May 25, 201214 yr Turns out Kylie might just make it into the top 40 this week! Then next week Top 5!
May 25, 201214 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
May 25, 201214 yr So Wanted had 22k and fun had only 12k, and now Wanted have 50k and fun have 46k?? If my estimations are correct there's 99.99% chance that fun will have no.1
May 25, 201214 yr So Wanted had 22k and fun had only 12k, and now Wanted have 50k and fun have 46k?? If my estimations are correct there's 99.99% chance that fun will have no.1 If the Wanted are 8% ahead* of Fun., wouldn't that mean Fun. are on ~50k and The Wanted on ~54k? Either way, looks like both will sell over 60k! Edited May 25, 201214 yr by Envoirment
May 25, 201214 yr Go Fun! Just 4K behind and should easily make up 2K per day over Friday and Saturday. I reckon they are hot favourites now.
May 25, 201214 yr You possess a remarkably short memory, remember CD singles? But why would *he* sell that many?
May 25, 201214 yr This will go 500 Copies again her or there... Let's hope Fun. can make it this week!
May 25, 201214 yr But why would *he* sell that many? Well the EP being high on iTunes is a bit of a blindingly obvious clue. Plus he's a bit of a cult act now. And then there's the fact that you pointed out yourself, he's in the top 40 despite being nowhere on downloads. Feeder did the same thing a few weeks ago.
May 25, 201214 yr Well the EP being high on iTunes is a bit of a blindingly obvious clue. Plus he's a bit of a cult act now. And then there's the fact that you pointed out yourself, he's in the top 40 despite being nowhere on downloads. I also pointed out that I thought that was an OCC mistake...
May 25, 201214 yr I also pointed out that I thought that was an OCC mistake... How often does a random track appear out of nowhere and actually end up being wrong though? And how often when its appearance is so easily explained?
May 25, 201214 yr So Wanted had 22k and fun had only 12k, and now Wanted have 50k and fun have 46k?? If my estimations are correct there's 99.99% chance that fun will have no.1 The percentage gap between 12k and 22k is 83.3%, so those weren't the sales. These are most likely the sales, based on the pecentage information provided: Wednesday Midweek (Sun/Mon/Tues): #1 The Wanted [~31.7k] #2 Fun. [~21.7k] Friday Midweek (Sun/Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs): #1 The Wanted [~54.0k] #2 Fun. [~50.0k] So in the last two days, Fun. has sold ~28.3k and The Wanted have sold ~22.3k. I think it's likely that Fun. will end up being #1.
May 25, 201214 yr Author For those that are waiting for the rest of the mids for today, sadly they are still a no-show.
May 25, 201214 yr So in two days out of four fun. have more than halved the deficit - I'd be shocked if "We Are Young" didn't make #1 now.
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