Midweek Charts: Robbie aiming for first chart-topping double in decade

Source: MW

Paul Willams

 

 

Robbie Williams is looking to simultaneously lead the UK singles and albums markets for the first time since 2001 with Candy and Take The Crown taking charge of the midweeks.

 

Following its release this week, the singer's first Island album Take The Crown has taken a commanding lead on artist albums with nearly 50,000 copies sold by the end of busy on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. That is nearly double sales of closest challenger, the newly-issued Decca set Magic Of The Movies by Andre Rieu and the Johann Straus Orchestra.

 

At the same time Williams' single Candy, which debuted at No 1 last Sunday, has a narrow lead at the top of the singles market with Syco act Labrinth's Beneath Your Beautiful featuring Emeli Sande in second place around 7,800 sales behind.

 

If Take The Crown and Candy can hold on it will place the former Take That star at the top of both main sales charts at the same time since December 2001 when Swing When You're Winning led albums and his Nicole Kidman duet Somethin' Stupid headed singles. Take The Crown will also become his 10th albums chart-topper, overtaking Michael Jackson and putting him only behind The Beatles (15), Madonna (12) and Elvis Presley (11).

 

Williams and Rieu lead a busy week for new albums with six of the top eight sellers new releases. They include JLS whose RCA-issued Evolution registers at 3, while Rieu is joined by Decca colleagues Military Wives whose second album Stonger Together is 5. Their first album In My Dreams topped the chart earlier this year.

 

Former Radio 1 breakfast show host Chris Moyles could be heading for the Top 10 for the first time with his Mercury set The Diffiuclt Second Album new at 7 at this stage of the week. His first release, The Parody Album, reached 17 in 2009. The new album is more than 1,000 sales ahead of Music From Another Dimension, the first studio set since March 2004 by Columbia's Aerosmith who are looking to crack the UK Top 10 for the first time since 2001 when Just PushPlay reached 7.

 

Aerosmith's Columbia colleague Calvin Harris is down to 4 in the midweeks having debuted at 1 last Sunday with 18 Months, while Virgin's Emeli Sande drops 3-6 with Our Version Of Events, Kylie Minogue's Parlophone set The Abbey Road Sessions slips 2-9 and the Syco-issued Together by Jonathan & Charlotte climbs 15-10 with sales up 441% following the screening of an ITV1 documentary about them.

 

A third Decca album looks set for a Top 20 debut with Andrea Bocelli's Opera at 13 on Sales Flashes, while other chart entries this weekend will include new studio sets from Def Jam/Mercury's Ne-Yo, Mercury's Kristina Train and Columbia's Manic Street Preachers with a 20th anniversary re-issue of their first album Generation Terrorists.

 

The X Factor continues to have a big impact on the singles market with Columbia/Roc Nation act Rita Ora's Shine Ya Light leaping 47-8 on midweeks after she performed it on the results show last Sunday, while her album Ora rises 44-17 with sales up 366%.

 

There was also a performace from No Doubt, but this is having far less of a commercial reaction with the track they performed, Looking Hot, not registering in the midweeks and its parent Interscope/Polydor album Push And Shove quietly re-entering at 107. Instead their back catalogue has a better pick-up with retrospective The Singles 1992-2003 returning at 60 and former chart-topper Don't Speak at 42 on midweek singles. This was performed on last Saturday's The X Factor by contestant James Arthur.

 

Other tracks covered by the programme's contestants last weekend are also doing well, including Atlantic act Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up (performed by Kye Sones) and the RCA-handled Listen by Beyonce (Jahmene Douglas). The Mraz track climbs 67-17 with sales up 510% and Listen re-enters at 27.

 

Global Talent/Island's The Wanted are heading for a seventh Top 10 single with I Found You new at 3 in the midweeks, while XL act Adele's Skyfall climbs 5-4 to swap places with the Virgin track Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia featuring John Martin. Relentless act Misha B's second single Do You Think Of Me is new at 6 at this stage of the week as the One More Tune/Warner Bros-issued Can You Hear Me (Ayayaya) by Wiley with Skepta, JME and Ms D drops 3-7. Behind Rita Ora, Island's PSY falls 7-9 with Gangnam Style and Mercury's Sub Focus is heading for his highest-charting track with Tidal Wae featuring Alpines debuting at 10.

 

Other new arrivals to Sunday's chart will include RCA act Christina Aguilera's Your Body and the Play Hard-issued Zimzimma by Sneakbo.

 

 

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC/MW

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Robbie Williams

2 Labrinth/Emeli Sande (7.8k behind)

3 The Wanted

4 Adele

5 Swedish House Mafia/John Martin

 

6-10

6 Misha B

8 Rita Ora

10 Sub Focus/Alpines

 

11-20

14 Christina Aguilera

16 Calvin Harris/Tinie Tempah

17 Jason Mraz

 

21-30

23 Nicki Minaj

27 Beyonce

 

31-40

35 Sneakbo

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1 Robbie Williams (50k)

2 Andre Rieu (25k)

3 JLS

4 Calvin Harris

5 Military Wives

 

6-10

7 Chris Moyles

8 Aerosmith

10 Jonathan & Charlotte

 

11-20

13 Andrea Bocelli

14 Ne-Yo

17 Rita Ora

19 Kristina Train

 

21-30

30 Manic Street Preachers

 

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...-1-double-1692/

Both albums should be constant sellers between now and Christmas, if 40k was Robbie's sales for Mon, he should be around 28-30k for Tues, 120k+ is looking about right for the week.

 

 

Yea im confident he should at least sell 600k by the end of the year!

Kylie's album @ #9

So no REAL sales until now?

Lots of new albums from last week falling Taylor Swift #15, Fun #16, Mick Hucknall #21, Matt Cardle #24, Madness #32

Wow! Didn't expect Taylor Swift to start plummeting, or see fun. have such a big fall.

Taylor Swift's album is actually really underperforming 1-5-15 that's really, really poor. She might climb but I doubt she will climb that much, but albums will no doubt start dropping. Dissapointed for Matt Cardle. I hope he somehow manages to re-enter the top 20 in the album chart, he dosen't really deserve to flop tbh.

 

Ouch at Jls altogether, Hottest Girl In The World is doing a Trouble 6-14-21 I would be surprised to see it remain top 40 in two weeks time. I think their album might finish this week at around #05 as they will be quite front loaded, I'm worried for the drop it's going to have next week though.

 

I think The Wanted will end this week at #04 now, especially as Adele is away to overtake them on iTunes, I can see them falling quite fast soon now.

Edited November 7, 201213 yr by LeeWallaceee

Wow! Didn't expect Taylor Swift to start plummeting, or see fun. have such a big fall.

 

The only album that has climbed inside the 40 from last week is Jonathan & Charlotte. There are no new entries between 31-40.

 

The only album that has climbed inside the 40 from last week is Jonathan & Charlotte. There are no new entries between 31-40.

 

I just hope some of the new entries drop a little. Wednesday album midweek charts usually look a lot worse than the official album chart on Sunday.

I imagine Areosmith will be quite frontloaded

Mid report added

Tbf, the album chart doesn’t get that much worse. Only Muse, Taylor Swift, fun., Jake Bugg and Of Monsters and Men are the ones I’m worried about. Hope Lana Del Rey can re-enter the Top 40 – the Paradise edition and EP are released next week/two weeks’ time which will boost it probably Top 10 again.

What a f*** up by Greg!!

Gregs doing the run-down again. :P Aha

 

Diamonds will most likely be at #8 or #9 by Sunday. I hope Sub Focus can make the top 10 though. :wub:

Edited November 7, 201213 yr by Childish Bambino

How on earth did he end up with the wrong sheet lol, and we thought reggie was bad?!

What a f*** up by Greg!!

 

What happened?

 

#3 for JLS is actually pretty good, especially after its iTunes underperformance I thought even my prediction of #5 was optimistic and it'd be behind several already-released albums even in the mids but as it is it's only behind two other new entries.

 

André Rieu looking set for a second #2 album is odd - he's been on a downward trend with his major releases (Forever Vienna #2, Moonlight Serenade #4, And The Waltz Goes On #7), guess it must just be the sales environment helping him out here. Thank GOD Military Wives' new album isn't doing too well, although it could climb to #4 ahead of JLS by the end of the week, at least it's going to end their 100% #1 hit rate. Chris Moyles in the top 10 and outselling Aerosmith's comeback :D Expected Andrea Bocelli and Ne-Yo to be higher, Ne-Yo's alst album managed top 10 and 'Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself)' has done better than 'Beautiful Monster' so I thought he'd do better this time. Bocelli will probably be around in the top 20/30 for the rest of the year anyway.

 

Really surprised to see Matt still anywhere near as high as #24, in fact I was almost certain he'd be completely out of the top 40 - good for him. Pleased to see '21' likely to hold on for another week in the top 40 as well.

 

And on the singles chart yay at Sub Focus being top 10 but he needs to climb more on iTunes if he's going to hold on. Ugh at Jason Mraz being in the top 20 AGAINA :drama:

How on earth did he end up with the wrong sheet lol, and we thought reggie was bad?!

 

 

What happened, I didn't have my radio on. Did he read yesterdays mids by mistake. :lol:

What happened, I didn't have my radio on. Did he read yesterdays mids by mistake. :lol:

Nope, from 4 weeks ago. :lol:

FFS. people complaining about radio presenters annoy the living f*** out of me. THEY'RE ONLY HUMAN. Jeez. Cut them some slack.

He read the count down from 4 weeks ago when Leona entered the top 10 and then changed the no1 to Candy lol - was an embarressing few minutes - i noticed when Fun where still near the top 20 lol!!