February 22, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts: Sande leads albums ahead of Brits onslaught Source: 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 22, 201214 yr Is there anyone who has not bought the Adele album yet??!?!?!?! Where does she get the sales from! UK population, 20 million households(sales 4 million). US 115 Million households(sales 7 million)....plenty to go yet :) Actually, its pretty phenominal that already 20% of households in the UK already own the album. This is a massive figure for music albums, especially after pnly just over a year.
February 22, 201214 yr What I find amazing is that 4 million people have legally bought this album, they've spent their own money on an album which is available for free, which is quickly and easily available with the internet now. Its amazing, the huge sales for Adele right now is so great for the music industry. Huge climbs for Rolling in the Deep & Lego House this week then! Edited February 22, 201214 yr by Karma
February 22, 201214 yr OCC Facebook: Stars of last night’s glittering BRIT Awards ceremony have already begun impacting on today’s Official Chart Update, with singles and album climbs led by Ed Sheeran, Adele, Coldplay, Florence & The Machine and Noel Gallagher. There has also been a raft of re-entries for Outstanding Contribution to Music winners Blur, according to the Official Charts Company. Despite only two hours between the end of last night’s BRIT Awards 2012 live broadcast and the midnight cut-off point for sales counting toward today’s Official Chart Update, BRITs runners and riders are immediately showing signs of a singles and albums ascent. Adele Star of the night and MasterCard British Album of the Year winner Adele, climbs a collective 96 places across her seven singles in the Top 200, with signature tracks Someone Like You (33) and Rolling In The Deep (35) both going Top 40. Winning album 21 climbs one place to Number 2 in what is the album’s 57th week on the chart, having never left the Top 10 since its release. According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Adele is on course to sell over 6 million albums in the UK by the end of this week. Since her career-changing performance at the BRIT Awards with MasterCard in February 2011, someone has bought one of her albums (either her 2008 debut album, 19, or her 2011 record-breaking follow-up, 21) on average, every seven seconds. And with 19 and 21 teetering just below the 2 million and 4 million sales marks, respectively, following her UK live return at The BRITs, sales of her albums should rocket past six million copies in the coming days. Blur Britpop heroes Blur last night treated The O2 to a set of their greatest hits to close the 2012 ceremony. The winners of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Music prize this morning have no less than four re-entries into the Official Singles Chart Update Top 200 – Song 2 (83), Parklife (104), Girls And Boys (127) and Tender (187) were all performed by the band at the show. Their new album release this week, The Best Of Blur, also enters the Update Top 40 at Number 25, with sales of these records expected to further surge ahead of Sunday’s final tally. Ed Sheeran Winner of the gongs for Best British Male Solo and British Breakthrough, Ed Sheeran bounces a collective 97 places north in the singles race. Lego House, the track performed by the Suffolk singer/songwriter yesterday climbs 22 places, breaking into the Top 20 at Number 15. Best British Single-nominated The A Team also journeys 29 places to Number 36. Coldplay British Group winners Coldplay make it a total five singles and five albums in today’s Top 200, with Mylo Xyloto (the album that broke Official Charts records for becoming the fastest selling digital album in history upon its release back in October 2011, today re-enters the Top 10 at Number 10, with show opener Charlie Brown catapulting 51 places to 64. Florence & The Machine Elsewhere, after Florence & The Machine‘s powerful performance of No Light No Light, the influential singer notches up an 11 place ascent for each of her two studio albums, with latest release Ceremonials on course to go Top 20 this weekend, currently resting at 12 today. Rihanna Rihanna’s We Found Love bounces up seven places to 27 while ex-Oasis man Noel Gallagher and His High Flying Birds leaps 126 places to 53 with their performed track AKA What A Life. Emeli Sande BRITS Critics’ Choice winner Emeli Sande is set to hold on to her Number 2 spot for a second week running with single Next To Me, as well as climbing 11 places to Number 24 with her 2011 debut single Heaven. Her album Our Version Of Events also looks set to hold on to the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart.
February 22, 201214 yr Album chart top 5, entries and notable movers: 40 re Kasaboian - Velociraptor 37 re Jay-Z & Kanye West - The Throne 34 ne Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror 31 ne InMe - The Pride 30 ne Lambchop - Mr M 25 re Blur - The Best Of 18 ne Simple Minds - X5 14 re LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking 06 ne Band of Skulls - Sweet Sour 36 12 Paul McCartney - Kisses On The Bottom 24 07 Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits 22 40 Whitney Houston - The Essential 20 22 Ben Howard - Every Kingdom 19 20 Black Keys - El Camino 12 23 Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials 11 16 Noel Gallagher's... - Noel Gallagher's... 05 04 Gotye - Making Mirrors 04 05 Ed Sheeran - + 03 02 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die 02 03 Adele - 21 01 01 Emeli Sande - Our Version of Events
February 22, 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. Ooops :(
February 22, 201214 yr I called Band Of Skulls being top 10 :P They obviously won't hold it though. Shame to see Sleigh Bells so low, it'll be very lucky to hold onto the top 40 :( Watch The Throne back in the top 40 :cheer: Hopefully Niggas In Paris will also join the top 40 by Sunday.
February 22, 201214 yr 21 #2 + #4 19 #9 Mylo #10 Noel #11 Ceremonials #12 Big impact on the chart for albums already :o Adele possibly back at #1 for its 21st week for 21 on Sunday?
February 22, 201214 yr I call 21 at #1 on Sunday - maybe even over 100k? (would probably have to be to beat Emeli!)
February 22, 201214 yr Gotye's album is holding up surprisingly well! I assumed it would be high peak then plummet. Adele's sales are completely nuts, she could potentially pass Queen / Beatles as biggest album ever if it keeps going.
February 22, 201214 yr I call 21 at #1 on Sunday - maybe even over 100k? (would probably have to be to beat Emeli!) Really? :o That much? Would be brilliant, hope you're right! What were Lana's second week album sales? I know Emeli may have a fair bit more as she won last night too, but i was thinking more 60-70K, maybe 80K at a push..100K sounds good to me though. :dance:
February 22, 201214 yr Adele's Album is on its 21st No.1 Week in the USA. Incredibly, it had its biggest ever USA Weekly Sales, for that 21st Week - 730,000! It has sold well over 7 Million there, now. And '19' has a New Peak there - No.4. So, she has 2 Albums in the USA Top 4. The reason why 'Sexy & I Know It' is doing so well again, is due to the Media attention that the GB Diving Team is giving it. Tom Daley, (blue shorts), & Chris Mears, (0.38, 0.50 etc), & the other members of the GB Team. (Chris is 19, & nearly died in a Training accident in 2009). LINK:, Like many people, I had no interest in the LMFAO Single until I saw the GB Diving Team Spoof of it. :wub: Edited February 22, 201214 yr by zeus555
February 22, 201214 yr The reason why 'Sexy & I Know It' is doing so well again, is due to the Media attention that the GB Diving Team is giving it. Tom Daley, (blue shorts), & Chris Mears, (0.38, 0.50 etc), & the other members of the GB Team. (Chris is 19, & nearly died in a Training accident in 2009). Or far more likely that they performed both of their singles on the Jonathan Ross show on Saturday evening. The only time I've seen any reference to that spoof is by you....
February 22, 201214 yr Gotye's album is holding up surprisingly well! I assumed it would be high peak then plummet. Adele's sales are completely nuts, she could potentially pass Queen / Beatles as biggest album ever if it keeps going. Oh, I didn't even notice Goitye's abum still bing top 5 - he could actually end up with fairly respectable album sales at this rate (although I can't see him being any more than a one hit wonder, albeit with a VERY big single hit).
February 22, 201214 yr Like most of the UK I don't watch Jonathan Ross. (2.3 Million viewers & declining, I hear). The Tom Daley Spoof has had a lot of attention on Radio 1, ITV News, UK Press etc. It is likely a combination of the 2 things that has caused a renewal of interest in the LMFAO No.5 Hit from 2011. Edited February 22, 201214 yr by zeus555
February 22, 201214 yr *sigh* @ the falls in the album chart (Rebecca Ferguson and Kelly Clarkson in particular). :(
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