Posted February 18, 201313 yr Album & Single Summary BRITs week: Acts performing Muse, Mumford & Sons, Ben Howard, Emeli Sande, Robbie Williams, One Direction, Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift. New single releases from Mariah Carey, The Script and One Direction, oh well #1 in the bag since they are performing the charity single on the BRITs mid week, I can't pin any other notable new single releases this week unless something pops out of the woodwork as the week goes on. The current crop of singles from Justin and Taylor will rebound later in the week. Climbers from Olly Murs (Army Of Two), Ke$ha (C'Mon), Example and Tyler James/Kano. So its a ding dong battle between Mumford & Sons and Emeli Sande for the #1 album next week. Hardly any new album releases apart from Emeli Sande (Live At The Royal Albert Hall), Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Joe Cocker might just sneak in among the current crop of albums having the BRITs effect. ======================================================= 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.
February 18, 201313 yr Author Midweek Charts: Nick Cave vying for first No 1 Source: MW by Paul Willams Nick Cave could top the UK artist albums chart for the first time this weekend after taking an early lead in the midweeks. The album in question, Push The Sky Away with The Bad Seeds, is the first to be released on Cave's own Bad Seed label via Kobalt's Label Services and by the end of Tuesday was 72% ahead of its nearest rival, according to the Official Charts Company. Even if the album does not end up at No 1 by the time the week's full chart is published on Sunday, it will still mark a rare presence in the UK Top 10 for the Australian. He has only twice previously made the Top 10, reaching a peak of 4 on 2008 with Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! on Mute Records. Ahead of the Brit Awards, where her nominations include UK Album of the Year, Emeli Sande is creeping up the rankings with her Virgin debut Our Version Of Events gaining a place since last Sunday's chart to No 2. Polydor's Les Miserables soundtrack drops 1-3, while Warner Bros act Foals' Holy Fire falls 2-4 and Jake Bugg's self-titled Mercury album slides 4-5. Mumford & Sons' second Gentlemen Of The Road/Island album Babel is up 5-6 in the week so far. As Bruno Mars' Atlantic-issued Unorthodox Jukebox holds at 7, veteran Joe Cocker is looking to score a Top 10 album for the first time since 2007's Hymns For My Soul. The newly-issued Columbia set Fire It Up registers as a new entry at 8 in the latest midweeks. Below it, the Rhino/Warner Bros reissue Rumours by Fleetwood Mac loses three places to 9, while Columbia's Calvin Harris is looking to return to the Top 10 with 18 Months currently up two places to 10. Sales of Taylor Swift's Mercury album Red are up 50% on the week as it vaults back up 25-12, while a 44% sales gain for The Script's Epic/Phonogenic set Number 3 lifts it 36-25. Syco's One Direction appear on course for their third UK No 1 single following 2010's What Makes You Beautiful and 2011's Little Things with their Comic Relief mash-up One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) set to debut at the top. The cover will easily deliver new chart peaks for the two Seventies songs. Blondie's One Way Or Another, which was part of the Parallel Lines album, was not a UK hit single, while The Undertones' Teenage Kicks only ventured as high as 31 in 1978, despite its now classic status. The One Direction track is the only brand new release to appear anywhere among the Top 40 sellers in the week so far, while among the Top 10 the only other arrival is Mercury act Taylor Swift's I Knew You Were Trouble reviving 12-10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz's former No 1 Thrift Shop, on the Macklemore label, holds at 2, while the Mad Decent label's Harlem Shake by Baauer remains at 3. Having debuted at 1 last Sunday, the Positiva/Virgin single I Could Be The One by Avicii versus Nicky Romero drops to 4 in the latest midweeks as Bruno Mars' Atlantic-issued When I Was Your Man gains two places to 5. The Rihanna Def Jam/Mercury single Stay featuring Mikky Ekko is down 4-6 and the Island/PMR offering White Noise by Disclosure featuring AlunaGeorge drops 5-7. Also down two places is Parlophone act Gabrielle Aplin's Please Don't Say You Love Me to No 8 as Columbia signing Calvin Harris's Drinking From The Bottle featuring Tinie Tempah falls 8-9. Among the big sales increases outside the Top 10 RCA act Justin Timberlake's Sit & Tie featuring Jay-Z is back up 16-12 with sales improving 30% thanks to the roll-out of its promotional video. Polydor's Ellie Goulding is up 21-14 with Explosions with a 34% sales rise. RCA act Pink's Just Give Me A Reason featuring Nate Ruess sees its sales lift 25% to move it 24-20, while sales rise 674% on the week for Epic act Olly Murs' Army Of Two to lift it 89-25. Meanwhile, sales of the Interscope/Polydor cut Clarity by Zedd featuring Foxes double as it improves 37-31 on the midweeks. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 One Direction (20k ahead) 2 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Wanz 3 Baauer 4 Avicii/Nicky Romero 5 Bruno Mars 6-10 10 Taylor Swift 11-20 12 Justin Timberlake 13 Little Mix 14 Ellie Goulding 20 P!nk 21-30 25 Olly Murs 28 PSY 31-40 31 Zedd/Foxes 32 Tyler James/Kano 37 Adele 39 Script http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...-number-1-1871/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Nick Cave & THe Bad Seeds (6,5k ahead) 2 Emeli Sande 3 Les Miserables 4 Foals 5 Jake Bugg 6-10 8 Joe Cocker 11-20 12 Taylor Swift 16 The Lumineers 17 fun. 19 Ed Sheeran 20 Olly Murs 21-30 22 Little 23 Alt-J 24 Script 25 One Direction 27 Rita Ora 28 Black Keys 31-40 31 Lawson 33 Frank Ocean 34 Ben Howard 38 Lana Del Rey http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?s...p;#entry4222298
February 18, 201313 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Sande heading back to No 1 Source: MW by Paul Willams Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events looks set to return to No 1 for a sixth time this Sunday after being named best British album at the Brits. The Virgin release has overcome an early lead by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' Push The Sky Away, issued via Kobalt on Cave's own Bad Seed label, to take charge of the midweeks, according to the Official Charts Company. Sande performed and won the British Album and British Female categories at the Brit Awards on Wednesday, which has propelled Our Version of Events from 3 on last weekend's chart to No 1 in the week so far. If it does return to the top it will be the album's seventh run at No 1 and ninth week in total. Cave has now dropped to 2, while a handful of other albums in the midweek Top 10 are enjoying strong sales lifts thanks to the Brits. Mumford & Sons' Gentlemen Of The Road/Island set Babel climbs 5-3 with sales up 63% on the week following their performance and win, while sales of fellow Island act Ben Howard's Every Kingom rise 447% to move it 46-5. Howard won two awards at the ceremony where he performed Only Love. Another Brits performer, Taylor Swift, sees sales of her Mercury album Red rise 161% on the week so far to lift it 25-7. I Knew You Were Trouble, which she performed, rises 12-8 on the midweek singles chart with sales improving 51%. Also in the Top in the week to date are Polydor's Les Miserables soundtrack (moving 1-4), Jake Bugg's self-titled Mercury album (4-6), Warner Bros act Foals' Holy Fire (2-8), Bruno Mars with his second Atlantic album Unorthodox Jukebox (7-9) and RCA signing Paloma Faith's Fall To Grace (19-10). Performed by them at the Brits, Syco act One Direction's Comic Relief single One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) has opened up a 66% sales lead on its way to debuting at No 1 on Sunday. Meanwhile, RCA act Justin Timberlake's Mirrors, which he performed on the show, races 28-5 with sales up by 216%. Between them Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz's Thrift Shop on the Macklemore label holds at 2, the Mad Decent label's Harlem Shake by Baauer holds at 3 and the Positiva/Virgin-issued I Could Be The One by Avicii versus Nicky Romero drops 1-4. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 One Direction 2 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis 3 Baauer 4 Avicii/Nicky Romero 5 Justin Timberlake [Mirrors] Top 10 Bruno Mars 8 Taylor Swift [iKYWT] Top 15 11 Ben Howard 12 Ellie Goulding 13 Justin Timberlake [sAT] Mumford & Sons Top 20 19 Pink/Nate Ruess Top 30 25 Olly Murs Adele Top 40 The Script 38 Tyler James ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Emeli Sande 2 Nick Cave & The Bad Sees 3 Mumford & Sons [babel] 4 Les Miserables 5 Ben Howard Top 10 7 Taylor Swift 10 Paloma Faith Top 15 Alt-J Joe Cocker Top 20 19 Frank Ocean Top 30 24 Olly Murs The Script 26 Little Mix Muse Black Keys 29 One Direction Top 40 Mumford & Sons [sNM] 32 Rita Ora 35 Lana Del Rey Plan B NO SALES INFO
February 18, 201313 yr Sorry it's late, but here's how the new releases are doing on iTunes: 003. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away 012. Joe Cocker - Fire It Up 015. Emeli Sandé - Live At the Royal Albert Hall 136. Buckcherry - Confessions 208. Passenger - All the Little Lights 259. Heidi Talbot - Angels Without Wings 294. Jamie Lidell - Jamie Lidell 320. Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - What the Brothers Sang 358. Robben Ford - Bringing It Back Home 578. Inc. - No World [bonus Track Version] I imagine Nick Cave does much better on physicals so he could quite easily be a Top 5 entry. Joe Cocker I would say could enter low Top 10 and as for Emeli Sande, Top 10 should be in the bag after the BRITs. Foals are still iTunes #1, so I can't see them leaving the Top 5, even with the BRITs effect.
February 19, 201313 yr I expect One Direction to be #1 by quite some margin in the first midweeks. However Thrift Shop is beginning to catch up so perhaps Macklemore will catch up by the end of the week?? Perhaps.
February 19, 201313 yr I think there could be a surprise #1 this week...One Direction definitely won't hold on!
February 19, 201313 yr "Thrift Shop" is catching up right now but One Direction still have the BRITs performance and physicals (plus a video release boost later in the week if you want to count that too). I have no doubt that they can hold on officially all week.
February 19, 201313 yr On Kworb Thrift Shop is on 0.9163 (with 1D at 1.0000). It all depends on how their BRITs performance goes but I think they've deffo got the #1. As we saw last week with Avicii even if Thrift Shop overtakes on Friday 1D should still be #1. Of course in my opinion Thrift Shop needs to beat 1D ;)
February 19, 201313 yr The Brits performance will be the key - the midweek bounce Justin Timberlake or anyone gets from the Brits probabaly will only propel them to no3 max!! Hope M&Ss get the no1 album and it establishes itself as a big album like Emeli Babel has been up in the top 20 for most of its chart life but never really selling massively!
February 19, 201313 yr On Kworb Thrift Shop is on 0.9163 (with 1D at 1.0000). It all depends on how their BRITs performance goes but I think they've deffo got the #1. As we saw last week with Avicii even if Thrift Shop overtakes on Friday 1D should still be #1. Of course in my opinion Thrift Shop needs to beat 1D ;) More evidence of a 48-hour chart! It's been 48 hours since release, so the initial fan boost is disappearing from the chart. I fully expect Thrift Shop to return to #1 this evening. 1D could re-overtake tomorrow evening after the Brits, but Thrift Shop will probably take back over by Friday/Saturday. It's basically depends on the Brits (how big a boost it gives them and others with the potential to overtake them).
February 19, 201313 yr ^^ 1Ds eps will have given it a massive lead anyway probabaly a 30k start at least!
February 19, 201313 yr ^^ 1Ds eps will have given it a massive lead anyway probabaly a 30k start at least! They don't have an EP, single download only. I suppose the CDS will add some but then I can't imagine that adding more than 5-7k (especially as a Sainsburys exclusive).
February 19, 201313 yr So what about all the preorders it was charting with in the past few weeks - are they not added this week?
February 19, 201313 yr So what about all the preorders it was charting with in the past few weeks - are they not added this week? Yes, but they would have appeared as part of Sunday's sudden climb to #8 when it was released at midnight. i.e. it is no longer part of the feed which is why they are dropping at a fairly fast rate
February 19, 201313 yr Yeah i suppose just that the preorders would amount to around 30k which i thought for one day on sunday would have propelled them higher than no8. The mids will be interesting!
February 19, 201313 yr "One Direction are off to a flying start in the race for Number 1 on this week’s Official Singles Chart with their new single One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks). Based on pre-orders and sales up to midnight last night, One Direction have snatched a strong early lead with the Comic Relief track ahead of other possible contenders for the top including Bauuer’s Harlem Shake and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop. 1D are currently outselling their nearest competitor by almost two copies to one so far this week, if the lads can keep it up through to Sunday, this puts them on course for their third Official Number 1 and sixth Top 10 single in less than 18 months. Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot says: “If anyone can keep the likes of Harlem Shake from the top spot, One Direction can! Roll on Sunday’s final whistle.”" http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...ef-single-1868/
February 19, 201313 yr It's such an awful cover I would appreciate anything else being #1. Thrift Shop climbing back up would be great. I really want Same Love to perform well in the UK. Thrift Shop is fun but musically & lyrically Same Love is incredible.
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