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BuzzJack Music Forum _ 20th Century Retro _ Will scores his 4th number 1 album.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 05:36 PM
Posted by: Roma 31st May 2015, 05:39 PM
Posted by: Sunday 31st May 2015, 05:45 PM
Yeahh
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/albums
Posted by: ros 31st May 2015, 05:49 PM
That was almost worth the agony waiting!! Well done Will!! 
Posted by: sajjadali 31st May 2015, 05:52 PM
Awwwwwww! I'm so pleased!!
So deserved. 4h Number 1 album is quite a feat. Brilliant!
Sales of 20,000 i would estimate. What's more important is how it does from here. I'd like it to go platinum at the least andit should do given a few selectively good singles.
Well done Will - i am so proud. After 13 years of supporting it's quite incredible. Off for a celebratory meal. Without the fans it wouldn't be possible. Pat on the back Youngesters!!
Posted by: happiness1 31st May 2015, 05:58 PM
🎉🎈
Posted by: munchkin 31st May 2015, 06:00 PM
Bit good innit.... so very very pleased for him
Posted by: ros 31st May 2015, 06:10 PM
I'm looking forward to new ads saying Number One album!!
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:18 PM
I hope they mention it's his 4th. Will sound impressive for his overseas promotion too.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:18 PM
I hope they mention it's his 4th. Will sound impressive for his overseas promotion too.
Posted by: suggy 31st May 2015, 06:23 PM
Well done Will! against all odds and thoroughly deserved.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:27 PM
@jimeliot
Yay no 1 album ! With my friend @will_young31
Posted by: suggy 31st May 2015, 06:30 PM
Thanks TT, I've updated forum description, well you just have to don't you? 
Posted by: ros 31st May 2015, 06:33 PM
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:34 PM
That looks brilliant suggy.
Would you like to add 85% to the album stats too?
Posted by: ros 31st May 2015, 06:37 PM
Yes and it can be on the tour adverts too!!
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:40 PM
@will_young31
Hooray hooray hooray!!!!!! Thank you everyone who has bought the album this week. Can't believe it feel such humility and pride xxx
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:44 PM
Former Pop Idol winner Will Young has topped the UK album chart with 85 Proof, his first album in four years.
The singer took the number one spot at the expense of another new release, The Vaccines' English Graffiti, which made its chart debut at two.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 06:54 PM
Lovely message.
@will_young31 oh yeah amazing!!!! ...thats awesome news brother. well deserved xxxxxx
Posted by: suggy 31st May 2015, 07:01 PM
Will YoungVerified account
@will_young31
Hooray hooray hooray!!!!!! Thank you everyone who has bought the album this week. Can't believe it feel such humility and pride xxx
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Aww I bet he's made up.
Posted by: Dianne 31st May 2015, 07:11 PM
So thrilled for him. still on cloud nine, loving reading all the wonderful tweets coming in
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 07:21 PM
And again from Karen.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 07:27 PM
I know all these reports say virtually the same thing but I'm so enjoying posting them.
By Susannah Alexander
Sunday, May 31 2015, 19:00 BST
Will Young has landed his fourth UK chart-topping album with 85% Proof.
His latest number one held off competition from The Vaccines, whose record English Graffiti had to settle for second spot.
Young previously topped the UK albums chart with From Now On (2002), Friday's Child (2003) and Echoes (2011)
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a650186/will-young-gets-his-fourth-uk-number-1-album-with-85-percent-proof.html#~peianDwwgXgyVN
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 07:52 PM
IE Music sound happy.
7:34pm - 31 May 15
Posted by: Dianne 31st May 2015, 08:01 PM
Enjoying reading them Gill
Posted by: munchkin 31st May 2015, 08:33 PM
Aw:
Rolling around the floor with happiness!! Thank you everyone who has bought the album this week. Can't believe it feel such humility and pride xxx
https://www.facebook.com/willyoung/photos/a.172660268287.122278.20154083287/10153356869373288/?type=1
Posted by: Toni 31st May 2015, 08:37 PM
Congratulations to Will! So well deserved.
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 09:37 PM
Massive massive Congrats @will_young31 100% deserved.... Brilliant brilliant album.... X
Posted by: truly talented 31st May 2015, 09:42 PM
Well done @will_young31 #1 😊
Posted by: Sunday 1st June 2015, 09:15 AM
Music week
Official Charts Analysis: Will Young's 85% Proof is 100% No.1 on sales of 21,321
Posted by: munchkin 1st June 2015, 10:25 AM
Thanks TT. Not huge but enough to get him there
Posted by: finally 1st June 2015, 11:52 AM
Great news, so pleased for him
Posted by: truly talented 2nd June 2015, 01:24 PM
From Music Week.
It is a bit of a reality check however to note that Young's sixth studio album, 85% Proof, sold far fewer copies on debut than any of his previous releases - 21,321, including 187 from streams.
Young's first album, From Now On, sold 187,350 copies when it debuted atop the chart in 2002, a tally surpassed by follow-up Friday's Child, which sold 201,900 copies on debut a year later. Young scored consecutive number two albums with Keep On on sales of 107,318 in 2005, and Let It Go on sales of 70,806 in 2008, and returned to number one with Echoes, on sales of 65,773 copies in 2011. Compilation The Hits (2009) also had a bigger opening week than 85% Proof, selling 55,967 copies as it debuted and peaked at number nine but 2013 compilation The Essential's number 15 debut was attended by a smaller sale of just 7,156 copies. Young's overall UK album sales exceed 5m, with both Friday's Child (1,713,929) and Keep On (1,006,154) selling more than a million copies.
36 year old Young co-wrote most of the songs on 85% Proof which tops the chart without the benefit of a bona-fide hit single, although Love Revolution - currently number 19 on the radio airplay chart - debuts at number 103 (4,139 sales) to become the first song from the set to dent the Top 200. He is the second reality show contestant to have four number ones, moving ahead of Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle and The X Factor's One Direction and Olly Murs - all of whom have had three number ones - to stand alongside PopStars: The Rivals graduate Cheryl Tweedy/Cole/Fernandez-Versini, who has two as a member of Girls Aloud and two more solo.
Posted by: Marguerite 2nd June 2015, 03:12 PM
I don't think any of us would claim to be over the moon with the sales figures but nothing can take away from the delight of seeing Will get that coveted number one album spot last Sunday.
Every cloud has a silver lining though and. if Will wants this album to have legs, and he says he does, then he's going to have to get out there and perform the tracks from it so people can hear it. Hopefully, there'll be more to come for us between now and the winter tour, if not , let's hope that he gets his wish to promote overseas , that really would be the icing on the cake.
Posted by: truly talented 2nd June 2015, 03:26 PM
While not great I'm actually quite pleased with those sales, given the lack of promo and support for the lead single, scant promo and a break from music for 3 years. I'd said to friends I expected in the region of 15k and top 3 position. If someone with as high a profile as Brandon Flowers and much superior promo can only manage 31k, I think Will has done jolly well.
Posted by: Roma 2nd June 2015, 08:18 PM
I agree with you completely
- except that I was thinking top 5.
The result was remarkable given the minimal promotion.
It is clear that there is plenty of residual love and affection for Will out there.
I am sure that the sales will continue to trickle in and mount up to a decent total in the long run.
Hope that you have all got the tour tickets that you want.
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