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.

 

I agree. A much better song than Miracle, but they just don't seem to do well here compared to other countries.

 

There's something I don't understand and I couldn't see any threads talking about it. Am I right in thinking if a group do a single version of a song and an EP version with extra songs. Does the EP version count towards the chart position or only if people buy the actual single version. It's just I've seen mentioned on a thread where songs are at more than one position in the charts. Surely there's a way of combining them? Or am I just being thick? :unsure:

Edited May 21, 201312 yr by Mybelle

I agree. A much better song than Miracle, but they just don't seem to do well here compared to other countries.

 

There's something I don't understand and I couldn't see any threads talking about it. Am I right in thinking if a group do a single version of a song and an EP version with extra songs. Does the EP version count towards the chart position or only if people buy the actual single version. It's just I've seen mentioned on a thread where songs are at more than one position in the charts. Surely there's a way of combining them? Or am I just being thick? :unsure:

 

If you download a remixes EP or an EP with 1-3 'B-Sides' on it that counts the same as just downloading the single track. Songs are often in more than one position on iTunes because iTunes does not combine versions taken from different albums (so there's often a single version in addition to an album version, or a single version and a version from a compilation album, etc.) They are all combined for the official chart.

If you download a remixes EP or an EP with 1-3 'B-Sides' on it that counts the same as just downloading the single track. Songs are often in more than one position on iTunes because iTunes does not combine versions taken from different albums (so there's often a single version in addition to an album version, or a single version and a version from a compilation album, etc.) They are all combined for the official chart.

 

Thanks for taking the time to reply to me. Now I understand how it's done. There I was thinking I'd bought the Blind EP off Itunes and it wouldn't count - not that one person is going to make that much difference.

What was the last Q1/2 album to sell over 200k - Coldplay in 2008?

 

Adele '21', twice : 208k (wk 1, 5/2/11), 257k (wk 10, 9/4/11)

Edited May 22, 201312 yr by vidcapper

Adele '21', twice : 208k (wk 1, 5/2/11), 257k (wk 10, 9/4/11)

 

No - it was Lady Gaga's Born This Way.

No - it was Lady Gaga's Born This Way.

 

OK - but that hasn't exactly done spectacularly since, yet to pass 1m, IIRC...

Born This Way?

 

 

WHatd it do in 2009?

It would be excellent for Emelee De Forest to remain top 10. I think it is important that the winning Eurovision country/song does well as it helps to a small level keep the show relevant. Euphoria would not be the winning song for me last year but it is a song i can totally see why others loved but i have huge respect for Loreen/Euphoria as it was a huge hit and made people that Eurovision does not always have to end a career, in fact it can be the start of one.

 

Daft Punk to sell 200,000 in this climate and this time of year is excellent, well done to them, in the singles chart i notice get lucky is number 3 and number 6 now, im really rooting for get lucky to stay number 1 this week and sell over 100,000.

It would be excellent for Emelee De Forest to remain top 10. I think it is important that the winning Eurovision country/song does well as it helps to a small level keep the show relevant.

 

ISTM that ship has long since sailed... :lol:

ISTM that ship has long since sailed... :lol:

Despite pulling in 7.7 million viewers on Saturday night?

OK - but that hasn't exactly done spectacularly since, yet to pass 1m, IIRC...

 

That's irrelevant surely? It still passed 200k in its opening week.

 

WHatd it do in 2009?

 

Nothing, it wasn't out at that point.

What did it open with?

Despite pulling in 7.7 million viewers on Saturday night?

 

ISTM that proves my point - before all the other European countries started 'conspiring' against British entries, it got far more viewers in the UK...

What did it open with?

215,639 in May 2011

I think Daft Punk will end up selling 165 K overall which is really great in this day and age where most people would rather stream/illegally download an album than purchase it...

215,639 in May 2011

 

 

Cheers mate!

80k for daft punk is great !

 

 

Won't sell more than 200k, as i suspect it was really front loaded.

I need help if any chart mod is available to do the Weds update, or a kind member.

Gianluca's 'Tomorrow' is at #37 in today's update! :D Shame they are not playing it :(

 

I'd help out with the update but I'm not sure what I need to do, so you'd probably be better asking someone who has done it before. :kink:

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/

 

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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/