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Bruno Mars could be in contention this week with a little leg up otherwise Justin maintain his lead for a 3rd week, other single releases this week from Nicole Scherzinger, K-Koke/Rita Ora, Nelly, AlunaGeorge, and Hurts.

 

David Bowie looks set to take the #1 spot away from Bastille, other new album releases from Bon Jovi, Hurts, Stornoway, John Grant, Tim McGraw.

 

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To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.

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Midweek Charts: Bowie comeback to deliver No 1

Source: MW

by Paul Willams

 

 

David Bowie is set to extend his run of UK chart-topping albums to nearly 40 years with The Next Day currently outselling its four nearest rivals combined.

 

The RCA-issued comeback will top the chart this Sunday, his ninth No 1 in all and his first since Black Tie White Noise in 1993. It will hit the top just several weeks shy of Bowie's first albums chart-topper reaching No 1, Aladdin Sane, which climbed to the top in May 1973.

 

Sales of The Next Day had already surpassed 65,000 units by the end of Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, outscoring the collective totals of the four albums immediately below it. These are led by Mercury act Bon Jovi's brand new album What About Now whose midweek showing as a new entry at 2 matched the peak of their 2010 retrospective Greatest Hits and their last studio set, 2009's The Circle.

 

Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events drifts 2-3 in the midweeks, while her Virgin colleagues Bastille drop 1-4 with Bad Blood. Atlantic act Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox declines 4-5, while Major Label/Epic signings Hurt's second album Exile arrives at 6. Their debut Happiness reached No 4 in 2010.

 

The rest of the Top 10 at this stage of the week is completed by fallers: Stereophonics drop 3-7 with Graffiti On The Train on the Stylus/Ignition label, Polydor's Les Miserables album is down 6-8, Gentlemen Of The Road/Island act Mumford & Sons' Babel slips 8-9 and RCA act Dido's Girl Who Got Away falls 5-10.

 

John Grant will easily beat the peak of his first Bella Union album Queen Of Denmark, which reached 59 in 2010, with follow-up Pale Green Ghosts new at 11 in the latest Sales Flashes. The Columbia-issued soundtrack to Dave Grohl's documentary Sound City - Real To Reel about the famous LA studios is new at 13 in the midweeks, while 4AD act Stornoway's second album Tales From Terra Firma is new at 20. The outfit's Beachcomber's Windowsill reached 14 in 2010.

 

Little more than 1,000 sales currently separate the top two singles this week with Interscope/Polydor's Nicole Scherzinger just ahead with her brand new release Boomerang, which she performed on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 chat show last Saturday. Behind it at 2 is Justin Timberlake's RCA offering Mirrors, which achieved a second week at No 1 last weekend. Bruno Mars' Atlantic single When I Was Your Man falls 2-3, while RCA at Pink holds at 4 with Just Give Me A Reason featuring Nate Ruess and Virgin's Bastille drop 3-5 with Pompeii.

 

One Direction hold at 6 at this stage of the week with the RCA track One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks), while the Macklemore label's former No 1 Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz drops 5-7. Disney Channel star Bridgit Mendler's Hollywood/Polydor single Ready Or Not slips to 7 having debuted at 7 last Sunday and Avicii Vs Nicky Romero's Positiva/Virgin-issued I Could Be The One falls 8-9. Meanwhile, Disclosure's Island/PMR track White Noise featuring AlunaGeorge could move back into the Top 10 this weekend as it climbs 11-10 in the midweeks.

 

UK rapper K Koke is heading for his second hit following 2012's Turn Back featuring Maverick Sabre with the RCA-issued Lay Down Your Weapons featuring Rita Ora new at 12 in the midweeks.

 

Big movers in the midweeks include Nelly's Hey Porsche rising 111-23, fellow Universal label single Your Touch by Blake Lewis rising 171-31 and Christina Perri's Atlantic-issued A Thousand Stars up 102-35.

 

 

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Nicole Scherzinger (1.3k ahead)

2 Justin Timberlake

3 Bruno Mars

4 P!nk

5 Bastille

 

6-10

Disclosure/AlunaGeorge

 

11-20

11 Emeli Sande

12 K Koke/Rita Ora

 

21-30

22 The 1975

23 Nelly

 

31-40

31 Blake Lewis

37 Christina Perri [A Thousand Years]

40 Imagine Dragons [Radioactive]

 

 

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...-number-1-2111/

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1 David Bowie (66k)

2 Bon Jovi (23k approx)

3 Emeli Sande

4 Bastille

5 Bruno Mars

 

6-10

6 Hurts

 

11-20

11 John Grant

13 Sound City (OST)

20 Stornoway

 

21-30

29 Lumineers

 

31-40

32 Worship Central

33 Bruno Mars (DWAH)

35 Ed Sheeran

36 One Direction (UAN)

37 Alt-J

40 Bon Jovi (GH)

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...m-of-2013-2110/

 

 

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

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Midweek Charts update: Bowie has year's highest opening sales

Source: MW

by Paul Willams

 

David Bowie's The Next Day has achieved the highest first-week sales of the year so far after selling nearly 80,000 copies in the UK in four days.

 

The RCA album, his first studio set since 2003's Reality, overtook on Thursday the opening week tally of Warner Bros act Biffy Clyro's Opposites, which sold 71,584 copies at the end of January/beginning of February, according to the Official Charts Company. Until Bowie's album tally, this was the biggest first-week sales of 2013 for an artist album.

 

With two days of trading still to go in the chart week, The Next Day's sales were 154% ahead of its nearest rival, Mercury act Bon Jovi's brand new album What About Now, by the end of trading on Thursday, while it had sold more than four times as many copies as Virgin act Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events, which drops 2-3 in the midweeks. Fellow Virgin release Bad Blood by Bastille falls to 4 having debuted at No 1 last Sunday, while Bruno Mars' second Atlantic album Unorthodox Jukebox loses a place to 5.

 

Fuelled by a performance on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 show last Saturday, Nicole Scherzinger's brand new Interscope/Polydor single Boomerang had started the week leading the midweek singles chart but has now dropped to 4. Ahead of it, Justin Timberlake's Mirrors looks like holding on to No 1 this Sunday with its closest challenger another RCA release, Pink featuring Nate Ruess's Just Give Me A Reason, which progresses 4-2. Bruno Mars' Atlantic single When I Was Your Man drops 2-3 as VIrgin-signed Bastille's Pompeii falls 3-5.

 

 

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Friday Update Top 40 Only

 

 

Singles

 

1 Justin Timberlake

2 P!nk

3 Bruno Mars

4 Nicole Scherzinger

5 Bastille

 

Top 10

Disclosure

 

Top 15

11 Emeli Sande [Clown]

12 Olly Murs

K. Koke/Rita Ora

 

Top 20

The Lumineers

Nelly

 

Top 30

The 1975

Drake

28 Christina Perri

30 Taylor Swift [22]

 

Top 40

32 Blake Lewis

Imagine Dragons

 

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Albums

 

1 David Bowie (80k)

2 Bon Jovi (31.5k)

3 Emeli Sande

4 Bastille

5 Bruno Mars

 

Top 10

7 Hurts

 

Top 15

John Grant

 

Top 20

Sound City

 

Top 30

Stornaway

The Lumineers

 

Top 40

Bon Jovi

Bruno Mars

Ed Sheeran

37 One Direction

Worship Central

 

 

NO SALES INFO

My predictions for Wednesday's mids:

 

01. David Bowie

02. Bon Jovi

03. Bastille

04. Emeli Sande

05. Bruno Mars

06. Hurts

07. Stereophonics

08. P!nk

09. Les Miserables

10. Jake Bugg

 

Hopefully we will get some sales for David Bowie's The Next Day tomorrow. Genuinely excited!

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http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...-20-years-2107/

 

David Bowie is officially back as The Next Day looks set to become his ninth UK Number 1 album!

 

David Bowie is on course for his first Number 1 album in nearly 20 years, according to this morning’s Official Charts Company sales data.

 

The singer’s 24th studio album, The Next Day, will be his first Number 1 album since Black Tie White Noise, which topped the Official Albums Chart in April 1993.

 

The Next Day has also clocked up the biggest first day sale of any album this year (56,000 copies) and is currently outselling its closest competitor, Bon Jovi’s What About Now (Number 2) by nearly three to one.

 

If The Next Day can maintain its lead going into the weekend, it will be Bowie’s ninth Number 1 album in the UK.

 

“Bowie is officially back!” says Official Charts Company Managing Director, Martin Talbot. “The Next Day is a true gift for all Bowie afficionados. It already sounds like a classic Bowie album – and its popularity this week is already showing that the great British public have taken it to their hearts.”

 

By Dan Lane (OCC)

 

 

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1 David Bowie (56k)

2 Bon Jovi (18.6k-ish)

 

That's got to be plus pre-orders so I reckon total sales for the week around 135k plus

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Nicole is currently #1 in today's midweeks

https://twitter.com/jamesinrehab/status/311429459188277248

 

 

Thanks... hmm... I smell something fishy here but whatever... there are other download sites to take into consideration... I don't think she hold on, I should imagine sales are pretty tight between the top 3 acts, it could swing again later in the week.

LOL she's number 1??? HOW COME???

Anyway... she's down to 86% VS 100% that JT has now... and she's going down... she won't be there soon for god sake!

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:lol: Im prepared to happily eat Danny's hat!!!

Edited by steve201

Dont get all the hate for Nicole... Anything in top3 will be great for her... and she will prob chart as no3... Shame on Radio1 for not supporting hits :/
Nicole's had plenty of support from other media other than radio 1!
LOL she's number 1??? HOW COME???

Anyway... she's down to 86% VS 100% that JT has now... and she's going down... she won't be there soon for god sake!

you are funny omrimayo :lol:

 

You went just as crazy over Coldplay a few years back :lol:

 

 

 

Nicole's had plenty of support from other media other than radio 1!

 

Her radio support is awful. Not even in the top 100.

you are funny omrimayo :lol:

 

You went just as crazy over Coldplay a few years back :lol:

 

YAY, JT and Coldplay.

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1 David Bowie (56k)

2 Bon Jovi (18.6k-ish)

 

That's got to be plus pre-orders so I reckon total sales for the week around 135k plus

 

I suspect it'll be very frontloaded, so would say 105-110k

 

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