Ouch @ Kelly Rowland!

 

Where's the Rowldawgs at?

Just out of interest, where's Kate Bush fallen to please?

 

EDIT: Never mind, it's already been answered.

Any idea where Ed Sheeran is in both single and album chart (and can you please include him in the artist update.....ta muchly)

 

Lego House 5+3

TAT 30+3

Album 5+4

 

Any sign of Westlife in the albums?

 

Just checking up with how my predictions are looking so far. :D

 

5+2

 

Has Ndubz greatest hits charted top 40?

 

 

Unfortunately not

Fortunately you mean :kink:

Olly Murs is set to exact revenge on Rihanna for piping him to the number one spot on the UK singles countdown last Sunday by replacing her at the top of the artist albums chart.

 

His second Epic album In Case You Didn’t Know looks poised to debut at number one this coming Sunday after selling more than 50,000 copies during its first day of release, according to the Official Charts Company. Rihanna’s Def Jam/Mercury album Talk That Talk, which debuted at one last weekend, has also now been overtaken by Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble’s Christmas, which moves 3-2, while Syco acts Il Divo and One Direction complete the top five sellers.

 

Murs is also now outselling Rihanna on the singles chart with his Dance With Me Tonight around 2,000 sales ahead of the Barbadian superstar’s Calvin Harris collaboration We Found Love, which topped the chart again last Sunday after the Murs single led in the early midweeks. However, it appears too late for the one-time X Factor runner-up to make it to number one as both tracks are being outsold significantly by the newly-issued charity single from the reality TV show.

 

The X Factor Finalists 2011’s cover of the Rose Royce ballad Wishing On A Star had sold 56,328 units up to the close of business on Monday with Murs more than 35,000 sales behind in second place and Rihanna third.

 

It is shaping up to be a good week for Syco with Wishing On A Star almost a certainty to top the singles chart, while the company’s newly-issued Il Divo album Wicked Game is the week so far’s fourth biggest artist album. It is just ahead of the same company’s One Direction album Up All Night, which debuted at two last Sunday and is now down to fifth place.

 

Exactly a year ago Take That’s Progress was heading for its third week at number one and now their accompanying live album Progress Live is readying a chart debut, albeit more modestly. The Polydor album is currently showing up as a new entry at number six.

 

 

This week’s market further throws the spotlight on the relative fortunes of Joe McElderry and Olly Murs since they finished in first and second places respectively on The X Factor 2009. While Murs’ new album should debut at number one this week, McElderry’s own brand new album, the UCJ-handled Classic Christmas, is down in 12th place.

 

Murs performed on last Sunday’s X Factor results show, as did Island/Lava’s Jessie J whose first album and latest single are both now experiencing big sales uplifts. Sales of the title track of the album Who You Are are up 168% on the week to send it 37-7, while the album’s sales have risen nearly 50% to move it 29-23.

 

In the same week Take That’s live album arrives, a new Kylie Minogue concert recording will also show up in the chart. The Parlophone-issued Aphrodite Les Folies – Live In London is presently appearing as a new entry at 37, six places above Island’s newly-released Greatest Hits by N-Dubz. Universal’s Kelly Rowland album Here I Am arrives in 54th place, meaning, with Gary Barlow part of Take That’s line-up and Tulisa Contostavlos in N-Dubz, all three of the performing X Factor judges will have new entries on the chart this week.

 

Back on the singles chart and Virgin’s Emeli Sande will score her second hit with Daddy currently debuting in 18th place, while the Christmas season has truly arrived with Warner Bros’s Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl classic Fairytale Of New York set to make its annual return to the Top 40 on Sunday when it is likely to be joined by Mariah Carey’s own enduring RCA-handled All I Want For Christmas Is You.

 

The full midweek singles and albums charts are on musicweek.com.

 

Big drop for Kate. It's a shame as it's a fine album.

Ouch at Rowland! :o

 

54 is an absolute disaster!

N-Dubz are no.43 and Kelly Rowland is no.54.

Based on sales last week, Joe McElderrys album could sell around 35,000 sales which would be on par with the first week sales of his last album.

No sign of the Gorillaz greatest hits album

Ha at the poor sales for X Factor Finalists, doubt they will sell much more than 100 K in total this week then. :D

love that the two judges havent managed to chart top40 but the presenter of the spin off show is sitting pretty at the top of the charts

the power of the x factor is really not that strong this year

just out of interest does any one know what the first week sales of ollys first album were?

Shocked that Olly Murs has sold 50K already...I thought he'd probably be No.1 but didn't expect such high sales. He's more popular than I realised!

 

I expected a big drop for Kate Bush, I doubt it will appeal much beyond her established fanbase, but thought Kelly Rowland would be a bit higher given the single and her X Factor profile.

Louise, I think it was something like 109,000. I'll check and let you know!

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Ha at the poor sales for X Factor Finalists, doubt they will sell much more than 100 K in total this week then. :D

Well it's sold 56,328 on day one, so I expect something like 120k at most by the end of the week.

Expected higher sales than 56k

Louise, Ollys first album sold 108,212 in week 1. It looks like he's gonna sell more this time. I honestly didn't expect his album to be selling this well.

Well it's sold 56,328 on day one, so I expect something like 120k at most by the end of the week.

 

2010's effort opened with 70K, ended up at 144K. Using the same multiplication factor (2.05) gives around 115K - not that impressive IMO.

Louise, Ollys first album sold 108,212 in week 1. It looks like he's gonna sell more this time. I honestly didn't expect his album to be selling this well.

 

Wow, he'll easily beat that - probably end up with around 130 - 140K at least.

 

Great to see Coldplay and Noel G holding steady :)