May 29, 201312 yr Author Unable to post the Weds update as from this week, if any member wants to take a stab at please do, (just quote the post on page 1, post 2 and use that as a template) I try to add the MW report at some point after 4pm.
May 29, 201312 yr Little Mix have done ok so far, platinum selling album and several hit singles. The follow up album will be a proper test for them Indeed, a girl band making Platinum is good for a debut album - same happened with The Saturdays and Girls Aloud.
May 29, 201312 yr Unable to post the Weds update as from this week, if any member wants to take a stab at please do, (just quote the post on page 1, post 2 and use that as a template) I try to add the MW report at some point after 4pm. What an inconsiderate boss you must have, not allowing you to interrupt your job to make personal forum postings... :lol:
May 29, 201312 yr Be that as it may, I'm not even a GA fan but you should easily be able to see that they were more successful in every way than the Sats and never reeked of the same desperation. Of course they were more successful than the Saturdays have been so far, I'm no great fan of either (although do have some of each in my collection). As for the "desperation", I tend to leave analysis of that to those more closely involved. Obsessive fans of both groups seem to have enough desparation within them for everyone.
May 29, 201312 yr Here's my calculations: Naughty Boy sold 77k on Wednesday. His total sales were 145k. Using the same multiplier as NB (1.9), Robin is on for first week sales of 190k :o This is all assuming that Robin has sold 100k exactly, but seeing as he's sold more, and the multiplier is slightly less than 1.9 (I rounded it up) - I think this is quite accurate. Edited May 29, 201312 yr by Thermometer
May 29, 201312 yr What was the last song to sell over 200k in a week, X Factor winners excluded? Excluding XF winners, charity tracks and Rage Against The Machine it goes back to Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love' (and if you want to exclude that and by extension 'Bleeding Love' as well for their XF connection the last completely 'genuine' 200k+ seller was Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - Mad World back in Christmas 2003). Doubt this will quite pass 200k though,
May 29, 201312 yr The last song to pass over 190k on its own merits was Gnarls Barkley's Crazy, which sold 193k in April 2006.
May 29, 201312 yr Excluding XF winners, charity tracks and Rage Against The Machine it goes back to Cheryl Cole's 'Fight For This Love' (and if you want to exclude that and by extension 'Bleeding Love' as well for their XF connection the last completely 'genuine' 200k+ seller was Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules - Mad World back in Christmas 2003). Doubt this will quite pass 200k though, Gnarls Barkley came close didn't they? Edit: Someone beat me to it! Edited May 29, 201312 yr by Brotho
May 29, 201312 yr Looking at these big sales for Robin Thicke, I wonder if Icona Pop's I Love It could sell more than 150k in its first week in the chart.
May 29, 201312 yr Jennifer Lopez is at #21 today! :o As for who's hosting the Wednesday update today, don't fear, Griff is here! I'll try my best and please kindly point out if I get something wrong. Edited May 29, 201312 yr by Griff
May 29, 201312 yr There is a volunteer free to do the Music Week report (unless Mikey is still doing it?) though, so I'll try to add it into my post at 4pm. ^_^
May 29, 201312 yr LOL at Scott giving the wrong reason for Little Talks' re-entry. It was performed on BGT a few weeks ago, it's back in now because of The Voice (wow at the BBC missing out on Voice promo :lol:)
May 29, 201312 yr They just said Little Talks was back cause of the irish lads from BGT, but that was 2 weeks ago. :unsure: It's back this time because of The Voice last weekend. Surprised they didn't get that right considering they are BBC-related!
May 29, 201312 yr This new Jessie J song is AWFUL. She used to be "not too bad" in my eyes, but this is going to take some coming back from :(
May 29, 201312 yr Midweek Charts: Robin in Thicke of first UK chart-topper Source: MW by Paul Willams US R&B singer Robin Thicke is heading for his first UK No 1 and one of the biggest retail tallies of the year with newly-issued Blurred Lines. The Interscope/Polydor track featuring TI and Pharrell Williams had sold 101,211 copies up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, more than what its two main rivals managed combined. The highest weekly sale for a single in the year so far is 163,384 copies achieved by Columbia act Daft Punk's Get Lucky in its second week at No 1. Like Blurred Lines, that also features Pharrell Williams, and drops 2-3 in the latest midweeks. Thicke will not only top the UK chart for the first time this coming Sunday but also achieve his first Top 10 hit having to date risen has high as 11, achieved with Lost Without U in 2007. Sitting in between Thicke and Daft Punk at 2 is Virgin signing Naughty Boy whose La La La with Sam Smith debuted at No 1 last Sunday, while Jessie J is heading for a seventh Top 10 hit with the brand new Lava/Republic track Wild with Big Sean and Dizzee Rascal new at 4 in the midweeks. Nettwerk's Passenger drops 3-5 with Let Her Go. Sales of Olly Murs' Epic cut Dear Darlin' are up 88% to lift it 9-6, while the rest of the week's Top 10 sellers are in decline. Rudimental featuring Ella Eyre's Asylum/Atlanic single Waiting All Night slips 5-8, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis featuring Ray Dalton's Can't Hold Us on the Macklemore label is down 4-7, Def Jam/Virgin EMI single We Own It (Fast & Furious) by 2 Chainz featuring Wiz Khalifa drops 6-9 and the Positiva/Virgin-issued This Is What It Feels Like by Armin Van Buuren featuring Trevor Guthrie falls 8-10. Daft Punk will achieve a second week at the top of the artist albums chart this weekend with their Columbia release Random Access Memories, despite sales falluing 76%. Rod Stewart's chart-topping Decca album Time is showing real staying power by holding at 2 in the midweeks, while Virgin act Laura Marling's fourth album Once I Was An Eagle is new at 3 in the week so far. Her previous two abums, 2010's I Speak Because I Can and 2011's A Creature I Don't Know, both peaked at 4. Bruno Mars is one of a number of acts to experience a big surge in retail demand after performing at Radio 1's Big Weekend event last weekend (see separate story). Sales of his Atlantic album Unorthodox Jukebox are up 16-4 with sales increasing 171%. Stooshe's first album London With The Lights On, released via FutureCut/QWorks/Warner Bros, is new at 5 in the latest midweeks, while Asylum act Rudimental's Home holds at 6, Passenger's Nettwerk remains at 7 with All The Little Things and both Virgin's Bastille and Polydor's Ellie Goulding return to the Top 10 after Big Weekend performnces. Bastille's Bad Blood is up 13-8 and Goulding's Halycon improves 38-10. Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events dropped out of the Top 10 last week after a record 66 consecutive weeks for a debut album but the Virgin release could instantly return there this weekend. Its sales in the week so far are up 49% to move it 15-9. Made up of current members of Thin Lizzy, Black Stars Riders land a No 11 debut in the week to date with All Hell Breaks Loose on the Nuclear Blast label, while Alice In Chains' new Virgin album The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is new at 12. This could beat their current UK chart peak of 19 achieved by Black Gives Way To Blue in 2009. A Hearmusic reissue of Wings' Wings Over America live album registers as a new entry at 22. The set originally reached No 8 in the UK in 1976, while topping the US chart. A series of songs covered by BBC 1's The Voice are enjoying increased demand, led by Republic/Island act Of Monsters And Men whose Little Talks moves 41-11 with sales up 895% on the week. This follows it being performed by the show's contestants Emily Worton and Moni Tivony last weekend, while it was recently covered on ITV1's Britain's Got Talent by school boys Jack Duff and Cormac Connell. Meanwhile, Daniel Merriweather's 2009 J/Columbia hit Red climbs 52-18 after The Voice hopefuls Karl Michael and Nadeem Leigh performed it. Following a Britain's Got Talent guest spot Jennifer Lopez is new at 21 with her Capitol debut Live It Up featuring Pitbull, while Ellie Goulding's Polydor singles Anything Could Happen and Explosions return respectively at 34 and 51 after she performed them on Monday's show. 3 Beat/ATTW's Stylo G is new at 16 with Soundbwoy. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 01 Robin Thicke 02 Naughty Boy 03 Daft Punk 04 Jessie J 05 Passenger 6-10 06 Olly Murs 07 Macklemore 08 Rudimental 09 2 Chainz 10 Armin Van Burren 11-20 11 Of Monsters And Men 14 Paramore 16 Stylo G 18 Daniel Merriweather 21-30 21 Jennifer Lopez 24 Bruno Mars 31-40 34 Ellie Goulding 36 The Script 38 Emeli Sande 39 Stooshe (:lol:) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 01 Daft Punk 02 Rod Stewart 03 Laura Marling 04 Bruno Mars 05 Stooshe 6-10 06 Rudimental 07 Passenger 08 Bastille 09 Emeli Sande (:drama:) 10 Ellie Goulding 11-20 11 Black Star Riders 12 Alice In Chains 16 Jake Bugg 21-30 22 Wings 24 Olly Murs 27 Paramore 31-40 33 Taylor Swift 34 Of Monsters And Men (:wub:) 35 The Lumineers (:manson:) 36 Ben Howard 37 Hawkwind http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print Edited May 29, 201312 yr by Griff
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