Pretty sure Coldplay have 5 #1 albums?

Pretty sure Coldplay have 5 #1 albums?

 

They do. Oasis also got #1 with their first 5 studio albums (and also the other 2). MW are apparently defining 'album releases' as 'album chart entries' rather than 'studio album releases', in which case Coldplay's run is interrupted by a live album and the Prospekt's March EP.

 

MW also forgot that Daft Punk beat Michael Bublé's opening sales. The OCC report gets this correct though.

 

MW also didn't correctly state any of Arctic Monkeys' singles positions. It's easier to count what they got right this week than what they got wrong :lol:

Arctic Monkeys slaying. Nice to see an act I like getting huge sales for a change. Won't hear the album for a while because just like with Pink and the Killers last year I've gone and asked for it as a birthday gift and that's not until the end of this month.

Arcade Fire are #48 (from the OCC website).

Midweek Charts: Arctic Monkeys album hits 100,000 UK sales

by Paul Willams

Source: MW

 

AM has become Arctic Monkeys' fastest-selling album in six years with nearly 100,000 UK sales in just two days.

 

The band's new Domino set is presently outselling the rest of the week's Top 20 artist albums combined and is a virtual certainty to become their fifth No 1 out of their first five album releases.

 

Welll, duh - unless Adele releases an album in the next day or so... :P

Agreed. Won't listen to 'The City' by choice whereas I do so with 'Chocolate' and 'Sex', although I don't mind hearing it on radio or what not.

The amusing fact has only just occurred to me that their last two singles are called Sex and The City :lol:

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!! AM is already sold 100K in 2 days? AM is the best album of the yar along With The national... and I guess Arcade Fire will close the Trinity next month. 170K?

Excellent sales for the Arctic Monkeys. They've already passed my prediction on 80-100k. Hope they can get around 150k this week that would be splendid :D Amazing to see 3 tracks of theirs in the Top 40, hope they can cling on in come Sunday.

 

Good to see The 1975 back in the Top 40. Sex has grown on me alot over the past week or so!

Delighted to see Same Love up to #13! :)

I really want the Arcade Fire back in the top 40. Arctic Monkeys are a band i never liked myself but i am delighted to finally see some decent album sales.

 

Which Olly Murs track is number 27,dear darlin or right place right time?

27 Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time

 

(admittedly it doesn't say this in the mid post at the start of the thread though because I edited in the titles after the update was originally posted)

 

(fixed now)

Blimey - I didn't even know that a band called Dreadzone existed! :P

 

Matt Lucas and David Walliams did:

Poor old MKS. Pretty good result for Janelle Monáe though, considering the debut didn't make the top 40 (inevitably it will fall during the week and then probably suffer a pretty big drop in the second week, but oh well).

Great sales for Arctic Monkeys, looks like my prediction was right and its going to sell well over 100k! The albums great a real return to form!!

 

At least MKS can say they managed to enter the top 40...if only for today anyway

 

I would love Example to hold on to a top 10 place but I think it will slip to 13/14 by Sunday but very quiet on the singles chart, can't believe how well Drake is doing I don't get it I find it so average and bland but then again it's what people seem to like!!

Wonderful to see those album sales for AM , hopefully LG can sell around 25k or is that too much to ask?

 

Katy should do 100k on the dot this week?! Would love Drake to be no2 at the end if the week he would only have to do around 45k, maybe?!

Ouch at MKS. :( Whoever decided on a Friday release should be fired.

That's better :D

Arcade Fire are #48 (from the OCC website).

 

Possibly a slim chance of Top 40 then, or though more realistically I can see them levelling off around the #48 mark sadly.

Edited September 11, 201312 yr by Doctor Blind

That's better :D

 

:lol:

 

They often flopped at the beginning and (floppy) end too, they can come back!

Hopefully Arcade Fire are top 40 today

 

Midweek Charts update: Arctic Monkeys targetting year's highest sales

Source: MW

Paul Willams

 

 

Arctic Monkeys' AM could become the fastest-selling artist album of the year after clocking up more than 125,000 UK sales in just four days.

 

The Domino album is a certainty to become the band's fifth UK chart-topper out of their first five releases on Sunday and has already accumulated the second highest weekly sales of 2013 for an artist album with two days of trading still to go. According to the Official Charts Company, it had sold 125,669 copies up to the end of Thursday, overtaking the opening tally of 121,415 achieved by Michael Buble's Reprise/Warner Bros album To Be Loved.

 

Only Daft Punk's Columbia-issued Random Access Memories has sold more copies among artist titles during a week this year, shifting 165,091 units immediately after its release in May.

 

The top three artist albums are all brand new releases and independent titles at this stage of the week with London Grammar's Metal & Dust Recordings/Ministry of Sound debut If You Wait at No 2 and Goldfrapp's new Mute set Tales Of Us at 3. There are two other new albums among the week so far's Top 10 with The Strypes' EMI debut Snapshot at No 5 and the Republic/XO/Island-issued Kiss Land by Weeknd at No 9.

 

Rod Stewart's Capitol/Decca set Time will fly back into the Top 10 with sales up 185% in the week so far following his performance on BBC 1's Strictly Come Dancing last weekend. It has moved 26-6 in the midweeks. The 1975's self-titled Dirty Hit/Polydor label, which debuted at No 1 last Sunday, is now down to 4.

 

Katy Perrry's Roar has now surpassed 250,000 UK sales in fewer than two weeks with the Virgin single destined to achieve a second week at No 1 this Sunday. It has sold around another 75,000 copies so far this week with its two nearest rivals the same as last weekend. Polydor act Ellie Goulding's Burn holds at 2 and Avicii's Postiva/PRMD-issued Wake Me Up at 3, while Drake's Cash Money/Republic/Island-issued Hold On We're Going Home featuring Majid Jordan climbs 6-4 and the Island track Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) by Klangrussell featuring Will Heard is down 4-5.

 

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's self-released Same Love has flown 20-8 on its way to becoming the pair's third UK Top 10 hit, while Coldplay's new single Atlas is new at 8. It is issued on Universal's Republic babel as it is from the soundtrack to the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.