I missed half the programme-can someone tell me a link to the complete top 50 list please?

i missed it too. saw the ads for it, completely forgot to watch it!

i know who was number 1 i think, i missed it. but my freinds watched it!

This is the list from the Channel 4 programme from Music Week (via CoolClarity). The numbers have been rounded up or down apparently. They were taken on 11 October 2005 and counted from 1 January 2000. And bear in mind that it is SALES, no other criteria.

1 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 6.3
2 COLDPLAY 6.2
3 DIDO 5.7
4 EMINEM 4.7
5 WESTLIFE 4.2
6 NORAH JONES 3.3
7 BLUE 3.3
8 ANASTACIA 3.1
9 STEREOPHONICS 2.8
10 OASIS 2.6
11 KYLIE MINOGUE 2.6
12 PINK 2.5
13 CRAIG DAVID 2.4
14 WILL YOUNG 2.4
15 SCISSOR SISTERS 2.3
16 KEANE 2.3
17 RONAN KEATING 2.3
18 U2 2.3
19 AVRIL LAVIGNE 2.2
20 S CLUB 2.2
21 BUSTED 2.2
22 RUSSELL WATSON 1.9
23 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS 1.9
24 MADONNA 1.9
25 SUGABABES 1.9
26 KATIE MELUA 1.9
27 BRITNEY SPEARS 1.8
28 DANIEL BEDINGFIELD 1.8
29 LINKIN PARK 1.8
30 ATOMIC KITTEN 1.8
31 JOSS STONE 1.8
32 MAROON 5 1.8
33 CHRISTINA AGUILERA 1.8
34 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE 1.8
35 GREEN DAY 1.8
36 BLACK EYED PEAS 1.7
37 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS 1.7
38 ROD STEWART 1.7
39 DESTINY'S CHILD 1.6
40 50 CENT 1.5
41 ALICIA KEYS 1.5
42 DANIEL O'DONNELL 1.5
43 STREETS 1.5
44 NELLY 1.5
45 TRAVIS 1.5
46 WHITE STRIPES 1.4
47 DARKNESS 1.4
48 JOOLS HOLLAND 1.4
49 NICKELBACK 1.3
50 IL DIVO 1.3

And as 'colin' pointed out on the UKHOF Forum - it excludes any albums that are Best Of's (Hence the Beatles number 1's album being omitted) and any albums released prior to 2000 (David Gray's White Ladder and Moby's Play would have appeared in the list quite highly based on JUST their post 2000 sales).

It was also pointed out that the artists to feature - Robbie Williams, Madonna, Westlife etc... all have new material out right now. How strange!!!

Cheers for printing that list out.

Doesn't really make great reading, does it....