Posted September 5, 201114 yr Ministry leads by Example 11:01 | Tuesday September 6, 2011 By Paul Williams Ministry of Sound is poised to achieve the first artist albums number one in its history this weekend thanks to Example as Pixie Lott and Saturdays are neck and neck to top the UK singles chart. Example’s newly-released album Playing In The Shadows is around 8,500 sales ahead of its nearest challenger, XL act Adele’s 21 whose sales her up 22% on the week following her performance last Saturday night on the first edition of Jonathan Ross’s new ITV1 chat show. The Example album’s very likely debut at number one on this coming Sunday’s new chart follows him entering the singles countdown at number one with Stay Awake last weekend, Ministry’s fourth singles chart-topper of the year. Joining Example and Adele in the albums top five at this stage in the week is Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta in third place with Nothing But The Beat, which debuted at two on last Sunday’s chart behind Warner Bros act Red Hot Chili Peppers’ I’m With You, which is the fourth top seller in the new chart week, while Will Young’s RCA album Echoes is fifth. Three veteran acts are looking to join Example among the Top 10 with newly-released albums, led in eighth place by EMI’s remastered version of The Beatles’ 1, which in its original form first came out in 2000. A place below, 87-year-old Doris Day could be on course for her first-ever UK Top 10 album with the Sony-issued My Heart currently in ninth place. Her current peak is 12, achieved by 20 Golden Greats in 1979. Meanwhile, Chris Rea’s new Rhino album Santo Spirito Blues is the week so far’s 10th top seller, two places ahead of Nonesuch’s Pull Up Some Dust And Sit Down, the newly-issued album by Ry Cooder. If it stays this high in the final chart this will also represent a new career peak for the US guitarist and singer-songwriter whose current best showing is 18 for The Slide Area in 1982. This coming Sunday’s new albums chart should also include new entries from Island’s The Drums, John Barrowman with a Sony best of, A&M/Octone/Polydor’s Maroon 5 and Melanie C through her own Red Girl label. On the singles chart Mercury artist Pixie Lott is seeking out her first number one, but the newly-released All About Tonight is presently only about 1,200 sales ahead of Polydor act the Saturdays’ All Fired Up, which was also released this week. A third new release, the Syco-issued Collide by Leona Lewis and Avicii, is fourth with Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera dropping a place to three and Example’s Stay Awake down from one to five. Sales of the RCA-handled Party All Night (Sleep All Day) by Sean Kingston have more than doubled on the week to lift it 10-8, while Fiction act Snow Patrol are presently a few hundred sales short of the Top 10 positions with Called Out In The Dark cropping up as a new entry at 11. The full midweek singles and albums charts are on musicweek.com. Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pixie Lott [39.6k] 2 The Saturdays [AFU] [38.4k] 3 Maroon 5/Christina [26k] 4 Leona Lewis/Avicii 5 Example Top 10 Sean Kingston Top 15 Snow Patrol Adele [sLY] Top 20 Top 30 Ms Dynamite 27 The Saturdays [Ladykiller] Rihanna (Cheers) Top 40 34 The Saturdays [i Need A Dollar] Bad Meets Evil/Bruno Mars Adele (RITD) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Example [22,273] 2 Adele (21) [13,767] 3 David Guetta [9,092] 4 Red Hot Chilli Peppers [7,699] 5 Will Young [7,106] Top 10 Adele [19] The Beatles [1] Doris Day Chris Rea Top 15 Ry Cooder Top 20 18 Lady Gaga [bTW] 19 Jessie J Top 30 The Drums John Barrowman Top 40 Maroon 5 33 Melanie C Two Door Cinema Club Foster The People NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Olly Murs/Rizzle Kicks 5+1 Ed Sheeran [YNMIDNY] 5+5 Will Young 10+4 JLS 10+6 Adele [sFTTR] 10+8 Nicole 20+7 Nicki Minaj [sB] 20+9 Beyonce 30+1 Example [CTWYKM] 30+7 Albums Joe McElderry 5+2 Beyonce 10+7 Katy Perry 20+4 Rihanna 30+4 Caro Emerald 30+8
September 5, 201114 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pixie Lott 2 The Saturdays [AFU] 3 Maroon 5/Christina 4 Leona Lewis/Avicii 5 Example Top 10 Sean Kingston Top 15 11 Snow Patrol 14 Adele [sLY] Top 30 Ms Dynamite 28 Rihanna (Cheers) Top 40 Bad Meets Evil/Bruno Mars Adele (RITD) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Example 2 Adele [21] 3 David Guetta 4 Red Hot Chili Peppers 5 Will Young Top 10 The Beatles [1] Doris Day Chris Rea Top 15 Ry Cooder Top 20 16 Lady Gaga [bTW] 19 Jessie J Top 30 John Barrowman Drums Top 40 31 Melanie C Maroon 5 Two Door Cinema Club Foster The People NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Olly Murs/Rizzle Kicks 5+1 Ed Sheeran [YNMIDNY] 5+5 Will Young 10+3 JLS 10+6 Adele [sFTTR] 10+9 Nicole 20+7 Nicki Minaj [sB] 20+9 Beyonce 10+20 Example [CTWYKM] 30+5 Katy Perry 20+20 Albums Joe McElderry 5+1 Adele [19] 4+4 Beyonce 10+7 Katy Perry 20+5 Rihanna 10+18 Caro Emerald 30+7
September 5, 201114 yr Author Thursday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pixie Lott 60.8k 2 The Saturdays [AFU] 47.4k 3 Maroon 5/Christina 45.8k 4 Leona Lewis/Avicii 5 Example Top 10 Sean Kingston Top 15 11 Snow Patrol 15 Adele [sLY] Top 30 27 Rihanna (Cheers) Ms Dynamite Top 40 Bad Meets Evil/Bruno Mars Adele (RITD) Nicki Minaj Feat. Rihanna ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Example 35k 2 Adele [21] 29.3k 3 David Guetta 16.1k 4 The Beatles [1] 14.3k 5 Joe McElderry 14.1k Top 10 Doris Day Top 15 Chris Rea John Barrowman Top 20 Ry Cooder 18 Lady Gaga [bTW] Top 30 21 Jessie J The Vaccines 29 PJ Harvey Top 40 Maroon 5 Drums 35 Melanie C Foster The People ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Olly Murs/Rizzle Kicks 5+1 Ed Sheeran [YNMIDNY] 5+5 Will Young 10+3 JLS 10+6 Adele [sFTTR] 10+9 Nicole 20+6 Nicki Minaj [sB] 20+10 Beyonce 20+12 Example [CTWYKM] 30+5 Albums Will Young 5+1 Red Hot Chili Peppers 5+2 OUCH Adele [19] 4+4 Beyonce 10+9 Katy Perry 20+6 Rihanna 20+8 Caro Emerald 30+7
September 5, 201114 yr Author Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pixie Lott 69.5k 2 Maroon 5/Christina 56.6k 3 Saturdays 53k 4 Leona Lewis/Avicii 5 Example Top 10 Sean Kingston Top 15 11 Snow Patrol 15 Adele [sLY] Top 30 27 Rihanna (Cheers) Ms Dynamite Bad Meets Evil/Bruno Mars Top 40 Nicki Minaj Feat. Rihanna ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Example 2 Adele [21] 3 David Guetta 4 Joe McElderry :o 5 Beatles [1] Top 10 Doris Day Top 15 Bruno Mars John Barrowman 13 Chris Rea Top 20 17 Lady Gaga [bTW] Vaccines Ry Cooder Top 30 22 Jessie J 25 PJ Harvey Top 40 Maroon 5 Drums 35 Melanie C Foster The People ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Olly Murs/Rizzle Kicks 5+1 Ed Sheeran [YNMIDNY] 5+5 Will Young 10+3 JLS 10+6 Adele [sFTTR] 10+9 Nicole 20+6 Nicki Minaj [sB] 20+13 Beyonce 20+11 Example [CTWYKM] 30+4 Cher Lloyd 30+9 Katy Perry 20+20 Albums Will Young 5+1 Red Hot Chili Peppers 5+2 OUCH Adele [19] 4+4 Beyonce 10+8 Rihanna 20+7 Katy Perry 20+9 Caro Emerald 30+7
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September 6, 201114 yr Maroon 5 deserve number one (the song's actually growing on me now) and I am no longer on Team Sats. Pixie will get it I think, her red or black performance was great :D Snow Patrol should be T20 this update and finish outside - same with Ms Dynamite and the T30 (although she doesn't deserve T40 at all :puke:)
September 6, 201114 yr Think today it'll be.. 1 - Sats 2 - Pixie 3 - Maroon 5 But by Sunday.. 1 - Pixie 2 - Maroon 5 3 - Sats I DON'T WANT AFU TO DO A MISSING YOU :cry: oh well. I'll get over it. Edited September 6, 201114 yr by Lewis Aloud
September 6, 201114 yr Predictions for number of pages this thread will end up at by the end of the week?
September 6, 201114 yr I'm hoping Leona will be #4 in this update and maybe officially make it to #3 by Sunday
September 6, 201114 yr Predictions for number of pages this thread will end up at by the end of the week? I think we're going to need a second one.
September 6, 201114 yr Example has posted on twitter he is #1 in the album chart. Ah, you beat me to it! I definitely think Example will provide competition for the #1 spot this week. I'm unsure whether Adele'll be back in the top 2, but with the downloading of 'Someone Like You', 'Turning Tables' and irritatingly 'Rolling in the Deep' - more people may be purchasing '21'. I think Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Will Young will still be top 5 though, with David Guetta possibly rounding off the top 5. Edited September 6, 201114 yr by SLlewellyn
September 6, 201114 yr I'm hoping Leona will be #4 in this update and maybe officially make it to #3 by Sunday She definitely won't make top 3. She's 30% behind Maroon 5 on iTunes. The top 3 will be Pixie, Sats and Maroon 5, just unsure what order Maroon 5/Sats will be!
September 6, 201114 yr I think you're spot on Lewis, I have a feeling today will be Sats-Pixie-Maroon 5, but that it'll be Pixie-Maroon 5-Sats by Sunday. I hope Pixie is No.1 today though as if Sats are it won't be by much, and I often get the feeling the artists don't understand iTunes/the charts like many of us do, and if they see themselves at No.1 they won't release they will lose that spot tomorrow. Leona has not a chance of top 3 IMO. Don't even think she's guaranteed N.4 today..
September 6, 201114 yr I hope Pixie is No.1 today though as if Sats are it won't be by much, and I often get the feeling the artists don't understand iTunes/the charts like many of us do, and if they see themselves at No.1 they won't release they will lose that spot tomorrow. Me too. It always happens for them. JCGE/Missing You were both number 1 in the midweeks so they got all excited and thought they'd done it, then come Sunday they're not. :(
September 6, 201114 yr I expect they're used to it now tbh :lol: And isn't it a bit patronising to say artists don't understand the charts? They are for use by the industry after all.
September 6, 201114 yr ...I often get the feeling the artists don't understand iTunes/the charts like many of us do... I agree, lot's of them think that the Big Top 40 show on Capital/Viking FM is the official chart! :P
September 6, 201114 yr I don't think it's patronising, obviously I don't KNOW but I'm just going from what I've seen and clearly others agree! I just think they are so busy eith the recording/performing side of it that they don't understand all the ins and outs sometimes.
September 6, 201114 yr My predictions are:- No1 Pixie, No2 Saturdays, No3 Maroon 5, No4 Example, No5 Leona However, by the end of the week I think Maroon 5 will be no2 and Saturdays no3
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