Posted April 1, 201313 yr Single & Album Summary Duke Dumont/A*M*E which looks set to enter the chart at #1, so how far will PJ & Duncan drop this week. Apart from Michael Buble and Tom Odell there isn't anything else that is more likely to set the charts alight this week, unless something else creeps out of the woodwork later in the week, notably from Chris Brown. Justin Timberlake could settle at #1 for a third week running, unless any of these new releases from Imagine Dragons, Bring Me The Horizon, Tyler The Creator, Killswitch Engage, Wiley, British Sea Power, New Kids On The Block and Alkaline Trio, its quite of an indie/rock fest of new album releases. ======================================================= 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.
April 1, 201313 yr Author Midweek Charts: Imagine Dragons fire up midweeks Source: MW by Paul Willams Imagine Dragons could become the first US band to top the UK chart with their debut album since 2006 after Night Visions took an early lead in the midweeks. The Interscope/Polydor album, which reached No 2 on the Billboard 200 in the US last September, is presently around 3,000 sales ahead of fellow new release Sempiternal by RCA rock band Bring Me The Horizon, according to the Official Charts Company. At the same time Imagine Dragons' Radioactive rises 32-20 on midweek singles. A US group has not topped the UK artist albums chart since last September when Mercury act The Killers, who like Imagine Dragons are from Las Vegas, reached No 1 with Battle Born, while Orson were the last band from the States to reach No 1 with their debut album with Bright Idea leading the countdown in June 2006. This does not include Glee Cast whose first album topped the UK chart in February 2010. Imagine Dragons' strong showing could deny Bring Me The Horizon a first No 1 with what is their fourth album overall and their debut on RCA since moving from Visible Noise. It is one of four brand new releases inside the Top 10 sellers at this stage of the week with Roadrunner act Killswitch Engage's sixth album at 7 and US rapper Tayler The Creator's Wolf at 9. In all four cases the debuting acts look on course to reach new UK chart peaks. Imagine Dragons obviously will do as Night Visions is their debut, while Bring Me The Horizon's present highest showing is 13, achieved in 2010 with the Visible Noise album There Is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret. Killswitch Engage have to date made it as high as 29, achieved with their self-titled album in 2010, and Tyler's highest ranking is 21 with the XL-issued Goblin in 2011. His new album is on Columbia, one of five Sony albums in the midweek Top 10. Besides Bring Me The Horizon and Goblin, Sony's showing also comprises RCA albums The 20/20 Experience by Justin Timberlake dropping 1-3 with sales down 53%, David Bowie's The Next Day falling 3-4 as sales decline 26% and Pink's The Truth About Love sliding 6-8 as sales slip 32%. The Top 10 at this point of the week is completed by the Virgin albums Our Version Of Events by Emeli Sande dropping 4-6 and Bastille's Bad Blood up 7-5 plus Atlantic act Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox slipping 5-10. There are seven brand new albums registering in the midweek Top 40 outside the Top 10, led by Brighton band British Sea Power's sixth set, the Rough Trade-issued Machineries Of Joy, at 11. An extended new version of Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell, which in its original configuration has sold more than 3 million copies in the UK since 1977, is at 15, while the Sony Legacy Recordings album People Hell & Angels containing previously-unreleased Jimi Hendrix material is at 20. It recently debuted and peaked at 2 in the States. Other new arrivals include Wiley's One More Tune/Warner Bros set The Ascent and new sets from Bella Union's Flaming Lips, New Kids On The Block via their Kobalt-affiliated The Bock Boston Five label and Epitaph's Alkaline Trio. Helped by Harry Styles pushing the video online, UK DJ and music producer Duke Dumont looks a certainty to top the UK singles chart on Sunday with the Ministry of Sound-issued Need U (100 Percent) featuring AME. It is currently outselling combined the two tracks immediately below it, Edsel/Demon's PJ & Duncan revival Let's Get Ready To Rhumble, which drops 1-2, and RCA act Pink's Just Give Me A Reason featuring Nate Ruess, dropping 2-3. Also down a place is Polydor act The Saturdays' former No 1 What About Us featuring Sean Paul as it falls 3-4, while Bastille's Virgin single Pompeii holds at 5. RCA act Justin Timberlake is down 4-6 with Mirrors, while Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros single It's A Beautiful Day is new at 7 after he performed it on Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway show on ITV1 last weekend. The Republic/Island single Hey Porsche by Nelly improves 9-8 as the Atlantic-issued When I Was Your Man by Bruno Mars slides 6-9 and the Macklemore label's Thrift Shop by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Wanz holds at 10. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Duke Dumont (outselling #2 and #3 combined) 2 PJ and Duncan AKA 3 P!nk/Nate Ruess 4 The Saturdays 5 Bastille 6-10 7 Michael Buble* 8 Nelly 11-20 13 Taylor Swift (22) 20 Imagine Dragons 21-30 21 will.i.am/Britney 22 Calvin/Ellie 23 Christina Perri 31-40 35 HAIM* 36 Tom Odell* 39 Chris Brown* http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...-number-1-2141/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Imagine Dragons (3k ahead) 2 Bring Me The Horizon 3 Justin Timberlake 4 David Bowie 5 Bastille 6-10 7 Killswitch Engage 9 Tyler The Creator 11-20 11 British Sea Power 13 Rihanna 15 Meat Loaf 20 Jimi Hendrix 21-30 21 Wiley 22 Michael Ball 29 Bonobo 30 The Flaming Lips 31-40 31 New Kids On the Block 38 Alkaline Trio http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/i...bums-race-2140/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print
April 1, 201313 yr Author Official Charts Midweek Sales Flash Top 40s: Friday, April 5 Source: MW by Paul Willams Justin Timberlake is tightening the screws on Imagine Dragons as he looks to secure a third week leading the UK artist albums chart with The 20/20 Experience. At the start of the week Las Vegas band Imagine Dragons had a near 40% sales lead over Timberlake with their newly-issued Interscope/Polydor debut Night Visions. However, that has now been cut to 9%, according to the Official Charts Company, with The 20/20 Experience just 1,500 sales behind at the close of business on Thursday. If Timberlake does hold on for another week he will have the first album to spend three consecutive weeks at the top since Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band's Decca-issued Sing in June last year. The album also appears on course to spend a third week leading the Billboard 200 chart in the US. The 20/20 Experience is joined by two other RCA albums in the midweek top five and three in the Top 10 with Bring Me The Horizon's Sempiternal new at 3, David Bowie's The Next Day dropping 3-4 and Pink's The Truth About Love losing a couple of places to 8. The week-to-date top five is completed by Atlantic act Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox holding at five, while Roadrunner's Killswitch Engage are new at 9 with Disarm The Descent. An expanded new version of Meat Loaf's album Bat Out Of Hell on Epic is just several hundred sales short of the Top 10, while other new arrivals to the market include Columbia's Tyler The Creator and Rough Trade's British Sea Power. Ministry of Sound single Need U (100 Percent) by Duke Dumont featuring AME has already sold more than 70,000 copies this week on its way to debuting at No 1 as Pink's RCA single Just Give Me A Reason featuring Nate Ruess holds at 2. The Edsel/Demon reissue Let's Get Ready To Rhumble by PJ & Duncan drops 1-3, while RCA-signed Justin Timberlake remains at 4 with Mirrors and the Saturdays drop 3-5 with their Polydor track What About US with Sean Paul. Michael Buble is looking for a Top 10 debut this weekend with the Reprise/Warner Bros track It's A Beautiful Day currently new at 8. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Source: MW Top 40 Singles 1 Duke Dumont (70k) 2 P!nk/Nate Ruess 3 PJ and Duncan AKA 4 Justin Timberlake (Mirrors) 5 The Saturdays 6-10 Michael Buble Nelly 9 Pitbull/Christina Aguilera 11-20 13 Taylor Swift (22) 18 Imagine Dragons [Radioactive] 20 Calvin/Ellie 21-30 24 Christina Perri Chris Brown 31-40 31 HAIM Imagine Dragons [OTOTW] Imagine Dragons [it's Time] Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Ray Dalton 40 Iggy Azalea =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Imagine Dragons 2 Justin Timberlake (1.5k behind) 3 Bring Me The Horizon 4 David Bowie 5 Bruno Mars 6-10 Killswitch Engage 10 Rihanna 11-20 Meat Loaf Tyler, The Creator British Sea Power Michael Ball 21-30 Wiley Jimi Hendrix 30 The Script 31-40 Bonobo The Flaming Lips 39 New Kids On the Block NO SALES INFO
April 2, 201313 yr Author PJ & Duncan have been rhumbled :P chloe melick @chloemelick BIG UPS to @theofficialAME @DukeDumont and @MNEK on the NUMBER ONE in the midweeks. It's going to be a BIG week. https://twitter.com/chloemelick
April 2, 201313 yr Author Chris Salmon @chrissalmon Ooh, British Sea Power's wonderful new album is at Number 6 in the first midweeks #result https://twitter.com/chrissalmon
April 2, 201313 yr I wonder if they'll take over the biggest first week sales for the year so far. Hmm. It took them longer than expected to get to #1, no? I can see 100k. Anyway the Sats are currently selling more or less 55% of Duke Dumont so based on his sales today we should get a fair idea of what they've sold too.
April 2, 201313 yr I do not see the appeal of the DukeDumont track at all, it is extremely annoying and i would hate to see it take the crown of biggest opening sales week of the year. Also i do not think PJ and Duncan will drop as much as people expect, i believe it will remain in the top 3 for this week, but at this stage it has already served its purpose, it got good promotion again on Saturday night take away which will have gave it a boost and also the official number 1 effect would give it a further boost. I would be thrilled of Michael Buble can officially go top 10 this week, really like the song and he deserves another top 10 hit and his performance on Saturday night take away was excellent.
April 2, 201313 yr Author Duke Dumont 39k already Plug & Play Promo @PlugPlayPromo 1h Boom! Duke Dumont feat AME is #1 in the midweeks! Over 39k already! >>... http://fb.me/2WOcn8IRa https://twitter.com/PlugPlayPromo
April 2, 201313 yr How much did What About Us sell at this point in comparison? :o Wasn't it about 50k?
April 2, 201313 yr Amazing sales there! :o Great to see yet another dance track do well in 2013! This year seems to be full of them! (Avicii, Bingo Players, Disclosure, Duke Dumont, Calvin Harris)
April 2, 201313 yr Wasn't it about 50k? At this stage, PJ & Duncan sold 34.1k and The Saturdays sold 50k! :o According to my calculations, Duke Dumont will sell 97.5k by the end of the week. Edited April 2, 201313 yr by G R I E F
April 2, 201313 yr The Saturdays had sold 52k in the first midweek. Good sales for Duke Dumont indeed, he will do 90-110k I think, perhaps more. Ant & Dec were on 34k in first mid and ended up on about 88k overall right? But lol at a few people saying '39k already!', 'Omg amazing sales!, 'Will definitely do over 100k!!' when a few of those people were playing down and belittling The Sats for doing 52k and saying they had no chance of 100k haha. Hmm. :P Edited April 2, 201313 yr by Encore
April 2, 201313 yr The Saturdays had sold 52k in the first midweek. Good sales for Duke Dumont indeed, he will do 90-110k I think, perhaps more. Ant & Dec were on 34k in first mid and ended up on about 88k overall right? But lol at a few people saying '39k already!', 'Omg amazing sales!, 'Will definitely do over 100k!!' when a few of those people were playing down and belittling The Sats for doing 52k and saying they had no chance of 100k haha. Hmm. :P In fairness, the Sats have a big tradition of tailing off hugely in the midweeks; in comparison 39k is excellent considering this is the first time for Duke Dumont and it is fairly good sales
April 2, 201313 yr Duke Dumont won't sell 100k. And even if he does, it won't be by a very big amount. I'm guessing 97k-103k by the end of the week.
April 2, 201313 yr I have a funny feeling that young Griff is being a little contradictory. I'm going to say 111k.
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