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Is there a chance the EP pre-order/sales or whatever will be enough to get Iggy on the top 10? :/

 

Is there a chance the EP pre-order/sales or whatever will be enough to get Iggy on the top 10? :/

Maybe today but by Sunday it would've dropped out :(

Midweek Charts: Jay-Z to score first UK No 1

Paul Willams

 

Jay-Z is heading for his first UK No1 album as Robin Thicke looks to return to the top of the singles chart.

 

The rapper's newly-issued Roc Nation/Virgin EMI album Magna Carta Holy Grail is presently outselling the rest of the top five put together, according to Official Charts Company data, to put it on course to top the artist albums countdown this Sunday.

 

The album is also being made available for free to the first 1 million users of a Samsung Galaxy app, although any copies retrieved this way will not be counted towards its chart sales. That exclusion will not prevent it becoming Jay-Z first UK chart-topper, beating his previous peak of 3 achieved with 2011's Watch The Throne with Kanye West, while in his own right he went as high as 4 with The Blueprint 4 in 2009.

 

He leads a very quiet albums market with only one other brand new album among the Top 40 positions so far this week - Epic act Ciara's self-titled new set at 35 - while on singles Robin Thicke is aiming to become the first act this year to go back to No 1.

 

Leading the list previously for four weeks, his Interscope/Polydor-issued Blurred Lines with TI and Pharrell Williams presently has a narrow lead at No 1 of about 5% over Island act John Newman's Love Me Again, which debuted at the top last Sunday but drops to 2 in the midweeks. The last single to return to No 1 was Syco act James Arthur's Impossible whose three-week chart-topping run was interrupted by the Justice Collective's charity cover of He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother last December.

 

Thicke and Newman face competition from two strongly-performing brand new releases, both of which are among the week so far's five biggest sellers. At 3 is the Virgin-issued Reload by Swedish House Mafia's Sebastian Ingrosso with Australian producer Tommy Trash and John Martin, while Global Talent/Polydor's are poised for a fourth Top 10 single with Brokenhearted featuring B.o.B arriving at 4. It is taken from a new version of their debut album Chapman Square.

 

The rest of the Top 10 at this stage of the week is either heading down or not moving. Atlantic act Icona Pop's former No 1 I Love It featuring Charli XCX drops 3-5, will.i.am's Interscope/Polydor single Bang Bang is down 4-6, Naughty Boy's Virgin title La La La with Sam Smith declines 5-7, Nettwerk's Passenger eases 7-8 with Let Her Go as Warner Bros's Jason Derulo loses a place to 9 with The Other Side and Daft Punk's Columbia track Get Lucky with Pharrell Williams holds at 10.

 

Australian Iggy Azalea is a few hundred sales short at present of the Top 10 with her Mercury/Virgin EMI track Bounce new at 11, while Rinse/Columbia's Katy B will score her first Top 40 hit since 2011 with What Love Is Made Of currently new at 20. Grime act Sneakbo's Ring A Ling on the Play Hard label is new at 24, while Holy Grail, off Jay-Zs new album and featuring Justin Timberlake, turns up in 27th place.

 

Back on the artist albums chart and Mumford & Sons' Gentlemen Of The Road/Islad album Babel suffers a 56% dip in sales having returned to the top last weekend following their televised Glastonbury headline performance. As a result it drops to 4 on Sales Flashes. Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros set To Be Loved is also hit by a heavy sales fall - one of 48% - but it manages to hold on to 2 in what is a very tight race below No 1 with positions 2 to 4 separated by just a few hundred sales. Among that crowd, Passenger's Nettwerk album All The Little LIghts lifts 7-3 as Tom Odell's Columbia debut Long Way Down drops 5-6.

 

Rod Stewart's Capitol/Decca Time drops 5-6 but should benefit for the rest of the week from a BBC One documentary screened on Tuesday night, while Jake Bugg's eponymous Mercury/Virgin EMI album is down 4-7, Rudimental's Asylum/Atlantic debut Home is up 9-8 and Atlantic act Bruno Mars gains a place to 9 with Unorthodox Jukebox. Epic signing Olly Murs rounds off the Top 10, aflling 8-10 with Right Place Right Time.

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1-5

 

01 [02] Blurred Lines (5% lead)

02 [01] Love Me Again

03 [NEW] Reload *

04 [NEW] Brokenhearted *

05 [03] I Love It

 

6-10

 

11-20

 

11 Bounce * (a few hundred sales behind #10)

16 Play Hard

20 What Love Is Made Of *

 

21-30

 

24 Ring A Ling *

26 Crazy Kids

27 Holy Grail *

 

31-40

 

32 Wake Me Up (Spark Productions)

39 True Love *

 

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

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1-5

 

01 [NEW] Magna Carta Holy Grail * (outselling the rest of the top 5 put together)

02 [02] To Be Loved (48% sales dip)

03 [07] All the Little Lights

04 [01] Babel (56% sales dip)

05 [03] Long Way Down

 

6-10

 

08 Home

09 Unorthodox Jukebox

 

11-20

 

12 Random Access Memories

13 Every Kingdom

15 Night Visions

16 Settle

20 Yeezus

 

21-30

 

21 18 Months

25 The Shocking Miss Emerald

27 Nothing But The Beat

 

31-40

 

34 The 20/20 Experience ^

35 Ciara *

36 Momentum ^

39 + ^

 

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

 

Key

 

* = New entry

^ = Re-entry

No symbol = Climber

Edited by #Thermometer

Maybe today but by Sunday it would've dropped out :(

 

Right :( thanks

 

Looking like Jay-Z will be the only new entry in the entire top 40 in the album chart. He's at #1 'comfortably outselling' Bublé but the only other new entry is Ciara at #35 at this stage. Very boring album chart. But 'Yeezus' is back up 1 place to #20, getting that recovery *.*

 

Is Jamie Cullum really recharting just because of a song of his being used in Andy Murray coverage? His album is back in at #36.

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Looking like Jay-Z will be the only new entry in the entire top 40 in the album chart. He's at #1 'comfortably outselling' Bublé but the only other new entry is Ciara at #35 at this stage. Very boring album chart. But 'Yeezus' is back up 1 place to #20, getting that recovery *.*

 

Is Jamie Cullum really recharting just because of a song of his being used in Andy Murray coverage? His album is back in at #36.

Where are you getting that information from? The website is still showing last week's update

Where are you getting that information from? The website is still showing last week's update

 

OCC post the album chart shortly after 3:30.

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Thanks Thermo, those album sales must be low. I wonder if Rod Stewart gets ahead of Jay-Z later in the week.

 

Awful album chart with just 2 new entries, Ciara is in danger of falling out completely

Bounce deserves to be Iggy's breakthrough hit

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