October 27, 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 sale climate of 2011. Say that to Adele... 200k is great of course, but it is not "impressive" for them. Given their status and the hype surrounding this album release, they should have been a lot higher. They don't have a single as strong as "Viva la vida" to sell it I guess.
October 27, 201114 yr Say that to Adele... 200k is great of course, but it is not "impressive" for them. Given their status and the hype surrounding this album release, they should have been a lot higher. They don't have a single as strong as "Viva la vida" to sell it I guess. Adele is a complete anomaly this year, it's unfair to compare anyone else to her. I don't believe this album has been anywhere near as hyped as their last one, which ended up selling barely half as much as any of their previous three, so it could easily be argued that their status isn't what it once was. It IS a poorer sales climate now, that can't be argued against, and the album will have either the 2nd or 3rd biggest weekly sale of the year so far depending on whether it beats Lady Gaga or not, and Born This Way definitely had more hype than Mylo Xyloto has! 200-225k is not great, no, but it is still impressive.
October 27, 201114 yr Say that to Adele... 200k is great of course, but it is not "impressive" for them. Given their status and the hype surrounding this album release, they should have been a lot higher. They don't have a single as strong as "Viva la vida" to sell it I guess. You can make anyone look bad by comparing them to Adele, she's sold a good five times as many albums as anyone else this year. She's so far ahead of anyone that it's pointless to bring her name into any comparison. And like RFC says it looks likely to beat Born This Way's sales (or at least come very close to them) and that was a LOT more hyped than 'Mylo Xyloto' ('The Fame' has higher sales than all but one of Coldplay's albums despite being released in a much lower sales climate - and if MX can even come close to VLVODAAHF's sales in an even lower sales climate it's been a huge success IMO). Edited October 27, 201114 yr by Bré
October 27, 201114 yr Anyway, about the actual update, I'm surprised Princess Of China only climbed 2 places today, hopefully should climb into top 30 by Sunday. Not surprised at LH overtaking Paradise, hopefully Paradise won't fall any further. (Although even top 40, let alone top 20 or even top 15, is better than I was initially expecting after it had 6 weeks of disqualification). Sneakbo still holding on, it'd be great if he can stay top 40 but I think he'll end up at about #49.
October 27, 201114 yr from radio one midweeks looks like joe mcelderry has dropped out of top 40 but is there anyway we can find out how far he has dropped is there a top 100 albums anywhere just so we know if there is any chance he mit climb back in 2 the bottom of the top 40 by sunday as going by pass weeks he always climbs from the midweeks on please help if u know would really love 2 know how far out of the top 40 he is at the moment thanx charlene
October 27, 201114 yr I hope Machine Head stay Top 40 with the metal album of the year. It's a shame their UK placing won't match their chart position in other countries due to the release of the Special Edition Metal Hammer magazine and digital-only release just under a month ago :(
October 27, 201114 yr from radio one midweeks looks like joe mcelderry has dropped out of top 40 but is there anyway we can find out how far he has dropped is there a top 100 albums anywhere just so we know if there is any chance he mit climb back in 2 the bottom of the top 40 by sunday as going by pass weeks he always climbs from the midweeks on please help if u know would really love 2 know how far out of the top 40 he is at the moment thanx charlene With very rare exceptions we only ever get top 40 information.
October 27, 201114 yr With very rare exceptions we only ever get top 40 information. ahh thanx anyway
October 27, 201114 yr Delighted Steps, Matt Cardle and Darren Hayes are still holding up well again in todays update.
October 27, 201114 yr The A Team at 20+2 today I see - fingers crossed it can somehow just about manage to cling onto the top 20 (although it's down a place from yesterday). I'm surprised it's so close still, I was assuming it had fallen down to 24-26.
October 27, 201114 yr Great to see Noel Gallagher holding strong against a Michael Buble album - although I reckon the coming weeks will see Gallagher fall and Buble either climb to #1 or linger around the T5 for what'll seem like an age. Feeling quite smug about Adele's '21' at #10 really - it's great to see it falling quite a bit in the space of a week, but hopefully it'll stick around in the T10 before Christmas sales begin; would be nice to have it complete an entire year inside the T10. Singles wise, I find it odd that 'Lego House' has climbed to #12, when 'Paradise' had two versions in the T20 earlier on iTunes. I reckon it'll stall just outside the T10, so I guess it's better that it reaches it's peak now rather than later. 'Paradise' deserves to be doing so much better though, the video is just fantastic and the song has grown to become one of my favourites of the past few months. Hoping 'Princess of China' can climb for a strong debut position, it'll no doubt fall in the coming weeks, so a promising debut would help. I'm guessing it's confirmed as the third single - already at #4 on Polish iTunes.
October 27, 201114 yr There's no way '21' will survive in the top 10 for the rest of the year, there's far too many big albums released. It'll be shunted down to a low of about #25 or so and climb back into the top 10 in the new year and maybe grab a couple more weeks at #1 (around the time of the BRITs if no other time). Also, I think 'Paradise' was still lower than 'Lego House' combined even when it had 2 versions top 20 (Lego House also has another version in the 60s/70s). Edited October 27, 201114 yr by Bré
October 28, 201114 yr Update in, still Green and Gallagher #1, give me a min. Surely Noel couldn't have overtaken Coldplay? :unsure:
October 28, 201114 yr Friday 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 Bruno Mars 5 Kelly Clarkson Top 10 Tom Waits Top 15 The Soldiers Top 20 Caro Emerald Ronan Parke 20 Darren Hayes Top 30 Example Sting Noah & The Whale Top 40 Paul Simon Justice Machine Head 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+1 Albums Matt Cardle 5+1 Adele [21] 5+3; [19] 10+4 Steps 5+4 Rihanna 10+5 Will Young 20+4 Jessie J 30+2 Lady Gaga 30+7 Joe McElderry 30+9
October 28, 201114 yr Surely Noel couldn't have overtaken Coldplay? :unsure: Where did I say that? :kink:
October 28, 201114 yr WOOO so glad joe is back in top 40 new he would climb hope he stays where he is or moves higher by sunday
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