I think it probably is still going to scrape the top 40. #13 on Tuesday midweeks isn't anything spectacular, look at Murray Gold last week who was #13 on the Wednesday midweeks and ended up at #37.

I think it probably is still going to scrape the top 40. #13 on Tuesday midweeks isn't anything spectacular, look at Murray Gold last week who was #13 on the Wednesday midweeks and ended up at #37.

 

I think she'll probably fall to about the 25ish region. But even so, I was thinking #33 at the very best.

If anyone is available for the chart update this afternoon be my guest, otherwise hang on till I come back sometime after 4pm. Please confirm with each other first thru PM.

 

In the meantime Jason has passed 80k and CHVRCHES are top 40 (36) :D 5 new entries in the singles chart with 4 re-entries from Demi, Wanted and Christina Perri X 2. 7 new albums in the top 10, with a total 14 new albums in the top 40. AM are fairly safe at #1 with 7k lead over Avicii, based on yesterday. Bit of a clearout in both charts.

No matter how you spin it, it's a terrible way to follow a #1 album.

 

Whilst it may not be a brilliant way to follow it up, she's not on a major record label, she's not had a hit single like she did then, and she's been away for three years. I don't think anyone ever EXPECTED it to be a massive follow-up?

Whilst it may not be a brilliant way to follow it up, she's not on a major record label, she's not had a hit single like she did then, and she's been away for three years. I don't think anyone ever EXPECTED it to be a massive follow-up?

So? Just because you could have bet your house on it flopping doesn't mean it's not a bad result. She was obviously dropped for a reason as well.

It's a different circumstance though, #13 in the first midweeks and being certain to drop would be awful for her first album which was on a major label. It's not that bad considering everything...

Midweek Charts: Arctic Monkeys set for second week at No 1

Source: MW

by Paul Williams

 

 

Arctic Monkeys' AM is holding back an avalanche of big new releases as it looks to top the UK artist albums chart for a second week.

 

There are currently eight brand new albums in the midweek Top 10 but Domino-issued AM, which debuted at No 1 last Sunday with 157,329 copies sold, continues to rule, according to Official Charts Company data.

 

Immediately below it are a quartet of new albums led by Avicii's Positiva/PRMD debut True at No 2, while Columbia act Manic Street Preachers arrive at 3 with Rewind The Film, Elton John is new at 4 in the week so far with the Mercury/Virgin EMI-issued The Diving Board and Dramatico's Katie Melua slots in at No 5 with Ketevan.

 

The success of Avicci's new album is accompanied by what could be two simultaneous Top 10 singles this weekend for him with his former No 1 Wake Me Up dropping 4-6 in the midweeks, while follow-up You Make Me is showing up as a new entry at No 4.

 

Rewind The Film looks like becoming the Manics' 11th Top 10 album and follows last studio album Postcards From A Young Man reaching No 3 in 2010 and the retrospective National Treasures - The Complete Singles making it to No 10 in 2011.

 

The Diving Board is Elton John's first new studio album in his own right since 2006's The Captain And The Kid, which reached No 6, and its sales are no doubt being aided by a ITV special screened last Friday evening to mark him becoming the first Brits Icon winner. Since his last solo album he reached No 12 in 2010 with The Union with Leon Russell and topped the chart last year with Good Morning To The Night with Pnau.

 

Ketevan is Katie Melua's sixth album and follows Secret Symphony, which peaked at No 8 last year, while it is joined in the week-so-far Top 10 by four other brand new albums. Two come from UK rock bands with Deaf Havana's BMG-handled Old Souls at No 7 and Temperance Movement's self-titled Earache debut at No 9. Sitting between them is Jack Johnson with his new Brushfire/Island set From Here To Now To You. His previous three studio albums all reached No 1 in the UK.

 

Back on a major, Placebo are aiming for their sixth Top 10 album with the Vertigo/Virgin EMI-issued Loud Like Love currentlty new at No 10.

 

Given the onslaught of new releases, the only other survivors from last Sunday's Top 10 apart from the Arctic Monkeys are London Grammar whose Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound debut If You Wait entered at No 2 and is now down to No 6.

 

The rush of new entries continues outside the Top 10 with albums set to chart in or around the Top 40 this coming weekend including new sets from one-time X Factor finalist and RCA signing Diana Vickers (now with indie Silva Screen), Elvis Costello with his Blue Note debut Wise Up Ghost with The Roots, Nuclear Blast's Carcass, Columbia's MGMT, Drag City's Bill Callahan and Fiction/Polydor's Naked & Famous.

 

Warner Bros's Jason Derulo is heading for his third UK No 1 single after In My Place and Don't Wanna Go Home with Talk Dirty featuring 2 Chainz comfortably leading the way at this stage of the week. Its sales up until the end of Tuesday were just a couple of thousand shy of 100,000, giving it a lead of about 60,000 units over Virgin act Katy Perry's Roar, which drops 1-2. There are two other brand new entries in the top five in the week to date with the Universal-issued It's My Party at 3 set to give Jessie J her eighth Top 10 hit and, as reported above, Avicii's You Make Me is at 4.

 

Interscope/Polydor act OneRepublic's Counting Stars falls 2-5 above Avicci's Wake Me Up at No 6, while Christina Perri's 2011 Atlantic single A Thousand Stars flies 95-7 after being covered by X Factor contestant Nicholas McDonald in a performance screened last weekend. The track's current UK peak is 13.

 

Drake's Cash Money/Republic single Hold On We're Going Home featuring Majid Jordan drops 5-8 and Polydor act Ellie Goulding's former No 1 Burn is down 3-9, while the Island-issued Sonnentanz (Sun Don't Shine) by Klangrussell featuring Will Heard drops 6-10.

 

Outside the Top 10, Manchester DJ Ben Pearce leaps 25-12 with sales of his Mercury-issued What I Might Do up 332% on the week , while Atlantic act Birdy's Wings is new at 16 in the week to date.

 

 

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Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Jason Derulo feat. 2 Chainz - Talk Dirty * (97,616)

2 Katy Perry - Roar (36,697)

3 Jessie J - It's My Screech Party * (33,109)

4 Avicii - You Make Me * (25,988)

5 OneRepublic - Counting Stars (21,380)

 

6-10

7 Christina Perri - A Thousand Years ^

 

11-20

12 Ben Pearce - What I Might Do

16 Birdy - Wings *

19 The Wanted - We Own The Night ^

 

21-30

 

 

31-40

32 Demi Lovato - Skyscraper ^

33 Chris Brown feat. Nicki Minaj - Love More

36 Christina Perri - Jar Of Hearts ^

37 CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share *

39 Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...aty-perry-2495/

 

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1 Arctic Monkeys - AM (27,638)

2 Avicii - True * (17,038)

3 Manic Street Preachers - Rewind The Film * (13,069)

4 Elton John - The Diving Board * (12,795)

5 Katie Melua - Ketevan * (8,539)

 

6-10

7 Deaf Havana - Old Souls *

8 Jack Johnson - From Here To Now To You *

9 The Temperance Movement - The Temperance Movement *

10 Placebo - Loud Like Love *

 

11-20

18 Diana Vickers - Music To Make Boys Cry *

 

21-30

21 Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise Up Ghost *

25 Carcass - Surgical Steel *

 

31-40

31 MGMT - MGMT *

36 Bill Callahan - Dream River *

38 The Naked And Famous - In Rolling Waves *

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...1-with-am-2494/

 

 

* New entries

^ Re-entries

8 new entries in the Top 10 albums currently! *.* Granted, a few will fall out but I could still see 5 of them remaining. AM to sell 60k-70k would be great, and for four albums to have passed 10k already is very nice to see!

YAY CHVRCHES! Although I've just noticed its down to 41 on iTunes, but hopefully it will at least overtake Skyscraper by the end of the week.

 

 

 

YAY CHVRCHES! Although I've just noticed its down to 41 on iTunes, but hopefully it will at least overtake Skyscraper by the end of the week.

 

I'm sorry but you worry only for Scyscraper when there are 36 songs higher than it..???? I like CHVRCHES but when their fans say these things, i start to worry about their fan base..

*Wow* at the detailed sales for the Tuesday update - we don't normally see detailed figures like this, do we?

 

It certainly looks like singles sales will be much stronger this week, as One Republic will probably clear 50k for the week, up 20%+ on last week, but will still fall from #2 to #5 by Sunday.

Only last week's top 2 are still standing in the top 10 albums at this stage - London Grammar should hopefully kick out Katie Melua to get a second week top 5 though and I'm sure most if not all of the new entries below them will drop back out. Shocked to see Manic Street Preachers outselling Elton John after their lead single missed the top 75, I know Elton's single has done even worse but then he has all the BRITs Icon hype which I thought would see him comfortably top 3 if not top 2 :o

 

Thought Jack Johnson would be higher as well, but the biggest underperformance has to be MGMT, their last album went top 5 without a hit single, have they really lost THAT much of their hype already? This album looks like it'll be lucky to even stay top 40 :o On the flipside never even heard of 'The Temperance Movement' and Wikipedia isn't helping them ring any bells (apparently their guitarist used to be a member of Rooster, lol).

 

Fabulous to see Ben Pearce knocking on the door of the top 10, hopefully R1 will playlist him today. New 'Too Close' please :wub:

I'm sorry but you worry only for Scyscraper when there are 36 songs higher than it..???? I like CHVRCHES but when their fans say these things, i start to worry about their fan base..

 

But 'Skyscraper' is the one of those 36 songs that CHVRCHES are most likely to have a chance of overtaking to try and hold onto the top 40 :P I think they will just about manage to hold on anyway but it'll be tough especially with Katy Perry/Juicy J, Linkin Park/Steve Aoki and maybe Naya Rivera/Big Sean and Avicii 'Hey Brother' coming for their wigs.

I'm sorry but you worry only for Scyscraper when there are 36 songs higher than it..???? I like CHVRCHES but when their fans say these things, i start to worry about their fan base..

 

Christ, I'm not a deluded fan or anything, I only meant it wouldn't quite fall as fast as Skyscraper so may overtake it...

Edited September 18, 201313 yr by Chez Wombat

I must admit there is a huge clearout in both charts, with 14 new albums. In the singles chart 5 New Entries + 4 Re-Entries with probably another 2 or 3 new singles/album tracks to be added from Katy Perry, Avicii and the other track.

WTF did Derulo get all those sales from - he's *never* been that far ahead on iTunes? :unsure:

Warner Bros's Jason Derulo is heading for his third UK No 1 single after In My Place and Don't Wanna Go Home with Talk Dirty featuring 2 Chainz comfortably leading the way at this stage of the week.

 

Interscope/Polydor act OneRepublic's Counting Stars falls 2-5 above Avicci's Wake Me Up at No 6, while Christina Perri's 2011 Atlantic single A Thousand Stars flies 95-7 after being covered by X Factor contestant Nicholas McDonald in a performance screened last weekend. The track's current UK peak is 13.

Whoeever wrote that report must have been in a bit of a rush :lol:

Avicii should easily hold on to the #2 spot which is fantastic, there was no way it was going to beat Arctic Monkeys but being the highest new entry out of so many is amazing to see!

Forgive me if this is a daft question but why are the top 40 midweeks different to the top 40 as listed in the top 100?

 

I take it the top 100 is out of date, even though it's listed as this weeks chart?

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/albums-chart/

Interscope/Polydor act OneRepublic's Counting Stars falls 2-5 above Avicci's Wake Me Up at No 6, while Christina Perri's 2011 Atlantic single A Thousand Stars flies 95-7 after being covered by X Factor contestant Nicholas McDonald in a performance screened last weekend. The track's current UK peak is 13.

 

D'oh!

 

I had it on 437,004 at 3/8/13, now more like 455.5k - this should push her well towards 500k! :cheer: