Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

Singles

 

1 David Guetta/Sia

2 Gotye/Kimbra

N/E 3 will.i.am/Mick Jagger/Jennifer Lopez

 

N/E 39 Lil' Wayne/Bruno Mars

 

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Albums

 

Gotye/Kimbra only 5k away from David Guetta

Taio will probably be out by Sunday, down to #50 on iTunes. Skrillex or Jason DeRulo will probably replace him?

 

Black Keys up 1 to #21. Will definitely overtake Air and Pet Shop Boys, Mark Lanegan and Young Guns at 12, 10 and 9 are all within reach since they'll be horrendously frontloaded. Fantastic to see "El Camino" becoming a top 20 album :D

Lots of movement in the album chart

 

10 ne Mark Lanegan

09 ne Young Guns

08 06 Jessie J

07 04 Adele

06 02 Leonard Cohen

05 03 Ed Sheeran

04 ne Van Halen

03 ne Paul McCartney

02 ne Maverick Sabre

01 01 Lana Del Rey

 

Also new:

12 ne Pet Shop Boys

19 ne Air

24 ne Etta James

29 ne Goldfrapp - FLOP

35 ne Big Country

37 ne Juan Zelada

 

 

Albums:

 

1 Lana Del Rey

2 Maverick Sabre (NEW)

3 Paul McCartney (NEW)

4 Van Halen (NEW) :o

5 Ed Sheeran

 

Other new entries and climbers:

 

9 Young Guns (NEW)

10 Mark Lanegan Band (NEW)

12 Pet Shop Boys (NEW)

16 One Direction (up from 18)

19 Air (NEW)

21 The Black Keys (up from 22 - new peak)

24 Etta James (new to top 40)

25 Rebecca Ferguson (up from 28)

27 Kelly Clarkson (up from 32)

29 Goldfrapp (NEW)

30 Ben Howard (up from 34)

35 Big Country (NEW) - random, didn't know they had an album out this week.

37 Juan Zelada (NEW)

 

EDIT: Whoops, beaten to it.

 

Edited February 8, 201214 yr by Bré

Midweek Charts: Del Rey aiming for second week at top

Source: MW

15:45 | Wednesday February 8, 2012

By Paul Williams

 

Singles

 

In the week Paul McCartney returns to the albums chart fellow Sixties survivor Mick Jagger could be heading for his first top five singles hit since he topped the chart in 1985 with the Live Aid cut Dancing In The Street with David Bowie. He is a guest vocalist with Jennifer Lopez on the will.i.am Interscope/Polydor single T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever), which is new at three in the latest sales flashes. Just ahead of it in second place is the Island-issued Gotye featuring Kimbra single Somebody That I Used To Know, which was three on last Sunday’s chart, while David Guetta featuring Sia Positiva/Virgin single Titanium retains the top position it secured last weekend. Island/Lava’s Jessie J is still fourth with Domino, while 3 Beat/AATW’s Alone Again by Alyssa Reid featuring Jump Smokers drops 2-5.

 

Outside the Top 10, another David Guetta cut, Turn Me On featuring Nicki Minaj, sees its sales almost quadruple on the week to move 33-13 on the midweeks, while sales of the 14th Floor/Atlantic single Skinny Love By Birdy are up 55% on the week to move 24-15.

 

Albums

 

Lana Del Rey has opened up a narrow lead in her pursuit to top the UK artist albums chart for a second week as David Guetta bids to continue heading singles.

 

The Polydor-issued Born To Die, which debuted at number one last Sunday after selling 116,745 copies, was in this new chart week around 3,000 sales ahead up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Chart Company. It is facing competition from a string of new albums in the busiest week of the year so far for new releases with up to half of the Top 10 this coming Sunday to be made up of new entries.

 

Leading that charge is the debut album from Mercury’s Maverick Sabre with Lonely Are The Brave the week so far’s second top seller and nearly 12,000 sales ahead of the Hearmusic/Mercury-handled Kisses On The Bottom, Paul McCartney’s first studio album since 2007’s Memory Almost Full. There is an even bigger gap between albums for Van Halen whose newly-issued Interscope/Polydor set A Different Kind Of Truth, which shows up as a new entry at four on the midweeks, their first offering in nearly 14 years.

 

Competing the charge of new albums into the Top 10 positions, Play It Again Sam act Young Guns’ Bones is the ninth top seller in the week to date, while 4AD act Mark Lanegan Band’s Blues Funeral is 10th.

 

Having debuted at two last Sunday, Columbia’s Leonard Cohen album Old Ideas is presently ranked sixth in the new chart week, a place behind Asylum/Atlantic act Ed Sheeran’s +. XL act Adele’s 21 and Island/Lava’s Jessie J with Who You Are complete the Top 10 sellers, falling 4-7 and 6-8 respectively.

 

The busy week for new albums is also reflected outside the Top 10 with a new Parlophone Pet Shop Boys retrospective, Format – B-sides & B-sides, in 12th position, while Virgin’s Air are 19th with Le Voyage Dans La Lune. New entries on this coming Sunday’s chart are also expected from Mute’s Goldfrapp, a re-issue of the Mercury album The Crossing by Big Country and Decca’s Juan Zelada.

 

 

PSB ahead of Goldfrapp as expected.

 

Also, I still expect McCartney to overtake Maverick Sabre (any info of sales difference?)

 

EDIT: 12k it seems, quite a lot

Edited February 8, 201214 yr by SKOB

Surprised to see Paul McCartney so high, I literally had no idea he had a new album out until a few days ago when I saw the pre-order at about #99 on iTunes. Then again he needs to sell barely anything to get that high.

 

REALLY surprised at how high Van Halen are, their last album missed the top 40 and they only have one top 10 album - although then again I suppose this is their 'big comeback'.

 

Pet Shop Boys are also doing a lot better than I expected for a B-Side compilation. I wouldn't have thought there'd be enough interest in a Goldfrapp singles collection to see it in the top 40 either.

 

My knowledge of the name Mark Lanegan extends as far as knowing he did an album with Isobel Campbell a few years ago :P Great to see Young Guns and Air so high (even if the former were #6 yesterday - I did know they'd fall though :P)

 

And since I've commented on the rest of the new albums, boo at Maverick Sabre but at least he's not #1, meh at Big Country and I have no idea who Juan Zelada is :D

 

Surprisingly high charting new albums all around. Even if most of them are probably down to poor sales and nothing else.

 

Hopefully Coldplay will get back in the top 10 by Sunday, they're at #11 so just overtaking Young Guns will do the trick, I'm sure that won't be too hard.

Edited February 8, 201214 yr by Bré

So Lana's 3k ahead of Maverick and 15k ahead of McCartney. I'm guessing it'll be something like 55k, 45k and 30k by the weekend?

Sad Midnight City has already begun its decline

Very happy with the PSB B-sides album never expected it to chart that high, mind you I can see it falling quite a bit at the end of the week, nothing unusual there with their albums.

 

Did not expect Van Halen inside the top 5, did not see that coming, other than that the albums chart looks very boring, I'm sure it will pick up next week with Valentine's Day next Tuesday, most likely Adele back at #1 :lol:

Haha, love that Pet Shop Boys can get a b-sides compilation close to the top ten - although it will probably be more like top 30 by Sunday...

 

Amazing top two, thank god T.H.E. hasn't materialised into the certain #1 on here that some people were predicting.

Amazing top two, thank god T.H.E. hasn't materialised into the certain #1 on here that some people were predicting.

 

 

I just had an inkling that somehow Will.i.am was going to miss :D love the top 2 as well

Amazing top two, thank god T.H.E. hasn't materialised into the certain #1 on here that some people were predicting.

 

It is for the best, not only because the top 2 are both far better than T.H.E (The Hardest Ever) (although I do still like it a lot) but also because they're both bound to sell far, far more than him overall. Cover Drive aside we've so far managed to nicely avoid 'non-#1s' this year, with Alyssa being stopped by Guetta and now will.i.am being stopped by Guetta/Gotye and the 3 #1s before Cover Drive all being genuinely huge hits as well. I do hope we keep this up.

I wonder if there be an upset next week, but somehow I can't see DJ Fresh and Emeli missing the top 2. If Emeli gets #1 next week I'll be happy with the #1s this year bar Cover Drive.

 

 

Madonna at #64

Midweek Charts: Del Rey aiming for second week at top

Source: MW

15:45 | Wednesday February 8, 2012

By Paul Williams

 

Albums

 

The busy week for new albums is also reflected outside the Top 10 with a new Parlophone Pet Shop Boys retrospective, Format – B-sides & B-sides,

 

Music Week 'mistake watch' continues.

 

He means "B-sides and bonus tracks", as printed on the cover. (Widely available on a website near you.)

I wonder if there be an upset next week, but somehow I can't see DJ Fresh and Emeli missing the top 2. If Emeli gets #1 next week I'll be happy with the #1s this year bar Cover Drive.

Madonna at #64

 

 

#64?? OMG! She's doing bad in the UK...

 

Last Sunday, it was not elegible to chart, ok, but it would not have been more than low top 40 with sales of Friday and Saturday (or maybe not even that)

 

But this week, it's one day of sales missing, right, but #64? It's #30 and #94 right now on iTunes... Let's see how it goes through the week, but I doubt it can be more than Top 30-35 maximum by Sunday... and that, for the lead single of Madonna's new album, is very very weak.

 

What are your predictions for this Sunday?

5k between Guetta and Gotye - that's barely anything, I think Gotye could easily be heading for #1 :D We'll see how it looks on Friday anyway.

#64?? OMG! She's doing bad in the UK...

 

Last Sunday, it was not elegible to chart, ok, but it would not have been more than low top 40 with sales of Friday and Saturday (or maybe not even that)

 

But this week, it's one day of sales missing, right, but #64? It's #30 and #94 right now on iTunes... Let's see how it goes through the week, but I doubt it can be more than Top 30-35 maximum by Sunday... and that, for the lead single of Madonna's new album, is very very weak.

 

What are your predictions for this Sunday?

 

If it's #30 and #94 now then it's easily top 30 combined, and both versions are still climbing. Had it not been deleted it would be higher obviously but top 20 by the end of the week is still doable.

Oooh 19 for Air is better than I was expecting!

#64?? OMG! She's doing bad in the UK...

 

Last Sunday, it was not elegible to chart, ok, but it would not have been more than low top 40 with sales of Friday and Saturday (or maybe not even that)

 

But this week, it's one day of sales missing, right, but #64? It's #30 and #94 right now on iTunes... Let's see how it goes through the week, but I doubt it can be more than Top 30-35 maximum by Sunday... and that, for the lead single of Madonna's new album, is very very weak.

 

What are your predictions for this Sunday?

 

 

I don't know why everyone is been negative towards Madonna's new track just because she has charted lower it was bound to be happen with the stupid free thing over the weekend. If she had a full week she would have done better, she lost out on 2 days, and Sunday is usually the big sales day. She might get top 20 at most for this week. Just give the track time it will get there its hardly been out a week yet with sales. Hopefully when the album is out, there be more buzz towards the single.