Would have to be careful with this idea, somone buying 50 copies might be seen as trying to fix the chart and could result in having the single excluded from a chart postion.
How about if Rounder recolds were to have a stall at Withdean this saturday. Could they take pre-orders and payments, then people pick it up from the shop on 3rd Jan?
Ok what happend in 2002? Only 23000 for number 1. If everyone that went to Cardiff buys 1 copy then we will be top 3, and that is before are friends from elsewhere buy one.