October 26, 201114 yr So Coldplay should be at about 220-250k in total for this week. I predicted 200-225k for them, so I wasn't that far off.
October 26, 201114 yr Has Ben Howard appeared anywhere recently? His chart run so far is 7-35-49 so seems slightly odd to have gone up 10 places....
October 26, 201114 yr 27.5k is great Tuesday sales for Coldplay - put it this way, they sold over a quarter of their first day sales which included all their (record-breaking) pre-orders and a good chunk of their fanbase. I was expecting it to sell less today if we got sales figures at all. I still think they could be heading for 250k+ but really even another 200k+ opening is fantastic given the sales climate of 2011. Princess Of China in the top 40 and Paradise still at #12 :cheer: Also great to see Lego House up a place today, I wouldn't mind that overtaking Paradise but hopefully Paradise will stay at least as high as #13. Would have liked to see an update on Green and Labrinth's sales today but meh, at least we got a Coldplay update. Edited October 27, 201114 yr by Bré
October 26, 201114 yr Hang in there Kelly! :D (Overtaking Michael would be rather nice, though! :wub:)
October 26, 201114 yr Disappointing that Coldplay won't get close to 300k but very good sales nonetheless.
October 26, 201114 yr Hooray for Buble !!! Although it seems strange to have a Christmas album still in October
October 26, 201114 yr Has Ben Howard appeared anywhere recently? His chart run so far is 7-35-49 so seems slightly odd to have gone up 10 places.... You're clearly forgetting the effect of my thread in the Alternative section.
October 26, 201114 yr You're clearly forgetting the effect of my thread in the Alternative section. And my support. This must have accounted for about a 5 place rise! As for Coldplay, I doubt they will hot a million quickly with this album - VLVetc barely managed it but I am well pleased with the projected 200k sales for the week though.
October 26, 201114 yr Great sales for Coldplay. But TT's Progress had about 235k in first day last year and it's principal question for rivals between UK bands =) Agreed, Coldplay's first week sales won't come near the first day sales that Take That has with Progress. The only act that could match or better 235k in one day would be Take That themselves when they release their 7th studio album. 160K, i'd think more 190-200? With weds, thurs, fri and saturday sales. Its going to sell well over 30,000 in the space of 4 days.. And I don't know, they won't make 200k, maybe 180k at a push but as Jez has posted (see below), 2nd day sales are already down to just over 25k from 95k. And MB will go number 1 after his X factor performance and itv special. he will end up selling over a 1.5m before xmas good sales for coldplay 122k after two days... probably end up with 200k-230k by the end of the week. sales have slowed down obviously as first day sales had huge pre-orders. 1st day 95k 2nd day 27.5k
October 26, 201114 yr MX's first day sales included at least 6 weeks of pre-orders (maybe even more, it was 6 weeks from iTunes but may have been available even earlier from other sources) and probably a good chunk of their core fanbase that didn't pre-order. It was obviously going to tail off by a lot on its second day, it's not exactly going to nearly quarter again tomorrow. It'll definitely do 200k and I don't think 250k is out of the picture yet. Does anyone know if Coldplay have any promo lined up for this week? Edited October 26, 201114 yr by Bré
October 26, 201114 yr Agreed, Coldplay's first week sales won't come near the first day sales that Take That has with Progress. The only act that could match or better 235k in one day would be Take That themselves when they release their 7th studio album. And I don't know, they won't make 200k, maybe 180k at a push but as Jez has posted (see below), 2nd day sales are already down to just over 25k from 95k. And MB will go number 1 after his X factor performance and itv special. he will end up selling over a 1.5m before xmas You sure they won't make 200k? That would require 20k a day. I don't see why today, tomorrow and Friday will be much lower than yesterday's figure of 25k and Saturday is always a far bigger sales day. They won't touch 300k, in fact they probably won't even beat Adele's record for the biggest weekly sales this year, but they really should make well over 200k.
October 26, 201114 yr MX's first day sales included at least 6 weeks of pre-orders (maybe even more, it was 6 weeks from iTunes but may have been available even earlier from other sources) and probably a good chunk of their core fanbase that didn't pre-order. It was obviously going to tail off by a lot on its second day, it's not exactly going to nearly quarter again tomorrow. It'll definitely do 200k and I don't think 250k is out of the picture yet. Does anyone know if Coldplay have any promo lined up for this week? They were on Later... last night (plus Friday's extended repeat).
October 26, 201114 yr Ah, there seems to be a live stream of a Coldplay gig on the YouTube front page right now.
October 26, 201114 yr Ah, there seems to be a live stream of a Coldplay gig on the YouTube front page right now. Ah well, I got to see a bit of it.
October 26, 201114 yr You sure they won't make 200k? That would require 20k a day. I don't see why today, tomorrow and Friday will be much lower than yesterday's figure of 25k and Saturday is always a far bigger sales day. They won't touch 300k, in fact they probably won't even beat Adele's record for the biggest weekly sales this year, but they really should make well over 200k. You mean Gaga's record for biggest weekly sales this year?
October 26, 201114 yr You mean Gaga's record for biggest weekly sales this year? Last time I checked 257,731 is more than 215,639.
October 26, 201114 yr You mean Gaga's record for biggest weekly sales this year? She has the record for highest first week sales, but Adele's Mothers Day week total beat her.
October 27, 201114 yr Thursday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Professor Green ft. Emeli Sande 2 Labrinth ft. Tinie Tempah 3 Rihanna ft. Calvin Harris 4 Kelly Clarkson 5 Charlene Soraia Top 10 7 Rizzle Kicks Top 15 12 Ed Sheeran [LH] 13 Coldplay Top 20 Cobra Starship Bruno Mars [RB] Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Top 30 Bruno Mars [MY] Top 40 35 Coldplay & Rihanna [POC] 38 Sneakbo ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Coldplay 2 Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 3 Michael Buble 4 Kelly Clarkson 5 Bruno Mars Top 10 Tom Waits Top 15 The Soldiers Top 20 16 Darren Hayes Caro Emerald Ronan Parke Top 30 Example Paul Simon Sting Top 40 Justice Machine Head Ben Howard NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Maroon 5 5+1 LMFAO 5+3 The Wanted 5+4 Gym Class Heroes 5+5 Christina Perri 10+1 Ed Sheeran [TAT] 20+2 Albums Matt Cardle 5+1 Steps 5+3 Adele [21] 5+5; [19] 10+4 Rihanna 10+5 Will Young 20+3 Jessie J 30+4 Lady Gaga 30+6
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