Posted December 10, 201213 yr Chart News: 1 James Arthur (187k) Source ======================================================= New Releases - Singles: James Arthur, will.i.am/Britney Spears, Rod Stewart, Daley/Jessie J, and re-entries for Shontelle [impossible] and Emeli Sande [Clown]. Climbers: One Direction [One Kiss] New Releases - Albums: Bruno Mars, Green Day, Howard Shore (The Hobbit), Gypsy Kings. ======================================================= 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. ======================================================= PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO MID THREAD THE WEEK OF 24TH DECEMBER 2012.
December 10, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts: X Factor's Arthur races past Little Mix Source: MW by Paul Willams X Factor 2012 winner James Arthur has taken little more than two days to beat the entire first-week sales of 2011 champs Little Mix's debut single. Impossible, which was released by Syco immediately after Arthur was crowned the winner last Sunday night, had sold 254,713 copies by the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company. That compares to Little Mix's winner's single Cannonball shifting 210,129 copies across its entire first week. Arthur now has in its sights other first-week tallies by previous X Factor winners, the record having been set in 2005 by Shayne Ward's That's My Goal, which sold 742,000 copies week one. Alexandra Burke's Hallelujah opened with 576,000, Leona Lewis's A Moment Like This with 571,000 and Joe McElderry's The Climb with 451,000. Impossible has also comprehensively achieved the highest first-week sales of a single this year, easily beaten the previous peak of 141,410 set by the Interscope/Polydor track Payphone by Maroon 5 featuring Wiz Khalifa in June. Shontelle's original version of Impossible returns at 16 in the midweeks. More than 200,000 sales behind in second place at this stage of the week is Interscope/Polydor's Scream & Shout by will.i.am featuring Britney Spears, while Atlantic's Bruno Mars drops 2-3 with Locked Out Of Heaven. However, Mars is heading for a second UK No 1 album with Unorthodox Jukebox on course to debut at the top on Sunday. There are just a few hundred sales separating the three albums immediately below it at this stage, led by Reprise/Warner Bros's Christmas by Michael Buble holding at 2, Virgin's Emeli Sande climbing 7-3 with Our Version Of Events with sales up 98% following her appearance on The X Factor finale and Olly Murs' Epic-issued Right Place Right Time dropping 1-4. Clown, the track Sande performed, is new at 24 on the singles midweeks. Also on The X Factor over the weekend, Rihanna sees sales of her Def Jam/Mercury set Unapologetic rise 42% and climb 6-5 as a result, while the same programme helps to lift sales of One Direction's second Syco album Take Me Home by 5%, although it drops 3-6 in the midweeks. An ITV1 special leads to sales of Rod Stewart's Verve set Merry Christmas, Baby increasing by 31% but with a 4-7 Sales Flashes fall, while a 31% sales rise for Sony's Neil Diamond set The Very Best Of is accompanied by a 5-8 chart decline and Island act Robbie Williams loses a place to 9 with Take The Crown, despite sales increasing by 10%. Meanwhile, RCA's Pink is back in the Top 10 at this stage of the week with The Truth About Love up 11-10. Reprise/Warner Bros act Green Day are set to score their third hit album this year with Tre new at 14 in the midweeks, while an X Factor performance for Kelly Clarkson has sent her RCA release Greatest Hits - Chapter One back among the Top 20 positions. It is up 27-19 on the midweeks with a 71% sales rise. Having climbed to No 1 on the singles chart last Sunday, Parlophone's Gabrielle Aplin is now down to 4 in the midweeks with The Power Of Love, while Olly Murs' Epic single Troublemaker featuring Flo Rida drops 3-5 and Rihanna's Def Jam/Mercury-issued Diamonds falls 5-6. It is joined in the Top 10 positions by another Unapologetic track, Stay featuring Mikky Ekko, which is new at 8. Stay was performed on The X Factor last Sunday as was One Direction's Kiss You, which climbs 43-10 as a result to sit directly below their fellow Syco single Little Things, which drops 6-9. Besides James Arthur and the two offerings from One Direction, there is a fourth Syco track in the Top 10 singles midweeks with Labrinth featuring Emeli Sande's Beneath Your Beautiful dropping 4-7. Outside the 10, the Universal Republic/Polydor-issued Remember Me by Daley featuring Jessie J is new at 19. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 James Arthur (254,713) 2 will.i.am/Britney Spears (55k) 3 Bruno Mars 4 Gabrielle 5 Olly Murs 6-10 8 Rihanna/Mikky Ekko 10 One Direction [KY] 11-20 16 Shontelle 19 Daley/Jessie J 21-30 24 Emeli Sande [Clown] 25 Mcfly http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...-number-1-1754/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Bruno Mars (22k ahead) 2 Michael Buble 3 Emeli Sande 4 Olly Murs 5 Rihanna 6-10 10 P!nk 11-20 13 Calvin Harris 14 Green Day 19 Kelly Clarkson 20 Script 21-30 25 Kylie 30 McFly 31-40 35 Rita Ora 37 Rod Stewart [storyteller] 40 Gypsy Queens http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...x-jukebox-1755/
December 10, 201213 yr Author Midweek Charts update: X Factor's Arthur nears 400,000 sales Source: MW by Paul Willams James Arthur is now nearing 400,000 sales of his debut single and is poised to beat the first-week tallies of most past X Factor winners. Arthur, who was crowned 2012 X Factor champ last Sunday, had by the end of business on Thursday shifted 378,935 copies of his debut Syco release Impossible, according to the Official Charts Company. With two days of the chart week still to go he is very likely to surpass the first-week totals achieved by 2010 winner Matt Cardle (439,007 with When We Collide) and 2009 winner Joe McElderry (450,838 with The Climb), but will have his work cut out to beat the tallies of Shayne Ward (742,180), Leona Lewis (571,253) and Alexandra Burke (576,046). In just a few days this week he had already surpassed the first-week showings achieved by 2007 victor Leon Jackson whose When You Believe opened with 275,747 units and last year's winners Little Mix whose Cannonball debuted at No 1 with 210,129 sales. Arthur is more than 300,000 sales in front on the latest midweeks of the newly-issued Interscope/Polydor track Scream & Shout by will.i.am. featuring Britney Spears at 2. Bruno Mars' Atlantic single Locked Out Of Heaven drops 2-3, but he is on course to top the artist albums chart on Sunday with Unorthodox Jukebox, which was on Thursday just a few hundred sales short of surpassing 100,000 sales week one. Parlophone's Gabrielle Aplin slips 1-4 on the singles midweeks with The Power Of Love as Olly Murs' Epic single Troublemaker featuring Flo Rida falls 3-5 and Def Jam/Mercury's Rihanna arrives at 7 with Stay featuring Mikky Ekko. There remains a very clsoe battle going on for second place for this coming Sunday's artist albums chart with Olly Murs' third Epic album Right Place Right Time edging it presently by only around 1,400 sales. Just below him, Reprise/Warner Bros's Michael Buble falls 2-3 with Christmas and a further 1,300 sales behind is Emeli Sande whose Virgin-issued Our Version Of Events climbs 7-4 with sales up 110% following her X Factor performance. Also on the same X Factor show, Syco's One Direction fall 3-5 with Take Me Home, but with sales up 14%. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 James Arthur (378,935) 2 wi.ll.i.am/Britney Spears (75k)?? 3 Bruno Mars 4 Gabrielle Aplin 5 Olly Murs Top 10 7 Rihanna/Mikky Ekko 10 One Direction [KY] Top 15 12 Taylor Swift Top 20 20 Shontelle Top 30 23 Daley/Jessie J 28 Emeli Sande [ Clown] 29 Wizzard Top 40 31 McFly 38 Ellie Goulding [ACH] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Bruno Mars (100k) 2 Olly Murs (1,4k ahead) 3 Michael Buble 4 Emeli Sande (1,3k behind) 5 One Direction Top 10 10 P!nk Top 15 12 Calvin Harris 13 Mumford & Sons Top 20 18 Kelly Clarkson 19 Script Top 30 Led Zeppelin 22 Green Day 25 Kylie 28 Taylor Swift Top 40 32 McFly Rod Stewart [storyteller] Jake Bugg NO SALES INFO ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles Rihanna 3+3 Alicia Keys 10+7 The Pogues 14+5 Mariah 20+2 Little Mix 20+10 McFly 30+1 Albums Rihanna 3+3 Little Mix 10+5 Alicia Keys 10+10 Girls Aloud 30+1
December 10, 201213 yr Bruno Mars' Tuesday sales should be interesting - it's done well on pre-orders and is currently #2 on iTunes, but is nowhere to be seen in the Top 50 albums on HMV! I was expecting sales of maybe even 200k tbh!
December 11, 201213 yr Hrad to know what he'll get - hopefully itll sell well, Buble and Rod should be over 100k this week too and also Olly again - would look okay at last lol!!
December 11, 201213 yr Bruno Mars' Tuesday sales should be interesting - it's done well on pre-orders and is currently #2 on iTunes, but is nowhere to be seen in the Top 50 albums on HMV! I was expecting sales of maybe even 200k tbh! Was expecting this to be massive but have not sold anywhere near what I thought we would at work! Am sure it will still get huge sales though.
December 11, 201213 yr I really hope Olly can do another 100k this week, there aren't many artists can manage that at the moment.
December 11, 201213 yr James Arthur sold 187,000 so far, more than Leona, Alexandra and Matt Cardle at this stage. Gonna be big sales. http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...ales-ever-1753/ Edited December 11, 201213 yr by richw
December 11, 201213 yr Bloody hell! Should do 500k at least this week! Wonder how much it'll drop off to in week two? Justice Collective will need to live up to their sky high expectations to get the Xmas #1! Outsold the total sales of Shontelle's version in one day :lol:
December 11, 201213 yr James Arthur sold 187,000 so far, more than Leona, Alexandra and Matt Cardle at this stage. Gonna be big sales. :w00t: I think he might be able to scrape the number one this week then! ^_^
December 11, 201213 yr Author James on 187K already after 1 day of downloads http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news....ales-ever-1753/ James Arthur has scored the most explosive start of any X Factor winner in history with his debut single Impossible, according to the Official Charts Company’s sales data released this morning. Impossible, which went on sale on Sunday evening immediately after James Arthur was unveiled as the 2012 X Factor winner, had sold 187,000 copies by midnight last night according to Official Charts Company’s sales data. Arthur’s extraordinary performance already puts him on course for a storming full week, which will be bolstered further by the single’s CD release tomorrow (Wednesday, December 12). No previous X Factor finalists’ debut single has hit such heights so quickly. In 2008, Alexandra Burke’s Hallelujah had sold 147,000 copies by the end of Monday, while Matt Cardle’s When We Collide in 2010 had sold 112,000 and Leona Lewis’ A Moment Like This in 2006 had sold 101,000 during their first two days on sale. Last year’s winners, Little Mix’s Cannonball had sold 69,000 at this stage of its opening week. Comparisons with Shayne Ward’s all-time fastest selling X Factor winner’s single, 2005’s That’s My Goal, are difficult because it was issued in the early days of digital. The single had sold only 46,000 copies on download by Monday midnight, but exploded when the CD was released on Wednesday – it sold 289,000 copies on that day alone, on its way to a record X Factor opening week total of 742,000. Official Charts Company Managing Director Martin Talbot says, “There has been a lot said about X Factor’s popularity this year and questions have been raised that perhaps its momentum is beginning to wane. But this amazing opening performance by James Arthur suggests that it remains the pre-eminent launch pad for new artists. Whether Arthur will match Shayne Ward’s 2005 total, only time will tell – but he has a fantastic chance.” The other previous biggest opening week totals are Alexandra Burke’s Hallelujah (576,000), Leona Lewis’ A Moment Like This (571,000) and Joe McElderry’s The Climb (451,000). ======= P.S. I shoved the whole article other sales have been mentioned.
December 11, 201213 yr Author Wow, never expected that, I wonder how well the Justice Collective will match that next week, the physicals are yet to kick in, he could be looking at 400k plus :unsure:
December 11, 201213 yr So predicted!!!!!! He is the king!!! in 1 day he's done like what LM did in a week. LOL! :) The best week sales of this year after one day... and by far :)
December 11, 201213 yr I feel a little sorry for Little Mix - they did really badly as it was a dreadful winners song that in no way represented who they were. It wasn't even tacked on to the end of their debut album, as all the other winner's songs have been.
December 11, 201213 yr Author Its funny how 7 members thought the track would do 100k, its already doubled that :lol: even my prediction has gone out of the window already http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148266 :lol:
December 11, 201213 yr Oh bull. With two or three more sales weeks to go, does that mean he has Year End #1 sewn up? Poor Gotye if so.
December 11, 201213 yr Oh bull. With two or three more sales weeks to go, does that mean he has Year End #1 sewn up? Poor Gotye if so. I'm thinking it'll do about 400k this week, less than 200k next week and then maybe 100k the week after so I think the top 2/3 are safe on the YTD chart.
December 11, 201213 yr Oh bull. With two or three more sales weeks to go, does that mean he has Year End #1 sewn up? Poor Gotye if so. No way - XF songs are super-ultra-front-loaded - even if it sells 500k this week, that still leaves 800k+ for the remaining 2 weeks. Even when Shayne Ward sold 742k 1st week, he only sold 133k on week 2...
December 11, 201213 yr Its funny how 7 members thought the track would do 100k, its already doubled that :lol: even my prediction has gone out of the window already http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148266 :lol: I knew it would do a lot better than most were thinking, but it looks like it's going to even out-do my prediction! Good on James! His version of the song is really good though. If Jahmene won, I think his sales would have been lower.
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