May 23, 201214 yr Not happy to see The Wanted 10k ahead of fun. as that could be enough to keep them #1 all week. :( It'll have one of the sharpest drops from #1 next week if it does make it, thus giving the UK another genuine non #1 single. Yay!!! :) :P
May 23, 201214 yr I can see Fun topping the chart next week if they fail to do so this week. There's only Alexandra challenging, although Gary Barlow could throw a spanner in the works :puke2:
May 23, 201214 yr Rambling commentary time. Lots of new entries on both charts = very long commentary. I must stop doing this :kink: 10k lead for Chasing The Sun is much bigger than I expected but I'd still be very surprised if they held on now :( I really hope they do of course, although at least it's not something really awful at #2 and it will be great to see fun. finally at #1 - just not so much at the expense of The Wanted's best single to date. Call Me Maybe on for an eighth straight week in the top 3 - would be the sixth song of the decade to do that (after 'Party Rock Anthem', 'Someone Like You' (both 8), 'Moves Like Jagger', 'We Found Love' (both 9) and 'Somebody That I Used To Know' (10)). It's already the sixth song of the decade to do 7 weeks in the top 3 though. Three other songs - 'Fireflies', 'OMG' and 'Price Tag' - have done 6 weeks top 3. Ouch at Rita dropping to #5 after two weeks at #1, although she did top the chart last week entirely by default - seems to be doing a 'Start Without You' :( Hopefully it'll have a BIT more longevity than that! Seems weird to see Paloma Faith all the way up at #6 when 'Stone Cold Sober' and 'New York' seemed like they'd be that big but never were. I would be surprised if Paloma's new album is anywhere near as big as DYWTTOSB? though. Gotye going back up to #7 in his eighteenth week top 10 is unbelievable. I thought his top 10 run was over after 14 but it's still going strong, could it even reach 20 weeks at this rate? Great to see it already ahead of 'Dance Again', really disappointing after 'On The Floor', I hope it drops to #10 or lower by Sunday. Great to see 'Let's Go' going back up a bit, probably helped by the nice weather (it sounds really good with the sun out and whatnot). Woo for Remedy looking like being a top 20 hit, growing on me quite fast now. Gavin DeGraw looks pretty certain to reach a new peak, it kept climbing much longer than I expected on iTunes (although hasn't gone up from #14 for a while). Nice progress for 'Princess Of China' and 'Bangarang', the latter will definitely become Skrillex's biggest hit this week, but I think 'Summit' could still do even better if he gives it a push. 'Princess Of China' may come close to re-peaking 'Charlie Brown' this week also. Martin Solveig comfortably top 40 at this stage is surprising, I thought he might sneak in at like #39 on the mids before dropping out on Sunday - he might hold on now especially as he's still climbing on iTunes (now #35). 'Back In Time' should be a lot higher than #35 on Sunday and I think it will become a big hit within a few weeks. Haven't heard it yet though. YES @ Niggas In Paris re-entering the top 40 :cheer: Hopefully 'No Church In The Wild' will join it next week. I'm guessing sales of Newton Faulkner's 'Sketches' EP (top 10 on iTunes albums) are all being combined to 'Write It On Your Skin', strange that it's not charting under the EP title if that's the case. Will definitely drop out anyway. I really like 'Dream Catch Me' but not too fond of any of his other songs. -x- Adele could definitely be in with a chance of returning to #1 for an 8th run and 24th week with her only being behind two new releases so far - Joe Bonamassa and John Mayer are not exactly likely to be shifting tons, with neither of them having previously touched the top 10, so I think it's likely they're both only barely ahead at this stage. OCC providing some sales info would have been helpful. Joe Bonamassa staying #1 would be quite good though for the sheer randomness of it - and maybe another contender to beat Christina's drop from #1 :P Tons of new entries this week - 10 of them in the top 20 alone :o It'd be appropriate for The Enemy to stay #4 as then their discography would go 1-2-4, but I suspect they'll retreat to the lower top 10 like The Cribs did. Quite disappointing to see Bee Gees as low as #6 (and #32) in such a low sales environment, maybe they'll climb into the top 5 when The Enemy drop out though. Tom Jones underperforming a bit considering his last album got to #2 with little promotion and he has some big obvious promotion this time (although I don't think he's mentioned that he has a new album on the show). fun. underperforming a bit as well, one-hit wonders - as they'll probably be - don't tend to sell albums of course but I thought their album would do closer to a 'Making Mirrors' than an 'Ocean Eyes'! If it's true Paul Buchanan was #3 yesterday then he's incredibly frontloaded to be down to #8 already. I didn't know this album even existed until yesterday though to be fair :P Similar to Rita on the singles chart but even more extreme, Keane currently at #10 after two weeks at #1 - could this be the first album to ever drop from multiple weeks at #1 to outside the top 10 under normal circumstaces? I know a George Michael album fell to #18 after about 6 weeks at #1 before but that was due to shortages. #14 is quite good for The Temper Trap's new album as 'Need Your Love' completely failed to do anything - I think it would be a lot lower at this stage if it weren't for the recent mini-revival of 'Sweet Disposition'. Don't much care for The Cult, Saint Etienne or Slash - the latter I thought would be a lot higher considering his iTunes position but if it's download only then that makes sense. His last album also started download only. Huge drop for the Tenacious D album so it's a good thing that it missed #1 really (not that Keane's drop is much less bad :P) 'Watch The Throne' all the way back up to #22 :D Maybe a top 20 return if some of the newies fall behind it? Woo etc. at Adele '19' going back up yet again to #31, 107th week in the top 40 this week. No doubt '21' will overtake '19' in those stakes when it finally gets the chance to as it's not going from the top 40 any time soon with a certain 70th week in the top 10 alone :P Heather Peace is the second token 'who?' new entry of the week, after Paul Buchanan. Chartstats tells me she had a #56 single in 2000. Gaz Coombes was also initially a third 'who?', but I obviously have heard of Supergrass. 'Pryda' seems to be Eric Prydz' first album release - that took him a while :o (That's it :kink:) Edited May 23, 201214 yr by Bré
May 23, 201214 yr The Wanted will still get No.1 this week. fun will get it next week as only contender is Alexdandra. Week after that......
May 23, 201214 yr I know a George Michael album fell to #18 after about 6 weeks at #1 before but that was due to shortages. Can't find it on ChartStats
May 23, 201214 yr Can't find it on ChartStats That'd be because it's George Harrison, not George Michael :kink: I got half of it right! http://chartarchive.org/r/37052 It was 8 weeks at #1 as well.
May 23, 201214 yr That'd be because it's George Harrison, not George Michael :kink: I got half of it right! http://chartarchive.org/r/37052 It was 8 weeks at #1 as well. There was a postal strike on at that time that meant no data was collected for a number of weeks so GH was awarded the No 1 spot as he was the last No 1 pre the strike (if you know what I mean). When the strike was over new data was collected and he "fell" from No 1 but in reality he probably wasn't No 1 for lots of weeks in between.
May 23, 201214 yr There was a postal strike on at that time that meant no data was collected for a number of weeks so GH was awarded the No 1 spot as he was the last No 1 pre the strike (if you know what I mean). When the strike was over new data was collected and he "fell" from No 1 but in reality he probably wasn't No 1 for lots of weeks in between. Ah, I see - I knew it was some 'technicality' but I didn't know the exact story. I guess that's also why there's limited data about the albums chart on Chartstats for the weeks ATMP was #1?
May 23, 201214 yr There was a postal strike on at that time that meant no data was collected for a number of weeks so GH was awarded the No 1 spot as he was the last No 1 pre the strike (if you know what I mean). When the strike was over new data was collected and he "fell" from No 1 but in reality he probably wasn't No 1 for lots of weeks in between. You'd think though, if there was a strike then sales info would still have been collected by shops, just not sent to whoever was running the chart at the time. When the strike was over, the missing weeks could be added retrospectively. The singles chart appears to be unnafected at that time though.
May 23, 201214 yr Very disapointed with Keane, i had predicted number 8 but now i just hope they can hold top 10.
May 23, 201214 yr FAO Bray, Radiohead's "Kid A" went 1-1-13. So it did - and in 2000 as well, weren't album sales really high then or am I just making that up?
May 23, 201214 yr So it did - and in 2000 as well, weren't album sales really high then or am I just making that up? I don't think massively although they were pretty strong, it must have just come up against a completely dead week.
May 24, 201214 yr I hope Keane stop the decline and get into reverse position as i dont want them dropping out of the top 10 from number 1. Well, their new competition is likely to be more front-loaded than them... I hope Adele is back at the albums #1 this week and Fun. in the singles! But at very low sales levels, so how satisfying would that be, really? I can see Fun topping the chart next week if they fail to do so this week. There's only Alexandra challenging, although Gary Barlow could throw a spanner in the works :puke2: Alexandra won't be an issue (has she even had *any* promo?), but the Gary Barlow song will take #1 very easily (alas). Edited May 24, 201214 yr by vidcapper
May 24, 201214 yr Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 31-40 38 Newton Faulkner* This *has* to be a mistake - the song hasn't even been top 250 on iTunes!
May 24, 201214 yr This *has* to be a mistake - the song hasn't even been top 250 on iTunes! The EP hit number 1 for half a day on the album charts and is still top 10.
May 24, 201214 yr This *has* to be a mistake - the song hasn't even been top 250 on iTunes! You possess a remarkably short memory, remember CD singles?
May 24, 201214 yr They didn't clash and I wouldn't have thought there be that many people watching both anyway (apart from Brett-Butler and me :lol: ) I have to listen to ALL the musics!
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