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Pj and Duncan at number 1, its like living in a timewarp, but i cant dent it is a guilty pleasure and i like it but on the ball is even better. Could Ant and Dec release a greatest hits package now on the back of this success, to my knowledge they have yet to release a hits collection.
Pj and Duncan at number 1, its like living in a timewarp, but i cant dent it is a guilty pleasure and i like it but on the ball is even better. Could Ant and Dec release a greatest hits package now on the back of this success, to my knowledge they have yet to release a hits collection.

 

There's a couple of compilations available already!

If P!nk stays at #3, it will not be as bad, but if that pile of shit beats it to #1, I will be fuming :angry:

 

 

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 (35k)

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

 

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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

Edited by ManicKangaroo

Timberlake only 4k ahead? :o Hopefully that means Depeche Mode are doing surprisingly well, rather than Timberlake's sales plummetting.

The top version of Pink is also decreasing now, although the 2 lower versions are gaining

 

I'd imagine the increased media coverage of Ant & Dec will keep them at number 1

I'm sure The Saturdays will be on 34-35k as P!nk has not really gained a massive lead over them. All top 3 should easily pass 70,000 this week then! Ready To Rumble not as comfortable as I first though!
Ooh! Blake Lewis is back in the top 40! Climb higher and stay put for Sunday please!
Unless Pink gains a really big lead, I think Ant & Dec will just about hold on (they'll surely get a boost on Saturday as well?). I really hope it does, weird and wonderful number 1s like this don't come around very often!

I take back PJ & Duncan being guaranteed #1 now, P!nk is closing in on them combined on iTunes so it is plausible she could close 10k if she overtakes by tomorrow - still think they have it 75% in the bag though. Certainly wouldn't complain about a P!nk #1 but it'd be a shame for PJ & Duncan to come this far only to miss out :lol: At least they have that midweek #1 now I guess.

 

Dull chart otherwise. Nice to see 'Pompeii' and 'Bad Blood' continuing to hold up and 'I Need Your Love' sneaking into the top 40 (plus 'Your Touch' re-entering). Justin's album being only 4k ahead of Depeche Mode seems quite bad, I hope that's just DM having strong sales and not Justin heading for an enormous second week slide.

 

Oh and obviously *.* at Joe Bonamassa coming for another top 20 album, to recap again since 2010 this will be his fifth charting solo album in addition to one with Beth Hart and three as a member of Black Country Communion. Gotta love that prolific-ness.

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I absolutely REFUSE to believe Pink could be no.1 because I don't want my hopes dashed like what seems to happen with every almost-no.1 I get on board with. Plus it was be a shame for PJ and Duncan to lose out of their only no.1 (Saturdays stans, you MUST know how this feels!) and it would also be absolutely hilarious to have Rhumble at no.1.

If P!nk is increasing overall, then I seriously hope she can overtake PJ & Duncan/Ant & Dec/Dumb & Dumber/whatever else you want to call them.

 

Pitbull and Christina Aguilera's Feel This Moment has really grown on me, wouldn't mind it reaching the Top 10 (similar peak to Don't Stop the Party). Hopefully Blake Lewis will manage to be Top 40 come Sunday instead of falling out from the midweeks like last time. Was hoping it would have echoed the success of previous Internet Explorer advert song, Too Close, just on a smaller scale but that doesn't seem likely at all anymore. :(

 

Happy that Bastille and David Bowie are looking to stick around and that there will be strong debuts for Depeche Mode and The Strokes. I suspect Bon Jovi will remain Top 20 after proving to be a good "weekend seller" last week.

Hopefully Blake Lewis will manage to be Top 40 come Sunday instead of falling out from the midweeks like last time. Was hoping it would have echoed the success of previous Internet Explorer advert song, Too Close, just on a smaller scale but that doesn't seem likely at all anymore. :(

 

It did get top 40 last time (#38) :P I agree though, a bit surprised it hasn't blown up more a la 'Too Close'.

Blue back in the top 40 album chart, who ever would have thought and Pj and Duncan number 1 in the singles, its the weirdest chart but in a great way. I did think Justin Timberlake would be further ahead but i would believe Depeche Mode sales will trail off for the remainder of the week, quiet a large drop for Bon Jovi this week but like last week it is totally expected.

 

I actually like all three songs and acts in the top 3 singles chart, but ideally i want Pj and Duncan number 1, they will never have a chance again to get a number 1 whereas Pink and The Saturdays will, furthermore Pink and The Saturdays already have number 1's to their credit.

It did get top 40 last time (#38) :P I agree though, a bit surprised it hasn't blown up more a la 'Too Close'.

I know it's been in the Top 40 officially before, I meant last week where it was Top 40 on the Wednesday update but ended up at #46 on the Sunday.

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Thanks James, I've added the mid report with the update.

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