April 10, 201313 yr Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead has sold 10,600 copies and will actually be credited to the "Wizard of Oz Film Cast". http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...te-top-10-2153/
April 10, 201313 yr Midweek Charts: Paramore on course for second UK No 1 by Paul Willams Paramore are in line to top the UK artist albums chart for a second time as Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead leaps into the Top 10 singles sellers in reaction to Margaret Thatcher's death. Tennessesse band Paramore's self-titled fourth album is currently comfortably outselling its three main rivals combined and appears destined to follow their last Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen album, 2009's Brand New Eyes, to No 1 this weekend, according to the Official Charts Company. However, Paramore's success, which follows them performing on Graham Norton's BBC1 show last week, is bound to be overshadowed by the extraordinary appearance in the singles midweeks of Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead. The recording by the Wizard of Oz Film Cast from the 1939 movie starring Judy Garland is the week so far's 10th best seller, having leapt up from its position of 54 on Sales Flashes the day before. Issued by the Great American Music label, the track has never charted before, but is one of a handful of songs appearing in the midweek Top 200 as a negative response to the death on Monday of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Spurred on by a Facebook campaign to get it to No 1, it is joined in 80th place by the Decca-issued Ella Fitzgerald recording of the same song and Elvis Costello's anti-Thatcher track Tramp The Dirt Down on Rhino at 96. Back on albums and OMD are heading for their highest chart position in more than two decades with brand new studio set English Electric on 100% Records showing up as a new entry at 7. It is the second new album reuniting the group's main players Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys; the first, History of Modern, reached 28 in 2010. OMD last made the Top 10 in 1991 when Sugar Tax reached No 3, but that was after Humphreys had left, while the last new studio Top 10 album featuring both of them was Junk Culture in 1984. There are two other brand new albums among the Top 10 sellers at this stage of the week with Roadrunner act Stone Sour's House & Gold & Blues - Pt 2 at 5 and James Blake's second Atlas/Polydor album Overgrown at 6. Pt 1 of Stone Sour's album reached No 13 last year, while Blake's self-titled first album made it to 9 in 2011. Paramore's expected debut at 1 will end Justin Timberlake's three-week rule with The 20/20 Experience and this has dropped to 2 in the midweeks. However, his RCA colleague Pink moves 5-3 with The Truth About Love with sales up 29% on the back of the continuing popularity of her Nate Ruess duet Just Give Me A Reason, which holds at 2 on the singles midweeks. Interscope/Polydor's Imagine Dragons slide 2-3 with Night Visions, Atlantic's Bruno Mars loses two places to 8 with Unorthodox Jukebox, as Emeli Sande falls 7-9 with Our Version Of Events and her Virgin colleagues Bastille decline 8-10 with Bad Blood. Outside the Top 10 five other brand new albums are presently registering among the week's Top 40 sellers, includng Swedish electronic duo The Knife on the Brille label, Emarcy/Decca's Madeleine Peyroux, Matador act Kurt Vile, Arista/RCA country star Brad Paisley and a Big Country retrospective via Cherry Red. The singles midweeks is quiet for new entries, apart from Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead and Island's Scottish singer-songwriter Nina Nesbitt arriving at 13 with Stay Out. In the Top 10 Ministry of Sound's Duke Dumont featuring A*M*E continues to lead with Need U (100 Percent), having debuted at 1 last Sunday, while Pink is around 5,000 sales behind at 2. Virgin act Bastille are back up 5-3 with Pompeii and Nelly's Republic/Island single Hey Porsche progresses 7-4. Justin Timberlake's RCA track Mirrors is down 3-5 in the week so far, while the RCA-handled Feel This Moment by Pitbull featuring Christina Aguilera climbs 8-6, The Saturdays' Polydor offering What About Us featuring Sean Paul is down 4-7 and Atlantic signing Bruno Mars slips a place to 9 with When I Was Your Man. Taylor Swift could be in line for a fourth UK Top 10 single with the Mercury-issued 22 up 12-9 and the Wizard of Oz cut completes the Top 10 at 10. Outside the Top 10, big gainers include RCA act Chris Brown's Fine China (up 29-22), Mercury-signed Iggy Azalea with Work (36-26), the Cash Money/Republic-issued High School by Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne (65-28), Macklemore & Lewis's Can't Hold Us on the Macklemore label (38-32), Island's AlunaGeorge with Attracting Files (51-33), Paramore's Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen single Still Into You (83-34), Atlantic act Jason Mraz's I Won't Give Up (88-37) and Just Keep Breathing by We The Kings on their self-tited own label (101-38). =============================================================================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Duke Dumont (5k ahead) 2 Pink/Nate Ruess 3 Bastille 4 Nelly 5 Justin Timberlake 6-10 6 Pitbull/Christina Aguilera 8 Bruno Mars 9 Taylor Swift 10 Wizard Of Oz 11-20 11 Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding 13 Nina Nesbitt 14 Imagine Dragons {Radioactive} 20 The 1975 21-30 21 The Script 22 Chris Brown 26 Iggy Azalea 28 Nicki Minaj 31-40 32 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 33 AlunaGeorge 34 Paramore 37 Jason Mraz {I Won't Give Up} 38 We The Kings http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/n...-number-1-2155/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Paramore (outselling by 3-1) 2 Justin Timberlake 3 Pink 4 Imagine Dragons 5 Stone Sour 6-10 6 James Blake 7 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 11-20 15 Calvin Harris 19 The Knife 20 Ben Howard 21-30 22 Taylor Swift 24 The Script 26 Ellie Goulding 28 Alt-J 29 Madeline Peyroux 31-40 32 Kurt Vile 36 Brad Paisley 37 Big Country 38 Fleetwood Mac [best Of] 40 Caro Emerald http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/p...art-reign-2154/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print Edited April 10, 201313 yr by ManicKangaroo
April 10, 201313 yr So that article was a load of bollocks then? Well, isn't that just a shock :o Edited April 10, 201313 yr by Chez Wombat
April 10, 201313 yr So that article was a load of bollockls then? Well, isn't that just a shock :o *Rubbing my eyes with shock* Next you'll be telling me that the Daily Mail exaggerates stories to propagate hatred. :o
April 10, 201313 yr Great to see Stay Out is currently in the Top 15, hopefully it will remain Top 20 come Sunday. Whenever I hear the song, I can't help think of this: http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m63btzo3Nj1r777xho1_500.gif :lol: I see they ignored "Ding, Dong, The Witch is Dead" :P
April 10, 201313 yr LOL they chickened out of both playing it and explaining the reason why its charting!!
April 10, 201313 yr LOL they chickened out of both playing it and explaining the reason why its charting!! Of course they did. The media agenda is: 'Margaret Thatcher was a well loved and respected politician'. This doesn't fit the agenda. Does not compute. Therefore the media strategy will be 'ignore or destroy at all costs'. Edited April 10, 201313 yr by Doctor Blind
April 10, 201313 yr LOL they chickened out of both playing it and explaining the reason why its charting!! Well, atleast they acknowledged the song was charting :lol: If it does make the Top 10 on Sunday, I think they'll find it hard to avoid playing it, though as someone said in the other thread, they'll probably just say something like "it's re-entered due to the much-publicised events of last week" without going into specifics. ** Excellent to see Pink in the top 3 of the Albums! (I'm guessing on piss-poor sales, but still.) I was about to say I wonder if she could sneak up to #1 in the coming weeks, but on second thoughts Michael Buble is probably going to spend something like 10 straight weeks there. Edited April 10, 201313 yr by Danny
April 10, 201313 yr Both charts are bordering on boring for this week with the exception of Pink. It would be wonderful to see her climb to number 1 in the album chart but Buble will block all of her chances. The report mentioned her album sales have increased by 29% so 20,000 or over looks likely.
April 10, 201313 yr Good to see Nicki doing fairly well. Really thought she could have returned to flopdom recently, but this has very minimal promotion or airplay!
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