Posted November 19, 201213 yr Chart News: Singles 1. Olly Murs (60k+) 2. Girls Aloud (39k+) 3. One Direction (23k+) Albums 1. Rihanna (35k) 2. Led Zeppelin (28k) 3. Little Mix (22k sold) 4. One Direction (a couple of thousand behind) ======================================================= New Releases - Singles: Olly Murs/Flo Rida, Girls Aloud, Alicia Keys, Rudimental/John Newman/Alex Clare Climbers: New Releases - Albums: Rihanna, Little Mix, Example, Coldplay, Michael Buble, Led Zeppelin, Susan Boyle, Whitney Houston, AC/DC, Lady Antebellum, NOW 83 ======================================================= Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic: You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday, if there is any chart info, please provide a source, so the info can be checked out first, we just have to be careful what to post on here on a Tuesday. Use Twitter and search for midweeks to find any mid info. On Wednesday Radio 1 Chart Top 40 mid update will be posted with links to Radio 1 and any other chart info from MW and OCC from 4pm On Thursdays there will be no mids from MW but any chart info that is found please provide a source. On Friday an update from MW from 11am onwards. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
November 19, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts: No sorry sales start for Rihanna's Unapologetic Source: MW by Paul Willams Rihanna is heading for her fourth UK chart-topping album with Unapologetic as Olly Murs looks to complete a quartet of No 1 singles. The Barbadian's newly-issued Def Jam/Mercury set currently has a lead of more than 20,000 units with Led Zeppelin's Celebration Day in second place, according to the Official Charts Company. Unapologetic now looks on course to emulate Good Girl Gone Bad, Loud and Talk That Talk by reaching No 1, while Celebration Day will give Led Zeppelin their third Top 10 album this century. The Atlantic/Rhino/Swansong set, which captures their 2007 reunion performance at London's O2 arena, follows 2003 live set How The West Was Won, which reached No 5, and 2007 retrospective Mothership, which peaked at 4. However, outselling Rihanna by more than two copies to one is EMI TV/UMTV compilation Now 83, which since its release this week has so far shifted nearly 128,000 copies. It is the first album released in the series since Universal's takeover deal with EMI was completed. Like Rihanna, Olly Murs is also seeking out a fourth UK chart-topper but his quest is in the singles market where the newly-released Epic title Troublemaker featuring Flo Rida presently has a lead of nearly 30,000 units over Girls Aloud's comeback Polydor single Something New. Syco act One Direction's Little Things is at 3, having debuted at 1 last Sunday. Murs' midweek chart success follows him performing Troublemaker on last Sunday's X Factor results show, the same programme on which RCA's Alicia Keys performed Girl On Fire. That track is also benefiting from the exposure, showing up as a new entry at 4 on Sales Flashes and looking set to become Key's seventh UK Top 10 single. Featured on The X Factor the week before, Little Mix's debut album DNA lines up as a new entry at 4 on the midweek artist albums chart and is one of six new releases among the Top 10 sellers at this stage of the week. Showing up at 5 is Susan Boyle's fourth album Standing Ovation - The Greatest Songs, while an expanded version of Michael Buble's 2011 Reprise/Warner Bros set Christmas is at 6 and Ministry of Sound act Example's The Evolution Of Man is at 7. With new arrivals from Little Mix and Susan Boyle plus One Direction's Take Me Home dropping 1-3, Syco currenty has three of the week's five biggest artist sellers. Below the trio, Rod Stewart's Verve/Decca debut Merry Christmas Baby falls 2-8 as the Decca-issued Magic Of The Movies by Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra slips 4-9 and Robbie Williams' Island set Take The Crown drops 5-10. Outside the Top 10, AC/DC's Columbia release Live At River Plate shows up as a new entry at 14 and is among a crop of singles and album midweek entries by the legendary band (see separate story) after their catalogue was finally made available this week on iTunes. Other new arrivals include a new RCA-handled Whitney Houston retrospective, I Will Always Love You - The Best Of. Behind Olly Murs, Girls Aloud, One Direction and Alicia Keys on singles, Syco act Labrinth's Beneath Your Beautiful featuring Emeli Sande is demonstrating real staying power as it climbs 5-4 on midweeks. Below it, Parlophone act Gabrielle Aplin's The Power Of Love falls 5-6, PSY's Gangnam Style holds at 7 and fellow Island release Candy by Robbie Williams declines 6-8. Little Mix's Syco single DNA is down 3-9 at this stage of the week, while Atlantic act Bruno Mars' Locked Out Of Heaven makes a rapid fall to 10 having debuted at 2 last Sunday. Following up the chart-topping Feel The Love, Rudimental's Asylum-issued Not Giving in featuring John Newman and Alex Clare registers as a new entry at 11, while Atlantic act Christina Perri's A Thousand Years climbs 19-14 with sales up 156% on the week. Its uplift is no doubt helped by its exposure in the film Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Olly Murs (30k ahead) 2 Girls Aloud 3 One Direction 4 Alicia Keys 5 Labrinth/Emeli Sande 11-20 11 Rudimental/John Newman/Alex Clare 14 Christina Perri 21-30 22 Script/will.i.am 31-40 31 AC/DC [bTB] 36 Little Mix [Wings] 38 Naughty Boy/Emeli Sande 39 Ludacris/Usher/David Guetta 40 AC/DC [HTH] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...hart-race-1725/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Rihanna (20k ahead) 2 Led Zeppelin 3 One Direction 4 Little Mix 5 Susan Boyle 6-10 6 Michael Buble 7 Example 11-20 14 AC/DC 19 Rita Ora 21-30 24 Eva Cassidy 29 Whitney Houston 31-40 31 The Script 38 Maroon 5 39 Ellie Goulding http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...hart-race-1725/
November 19, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Murs heading for best sales start yet Source: MW by Paul Willams Olly Murs is on course to achieve the highest first-week singles sales of his career as Troublemaker heads to the top of the UK chart this weekend. The newly-issued Epic single featuring Flo Rida had sold 98,759 units by the end of business on Thursday, according to the Offcicial Charts Company. With two days of trading still to go, that is already more copies than his No 1s Please Don't Let Me Go (93,239) and Dance With Me Tonight (74,475) sold in their entire first weeks, while it should easily surpass the opening tally of 109,151 copies sold for fellow chart-topper Heart Skips A Beat last year. As Murs heads for his fourth No 1 single, he will deny the reformed Girls Aloud a fifth chart-topper with their comeback Polydor track Something New nearly 40,000 sales behind in second place on the latest midweeks. Syco act One Direction, who debuted at 1 last Sunday with Little Things, are now down to 3, just ahead of Alicia Keys' brand new RCA cut Girls On Fire at 4. Another Syco release, Beneath Your Beautiful by Labrinth featuring Emeli Sande, falls 4-5. Rihanna is heading for her fourth UK artist albums chart-topper with the Def Jam/Mercury-issued Anapologetic, which is currently around 30,000 sales ahead of closest challenger Take Me Home by One Direction. Lined up directly below them are three new entries with Led Zeppelin's Atlantic/Rhino/Swansong live set Celebration Day at 3, Little Mix's Syco debut DNA at 4 and an expanded version of Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros 2011 set Christmas at 5. There are two other new arrivals in the Top 10 as it presently stands with Susan Boyle's fourth Syco album Standing Ovation - The Greatest Songs at 6 and Ministry of Sound signing Example's The Evolution Of Man at 9. The biggest-selling album of the week by far is the EMI TV/UMTV compilation Now! 83, which by the end of Thursday had sold around 204,000 copies. Its 2011 equivalent, Now! 80, sold 295,823 copies across its entire first week last November. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Olly Murs/Flo Rida (98,759) 2 Girls Aloud (59k) 3 One Direction 4 Alcia Keys 5 Labrinth/Emeli Sande Top 15 Christina Perri 14 Rudimental/John Newman/Alex Clare Top 30 21 Script/will.i.am 27 AC/DC [bIB] Top 40 31 P!nk 36 Little Mix [Wings] AC/DC [HTH] Naughty Boy/Emeli Sande Rihanna/David Guetta AC/DC [YSMANL] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Rihanna (30k ahead) 2 One Direction 3 Led Zeppelin 4 Little Mix 5 Michael Buble Top 10 Susan Boyle 9 Example Top 15 AC/DC Top 30 Rita Ora Eva Cassidy 29 Whitney Houston Top 40 38 Maroon 5 NO SALES INFO
November 19, 201213 yr Rihanna should easily be number one and pass 100k – a part of me wants to say it will be up there with One Direction and Mumford & Sons first week sales for their recent albums, but I’m not sure. I think Little Mix will be Top 3, hopefully with sales of over 80k. I’m sure One Direction will have sales over 80k too. Example’s previous album sold 56k at #1, so I think his new album will sell slightly less than that.
November 19, 201213 yr I think Rihanna will easily be up there with M&S/1D's sales, it wouldn't surprise me that much if she grabs the fastest seller of the year before being immediately beaten by Olly Murs (possibly) :P There aren't as many new releases heading for the top 40 as in recent weeks (it feels like that anyway) but pretty much all the significant new releases that there are will be competing for the top 10. Rihanna, Little Mix, Example, Coldplay, Susan Boyle, Bublé re-release, maybe Whitney and based on it being gold already possibly Led Zeppelin - I doubt all of them will make it just for the sheer number of them, really hope Example and Coldplay can at least.
November 20, 201213 yr Hopefully the coldplay live album will be in the top 10, interesting to see how SuBo does this year - she was no1 last year with 72k first week sales,wasn't she?
November 20, 201213 yr I think Rihanna's got the #1 album, Little Mix I reckon could debut at #4 behind One Direction and SuBo. :o It'll be interesting to see how Example does, I'm expecting a complete flop for that.
November 20, 201213 yr Author The top 10 album chart could be looking at 6 to 7 new entries bit of a clearout there, pushing a lot of the new albums from last week down the chart. Love to see sales for Rihanna's album, I should imagine she clear 150k plus for the week. As for the singles chart, its really no contest now, Olly seems to have a big lead on the iTunes chart. One thing I did not mention in the first post is AC/DC, they have quite a few tracks in the iTunes Top 100, notably Back In Black is getting a resurgence, currently top 40 on the iTunes chart.
November 20, 201213 yr What would be complete flop for Example? I think top 10/15, which is a bit of underperformance. Edited November 20, 201213 yr by SKOB
November 20, 201213 yr AC/DC have finally relented and jumped onto iTunes, hence a flood of downloads this week.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20392390
November 20, 201213 yr What would be complete flop for Example? I think top 10/15, which is a bit of underperformance. I don't know. But his latest single only scraped top 40, which means he's got about 5,000-10,000 core fanbase (given that the song was so poorly promoted and isn't well known by the general public, it would've been mainly his core fanbase getting it I can assume, and it's likely to be the same people getting the album first week). I know there's some flaws in that logic, but as a rough idea. Edited November 20, 201213 yr by Eric_Blob
November 20, 201213 yr I think Rihanna will easily be up there with M&S/1D's sales, it wouldn't surprise me that much if she grabs the fastest seller of the year before being immediately beaten by Olly Murs (possibly) :P There aren't as many new releases heading for the top 40 as in recent weeks (it feels like that anyway) but pretty much all the significant new releases that there are will be competing for the top 10. Rihanna, Little Mix, Example, Coldplay, Susan Boyle, Bublé re-release, maybe Whitney and based on it being gold already possibly Led Zeppelin - I doubt all of them will make it just for the sheer number of them, really hope Example and Coldplay can at least. Not sure riri will do as much as 160k? I hope she does but going by last years album she started with 163k with a much bigger lead single before it took off in december. Maybe 130k this week?
November 20, 201213 yr Author At last some news, I think we can safely say Olly Murs is #1 Laura. @RockstarShades GA are 2nd in teh midweeks, but OneDirection are at 3 and close to overtaking them. https://twitter.com/RockstarShades edit... She is talking about the iTunes chart so cancel that.
November 20, 201213 yr I actually hope Rihanna isn't number one album. Its a very poor album. Listened to it on itunes and nothing stood out. If only she actually took a break after her tour each year and took time to make a decent album instead of firing another one out to take advantage of xmas. She would still sell loads during the year at any rate if she has a decent lead single!!
November 20, 201213 yr would be interesting to see where Led Zep are, they have already be certified Gold (could that be any indication of it's pre-orders?)
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