Top 3 sales in the singles will be brill this week and happy days at a decent selling album, even if it is 1D!! Im not sure itll be all that front loaded - i mean its a month til xmas surely saturday sales will be slightly better than usually with everyone buying xmas pressies!

If 'Little Things' does get to #1, would that be the first time ever that two different acts have done the double in consecutive weeks?

Edited November 14, 201213 yr by Bré

LOL at people here saying that 1D won't be near the 100K mark with their album 48 hours ago... :) C'mon! Pass Bruno in the Singles chart... 16K is too much I think :(

Brilliant sales for One Direction, im so happy they are going to be number 1 with huge sales too. Kylie what are you playing at it, this constant messing up with singles is becoming so annoying, Kylie/ record company are just throwing the singles out and no effort seems to be going in to make them hits. It is my opinion the loco motion is not one of the strongest new versions, it would have made far more sense for on a night like this or indeed flower to be promoted. It now appears Flower will probably never see the top 75.

Poor Steps, i just saw their position and to make it worse it is likely they will drop throughout the week, Top 40 at best now it appears at this stage.

I wish Melanie C was higher... I think this could hinder any chance of a Spice Girls reunion. :(

Ouch at Xtina's album position.

I wish Melanie C was higher... I think this could hinder any chance of a Spice Girls reunion. :(

 

What number is she?

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Looking at the midweeks; a certain Syco-managed act's new LP has sold 95k records in two days (can't mention their name for fear of bots).

Poor Xtina.

Well she hasn't bothered to do even the slightest bit of promotion.

 

So more like:

 

Stupid Xtina.

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Looking at the midweeks; a certain Syco-managed act's new LP has sold 95k records in two days (can't mention their name for fear of bots).

 

So 70k on Monday and only 25k yesterday :blink: I knew it would be front loaded but didn't spect it to drop that much!

 

If its daily sales decrease to say 10-15k then it might struggle to break 150k for first week sales :yahoo:

Edited November 14, 201213 yr by Oliver

I think theyll do okay and do well on saturday because we are in december. A massive part of Mondays sales will have been from pre-orders too!

Midweek Charts: 1D album nears 100,000 sales

Source: MW

Paul Willams

 

 

One Direction are on course for their first ever UK No 1 album with the newly-issued Take Me Home already nudging 100,000 sales.

 

Although their introductory set Up All Night made history this year by becoming the first debut by a UK band to enter at No 1 on the Billboard 200 in the US, it only peaked at 2 in the UK. However, they are now set to go one place better with their new album by the end of business on Tuesday having outsold its nearest four rivals combined, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

The group, who performed on The X Factor last Saturday, are also making a stong impact on the midweek singles countdown with the brand new track Little Things, although it is currently being outsold by new releases from Bruno Mars and Little Mix.

 

Rod Stewart is providing One Direction's main competition on the artist albums midweeks chart with his first festive set Merry Christmas, Baby presently registering as a new entry at 2, although it is around 65,000 sales behind Take Me Home. The high debut follows him chatting and performing on Graham Norton's BBC 1 show last Friday and if it finishes at 2 by the time the week's full chart is published on Sunday it will be his highest-charting album since When We Were The New Boys reached the same position in 1998.

 

Two other brand new albums are presently right below Stewart's with Polydor's new Rolling Stones best of GRRR at 3 and Reprise/Warner Bros's second 2012 Green Day album DOS at 4. The Stones album, released to mark the band's 50th anniversary, comes 10 years after their last new retrospective Forty Licks reached 2, while DOS follows Uno peaking at 2 for Green Day in September.

 

Having debuted at 1 last Sunday, Robbie Williams' Island debut Take The Crown is down to 5 in the midweeks with sales dropping 68%, while Decca's Andre Rieu & the Johann Straus Orchestra fall 2-6 with Magic Of The Movies and Polydor act Lana Del Rey's Born To Die races 38-7 following the release of the Paradise Edition of the album.

 

Decca's Alfie Boe is seeking a third UK Top 10 album with Storyteller registering as a new entry at 8 in the week so far as Virgn's Emeli Sande dops 6-9 with Our Version Of Events, while Asylum/Atlantic's Ed Sheeran sees sales of + triple over the week following his performance on last Sunday's X Factor results show. As a consequence, the album climbs 32-10 in the midweeks, while Give Me Love - the song he performed - vaults 139-19 on midweek singles.

 

King Animal, Soundgarden's first studio album since 1996's Down On The Upside, is new at 13, while RCA's Christina Aguilera registers at 18 with Lotus and Reprise/Warner's Deftones are new at 19 with Koi No Yokan.

 

Having topped the chart with a best of last year, Steps are set to return to the Top 40 with their first new studio set in a dozen years. Light Up the World, issued on their own Steps Recordings label, is currently new at 22, while other new entries will come this weekend from Universal Republic/Island's Weeknd and Atlantic's The Staves.

 

Bruno Mars is aiming for a fourth UK No 1 single with the new Elektra/Atlantic single Locked Out Of Heaven leading at the moment, although it is only a few thousand sales ahead of Syco act Little Mix's brand new track DNA with One Direction at 3, making the top three sellers all brand new releases. Syco's Labrinth drops 2-4 wth Beneath Your Beautiful featuring Emeli Sande, while the Parlophone-issued The Power Of Love by Gabrielle Alpin rockets 36-5 following its use in a John Lewis TV campaign.

 

After securing a second week at the top last weekend, Robbie Williams' Island single Candy drops to 6 in the midweeks, while Island's McFly are looking for an 18th UK Top 10 single with Love Is Easy currently registering as a new entry at 7. Sales of Gangnam Style by Island's PSY are up 22% on the week after he performed it on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 show, although it drops 6-8 on Sales Flashes, while XL's Adele slips 4-9 with Skyfall and Decca's Lumineers climb 15-10 with Ho Hey.

 

Future Cut/QWorks/Warner Bros's Stooshe are heading for a third hit with their TLC cover Waterfalls new at 14 on the midweeks. Other brand new arrivals include Polydor act Lana Del Rey with Ride and Ministry of Sound's Example with Close Enemies, while Atlantic's Christina Perri leaps 75-24 with A Thousand Years.

 

 

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Bruno Mars

2 Little Mix

3 One Direction

4 Labrinth/Emeli Sande

5 Gabrielle Alpin

 

6-10

7 McFly

10 Lumineers

 

11-20

14 StooShe.

19 Ed Sheeran

 

21-30

24 Christina Perri

27 Lana Del Rey

29 One Direction [LWWY]

 

31-40

31 Example

34 Pink [Try]

39 Little Mix

 

 

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

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

 

1 One Direction (94k)

2 Rod Stewart (29k)

3 Rolling Stones

4 Green Day

5 Robbie Williams

 

6-10

7 Lana Del Rey

8 Alfie Boe

10 Ed Sheeran

 

11-20

13 Soundgarden

18 Christina Aguilera

19 Deftones

 

21-30

22 Steps

29 Weeknd

 

31-40

33 The Staves

 

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...e-me-home-1710/

People on Twitter saying Mcfly-Love is Easy is at 5 but not sure where they got the info from

Confused with Ne-Yo's album not doing well, he's had three big hits this year. Let's Go, Let Me Love You and Turn Around..his last album didnt do well either. :o He's beocoming more of a featured artist/song-writer every day..

Edited November 14, 201213 yr by Karma

He's beocoming more of a featured artist/song-writer every day..

I guess he doesn't have too much to worry about then - you can make lots of money from songwriting - just ask Dolly Parton.

I wonder how far Kylie has dropped - hopefully still top 20, but I'm not holding my breath with the slew of new releases this week

What's Greg playing at! He skips past about four new entries/re-entries, including Lana Del Rey, just to play some crap by Ed Sheeran?! :manson:

Top 3 singles all new, top 4 albums all new, One D #1 album, all will be revealed in a mo, give me a min.