'Slip' ending up at #10 would be even more shocking than 'Gentlemen' ending up there.

What's 'Gentlemen'?

What's 'Gentlemen'?

 

PSY's eagerly awaited follow up to 'Gangnam Style'. If you've not heard it, count yourself lucky. :P (and I thought 'Gangnam Style' was brilliant)

OCC have reported Daft Punk has sold over half a million this morning

 

Wow! That's bigger than Candle in the Wind!

Wow! That's bigger than Candle in the Wind!

:lol:

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Wretch 32 and Chris Malinchak holding strong inside the Top 5 midweeks today

 

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Rod Stewart #1 album, 6600 ahead of Gabrielle Aplin.

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...bums-race-2220/

Midweek Charts: Rod sailing back to No 1

Source: MW

by Paul Willams

 

 

Rod Stewart is heading for his first chart-topping album in the UK since 1979 with brand new studio set Time.

 

The Decca release, his first album of original songs in more than 20 years, currently has a 31% sales lead over nearest rival English Rain by Parlophone act Gabrielle Aplin, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

Stewart last reached No 1 with an album back in December 1979 with Greatest Hits Vol I and it stayed there for five weeks until January 1980, while his last studio album to make it to the top was 1976's A Night On The Town, which included the hits Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) and The First Cut Is The Depest.

 

If Time does stay at No 1 when the full-week chart is published on Sunday it will be his eighth chart-topper in all and will deny Parlophone a No 1 in the week the EC has given approval of its takeover by Warner. The record company's signing Gabrielle Aplin is around 6,000 sales behind Stewart at present with her debut English Rain, while sitting below her is XL act Vampire Weekend's newly-issued third album Modern Vampires Of The City. The band's self-titled album reached No 15 in 2008, while follow-up Contra made it to 3 in 2010 and topped the Billboard 200 chart.

 

Former ABBA star Agnetha Faltskog completes a midweek artist albums top four exclusively comprising brand new releases with the Polydor-issued A at No 4. It looks on course to become her highest-charting solo album in the UK, beating her current peak of 12 achieved with her last album My Colouring Book on Warner in 2004.

 

Primal Scream complete the new releases in the latest midweek Top 10 with the First International/Ignition-issued More Light at 7. It is aiming to become the band's eighth Top 10 album in total, all consecutively achieved and in a run dating back to 1991's Screamadelica.

 

The high number of new arrivals means some of last week's leading titles make big drops, including Dramatico act Caro Emerald whose The Shocking Miss Emerald falls 1-5 and Alison Moyet whose Cooking Vinyl set The Minutes slides 5-20. Asylum/Atlantic act Rudimental drop 2-7 with Home, while Emeli Sande looks to extend her record-breaking Top 10 run for a debut album to 66 weeks with Our Version Of Events climbing 9-8 in the week so far. Fellow Virgin release Bad Blood by Bastille climbs 10-9 with sales up 8% after the band performed on Jonathan Ross's ITV1 show last Saturday, while Nettwerk's Passenger is down 8-10 with All The Little Lights.

 

Following the DVD release of the movie, Polydor's Les Miserabes album enjoys a 131% week-on-week pick-up in sales to move it 18-12 on Sales Flashes. The Fall are heading for another hit album with the Cherry Red-issued Re-mit new at 28, while a re-issue of REM's first Warner Bros album Green, which originally reached 27 in 1988, is presently showing up as a new entry at 36 for Rhino.

 

Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams' Get Lucky looks like becoming the first track in more than a year to spend four weeks at No 1 on the singles chart as the Columbia release opens up a 20,000 sales lead in the week so far. The last track to spend more than three weeks in charge was the Polydor-handled Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen in April and May last year.

 

Brighton's Passenger is now up to 2 on the midweeks with an 18% sales increase for Let Her Go, which would give the Nettwerk label a new chart peak. US singer and actress Demi Lovato shows up as a new entry at 3 in the week so far with her Hollywood/Polydor Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hit Heart Attack, while Levels/Ministry of Sound's Wretch 32 is poised for a fourth Top 10 hit with Blackout featuring Shakka currently new at 4.

 

Another Ministry of Sound release, So Good To Me by Chris Malinchak, is down to 5 having debuted at 2 last Sunday, while Rudimental's Asylum/Atlantic single Waiting All Night with Ella Eyre drops 4-6. The two tracks immediately below it also fall two places with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton's Can't Hold Us on the Macklemore label slipping 5-7 and the Positiva/Virgin track This Is What It Feels Like by Armin Van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie dropping 6-8.

 

Mercury act Sub Focus could be heading for a first Top 10 hit with Endorphins featuring Alex Clare registering at present as a new entry at 9, while Parlophone act David Guetta falls 7-10 with Play Hard featuring Ne-Yo and Akon.

 

Stooshe's brand new Futurecut/QWorks/Warner Bros single Slip is new at 11 on the latest midweeks, while All Around The World's Tich arrives at 15 with Dumb.

 

14th Floor/Atlantic act Birdy's People Help The People could be heading for a new peak, having reached 33 last year, with it flying 115-24. It follows the song being performed on BBC One's The Voice last Saturday in the first battles round where it was performed by contestants Begley Andrea and Alice Barlow. Meanwhile, Republic/Island-signed Of Monsters And Men are enjoying a 541% sales hike with Little Talks to send it 104-31 after contestants Jack and Cormac performed it on ITV1 show Britain's Got Talent.

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Daft Punk (49k)

2 Passenger (29k)

3 Demi Lovato*

4 Wretch 32*

5 Chris Malinchak

 

6-10

9 Sub Focus*

 

11-20

11 Stooshe*

12 Bastille

15 Tich*

 

21-30

24 Birdy^

26 John Legend

 

31-40

31 Of Monsters & Men^

33 Mariah Carey

35 Black Eyed Peas

36 fun.^

38 Gabrielle Aplin [PDSYLM]^

39 James Morrison^

40 Jordin Sparks^

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...ion-sales-2221/

 

===================================================

Top 40 Albums

 

1 Rod Stewart* (6,600 ahead of #2)

2 Gabrielle Aplin*

3 Vampire Weekend*

4 Agnetha Faltskog*

5 Caro Emerald

 

6-10

7 Primal Scream*

8 Emeli Sande

9 Bastille

 

11-20

12 Les Miserables

 

21-30

24 Caro Emerald [Deleted Scenes...]

26 Macklemore

27 Jake Bugg

28 Fall*

29 The Script

 

31-40

31 fun.^

32 Daft Punk^

36 REM^

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...bums-race-2220/

Edited May 15, 201313 yr by liamk97

Ooh, Liam's doing this today! :o Is he going to be the next chart mod? :D

Ooh, Liam's doing this today! :o Is he going to be the next chart mod? :D

Nah, just got a PM from Martin asking to do the update today. :D

 

Shame that Stooshe are already out of the Top 10. :( I think I remember predicting it would peak somewhere 11-15, but I was still hoping it would become a Top 10 for them after how well received 'Slip' has been.

Nah, just got a PM from Martin asking to do the update today. :D

 

Thanks Liam, just carry on, I see if MW have a mid report in a minute.

Nah, just got a PM from Martin asking to do the update today. :D

 

Shame that Stooshe are already out of the Top 10. :( I think I remember predicting it would peak somewhere 11-15, but I was still hoping it would become a Top 10 for them after how well received 'Slip' has been.

 

I told you, Sats >>>

Great to see Tich top 15, Birdy top 25 and Gabrielle and Jordin re-entering the top 40! :cheer: Also fantastic to see Gabrielle's album at #2! :wub:

I would've thought that Vampire Weekend would've been a surefire contender for #1 album. It turns out that a lot of people just love Rod.

Oh Stooshe, you're so heading for that #13 on Sunday. :cry:

Thanks Liam, just carry on, I see if MW have a mid report in a minute.

You're welcome, anytime. :D

 

I told you, Sats >>>

Wasn't 'My Heart Takes Over' a pre-album release too? ;)

Everything seems to be flying down the charts this week, lots of down 6's and 8's.

49k for Daft Punk so far, so perhaps over 90k but not quite over 100k? Also, with a 6k lead, I think Rod Stewart has the number one album in the bag.

 

I've noticed Emeli Sande is #8 even with the Royal Albert Hall performance on TV, so perhaps it will fall from the Top 10 by Sunday.

Edited May 15, 201313 yr by liamk97

Delighted for Agnetha! :D

Emeli f***ing Sande managing to climb a place in the albums even with 5 new entries above her :drama: