June 6, 201213 yr If only :( Do you remember that Scotty McCreery charted erroneously on the midweeks about a year ago? Actually I wonder if there's any mileage in a list of songs that charted top 40 on midweeks when they shouldn't have? I have two: Scotty McCreery - Do I Make You Proud Agnes - Big Blue Wall (if only this one had been true :snif:) Ash got to number 21 in the midweek chart with "Embers" a few years ago. That was the week where the iTunes sales data didn't get included until the Thursday, and Ash managed to climb that high on the strength of their vinyl sales. By the end of the week iTunes got added back in and Ash were nowhere to be seen in the top 75.
June 6, 201213 yr Back in the olden days of 2004 and CoolClarity, I remember Will Young making a re-entry randomly with Friday's Child in the mids only for it to turn out on Sunday to actually have been a novelty song about chocolate that I only vaguely remember.
June 6, 201213 yr Aweful for Alexandra. Although tbf if we didn't know her from X Factor she would not seem like an 'album artist' based on Elephant and Let it Go. They're so generic and faceless, so its no surprise the album is doing so poorly!
June 6, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts: The Voice winner likely to fall short of Top 10 Source: MW 16:15 | Wednesday June 6, 2012 By Paul Williams The Voice UK winner Leanne Mitchell looks set to miss out on a Top 10 debut with her first single Run To You presently the week’s 27th biggest seller. Immediately after she won the BBC One show’s final last Saturday, Island Records digitally issued Mitchell’s version of the Whitney Houston hit. However, at this stage of the week it is a long way short of making the Top 10 and more than 2,000 sales away from the Top 20 having sold 6,527 units up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. The Decca-issued Diamond Jubilee song Sing by Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band is heading for number one this weekend (see separate story) having sold nearly 90,000 copies up to the close of play on Tuesday. A new entry at 11 on last Sunday’s chart, it is currently around 64,000 sales ahead of its closest challenger, RCA act Usher’s newly-released Scream. We Are Young by Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen’s Fun featuring Janelle Monae dips 2-3 in the week so far, while Ministry of Sound’s DJ Fresh featuring Dizzee Rascal is new at four with The Power. Having debuted at one last weekend, the Asylum/Black Butter single Feel The Love by Rudimental featuring John Newman is now down to fifth place in the week to date. Interscope/Polydor act Carly Rae Jepsen’s former number one Call Me Maybe drops 5-6, the Parlophone single Princess Of China by Coldplay and Rihanna climbs 13-7 as Rihanna’s Def Jam/Mercury track Where Have You Been falls 6-9, while Island’s Alex Clare slips 7-8 with Too Close and Loreen’s Eurovision-winning Warner Bros cut Euphoria drops 3-10. Outside the Top 10, Interscope/Polydor’s Nelly Furtado returns with Big Hoops (Bigger The Better) new at 12 in the week so far and the Mercury-issued Overload by Dot Rotten and TMS is new at 14. Asylum/Atlantic act Ed Sheeran climbs 58-24 with Small Bump after performing it on the final of The Voice on Sunday, while X Factor finalist Aiden Grimshaw’s first RCA single Is This Love is new at 30, three places ahead of the newly-issued Mercury single All Around The World by Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris. ============================== Midweek Charts: Diamond Jubilee celebrations rally music sales Source: MW 16:15 | Wednesday June 6, 2012 By Paul Williams Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band are set to lead both the UK singles and albums charts this weekend as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations make a huge impact at retail. Barlow’s Decca-issued commemorative track Sing, written with Andrew Lloyd Webber, is on course to climb from 11-1 on the singles countdown having already sold nearly 90,000 copies this week by the close of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. The accompanying album, also called Sing, debuted at number one last Sunday and should easily claim a second week at the top this coming Sunday having in the week so far outsold its nearest six challengers combined. The Barlow and Commonwealth Band single and album are accompanied in both markets by a number of releases that are enjoying big surges in sales thanks to the Diamond Jubilee concert that took place in front of Buckingham Palace on Monday evening. Asylum/Atlantic act Ed Sheeran’s + moves 13-2 on midweek artist albums with sales rising 248% week-on-week following his performance at the concert, while the track he played The A Team rebounds 118-41 on singles with sales up 539%. Other tracks making a big impact on the singles market after featuring in the concert include Parlophone act Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now which returns in 26th place after being covered at the event by Gary Barlow and Cheryl Cole, Motown artist Stevie Wonder’s Superstition in 44th place and the Union Square-issued It Must Be Love by Madness who performed the song on the roof of Buckingham Palace. The albums market is also being influenced by the concert with Island/Lava’s Jessie J album Who You Are’s sales more than doubling to lift it 20-9, while Decca act Alfie Boe’s Bring Him Home leaps 159-57 in the week so far and Stevie Wonder’s Motown-issued The Definitive Collection and the Union Square album Total Madness appear in 60th and 61st places respectively. The Diamond Jubilee affect comes in another very busy week for album releases with a dozen brand new titles cropping up in the Top 40 at this stage of the week. They are led in eighth place by the Reprise/Warner Bros-issued Americana by Neil Young & Crazy Horse and a Sony re-issue of Paul Simon’s Graceland in 10th spot, while One Day I’m Going To Soar, the first studio album from who are now known as Dexys since 1985, is 12th. The album has been issued by BMG Rights, which will give the company its biggest hit yet on the countdown. Also on the comeback trail, the Beach Boys are back with their first studio album of new material since 1992. The Capitol/Parlophone-issued That’s Why God Made The Radio crops up as a new entry at 13 on the midweeks, a place ahead of RCA act Alexandra Burke’s brand new album Heartbreak On Hold, while EMI's new Kylie Minogue retrospective The Best Of is new at 16 and B-Unique/Polydor’s Souvenir – The Singles 2004-2012 new at 17. An EP by The Voice runner-up Bo Bruce called Search The Night is new at 19, while an EMI re-issue of David Bowie’s The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars is new at 24. Also showing up within the Top 40 are brand new albums from Modular/Island’s Ladyhawke, Columbia’s Patti Smith and Roadrunner’s Delain. Within the Top 10 at this stage of the week RCA’s Paloma Faith drops 2-3 with Fall To Grace, Parlophone’s Mylo Xyloto climbs 11-4, Rumer’s second Atlantic album Boys Don’t Cry slips 3-5 and Virgin act Emeli Sande holds at six with Our Version Of Events as the Bee Gees Reprise/Rhino retrospective Number Ones remains seventh. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band (90k) 2 Usher (26k) 3 fun./Janelle Monae 4 DJ Fresh/Dizzee Rascal 5 Rudimental/John Newman 6-10 7 Coldplay & Rihanna 11-20 12 Nelly Furtado 14 Dot Rotten 16 Gotye/Kimbra 20 Can You Blow My 21-30 24 Ed Sheeran [sB] 26 Lady Antebellum* 27 Leanne Mitchell 30 Aiden Grimshaw 31-40 32 Jessie J [Domino] 33 Justin Biber/Ludacris 38 David Guetta/Sia Extras from OCC article Singles 41 Ed Sheeran [The A Team] 44 Stevie Wonder [superstition] 67 Madness [it Must Be Love] 72 The Black Eyed Peas [i Gotta Feeling] 85 Kylie Minogue [All The Lovers] 87 Stevie Wonder [isn't She Lovely] 89 Madness [Our House] 91 Tom Jones/Stereophonics [Mama Told Me Not To Come] 92 Royal Choral Society/BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth [God Save The Queen] 102 Elton John [Crocodile Rock] 104 Tom Jones [Delilah] 105 The Beatles [Let It Be] 106 Elton John [i'm Still Standing] 109 Elton John [Your Song] 115 Grace Jones [slave To The Rhythm] 127 Della Jones/Royal Choral Society/BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth [Rule Britannia] 138 Royal Choral Society/BBC Concert Orchestra/Barry Wordsworth [Land Of Hope And Glory] 149 Eurythmics [There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)] 172 Rolf Harris [Two Little Boys] 182 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band [Land Of Hope And Glory] 183 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band [God Save The Queen] 197 Kylie Minogue [Can't Get You Out Of My Head] 200 The Beatles [Ob La Di Ob La Da] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band 2 Ed Sheeran 3 Paloma Faith 4 Coldplay 5 Rumer 6-10 8 Neil Young 9 Jessie J 10 Paul Simon 11-20 12 Dexy's 13 Beach Boys 14 Alexandra Burke 16 Kylie 17 Kaiser Chiefs 19 Bo Bruce 21-30 23 Script 24 David Bowie 25 Ladyhawke 31-40 31 Madonna 32 Bob Marley & The Wailers 34 Patti Smith 36 Delain 40 Script Extras from OCC article Albums 57 - Alfie Boe - Bring Him Home 60 - Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection 61 - Madness - Total Madness 75 - Beatles - Yellow Submarine OST 77 - Military Wives - In My Dreams 80 - Alfie Bow - Alfie 84 - Madness - Complete Madness 88 - Tom Jones - Greatest Hits Rediscovered 94 - Elton John - Greatest Hits (1970-2002) 105 - BBC Symphony Orcestra - Queen's Diamond Jubilee 106 - Gurrumul - Gurrumul 108 - Lady Antebellum - Need You Now 119 - Elton John - Rocket Man: The Definitive Collection 123 - Tom Jones - Greatest Hits 126 - Eurythmics - Ultimate Collection 139 - Beatles - 1 146 - Stevie Wonder - Number Ones 149 - Annie Lennox - The Collection 151 - Gurrumul - Rrakala 180 - BBC Symphony Orcestra - Jubliee Street Party Sing-a-Long http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...nd-double-1435/ * Re-Entry
June 6, 201213 yr Is this 'Small Bump' song for f***ing real?! The lyrics are hilariously cringeworthy!
June 6, 201213 yr Aidan Grimshaw at number 30, i would be so happy for him to stay in but i dont think he will wait top 40.
June 6, 201213 yr OCC facebook: Gary Barlow is looking set to make this a career week to remember, with not only a victorious concert for Her Majesty The Queen under his belt, but now the Take That star has his sights on a Number 1 single and album (the first of 2012), too! Sing, the Official Diamond Jubilee song co-written by Gary Barlow and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber leads the way on the Official Singles Chart Update, outselling Usher’s Scream (Number 2) by more than three copies to one. Meanwhile, the album, from which the title track Sing is taken, is also comfortably outstripping the rest of the Top 5 albums combined. No doubt buoyed by the song’s rousing performance at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace over the Bank Holiday, conducted by Military Wives Choir master Gareth Malone. A special documentary on the making of the song was also aired on BBC1 over the weekend – Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty’s Service. An accompanying Q&A with Gary Barlow can be found here in which he suggests his experiences in the making of Sing will influence the next Take That album. Sing features the tambourine talents of Prince Harry, it is thought that the only previous occasion on which royals could be heard on a Number 1 album was in 1981, when the Charles & Diana wedding album topped the charts for a two week spell. Jubilee mania takes hold of both the Official Singles and Albums Update today, as no less than 51 products connected to the weekend’s celebrations flood the Top 200. The UK appears to be well and truly swept up in all things royal, as recorded music products related to the Jubilee or artists who performed at Buckingham Palace on Monday, have been given a boost this week. 26 singles and 25 albums have benefitted from a climb, new entry or even a re-entry in the Official Chart Update Top 200. Led by Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band’s Sing, climbing 10 places to Number 1, a new entry from Lady Antebellum at Number 26 - Need You Now, was performed by Gary Barlow and Cheryl Cole at the Jubilee concert. The 2010 album of the same name from which the track was taken also re-enters today at 108. Jessie J’s Domino climbs 18 places to 32, while Ed Sheeran’s A Team bounces 77 places to 41. Elsewhere, Stevie Wonder’s Superstition is a re-entry at 44 and Isn’t She Lovely (87), Madness’ It Must Be Love (67) and Our House (89), Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling, as performed by Will.I.Am and Jessie J (72), Kylie Minogue’s All The Lovers (85) and Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (197), Tom Jones & Stereophonics’ Mama Told Me Not To Come (91) and Delilah (104). Three Elton John tracks are on course to re-enter this weekend - Crocodile Rock (102), I’m Still Standing (106) and Your Song (109), two Beatles’ tracks Let It Be (105) and Ob La Di Ob La Da (200) as performed by living legend Paul McCartney. Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm re-enters at 115, Eurythmics’ There Must Be An Angel re-enters at 149 after Annie Lennox’s haunting rendition of the classic, and of course not to forget compere Rolf Harris’ crowd sing-a-long of Two Little Boys has seen the track reappear at 172 today. A selection of traditional songs are sprinkled throughout including BBC Concert Orchestra’s God Save The Queen at 92 and Pomp And Circumstance (138), Della Jones’ Rule Britannia (127), and Gary Barlow and The Commonwealth Band’s Land Of Hope And Glory (182) and God Save The Queen (183).
June 6, 201213 yr Barlow deserves it, but WTF with DJ Fresh. He should be at least No.2 My suggestion is Cheryl will not go to No.1, get Whistle up there or try and find a better song than her's I'll post next week's new releases.....
June 6, 201213 yr I've had a look, and the only intresting ones are Cheryl, Emeli and Jay-Z/Kayne. None of them will top the charts. Therefore, it's Flo vs. DJ Fresh!
June 6, 201213 yr Pity dj fresh couldnt achieve the stellar figs he got for the last 2 single releases - we could have been looking at a top 3 nearly all over 100k. Scream will more likely sell 70k or so and Barlow on around 160k by the weeks end!
June 6, 201213 yr I've had a look, and the only intresting ones are Cheryl, Emeli and Jay-Z/Kayne. None of them will top the charts. Therefore, it's Flo vs. DJ Fresh! If you dont think Cheryl is a SERIOUS contender for number one then you are quite deluded!
June 6, 201213 yr Ouch at Scissor Sisters drop in the albums. The album is really growing on me as well.
June 6, 201213 yr Author Gary Barlow is going to come down like a lead balloon next week, I think he is on course for 140k plus for the week. And sadly poor Kylie at #16, I guess because its only a GHs package, there isn't many takers for it, she needs new material on it, at least 3 to 5 new tracks would have been nice on it.
June 6, 201213 yr Massive clearout this week! Gary should be around 120k by the end of the week then, I can see it only dropping now the Jubilee's over. Great to see Coldplay in the top 5 albums and Princess of China top 10 :D Edited June 6, 201213 yr by C.W
June 6, 201213 yr Awful for Kylie, even if it's just half of Ultimate Kylie with four singles from the past two albums added on, lacking even the current single! I didn't expect Usher to go as high as #2, thought DJ Fresh would be up there initially but he may be as low as #5, I really hope Rudimental don't drop 1-5! Nice to see Euphoria clinging onto the top ten although I expect it will be top 15 at best by the time Sunday rolls around.
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