Midweek Charts: Courteeners leading album sales

Source: MW

by Paul Willams

 

The Courteeners' post-Polydor chart career is off to a flying start with their V2/Cooperative Music debut Anna topping the UK midweek artist albums countdown.

 

The Rochdale group's third album was around 2,500 sales in front by the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, although will have its work cut out to remain at No 1 by the time the final chart is published this Sunday. However, even if it cannot hang on, Anna will still have a chance of becoming the band's highest-charting album yet following the Polydor albums St Jude and Falcon, which peaked at 4 and 6 respectively.

 

Three other brand new albums are among the Top 10 sellers at this stage of the week, led at No 7 by Atlantic-signed Scottish band Frightened Rabbit's fourth offering Pedestrian Verse. At 8 is the Eels' V2/Cooperative album Wonderful Glorious - the last time the US act finished in the Top 10 was with Daisies Of The Galaxy in 2000 - and Devlin's second 4th & Broadway/Island album A Moving Picture is at 10.

 

Having given them their first chart-topper last Sunday, Biffy Clyro's 14th Floor/Warner Bros-issued Opposites drops to 3 with sales down 73% in the week to date. Ahead of it, Polydor's Les Miserables soundtrack holds at 2 and Virgin's Emeli Sande remains at 4 with Our Version Of Events but with sales rising 26%. Jake Bugg's self-titled Mercury album gains a place to 5 as sales rocket 176% and Rhino/Warner Bros's expanded Rumours by Fleetwood Mac falls 3-6. Decca act Andrea Bocelli holds at 9 with Passione.

 

Girls Aloud member Kimberley Walsh's first solo album Centre Stage crops up as a new entry at 14 at this stage ahead, a place ahead of fellow Decca act Richard Clayderman's brand new album Romantique. Also released in the UK via Decca, the Big Machine label's The Mavericks are new at 19 with In Time, their first newe studio album since 2003.

 

Also set to debut in the chart this Sunday are new albums from Vertigo/Mercury's Pure Love, Columbia's Destiny's Child with new retrospective Love Songs, Cooking Vinyl's Ron Sexsmith and V2's Coheed & Cambria.

 

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis look like emulating their US chart-topping status on this side of the Atlantic with Thrift Shop featuring Wanz climbing 2-1 on the midweek singles. The single, released on the Macklemore label, has seen its sales lift 209% on the week and is almost outselling by two copies to one its closest challenger, the Island-issued White Noise by Disclosure with AlunaGeorge. Virgin act Emeli Sande's Clown rises 8-3, while Ministry of Sound's Bingo Players drop to 4 with Get Up (Rattle) featuring Far East Movement having secured a second week at No 1 last weekend.

 

Illinois band Fall Out Boy are heading for their first UK Top 10 hit since 2007's This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race with the Def Jam/Mercury-issued My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark new at 5 in the latest Sales Flashes. Will.i.am drops 3-6 with the Interscope/Polydor-issued Scream & Shout featuring Britney Spears, while Def Jam/Mercury's Rihanna slips 5-7 with Stay featuring Mikky Ekko and the Columbia-issued Drinking From The Bottle by Calvin Harris featuring Tinie Tempah falls by the same amount to 8. Mercury signing Taylor Swift is down 4-9 with I Knew You Were Trouble, while Dirtee Skank/Island's Dizzee Rascal races 14-10 with Bassline Junkie with sales up 51%.

 

Among the big sales gainers outside the Top 10, Syco's Little Mix enjoy a 140% hike to move 31-12 with Change Your Life after they performed it on Graham Norton's BBC One chat show last Friday.

 

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Wanz

2 Disclosure/AlunaGeorge

3 Emeli Sande

4 Bingo Players/Far East Movement

5 Fall Out Boy

 

6-10

9 Dizzee Rascal

 

11-20

12 Little Mix

13 Lawson

19 Ellie Goulding [Explosions]

 

21-30

30 One Direction [LT] (re-entry)

 

31-40

32 Justin Bieber & Nicki Minaj

34 Imagine Dragons

35 The Fray (re-entry)

 

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/m...-number-1-1844/

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1 The Courteeners (2.5k ahead)

2 Les Miserables

3 Biffy Clyro (11.7k)

4 Emeli Sande

5 Jake Bugg

 

6-10

7 Frightened Rabbit

8 The Eels

10 Devlin

 

11-20

14 Kimberley Walsh

15 Richard Clayderman

19 Mavericks

 

21-30

27 Pure Love

 

31-40

31 Destiny's Child

32 Ron Sexmith

37 Coheed & Cambria

 

 

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/t...with-anna-1843/

Can someone please tweet Scott Mills and say its 59p on Amazon

if The Courteeners are leading the Les Miserables soundtrack by 2.5k and we are up to Tuesday where it was reported they had a 5k lead from Monday sales then I can see the soundtrack back at the top on Sunday

 

be interesting to see if The Courteeners stays in the top 3 actually as it looks to be heavily frontloaded

amazing to see little mix so high

Oh wow... there are no climbers inside the album top 40.

Oh wow... there are no climbers inside the album top 40.

 

Jake Bugg is up 1 per the report.

Two consecutive weeks of 20+ place jumps to #2 if Disclosure can hold on then! :o Shame this is a let-down from Latch, although I’d much rather this at number one than the alternative… Last night, Emeli Sandé dropped a bit on iTunes, so I suspect Bingo Players will be able to stay Top 3. Big jump for Little Mix, didn’t realise they had improved on iTunes so much! Great to see Lawson going back up too, hopefully it will make the Top 10 this time.

 

Small drop for Fleetwood Mac, I guess it will drop fast after this week though. Devlin off to a good start, but with him just being on the edge of the Top 10 it’s very likely he’ll fall out. Kimberley Walsh a non-mover from yesterday, official Top 20 placing – here we come! :cheer: Eva Cassidy back up to #24 – has she performed somewhere? :kink:

MW mid report added to the update.

Good that Kimberley Walsh has managed to stay at number 14 like she was yesterday. Top 20 could be in her grasp now with a bit of luck.

The Courteeners' lead halved in a day, they're definitely not gonna stay #1 then. It'll just be a return for Les Mis. Hopefully still with at least 30k or so sales, its weekly sales so far have gone 13,844 - 55,954 - 48,392 - 36,898.

 

Best news by far in today's mids is 'White Noise' climbing to #2, I would DIE if they stay up there for Sunday :wub: Brilliant as well to see Fall Out Boy top 5, Dizzee top 10, Ellie top 20 again and The Fray back at #35 (hopefully a comfortable re-entry then) :D

 

And Frightened Rabbit getting the second highest new entry on the albums chart is great too, hope they can hold onto the top 10. 'The Woodpile' is a great song.

 

Richard Clayderman, The Mavericks and 'Pure Love' (the new band of the former lead singer of Gallows apparently) all ahead of Destiny's Child, oops. Such a pointless release for them. Kimberley seems to be holding up well, perhaps she could 'do a Joe' and actually end up climbing by the end of the week :P

 

Small drop for Fleetwood Mac, I guess it will drop fast after this week though.

 

I think it'll be around for a while still TBH. Maybe similar to the re-release of Paul Simon's 'Graceland' last year.

Edited February 6, 201313 yr by Bré

I think The Courteeners will drop to around #3 or #4 by Sunday, with Les Miserables and Emeli Sande occupying the top 2 albums, sales must be poor as Biffy Clyro have had 73% drop in sales.

 

I wish MW gave out proper sales info instead of percentages.

I think it'll be around for a while still TBH. Maybe similar to the re-release of Paul Simon's 'Graceland' last year.

Now that was a weird chart run! :P He prevented Kylie going Top 10 though with her Best of. :(

I wish MW gave out proper sales info instead of percentages.

Or at least give percentages from Sunday, not from the same day last week, so that we can work it out.

 

EDIT: No, that's just stupid as percentage increases would be incredibly rare. :P Just ignore me!

Edited February 6, 201313 yr by liamk97

Eva Cassidy back up to #24 – has she performed somewhere? :kink:

 

Valentine's Day next week, maybe people have started their shopping early. :unsure:

Valentine's Day next week, maybe people have started their shopping early. :unsure:

Of course! That may explain Fleetwood Mac's small drop too, as well as Andrea Bocelli holding up.

73% of last week's sales at this time (so Biffy were on 43k for Monday/Tuesday) is 11k or around that I think?

 

Les Mis was on about 13k at this time last week so I would guess it's still around that, seems to be one of those that is steady but not selling on a massive scale and that would be The Courteeners at about 16k or about that. I'd say Jake Bugg is more likely to be No2 on Sunday probably due to his position in the ITunes/Amazon charts

 

at least I think that's right for the percentage of the sales :D

Edited February 6, 201313 yr by Gerry1975

Of course! That may explain Fleetwood Mac's small drop too, as well as Andrea Bocelli holding up.

 

 

Kimberley's album might just hold up, its that sort of album that might end up as a Valentine's Day present, as a gift.

 

Also Richard Clyderman's album might stick around inside the top 20, I can't see that dropping fast.

Valentine's Day makes Destiny's Child's underperformance seem even worse, since it's called 'Love Songs' so was probably aiming at the Valentine's market!

 

BTW

 

34 Little Dragons

 

*Imagine Dragons :P

Edited February 6, 201313 yr by Bré

Valentine's Day makes Destiny's Child's underperformance seem even worse, since it's called 'Love Songs' so was probably aiming at the Valentine's market!

 

BTW

*Imagine Dragons :P

 

Oops sorted.

 

 

I wonder if Pure Love's album has been picked as a present for Valentine's Day and mistook the album as Love Anthems, if people have they get a shock when they play it :lol:

 

I wouldn't gave thought that "Rumours" was much of a Valentine's day album given the subject matter of a lot of the songs