support for Aparteid and her consideration of Mandela as "just a terrorist," her hatered of feminism, the whole Hillsborough disaster debacle which even as a Scouser hater (Chelsea 4 Lyfe) I still have sympathy for Liverpool) and have been waiting for her to die.

Buy "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" is those hurt by Thatcherism's only real means of expressing their anger at her and celebrating her death. Tacky? Yes. But considering their viewpoint, perfectly understandable.

And if the BBC refuses to play it on Sunday (the day after the Hillsborough anniversary) I'll both understand and think very low of the BBC for now respecting the buyers. But they have a history of not playing protest entres (Sex Piston' "God Save The Queen" for example).

Nope, only sales count.

Judy Garland having a smash hit 44 years after she died.

I'm hoping Need U (100%) can hold on for a second week, but it's looking very likely that Ding Dong will be #1. I'm ashamed tbh. All these years after Bob The Builder and The Teletubbies manage #1 with ease (which I admittedly find amusing) and here we are in 2013 with Let's Get Ready To Rhumble and now Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead topping our chart.

The BBC has already indicated it might not play the song regardless of the place it hits in the top 40, as they do not want to take a political stance. If they decide not to air it, it's really admirable.. if they do air it, it's disgusting and a sign of bad taste tbh...

I hope BBC plays it. The public has spoken and it would be really disrespectful to the public if they don't.

The BBC would be disgusting if they chose NOT to play the song. Fearing the retaliation of politics for the public's choice in song is a mark of cowardice and disgrace. It is a shame that people feel the need to buy the song in the wake of Thatcher's death, but the fact that they feel the need to even do so in the first place speaks volumes.