November 20, 201312 yr Robbie Williams’ LP Swings Both Ways achieved more pre-orders than any other album in Amazon.co.uk history. http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/robbie-...on-co-uk/056796 Wow!! :yahoo: The inference being that the rest of the chart may be considerably behind in the midweeks.
November 20, 201312 yr Hopefully that Bastille song doesnt stay number 1 for long. Really lazy. It's one of the least lazy cover versions I've heard!
November 20, 201312 yr Exactly! At least they've actually done something with the original version(s) and added something.
November 20, 201312 yr The only thing they added was dreariness! Agree, they have slowed down and sucked the life out of the original <_<
November 20, 201312 yr It would've been pointless to record another eurodance version of an eurodance song. They did a good job in that sense.
November 20, 201312 yr The only thing they added was dreariness! IMO it's Lily that's added dreariness to her cover. As others have already said, at least Bastille have made their version stand out from the original(s).
November 20, 201312 yr Hopefully that Bastille song doesnt stay number 1 for long. Really lazy. Blasphemy! 'Of The Night' is one of the most amazing cover versions I've ever heard! (a mash-up to be exact) :wub: Shame Lily is much ahead on iTunes but Bastille are gaining on Gary Barlow on iTunes now. So, they will be number 2 on sunday. Edited November 20, 201312 yr by Jason
November 20, 201312 yr Midweek Charts: Robbie swinging to No 1 Source: MW by Paul Williams Robbie Williams is heading for his 11th UK No 1 artist album, while his erstwhile Take That colleague Gary Barlow is locked in the year's closest singles chart battle. Williams' new Island set Swing Both Ways is currenty oustelling its three closest rivals combined, according to Official Charts Company data, and has a lead of nearly 40,000 sales over EMI act Jake Bugg's Shangri-La in second place. If, as expected, Swing Both Ways does make it to No 1 this Sunday it will put him equal with Elvis Presley and The Roling Stones with 11 No 1s and only behind The Beatles (15) and Madonna (12). It would also make it the 1,000th release to top the main UK albums chart. However, Gary Barlow, who features as a co-writer on the Deluxe Edition of Swing Both Ways, is facing a tougher job to score a No 1 on the singles chart. At present his new Polydor release Let Me Go, which he performed on The X Factor last Sunday, finds itself just 15 sales behind Virgin act Bastille's brand new track Of The Night at No 1 in the midweeks. Of The Night is taken from an extended version of the band's debut album All This Bad Blood, which is out next week, and is looking to beat their singles chart peak of 2 achieved by Pompeii. Let Me Go, meanwhile, is taken from Barlow's his Novemebr 25-issued new solo album Since I Saw You Last - his first in 14 years - and is aiming to become his third solo No 1 in all following Forever Love (1996) and Love Won't Wait (1997), while Sing with the Commonwealth Band also topped the chart in 2012. Back on artist albums and JLS are looking to say goodbye with another Top 10 album. The soon-to-split RCA act's Goodbye - The Greatest Hits is new at 4 in the midweeks with their four studio sets having peaked at 1, 2, 2 and 3 respectively. Eminem's set The Marshall Mathers LP 2 drops 2-3 in the week to date, but is holding up a lot better than his Interscope/Polydor colleague Lady Gaga's Artpop. After debuting at No 1 last Sunday, it now drops to 9 with sales sinking by 84% on the week. Also in the Top 10, Celine Dion's Columbia album Loved Me Back To Life is down 3-5 as RCA's Elvis Presley retrospective The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs drops a place to 6. Little Mix's second Syco album Salute is down to 7 after entering at No 4 last weekend, while the Decca-issued Music Of The Night by Andre Rieu & the Johann Strauss Orchestra climbs 11-8 and James Arthur's self-titled Syco debut is down 9-10. After an X Factor performance, RCA act Miley Cyrus races 32-20 wih Bangerz as weekly sales improve 84%, while other new arrivals include Decca act Gareth Malone's Voices at No 21, Daughtry's Decca set Baptized at 24, Five Finger Death Punch's The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell on the Eleven Seven label at 28 and Gabrielle's Island debut Now And Always - 20 Years Of Dreaming at 37. On singles Bastille and Gary Barlow could be joined by two Lily Allen singles in the Top 10. As her John Lewis TV ad campaign theme Somewhere Only We Know drops 2-3 it is joined by fellow Parlophone single Hard Out Here, which is brand new at 7 in the week to date. Between them, Polydor act Ellie Goulding's How Long Will I Love You is down 3-4, Martin Garrix's Positiva/Virgin single Animals drops 1-5 and Eminem's Intersccope/Polydor single The Monster with Rihanna falls 4-6. Defected/Ministry of Sound act Storm Queen's former No 1 Look Right Through drops 6-8, while Little Mix's Move slips 5-9 and their Syco colleagues One Direction's Story Of My Life is down 8-10. As their best of heads for the Top 10, RCA act JLS's single Billion Lights debuts at 14 in the midweeks and Def Jam/Virgin EMI's Justin Bieber continues his new single every week with PYD with R Kelly new at 17 in the week to date. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Bastille - Of The Night * (45,9k 15 sales ahead) 2 Gary Barlow - Let Me Go * (45,9k) 3 Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know (43,4k) 4 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You (32,9k) 5 Martin Garrix - Animals (22,7k) 6-10 7 Lily Allen - Hard Out Here * 11-20 14 JLS - Billion Lights * 17 Justin Bieber feat. R. Kelly - PYD * 18 Ellie Goulding - Burn 20 Ylvis - The Fox 21-30 21 Avicii - Wake Me Up 28 Rudimental feat. Emeli Sandé - Free 31-40 34 AWOLNATION - Sail ^ 35 Jason Derulo/2 Chainz - Talk Dirty 36 Eminem - Berzerk ^ 39 Boyzone - Love Will Save The Day * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/g...-the-year-2624/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways * (63,2k) 2 Jake Bugg - Shangri La * (23,9k) 3 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (17,7k) 4 JLS - Goodbye: The Greatest Hits * (15,1k) 5 Céline Dion - Loved Me Back To Life * (12,5k) 6-10 7 Little Mix - Salute 8 Andre Rieu - Music Of The Night 9 Lady Gaga - Artpop 11-20 14 The Killers - Direct Hits 15 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 18 Michael Bublé - Christmas 20 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz 21-30 21 Gareth Malone - Voices * 22 Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas Baby 24 Daughtry - Baptized * 28 Five Finger Death Punch - The Right Side Of Heaven/The Righteous Side Of Hell Vol. 2 * 30 Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull 31-40 31 One Direction - Up All Night 37 Gabrielle - Now And Always – 20 Years Of Dreaming * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...-number-1-2623/
November 20, 201312 yr [Top 40 Albums[/b][/size][/url] 9 Lady Gaga - Artpop HA! :cheer: Buzzjack collapses! :kink:
November 20, 201312 yr Didnt Boyzone have a top 20 hit a few years back with the first comeback? They achieved two Top 10s - 'Love You Anyway' got to #5 in 2008 and 'Gave It All Away' was #9 in 2010.
November 20, 201312 yr Woo Boyzone! Shame they'll drop out by the weekend. Hope the album does alright, Brother was #1 for 3 weeks in 2010 and sold 400k! I expect the new album will go low top ten and sell about 100k in total :drama: Gaga seems to be getting more and more niche as each week passes. 1-9? For somebody who just four years ago was seen as the biggest star in the world! :o Bless her, I still love her!
November 20, 201312 yr Could 'Artpop' really "do a 'Bionic'." Chart run wise? How bizarre for her though :/ I'm not the biggest fan of the album but it does deserve better!
November 20, 201312 yr 15 COPIES OMG!!!! I see Gary jumping and downloading 16 copies of his single! :angel: Go Bastille! :cheer: :w00t: :wub:
November 20, 201312 yr Woo Boyzone! Shame they'll drop out by the weekend. Hope the album does alright, Brother was #1 for 3 weeks in 2010 and sold 400k! I expect the new album will go low top ten and sell about 100k in total :drama: Gaga seems to be getting more and more niche as each week passes. 1-9? For somebody who just four years ago was seen as the biggest star in the world! :o Bless her, I still love her! Itll still be top 10 by xmas imo - they have a itv christmas special on the friday before the xmas chart so their album will shift a fair bit that week - maybe 50-70k that week alone, should break 200k!!
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