I wouldn't say The Script are massively popular with young people. But they do get support on Capital and Radio 1, which are the best radio stations if you want to be high in the singles chart. I think if The xx where getting played on Capital they'd probably do well in the singles chart too. I think they could be popular with the single-buying public if radio gave them a chance. I mean, Rihanna has sampled two of their songs I think.

They arent really capital style music though hence why they wont get playlisted there - not commercial sounding like the script!

I don't think the Script/xx thing says anything about age groups really, it just shows that A) 'Hall Of Fame' has has a lot more exposure than 'Angels', B) The xx have a bigger fanbase than The Script and C) there was more hype for 'Coexist' than '#3' (which is hardly surprising considering 'Coexist' is the follow-up to a massively critically lauded sleeper hit album while '#3' is just a bog-standard new release). 'Hall Of Fame' sounds a lot more geared to singles chart success while 'Angels' doesn't sound like a hit but does sound like it'd shift a lot of albums. Also consider that 'Angels' has been available for nearly two months as a pre-order bonus for 'Coexist' so quite a lot of The xx's fans will have already 'bought' 'Angels' before this week and those sales just didn't count to the chart; it probably would have gone top 40 in its first week had it been eligible for the chart.

Thats a good point about the OA/OS aspect but surely as Eric says its about the narrow radio airplay there is in the uk at the minute - if angels had been played as much on capital as on radio 1 it would have done even better.

I wouldn't say The Script are massively popular with young people.

 

They are with people who play the guitar - lot's of people at my school who play guitar listen and play The Script, especially The Man Who Can't Be Moved.

Singles

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart singles for artist(s) in order listed):

#2 Amelia Lily - You Bring Me Joy [1^[A]]

#11 Tulisa feat. Tyga - Live It Up [2^[B]; 3 ^[C]]

#14 David Guetta feat. Sia - She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) [31; 9]

#17 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait [5]

#18 The Killers - Runaways [17]

#22 David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo and Akon - Play Hard [32; 24; 36^[D]]

#29 Kanye West, Jay-Z and Big Sean - Clique [41^[D]; 46; 4]

#38 Conor Maynard feat. Ne-Yo - Turn Around [3; 25]

#43 The xx - Angels [2]

#74 Kodaline - All I Want [1]

#99 Adele - One And Only [10]^[E]

#100 The Script - Six Degrees Of Separation [9]^[F]

 

Re-entries:

#12 Gerry And The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone [chart campaign by Liverpool fans re: Hillsborough disaster]

#63 Coldplay - Viva La Vida [performed at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#68 Etta James - At Last [performed on The X Factor]

#76 Coldplay - Yellow [performed at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#78 Coldplay - The Scientist [performed at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#83 Coldplay - Fix You [recharting due to aforementioned Paralympics closing ceremony performances although not performed itself]

#90 The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved [hype around new single/album causing a resurgence?]

#93 The Strokes - Last Nite [performed on The X Factor]

 

New peaks:

#1 The Script feat. will.i.am - Hall Of Fame [from #2]

#6 Flo Rida - I Cry [from #11]

#13 Cheryl Cole - Under The Sun [from #15]

#24 Otto Knows - Million Voices [from #42]

#37 PSY - Gangnam Style [from #61]

#55 Labrinth - Treatment [from #60]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#63 Smiler feat. Professor Green and Tawiah - Top Of The World *

#64 Lawson - Taking Over Me *

#65 Rizzle Kicks - Mama Do The Hump

#68 Coolio feat. L.V. - Gangsta's Paradise

#69 Ed Sheeran - The A Team

#76 Ronan Keating - Fires *

#78 Uncle Kracker - Follow Me

#79 Two Door Cinema Club - Sleep Alone *

#82 Owl City - Fireflies

#84 Stevie Wonder - Superstition

#89 La Roux - In For The Kill

#90 Paloma Faith - Just Be *

#91 The Wanted - Chasing The Sun *

#93 Rita Ora - Young, Single & Sexy *

#94 Ed Sheeran - Small Bump

#96 Steve Aoki and Angger Dimas feat. Iggy Azalea - Beat Down *

#97 Jessie J - Domino *

#98 Tinie Tempah feat. Eric Turner - Written In The Stars

#99 Taylor Swift - Love Story

#100 Train - 50 Ways To Say Goodbye *

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Amelia Lily^[G]

Kodaline

Mumford & Sons

Otto Knows

PSY

The Script

Tyga^[G]

 

Albums

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart singles for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 The xx - Coexist [2]

#2 The Script - #3 [3]

#3 Bob Dylan - Tempest [55^[H]

#8 Joe McElderry - Here's What I Believe [4]

#9 Pet Shop Boys - Elysium [22]

#13 David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat 2.0 [4]^[I]

#23 Billy Talent - Dead Silence [3]

#29 ZZ Top - La Futura [9]

#40 David Byrne and St. Vincent - Love This Giant [7^[J]; 1^[K]]

#48 TOY - TOY [1]

#50 Melanie C - Stages [6^[L]]

#51 Gallows - Gallows [3]

#60 Calexico - Algiers [3]

 

Re-entries:

#53 The Killers - Hot Fuss [in anticipation of new album 'Battle Born'?]

#56 Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends [following their performance at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#61 The Script - Science & Faith [boosted from release of new album '#3'?]

#70 Coldplay - A Rush Of Blooc To The Head [following their performance at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#73 Bill Fay - Life Is People

#85 Coldplay - Parachutes [following their performance at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#88 Coldplay - X&Y [following their performance at the Paralympics closing ceremony]

#90 Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge [nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize]

#93 The Maccabees - Given To The Wild [nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize]

#94 Lady Gaga - The Fame [boosted by the UK shows of the Born This Way Ball Tour]

#97 Adele - 19

 

New peaks:

#63 Joseph Calleja, BBC Concert Orchestra and Steven Mercurio - Be My Love - A Tribute To Mario Lanza [from #65]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#31 The Milk - Tales From The Thames Delta *

#33 Cat Power - Sun *

#39 Paul Simon - Graceland

#48 The Darkness - Hot Cakes *

#55 Animal Collective - Centipede Hz *

#56 Julio Iglesias - 1 *

#59 Trey Songz - Chapter V *

#60 Twin Atlantic - Free

#64 Bee Gees - Number Ones

#71 Chris Brown - Fortune *

#75 Alanis Morissette - havoc and bright lights *

#77 Stereophonics - Best Of - Decade In The Sun

#79 The Ukuleles - The Ukuleles *

#81 Delilah - From The Roots Up *

#84 Noisettes - Contact *

#88 The Black Keys - Brothers

#90 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday

#91 The Kinks and Ray Davies - Waterloo Sunset - The Very Best Of *

#92 Eminem - Curtain Call - The Hits

#93 The Orb feat. Lee Scratch Perry - The Orbserver In The Star House *

#96 Skrillex - Bangarang

#97 Ian Hunter & The Rant Band - When I'm President *

#98 Snow Patrol - Up To Now

#100 Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys!

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

BBC Concert Orchestra

Billy Talent

Joseph Calleja

St. Vincent

Steven Mercurio

TOY

The xx

 

Longest running entries (with an unbroken top 100 run since entering for the first time)

 

Singles:

1 57wks Maroon 5 feat. Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger

2 37wks Gotye feat. Kimbra - Somebody That I Used To Know

=3 31wks Emeli Sandé - Next To Me

=3 31wks Nicki Minaj - Starships

5 30wks Jay-Z and Kanye West - Niggas In Paris

6 24wks Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

=7 23wks Alex Clare - Too Close

=7 23wks fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young

9 22wks Train - Drive By

10 20wks Avicii - Silhouettes

 

Dropping out:

Jessie J - Domino [from #2]

 

Albums:

1 167wks Florence + The Machine - Lungs

2 107wks Katy Perry - Teenage Dream

3 96wks Rihanna - Loud

4 86wks Adele - 21

5 85wks Chase & Status - No More Idols

6 81wks Jessie J - Who You Are

7 55wks David Guetta - Nothing But The Beat

8 53wks Ed Sheeran - +

9 50wks Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

10 48wks Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

 

Notes:

^[A] +1 as a member of The X Factor Finalists 2011

^[B] +17 as a member of N-Dubz; +1 as a member of The Collective; +1 as a member of Young Soul Rebels

^[C] +1 as a member of Young Money

^[D] +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti

^[E] Album track from '21' charting off the back of a performance on The X Factor

^[F] Album track from newly-released album '#3'

^[G] As a solo artist

^[H] +3 as a member of Traveling Wilburys

^[I] Being counted as a separate album from the original 'Nothing But The Beat' rather than a re-release

^[J] +12 as a member of Talking Heads

^[K] +2 as a member of The Polyphonic Spree

^[L] +4 as a member of Spice Girls

Edited September 27, 201214 yr by Bré