Posted January 2, 201214 yr Midweek Sales: Adele could be returning to number one Source: MW 10:54 | Tuesday January 3, 2012 By Paul Williams Singles On singles Flo Rida could be heading for his third UK number one with the Atlantic-issued Good Feeling leading the market at this stage of the week having been at three on last Sunday’s chart. However, it is only around 2,700 sales ahead of Coldplay’s Parlophone single Paradise, which climbed to number one last weekend. Epic’s Olly Murs drops 2-3 with Dance With Me Tonight, Syco act Labrinth’s Earthquake featuring Tinie Tempah rises 8-4 and Def Jam/Mercury’s We Found Love single by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris holds at five. As with albums, the singles market is also very quiet for new releases with 4th & Broadway/Island act Taio Cruz’s Troublemaker one of only two brand new tracks registering among the Top 40 sellers. It is at 11 so far this week, while Alesha Dixon’s Do It Our Way (Play), which is released on a label by global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi via Absolute, shows up as a new entry at 37. Among the week’s biggest movers, Epic act JLS’s Do You Feel What I Feel is up 46-8 with sales rising 81% week on week, while Island/Lava’s Jessie J single Domino improves 34-18 and the Believe Digital-issued Higher Love by James Vincent McMorrow lifts 78-24. Albums Adele’s 21 could be heading back to number one in the UK for the first time since mid-July thanks to BBC One screening her Royal Albert Hall concert on New Year’s Day. The XL release, which has already enjoyed 18 non-consecutive weeks at the top and was the biggest-selling album of 2011 in the UK, US and worldwide, has opened up a lead of around 4,000 sales in the week so far, according to the Official Charts Company. Her first album 19 is also on the rise again with sales up 217% on the week to move it from 40 on last Sunday’s chart to 17th position for the week to date. Runner-up on last Sunday’s chart, Elektra/Atlantic act Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans is also number two on the first sales flashes of 2012 as Parlophone’s Coldplay hold their Sunday chart position of three with Mylo Xyloto. However, Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed Sheeran, whose + returned to number one last Sunday, is currently down in fourth place with Island’s Amy Winehouse release Lioness – Hidden Treasures completing the top five by remaining in fifth position. In a typical early January week there are no brand new entries showing up anywhere in the Top 75, allowing some older albums to enjoy new leases of life. A number of these have been helped by exposure on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, which took BBC Two viewers into the New Year. Sales of Columbia act The Vaccines’ What Did You Expect From The Vaccines, which is also subject to retail discounting, have nearly doubled on the week to move it 33-10 on the midweek rankings following their performance on the show, while an appearance from Caro Emerald has sent her Dramatico release Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room vaulting 69-18. Hootenanny is also behind the return at number 23 of Decca act Imelda May’s Mayhem and Epic signing Aloe Blacc’s Good Things re-entering at 40. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Top 40 Only Singles 1 Flo Rida (2,700 ahead) 2 Coldplay 3 Olly Murs 4 Labrinth/Tinie Tempah 5 Rihanna/Calvin Harris Top 10 JLS Top 15 Taio Cruz Top 20 Jessie J [Domino] Top 30 James Vincent McMorrow Top 40 Alesha Dixon ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Adele 2 Bruno Mars 3 Coldplay 4 Ed Sheeran 5 Amy Winehouse Top 10 The Vaccines Top 15 Top 20 Caro Emerald Top 30 Imelda May Top 40 Aloe Blacc
January 2, 201214 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Midweek Sales update: Adele looking to break four-decade chart record Source: MW 10:59 | Wednesday January 4, 2012 By Paul Williams Adele’s 21 will become the UK’s longest-running chart-topping album in more than 40 years if it returns to number one as expected this coming Sunday. The XL album currently has a lead of 5,453 units to head the artist albums market at this stage of the week, according to the Official Charts Company, with Elektra/Atlantic act Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans in second place. It has previously spent 18 non-consecutive weeks at number one, equalling the uninterrupted run of the original soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever between May and September 1978, but will go one better if it climbs back to the top this weekend. This would make it the UK’s lengthiest album chart-topper since Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water accumulated 33 weeks at number one during eight runs between 1970 and 1971. The Adele album’s sales are 30.9% up on the week up to the end of trading on Tuesday with demand having increased following BBC One screening her Royal Albert Hall concert on New Year’s Day. It was at number six on last Sunday’s chart, having been named as the UK’s biggest-selling album of 2011. First album 19 is also on the rise again, up 141% on the week and is currently the week’s 16th biggest artist album, having been at number 40 on last week’s countdown. There continues to be a close battle to top the singles chart this Sunday with the Atlantic-issued Good Feeling by Flo Rida around 4,000 units ahead of Parlophone act Coldplay’s Paradise, which climbed to number one last Sunday. Epic act Olly Murs is a further few thousand sales behind in third position with Dance With Me Tonight. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Flo Rida set to oust Coldplay from the top of the Official Singles Chart US rapper Flo Rida has his sights set on the Number 1 spot over on the singles this Sunday. Though there is currently just 4,000 copies separating the two, 'Good Feeling' is on course to oust Coldplay’s 'Paradise' (2) from pole position to finally claim the top prize a full eight weeks after its original release. Flo Rida’s track had previously peaked at Number 2 on the week of its release in November 2011 and has never left the Official Singles Chart Top 10 since. Elsewhere, the highest new entry of the week comes courtesy of Taio Cruz’s 'Troublemaker' (8). The highest climber according to today’s Update is JLS’s 'Do You Feel What I Feel', climbing 33 places to Number 13. And finally, pop starlet and all-new Britain’s Got Talent 2012 judge Alesha Dixon enters the Top 40 in today’s Update with new track 'Do It Our Way (Play)', as featured on the current Weight Watchers TV ad campaign. The advert unveiled on New Year’s Day, created by Saatchi & Saatchi, also doubles as the promo video for the release of the single, and stars 180 real life slimmers miming along to the former Misteeq singer’s track whilst walking around London’s Carnaby Street area. The single enters today’s Update at Number 39, 25 pence from each sale will be donated to Weight Watchers’ chosen charity, Tommy’s. Source: OCC Radio 1 Chart Update - Top 40 Singles ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adele on course for longest-running Official Albums Chart topper in 40 years! Adele continues her phenomenal run at smashing Official Charts records. The Tottenham-born singer/songwriter’s album, ‘21’, is on course to return to the Number 1 spot on this Sunday’s Official Albums Chart, and would thus become the longest chart-topping album release in nearly 42 years, according to the Official Charts Company. If ‘21’ does hit the summit this weekend, it will spend its 19th non-consecutive week at Number 1 since its release less than a year ago in January, 2011. The previous longest chart topper is Simon and Garfunkel’s 1970 classic ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, which has amassed 33 non-consecutive weeks in the top spot since its release. ’21’ is currently the longest running Number 1 artist album for a solo artist in UK chart history, and the sixth longest running Number 1 album overall; surpassed only by Simon and Garfunkel mentioned above, and The Beatles’ records Please Please Me, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With The Beatles and A Hard Day’s Night. (Please note this data does not include original soundtrack albums). Adele’s 14 times platinum album ‘21’ was this week revealed by the Official Charts Company as the biggest selling album of 2011, having shifted a staggering 3.77m copies across the calendar year, outselling the Number 2 album Michael Buble’s ‘Christmas’, by nearly three copies to one. If Adele can retain her midweek lead into the weekend, the 23 year old ex-Brit School student will also be just one week away from equalling both Queen and Oasis in terms of number of weeks in her career spent at Number 1 in the Official Albums Chart. Though of course Adele has managed to notch up this impressive tally across only her first two albums, whereas Queen and Oasis took nine and eight albums respectively to hit their totals of 21 weeks apiece in the top spot. Source: OCC Radio 1 Chart Update - Top 40 Albums
January 2, 201214 yr Author Thursday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Flo Rida 2 Coldplay 3 Taio Cruz 4 Avicii 5 Olly Top 10 Labrinth Rizzle Kicks 9 Maroon 5/Christina Top 15 Lloyd 14 Jessie J [Domino] JLS Top 20 Drake James Vincent McMorrow Top 30 Beyonce Adele [sLY] Sean Kingston Lana Del Rey Skepta Top 40 James Morrison Adele [RITD] Foster The People ================================================= Albums 1 Adele 2 Bruno Mars 3 Ed Sheeran 4 Coldplay 5 Amy Winehouse Top 10 7 Beyonce Jessie J Top 15 Westlife 15 Will Young Top 20 16 Adele 17 Vaccines Top 30 21 Caro Emerald 23 Matt Cardle Cee Lo Green Chase & Status 26 Snow Patrol Foster The People Rizzle Kicks Katy Perry James Morrison Top 40 Christina Perri 37 Bee Gees Michael Buble [CL] PJ Harvey Sixteen/ Christophers Renaissance ====================================== MINI ARTISTS UPDATE Singles Rihanna 4+4 Military Wives 10+3 Rihanna [YDO] 20+5 Wanted 20+7 Lady Gaga 30+6 Albums Rebecca Ferguson 5+4 Lady Gaga 6+6 JLS 10+9 Rihanna [Loud] 10+12 Cher Lloyd 30+3 Wanted 30+6
January 2, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts upate: Taio cruises up chart 10:57 | Friday January 6, 2012 Source: MW By Paul Williams Taio Cruz is mounting a late challenge to debut high on the singles chart this coming weekend with his brand new release Troublemaker. The 4th & Broadway/Island single was showing as a new entry down in 11th place on the first sales flashes of the week announced on Tuesday, but by the end of trading on Thursday it had progressed to be the week’s third biggest single behind Atlantic’s Good Feeling by Flo Rida and Parlophone act Coldplay’s Paradise. Troublemaker is currently little more than 1,000 sales behind Paradise, while Good Feeling leads the market by around 8,400 units. Singles by Island acts Avicii (Levels) and Rizzle Kicks (Mama Do The Hump) have moved 12-4 and 10-5 respectively in the week so far. Adele’s second XL album 21 remains a strong bet to return to the top of the artist albums chart on Sunday and make it 19 weeks at number one in all, the most for any album since Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water spent 33 weeks in charge of the chart between 1970 and 1971. Bruno Mars’ Elektra/Atlantic debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans retains second place, Asylum/Atlantic act Ed Sheeran is third with + having returned to number one last Sunday and Parlophone’s Coldplay album Mylo Xyloto (3-4) and Island’s Amy Winehouse album Lioness – Hidden Treasures (5-5) complete the top five. ================================================= Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Flo Rida (8,400 ahead) 2 Coldplay 3 Taio Cruz (1k behind Coldplay) 4 Avicii 5 Rizzle Kicks Top 10 7 Labrinth 9 Jessie J [Domino] Lloyd Top 15 15 JLS Top 20 19 Drake James Vincent McMorrow Top 30 Beyonce Adele [sLY] Sean Kingston 29 Skepta Lana Del Rey Top 40 31 James Morrison/Jessie J Adele [RITD] 39 Foster The People ================================================= Albums 1 Adele 2 Bruno Mars 3 Ed Sheeran 4 Coldplay 5 Amy Winehouse Top 10 7 Beyonce 8 Jessie J Top 15 Westlife 14 Will Young Vaccines Top 20 16 Adele Florence +The Machine Top 30 22 Caro Emerald Cee Lo Green Matt Cardle Chase & Status Snow Patrol Rizzle Kicks Katy Perry Foster The People James Morrison Top 40 Pink Christina Perri 37 Bee Gees Michael Buble [CL] Sixteen/ Christophers Renaissance ====================================== MINI ARTISTS UPDATE Singles Olly 3+3 Rihanna 4+4 Maroon 5 6+6 Military Wives 10+4 Rihanna [YDO] 20+3 Wanted 20+7 Adele [sFTTR] 30+4 Lady Gaga 30+6 Albums Rebecca Ferguson 5+4 Lady Gaga 6+6 JLS 10+10 Rihanna [Loud] 10+11 Cher Lloyd 30+4 Wanted 30+8
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January 3, 201214 yr Royal Albert Hall concert? :D That'll explain why 'Someone Like You' is back up to #18 at the moment on iTunes. The way this single is selling (and is likely to continue selling throughout 2012) it may be much closer to 2 million sales by the end of the year. I don't really care if Flo Rida ends up #1 this week. Just as long as it's not the lazy rubbish Taio Cruz has released.
January 3, 201214 yr Why do people keep encouraging Taio Cruz? His song is so forgettable its blurred in my memory with various other generic elcetro-R&B fusions.
January 3, 201214 yr I think adele will be number one in the albums. Well I hope. Amazing she's sold 3.7m in a year with only 3 singles!
January 3, 201214 yr Music week Midweek Sales: Adele could be returning to number one 10:54 | Tuesday January 3, 2012 By Paul Williams Adele’s 21 could be heading back to number one in the UK for the first time since mid-July thanks to BBC One screening her Royal Albert Hall concert on New Year’s Day. The XL release, which has already enjoyed 18 non-consecutive weeks at the top and was the biggest-selling album of 2011 in the UK, US and worldwide, has opened up a lead of around 4,000 sales in the week so far, according to the Official Charts Company. Her first album 19 is also on the rise again with sales up 217% on the week to move it from 40 on last Sunday’s chart to 17th position for the week to date. Runner-up on last Sunday’s chart, Elektra/Atlantic act Bruno Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans is also number two on the first sales flashes of 2012 as Parlophone’s Coldplay hold their Sunday chart position of three with Mylo Xyloto. However, Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed Sheeran, whose + returned to number one last Sunday, is currently down in fourth place with Island’s Amy Winehouse release Lioness – Hidden Treasures completing the top five by remaining in fifth position. In a typical early January week there are no brand new entries showing up anywhere in the Top 75, allowing some older albums to enjoy new leases of life. A number of these have been helped by exposure on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, which took BBC Two viewers into the New Year. Sales of Columbia act The Vaccines’ What Did You Expect From The Vaccines, which is also subject to retail discounting, have nearly doubled on the week to move it 33-10 on the midweek rankings following their performance on the show, while an appearance from Caro Emerald has sent her Dramatico release Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room vaulting 69-18. Hootenanny is also behind the return at number 23 of Decca act Imelda May’s Mayhem and Epic signing Aloe Blacc’s Good Things re-entering at 40. On singles Flo Rida could be heading for his third UK number one with the Atlantic-issued Good Feeling leading the market at this stage of the week having been at three on last Sunday’s chart. However, it is only around 2,700 sales ahead of Coldplay’s Parlophone single Paradise, which climbed to number one last weekend. Epic’s Olly Murs drops 2-3 with Dance With Me Tonight, Syco act Labrinth’s Earthquake featuring Tinie Tempah rises 8-4 and Def Jam/Mercury’s We Found Love single by Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris holds at five. As with albums, the singles market is also very quiet for new releases with 4th & Broadway/Island act Taio Cruz’s Troublemaker one of only two brand new tracks registering among the Top 40 sellers. It is at 11 so far this week, while Alesha Dixon’s Do It Our Way (Play), which is released on a label by global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi via Absolute, shows up as a new entry at 37. Among the week’s biggest movers, Epic act JLS’s Do You Feel What I Feel is up 46-8 with sales rising 81% week on week, while Island/Lava’s Jessie J single Domino improves 34-18 and the Believe Digital-issued Higher Love by James Vincent McMorrow lifts 78-24.
January 3, 201214 yr Royal Albert Hall concert? :D That'll explain why 'Someone Like You' is back up to #18 at the moment on iTunes. The way this single is selling (and is likely to continue selling throughout 2012) it may be much closer to 2 million sales by the end of the year. Well it would be interesting if it lost some sales this year? (sorry lol)
January 3, 201214 yr I'm surprised Adele isn't further thank 4k ahead to be honest... Great to see The Vaccines in the top 10!
January 3, 201214 yr Adele vs. Bruno for the #1 album this week then I guess. 4k isn't that much of a lead so I think Bruno may be able to close it by the end of the week. I do hope Adele clings on though. Surprised to see Amy overtaking Olly and Ed Sheeran falling all the way to #4 :o Great to see Coldplay holding onto the top 3 though :D 2.7k is also not much of a lead but Flo Rida has it in the bag, the lead is only going to grow over the week. I hope Coldplay can do at least another 50k this week (no idea what to expect for their sales this week, I think they'll be quite a bit down from last week but no idea how far down - hopefully we'll get some sales info at some point this week). Brilliant to see The Vaccines' album in the top 10 :D It'll probably fall out over the week but should quite easily end up at the highest position it's been since week 1. Also fantastic to see Labrinth at #4, JLS at #8 and James Vincent McMorrow at #24 :D I really hope JLS hold onto the top 10, it'd be a shame to see their best single to date being the one to break their top 10 streak.
January 3, 201214 yr May I ask where Rebecca is in the album chart this week ? (that's if you have the info of course)
January 3, 201214 yr Author We don't have any mids, MW seem to be having problems with their chart and data section this morning, probably because of the rogue chart that was posted on Sunday, the chart from this time last year (Week 52 [2010]), they seem to be fixing the error, as I just got an email from them saying their charts are out of sync, I think the email was sent to me by mistake. So any requests place on hold for the time been. Anyhow.... I've just done a mini update from the MW article, till we have the official mids.
January 3, 201214 yr Surprised to see JLS top 10. I thought they'd be Top 15 at best Although, I'm guessing they'll just miss out by the end of the week
January 3, 201214 yr Surely everyone who watched that Adele show would have already bought her album, can't wait to Lana Del Ray's album comes out, might not to be then that we have a fresh number one album
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