Update is in, McFly drop :D

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

I'm guessing McFly will finish around #7/8 on Sunday - quite a big drop from an initial midweek position of #2 but to be expected I suppose. A Top 10 for them in this day and age is still not a bad result :)

Edited November 29, 201312 yr by mango

So I'm guessing What Now is not Top40 yet right?

Great to see Gary up to 2. How far ahead is Calvin?

Wonder where ARTPOP is?

So I'm guessing What Now is not Top40 yet right?

 

Nope, otherwise it would be among the new entries in the update.

 

Great to see Gary up to 2. How far ahead is Calvin?

 

No sales info yet, maybe after lunch sometime

 

Wonder where ARTPOP is?

 

#24

 

where are little mix move and salute

where are little mix move and salute

 

Move #12, Salute #10

We have some sales info from the MW report.

Well, let's say Dido's sales are flying with the north winds but look to be scattering the ashes by noon. Not sure I can make it any more obvious without getting in trouble but I imagine you'll be able to figure it out :unsure:

No, I can't figure that one out lol. I tried to but I don't get it. Do you mean her sales are at 12,000?

Where is "Loved Me Back To Life" (The Album)..?

I suppose 16k is probably a winning margin?

Gaga could sneak back into the top 10 this Sunday then!

Where is "Loved Me Back To Life" (The Album)..?

 

 

#8

Do you have the sales so far this week Robbie's Swings Both Ways album? Thanks

Wow, go Gary, I wouldn't have expected Let Me Go to be in a position to climb in its second week!

Move #12, Salute #10

:o at 'Salute' climbing back into the top 10 - get that longevity girls!

Do you have the sales so far this week Robbie's Swings Both Ways album? Thanks

 

Maybe later, its all the sales we have so far...

 

Wow, go Gary, I wouldn't have expected Let Me Go to be in a position to climb in its second week!

 

 

Same here, its not really that bad, the track has grew on me, probably the album is helping it a lot and his presence on the X Factor, the 16k gap is massive though to overcome, so #2 is likely on Sunday.

 

Over 100k for the top 2 albums is looking good he's defintely on track for 100k plus, well OneD have smashed it

#8

 

Thank You!!! Celine needs to come back in U.k..Her promotion helped a lot her sales..

Edited November 29, 201312 yr by Insomnio