Posted October 28, 201312 yr Single & Album Summary One Direction are looking to snatch the #1 single with their brand new release "Story Of My Life", which currently Lorde holds. Other new single releases from The Wanted, Foxes, Tinie Tempah feat. John Martin, Justin Bieber, and another new track from Eminem feat. Rihanna titled 'The Monster' which the latter I think its not eligible to chart, if anyone can shed any light on the subject please do. Currently Katy Perry holds the #1 album, new album releases come from Arcade Fire a contender for the #1 album next Sunday with 'Reflektor'. Lorde, Linkin Park, Union J, Matt Cardle, Wilkinson, Robert Glasper Experiment and Boy George are all releasing new albums. Also in the light of Lou Reed's sudden departure expect some albums of his back catalogue to return to the album chart notably The Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary Remaster Download and the Rarities Edition and solo album "Transformer" and a GHs package "The Very Best Of Lou Reed". ======================================================= Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic: You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday, if there is any chart info, please provide a source, so the info can be checked out first, we just have to be careful what to post on here on a Tuesday. Use Twitter and search for midweeks to find any mid info. On Wednesday Radio 1 Chart Top 40 mid update will be posted with links to Radio 1 and any other chart info from MW and OCC from 4pm On Thursdays there will be no mids from MW but any chart info that is found please provide a source. On Friday an update from MW from 11am onwards. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
October 28, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts: Arcade Fire on course for second UK chart-topper by Paul Williams Arcade Fire are heading for their second UK No 1 album as One Direction and Fatboy Slim battle for singles honours. The Canadian band's newly-issued Sonovox/Virgin EMI set Reflektor currently leads the midweeks by a margin of three sales to one over its nearest challenger, Virgin act Katy Perry's Prism, according to the Official Charts Company. Their last album The Suburbs reached No 1 in 2010. There are four other brand new albums among the Top 10 artist sellers in the week to date, while a busy week for singles has Syco act One Direction a few thousand sales ahead of Fatboy Slim with their newly-issued track Story Of My Life. The album arrivals include at No 3 the self-titled debut album by RCA's Union J, who finished fourth on last year's The X Factor, while the programme's 2010 winner Matt Cardle is back with his third album Porcelain at No 7 in the week so far. His debut Letters on Sony reached No 2 in 2011 and follow-up The Fire on the So What label via Silva Screen made it to No 8 last year. The new album is released on his own Matt Cardle label with distribution via Absolute. Having debuted at No 1 on the singles chart last Sunday, New Zealander Lorde now has a UK hit album on her hands with the Virgin-issued Pure Heroine new at 4 on the midweeks. Her single Royals has dropped to 3 on Sales Flashes. Warner Bros's Linkin Park complete the Top 10 album entries with Recharged, which includes remixes of tracks from their last studio set Living Things, at No 10, while Chas & Dave are on course for their first charting album since the Telstar title Street Party reached No 3 in 1995 with the Warner-issued That's What Happens new at 17 in the week to date. Following their performance last week on BBC Two's Later...With Jools Holland, Domino's Arctic Monkeys experiece a 43% hike in sales of AM, although it drops 4-6 in the midweeks. Ahead of it, Atlantic's James Bunt falls 2-5 with Moon Landing, while London Grammar's Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound album If You Wait is up a place to No 8 and Island act John Newman's Tribute is down 3-9. Following his death last Sunday, Lou Reed is heading for a chart return with his classic album Transformer, which is back at No 24 in the midweeks. It originally reached No 13 in 1972. Its two most famous cuts, Walk Perfect Day and Walk On The Wild Side, show up in the midweek singles chart at Nos 36 and 39 respectively. Although Walk On The Wild Side has been a hit before - reaching No 10 in 1972 - for Perfect Day it will be the first time it has ever made the Top 75 in its original version. However, a multi-artist cover, including Reed, did top the chart in 1997. There could also be a first ever Top 75 appearance for Reed's former band The Velvet Underground's first album The Velvet Underground & Nico. Now handled by Polydor/UMC, the 1967 debut has never charted in the UK, despite being regarded as one of the most influential and best albums of all time. Reed will be joined in this coming weekend's chart by his long-time fan Boy George whose This Is What I Do album on his own Very Me label via Kobalt is new at 26 in the midweeks. His last charted album was Cheapness And Beauty, which reached No 44 in 1995. Tied in with the release of the Paul Potts biopic One Chance starring James Corden, a new Syco retrospective The Greatest Hits shows up at 29 in the midweeks, while Ram/Virgin-signed drum & bass act Wilkinson's first album Lazers Not Incuded is new at 33. On midweek singles Story Of My Life is aiming to become One Direction's fourth UK chart-topper, although faces tough competition from Skint act Fatboy Slim's Eat Sleep Rave Repeat, which is new at No 2 and only around 4,000 sales behind. The track, featuring Riva Starr and Beardyman, is on course to become Norman Cook's first UK Top 10 hit in his own right since Star 69/Weapon Of Choice in 2001, although he did co-write and produce Rizzle Kicks' Mama Do The Hump, which reached No 2 in 2012. As Lorde's Royals drops to 3, Global Talent/Island's The Wanted are new at 4 with in Show Me Love (America) what looks like becoming their third UK Top 10 single this year and ninth in all. Interscope/Polydor's OneRepublic drop 3-5 with Counting Stars as Katy Perry's Virgin single Roar slips 4-6, while singer-songwriter Louisa Allen aka Foxes is heading for a first UK hit with the Sign Of The Times/Epic-issued Youth new at 7. Parlophone's Tinie Tempah follows his top three hit Trampoline featuring 2 Chainz by registering as a new entry at No 8 in the midweeks with Children Of The Sun featuring John Martin. Both are taken from his second studio album Demonstration out on Monday (November 4). Eminem is heading for his fourth hit single in as many weeks with The Monster followng Berzerk, Survival and Rap God. The new Interscope/Polydor track is new at 9 in the midweeks and like his 2010 hit Love The Way You Lie features Rihanna. Completing the Top 10 is Syco act James Arthur's You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You, which is down to 10 after debuting at No 2 last Sunday. Like Eminem, Justin Bieber is also heading for a fourth hit single in four weeks with the Def Jam/Virgin EMI-issued Recovery new at 15 in the week so far. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 One Direction - Story Of My Life * (4k ahead of #2) 2 Fatboy Slim and Riva Starr feat. Beardyman - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat * 3 Lorde - Royals 4 The Wanted - Show Me Love (America) * (13k behind #1) 5 OneRepublic - Counting Stars 6-10 7 Foxes - Youth * 8 Tinie Tempah feat. John Martin - Children Of The Sun * 9 Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster * 11-20 15 Justin Bieber - Recovery * 21-30 28 Rizzle Kicks - Skip To The Good Bit 30 M.A.D - Toyboy * 31-40 36 Lou Reed - Perfect Day * 37 Lady Gaga - Applause ^ 39 Lou Reed - Walk On the Wild Side ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Arcade Fire - Reflektor * (outselling #2 3 to 1) 2 Katy Perry - PRISM (600 copies ahead of #3) 3 Union J - Union J * 4 Lorde - Pure Heroine * 5 James Blunt - Moon Landing 6-10 7 Matt Cardle - Porcelain * 8 London Grammar - If You Wait 10 Linkin Park - RECHARGED * 11-20 17 Chas & Dave - That's What Happens * 21-30 24 Lou Reed - Tranformer ^ 26 Boy George - This Is What I Do * 29 Paul Potts - The Greatest Hits * 31-40 33 Wilkinson - Lazers Not Included * 34 The 1975 - The 1975 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print * = New entry ^ = Re-entry NOTE: 'Venus' would have been #6 and 'Do What U Want' would have been #10 if chart eligible
October 28, 201312 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Eminem's Monster giving One Direction chart scare Source: MW by Paul Williams Eminem's new track with Rihanna is making a late bid to top the UK singles chart this Sunday and deny One Direction a fourth No 1. The boy band continue to lead the midweeks with the Syco-issued Story Of My Life, but up to the end of business on Thursday it was little more than a thousand sales ahead of Interscope/Polydor act Eminem's The Monster featuring Rihanna, according to the Official Charts Company. The Monster was only released on Tuesday and sat as a new entry at No 9 on the following day's midweek chart, but has now shot up to No 2 to sit between One Direction's brand new single and Skint act Fatboy Slim's newly-issued Eat Sleep Rave Repeat featuring Riva Starr and Beardyman. Eminem's first hit collaboration with Rihanna, Love The Way You Lie, reached No 2 in 2010 and went on to become the year's biggest-selling single, while she subsequently recorded another version of the song and the pair further collaborated on 2012's Numb. Three more brand new tracks are also among the Top 10 sellers at this stage of the week, from Global Talent/Polydor's The Wanted, Parlophone's Tinie Tempah (featuring John Martin) and Sign Of The Times/Epic's Foxes respectively, while last Sunday's No 1 Royals by Virgin's Lorde is down to No 4. Sonovox/Virgin's Arcade Fire are heading for their second UK artist albums No 1 with Reflektor's sales in the week to date more than double those of Virgin act Katy Perry's Prism, which drops 1-2, while Atlantic/Custard's James Blunt drops 2-3 with Moon Landing. There are two other brand new albums besides Reflektor in the top five with Union J's self-titled RCA debut at 4 and Lorde's first Virgin album Pure Heroine at 5. Matt Cardle's third album Porcelain, issued on his own Matt Cardle label, is new at 10 but only a handful of sales ahead of the No 11 seller. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 One Direction - Story Of My Life * 45,7k 2 Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster * 44,5k 3 Fatboy Slim and Riva Starr feat. Beardyman - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat * 42,8k 4 Lorde - Royals 41,6k 5 OneRepublic - Counting Stars 31,9k 6-10 6 The Wanted - Show Me Love (America) * 7 Tinie Tempah feat. John Martin - Children Of The Sun * 10 Foxes - Youth * 11-20 21-30 21 Justin Bieber - Recovery * 25 Rizzle Kicks - Skip To The Good Bit 31-40 35 Cher - I Hope You Find It 36 Lady Gaga - Applause ^ 37 M.A.D - Toyboy * 38 Lou Reed - Perfect Day * ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Arcade Fire - Reflektor * 37,7k 2 Katy Perry - PRISM 16,4k 3 James Blunt - Moon Landing 14,7k 4 Union J - Union J * 13,7k 5 Lorde - Pure Heroine * 13,3k 6-10 8 London Grammar - If You Wait 9 Cher - Closer To The Truth 10 Matt Cardle - Porcelain * 11-20 12 Linkin Park - RECHARGED * 14 Paul Potts - The Greatest Hits * 19 Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg 21-30 23 Chas & Dave - That's What Happens * 30 Boy George - This Is What I Do * 31-40 31 Lou Reed - Tranformer ^ 32 The 1975 - The 1975 33 James Blake - Overgrown ^ 40 Wilkinson - Lazers Not Included *
October 29, 201312 yr I really hope One Direction aren't number 1....what a load of shit I initially thought the days headstart they gave everyone else would stymie them, but they now seem to have a big enough lead in iTunes to overcome that, assuming their sales don't collapse in the 2nd half of the week.
October 29, 201312 yr Predictions: 01 One Direction 02 Lorde 03 Fatboy Slim 04 The Wanted 05 OneRepublic 01 Arcade Fire 02 Queen Perry 03 James Blunt 04 Lorde 05 Union J
October 29, 201312 yr Perfect Day and Walk On The Wild Side look set to return to the Official Singles Chart Top 40 this weekend. Following the untimely death of Lou Reed earlier this week, two of the Velvet Underground frontman’s tracks look set to re-enter the Official Singles Charts Top 40 on Sunday. According to this morning’s Official Charts Company sales flash, Reed’s 1972 single Perfect Day and 1973’s Walk On The Wild Side are currently at Number 33 and Number 38 on the Official Top 40, respectively. Meanwhile, the 2004 version of Satellite Of Love is at Number 139 today. Produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, Walk On The Wild Side originally peaked at Number 10 on the Official Singles Chart, scoring Reed his first UK Top 40 hit. Perfect Day failed to chart the first time around, however a re-recorded version released in aid of the BBC’s Children In Need - which saw the late singer sharing vocal duties with David Bowie, Sir Elton John, Sir Tom Jones, and U2 frontman Bono among others - spent three non-consecutive weeks at Number 1 between 1997 and 1998, and has become one of the UK’s biggest selling singles of all-time with over 1.55 million sales to date. The original versions of all three tracks are taken from Reed’s breakthrough album, Transformer, which also looks set to re-enter the Official Albums Chart this weekend (it’s at Number 24 today). Further down the Official Albums Chart Top 200, The Very Best Of Lou Reed is at Number 81, while 1967’s The Velvet Underground & Nico is at 85, 1989’s New York is at 131, and The Very Best Of Lou Reed is at 166. Reed passed away on Sunday (October 27) at his home in Long Island, New York after a lengthy battle with liver disease. He was 71. Source:OCC
October 29, 201312 yr Author I don't think Lou Reed's singles are going to hold up till the end of the week
October 29, 201312 yr 01 - Eminem - The Monster (feat. Rihanna) - 115,000 02 - One Direction - Story Of My Life - 105,000 03 - Lorde - Royals - 72,000 04 - Fat Boy Slim - Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat (feat. Calvin Harris) - 65,000 05 - The Wanted - Show Me Love (America) - 56,000 07 - Tinie Tempah - Children Of The Sun (feat. John Martin) - 44,000 01 - Arcade fire - Reflektor - 40,000 02 - Lorde - Pure Heroine - 35,000 03 - Kary Perry - PMISM - 31,000 04 - James Blunt - Moon Landing - 21,000 05 - Arctic Monkeys - AM - 17,000 09 - Union J - Union J - 9,100
October 29, 201312 yr Maybe the funeral will get coverage to keep it there. Feel bad talking about it like this
October 29, 201312 yr Twitter confirms top 2 1- 1D 2- Fatboy Slim https://twitter.com/skintrecords Fatboy Slim ahead of Lorde. :o Shame 1D had to release :( Edited October 29, 201312 yr by gavindeejay
October 29, 201312 yr Maybe the funeral will get coverage to keep it there. Feel bad talking about it like this NU KOBBAR :lol:
October 29, 201312 yr Author 01 - Eminem - The Monster (feat. Rihanna) - 115,000 I don't think the track is chart eligible, mind you these days I don't know what is -_- OCC must be running around like headless chickens trying to figure out what to do.
October 29, 201312 yr - chloemelick YAY! That doesn't sound right at all (as much as I'd like it to be Top 5)
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