July 19, 201313 yr Midweek Charts update: Avicii hits market's highest sales since December Source: MW by Paul Willams Avicci's Wake Me Up has become the fastest-selling single in the UK in eight months after already this week surpassing 200,000 sales. With two days of trading still to go, the Positva/PRMD single has already achieved the highest weekly sales to date this year, according to Official Charts Company data, beating the previous peak of 198,856 copies set by Robin Thicke's Interscope/Polydor single Blurred Lines with TI and Pharrell Williams in mid-June. Wake Me Up's total up to the end of business on Thursday was 207,978, the highest weekly sales figure since Justice Collective's Metropolis-issued charity single He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother sold 269,248 copies to debut at No 1 last December. The Avicci single is this week outselling its closest rival, Blurred Lines, by nearly four copies to one with the Thicke track dropping to 2 on the midweeks having returned to the top spot last Sunday. John Newman's Island cut Love Me Again falls 2-3, Atlantic act Icona Pop's I Love It featuring Charli XCX holds at 4 in the week so far as will.i.am's Interscope single Bang Bang retains its position of 5. Besides Wake Me Up, there are two other new entries in the midweek Top 10 with the Hollywood/Polydor-issued Come & Get It by Selena Gomez at 6 and Breach's Atlantic/Dirtyband single Jack at 9. Robin Thicke has a narrow lead at the top of the artist albums chart with brand new set Blurred Lines with Jay Z's Roc Nation/Virgin EMI album Magna Carta Holy Grail dropping 1-2 and Pet Shop Boys' Electric new at 3. It is the duo's12th studio album in all but first on their own X2 label via Kobalt Label Services. Rod Stewart's Capitol/Decca album Time falls 2-4 and Gentlemen Of The Road/Island act Mumford & Sons hold at 5 with Babel. Friday Top 40 Update Singles 1 Avicii (207,978) 2 Robin Thicke (52k) 3 John Newman 4 Icona Pop 5 will.i.am 6-10 6 Selena Gomez 9 Breach 11-15 11 Avril Lavigne 15 Jay-Z/Justin Timberlake 16-20 20 Lucy Spraggan 21-30 25 Pink feat Lily Allen 29 Kesha feat will.i.am 31-40 33 Calvin Harris feat Ayah Marar 38 Kings Of Leon Albums 1 Robin Thicke 2 Jay-Z 3 Pet Shop Boys 4 Rod Stewart 5 Mumford & Sons 6-10 8 Calvin Harris 11-15 12 Imagine Dragons 13 Emeli Sande 15 Justin Timberlake 16-20 no climbers / entries 21-30 23 Cody Simpson 26 Caro Emerald 27 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 29 Ed Sheeran 31-40 35 Script 38 Gabrielle Aplin 40 Stereophonics
July 19, 201313 yr Cannot wait to see the report for Avicii's sales, I'm guessing he should be over 200k by today
July 19, 201313 yr That'd be better name for him. :lol: I thought it didn't look right when I typed it up but I just couldn't see why I was thinking that!
July 19, 201313 yr Cody dropping a fair bit since Wednesday but that's what I expected, the fanbase will have bought it by now and sales are most likely very close around there anyway.
July 19, 201313 yr Do you think that Avicii will sell next week over 150k? It would be a brilliant achievement for brilliant song.
July 19, 201313 yr I still can't quite fathom how Avicii is selling so much. It just doesn't sound like a mega-hit at all (but then quite a few of this year's mega-hits didn't sound like them either). #1 album will probably go below 20k this week if Robin Thicke only has a "narrow lead" over Jay-Z (who presumably is dropping by over 50%). Edited July 19, 201313 yr by Danny
July 19, 201313 yr Hoping that Jay Z can now overtake Robin Thicke in the albums chart. We really don't need these one hit wonders hitting #1 elsewhere and Jay's is far more deserving. Wonder if news of his dehyphenation can produce some sort of boost.
July 19, 201313 yr Week Beginning 15/7/13 Albums 3. Jay Z - Magna Carta...Holy Grail (NEW) (CR-3) Dehyphenation? Called it in my personal chart last week! :D Shame I didn't forsee the ridiculous caps-locking of his name too though :(
July 19, 201313 yr Dehyphenation? Called it in my personal chart last week! :D Shame I didn't forsee the ridiculous caps-locking of his name too though :( He's been 'JAY Z' on iTunes for literally 2 and a half years ('H•A•M' was the first release that billed him like that). Did you never notice that? :lol: Incidentally, as if 'H•A•M' is 2 and a half years old. Still feels fairly recent somehow. Personally gonna keep him as 'Jay-Z' in my spreadsheets for the same reason Wikipedia are sticking to Jay-Z for his article. Edited July 19, 201313 yr by Bré
July 19, 201313 yr He's been 'JAY Z' on iTunes for literally 2 and a half years ('H•A•M' was the first release that billed him like that). Did you never notice that? :lol: Incidentally, as if 'H•A•M' is 2 and a half years old. Still feels fairly recent somehow. Personally gonna keep him as 'Jay-Z' in my spreadsheets for the same reason Wikipedia are sticking to Jay-Z for his article. Nope, I don't follow his releases overly closely to be fair. I honestly couldn't remember if it had a hyphen or not when typing up my personal chart last week and couldn't be bothered to Google it so left it without!
July 20, 201313 yr Hoping that Jay Z can now overtake Robin Thicke in the albums chart. We really don't need these one hit wonders hitting #1 elsewhere and Jay's is far more deserving. Wonder if news of his dehyphenation can produce some sort of boost. He's technically not a one-hit wonder though. He had some previous success in the UK a while back. Anyway, I hope Robin gets to #1 in the album chart. It's about time he is having a lot of success in the UK. It looks as though "Blurred Lines" will sell another 80k+ this week too. The release on Now! 85 could help sustain its sales even further next week as well. Huge for Avicii. 250k+ looks likely by the end of the week.
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