Posted December 30, 201312 yr Single & Album Summary 'Timber' is set to become the first #1 of 2014, with not much movement happening in the rest of the Top 10. Expect new entries to the Top 40 from Fuse ODG and Matrix & Futurebound and a few re-entries as the gift card effect continues. Christmas is over so Robbie, Gary and 1D may all leave the Top 3 in the albums. Can Beyoncé make the #1 spot or, more importantly, finally sell more/less than 67k? Don't expect any updates this week, however normal services should resume after 6th January 2014. Please refer to the iTunes thread topic for an idea on how the singles chart will pan out. ======================================================= 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. Use Twitter and search for midweeks to find any mid info. 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- MAYBE!. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
December 30, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts: Goulding looking for second album chart-topper Source: MW by Paul Williams Ellie Goulding's Halcyon could be heading to No 1 in the UK for the first time this weekend as it capitalises on a quiet release schedule. The album originally peaked at No 2 following its release in October 2012, but climbs 6-1 in the latest midweeks with a lead of around 5,000 sales over the rest of the market, according to the Official Charts Company. If it makes it, Halycon will be her second No 1 album out of two releases following her debut Lights getting there in 2010. Halcyon, which was reissued in an expanded version in August with additional tracks including the chart-topping Burn, faces its closest competition from fellow Polydor album Since I Saw You Last by Gary Barlow. Helped by the screening of a live concert on BBC One as part of its New Year's Eve/New Year's Day programming, the album holds at 2 in the latest Sales Flashes as Beyonce's self-titled Colmbia set climbs 4-3. Robbie Williams' Island set Swings Both Ways is one of several big Christmas sellers to decline sharply in the first chart week of 2014 as it falls 1-4 on midweek sales. Similalry, Syco act One Direction slip 3-10 with Midnight Memories, which finished as the top-selling artist album of last year, Epic act Olly Murs' Right Place Right Time is down 5-13, Interscope/Polydor's Eminem falls 7-15 with The Marshall Mathers LP 2 and Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble drops 9-24 with To Be Loved and most spectacularly 8-152 with Christmas. A number of acts who appeared on Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny on BBC Two are on the rise, led by John Newman whose Island debut Tribute is up 16-6, while the same show's Rudimental are up 34-8 with the Asylum/Atlantic-issued Home as its sales improve 70%. Also benefitting from being on the show are Haim whose Polydor album Days Are Gone rises 40-14 in the week so far with sales up 37% and The Lumineers with their self-titled Decca set up 68-32 with sales increasing 27%. Virgin's Bastille are set to move back into the Top 10 with Bad Blood rising 11-5, despite its sales dropping 22% week-on-week. Also set to make Top 10 returns with sales declines are Arctic Monkeys with the Domino-issued AM up 12-7 and Positiva/PRMD's Avici with True rising 19-9. Columbia's Tom Odell is just outside the Top 10, moving 20-11. Pitbull is poised to achieve his second UK No 1 single with the RCA-handled Timber featuring Kesha having already sold more than 110,000 copies this week. His only chart-topper to date was 2011's Give Me Everything featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer. Columbia act Pharrell Williams, who achieved 2013's last No 1, is now down to 2 in the week so far with Happy, while Positiva/PRMD's Avicii holds at 3 with Hey Brother and Warner Bros's Jason Derulo is static at 4 with Trumpets. As she heads for a possible No 1 album, Polydor's Ellie Goulding is also on the rise in the singles market with How Long Will I Love You back up 7-5. Interscope/Polydor act Eminem's former No 1 The Monster with Rihanna drops 5-6 as X Factor winner Sam Bailey's own Syco-issued chart-topper Skyscraper drops 2-7. Fellow Syco act One Direction's Story Of My Life is back up 9-8, while Martin Garrix's Positiva/Virgin single Animals could be returning to the Top 10 as it climbs 13-9 in the week so far. Interscope/Polydor's OneRepublic complete the Top 10, unchanged in 10th position. There are two brand new entries within the Top 40 outside the Top 10, both 3 Beat/AATW releases. Fuse ODG registers at No 16 with Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) and Control by Matrix & Futurebound featuring Max Marshall is new at 19 in the latest midweeks. Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pitbull/ Ke$ha (110k) 2 Pharrell 3 Avicii 4 Jason Derulo 5 Ellie Goulding 6-10 8 One Direction 9 Martin Garrix 11-20 14 Avicii 16 Fuse ODG 19 Matrix & Futurebound 21-30 22 John Newman 23 Rizzle Kicks 24 Storm Queen 25 Robin Thicke/ T.I./ Pharrell 29 Bastille 30 Ed Sheeran 31-40 35 Wilkinson 37 Chase & Status/ Jacob Banks 38 Daft Punk/ Pharrell Williams ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Ellie Goulding (5k lead) 2 Gary Barlow 3 Beyonce 4 Robbie Williams 5 Bastille 6-10 6 John Newman 7 Arctic Monkeys 8 Rudimetnal 9 Avicii 10 One Direction 11-20 11 Tom Odell 12 London Grammar 14 Haim 16 Calvin Harris 18 Lorde 19 The 1975 20 Emeli Sande 21-30 21 Imagine Dragons 22 Lady Gaga 23 Kings Of Leon 25 Jake Bugg 27 Mumford & Sons 29 Daft Punk 31-40 31 Disclosure 32 The Lumineers 35 Miley Cyrus 37 Jake Bugg [Jake Bugg] 39 Tinie Tempah 40 Kodaline NO SALES INFO
December 30, 201312 yr I don't think Robbie or Gary will leave the top 3 albums. Both are discounted in Sainsburys and HMV, and Gary has his New Year's Eve bash, so I reckon he will have the No. 1 this week with some ease.
December 30, 201312 yr I know people like it and we all have our own opinions but the Pitbull track is awful, what a crap number one to start 2014 but I'm sure worse will follow over the next 12 months :) I really hope Gary Barlow can get to number one on the album chart, not that I'm a fan it would be nice to see a new album at number one!
December 30, 201312 yr I know people like it and we all have our own opinions but the Pitbull track is awful, what a crap number one to start 2014 but I'm sure worse will follow over the next 12 months :) We get it you don't have to keep on saying it all the time besides there are much worse tracks in the chart than Timber. I'm in the loving Timber group and I don't even care for either Pitbull or Kesha normally. Edited December 30, 201312 yr by Rob!
December 31, 201312 yr I'm with him, it's a terrible song and a terrible way to start the yr! Sounds so generic!!! Anyway my chart hope for 2014 is for less of a turnover at the top of the charts, the weekly turnover becomes very boring!!
December 31, 201312 yr I'd say there was less turnover with weekly #1s this year than some, lots of songs had a few weeks at #1. I'd give anything for it not to become as stale and stagnant as 2008 was, now THAT was boring.
December 31, 201312 yr I didn't mind 2008 at least the no1s were real hits but yea it was too slow. The turnover is quite quick because of the mixed up way songs are released - some are on air some are soon after premiere & others jump to no1 for a week after a long time being promoted!
December 31, 201312 yr For me that symbolises the record company's high period of chart manipulation and look what happened technologies moved on and people fled from buying music as soon as they could as record companies increased singles to an eye watering 3.99 or more and albums to £15 at times! And I know the charts have always been manipulated but it's much easier too since the 90s! Edited December 31, 201312 yr by steve201
December 31, 201312 yr Years with the most new #1's (so not including the songs that went #1 the previous year). Note: I counted The Climb with 2009; and likewise Chocolate Salty Balls with 1998. 2000: 42 2012: 36 1999: 35 2010: 34 2009: 32 2013: 30 2011: 30 2002: 30 2001: 30 1998: 30 2004: 29 2005: 28 Sorry if this is a bit off topic :P
December 31, 201312 yr I'd say there was less turnover with weekly #1s this year than some, lots of songs had a few weeks at #1. I'd give anything for it not to become as stale and stagnant as 2008 was, now THAT was boring. I agree... it's much more interesting when we have new No.1s.
December 31, 201312 yr So many number ones. We've been having a lot of #1s the past few years tbh. Not as much as in 2000 obviously, but still a lot. Most other countries have way less #1s. For example in the US there were only 11 #1s this year (and only 1 one-weeker).
December 31, 201312 yr We've been having a lot of #1s the past few years tbh. Not as much as in 2000 obviously, but still a lot. Most other countries have way less #1s. For example in the US there were only 11 #1s this year (and only 1 one-weeker). It's more appropriate in terms of number of #1s to compare to the US digital chart which had 15 #1s this year according to Wikipedia (still only half the number in the UK but more than the slowed-down Hot 100).
December 31, 201312 yr I found the chart runs of the late 90's, and early 00's quite boring, so the late 90's, was when I stopped following the chart on a regular basis. Listening to the chart countdown at the time felt a bit hollow to me, hearing mostly, "Down, Down, Down, New Entry, Down, Down, New Entry, New Entry, Down." And that was just the top 10 lol
December 31, 201312 yr Listening to the chart countdown at the time felt a bit hollow to me, hearing mostly, "Down, Down, Down, New Entry, Down, Down, New Entry, New Entry, Down." And that was just the top 10 lol dCe6e23yIT8
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