Corrupt record charts screw over kids

The stage school that one of my kids goes to have recorded the AFC Telford United anthem and have been selling the single through Virgin Megastore in Telford.

It went on sale on Monday and by today they had sold over 2,500 copies - enough to put them in the national top 30 charts.

The stage school and football club have both been taking pre-orders for a couple of weeks, the single has been advertised in the local press and had daily coverage on local radio. I also advertised it on the Telford United forum and Telford Live forum and advertised internally within Capgemini - the club sponsor and the biggest employer in the town.

The board in the Virgin store in Telford shows that the single is the #1 best seller in the store.

You'd think everyone would be happy right?

Wrong.

The people who run the charts don't accept that the single has genuinely sold so many copies and have pulled it from the charts because they think it's suspicious.

Personally, I reckon they must be closet Sugababes fans because the Telford United single sold more copies in the Telford store on Monday than the new Sugababes single sold in the entire country.