May 1, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts: Rudimental Home in on No.1 Source: MW Rudimental's first album Home will debut at No 1 in the UK this Sunday as Daft Punk continue to rule the singles chart. Housing their hits Feel The Love, Not Giving In and Waiting All Night, Rudimental's introductory Asylum/Atlantic set is currently outselling the rest of the top five artist album sellers combined, according to the Official Charts Company. Daft Punk are commanding a similar, seemingly unassailable lead in the singles market with the Columbia-issued Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams having already sold more than 70,000 copies this week, twice as many as closest rival Waiting All Night on which Rudimental are joined by Ella Eyre. Also looking to place a debut album instantly in the Top 10 is Bo Bruce, who was runner-up on the first series of BBC One's The Voice and whose Mercury set Before I Sleep presently shows up as a new entry at 6 on the midweeks. The series winner Leanne Mitchell has yet to have an album out. Boy band Blue have their first studio album out this week since 2003's Guilty. Issued on their own Blueworld label it is new at 7 in the latest Sales Flashes, while their first three albums - All Rise, One Love and Guilty - all topped the chart. Absent almost as long in terms of studio albums, rock veterans Deep Purple are back in the market via Ear Music/Edel with Now What, their first set of new material since 2005's Rapture Of The Deep and it is currently new at 11. Around 100 sales ahead of Deep Purple, Nettwerk act Passenger, the project of Brighton artist Mike Rosenberg, experience a 273% sales lift with the album All The Little Lights to lift it 25-10. Its increased demands comes off the back of the growing popularity for the single Let Her Go, which climbs 11-4 on the singles midweeks with weekly sales rising 251%. After last Sunday achieving a record-breaking 63 consecutive weeks in the Top 10, beating the 49-year record of The Beatles' Please Please Me for the longest uninterrupted Top 10 run, Virhgin act Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events has now managed to increase its sales week-on-week. A 7% improvement moves it 5-3 on the midweeks, while ahead of it Reprise/Warner Bros's Michael Buble drops to 2 having secured a second week at No 1 last weekend with To Be Loved. RCA act Pink holds at 4 with The Truth About Love with sales up 16%, helped by tour dates in Birmingham and London this past week, while will.i.am's Interscope/Polydor album Willpower drops 3-5 with sales down 33%. Making an even bigger decline is Frank Turner's Xtra Mile/Polydor release Tape Deck Heart, which debuted at 2 last weekend but sinks to 16 in the midweeks. Atlantic act Bruno Mars enjoys a 34% sales bounce with Unorthodox Jukebox, while Justin Timberlake's RCA album The 20/20 Experience eases 6-9 with sales down 1% in the week so far. Outside the Top 10, new albums looking to enter in or around the Top 40 this Sunday will include releases from Fiction/Polydor's Seasick Steve, Cooking Vinyl's Pigeon Detectives, Lex-signed Neon Neon and Eagles with a Rhino compilation. Besides Passenger's Let Her Go, two other tracks look like moving into the Top 10 of the singles chart this Sunday. They include Goo Goo Dolls' 1998 Warner Bros track Iris, which finally made the UK for the first time in 2011 after X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza covered it. Now it is subject to a similar revival, rising 39-7 in the midweeks after Britain's Got Talent hopeful Robbie Kennedy performed it on last Saturday's ITV1 show. Also making a big leap into the midweek Top 10 is Parlophone act David Guetta whose Play Hard with Ne-Yo and Akon rises 21-8 with weekly sales up 611%. Island/PMR's Disclosure are seeking out their second Top 10 single following White Noise with AlunaGeorge with You & Me featuring Eliza Doolittle new at 10 at this stage of the week. Demand is contunuing to heavily increase for the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis track Can't Hold Us featuring Ray Dalton. Issued on the Macklemore label, it sees its sales increase 58% on the week to lift it 5-3. Completing the singles Top 10 presently, Columbia act Calvin Harris's I Need Your Love featuring Ellie Goulding drps 4-5 and will.i.am's Interscope/Polydor single Thatpower with Justin Bieber is down 3-6. Sunday Best single Rise & Fall by Michael Molloy and Alex Evans turns up as a new enry at 26 on the midweeks, while Relentless/RCA act Misha B's Here's To Everything (Oooh La La) is new at 31. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Daft Punk/Pharrell Williams (70k holy cow :o ) 2 Rudimental/Ella Eyre (35k) 3 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Ray Dalton 4 Passenger 5 Calvin Harris/Ellie Goulding 6-10 7 Goo Goo Dolls 8 David Guetta/Ne-Yo/Akon 10 Disclosure/Eliza Doolittle 11-20 16 AlunaGeorge 21-30 26 Michael Malloy/Alex Evans 28 Chris Brown 31-40 31 Misha B 35 Rudimental/John Newman 36 Paramore 39 Bruno Mars [LOOH] http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...-number-1-2195/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Rudimental 2 Michael Buble 3 Emeli Sande 4 Pink 5 will.i.am 6-10 6 Bo Bruce 7 Blue 10 Passenger 11-20 11 Deep Purple 15 Seasick Steve 19 Rihanna 20 Taylor Swift 21-30 23 Pigeon Detectives 27 Daft Punk 31-40 31 Beyonce 32 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis 39 Neon Neon http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...ums-chart-2194/
May 1, 201312 yr Blue doing quiet well with their new album, i do hope it can sustain top 10 and achieve official top 10 status on Sunday. I think Daft Punk are going to manage another week of sales of 100,000 and greater this week.
May 1, 201312 yr Fantastic that 'Get Lucky' is 35k ahead! Another week of 100k+ sales is very likely, wouldn't be surprised if it managed this for a third week either. Really strong Top 10 in my opinion, just 'You & Me' which I'm not that keen on. Yay for 'Feel the Love' returning and 'Still Into You' spending a fourth week in the Top 40! :D No surprises for Rudimental's Home looking to debut at #1, I'm not really keen on it aside from the singles and a couple of tracks towards the end, but it's still deserved all the same after the success of the three singles (even 'Not Giving In' was a success for a Top 15 hit). Paramore and The Next Day falling too much! :cry:
May 1, 201312 yr Wow at Rudimental's album outselling the rest of the top 5 combined. Presumably on for 50k+ then? Obviously phenomenal sales for Daft Punk again too.
May 1, 201312 yr Wow another 70k already for DP - probabaly another 130k by Sunday, thats phenomenal sales for a 2nd week - and next week it should be a great battle for the top. Rudimnetal looking likely to sell another 60k this week at no2 as wall and the immense album which is very instant should sell 60k which is great for a dance album!!
May 1, 201312 yr Author Get Lucky is shaping up to be the biggest selling single of 2013 soon if the sales keep up at that level. I think we have this year's longest chart runner at #1, got to see what develops next week, when Chris Malinchak releases, after that the release schedule is looking a bit bleak.
May 1, 201312 yr It is certainly heading for big sales at the rate its selling, looks like the top 3 singles will especially have excellent sales which is always welcomed and i think Rudimental will open on quiet decent sales for number 1 in the album chart.
May 1, 201312 yr How did Misha end up at 31?! :oShe's 32 on itunes so it's not really surprising she should at least peak higher than Amelia if she she dosen't fall drastically.
May 1, 201312 yr She's 32 on itunes so it's not really surprising she should at least peak higher than Amelia if she she dosen't fall drastically. To me it is suprising as her EP didn't do great (peaked at 29 and then dropped down to 56 somewhere) and she has bene a slow climber the whole week
May 1, 201312 yr Get Lucky is shaping up to be the biggest selling single of 2013 soon if the sales keep up at that level. I think we have this year's longest chart runner at #1, got to see what develops next week, when Chris Malinchak releases, after that the release schedule is looking a bit bleak. I really don't understand the hype for 'So Good to Me', I'm hoping 'Get Lucky' does manage another week with sales over 100k to pose of a threat as I find 'So Good to Me' quite bland.
May 1, 201312 yr Get Lucky is shaping up to be the biggest selling single of 2013 soon if the sales keep up at that level. I think we have this year's longest chart runner at #1, got to see what develops next week, when Chris Malinchak releases, after that the release schedule is looking a bit bleak. IT only has to beat 3 weeks, hardly much of a feat really!
May 1, 201312 yr I'm sure someone will ask so I'll answer this now, the only records this century not charity/ TV linked to sell over 100k in its third week on the charts are: Pure Shores- All Saints 111k Stan- Eminem 133k Whole Again- Atomic Kitten 101k It Wasn't Me- Shaggy 147k Can't Get You Out Of My Head- Kylie Minogue 122k Changes- Kelly & Ozzy Osbourne 103k Crazy- Gnarles Barkley - 118k
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