Posted February 20, 201214 yr Singles - New Releases/Downloads: Gym Class Heroes ft. Neon Hitch and probably a boost for Cher Lloyd and Emeli Sande with Read All About, Pt. III. Albums: Expect old albums to climb with the effect off the BRITs this week with Adele returning to the top of the album chart probably followed by Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande falling to third place. Blur will be receiving the Outstanding Contribution award, their album "Best Of...." or any other album of their back catalogue, later in the week. New album releases from Azari & III, Band Of Skulls, InMe, Lambchop, Perfume Genius, Sleigh Bells. ======================================================= Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic: You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday, if there is any chart info, please provide a source, so the info can be checked out first, we just have to be careful what to post on here on a Tuesday. On Wednesday Radio 1 Chart Top 40 mid update will be posted with links to Radio 1 and any other chart info from MW and OCC from 4pm On Thursdays there will be no mids from MW but any chart info that is found please provide a source. On Friday an update from MW from 11am onwards. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
February 20, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts: Sande leads albums ahead of Brits onslaught Source: MW 15:45 | Wednesday February 22, 2012 By Paul Williams Emeli Sande has taken an early lead in this week’s UK artist albums market, but the expected post-Brits sales surge could change all that with both Adele and Ed Sheeran lining up behind her. Brits Critics' Copice winner Sande’s Virgin album Our Version Of Events, which debuted at number one last Sunday, was around 9,000 sales ahead in this new chart week up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. However, the cut-off point for these midweeks was just two hours after the Brit Awards finished so the chart order could change significantly during the rest of the week with performers and winners on the night expected to be subject to sizable sales lifts. Among those presumed to benefit is double winner Adele whose XL album 21 climbs 3-2 on the latest midweeks, while first album 19 lifts 9-8. The O2 Arena show included her first UK stage performance since she underwent throat surgery. Another big sales beneficiary will likely be Asylum/Atlantic’s Ed Sheeran who performed Lego House and won awards for best British male and newcomer. His album + is currently the week’s fourth top seller, up from five on last Sunday’s chart and a place below Born To Die by Polydor act Lana Del Rey who was also among the winners, being named best international newcomer. Her album was in runners-up spot on last Sunday’s chart. Up from 11-10 currently is Mylo Xyloto by Parlophone’s Coldplay who opened the 2012 Brits and were named best British band, while fellow performer Noel Gallagher’s Sour Marsh-issued Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds is the week to date’s 11th top seller, five places higher than where it was last Sunday. Below it in 12th place is the Island-handled Ceremonials by Florence + The Machine who were also part of the live line-up and were 23 on last Sunday’s chart, while Brits winner and fellow performer Elektra/Atlantic’s Bruno Mars holds his place of 15th achieved on last Sunday’s chart with Doo-Wops & Hooligans. Syco’s best British single winners One Direction drop 13-17 with Up All Night, four places below In Case You Didn’t Know by Epic’s Olly Murs, who performed with Island’s Rizzle Kicks at the ceremony. Rizzle Kicks’ own album Stereo Typical slips 18-23. Outstanding contribution winners Blur’s Food/Parlophone The Best Of is showing up as a new entry at 26, while Brits performer Rihanna’s Def Jam/Mercury-issued Talk That Talk by Rihanna progresses 27-26. Completing the Top 10 positions at this stage of the week are Island act Gotye’s Making Mirrors (down 4-5), Electric Blues’ Band of Skulls who are appearing as a new entry at six with Sweet Sour, Mercury’s Maverick Sabre who drops 6-7 with Lonely Are The Brave and Island/Lava’s Jessie J who falls 8-9 with Who You Are. Among the albums showing up as new entries are releases by Virgin’s Simple Minds, City Slang’s Lamb Chop, Graphite’s Inme and Mom & Pop/Columbia’s Sleigh Bells. Having lost his chart-topping status last Sunday on the UK singles chart, Island’s Gotye could be back there this coming weekend. His Somebody I Used To Know hit with Kimbra has taken an early lead of around 7,000 sales with Virgin act Emeli Sande’s Next To Me at two, where it debuted last Sunday, while Ministry of Sound’s DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora’s Hit Right Now is in third place having started at one last weekend. Two tracks featuring Sia complete the top five sellers: the Atlantic-issued Wild Ones with Flo Rida climbs 5-4 and Titanium with Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta moves the other way. There is only one brand new entry among the Top 40 positions at this stage of the week with the Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic single Ass Back Home by Gym Class Heroes featuring Neon Hitch new at eight. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Gotye/Kimbra (7k ahead) 2 Emeli Sande 3 DJ Fresh/Rita Ora 4 Flo Rida/Sia 5 David Guetta/Sia N/E 8 Gym Class Heroes/Neon Hitch R/E 33 Adele [sLY] R/E 36 Ed Sheeran [TAT] N/E 37 Jason Derulo R/E 40 LMFAO [PRA] =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Emeli Sande [9k ahead] 2 Adele 3 Lana Del Rey 4 Ed Sheeran 5 Gotye N/E 6 Band Of Skulls R/E 14 LMFAO N/E 18 Simple Minds R/E 25 Blur [best Of] N/E 30 Lambchop N/E 31 InMe N/E 34 Sleigh Bells R/E 37 Jay-Z & Kanye West R/E 40 Kasabian
February 20, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts: Adele's 21 on verge of 4 million UK sales Source: MW 10:57 | Friday February 24, 2012 By Paul Williams Adele’s 21 will sometime today become only the eighth album in history to achieve 4 million UK sales and now looks like heading back to number one for a 21st week. Boosted by the XL artist’s Brits performance of Rolling In The Deep and her winning best album and best British female, 21’s sales are 14.3% up on the week and by the end of business on Thursday the album was only about 600 sales short of leading this week’s artist albums market, according to the Official Charts Company. With its cumulative UK sales by midnight on Thursday just around 3,000 short of 4 million, the album was just behind Brits Critics’ Choice winner Emeli Sande’s Virgin’s debut Our Version of Events. Sande’s album debuted at number one last Sunday and has been the biggest seller all this week, but 21 is very likely to have overtaken it by the time the final chart is published this weekend. Double Brit winner Ed Sheeran’s Asylum/Atlantic album + moves 5-3 on the midweeks with a 52% sales rise, while Polydor act Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die falls 2-4 with a 43% sales slide, despite her own Brits win for best international newcomer, and Island act Gotye drops 4-5 with Making Mirrors. Among the Brits contingent, there are sales gains for Parlophone act Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto (up 2.8%), Island’s Florence + The Machine with Ceremonials (up 36.8%) and Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna album Talk That Talk (up 4.1%), but there are week-on-week sales slides so far this week for latest albums by performers Noel Gallagher, Bruno Mars and Olly Murs. This, however, could all change by the time the final chart is published as there are still two days of sales to factor in. Island’s Gotye looks like regaining the singles number one spot he lost last Sunday with Somebody That I Used To Know. The track that then replaced it at number one, the Ministry of Sound-issued Hot Right Now by DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora, is down to three in the new chart week as Virgin act Emeli Sande holds at two with Next To Me. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Top 40 Only Singles 1 Gotye/Kimbra 2 Emeli Sande [NTM] 3 DJ Fresh/Rita Ora 4 Flo Rida/Sia 5 David Guetta/Sia Top 10 7 Nicki Minaj Gym Class Heroes/Neon Hitch 9 Guetta/Nicki Top 15 Ed Sheeran [Drunk] 14 Lana Del Rey [bTD] Top 20 LMFAO [sAIKI] 17 Ed Sheeran [LH] Top 30 Lil Wayne/Bruno Mars Coldplay [Paradise] 23 Rihanna/Calvin Harris 25 Cher Lloyd/Astro Emeli Sande [Heaven] 27 Adele [Rolling In The Deep] 30 Adele [sLY] Top 40 Ed Sheeran [TAT] Coldplay [CB] Jason Derulo ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Emeli Sande 2 Adele [21] 3 Ed Sheeran 4 Lana Del Rey 5 Gotye Top 10 6 Adele [19] Coldplay 10 Florence + The Machine [Ceremonials] Top 15 Noel Gallagher Bruno Mars Band Of Skulls Top 20 Whitney Houston [Essential] LMFAO Blur [TBO] Top 30 21 Rihanna [TTT] Simple Minds Jay-Z & Kanye West 27 Rihanna [Loud] Top 40 Chase & Status Lambchop 37 Florence + The Machine [Lungs] NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Jessie J 5+1 Alyssa Reid 10+1 Kelly Clarkson 10+3 Cover Drive 10+9 Lana Del Rey [VG] 10+10 Olly Murs 20+8 Albums Jessie J 5+4 One Direction 10+5 Rebecca Ferguson 10+6 Olly Murs 10+7 Amy Winehouse 20+8 Katy Perry 20+9 Kelly Clarkson 30+3 Beyonce 30+4
February 20, 201214 yr Expect Sleigh Bells to enter surprisingly highly tomorrow and then plummet with the Brits effect. Had they released last week it could have stayed top 10.
February 20, 201214 yr Neon Hitch deserves to be big :heart: hopefully Ass Back Home is a comfortable top 10 tomorrow :)
February 20, 201214 yr Expect Sleigh Bells to enter surprisingly highly tomorrow and then plummet with the Brits effect. Had they released last week it could have stayed top 10. Not really 'surprisingly' if we're supposed to expect it :lol: Based on iTunes I'd say the 'surprise' top 10 contender is more likely to be Band Of Skulls, although I agree Sleigh Bells will do quite well.
February 21, 201214 yr Blur don't have an album called "Greatest Hits" :P Anyway, I think "Midlife" will go top 20 by Sunday.
February 21, 201214 yr Author Blur don't have an album called "Greatest Hits" :P OK... Best of... :P My top 5 best Blur hits 1 Parklife 2 Country House 3 Coffee & TV 4 Song 2 5 Girls & Boys
February 21, 201214 yr OK... Best of... :P My top 5 best Blur hits 1 Parklife 2 Country House 3 Coffee & TV 4 Song 2 5 Girls & Boys My top 5 are; 1 Parklife 2 Country House 3 Song 2 4 Girls & Boys 5 Coffee & TV (best video) Hopefully Madness next year? it's about time. :angry: Edited February 21, 201214 yr by suggy
February 21, 201214 yr Girls & Boys is my favourite, because it's important to me personally opening the britpop doors to me. But ALL their singles are astounding imo.
February 21, 201214 yr Would be wonderful to see Blur back in the top 10, its ben far too long. My personnel Blur top 5 would be Song 2 Tender Parklife Country House Girls and Boys.
February 21, 201214 yr Damon Albarn in general is an absolute genius - Blur Gorillaz and many other projects showing just how imaginative and unique his music is!!
February 21, 201214 yr Is there anyone who has not bought the Adele album yet??!?!?!?! Where does she get the sales from!
February 21, 201214 yr I love Blur (except for their Think Tank era), my top 5 would have to be: 1. Parklife 2. Tender 3. Girls & Boys 4. Country House 5. The Universal
February 21, 201214 yr What is Adele singing at/in (what is the correct word?) the Brits??? Probably a kaftan
February 21, 201214 yr Blur :wub: I will actually be watching The Brits this year coz of Damon and the boys. Top 5 1. The Universal 2. Beetlebum 3. For Tomorrow 4. PopScene 5. Girls & Boys
February 21, 201214 yr Wonder whether Matt Cardle will chart or if he will chart this week. His EP seems to be holding up steady enough
February 21, 201214 yr I expect Gotye will return to no1, Emeli Sande stay at 2 and DJ Fresh down to 3 in the singles. In the albums, Adele could surprise us all and return to no1 due to Brits effect.
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