Single & Album Summary

 

Will Lily Allen retain her #1 staus in the singles chart, new single releases from Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts with his brand new release of 'Under Control', other notable single releases from Breach ft. Andreya Triana, McFly ft. Busted, Justin Bieber, Olly Murs and a cluster of One Direction album tracks.

 

Competition this week in the album chart comes from One Direction 'Midnight Memories' and Gary Barlow with his new solo release 'Since I Saw You Last' fighting over the top 2 postions looking to knock the cheeky chappie from Stoke-on-Trent Robbie Williams off the #1 spot. Further new entries from Bastille with a repackaged album of 'Bad Blood' re-titled to 'All This Bad Blood', Boyzone, Mary J Blige, Billie Joe + Norah, Wet Wet Wet, The Poppy Girls, Dido and Susan Boyle.

 

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Midweek Charts: One Direction to achieve 2013's best first-week sales

Source: Music Week

 

One Direction's Midnight Memories is heading to the top of the UK artist albums chart this weekend with the highest first-week sales of the year.

 

The boy band's third album by the end of business on Tuesday had already outsold the entire first-week sales of their Syco debut Up All Night and should easily surpass the opening tally of second album Take Me Home, according to Official Charts Company statistics. Midnight Memories is up to 144,887 in the week so far, compared to Up All Night shifting 138,631 copies in its initial week in 2011 and Take Me Home managing 155,316 sales a year ago.

 

One Direction are also on course to achieve the highest first-week sales for an artist album this year, beating the current best total of 165,091 achieved by Daft Punk's Columbia release Random Access Memories back in May, while tracks from their new album have flooded the singles market. All 14 cuts from the standard edition of the album are somewhere in the midweek Top 10 as are the four tracks on the extended version of the album.

 

Leading the way for the group on the singles market is Story Of My Life, which they performed on ITV's The X Factor last Sunday and which rises 10-3 in the week so far with sales more than doubling. Also from their new album, Don't Forget Where You Belong and You & I are new at 10 and 11 respectively, Strong, title track Midnight Memories and Diana debut at 25, 29 and 34 and Best Song Ever moves back up 57-36. The rest of the album's tracks and bonus cuts are outside the Top 75.

 

One Direction's phenomenal performance this week means Gary Barlow will miss out on scoring a second solo album No 1 with his Polydor set Since I Saw Your Last currently around 85,000 sales behind in second place. However, the new album has already more than doubled the entire sales of his last solo venture, Twelve Months Eleven Days, which only got as high as 35 in October 1999 with fewer than 5,000 sales. His single Let Me Go drops 3-4 in the midweeks.

 

Barlow's one-time Take That colleague Robbie Williams is down 1-3 in the week so far with his Island album Swings Both Ways as Epic act Olly Murs sprints 96-4 with Right Place Right Time following the release of a Special Edition of the album. A similar trick could also see the return of Bastille's Virgin debut Bad Blood into the Top 10 as it lifts 39-10 in the week so far after the arrival of extended version All This Bad Blood featuring their current hit single Of The Night.

 

Boyzone's first four studio albums, including their last effort Brother in 2010, all reached No 1, but it will not be the case with their fifth effort and first for Warner's Rhino, BZ 20. It is currently new at 5 in the midweeks. Syco's Susan Boyle is also likely to have a lower start for her own fifth album after the first three reached No 1 and last year's Standing Ovation made it to No 5 with Home For Christmas new at 7, but could eventually go higher as the market gets nearer to December 25.

 

Interscope/Polydor act Emimen's former No 1 The Marshall Mathers LP drops 2-6 and Columbia act Celine Dion's Loved Me back To Life is down 4-8 as RCA/Sony Music CG's Elvis Presley album The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs falls 5-9.

 

Following an X Factor performance at the weekend with Jessie J, Mary J Blige's Verve album A Mary Christmas is new at 22 in the midweeks and the RCA-issued Greatest Hits by Dido is new at 28. Also set for brand new entries in and around the Top 40 this coming Sunday are ADTR's A Day To Remember, Wet Wet Wet with an EMI-handled new best of and Decca's Poppy Girls.

 

On singles Columbia's Calvin Harris is poised for his third chart-topper in his own right with Under Control with Swedish DJ Alesso and UK band Hurts around 11,000 sales in front at No 1. To date he has reached No 1 with the fronted tracks I'm Not Alone and Sweet Nothing (with Florence Welch), while featured on Dizzee Rascal's Dance Wiv Me and Rihanna's We Found Love.

 

Six years after reaching No 2 with One For The Radio, McFly are heading for their highest-placed single since then with the similarly-titled Love Is On The Radio new at 2 in the week so far.

 

Below One Direction and Gary Barlow in third and fourth places, Lily Allen's Parlophone track Somewhere Only We Know drops to No 5 having climbed to No 1 last Sunday. Virgin act Bastille's Of The Night is down 2-6, while Atlantic act Breach's Everything You Never Had (We Had It All) featuring Andreya Triana is new at 7. Polydor act Ellie Goulding's How Long Will I Love You slips 4-8 and Eminem's Interscope/Polydor cut The Monster with Rihanna is down 5-9 as One Direction's Don't Forget Where You Belong completes the Top 10 in 10th position.

 

Def Jam/Virgin EMI's Justin Bieber continues his one new single a week campaign with Roller Coaster new at 21 in the midweeks and Afrojack featuring Spree Wilson's The Spark on the PM Am Recordings/Universal label is new at 14.

 

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Wednesday Update Top 40 Only

Source: Radio 1/OCC

 

Top 40 Singles

 

1. Calvin Harris & Alesso - Under Control (feat. Hurts) * (43,4k - 11k ahead)

2. McFly - Love Is On The Radio * (31,9k)

3. One Direction - Story of My Life (28,8k)

4. Gary Barlow - Let Me Go (28,3k)

5. Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know (26,1k)

 

6-10

7. Breach - Everything You Never Had (We Had It All) [feat. Andreya Triana] *

10. One Direction - Don't Forget Where You Belong *

 

11-20

11. One Direction - You & I *

14. Afrojack - The Spark (feat. Spree Wilson) *

15. Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)

19. Avicii - Hey Brother

 

21-30

21. Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster *

23. Olly Murs - Hand On Heart *

25. One Direction - Strong *

26. AWOLNATION - Sail

29. One Direction - Midnight Memories *

 

31-40

32. RY X - Berlin *

34. One Direction - Diana *

36. One Direction - Best Song Ever ^

 

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

 

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Top 40 Albums

 

1. One Direction - Midnight Memories * (144,887)

2. Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last * (58,3k)

3. Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways * (33,9k)

4. Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time ^ (22,1k)

5. Boyzone - BZ 20 * (15k)

 

6-10

7. Susan Boyle - Home For Christmas *

10. Bastille - Bad Blood

 

11-20

 

21-30

22. Mary J. Blige - A Mary Christmas *

28. Dido - Greatest Hits *

 

31-40

34. A Day To Remember - Common Courtesy *

35 Jessie J - Alive

36. Wet Wet Wet - Step By Step – The Greatest Hits *

38. The Poppy Girls - No Need To Say Goodbye *

 

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

Midweek Charts update: One Direction heading for 200,000 sales

Source: MW

by Paul Williams

 

 

One Direction's Midnight Memories is set to become the first artist album this year to open with 200,000 sales having this week already shifted 187,660 copies.

 

The group's third Syco album accumulated that total up to the end of business on Thursday, according to Official Charts Company statistics, making it the fastest-selling artist title of 2013 with two days of trading still to go. The previous record holder, Columbia act Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, shifted 165,091 week one in May.

 

Midnight Memories has also already surpassed the week-one sales of One Direction's previous two albums with debut Up All Night having started with 138,631 sales in 2001 and Take Me Home managing 155,316 first-week sales last year.

 

The album is currently more than 100,000 ahead of its closest rival, Gary Barlow's new Polydor set Since I Saw You Last, which is on track to debut at No 2 this coming Sunday. In the week so far his erstwhile Take That colleague Robbie Williams is down 1-3 with the Island-issued Swing Both Ways, Epic's Olly Murs rockets 96-4 following the release of an expanded version of Right Place Right Time and Boyzone's first Rhino offering BZ 20 is new at 5.

 

Calvin Harris is heading for another No 1 on the singles chart with the Columbia track Under Control with Alesso and Hurts leading the midweeks by around 16,000 sales as Gary Barlow's Polydor-issued Let Me Go climbs 3-2. One Direction's Syco single Story Of My Life is up 10-3, McFly are new at 4 with Love Is On The Radio on their Super label and Parlophone's Lily Allen drops 1-5 with Somewhere Only We Know.

 

 

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Friday Update Top 40 Only

 

 

Singles

 

1. Calvin Harris & Alesso - Under Control (feat. Hurts) * (16k ahead)

2. Gary Barlow - Let Me Go

3. One Direction - Story of My Life

4. McFly - Love Is On The Radio *

5. Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know

 

6-10

9. Breach - Everything You Never Had (We Had It All) [feat. Andreya Triana] *

 

11-20

11. Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly)

14 One Direction - You & I *

15. Afrojack - The Spark (feat. Spree Wilson) *

17. One Direction - Don't Forget Where You Belong *

19. Avicii - Hey Brother

 

21-30

21. AWOLNATION - Sail

24. Olly Murs - Hand On Heart *

26. Justin Bieber - Roller Coaster *

 

31-40

32 Jason Derulo - Trumpets *

33. RY X - Berlin *

35 One Direction - Strong *

38 Katy Perry - Unconditionally *

40 One Direction - Midnight Memories *

 

 

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Albums

 

1. One Direction - Midnight Memories * (187,660)

2. Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last * (87,000)

3. Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways *

4. Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time ^

5. Boyzone - BZ 20 *

 

6-10

 

11-20

11. Susan Boyle - Home For Christmas *

12 Bastille - Bad Blood

 

21-30

27. Mary J. Blige - A Mary Christmas *

28. Dido - Greatest Hits *

 

31-40

33 Jessie J - Alive

35 London Grammar - If You Wait

38 Tom Odell - Long Way Down

Have One Direction fans been encouraged to download individual tracks and then use the "complete my album" facility or are there really lots of people cherry picking? If it's the former, perhaps it is time to change the rules so that individual track sales are deducted if people complete the album in the same week.

Have One Direction fans been encouraged to download individual tracks and then use the "complete my album" facility or are there really lots of people cherry picking? If it's the former, perhaps it is time to change the rules so that individual track sales are deducted if people complete the album in the same week.

Now are you saying that because you dislike the thought of a load of One Direction tracks clogging up the charts or? :P

I would imagine there is just a lot of cherrypicking. It happens to a lot of big artists, it'll die down very quickly. The 2 highest album tracks are up there due to an error anyway, the rest are at much more sensible positions.

Now are you saying that because you dislike the thought of a load of One Direction tracks clogging up the charts or? :P

 

Not at all :lol:

 

I would imagine there is just a lot of cherrypicking. It happens to a lot of big artists, it'll die down very quickly. The 2 highest album tracks are up there due to an error anyway, the rest are at much more sensible positions.

 

It has certainly happened before but generally rather lower down the chart. That's why I'm wondering whether there is something fishy going on.

It has certainly happened before but generally rather lower down the chart. That's why I'm wondering whether there is something fishy going on.

 

There IS something fishy with 'Don't Forget Where You Belong' and 'You & I', but the rest of them are not a lot higher than most album track invasions from popular albums (it's about on par with the 'Born This Way' invasion for example - and a full one song made the top 100 from that, 'Yoü And I' entering at #89).

Fans haven't been encouraged to do complete my album at all, only pre-order so you get Story of My Life/Diana/Midnight Memories/Strong earlier and the rest today. Not sure what's up with the two that went top 10.

Fans haven't been encouraged to do complete my album at all, only pre-order so you get Story of My Life/Diana/Midnight Memories/Strong earlier and the rest today. Not sure what's up with the two that went top 10.

Either that or they missed you out :P

it's a shame that olly isn't releasing this year, would be interesting again to see 1D vs Olly murs and olly wins again

I would imagine there is just a lot of cherrypicking. It happens to a lot of big artists, it'll die down very quickly. The 2 highest album tracks are up there due to an error anyway, the rest are at much more sensible positions.

 

What error do you refer to?

it's a shame that olly isn't releasing this year, would be interesting again to see 1D vs Olly murs and olly wins again

 

When has Olly won a battle against 1D? He's never been directly up against them :unsure:

When has Olly won a battle against 1D? He's never been directly up against them :unsure:

 

Doubt he'd beat them.

Buble Christmas album to go Top 10 and hopefully Susan Boyle Top 10.

Why Christmas albums are released so late in the UK? Bublé's and Stewart's older albums have been top 40 for 2 weeks already and thus have a great advantage over the new releases. The ones by Boyle and MJB were released many weeks ago in the US..

 

Not to mention Leona Lewis whose album will obviously be horribly late to sell properly.

Edited November 26, 201312 yr by SKOB

Doubt he'd beat them.

 

I agree. I know it's not directly comparable as they were released in separate weeks but Take Me Home sold more in its first week than Right Place Right Time did anyway.

Why Christmas albums are released so late in the UK? Bublé's and Stewart's older albums have been top 40 for 2 weeks already and thus have a great advantage over the new releases. The ones by Boyle and MJB were released many weeks ago in the US..

 

Not to mention Leona Lewis whose album will obviously be horribly late to sell properly.

 

 

Indeed last year Rod's was released on the 12th Nov & the year before Bubles went to no1 in October and then rose to the top again in september!

Calvin Harris should comfortably be number one in singles. Great track too!! Best number one in a while!

JAMES INGHAM ‏@JAMESINREHAB 17m

 

One Direction look set for the No.1 album spot this week selling over 115,000 copies of Midnight Memories in the 1st day. Gary Barlow at 2.

 

(He's the Daily Star Sunday's REHAB showbiz columnist)

Edited November 26, 201312 yr by Bellatrix