Posted March 25, 201313 yr Tuesday [Click for accurate figures] 34.1k - PJ & Duncan 25.6k - The Saturdays 25.5k - P!nk/Nate Ruess Single & Album Summary This week its a 3 way battle between The Saturdays, Pink/Nate Ruess and PJ & Duncan A.K.A for the #1 single. Potential climbers from Pitbull/Christina Aguilera, Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding, and the new track from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis collaborating with Ray Dalton. A new entry from Charlie Brown, and a re-entry from PJ & Duncan A.K.A. with "Let's Get Ready To Rhumble" on the back of their Saturday Takeaway Show. Justin Timberlake is looking for a second week at #1, new album releases this week from Depeche Mode, The Strokes, Peace, One Republic, Eric Clapton, Simple Minds, Lil' Wayne, Joe Bonamassa, Iron Maiden, and NOW84 compilation album. ======================================================= 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.
March 25, 201313 yr Author Midweek Charts: Pink aiming to rumble PJ & Duncan revival Source: MW by Paul Willams Only Pink can realistically prevent PJ & Duncan revival Let's Get Ready To Rhumble topping the Official UK singles chart this weekend. Ant & Dec's most famous song from their former careers as pop stars has taken an early lead in the midweeks after they performed it on their ITV1 show Saturday Night Takeaway at the weekend. However, it is facing competition from RCA act Pink's Just Give Me A Reason featuring fun frontman Nate Ruess, according to the Official Charts Company. Let's Get Ready To Rhumble, released now on the Edsel label via Demon, originally peaked at No 9 in 1994 and was the highest-charting hit credited to PJ & Duncan, although Ant & Dec made it as high as No 3 under their own names with World Cup song On The Ball in 2002. Pink's single is currently 11,000 units behind the PJ & Duncan hit with its sales up 35% on the week, while Polydor act The Saturdays' What About Us featuring Sean Paul drops 1-3. Pink last topped the UK chart back in 2008 with So What, her second solo No 1 after Just Like A Pill in 2002, while she also headed the countdown in 2001 on Lady Marmalade alongside Christina Aguilera, Lil Kim and Mya. Justin Timberlake currently leads the artists albums market after debuting at 1 last Sunday with the RCA set The 20/20 Experience, although his new Sony colleagues Depeche Mode are only around 4,000 sales behind. The band's new album Delta Machine is their first since 2009's Sounds Of The Universe and first away from Mute Records having been released by Sony's Columbia Records. Sony completes its domination of the top three artist sellers with David Bowie's RCA album The Next Day dropping 2-3. By far the week's biggest-selling album is the UMTV/EMI compilation Now! 84, which in its first two days on sale has shifted 97,813 copies. However, it has some way to go to beat the first-week sales of its 2012 equivalent Now! 81, which opened with 255,337 sales at the beginning of April last year. On the artist albums midweeks The Strokes' fifth Rough Trade album Comedown Machine appears as a new entry at 5 at this stage of the week as Bastille's Bad Blood moves up a place to 4 and fellow Virgin release Our Version Of Events by Emeli Sande drops 3-6, Pink's RCA set The Truth About Love holds at 7, the Atlantic-issued Unorthodox Jukebox by Bruno Mars slips 6-8 and Polydor's Les Miserables soundtrack falls 4-9. Eric Clapton's Old Sock - his first album for Polydor since 1981's Another Ticket - is new at 10 in the latest Sales Flashes. His albums between these releases came out via Warner, although Old Sock in the US is an independent release on the veteran's Bushbranch label. Also out this week, US blues rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa's Provogue album An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera is new at 12 in the midweeks, while BBC Sound Of 2013 finalists Peace's Columbia debut makes its mark at 14. A new Simple Minds retrospective, Celebrate - The Greatest Hits, on Virgin starts at 15, while Iron Maiden album Maiden England '88 from Parlophone Label Group is new at 20. Other arrivals to the chart this weekend will include Interscope/Polydor act OneRepublic's new album Native and Cash Money/Repblic/Island's I Am Not A Human Being 2 by Lil Wayne.. Following a chat and performance on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 show last weekend, Bobby Womack's 2012 XL release The Bravest Man In The World could be heading for a new chart peak. Originally reaching as high as 49, it moves 93-29 in the midweeks with sales rising 446%. Back on the singles chart and, besides Let's Get Ready To Rhumble, the only new arrival among the Top 10 sellers is On My Way by All Around The World's Charlie Brown at 7. Completing the Top 10, Justin Timberlake's RCA single Mirrors drops 2-4, Virgin act Bastille hold at 5 with Pompeii, Atlantic's Bruno Mars is down 4-6 with When I Was Your Man, Hollywood/Polydor's Bridgit Mendler remains at 8 with Ready Or Not, One Direction's Syco single One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) falls 6-9 and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz's Thrift Shop on the Macklemore label descends 7-10. Outside the Top 10, there is a near six-fold increase in sales for the Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera single Feel This Moment on J/MR 305/Polo Grounds/RCA to lift it 27-13. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 PJ & Duncan (46k) 2 Pink/Nate Ruess (36k) 3 The Saturdays 4 Justin Timberlake 5 Bastille 6-10 7 Charlie Brown 11-20 12 Nelly 13 Pitbull/Christina Aguilera 21-30 24 Will I Am/Britney Spears 29 Bruno Mars (LOOH) 31-40 31 Calvin Harris / Tinie Tempah 35 Calvin Harris / Ellie Goulding 36 Rihanna (Diamonds) 37 The Mend 38 Blake Lewis 40 Pink (Try) http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...er-1-race-2132/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Justin Timberlake (4k ahead) 2 Depeche Mode 3 David Bowie 4 Bastille 5 The Strokes 6-10 10 Eric Clapton 11-20 12 Joe Bonamassa 14 Peace 15 Simple Minds 20 Iron Maiden 21-30 22 Taylor Swift 27 OneRepublic 28 Lil Wayne 31-40 36 Blue (Best Of) 39 Bobby Womack http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...ums-chart-2131/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print
March 26, 201313 yr Ant and Dec’s Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble leads the race for Number 1 26/03/2013 By Daniel Lane PJ and Duncan, AKA Ant and Dec, could be in line to knock The Saturdays off the top of the Official Singles Chart this weekend. Ant and Dec’s Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble is currently leading the race to this week’s Number 1, according to the latest Official Charts Company sales data (which counts sales up to midnight on last night, Monday). The TV duo, who performed their 1994 Top 10 hit as their Byker Grove alter egos PJ and Duncan on ITV’s Saturday Night Take Away over the weekend, are currently outselling reigning chart queens The Saturdays’ single What About Us? FT Sean Paul in the race to the top of the Official Singles Chart this Sunday. Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble originally peaked at Number 9 in August, 1994 giving their pair their first ever Top 10 hit – and had sold just over 130,000 copies in its lifetime up until Saturday’s show. Up to midnight last night, Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble had sold an additional 35,000 copies, which is around 30% more than their rivals. If Ant and Dec can maintain their lead though ‘til Sunday’s final whistle, Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble will be their first ever Number 1; the duo’s previous highest charting single was We’re On The Ball, the official anthem for the 2002 World Cup, which peaked at Number 3. See Ant and Dec’s full Official Charts history here. “Over the past few years, the download of Let’s Get Ready To Rhumble has been steadily selling around 100 copies a week,” says the Official Charts Company’s managing director Martin Talbot. “It is quite amazing how one TV performance can send those sales soaring. “But, the race is far from finished yet - last week, The Saturdays had the biggest week one sale of any single this year (including One Direction’s Comic Relief single, One Way Or Another) so they are going to be a tough act to beat.” http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...-number-1-2129/ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a46...chart-race.html Edited March 26, 201313 yr by Mart!n Added OCC report.
March 26, 201313 yr Author It be amazing to see PJ & Duncan at #1 next Sunday And on a separate note, we only have a Wednesday update this week, there won't be any mids on Friday (Good Friday)
March 26, 201313 yr So without a Friday update as well, this is truly the most exciting chart of the year. Although I want Pink to get it, PJ & Duncan would be hilarious and I don't mind the Saturdays track. First time I've liked all the contenders in a long time.
March 26, 201313 yr Author The Saturdays sales for #2 are around 24500, PJ & Duncan have a 30% lead over #2.
March 26, 201313 yr Author 3 Beat @3beatmusic #OnMyWay @CharlieBrownLDN @aatwofficial is a new entry at #7 on the @officialcharts midweek singles chart!! http://bit.ly/YNspW3 https://twitter.com/3beatmusic
March 26, 201313 yr Even if they only double their total by Sunday, I can't see "What About Us" selling much more than 70k.
March 26, 201313 yr Author antanddec @antanddec I didn't think this week could get any more nuts….then someone sent me the midweek chart! You're all mad. D x https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LetsGetRead...le&src=hash :lol: Ha Ha, most of UK are mad Maybe they could do a performance of their other singles every Saturday night :lol:
March 26, 201313 yr PJ & Duncan FTW! Would be brilliant to see it at #1 as it's always been a big guilty pleasure of mine, and I'm sure lots of others feel the same :D
March 26, 201313 yr Is the PJ & Duncan revival only because of ONE performance? Seem like some sort of psychosis to me :P
March 26, 201313 yr antanddec @antanddec https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LetsGetRead...le&src=hash :lol: Ha Ha, most of UK are mad Maybe they could do a performance of their other singles every Saturday night :lol: Would love We're on the ball to return but that peaked at #3.
March 26, 201313 yr The Sats aren't on 24.5k, percentages don't work that way. They're on ~26.9k (35k divided by 1.3). Nonetheless, thinking PJ & Duncan will do it now, by the time The Sats overtake their lead will probably be too big for them to make up.
March 26, 201313 yr So 'LGRTR' had sold roughly 130k since its release in 1994 up until Saturday night. I'd find it quite remarkable if Ant & Dec somehow managed to sell around 130k this week. It'd just seem so weird that in one week the track will have sold what it had previous sold in 18 1/2 years (which is roughly how old Ant & Dec were when they first released the track). The power of TV. :lol: As the sales are going to Childline, there's more reason to buy the single too (all those who insist on buying charity singles have no excuse).
March 26, 201313 yr The Sats aren't on 24.5k, percentages don't work that way. They're on ~26.9k (35k divided by 1.3). Nonetheless, thinking PJ & Duncan will do it now, by the time The Sats overtake their lead will probably be too big for them to make up. Assuming the Saturdays are the closest challengers - P!nk has overtaken them on iTunes with 4/7 sales days to go. But yes, PJ and D are looking the favourites unfortunately.
March 27, 201313 yr The Sats aren't on 24.5k, percentages don't work that way. They're on ~26.9k (35k divided by 1.3). Nonetheless, thinking PJ & Duncan will do it now, by the time The Sats overtake their lead will probably be too big for them to make up. They're not on that either, they're on 25.5k you can see here that The Sats & Pink are neck and neck http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101...e=1&theater
March 27, 201313 yr Thanks for posting, great to see accurate sales! Wow, P!nk is incredibly close behind.
March 27, 201313 yr They're not on that either, they're on 25.5k you can see here that The Sats & Pink are neck and neck http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101...e=1&theater ~26.9k was just an estimate based on the figures given (35k and a 30% lead) - which are clearly not correct based on this link :P Looks like P!nk will be #2 then as she is ahead combined on iTunes. Still think PJ & Duncan will get #1 for the reason in my last post though.
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