No24 in 3rd week for Gaga is appalling!!!' This is Gaga not an xfactor reject. I find it quite refreshing though.

From what I observe what appears to be pathetic and lacking of maturity on this forum is that people get too personal about other people's comments. Having an opinion that 1D have little talent etc is not pathetic but a valid observation and comment that I and many others will agree with.After all they have been moulded and preened by Simon Cowells pop puppet manufacturing inc. Hardly the height of musical credibility for the UK music industry.

 

Well said. I think some people on here become far too personal about other peoples opinions and that's really sad.

Not really getting into a debate about the virtues or not of One Direction but Cowell actually has nothing to do with them now and two of them - Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson have co-written most of the tracks on the album. Think some might be shocked at how good a few are. Many of the more 'snobby' music critics have given huge praise to the song Little Black Dress for instance which is unlike anything you expect to hear from the group.

Not really getting into a debate about the virtues or not of One Direction but Cowell actually has nothing to do with them now and two of them - Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson have co-written most of the tracks on the album. Think some might be shocked at how good a few are. Many of the more 'snobby' music critics have given huge praise to the song Little Black Dress for instance which is unlike anything you expect to hear from the group.

 

For me I can't take seriously acts that don't always sing live but do pre-records or have auto tuning on whilst singing. I never got how people could accept this from Cheryl Cole or 1D. The rest is upto personal taste but as a minimum you have to sing live.

Edited November 27, 201312 yr by Bellatrix

One Direction - You & I #11 :o

Does anyone know the record number of songs in the top 40 by a living act?

 

I know both Oasis and The Jam had a lot in the top 75 at one point but I'm not sure how many were in the top 40.

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 *

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

Edited November 27, 201312 yr by Mart!n

Omg another 1D track? Why don't people just buy the album?

For me I can't take seriously acts that don't always sing live but do pre-records or have auto tuning on whilst singing. I never got how people could accept this from Cheryl Cole or 1D. The rest is upto personal taste but as a minimum you have to sing live.

 

I listen to the music, if I like it I like it. Simple

 

Doesn't mean I can't see where your coming from but I won't dismiss a track if it's a good song.

Edited November 27, 201312 yr by CruelIntentions

HOW are McFly #2.

Was not expecting that for Mcfly. They might actually manage top 5 on Sunday!

All of McFly's preorders :blink: I still don't think they are going Top 5.

You should like the song, not the artist. Otherwise you are voluntarily ignoring tracks that you might actually like.

 

At the same time I do find it frustrating how many One Direction tracks are in the top 40. I would like to think that if sales for this come from single buys that turn into complete my album buys - that the sales for the single tracks will be void

Am gutted about Dido's Greatest Hits. :(

#28 for Dido on the albums :(

 

I brought the deluxe edition today. i find it disheartening that an artist like her has gone from being 3million per album, to barely getting any sales with new releases. underrated

WTF @ McFly being #2? :o it's not often I use a loon dance smiley but I feel it's appropriate right now :cheer:

 

All of McFly's preorders :blink: I still don't think they are going Top 5.

Probably not but hopefully they won't miss the Top 10 now.

Oh Christ, looks like 1D are getting 2 extra top 40 hits due to an error as the OCC don't seem to have cottoned onto the fact those sales for 'Don't Forget Where You Belong' and 'You & I' are mostly misattributed album pre-orders. Wonderful.

 

No clue why people are shocked at McFly being #2, does no one pay attention to the iTunes thread? I'm slightly surprised they're not #1.

It is only an error by them being inconsistent with their previous rules right?

 

Well, I think this'll be a chart to avoid. I like liberal representation in the charts (as in by what is selling) but there has got to be a limit. And I know I probably wouldn't be saying this if it were an artist I liked but the point of having what looks like a majority of tracks from the album in there I do not get.

 

Or I could put it this way: One week, 1D, I'll give you that one, after that, CLEAR OFF. :D

No, it's an error because those 2 songs aren't instant grats at all, iTunes just decided to treat them like that for reasons unknown.

 

I think 'Midnight Memories' and 'Diana' at the least, maybe 'Strong' as well, will drop out of the top 40 by Sunday anyway unless they get a boost from somewhere. And hopefully the 2 album tracks will be rightfully removed leaving only 2 1D songs in the top 40 which is manageable. Wouldn't count on that happening though.