February 22, 201313 yr 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 Seeds 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 22, 201313 yr Author I think Nick Cave will fall to #4 by Sunday, Emeli, Mumford & Sons, and Ben Howard will occupy the top 3 albums probably in that order. I think at a push Justin could just peak at #2 with Mirrors, as One Direction have physicals in their favour, he might get #1 next week as there isn't any strong releases.
February 22, 201313 yr JT #5! and now #1 on iTunes :D Could it go any higher? #3 would be brilliant. He'll need a video out for this soon, shoot it quick JT :dance: Ben Howard #11 in singles, so top 10 by Sunday :D and he's #5 in the album chart, maybe top 3 by Sunday? Outpeaking original peak :dancing: Good times. Edited February 22, 201313 yr by Karma
February 22, 201313 yr Do the OCC usually give out sales info or are they just being annoying this week? :unsure:
February 22, 201313 yr JT already #5! :D Now it's #1 on iTunes, hopefully it can shoot further up the chart. Hopefully they'll play the BRITs performance on music channels ala Someone Like You to get more promo/sales!
February 22, 201313 yr I'd say its almost certain that one direction will be number one on sunday. It's a terrible cover version.
February 22, 201313 yr Author Bingo Players are down to #23, a fall of 13 places... ouch, does not seem to be sticking around.
February 22, 201313 yr Oh brilliant for 'Mirrors' already in the top 5! Top 3 by Sunday please :D #11 is great for 'Only Love' too considering it must have been selling very little before that performance. Top 10 looking in the bag for it as it's now #4 and #25 on iTunes. And 'I Will Wait' already top 15 too, I pray for top 10 this week as it's almost certainly its last chance but I'm expecting it to be around #12 again. Great news for Ben Howard, Δ, Frank Ocean and Plan B in the albums too. Ben finally in the top 5 for the first time on his 73rd week, without having ever left the top 100 :o Δ to also possibly get a new peak on their 39th week without leaving the top 100.
February 22, 201313 yr What a boost for Justin Timberlake. I'm a big fan of the song, just a shame it's 8 minutes in length; I'm holding out for a radio edit. I think #3/4 is likely to be its final position come Sunday - depends on how well Baauer and Macklemore sold at the beginning of the week. Tyler James at #38 - hoping by some miracle in can scrap a T40 placing! Re: Albums, Sande returning to #1 was ever-so-predictable. Was hoping to see Ben Howard shock the nation and claim the #1, but seeing him and Mumford & Sons back in the T5 will have to do.
February 22, 201313 yr seeing him and Mumford & Sons back in the T5 will have to do. Über-pedant note: neither of them are 'back' in the top 5. Mumford & Sons were there last week and Ben Howard has never been there.
February 22, 201313 yr Indian Summer by the Stereophonics really deserves to be top 40, I hope it can get there at some point :cry:
February 22, 201313 yr Tyler James better not get knocked out! :cry: I doubt he'll be able to hold on now :(
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