charts: and the xmas No1 is....
 

CHART TRACK UK ALL SOFTWARE (ALL PRICES)
WEEK 51 YEAR 2003 ENDING 20TH DECEMBER

1 MEDAL OF HONOR: RISING SUN / EA
2 NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERGROUND / EA
3 THE SIMPSONS: HIT & RUN / Vivendi
4 FIFA 2004 / EA
5 LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING / EA
6 TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA / Activision
7 TONY HAWK'S UNDERGROUND / Activision
8 THE SIMS: BUSTIN' OUT / EA
9 HARRY POTTER: QUIDDITCH WORLD CUP / EA
10 FINDING NEMO / THQ
11 CRASH NITRO KART / Vivendi
12 EYE TOY: PLAY / SCEE
13 PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME / Ubisoft
14 MAX PAYNE 2: THE FALL OF MAX PAYNE / Take2
15 DANCE: UK / Bigben
16 TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES / Infogrames
17 TOTAL CLUB MANAGER 2004 / EA
18 CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER: SEASON 03/04 / Eidos
19 XIII / Ubisoft
20 MARIO KART: DOUBLE DASH!! / Nintendo
21 PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 2 / Microsoft
22 PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 3 / Konami
23 GRAN TURISMO 3 / SCEE
24 TOM CLANCY'S RAINBOW SIX 3 / Ubisoft
25 WWE SMACKDOWN! HERE COMES THE PAIN / THQ
26 POP IDOL / Codemasters
27 TIGER WOODS PGA TOUR 2004 / EA
28 MANHUNT / Take2
29 CALL OF DUTY / Activision
30 SSX 3 / EA
31 TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL / Ubisoft
32 THE SIMS: MAKIN' MAGIC / EA
33 INTERNATIONAL CUE CLUB / Midas
34 CRASH BANDICOOT - WRATH OF CORTEX / Vivendi
35 MEDAL OF HONOR: FRONTLINE / EA
36 COLIN MCRAE RALLY 04 / Codemasters
37 SPYRO - ENTER THE DRAGONFLY / Vivendi
38 RUGBY 2004 / EA
39 NORTON INTERNET SECURITY 2004 / Norton
40 HARRY POTTER - CHAMBER OF SECRETS / EA

EA dominance again. Some very old games still selling very well, a lot of new games utterly failing... battlestar galactia, dredd vs death, gregory horror show, breath of fire: dragon quarter, 1080 avalanche, mario party 5, mario & luigi: superstar saga, ghosthunter, eye toy:groove, jak II, beyond good & evil and dogs life all nowhere to been seen other than gathering dust on the shelves..

Also:

Irish Top 10 Xmas Week (ChartTrack Ltd)

1 MEDAL OF HONOR: RISING SUN / EA
2 NEED FOR SPEED: UNDERGROUND / EA
3 FIFA 2004 / EA
4 LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING / EA
5 THE SIMPSONS: HIT & RUN / Vivendi
6 TRUE CRIME: STREETS OF LA / Activision
7 CRASH BANDICOOT - WRATH OF CORTEX / Vivendi
8 TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES / Infogrames
9 TONY HAWK'S UNDERGROUND / Activision
10 SPYRO - ENTER THE DRAGONFLY / Vivendi

Japan Xmas Top 10

1 GBA Rockman EXE 4 Tournament / 160,765 / 384,593
2 PS2 front mission 4 / 124,375 / 124,375
3 PS2 biohazard outbreak 81,776 / 290,393
4 PS2 Powerful Pro Baseball 10 Memorial 2003 / 80,435 / 80,435
5 GC Mario Party 5 / 80,366 / 302,532
6 PS2 GT4 "prologue" edition / 80,037 / 377,626
7 PS2 Minna no Golf 4 / 76,713 / 810,641
8 GC Naruto: Fighting Ninja Wars! / 70,207 / 182,494
9 PS2 Momotaro Dentetsu 12 / 67,126 / 161,608
10 PS2 Growlanser IV - Wayfarer of the time - (usually edition) /65,695 / 65,695

no suprises there then.

Except that Norton has dropped a lot :)

Norton always sells well because almost everyone who has a PC goes out and buys anti-virus software, through Microsoft style forced domination Norton is about all thats left so it always charts high.. (Although Ive not bought anti-virus software since the days of Solomon's Home Guard.. oops) the charts I post are the "All Software" charts so stuff like that counts..

..a lot of things like microsoft office dont make the chart all the time because they are mostly pre-loaded on PC's when bought you dont even get the disk.. business tends to buy their software pre-loaded too or in deals exempt from the chart..

Console related stuff like Datel's Action Replay and Freeloader have their own seperate charts on chart track (which i think are quarterly). Things like Focus' Driving Test range, new versions of windows and microsoft office (in the yearly back to college/uni rush) come into the charts but are quite rare.. Some edutainment stuff gets in too like the Pokemon Printer range a few years ago.. or ranges from Europress, Fasttrak, Jester's music series and Empire Interactive's E-Jay...

Also Pop Idol the game was supposedly a dead cert for no1 with ladbrokes offering oddds of 1/2. Manhunt, EyeToy Groove, Pokemon and Mario Kart were supposed to be contenders too but never got close..

Top 10 for Spain:


1) Imperivm II: La Conquista de Hispania
2) Final Fantasy Tactics
3) Mario Kart: Double Dash
4) N-Gage + Tony Hawks Pro Skater (You gotta be kidding me! :r )
5) Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
6) FIFA Football 2004
7) Top Spin
8) Yu-Gi-Oh: Duelo en Las Tinieblas
9) HARRY POTTER Y LA CAMARA SECRETA
10) Pokemon Plata (Color)

N-gage at nº4??? No way! :crazy:

Wow! I'm surprised Call of Duty is barely on there, and Knights of the Old Republic, not even that! :o

I'm surprised people are buying Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, seeing as it's not that good. I thought bad word of mouth would cause it to drop, but this is the 2nd week it's been #1 already.