Progress drops 1 place to number 2 in Ireland this week knocked of number 1 by rihanna.

Similar pattern in the uk this week as ireland, progress has been knocked of the uk number 1 slot by rihanna this week.

Take That scored the biggest-selling album of 2010 in the UK, beating Michael Buble into second place, the Official Charts Company has revealed.

 

The reformed pop band's first album with Robbie Williams for 15 years, Progress, sold 1.84 million copies.

 

Buble's Crazy Love sold 1.23 million, while Lady GaGa's The Fame was third with 1.05 million sales.

 

Meanwhile, Eminem and Rihanna had the year's best-selling single with their duet Love The Way You Lie.

 

That song sold 854,000 copies, narrowly beating X Factor winner Matt Cardle's debut single When We Collide, with sales of 815,000.

 

Bruno Mars was in third place with Just The Way You Are (Amazing), which sold 766,000 copies.

 

In this week's charts, Cardle stayed top of the singles rundown while Take That were pushed into second place on the album chart by Rihanna's Loud.

 

Top artist albums of 2010

 

Progress - Take That

Crazy Love - Michael Buble

The Fame - Lady Gaga

Loud - Rihanna

The Defamation of Strickland Banks - Plan B

 

Huge drop in album sales this week although I had fully expected that. What I had not expected though is Rihanna catapulting to no1! At last there will be some competition. Sales will probably increase a bit next week but they will still be low, I wonder if TT can overtake Rihanna before starting the promotion of next single. I guess it is a matter of who's popularity will fade faster.

Below 60k for Progress is a bit disappointing nevertheless... I hope they will still hit 2millions in January.

As for the flood, it has a great chart run so far I think it is going to drop just outside the top20 next week!

 

Did S.O.S chart after the performance at royal?

S.O.S made number 91 in the offical chart so the royal variety did boost it.

 

The flood i agree will drop next week but the good thing is itsonly around 4,000 sales away from topping 400,000 sales, so i think total sales will be at the least 450,000 which is impressive.

 

 

 

Edited January 2, 201114 yr by Aphrodite

I remember the days I'd have bought all of the top selling UK albums in any given year. This year I only have one of the top 5 and worse than that, one of the acts I've never even heard of :lol:

 

I'm soooooooo getting old :cry:

I was a bit like that a few years ago and even worse with singles, that the great thing about downloading set cyopu can check songs out etc especially album tracks before you purchase and on the back of it it has saved me a fortune on buying albums that are crap outside the singles, any album i buy now im happy with.

Progress is a non mover at #2 in Ireland this week, good to see its still holding on well here in Ireland aswell as the UK.

What's Number 1? Wee Daniel? :kink:

Rihanna, wee danile charts far better in the UK than Ireland.

Progress drops 1 place to #3 in the UK this week with sales of 28,831 bringing total sales to 1,869,855.

When the second single comes out I bet sales will shoot up again !!

 

I wonder what kind of video they will do for SOS :unsure: with serpents eating you up etc , makes me wonder :blink:

When the second single comes out I bet sales will shoot up again !!

 

It depends on promotion and the video I suppose. When TT released UAN as the second single it did jack-sh/t for album sales. Promotion-wise the only performance I can remember was the one on CR ... which was dead late at night and got lost in all the other action. Gary was up his arse mountain with a load of his chums working on his own profile instead of the band's. Gary Barlow was omni-present at this time but the song was discussed very little and only 10 second snaps of the video was shown. On the subject of the video ... it was was absolute pants.

 

So ... they're going to have to be right on the money with the next single. If they get it right ... they could end up with their second single actually getting to number 1 - as, like Shine did ... it WILL get a lot of non-TT/non-Robbie fans buying it.

 

Kath

It depends on promotion and the video I suppose. When TT released UAN as the second single it did jack-sh/t for album sales. Promotion-wise the only performance I can remember was the one on CR ... which was dead late at night and got lost in all the other action. Gary was up his arse mountain with a load of his chums working on his own profile instead of the band's. Gary Barlow was omni-present at this time but the song was discussed very little and only 10 second snaps of the video was shown. On the subject of the video ... it was was absolute pants.

 

So ... they're going to have to be right on the money with the next single. If they get it right ... they could end up with their second single actually getting to number 1 - as, like Shine did ... it WILL get a lot of non-TT/non-Robbie fans buying it.

 

Kath

 

 

Up all night was also performed on ant and decs saturday night take away but overall there wasnt much promotional at all and the video for up all night in my opinion was very disapointing, shame overall as for me aswell up all night by was by far the best single of the circus.

 

I cant see any of the future singles doing anything huge from progress although they should do reasonably well, the 2nd single going well could sell between 100,000 - 150,000 overall, sales for the album will sell steadily enough over the next few months and hopefully a brit win and performance will give it a nice sales boost. I wonder will they go with 3 or 4 singles of this album??? I would love progress to sell 3 million in the UK but im think around 2.6 million may be its maximum.

Yeah !!! but any vusual ideas for the video with such interesting lyrics... serpents, botox , etc B)

Rihanna, wee danile charts far better in the UK than Ireland.

 

 

Emigrants are always more obsessed.... -_-

 

#4 in Ireland this week down 2 places, and still #9 in the friday uk midweek update.

#10 in the UK this week dropping 7 places.

I will bet that sales will pick up again once KIDZ is released & also after the Brits ;)

Id be shocked if it doesnt, it has to benefit in some way.