Posted March 19, 201214 yr Chart News: Singles 1 Katy Perry 2 Sean Paul 3 Labrinth 21704 4 Gotye/Kimbra 5 JLS Top 40 Angel/Wretch 32 - 2836 Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/mrviews +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Paul Weller 14953 6 Shins 4669 ? Miike Snow 2504 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ New Releases Singles: Katy Perry, Labrinth, JLS, Sean Paul, You Me At Six, Angel/Wretch 32 Climbers: Olly Murs [OMG], Florence + The Machine Albums: The Band Perry, Hue & Cry, Marlon Roudette, Miike Snow, Missing Andy, Paul Weller, Shins +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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.
March 19, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts: Weller's chart-topping bid kicks into life Source: MW 15:45 | Wednesday March 21, 2012 By Paul Williams Paul Weller has taken an early lead with Sonik Kicks in his quest for a fourth solo chart-topper on the UK albums chart as Katy Perry bids for a third number one single. Weller’s newly-issued Island set was around 7,000 sales ahead of Decca’s Military Wives album In My Dreams up to the end of business on Tuesday with David Guetta’s Positiva/Virgin-issued Nothing But The Beat a few hundred sales further behind in third place, according to Official Charts Company Data. Katy Perry has mounted a similar lead in the singles market with her brand new Virgin single Part Of Me, which heads what is currently a top three made up entirely of new entries. Around 8,000 sales behind Perry in second place at present is Atlantic’s Sean Paul with She Doesn’t Mind, while Syco’s Labrinth completes the top-three entries with Last Time cropping up in third spot. Back on albums and Columbia’s US rock band The Shins are looking to score their first ever UK Top 10 album with fourth studio set Port Of Morrow. At the moment it appears as a new entry in eight, having sold around 6,000 copies up to the end of Tuesday. Former chart toppers Our Version Of Events by Virgin’s Emeli Sande and 21 by XL’s Adele join Weller, Military Wives and Guetta among the week so far’s top five sellers, moving 2-4 and 3-5 respectively, while Polydor’s Lana Del Rey climbs 8-6 with Born To Die, Ed Sheeran drops 6-7 with Asylum/Atlantic debut +, Bruce Springsteen’s Columbia set Wrecking Ball slips 5-9 and Parlophone act Coldplay move back up 12-10 with Mylo Xyloto. Having debuted at four last Sunday with Home Again, Polydor’s BBC Sound Of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka slips in this new chart week out of the Top 10 positions as he has the 11th top seller at this stage. X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins also looks like losing his Top 10 status after a week with his self-titled RCA debut slipping 7-14 in the midweeks. This coming Sunday’s chart will include new entries from Columbia’s Miike Snow and Odd Future, Faithless with a live album on their Nate’s Tunes label and Mercury’s US country act The Band Perry. In the singles market JLS will join Katy Perry, Sean Paul and Labrinth by also landing a new entry in the Top 10 with the RCA-issued Proud presently the week’s fifth top seller. A couple of thousand sales ahead of it in fourth place is Island’s Gotye featuring Kimbra single Somebody That I Used To Know, which achieved its fifth non-consecutive week at number one last Sunday. The Top 10 in the week to date is completed by Cash Money/Island’s Nicki Minaj dropping 2-6 with Starships, Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta featuring Sia with Titanium slipping 6-7, the Atlantic-issued Wild Ones by Flo Rida featuring Sia ascending 5-8, Emeli Sande’s Virgin single Next To Me down 4-9 and another Guetta single Turn Me On, featuring Nicki Minaj, moving 8-10. Outside the Top 10 Virgin’s You Me At Six are new at 19 currently with The Swarm, while Angel and Wretch 32’s newly-issued Island single Go In Go Hard is 35th. =================================================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles N/E 1 Katy Perry (8k ahead) N/E 2 Sean Paul N/E 3 Labrinth 4 Gotye/Kimbra N/E 5 JLS UP 14 Jason Mraz N/E 19 You Me At Six N/E 35 Angel/Wretch 32 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums N/E 1 Paul Weller (7k ahead) 2 Military Wives 3 David Guetta 4 Emeli Sande 5 Adele UP 6 Lana Del Rey N/E 8 Shins UP 10 Coldplay UP 12 Gotye N/E 16 Miike Snow UP 19 Bruno Mars UP 24 Black Keys UP 25 LMFAO N/E 29 Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All N/E 31 Faithless N/E 40 Band Perry http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print
March 19, 201214 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Norton aids Guetta sales lift Source: MW 10:38 | Friday March 23, 2012 By Paul Williams David Guetta’s weekly album sales have more than doubled on the back of his appearance on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show as he chases the market’s early leaders Paul Weller and Military Wives. The French DJ’s Positiva/Virgin album Nothing But The Beat is the week to date’s third biggest artist album, according to Official Charts Company Data, having been in ninth place on last Sunday’s chart. Its sales are up 104% on the week and by the end of business on Thursday it was just two hundred sales behind Decca’s Military Wives album In My Dreams in second place as Paul Weller’s newly-issued Island set Sonik Kicks sat at one around 5,500 sales further ahead. Guetta performed Titanium on Norton’s show last Friday and its sales are also benefiting as a result, up 24% on the week, although it still drops 6-7 on the midweek rankings as there are four brand new entries ahead of it. Virgin act Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events is placed fourth in the latest midweeks, having been runner-up on last weekend’s chart, while Adele’s second XL set 21 drops 3-5. Three of the singles market’s top four sellers are new releases, the biggest being Virgin act Katy Perry’s Part Of Me whose sales have also been helped by BBC One exposure as she performed the track on last Saturday’s final of Let’s Dance For Sport Relief. It had sold 60,000 copies up to the end of Thursday, 10,000 ahead of Sean Paul’s brand new Atlantic single She Doesn’t Mind in second place, while Gotye featuring Kimbra’s Island-issued Somebody That I Used To Know is down to three having spent a fifth non-consecutive week at number one last Sunday. Labrinth’s new Syco single Last Time is showing up as a new entry at four, while Cash Money/Island’s Nicki Minaj drops 2-5 with Starships. This is just ahead of JLS’s newly-released RCA single Proud, which is new at six. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Katy Perry (60k) 2 Sean Paul (50K) 3 Gotye/Kimbra 4 Labrinth 5 Nicki Minaj Top 10 6 JLS Top 15 Jason Mraz Top 20 19 You Me At Six Top 30 28 Florence + The Machine Top 40 Angel/Wretch 32 Tyga ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Paul Weller (5,5k ahead) 2 Military Wives 3 David Guetta 4 Emeli Sande 5 Adele Top 10 9 Coldplay Shins Top 20 Bruno Mars Justin Fletcher Black Keys Top 30 Miike Snow LMFAO One Direction Top 40 Odd Future Katy Perry Faithless 40 Madonna [Celebration] NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Alexandra 10+1 Jessie J 10+5 Kelly C 10+10 Marcus 11+11 Swedish House Mafia 10+7 Rihanna [TTT] 20+9 Rihanna [WFL] 30+6 Albums Lana 3+3 Marcus 7+7 Katie M 10+6 Adele [19] 10+8 Noel Gallagher 20+7 Will Young 20+8 Rihanna [TTT] 30+1 Rebecca F 30+5 Kelly C 30+7 Katy Perry 30+8
March 20, 201214 yr Author Its going to be a long wait to find out if Katy Perry is #1 unless something gets leaked out today on twitter or some place. Sean Paul seems to be the dark horse this week, never expected it to really take off. JLS will probably redeem themselves at the end of the week with the live Sport Relief show on Friday, at the moment they seem to be out of the #1 contention without a doubt, probably finish between #6 to #10 Paul Weller is in contention of a #1 album, with Emeli close behind.
March 20, 201214 yr Paul Weller's last two albums opened with 58k and 54k, so he should be fine for #1 with the post-Mother's Day slump.
March 20, 201214 yr Twitter MIDWEEKS! Gotye smashed off the #1 spot by Katy Perry, Sean Paul and Labrinth! JLS top 5! Stooshe still top 20! ANGEL in top 40! Madness https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/mrviews Edited March 20, 201214 yr by Sunday
March 20, 201214 yr Author Twitter MIDWEEKS! Gotye smashed off the #1 spot by Katy Perry, Sean Paul and Labrinth! JLS top 5! Stooshe still top 20! ANGEL in top 40! Madness https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/mrviews Thanks... all new top 3 nice
March 20, 201214 yr Twitter Music producer WK11 MIDWEEK ALBUM: PAUL WELLER - SONIK KICKS @ 1, SALES 14953. SHINS - PORT OF MORROW @ 6, SALES 4669. MIIKE SNOW - HAPPY TO YOU SALES 2504 Edit to remove my previous post ( not sure of the person who tweeted it) Edited March 20, 201214 yr by Sunday
March 20, 201214 yr The same producer https://mobile.twitter.com/#!/oneBlackRussian WK11 MIDWEEK CHARTS: ANGEL FT. WRETCH 32 - GO IN GO HARD @ No 34 SALES: 2,863. LABRINTH - LAST CALL @ No. 3 Sales: 21,704 @ChrisPatrick1 Edited March 20, 201214 yr by Sunday
March 20, 201214 yr More than good - it's absolutely :rofl: I think the appeal of charity singles has begun to wear off now. That Robbie Williams one a few years back didn't even go top 40, The Collective for Children in Need only peaked at #24 despite high-profile artists appearing on it and even the JLS and One Direction'd X Factor Finalist single didn't stick around for long. The thing I find most amusing about JLS apparent 'flop' of a single, is that they moved so quickly away from their third album and 'Do You Feel What I Feel?' because an opportunity arose for them to get another #1 (charity single) - but now it looks set to do worse than any of their other lead (and second) singles on week one.
March 20, 201214 yr If "Proud" underperforms, their chance of getting another smash hit ever again are quite slim. The Shins have sold less than I thought but should stay comfortably in top 15.
March 20, 201214 yr I think the appeal of charity singles has begun to wear off now. That Robbie Williams one a few years back didn't even go top 40, The Collective for Children in Need only peaked at #24 despite high-profile artists appearing on it and even the JLS and One Direction'd X Factor Finalist single didn't stick around for long. The thing I find most amusing about JLS apparent 'flop' of a single, is that they moved so quickly away from their third album and 'Do You Feel What I Feel?' because an opportunity arose for them to get another #1 (charity single) - but now it looks set to do worse than any of their other lead (and second) singles on week one. I agree completely! For one, people are saying that JLS will climb up to and on the day of the Sport Relief show but the last Sport Relief single that was done by Robbie Williams missed the top 40 even though he has undeniably got a larger fanbase than JLS. To me it just seems that whenever there is a chance to get a number 1 single on the back of charity JLS are straight there under the pretence that they are doing us a favour by bringing out a charity song. With any luck they'll follow Westlife's end in the not too distant future :dance: If "Proud" underperforms, their chance of getting another smash hit ever again are quite slim. It's about time that they knew that they cant just release rubbish songs and rushed albums and expect to make it to number 1 just because they have a teenage girl fanbase. This and TACOM failure to go top after extensive promo is a wake up call to them to put more effort and time into making music. Edited March 20, 201214 yr by jay727
March 20, 201214 yr I'm finding all this bashing of JLS a bit cruel really TBH, most of it under the pretence of all this One Direction/The Wanted in America hype. They don't deserve it. I'd love to see it climb to top 3 before Sunday if not to shut a few people up who are trying to write them off like a bunch of cackling old witches.
March 20, 201214 yr The thing with bands that operate in the pop field (more so than many other genres) is that they live and die by chart positions so a relative success by most standards is viewed as a failure in that small branch of pop. That's why everything is geared towards no 1 singles, and as a result they can look calculated which turns people against them quicker than your average indie bands for example. It's sad to see any UK band struggle, but I suspect/ history suggests the writing is on the wall now.
March 20, 201214 yr The problem is with JLS is that their fanbase is getting older, and/or growing out of them. Boybands can only usually sustain a career for 3-4 years before that happens, and there really can't be more than two competing ones at the same time. I honestly think JLS are over.
March 20, 201214 yr Well I expect them to at least have a year off after their next album as their album sales are down year on year, suppose they have a couple more charity songs in them before they hang it up
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