Lily Allen is now number 1 on itunes. Cant believe its doing so well when the original is a lot better!

 

As much as I love Lily's track I hope Martin Garrix will do what Storm Queen did last week and hold on to number one on the strength of the pre orders for Animals, though I reckon both tracks could sell 100k+

Midweek Charts: Lady Gaga's Artpop in frame for No 1

Source: MW

by Paul Williams

 

Lady Gaga is heading for her third UK No 1 album in another crowded week for frontline releases.

 

Her newly-issued set Artpop has a lead of 58% over Columbia act Celine Dion's Loved Me Back To Life at No 2 in the latest midweeks, while her Interscope/Polydor colleague Eminem drops 1-3 with The Marshall Mathers LP 2, according to the Official Charts Company.

 

However, while Artpop should follow her previous studio albums The Fame and Born This Way by topping the UK artists albums chart it has its work cut out coming near to the first-week sales of Born This Way. That sold 215,639 copies to debut at No 1 in May 2011, while up to the end of trading on Tuesday Artpop had sold fewer than 50,000 copies.

 

Dion's ranking at No 2 in the week to date follows her chatting but not performing on Jonathan Ross's ITV show last Saturday then singing the following night on the same channel's The X Factor. It is her first English language album since Taking Chances, which reached No 5 in the UK in 2007. Her new single Loved Me Back To Life, which she performed on The X Factor, rises 75-12 in the midweeks.

 

There are currently seven brand new albums among the Top 10, almost matching the arrivals on last week's chart when the entire top seven were new entries for the first time and another new release debuted at No 9 (Global Talent/Island act The Wanted's Word Of Mouth). The debutants this week include Littkle Mix with their second Syco album Salute, which is new at No 4 in the latest Sales Flashes, a place below where their debut DNA peaked almost a year ago, while Vertigo/Virgin EMI act The Killers' first retrospective Direct Hits registers as a new entry at No 5.

 

Decca's Alfie Boe is aiming for a fourth Top 10 album with Trust new at 7 in the week to date, while On Air - Live At The BBC - Vol 2, the first Beatles album of previously-unissued material since Universal acquired EMI, is new at 8. The Apple Corps/UMC album follows 19 years after a first volume of Beatles BBC sessions reached No 1 and is back at 38 in the midweeks after being remastered and reissued. A collection of the two albums is new at 63.

 

Island's Keane complete the Top 10 entries in the week so far with The Best Of new at 10, making it very likely their perfect score of five No 1s from five albums will end.

 

Eminem at No 3 leads the three survivors from last week's Top 10 with the others remaining being RCA's Elvis Presley set The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs climbing 7-6 and James Arthur's self-titled Syco debut down 2-9.

 

Cliff Richard's Rhino debut The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Book is just a few hundred sales short of the Top 10 at present, appearing as a new entry at 11, while DMG TV's Daniel O'Donnell is new at 14 in the week so far with A Picture Of You. Sony Classical's Russell Watson enters at 19 with Only One Man and Mute's Erasure are new at 21 with Snow Globe.

 

Dutch DJ Martin Garrix is heading for No 1 on the UK singles chart this Sunday with the Virgin-issued Animals, having already scored chart success across mainland Europe and elsewhere. It topped the charts in both Belgium markets, while reached No 3 in his native Netherlands and 4 in Germany and Sweden.

 

After debuting in the John Lewis Christmas ad, Parlophone act Lily Allen's Keane cover Somewhere Only We Know is new at No 2 in the midweeks. It is set to become her first Top 10 hit since Not Fair reached No 4 in 2009, while Keane's original is back at No 3 having previously reached No 3 in 2004.

 

Interscope act Eminem's The Monster featuring Rihanna drops 2-3 as Little Mix's Syco single Move loses a place to No 4. The Defected/Ministry of Sound single Look Right Through by Storm Queen is now down to 5 after debuting at No 1 last Sunday, while Polydor act Ellie Goulding's How Long Will I Love You races 117-6. Virgin act Lorde's former No 1 Royals drops 4-7 as the Royal British Legion's official single for its Poppy appeal - The Call (No Need To Goodbye) by the Poppy Girls - turns up as a new entry at No 8. The Decca single comprises young daughters of men serving in the armed forces.

 

As her album heads for No 1, Lay Gaga is aiming for another Top 10 single with the Interscope/Polydor-issud Do What U Want with R Kelly new at 9 in the midweeks as Syco act One Direction's Story Of My Life drops 5-10.

 

Island act Robbie Williams is new at 11 in the week to date with Go Gentle after he performed it on last Sunday's The X Factor, while Def Jam/Virgin EMI's Justin Bieber is set for a sixth hit in as many weeks with All Bad new at 17 currently. Meanwhile, Verigo/Virgin EMI act The Killers' enter at 25 with Shot At The Night.

 

 

 

Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1 Martin Garrix - Animals * (67k+)

2 Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know (43k+) *

3 Eminem feat. Rihanna - The Monster

4 Little Mix - Move

5 Storm Queen - Look Right Through

 

6-10

6 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You *

8 The Poppy Girls - The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye) *

9 Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly - Do What U Want *

 

11-20

11 Robbie Williams - Go Gentle *

12 Céline Dion - Loved Me Back To Life *

17 Justin Bieber - All Bad *

 

21-30

25 The Killers - Shot At The Night *

30 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know ^

 

31-40

36 AWOLNATION - Sail

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/1...-1-single-2608/

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1 Lady Gaga - ARTPOP * (Nearly 47k / More than 17k ahead of #2)

2 Céline Dion - Loved Me Back To Life *

3 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2

4 Little Mix - Salute *

5 The Killers - Direct Hits *

 

6-10

6 Elvis Presley The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs

7 Alfie Boe - Trust *

8 The Beatles - On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2 *

10 Keane - The Best Of *

 

11-20

11 Cliff Richard - The Fabulous Rock ‘N’ Roll Songbook *

14 Daniel O’Donnell - A Picture Of You *

19 Russell Watson - Only One Man *

 

21-30

21 Erasure - Snow Globe *

23 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox

26 Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas Baby

 

31-40

38 The Beatles - Live At The BBC

 

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

 

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/l...ums-chart-2607/

 

 

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Sucks for Katy B, really wanted 5AM to be massive for her.

This week is the week album sales will be decent right? A 3-16 drop for Tinie would mean a fall to about 8k judging by recent weeks. I can't see that happening.

Britney, Fatboy Slim, James Arthur, Katy B, Conor Maynard - loads of big fallers this week!

Get it Gagz :cry: <3

I really did not expect the Poppy Girls to still be in the Top 10 today when they are all the way down to No. 30 on itunes, but of course their CD-Single will be selling strongly, so they might hang on in there until sunday.

No. 12 for Celine's single is good but i had really hoped it would be 2 places higher today, but the X-Factor effect just kicked in sunday evening, so i guess that's okay, and the album might be on course for about 50k - probably a lot more than expected :dance:

Hope the Poppy Girls can hang on to the Top 20 come Sunday.

On mid-week OCC chart,

6 Elvis

8 The Beatles

11 Cliff

20 Bob Dylan

38 The Beatles

 

Back to the 60s. :yahoo:

"Animals" is nowhere near as good as "Look Right Through" so hopefully it'll be passed by Lily (even though I don't particularly like her cover of the Keane original) by Sunday.

YAY go Gaga and The Beatles! :cheer:

The wanted 33 :o It's possible that in their second week they will be outside top 40 ouch!

Looks like Celine will miss the top ten but she's done very well and the album's doing brilliantly, definitely still the 2nd most popular Eurovision winner of all time :D

 

I love both Animals and Somewhere Only We Know so not too bothered which is #1 but I'm sure Animals will hold on with relative ease.

 

Artpop is obviously way down on the opening for Born This Way but even so (and I hate to compare them as I'm not looking to start a stan argument!), she's already almost sold what Katy's Prism sold on its first week which is surprising to me as Katy seems far bigger at the moment! I guess Gaga's stanbase is bigger and Katy's will sell more in the long run.

The wanted 33 :o It's possible that in their second week they will be outside top 40 ouch!

You mean in their third week, this is already their second week :)

Hopefully ARTPOP sells decently, 80k+ this week would be a realistic target for her. The success of Do What U Want (and future singles if she chooses carefully) should help its lifetime sales.

You mean in their third week, this is already their second week :)

 

He was talking about the album, one would assume.

C'mon Celine :).

He was talking about the album, one would assume.

Sorry, yeah that makes sense.

Could the singles race end up being quite close?

Seems that Celine Dion and Lady Gaga have sold the same amount since the Tuesday Update (~8k). If they sell the same for the rest of the week, Lady Gaga will be on 79k and Celine Dion on 62k. Obviously there's the weekend effect to bare in mind too though. Not very impressive for Gaga I don't think, but for Celine to out do the 55k first week sales of Taking Chances would be great! A #2 album and a Top 15 single! :dance: