October 3, 201213 yr It's not given that GS will overtake 1D either. It sold 85k last week, must do the same to beat LLWY and the latter has strong physical sales Will 1D have any significant promo coming up later this week? PSY is currently selling 150% of 1D on iTunes though, so I doubt whether their physicals will be enough to hold on. Most will have been pre-ordered or bought on Monday, yet in yesterday's update they were only 6k ahead of Rihanna despite being ahead on iTunes for nearly half of the tracking period.
October 3, 201213 yr I don't think 1D care much about that UK number 1..... They'd rather have it in the US.... They clearly do... All 5 of them are linking every day. Niall cares most though :angel: He supposedly did a twitcam yesterday mentioning Rihanna as a big threat and getting all his viewers to trend things every 20 minutes. Also Simon tweeted about "the chart battle" and backed 1D.
October 3, 201213 yr Predictions for today’s album chart: 01 Muse 02 Mumford & Sons 03 Pink 04 The Killers 05 Green Day 06 The Overtones 07 Emeli Sande 08 DJ Fresh 09 The Script 10 XX
October 3, 201213 yr Midweek Charts: One Direction and Rihanna in tight race for No 1 Source: MW Paul Willams One Direction and Rihanna are neck and neck to top the UK singles countdown this weekend as Muse head for their fourth artist albums chart-topper. By the end of Tuesday just 246 sales separated Syco act One Direction's Live While We're Young and Def Jam/Mercury's Rihanna with Diamonds, according to Official Charts Company data, with the boy band in front. Last Sunday's chart-topper Gangnam Style by Island's PSY sits third. The One Direction and Rihanna tarcks have already both topped 50,000 sales in their opening weeks and look like reaching 100,000 units by the time the final chart is published on Sunday. A six-figure first-week total also appears to be on the cards for Muse's new Helium 3/Warner Bros album The 2nd Law, which was already near 70,000 sales up to the close of play on Tuesday. Last Sunday's artist albums No 1, Babel by Gentlemen Of The Road/Island's Mumford & Sons, opened with 158,936 sales, giving it the highest first-week tally of the year for an artist album. The Mumford album is now down to 2 in the midweeks with sales dropping 66%, while RCA act Pink's The Truth About Love holds at 3, Vertigo/Mercury signings The Killers continue at 4 with Battle Born and Syco act Jonathan & Charlotte's Together remains 5. Higher, the second album by Warner Music Entertainment's Overtones, appears as a new entry at six in the week so far, while Virgin act Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events continues at 7, Reprise/Warner Bros's Green Day drop 2-8 with Uo, Epic/Phonogenic's The Script slip 6-9 with #3 and Young Turks/XL's The xx are down 8-10 with Coexist. Outside the Top 10 there are 11 brand new albums registering in the midweek Top 40, lead by Van Morrison's new Blue Note/Parlophone set Born To Sing - No Plan B in 11th position. Ministry of Sound act DJ Fresh's third album Nextlevlism will give him his first ever UK albums chart entry this Sunday as it is currently 12 on Sales Flashes, while Changing Tune, UK rock band Lower Than Atlantis's first album for Island and third overall, is new at 14. Other acts set to debut in or around the Top 40 on Sunday are EMI Classics' John Wilson Orchestra, Bullet For My Valentine singer Matthew Tuck's new side project Axewound via Search and Destroy/Columbia, Beth Orton with her first album on Anti, Deutsche Grammophon's Tori Amos, ELO with a Sony retrospective, Papa Roach on their Eleven Seven label, Warp's Flying Lotus and Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess on the O Genesis label. Back on singles and Polydor act Ellie Goulding's brand new track Anything Could Happen should join One Direction and Rihanna's new hits in the top five this weekend. Goulding currently ranks as a new enry at 4, safely ahead of Epic/Phonogenic's The Script with Hall Of Fame featuring will.i.am. This drops 2-5 as Atlantic act Jason Mraz's I Won't GIve Up is heading for a new chart peak. Having originally reached No 13 earlier this year, it now rallies 23-6 on the midweeks after being performed last Saturday by X Factor contestant Ella Henderson. Fellow Atlantic act Flo Rida's I Cry drops 3-7 and Parlophone's Conor Maynard gains 9-8 with Turn Around featuring Ne-Yo, while Mercury act Taylor Swift falls 4-9 with We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together and the Positiva/Virgin-issued She Wolf (Falling To Pieces) by David Guetta featuring Sia drops 8-10. Outsider the Top 10, the week's biggest gainers include Mercury act Otto Knows' Million Voices with sales up 30% to move 18-16 and Cash Money/Island's Nicki Minaj whose Va Va Voom progresses 43-20 with sales increasing 623%. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC/MW Top 40 Singles 1 One Direction (New) (Less than 250 copies ahead of Rihanna) 2 Rihanna (New) 3 PSY 4 Ellie Goulding (New) 5 The Script 6-10 6 Jason Mraz 8 Conor Maynard/Ne-Yo 11-20 12 Emeli Sande [RAAI] 16 Otto Knows 20 Nicki Minaj [VVV] 21-30 25 Muse 28 Kanye West 31-40 32 Adele [iCMYLM] 34 The Other Tribe (New) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-number-1-1625/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Muse (New) [Nearly 70k] 2 Mumford & Sons 3 P!nk 4 The Killers 5 Jonathan & Charlotte 6-10 6 The Overtones (New) 11-20 11 Van Morrison (New) 12 DJ Fresh (New) 14 Lower Than Atlantis (New) 17 The John Wilson Orchestra (New) 19 AxeWound (New) 20 Beth Orton (New) 21-30 21 Tori Amos (New) 23 ELO (New) 24 Papa Roach (New) 26 Flying Lotus (New) 31-40 36 Tim Burgess (New) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...e-2nd-law-1624/
October 3, 201213 yr It's funny to think that Taylor Swift should have three singles in the top fourty (Come Sunday), who would have thought this two months ago!
October 3, 201213 yr Can't Make You Love Me :wub: Adele's version, hope it can hang on in top 40 by Sunday. :P Edited October 3, 201213 yr by Karma
October 3, 201213 yr Muse should hopefully pass 100,000 come Sunday then! Surprised to see Jonathan & Charlotte holding up in the top 10 never mind top 5!
October 3, 201213 yr Rihanna has number one in the bag, Greg James said the sales are "really,really,really close " and only a "handful of sales between them". Rihanna now has a 50% lead.
October 3, 201213 yr Surprised Rihanna hasn't overtaken today! :mellow: Oh well, Friday. http://www.boardaloud.co.uk/images/smilies/god.gif
October 3, 201213 yr Great sales for Muse so far, so 100k will be easy for them at this stage. Interesting that Pink is once again of the Killers this week although sales wise both are side by side.
October 3, 201213 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-number-1-1625/ The British boyband have taken an early lead as Live While We’re Young, the first track taken from their eagerly anticipated second album Take Me Home, has hit the Number 1 spot on today’s Official Singles Chart Update. But Bajan superstar Rihanna is less than 250 copies behind the 1D boys with Diamonds (2), the lead single from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled seventh studio album. OCC Edited October 3, 201213 yr by iTSAN
October 3, 201213 yr Rihanna has number one in the bag, Greg James said the sales are "really,really,really close " and only a "handful of sales between them". Rihanna now has a 50% lead. Yep, 250 sales behind. So by now (16:00 on Wednesday) she should already have a 3K lead - probably nearer 10K by Sunday.
October 3, 201213 yr Rihanna has number one in the bag, Greg James said the sales are "really,really,really close " and only a "handful of sales between them". Rihanna now has a 50% lead. One Direction also have EP and CDS sales, but it does look like Rihanna will come out on top this Sunday.
October 3, 201213 yr Not surprised to see 1D still at #1, with the massive pre-order sales. Rihanna should overtake them on Friday's update if she remains at #1 on iTunes. I didn't expect The Other Tribe to go top 40, their song's not bad and anything new is welcome to the top 40 these days.
October 3, 201213 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-number-1-1625/ The British boyband have taken an early lead as Live While We’re Young, the first track taken from their eagerly anticipated second album Take Me Home, has hit the Number 1 spot on today’s Official Singles Chart Update. But Bajan superstar Rihanna is less than 250 copies behind the 1D boys with Diamonds (2), the lead single from her forthcoming, as-yet-untitled seventh studio album. OCC She made up 6k in one day :o She's going to be about 20-25k ahead by the end of the week.
October 3, 201213 yr That means the #1 for this week is pretty much set in stone now. I'm really glad Rihanna got #1 with this song. I honestly never thought it'd make it, let alone when released so early, especially since it isn't exactly another Only Girl/We Found Love. The song still has a lot to live up to though. If it doesn't sell a million, it'll be seen as an "underperformance" probably. :lol:
October 3, 201213 yr Really funny, people on here said Rihanna would have overtaken 1D by at least 10k. Could go either way. 1D are on radio 1 the whole of saturday. B-)
October 3, 201213 yr One Direction also have EP and CDS sales, but it does look like Rihanna will come out on top this Sunday. One Direction's Ep/Cds sales aren't going to be that effective anymore. The funny thing is Diamonds dosen't even have a video yet and it's going to sell quite an impressive amount on it's first week! Should be another 600,000+ plus for Rihanna.
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