Posted May 21, 201213 yr New Releases - Singles: The Wanted, Jennifer Lopez/Pitbull, Paloma Faith, Pitbull Climbers: Professor Green/Ruth Anne New Releases - Albums Tom Jones, Chromatics, The Cult, fun., The Enemy, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Mac Miller, Paul Buchanan, Saint Etienne, Temper Trap. Its also Eurovision Song Contest week, keep your eyes peeled for some obscure Eurovision tracks making an appearance on iTunes. ======================================================= 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.
May 21, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts: Bonamassa and Mayer lead albums Source: MW 16:20 | Wednesday May 23, 2012 By Paul Williams Joe Bonamassa and John Mayer are poised to take advantage of the weak artist albums market by claiming high chart entries and the biggest UK hits of their careers. Blues rock guitarist Bonamassa and fellow American Mayer are currently occupying the top two positions on the latest midweeks taking in buying up to the end of Tuesday, according to Official Charts Company Data. For Bonamassa, whose Provogue label issued Driving Towards The Daylight is at this stage of the week showing up as a new entry at one, it will mark by far his highest chart position yet in the UK. His current peak is 12, achieved by his last album Dust Pool in 2011. Mayer is also heading for a new chart peak with his newly-released Columbia album Born And Raised, which is currently in second place, easily set to beat his UK chart peak of 35 managed by 2009 album Battle Studies. Also set to make a high debut is former Blue Nile frontman Paul Buchanan who previously reached number 10 when part of the band with High in 2004, while his Newsroom-issued solo set Mid Air appears as a new entry at eight in the week to date. Ahead of him The Enemy’s third album and first on Cooking Vinyl, Streets In The Sky, is new at four, while there are two other brand new albums presently among the Top 10 positions. Tom Jones' latest Island album Spirit In The Room is seventh and Fueled By Ramen/Atlantic act Fun’s debut Some Nights is ninth, while the Reprise/Rhino Bee Gees retrospective Number Ones has moved 34-6 as part of a wave of tribute buying for Robin Gibb who passed away at the weekend. Another Reprise/Rhino Bee Gees album, The Ultimate, arrives in 32nd place. The only albums in the Top 10 on last Sunday’s chart to still be there at this stage of the week are XL act Adele’s 21, which climbs 4-3 with week-on-week sales up 23%, Virgin artist Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events dropping 3-5 and Island act Keane’s Strangeland sinking to 10th place after spending a second week at one last weekend. The Cooking Vinyl-issued Choice Of Weapon, the first new studio album from The Cult since 2007’s Born Into This, registers at this point in the week as a new entry at 12, while Australian band The Temper Trap’s self-titled second Infectious album is new at 14. The UMC/Universal album Words And Music by Saint Etienne, their first studio set since 2005’s Tales From Turnpike House, is 19th and former Guns N’ Roses man Slash further adds to the high number of new entries with his second solo set Apocalyptic Love, released by Roadrunner, currently ranked 20th. Hearmusic/Universal re-issue of Paul and Linda McCartney 1971 chart-toping Ram is 26th. Other albums set to debut this coming weekend includes sets from Kaleidoscope’s Heather Peace, Virgin’s Eric Prydz and former Supergrass man Gaz Coombes with a solo set through the Hot Fruit label. Global Talent/Island’s The Wanted could be heading for their third UK number one single following All Time Low and Glad You Came with newly-released Chasing The Sun around 10,000 sales ahead of its closest challenger, Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen single We Are Young by Fun featuring Janelle Monae. Interscope/Polydor act Carly Rae Jepsen is currently holding her position of three attained on last Sunday’s chart with Call Me Maybe as is Island act Alex Clare at four with Too Close, while the Columbia/Roc Nation single R.I.P. by Rita Ora featuring Tinie Tempah slips 1-5. Having switched Sony labels from Epic to RCA, Paloma Faith is on course to claim her highest position on the UK singles chart with Picking Up The Pieces currently registering at six after she performed it on last weekend’s The Voice results show. Her current peak is 15, achieved by New York in 2009. Island’s Gotye featuring Kimbra single Somebody That I Used To Know moves back up 10-7, while a year after topping the chart with On The Floor the combination of Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull is new at eight presently with the RCA-handles track Dance Again. The midweek Top 10 singles is completed by Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna slipping 6-9 with Where Have You Been and Columbia act Train falling 8-10 with Drive By. ==================================================================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Wanted* (10k ahead) 2 fun./Janelle Monae 3 Carly Rae Jepsen 4 Alex Clare 5 Rita Ora/Tinie Tempah 6-10 6 Gotye/Kimbra 7 Paloma Faith* 8 Jennifer Lopez/Pitbull 11-20 14 Calvin Harris 18 Emeli Sande 20 Professor Green/Ruth Anne 21-30 24 Gavin DeGraw* 26 Coldplay & Rihanna 27 Skrillex 31-40 33 Martin Solveig* 34 Pitbull* 36 Jay-Z & Kanye West (Re) 38 Newton Faulkner* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...-number-1-1407/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Joe Bonamassa* 2 John Mayer* 3 Adele 4 The Enemy* 5 Emeli Sande 6-10 6 Bee Gees 7 Tom Jones* 8 Paul Buchanan* 9 fun.* 11-20 12 The Cult* 14 The Temper Trap* 19 Saint Etienne* 20 Slash* 21-30 24 Heather Peace* 26 Paul & Linda McCartney* 31-40 32 Bee Gees [ultimate] (Re) 33 Eric Prydz* 40 Gaz Coombes* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...ple-keane-1407/ * New Entry
May 21, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Bee Gees heading for Top 10 Source: MW 11:24 | Friday May 25, 2012 By Paul Williams The Bee Gees are on course to return to the UK artist albums chart’s Top 10 this weekend as part of a wave of tribute buying for Robin Gibb. The Gibb brothers’ Reprise/Rhino retrospective Number Ones is currently ranked as the week’s fifth biggest seller, according to the Official Charts Company, having been placed in 34th position on last Sunday’s chart. The Ultimate, another Reprise/Rhino best of, is showing up as an entry at 28 in the latest Sales Flashes, while a handful of Bee Gees hits have entered the lower reaches of the midweek singles Top 200, led in 98th place by their 1987 chart-topper You Win Again. Also registering in the chart at this stage of the week are Stayin’ Alive, How Deep Is Your Love, Massachusetts and Night Fever. There are close battles for number one on both artist albums and singles with fewer than 1,000 sales between frontrunners Joe Bonamassa and John Mayer on albums and Fun featuring Janelle Monae making ground on The Wanted on singles. Bonamassa’s Provogue album Driving Towards The Light currently leads a Top 10 where, up until the end of business on Thursday, there were only around 5,000 sales separating the first and 10th biggest sellers. The sales difference between albums in the top five was down to just 2,400 units with Mayer’s newly-issued Columbia album Born And Raised second, XL’s Adele third with 21, Emeli Sande’s Virgin album Our Version Of Events fourth and the Bee Gees fifth. All five could realistically top Sunday’s chart. Alongside Bonamassa and Mayer, there are four other acts with brand new albums registering in the Top 10 at this stage of the week with Fun’s Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen album Some Nights sixth, Tom Jones’ second Island set Spirit In The Room seventh, The Enemy’s first Cooking Vinyl album Streets In The Sky ninth and former Blue Nile frontman Paul Buchanan’s Newsroom-issued Mid Air 10th. On singles The Wanted at the beginning of the week had looked poised to score a third UK number one with the newly-issued Global Talent/Island track Chasing The Sun, but it is not so clear cut now. Having had a sales lead of 46% over Fun featuring Janelle Monae’s Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen issued We Are Young on the week’s first Sales Flashes on Tuesday, the boy band’s sales are now just 8% ahead or around 4,000 units. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 The Wanted (4k ahead) 2 fun./Janelle Monae 3 4 5 Top 10 Top 15 Top 20 Top 30 Top 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Joe Bonamassa (1k ahead) 2 John Mayer 3 Adele 4 Emeli Sande 5 Bee Gees Top 10 Tom Jones The Enemy Paul Buchanan Top 15 Top 20 Top 30 Bee Gees [ultimate] Top 40 NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Albums
May 22, 201213 yr The Wanted will be number 1 initially but this is the week i think Fun will finally make number 1. In the albums i can see Keane dropping to around number 8.
May 22, 201213 yr The Wanted will be number 1 initially but this is the week i think Fun will finally make number 1. In the albums i can see Keane dropping to around number 8. I don't think Keane will be that low by the weekend but tomorrow there could be a fair few new entries ahead of them that'll fall back. No idea who'll be #1, John Mayer if iTunes is to be believed. I'll back him if only because he has my last name :P
May 22, 201213 yr I actually don't want fun to get to #1 becauese I want them to be this year's "Move like Jagger" or "love the way you lie", but I think they'll make it unless The Wanted pull out some major promo twds the week (which might be doubtful, aren't they in the US?).
May 22, 201213 yr I don't think Keane will be that low by the weekend but tomorrow there could be a fair few new entries ahead of them that'll fall back. No idea who'll be #1 It has to be the Bee Gees, surely?
May 22, 201213 yr The Wanted will be number 1 initially but this is the week i think Fun will finally make number 1. Depends how many bundles The Wanted sell, not to mention physicals (if any).
May 22, 201213 yr I reckon the wanted will snatch it even by Sunday and fun will just miss out. Bee Gees for number one album please. RIP Robin Gibb :cry:
May 22, 201213 yr The Wanted have never opened up much of a lead on iTunes and it is now narrowing. I think they'll be ahead tomorrow but fun. could overhaul them by Sunday. It depends largely on how many Wanted fans are prepared to fork out three quid for the CD.
May 22, 201213 yr 7/10 new albums in the top ten, with Adele still there! :lol: John Mayer is #2. From Twitter.
May 22, 201213 yr The Wanted should have a significant lead in the first midweeks as their EP debuted @ #1 on the iTunes album chart (plus it remained #1 on the album chart for most of Sunday and is only now looking to drop out the top 10) therefore will have accumulated significant sales from that alone, which added to the iTunes lead of c. 10-15% going into Tuesday am should see it at least 20% if not more ahead of Fun. I hope Fun do it though as The Wanted are quite frankly dire and their "success" completely confuses me. I think Fun's lead on iTunes by the end of the week will be quite big but it will need to be to overhaul TW. Think it'll be another close one.
May 22, 201213 yr It has to be the Bee Gees, surely? You would imagine, but their singles are hardly lighting up the charts.
May 22, 201213 yr 21 could rise in sales again following another repeat of her royal albert hall performance at the weekend!
May 22, 201213 yr failing a bee gees surge we could be on for another sub 20k chart topper this week!
May 22, 201213 yr failing a bee gees surge we could be on for another sub 20k chart topper this week! I agree but i think Tom Jones may sell pretty well with the voice exposure too. Least the Scissors should sell 40k plus next week
May 22, 201213 yr 7/10 new albums in the top ten, with Adele still there! :lol: John Mayer is #2. From Twitter. Hmm so this should be 7 of these 8 i guess : Bee Gees ? The Enemy – Streets In The Sky Eric Prydz – Pryda Far East Movement – Dirty Bass fun. – Some Nights John Mayer - Born And Raised The Temper Trap - The Temper Trap Tom Jones - Spirit In The Room
May 22, 201213 yr Author Paul Kramer @Paulhitsheet Random top 3 album midweeks ever - Joe Bonamassa; John Mayer & the amazing Paul Buchanan! Must keep Paul in the Top 10 - Spread the word https://twitter.com/?iid=am-156194753213374...search/midweeks That's what I call random
May 22, 201213 yr Joe Bonamassa has ANOTHER album? I swear he releases a new album every few months or so... very WTF #1 there assuming that's what the tweet meant. John Mayer's album was doing really well on pre-orders the other day so not too surprising to see it this high, but then his last album only got to about #35 IIRC - and I assume that's Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile (2004 #10 album) 'fame'? Very bizarre top 3, although I guess that's bound to happen with such pathetic sales at the top of the chart. I assume the other four new entries in the top 10 are fun., Tom Jones, The Temper Trap and The Enemy and the three albums hanging on are 21, Our Version Of Events and Strangeland (or perhaps Bee Gees have climbed in).
May 22, 201213 yr La La Love for the fastest selling single ever so despite only 2 hours of sales on Saturday night after hopefully a performance in the final, it still gets #1! :kink:
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