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Oops! :heehee: BUT STILL... 5 years is still a long time :P

 

Also pleased to see Kelly get top 20 (finally) with the Greatest Hits. I do wish it was far higher though :cry:

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true!!!! thank you!

OMG! he´s down! well, tomorrow he has a concert, I bet i will surpass at least Neil diamond

Thank goodness Girls Aloud Ten has settled a bit. Hopefully it doesnt fall any further than 29, like it fell from 18-26 last week.

 

Hopefully sales have increased too. Live Lounge/Graham Norton Friday and ITV1 documentary Saturday should increase next week's sales.

7th week top 40 for a reworking of hits everyone already has??? think she is doing brilliantly!!!!!!! :mellow: the physicals in HMV and supermarkets etc are too expensive in my opinion, but people still buying so hey! would like to see the CD dow to 5.99/6.99 for a few weeks in January

more promo coming up so could sell 150k plus before end of year!!

Little disappointed Kylie is only 25. I was hoping top 20 after her X Factor performance

 

The Abbey Road Sessions is now part of the 2 for £15 offer in HMV so that could help it slightly! :D
i to had hoped Kylie would be higher, hopefully she remains top 30 now, either way though she should manage 20,000 + this week which is good.

finally!!!!! this offer always gets a few more buyers... you really want one CD then you think wonder which other to get..... KYLIE! LOL :yahoo:

The Abbey Road Sessions is now part of the 2 for £15 offer in HMV so that could help it slightly! :D

 

Rumour has it, Kylie will be singing Better The Devil You Know on Alan Carr next week!!!!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

 

Only a week and a bit to go and I will be in my companies VIP Box at O2 watching 'Especially For You!'! :w00t:

i to had hoped Kylie would be higher, hopefully she remains top 30 now, either way though she should manage 20,000 + this week which is good.

 

Rumour has it, Kylie will be singing Better The Devil You Know on Alan Carr next week!!!!!! :cheer: :cheer: :cheer:

Yay! One of my favourites off the album! Would be nice if she performed All the Lovers or Flower live sometime (I think she did at the Proms though).

7th week top 40 for a reworking of hits everyone already has??? think she is doing brilliantly!!!!!!! :mellow: the physicals in HMV and supermarkets etc are too expensive in my opinion, but people still buying so hey! would like to see the CD dow to 5.99/6.99 for a few weeks in January

 

I don't think the price has put people off tbh - The £16 version in HMV is always selling out!

I know it's a bit boring to listen to, but the armed forces ARE more important than the chart?

On a music station? Besides, when do they eulogise nurses, firefighters or paramedics?

Think Bruno could be on for 150k could be close call if he's fastest selling over 1D and Mumford. If it's not him will Buble hit fever pitch and sell more next week? Not out the question sadly. Think Olly will best Sande by the end of the week unless she has more promo. Think 2-4 in albums will all be close or over 100k be great to see Olly maintain it

 

James Arthur very hard to call will need to see how the physical impacts when they start to hit in Friday mids (or thurs if occ are generous). Could clear 500k but surely 400-450k at least now which is quite something considering initial expectations on here 70-80k for will and Britney? Maybe?

Let's not even get started on 'perceived credibility', that's very reminiscent of Matt (although I wouldn't mind James doing a Matt).

 

James has already been endorsed by people like Labrinth and Emeli Sande though, whereas Matt just endorsed himself as credible!

 

J.A's Impossible is nothing... B-)

 

I doubt he will even do a Matt Cardle with his career, totally insignificant in my books. But then again it was another poor year for TXF...

 

Only in terms of ratings, there was alot of talent. And it makes me laugh how people revel in knocking X Factor contestants chances of making it considering 1D and Olly both did the chart double recently. X Factor doesn't attract as many viewers as it did but it does produce popstars by the bucketload. The media can't get enough of JA, he has loads of fans and top songwriters are queueing up to work with him. I don't know if I'll like what he releases but I would be shocked if he isn't a success.

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Scream And Shout might sell over 100,000 copies this week as well if its sales are consistent for the rest of the week.
Went into HMV tonight, and they are selling the CD single of He Ain't Heavy. Wonder if physical copies of this will make a dent on Sunday's chart?
Went into HMV tonight, and they are selling the CD single of He Ain't Heavy. Wonder if physical copies of this will make a dent on Sunday's chart?

There was a situation last year regarding the Wherever You Are, which had a week low Top 200 before shooting up to number one. I presume all pre-orders will count to the week it inevitably reaches number one though, if the song does chart early.

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Update is in... give me a mo, Bruno Mars #1 still.
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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%.

 

 

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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]

 

 

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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

 

 

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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

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