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Lana Del Rey could be on course for Number 1 this Sunday

31/01/2012

 

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Lana Del Rey could be on course for her first Number 1 album this weekend.

 

The 25 year old US singer’s major label debut, Born To Die, is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 after just two days on sale. The album’s title track debuted in the Official Singles Chart Top 20 at Number 14 this past Sunday, while her debut single, Video Games, is currently at Number 20 after 15 weeks on the Official Singles Chart.

 

 

Source: OCC

 

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Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic:

 

You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday, if there is any chart info, please provide a source, so the info can be checked out first, we just have to be careful what to post on here on a Tuesday.

 

On Wednesday Radio 1 Chart Top 40 mid update will be posted with links to Radio 1 and any other chart info from MW and OCC from 4pm

 

On Thursdays there will be no mids from MW but any chart info that is found please provide a source.

 

On Friday an update from MW from 11am onwards.

 

Hopefully this will become clearer as time goes on, due to all the changes at Music Week. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.

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Midweek Charts: Del Rey boosts flagging albums market

Source: MW

15:50 | Wednesday February 1, 2012

By Paul Williams

 

Singles

 

Canadian teenager Alyssa Reid, a former contestant on her nation’s TV talent contest The Next Star On YTV, is currently leading the singles market with the newly-issued 3 Beat/AATW single Alone Again featuring Jump Smokers. It had sold around 40,000 copies up until the end of Tuesday, about 6,000 copies more than closest rival Titanium by Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta featuring Sia. Sales of Titanium are up 45% on the week as it holds at two in the midweeks while Jessie J’s Domino remains third, Global Talent/Polydor’s Cover Drive drop to four after debuting at one on last Sunday’s chart with Twilight and the Atlantic-issued Wild Ones by Flo Rida featuring Sia holds a five.

 

Sales of Island’s Gotye featuring Kimbra single Somebody That I Used To Know have almost doubled on the week to move it 7-6, while sales of J/RCA’s Pitbull featuring Chris Brown release International Love are up 28% to lift it 10-9.

 

Lower down, rock gets a much-needed boost in the singles market with Feeder’s Borders, issued through their Big Teeth label, currently showing up as a new entry at 35.

 

Albums

 

Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die has become the first big-selling new album of 2012 after taking just three days to clock up nearly 70,000 sales.

 

The newly-issued Polydor album looks an absolute certainty to top the UK artist albums chart this weekend with Official Charts Company Data showing that by the end of business on Tuesday it had outsold its nearest seven challengers combined.

 

The strong sales for the US singer-songwriter are just what the market desperately needs after Asylum/Atlantic act Ed Sheeran’s + returned to number one last Sunday with the lowest sales for a chart-topping album since September 1995, just 20,607 copies. That is less than a third what Born To Die has sold this week with four more days of business still to go.

 

Also already beating the week-end sales tally of last week’s number one is Old Dies, which is showing up as a new entry at number two for Columbia’s Leonard Cohen. With around 26,000 sales already and more than 15,000 units ahead of Sheeran’s album in third place, Cohen looks very likely to debut at two on the week’s final chart this Sunday to equal his highest-charting album in the UK, achieved by 1969’s Songs From A Room.

 

Parlophone act Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto, which was second on last Sunday’s chart, is presently in fourth place, while XL’s Adele album 21 drops 3-5.

 

As her single Domino continues to perform strongly, holding at three in the midweeks, Lava/Island Jessie J sees her album Who You Are lift 13% in sales week-on-week to rise 7-6 on the midweeks. However, the biggest percentage sales gain belongs to Chistina Perri’s Atlantic album Lovestrong, up 106% to move it 37-10. Sales of her single Jar Of Hearts are also significantly up – by 98% - after Torvill and Dean danced to it on ITV1’s Dancing On Ice last Sunday evening.

 

TV has also helped to lift sales of Arctic Monkeys’ Suck It And See after the Domino act performed on Jonathan Ross’s ITV1 show last Saturday, albeit more modestly and from a lower base. The album moves 85-64 in the midweeks with an 84% increase.

 

A handful of independent albums should debut this coming Sunday: the Southern Fried-issued Be Strong by 2 Bears; Because Music’s self-titled Django Django album; David Arnold and Michael Price’s Silver Screen-issued Sherlock – Music From Series 1; and Proper-signed Gretchen Peters’ Hello Cruel World. A new Decca Louis Armstrong retrospective is also set to arrive, while the same company’s Etta James album At Last – The Best Of is on course to move into the Top 75 following the singer’s death on January 20.

 

 

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Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Singles

 

N/E 1 Alyssa Reid feat. Jump Smokers (40k)

2 David Guetta/Sia (34k)

3 Jessie J

 

N/E 35 Feeder

 

 

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Albums

 

N/E 1 Lana Del Rey (70k)

N/E 2 Leonard Cohen (26k)

3 Ed Sheeran (11k)

 

N/E 26 2 Bears

N/E 27 Django Django

N/E 34 David Arnold and Michael Price

N/E 40 Gretchen Peters

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Midweek Charts update: Del Rey nearing 100,000 sales

10:34 | Friday February 3, 2012

Source: MW

By Paul Williams

 

Singles

Fewer than 1,000 sales separate the two main challengers to top the singles chart this weekend. Just ahead is the newly-issued 3 Beat/AATW single Alone Again by Alyssa Reid featuring Jump Smokers, but Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta featuring Sia single Titanium is fast gaining ground. Its sales are 42% up on the week and it must be fancied to overcome Alone Again by the end of the chart week.

 

Albums

Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die is on the verge of becoming the first album this year to sell more than 100,000 copies in a week in the UK as Leonard Cohen heads towards his highest-charting release in more than four decades.

 

Del Rey’s Polydor-issued album had sold around 92,000 copies up until the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company, putting it more than 60,000 sales ahead of the rest of the market.

 

With two more days of trading still to go, Born To Die’s figures for this week are already very impressive given in the first four weeks of 2012 sales of the number one album have ranged from 20,678 to 38,380 copies across an entire week.

 

The nearest album to Del Rey’s is the Columbia-issued Old Ideas by Leonard Cohen who is far enough ahead of Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed Sheeran album + in third place on midweek sales that he seems assured of debuting at two this coming Sunday. If he does it will be his highest-charting album since Songs From A Room peaked at two back in 1969.

 

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Top 40 Only

 

 

Singles

 

1 Alyssa Reid/Jump Smokers (1k ahead)

2 David Guetta/Sia

3 Gotye/Kimbra

4 Jessie J

5 Cover Drive

 

Top 10

Pitbull

10 Lana Del Rey [bTD]

 

Top 15

12 Pixie Lott

Ed Sheeran [D]

 

Top 20

Lana Del Rey [VG]

 

Top 30

Christina Perri

Birdy

Charlene Soraia

 

Top 40

R.I.O./U-Jean

James Morrisson

 

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Albums

 

1 Lana Del Rey (90k)

2 Leonard Cohen (30k)

3 Ed Sheeran

4 Adele [21]

5 Coldplay

 

Top 10

6 Jessie J

Noel Gallagher

 

Top 15

David Guetta

Christina Perri

 

Top 20

Drake

Snow Patrol

20 Adele [19]

 

Top 30

The Black Keys

Django Django

The 2 Bears

30 Rihanna [Loud]

 

Top 40

Louis Armstrong

32 Rebecca Ferguson

33 Kelly Clarkson

James Morrison

Ben Howard

 

 

NO SALES INFO

 

 

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ARTIST UPDATES

 

 

Singles

Kelly Clarkson 5+3

Olly Murs 10+6

Katy Perry 20+3

Rihanna Feat. Calvin Harris 20+9

Rihanna [YDO] 30+3

One Direction 30+7

Cher Lloyd 30+8

 

 

Albums

Bruno Mars 5+4

Florence 10+3

Amy 10+5

Rihanna [TAT] 20+1

Beyonce 20+4

Lady Gaga 20+5

Katy Perry 20+7

JLS 30+10

Top 2 albums:

 

Lana Del Rey, Leonard Cohen

 

Leonard Cohen hasn't had a top 20 album in 40 years...

But he has a current single supported by Radio 2, hype behind his comeback and Hallelujah has become a modern classic.

 

Chris Isaak reached #6 last week, can't see why Cohen couldn't do that and even better considering the relatively low sales in top 5.

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I think Titanium will have a good chance at the #1, its going to have a nice chart run :D finally peaking #1. If it gets there, it be my favourite #1 of the year so far...
SHAME MDNA :cheer: sorry MADONNA is releasing on a Fri, not going to know till sunday where charts Only good thing is low single sales may be a good sign for no1 debut :dance: :w00t: def wkend WATCH OUT SHE BACK, & BACK FOR GOOD :yahoo:

Wow, yes, that is fab :wub: Probably more excited than I should be for this album.

 

As for the single, I think it will debut low top 20 and climb to top 3 next week. Singles sales aren't THAT low at the moment, certainly not as bad as the albums.

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Lana Del Rey could be on course for Number 1 this Sunday

31/01/2012

 

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Lana Del Rey could be on course for her first Number 1 album this weekend.

 

The 25 year old US singer’s major label debut, Born To Die, is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 after just two days on sale. The album’s title track debuted in the Official Singles Chart Top 20 at Number 14 this past Sunday, while her debut single, Video Games, is currently at Number 20 after 15 weeks on the Official Singles Chart.

 

 

Source: OCC

If Del Rey is outselling the top 10 she could have sold between 40-70k in sales?
Looks fab!! I can't wait! :wub: :wub: :wub:

 

I'm comfortable believeing she'll never make an album as good as Ray of Light ever again :(

Lana Del Rey could be on course for Number 1 this Sunday

31/01/2012

 

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Lana Del Rey could be on course for her first Number 1 album this weekend.

 

The 25 year old US singer’s major label debut, Born To Die, is currently outselling the rest of the Top 10 after just two days on sale.

 

That is ambiguous - to be #1 then *by definition* she must be selling more than the other songs in the top 10.

 

If OTOH, they mean she is selling more than the rest of the top 10 *combined*, then they should have made that clear... :rolleyes:

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That is ambiguous - to be #1 then *by definition* she must be selling more than the other songs in the top 10.

 

If OTOH, they mean she is selling more than the rest of the top 10 *combined*, then they should have made that clear... :rolleyes:

They said the same thing a few weeks ago. It soon became clear that the album )or it might have been a sing, I can't remember) was not outselling the whole of the top ten put together. Therefore, they might just as well have said that it was outselling the rest of the top 1000.

Well, I would be entirely surprised if she was outselling the rest of the top 10 combined. Say the average sales for the other nine albums is about 15k by the end of the week they won't have shifted more than 5k in the first two days. Say 4k, multiplied by nine is 36k. She'll be quite frontloaded so 80-90k by the end of the week doesn't seem so outlandish.

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