Damn Jessie out of the Top 5! :(

Shame Kelly's Here I Am is not doing well but hopefully sales will be quite good.

The xfactor finalists are selling loads on cd - they do every year right up to xmas. It will be the same in christmas week - the finalists song wont be no1 on itunes but cd sales will give it the xmas no1!

The xfactor finalists are selling loads on cd - they do every year right up to xmas. It will be the same in christmas week - the finalists song wont be no1 on itunes but cd sales will give it the xmas no1!

 

errr... not this year they ain't the sales have taken a dip when compared to previous XFF charity tracks

Great. I'm not a big Coldplay fan but that is a lovely christmas song that deserves more attention. Same with Annie Lennox's Come Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.

 

Do you mean 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen'? Or has she done a medley of that and 'O COME All Ye Faithful'? :unsure:

I think its more the uncertainty at the top of the singles chart than the fact their selling more physicals - which obviously helps, but T-Pain's took off too late in the week and Olly didn't have a convincing enough lead, factor in physicals and the fact sales are terrible atm and I think they have it alas :( similar thing happened last year

YES at Rihanna knocking Jessie back out of the top 5 :cheer: WYA will be #7 max this week as T-Pain will definitely overtake her, I really hope something else can also overtake her so she doesn't climb at all. It dropping out of the top 10 next week would be great but I think it'll hold on at 9 or 10.

 

And brilliant to see Coldplay still holding onto top 10 after T-Pain overtaking, as I'd hoped - I think a top 10 finish is in the bag now :cheer: It'll be on awful sales but it's top 10 nonetheless (its best sales weeks are behind it at the moment, but it could get a new best sales week after XF if they perform it). And the best thing is it's keeping out Kelly :D

 

Slade and Band Aid push up the Christmas tally to seven - Shakin' Stevens tomorrow hopefully? :cheer: This'll be Merry Xmas Everybody's eighth top 40 run, ninth including the 'Slade vs. Flush' version - I'm sure it must have the record for the most different years a song has charted top 40 in?

 

Lloyd is now slightly ahead of Olly combined on iTunes, but T-Pain is ahead of them both with just his one version - so there's still no obvious #1. Most unpredictable #1 battle for a while.

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(11) 08 T-Pain featuring Lily Allen + Wiz Khalifa '5 o'clock'

(10) 10 Coldplay 'Paradise'

(09) 11 Kelly Rowland featuring The WAV.s 'Down For Whatever'

 

^ Pleased with this, 'Paradise' deserves a top 10 status and hopefully with an X-Factor performance too; it'll spend a week or two inside. As for Jessie J slipping out of the top 5 - I hope she can claw her way back in, although T-Pain is likely to push her down to #6/7, depending on whether Rihanna / Calvin hold up.

Great battle, wonder if the 59p has had a big effect on the xmas songs top 40? Must be they are doing much better than last year. 7 days leading up to xmas day will mean high peaks (and current low sales)for loads of them.

Midweek Charts update: Sheeran album hits half million

Source: MW

13:57 | Thursday December 8, 2011

By Paul Williams

 

Ed Sheeran’s debut album + has this week surpassed half a million sales in the UK as it firmly establishes itself as one of the Christmas market’s biggest sellers.

 

The Asylum/Atlantic album moved over the 500,000 mark during trading on Tuesday, while sales are up 31% on the week to make it the seventh top-selling artist album of the week so far, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

Parlophone act Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto has also this week surpassed half a million sales, having sold another 37,000 units this week up to the end of business on Wednesday. Sales of the album are up 31% on the week, although it has dipped 8-9 on the midweek chart listings.

 

 

Island’s posthumous Amy Winehouse album Lioness – Hidden Treasures comfortably remains the week’s top-selling artist album, while Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble’s Christmas is currently around 10,000 sales ahead of Rebecca Ferguson’s newly-issued debut Epic album Heaven to take second spot. Buble’s album sold its 500,000th copy in the UK last Sunday.

 

There is a close battle raging in the singles market with Syco’s X Factor Finalists 2011 single Wishing On A Star fewer than 1,000 sales ahead of Epic act and 2009 X Factor runner-up Olly Murs’ Dance With Me Tonight up to the close of business on Wednesday.

Good to see + and Mylo Xyloto over the 500k mark (I didn't think that'd be siginificant enough news for the OCC to report on it though). Hopefully both will pass the million mark in the future. +'s week-on-week sales increase dropped from 48% to 31% in a day though, it must have started off quite poorly last week I guess? 21 might have suffered a similar 'fate' so perhaps won't sell 90k+ this week.

 

XFF definitely seem to be following the With Ur Love pattern, they won't be #1 tomorrow.

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Great battle, wonder if the 59p has had a big effect on the xmas songs top 40? Must be they are doing much better than last year. 7 days leading up to xmas day will mean high peaks (and current low sales)for loads of them.

 

The sales of Christmas songs on iTunes have gone mad! Is this earlier than previous years for there to be so many in the iTunes top 200? It just seems way too early for me, but perhaps that's because I haven't taken much notice before.

 

Two days ago (Tuesday at 19:00), there were 38 different seasonal songs, occupying 43 of the top 200 places.

 

As of 14:00 today, there were 49 different songs (11 more), occupying 55 places (12 more). Nearly all of the 43 tracks from Tuesday have gone up (37 of them). One has stayed still, only three have gone down and just two have disappeared. (The Darkness from #198 and Justin Bieber's single version of Mistletoe, from #125, while the album version is the non-mover, at #25.)

 

29 of the 55 tracks (52.7%) are being taken from Now That's What I Call Xmas.

Another 11 tracks (20.0%) are from the Merry Xmas! compilation.

Five tracks (9.1%) are Michael Buble's from his Christmas album.

 

That's just three albums accounting for 81.8% of all seasonal songs in the Top 200.

 

I think only four tracks are new this year (apart from Bublé's new versions of old songs) and I'm generously including Slow Moving Millie (Christmas ad and theme) and the new JLS (based on a Christmas song, with a new lyric). So I'm holding a torch for 'Dominick The Italian Christmas Donkey' by Lou Monte, up from #182 to #96. Surely this should be Christmas number one?! :D

It's because almost all of them have been reduced to 59p on iTunes :P If it weren't for that I'm sure we'd still only have the eight Christmas classics in the top 100 (The Pogues, Mariah, Wizzard, Wham!, Band Aid, Slade, Shakin' Stevens and Chris Rea). Because of it they're all likely to be top 40 this week aside from Chris Rea and there's a load more in the top 100 too (and loads more between 101 and 200).

 

Coldplay's Christmas Lights is still climbing well, now up to #55. I'd really love for this to re-enter the top 40 this year :wub:

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Thursday Update Top 40 Only

Singles

 

1 X Factor Finalists (1k ahead)

2 Olly Murs

3 Lloyd ft. Andre 3000 & Lil Wayne

 

Top 10

8 T-Pain/Wiz Khalifa/Lily Allen

 

Out of interest, what is the sales gap likely to be between Olly Murs and Lloyd? If there's less than 1000 copies seperating XFF and Olly, Olly is bound to be #1 in tomorrows midweeks.

 

Then of course there's T-Pain who has progressed 11-08 in 24 hours so with '5 O'Clock' still riding high on iTunes, his track could be top 5 in tomorrows midweeks.

 

Could be quite a close race to no. 1 this Sunday. If only it was Lloyd that could get there out of the competition.

Actually, maybe top 10 isn't so certain for Paradise this week - Mariah could overtake it :( That would be no better than Kelly holding onto the top 10.

 

AIWFCIY isn't ahead of Paradise combined yet, but it's possible the top version could go top 10 on iTunes which would give it the top 10 boost. Having said that I think Mariah is actually a bit further from the top 10 than she was earlier so with any luck she will stall at 11...

Edited December 8, 201114 yr by Bré

How is a shitty T-Pain song top 10, and top of itunes? oh my days some people.

How is a shitty T-Pain song top 10, and top of itunes? oh my days some people.

 

I'm surprised too. I didn't think it would do this well. But lots of people love it. Definitely the most popular song around at the moment.

HTF can they *still* be #1 - they're just 11th on iTunes! :(

Well duh - they're shifting physicals in probably the same quantity as they are downloads. :S

 

And if they were say 4th/5th on iT & not far off, that would be fair enough - but the iT #1 is now selling 5 copies for every 2 that XFF sells... :o

The iTunes #1 isn't the track that is directly behind XFF in the midweeks - that is Olly and he is now down to iTunes #3.

 

Lloyd is now slightly ahead of Olly combined on iTunes, but T-Pain is ahead of them both with just his one version - so there's still no obvious #1. Most unpredictable #1 battle for a while.

Can't see anyone but Olly or XFF #1 this week - wasn't the gap between Olly and #3 about 4k copies in the Tuesday mids? And the #3 (Lloyd) hasn't been shifting significantly more copies than Olly at any point since then. Even T-Pain is only about 20% ahead of Olly on iTunes but is so far behind in the mids that he stands no chance unless he opens up a 50%+ lead (and maintains it for the rest of the week).

 

Think Olly will take the #1 spot in tomorrow's mids but Sat shopping plus X Factor Final on Saturday evening may mean that XFF retake the #1 spot as it is likely to still be incredibly close between Olly and XFF going into Saturday.

Sadly I think XFF 2011 are likely to remain at number 1. What a piss poor week. Absolutely nothing decent out whatsoever..

There is a close battle raging in the singles market with Syco’s X Factor Finalists 2011 single Wishing On A Star fewer than 1,000 sales ahead of Epic act and 2009 X Factor runner-up Olly Murs’ Dance With Me Tonight up to the close of business on Wednesday.

 

Brilliant news! So Olly closed 200 copies on Tuesday, and over 600 on Wednesday. If he follows that pattern he's looking at 800-1000 today. He should overtake tommorrow and take a lead into Saturday when XF will come back with physicals and final show promotion. I don't actually mind if Lloyd snatches it as his song is quality but XF will probably be caught, that's the main thing. And in a poor sales week as well, poor showing from them. One thing's for sure, it'll be the closest battle of the year!!

 

wasn't the gap between Olly and #3 about 4k copies in the Tuesday mids?

 

This is news to me. All I read was that Jessie J was 6k behind the X factor single. But yeah Olly has lead Lloyd in popularity on Itunes for most of the week and the charts/music week haven't mentioned him as a contender, focusing on the top two battle. Still, we could do with knowing where he's at.