July 17, 201312 yr Nice to see so much positivity surrounding the Pet Shop Boys here. If Elysium managed 10k and was a piss poor album, had not much promotion and in general got weak reviews Electric should have a good chance of beating those sales as everything mentioned above is the opposite with this release. From what i can remember and reading here and there opening sales have always been varied so it is hard to predict until we get some sales information. I dont think 20,000 - 25,000 is completely out of their reach.
July 17, 201312 yr We should also be expecting new entries from Selena Gomez (#6), Breach (#9), Avril (#12), Lucy (#23) and Justin (#36) (my predictions in brackets)
July 17, 201312 yr Author No can do with Weds Update, I did ask Bre if he wanted a spot today, no reply yet, any one else wants to step in.
July 17, 201312 yr No can do with Weds Update, I did ask Bre if he wanted a spot today, no reply yet, any one else wants to step in. I'm available
July 17, 201312 yr Midweek Charts: Avicii heading for 2013 sales high Paul Willams Avicii is poised to clock up the UK's highest weekly singles sales of the year with Wake Me Up having sold 153,121 copies in just two days. The Positiva/PRMD single has so far this week shifted more units than the six tracks immediately below it, according to the Official Charts Company, and is a certainty to become the Swede's second UK chart-topper after I Could Be The One with Nicky Romero earlier this year. At present the year's highest weekly sale is 198,856 copies achieved by Interscope/Polydor track Blurred Lines by Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and TI duiring its second week at No 1 in June. Given what Wake Me Up has already sold so far this week, it looks very likely the track will be become the first single this year to sell more than 200,000 units in a week. Thicke is likely to be handsomely compensated in losing his 2013 weekly sales record with his newly-issued Blurred Lines narrowly leading the Pet Shop Boys at the top of the midweek artist albums chart. Even if it does not end up at No 1 on Sunday it will easily become Thicke's highest-charting album in the UK, beating his current peak of 30 achieved by The Evolution of Robin Thicke in 2006. Pet Shop Boys are presently new at 2 in the week to date with what is in Electric their 12th studio album in all but first away from Parlophone, having signed up with Kobalt Label Services with their own label X2. Having led the midweeks on Tuesday, the album is now about 1,400 sales behind Thicke's album as it looks to become their highest-charting release since Very become their first and only No 1 album in 1993. The band's last Parlophone album Elysium debuted and peaked at 9 in 2012. The two albums lead what is a very quiet week for new releases with the only other brand new arrivals in the Top 40 a Polydor Style Council retrospective, Classic Album Selection, and Surfers Paradise from Atlantic's Australian pop star Cody Simpson. Calvin Harris hugely benefits from his T In The Park set being televised on BBC Three over the weekend as sales of Columbia album 18 Months lift 78% on the week to move it 21-9, while Interscope/Polydor's Imagine Dragons are similarly rewarded as the follow their set at the festival with sales of Night Visions up 52% to rise 12-8. Lower down, the same festival's The Script improve 36-35 with sales of their Phongenic/Epic album #3 up 19%. Jay-Z is heading for another No 1 album in the States this week, but in the UK his Roc Nation/Virgin EMI set Magna Carta Holy Grail drops from the top position it captured last Sunday to 3 on Sales Flashes. Its sales are down 64% in the week so far. Rod Stewart's Capitol/Decca album Time falls 2-4, Gentlemen Of The Road/Island's Mumford & Sons hold at 5 with Babel, Reprise/Warner Bros act Michael Buble slips 4-6 with To Be Loved, Nettwerk's Passenger is down 3-7 with All The Little Lights and Jake Bugg's self-titled Mercury debut completes the Top 10 by slipping 9-10. Back on singles and Avicii's monster hit is joined by thre other brand new tracks in the Top 10, led by Hollywood/Polydor act Selena Gomez looking for a first top five UK hit with Come & Get It showing up as a new entry at 4 currently. UK singer, DJ and producer Ben Westbeech, betetr known as Breach is new at 7 with his Atlantic/Dirtybird single Jack, while Epic signing Avril Lavigne is aiming for an eighth UK Top 10 hit in all but first in six years since When You're Gone with Here's To Never Growing Up registering as a new entry at 10. As Blurred Lines drops to 2, having returned to No 1 last weekend, John Newman's Island single Love Me Again falls 2-3, Atlantic act Icona Pop's I Love It with Charli XCX falls 4-5 and will.i.am's Interscope/Polydor single Bang Bang drops 5-6. The Virgin combination of Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash and John Martin decline 3-8 with Reload, while the same label's Naughty Boy is down 7-9 with La La La featuring Sam Smith. Former X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan, now signed to Sony's Columbia, is heading for the Top 20 with Lighthouse new at 18 in the midweeks. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Avicii/Aloe Blacc * (153,121) 2 Robin Thicke/T.I./Pharrell (33k) 3 John Newman 4 Selena Gomez * 5 Icona Pop/Charli XCX 6-10 7 Breach * 10 Avril Lavinge * 11-20 15 Jay-Z/Justin Timberlake 18 Lucy Spraggan * 21-30 27 P!nk/Lily Allen 28 Ke$ha/will.i.am 31-40 36 Calvin Harris/Ayah Marar * 40 K Koke/Bridgit Kelly * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/singles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/s...les-chart-2345/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Robin Thicke * (1,400 lead) 2 Pet Shop Boys * 3 Jay-Z 4 Rod Stewart 5 Mumford & Sons 6-10 8 Imagine Dragons (52% increase) 9 Calvin Harris (78% increase) 11-20 16 Cody Simpson * 17 Emeli Sande 21-30 21 Justin Timberlake 25 Caro Emerald 27 Ed Sheeran 31-40 31 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ^ 35 The Script (19% increase) 37 The Style Council * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/update/albums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...ums-chart-2344/ * = New entry ^ = Re-entry Edited July 17, 201312 yr by Wake #Thermo Up
July 17, 201312 yr Robin Thicke has overtaken PSB on the album chart. Depressing really, but it was bound to happen. :(
July 17, 201312 yr I actually don't mind that Avril track on first listen, loving this weeks new entries (bar the next one before Avicii lol) Shame PSB couldn't hold the number one, hopefully they'll still be top 5 Yay Breach!!! Sounds amazing in the sunshine, can't believe the vocals aren't female though Thank god for no Jameela today I wish Scott Mills could do the chart permanently he's so much better at this
July 17, 201312 yr I was so looking forward to seeing the Pet Shop Boys number 1 in the midweeks at least today and even that didnt happen.
July 17, 201312 yr This Lucy Spraggan song is really not good on first listen :( I thought the opposite and thought it was great on first listen and i feel it really deserves to be a hit.
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