Posted May 20, 201312 yr Single & Album Summary Will Daft Punk get a 5th week at #1 their closest competition this week comes from Naughty Boy/Sam Smith, bearing in mind Daft Punk release their album out this week with Denmark's (Eurovision Song Contest) winner Emmeli deForest with "Only Teardrops" making up the rest of the new entries this week along with 2 Chainz/Wiz Khalifa. Daft Punk are aiming to do the double this week, their long awaited album finally drops, other new album releases this week come from Thirty Seconds To Mars, Demi Lovato, The National, Texas, Jamie Cullum, Airborne & Tribes. ======================================================= 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.
May 20, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts: Daft Punk album 2013's quickest seller Source: MW by Paul Willams Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has become the fastest-selling artist album of the year after accumulating more than 100,000 sales in just two days. Up to the end of business on Tuesday the Columbia new release had shifted 104,795 copies, according to the Official Charts Company, more than the rest of the Top 10 put together. Even though there is still four days of the chart week still to go, the album has already achieved the highest sales in a week by the French act, beating the 50,629 copies sold of Discovery when it debuted at No 2 in 2001. It is also on the verge of eclipsing Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble's To Be Loved for the highest first-week sales of 2013 for an artist album. That opened with 121,415 takers in April. The Daft Punk album's success follows Get Lucky becoming their first ever UK chart-topping single. It achieved a fourth week in charge of the countdown last Sunday and is now the year's top-selling single (see separate story). However, it will lose its chart-topping crown this weekend to La La La, Virgin act Naughty Boy's brand new single featuring Sam Smith. Random Access Memories is currently joined among the week's top six artist album sellers by four other brand new releases with the only survivor from last week, Decca act Rod Stewart's Time, dropping 1-2 with sales down by just 15%. 4AD's The National are heading for their second Top 10 hit after 2010's High Violet with Trouble Will Find Me currently showing up as a new entry at 3, while 30 Seconds To Mars with make the Top 10 for the first time with their Polydor-issued Love Lust Faith + Dreams currently new at 4. Texas will score their sixth Top 10 album but first away from Mercury Records with the PIAS Recordings release The Conversation at 5 in the week to date. After instantly breaking into the top three of the singles chart last Sunday US singer and actress Demi Lovato now has a hit album on her hands. Her Hollywood/Polydor release Demi is new at 6 in the week so far and will easly beat her current albums chart peak of 45 achieved by Unbroken in 2011. Asylum/Atlantic act Rudimental's chart-topping Home drops 5-7 as Nettwerk act Passenger's All The Little Things loses a place to 8 but with sales rising 15%, while Gabrielle Aplin's Parlophone debut English Rain falls to 9 having debuted at 2 last weeked and Dramatico/Grand Moo act Caro Emerald slides 4-10 with The Shocking Miss Emerald. Momentum, Jamie Cullum's first album on Island, registers as a new entry at 12 as Australian band Airbourne's new Roadrunner album Black Dog Barking turns up in 14th position in the latest midweeks. A Provogue pairing of Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa are new at 17 with Seesaw, while Island act Tribes' new album Wish To Scream is new at 29 currently. On singles Naughty Boy will achieve his first ever No 1 as an artist in his own right this weekend with La La La presently outselling Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams' Get Lucky by around 35,000 copies. Naughty Boy prevously made the Top 10 last year with Wonder featuring Emeli Sande. Danish artist Emelie De Forest will race into the Top 20 after last Saturday winning the Eurovision Song Contest in Sweden. Her RCA-issued track Only Teardrops vaults 99-10 in the midweeks, although Bonnie Tyler's UK entry Believe In Me on the Celtic Swan Recordings label can only manage a 93-86 lift after finishing down in 19th place in the competition. Another big climber into the Top 10 is Def Jam/Virgin EMI act 2 Chainz whose We Own It (Fast & Furious) featuring Wiz Khalifa accelerates 61-6. Meanwhile, Nettwerk's Passenger drops 2-3 with Let Her Go, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton with Can't Hold Us on the Macklemore label holds at 4 and Asylum/Alantic act Rudimental remain at 5 with Waiting All Night featuring Ella Eyre. Positiva/Virgin single This Is What It Feels Like by Armin Van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie is up 7-8 in the latest Sales Flashes and Parlophone's David Guetta improves 9-8 with Play Hard featuring Ne-Yo and Akon as Ministry of Sound signing Chris Malinchak slips 7-9 with So Good To Me. Outside the Top 10 sales of Epic act Olly Murs' Dear Darlin' are up 255% on the week to send it 18-13, while Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen's Paramore are up 24-18 with Still Into You with sales up 31%. Manchester band The 1975 are heading for their second hit with the Dirty Hit/Polydor-issued The City new at 20 in the week so far, while Evanescence's 2033 chart-topper races 118-32 after the Virgin/Wind Up track was covered by Britain's Got Talent contestant Aliki Chrysochou. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Naughty Boy/Sam Smith (77k) 2 Daft Punk/Pharrell Williams (43k) 3 Passenger 4 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Ray Dalton 5 Rudimental/Ella Eyre 6-10 6 2 Chainz/Wiz Khalifa 7 Armin Van Burren/Trevor Guthrie 8 David Guetta/Ne-Yo/Akon 10 Emmelie De Forest 11-20 13 Olly Murs 18 Parmore 20 The 1975 21-30 24 Lana Del Rey 25 Mariah Carey/Miguel 31-40 32 Evanescence 35 Lumineers 37 Gianluca Bezzina http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/n...-la-la-la-2236/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Daft Punk 104k 2 Rod Stewart 3 The National 4 Thirty Seconds To Mars 5 Texas 6-10 6 Demi Lovato 11-20 12 Jamie Cullum 14 Airborne 17 Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa 21-30 24 Jake Bugg 28 Daft Punk 29 Tribes 31-40 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/d...-memories-2233/
May 20, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Daft Punk have year's best opening sales tally Source: MW by Paul Willams Daft Punk's Random Access Memories has sold more than 130,000 copies in just five days to achieve the highest first-week sales of the year for an artist album. The Columbia release had shifted 133,472 copies in the UK up to the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company, beating the previous 2013 opening sales high of 121,415 units set in April by Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble's To Be Loved. However, the Daft Punk album still has two more days of buying to push up its first-week number so is likely to get off to the best sales start for a debut release since at least November last year when One Direction's second Syco album Take Me Home attracted 155,316 takers. Such is the demand for Random Access Memories that it continues to outsell the rest of the Top 10 artist titles combined. It has so far this week shifted more than three-and-a-half times as many copies as its nearest challenger, Decca act Rod Stewart's Time, which debuted at No 1 last Sunday but now drops to 2 in the midweeks. Further behind are a clutch of brand new releases with 4AD signings The National's Trouble Will Find Me at 3 in the week so far, Polydor act 30 Seconds To Mars' Love Lust Faith + Dreams at 4 and Texas's PIAS Recordings debut The Conversarion at 5. Also brand new to the Top 10 is Demi Lovato's Hollywood/Polydor album Demi at 8. Also already reaching six figures this week is Naughty Boy's newly-issued Virgin single La La La featuring Sam Smith. By the end of Thursday it had accumulated a sales figure of 108,492 copies on its way to No 1 this Sunday with Daft Punk's Columbia-issued Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams dropping to 2 after achieving a fourth week heading the chart last weekend. Let Her Go by Nettwerk's Passenger falls 2-3 as Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton's Can't Hold Us on the Macklemore label holds at 5 and the Asylum/Atlantic track Waiting All Night by Rudimental featuring Ella Eyre holds at 5. Just a few hundred sales short of the top five, Def Jam/Virgin EMI act 2 Chainz has raced 61-6 in the latest Sales Flashes with We Own It (Fast & Furious) featuring Wiz Khalifa. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Naughty Boy/Sam Smith 108,492 2 Daft Punk/Pharrell Williams 69,951 3 Passenger 4 Macklemore/Ryan Lewis/Ray Dalton 5 Rudimental/Ella Eyre Top 10 6 2 Chainz/Wiz Kahlifa 7 Armin Van Burren/Trevor Guthrie 8 David Guetta/Ne-Yo/Akon Top 15 11 Olly Murs 13 Emmelie De Forest Top 20 17 Paramore Top 30 21 Lana Del Rey 24 Mariah Carey/Miguel 25 The City Top 40 33 Evanescence ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Daft Punk 133,000 2 Rod Stewart 3 The National 4 Thirty Seconds To Mars 5 Texas Top 10 8 Demi Lovato Top 15 14 Jamie Cullum Top 20 19 Airborne Top 30 23 Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa 24 Jake Bugg 28 Daft Punk (Discovery) Top 40 35 Tribes
May 21, 201312 yr This has got to be the week that Emeli Sande leaves the top 10 - Daft Punk, THe National, Demi Lovato and 30 Seconds to Mars will probably push her out...
May 21, 201312 yr This has got to be the week that Emeli Sande leaves the top 10 - Daft Punk, THe National, Demi Lovato and 30 Seconds to Mars will probably push her out... I'm fully expecting to be reincarnated and in my next life to still see Emeli there.
May 21, 201312 yr Hoping for 200k at least for DP!! I'm too hoping for some sales news on DP either today or tomorrow, even if the report will say something like 55k lead or something. Hopefully can get 150k+ for the week.
May 21, 201312 yr All my mates expect it to sell 600k because of media reports but i have to try and explain that in this day and age that is nearly impossible so im playing it down to 200k!
May 21, 201312 yr I'm crossing my fingers for Hurts - I'm hoping Blind charts well for them, going by previous chart positions I'm not holding my breath though :unsure:
May 21, 201312 yr I'm crossing my fingers for Hurts - I'm hoping Blind charts well for them, going by previous chart positions I'm not holding my breath though :unsure: Given the last single missed the top 100, I'd be satisfied with it even charting at all. I really hope it does though, such a good song.
May 21, 201312 yr The Daft Punk album sounds f***ing horrific. Me and my mates listened to the previews on iTunes last night and just looked at eachother trying not to laugh. It was bloody awful. Half of them sounded exactly like 'Get Lucky' except with stupid robotic voices and weird sound effects. Not my thing At ALL. Watch it storm to #1 worldwide, though.
May 21, 201312 yr Though I'm highly likely to be wrong I can't see RAM selling more than 120k this week myself, some of the predictions I've seen are just crazy.
May 21, 201312 yr Author On Twitter Cameron Pegg @ghostwhowrites 2h RT @adebradley: The Danish Eurovision winner is currently No. 5 in the UK midweeks. 4 Eurovision songs in the top 40 so far. https://twitter.com/ghostwhowrites
May 21, 201312 yr On Twitter https://twitter.com/ghostwhowritesOoft! Did Loreen manage to re-enter with her versions combined, do we think? Also, I'm presuming Margaret Berger is one of them also! A shame none of them bar Emmelie will enter officially though :(
May 21, 201312 yr Author On Twitter Mark Fabish @iamfabish 12m Daft Punk are #1 in the midweeks with over 80k sales. Nobody is even close #RAM https://twitter.com/iamfabish I'm assuming that's the album :o
May 21, 201312 yr On Twitter https://twitter.com/iamfabish I'm assuming that's the album :o I think the #RAM gave it away.
May 21, 201312 yr Author Max Milner @maxmilner7 3m Just been told that #ALLOURLIVES is in the midweek singles chart at no.56!!! Thank you so much guys!!! keep sharing- https://twitter.com/maxmilner7
May 21, 201312 yr On Twitter https://twitter.com/ghostwhowrites Number 5 :o I hope Norway is in there!
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