June 27, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts: Will.i.am targeting first UK solo chart-topper Source: MW 16:15 | Wednesday June 27, 2012 By Paul Williams Will.i.am is heading for a first UK number one single in his own right as Linkin Park battle Maroon 5 in a bid to head the artist albums chart. The Voice coach’s newly-issued Interscope/Polydor track This Is Love featuring Eva Simons has opened up an early lead of around 13,000 sales, according to Official Charts Company Data, with RCA act Chris Brown’s brand new single Don’t Wake Me Up presently in runner-up position. Will.i.am. has scored five UK number one singles with Black Eyed Peas, but This Is Love would be his first outside the group. His highest position achieved so far with a non-Peas track is three, with T.H.E. Hardest Ever last year featuring Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger. The top of the artist albums market is much tighter at this stage of the week with Warner Bros’s Linkin Park newly-issued Living Things around 5,500 sales ahead of A&M/Octone/Polydor’s new Maroon 5 album Overexposed. Both bands have previously topped the UK artist albums chart twice, Linkin Park doing it in 2003 with Meteora and with Minutes To Midnight in 2007, while Maroon 5s first two albums Songs About Jane and It Won’t Be Soon Before Long reached number one. The Radio 1 Hackney Weekend is having a big impact at retail with a number of acts who performed enjoying significant sales increases. They are led by Jay-Z whose Roc-A-Fella/Mercury album Watch The Throne with Kanye West rises 20-3 on the midweeks on the back of a 225% week-on-week sales increase. N***** In Paris from the album moves 44-17 on singles Sales Flashes as its sales rise 216%, while the same album’s No Church In The Wild progresses 41-32. Sales of fellow Hackney Weekend performer Ed Sheeran’s Asylum/Atlantic album + are up 23% to lift it 7-5 at this stage of the week, while the event’s closing act Rihanna’s Def Jam/Mercury-issued Talk That Talk enjoys a 26% sales lift to move it 13-10. Other acts gaining as a result of the weekend include Island’s Ben Howard whose Every Kingdom rises 22-13 with sales up 34% and Lana Del Rey whose Polydor album Born To Die enjoys an 11% increase, though drops a place to 16 in the midweeks. Meanwhile, 4th & Broadway/Island’s Taio Cruz, who also performed, arrives in 16th place on the singles midweeks with the newly-issued There She Goes. Having debuted at one on the artist albums chart last Sunday, Def Jam/Mercury’s Justin Bieber is down to fourth place in the week so far with Believe, while Cheryl Cole’s Polydor release A Million Lights slides 2-6. Completing the Top 10 positions at this stage of the week are Virgin act Emeli Sande’s Our Version of Events, which drops 4-7, and new albums from Atlantic’s Flo Rida (Wild Ones) and Round’s Ginger Wildheart (100 Percent) in eighth and ninth positions. A number of other brand new albums will chart this coming Sunday and include releases by Hospital’s Netsky, The Levellers via their On The Fiddle label, the self-released Metric, Columbia’s Offspring, Roadrunner’s Gojira and Universal Ireland’s Jedward. After entering the singles chart at the top last Sunday, Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa’s track Payphone is now ranked third in the week to date with sales sliding 49%. Also heading towards are Flo Rida’s Atlantic track Whistle, which drops 2-4, and Polydor act Cheryl Cole’s Call My Name, which falls 2-5. The Parlophone single Princess Of China by Coldplay and Rihanna slips 5-6 and Asylum/Black Butter’s Feel The Love by Rudimental featuring John Newman drops 6-7, while Warner Bros act Stooshe’s Black Heart is now ranked eighth having debuted at four on last Sunday’s chart. Fun featuring Janelle Monae’s Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen track We Are Young is also heading in the wrong direction, falling 7-9, but Virgin act Katy Perry’s Wide Awake is now among the Top 10 positions, rising 12-10 with a 77% sales increase in the week to date. ========================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 will.i.am/Eva Simons* (13k ahead) 2 Chris Brown* 3 Maroon 5/Wiz Khalifa 4 Flo Rida 5 Cheryl 6-10 10 Katy Perry 11-20 14 Rihanna 16 Taio Cruz/Pitbull* 17 Jay-Z/Kanye West 19 Nicki Minaj [starships] 31-40 32 Jay-Z & Kanye West/Frank Ocean http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/w...is-is-love-1465 =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Linkin Park* 2 Maroon 5* (5.5k behind LP) 3 Jay-Z/Kanye West 4 Justin Bieber 5 Ed Sheeran 6-10 8 Flo Rida* 9 Ginger Wildheart* 11-20 13 Ben Howard 21-30 21 Netsky* 22 Levellers* 23 Noel Gallagher 24 Metric* 25 One Direction 26 Nicki Minaj 27 Offspring* 28 Gojira* 31-40 33 Jedward* http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/l...ums-chart-1464/ *New Entries
June 27, 201213 yr Good to see No church for the Wild getting into the top 40 for the first time - and a frank ocean is top 40 for the first time?!
June 27, 201213 yr Looks like Will.I.Am is No.1 this week then, and looking at the next couple of weeks, he may stay top till either Little Mix or Tulisa's new songs come out.
June 27, 201213 yr Author Hardly anything exciting in the album chart apart from the top 2 albums, no wonder album sales are looking a bit bleak.
June 27, 201213 yr M5 is 5k behind :( I hoped they would debut at #1 at least there, LP is going to block them everywhere
June 27, 201213 yr I can not see Maroon 5 closing the 5000 gap on Linkin Park, i had high hopes for Maroon 5 going number 1. Gary Barlow performing much better than expected this week and holding out reasonably firm, and Jedward look to be on target to have 3 top 40 albums to their credit now.
June 27, 201213 yr Hardly anything exciting in the album chart apart from the top 2 albums, no wonder album sales are looking a bit bleak. The singles chart isn't much more interesting though is it? Unless you count new entries in at 1 and 2, then everything below it falling 2 places exciting.
June 27, 201213 yr Amazing to see Jay-Z/Kanye West’s The Throne at number 3! :o I quite like No Church in the Wild, so nice to see that #32 in the singles. Good to see Justin Bieber down to #4, now get it out of the Top 5! :D Not good to see Paloma Faith’s Fall to Grace out of the Top 10, but I reckon it will easily be Top 10 come Sunday.
June 27, 201213 yr M!key, you may not like Flo Rida, but there's no need to erase him from existence :P His album is #8 (Ginger Wildheart #9, quite the drop from yesterday already). Jedward's newie at #33, will they hold onto a third top 40 album? The only previous XF acts to have three top 40 albums are G4, JLS, Shayne Ward, Joe McElderry and Rhydian. I'd imagine they'll probably drop out though. YES at Linkin Park being #1 at least for today but only a 5k lead so it looks like Maroon 5 have a very big chance of overtaking :arrr: I had a bad feeling this could happen. Wow at Watch The Throne really being back in the top 3, I thought that was just unfounded speculation and it'd actually only be about #14 :o Really hope they can hold that position :cheer: Great to see Netsky as high as #21, didn't see him as an album seller at all (even the ridiculously low number of sales needed to get a midweek #21 album at the moment). Would have expected Metric and The Offspring to be a bit higher than they are. Gojira win the 'random metal band who come out of nowhere to mild success of the week' award. A French metal band? Interesting :P Very boring singles update today but YES at Niggas In Paris being as high as #17 and No Church In The Wild set for a comfortable top 40 entry this week :wub: Great week for Jay-Z and Kanye. Jay-Z should have a few re-entries lower down as well (a couple of which also have Kanye on them). Edited June 27, 201213 yr by BBB
June 27, 201213 yr I'm assuming #8 is Flo Rida's album not Wild Ones. The album is called 'Wild Ones'.
June 27, 201213 yr I think Flo Rida will drop out of the top 10 and Paloma Faith will climb back in. Flo Rida is not and nver has been an album selling act.
June 27, 201213 yr So glad Will.i.am is #1 in the official chart update. My favourite song around right now (listening to it on YouTube as we speak) :wub:
June 27, 201213 yr Author The album is called 'Wild Ones'. That I didn't know, I'm not a Flo Rida fan, its the featuring act that got me, Sia :P
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