Posted December 16, 201312 yr SINGLES 1. Sam Bailey 45k 2. Pharrell 18k 3. Leona Lewis 4. AC/DC 13k 5. Lily Allen 11. The Big Reunion 30. Altern 8 45. Kelly Clarkson 54. Olabean & GAZ 86. Susan Boyle & Elvis Presley 89. Lil Chris and Lloyd Wilkinson 176. Lucy Spraggan 188. Robbie Williams / Dream a Little Dream 193. Orbital ======================================================= Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic: You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday, if there is any chart info, please provide a source, so the info can be checked out first, we just have to be careful what to post on here on a Tuesday. Use Twitter and search for midweeks to find any mid info. On Wednesday Radio 1 Chart Top 40 mid update will be posted with links to Radio 1 and any other chart info from MW and OCC from 3:30pm to 4pm On Thursdays there will be no mids from MW but any chart info that is found please provide a source. On Friday an update from MW from 11am onwards. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
December 16, 201312 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles The gap widens between X Factor’s Sam Bailey and Pharrell Williams in the 2013 Christmas Number 1 race, while AC/DC set for first ever Top 10 single! Just days after winning this year’s series of The X Factor, Sam Bailey looks set to claim another musical victory this weekend – the Official 2013 Christmas Number 1. According to the Official Charts Company’s latest sales data, her winners’ single, Skyscraper, is currently leading the race to Number 1. Up to midnight last night, more than 67,000 copies of the track had been downloaded in the UK, which is two-and-a-half times more than her closest rival, Happy by Pharrell Williams (Number 2). “I listen to the Christmas Number 1 countdown every year, so to think my single is in the running is just amazing," said the 36-year-old former officer guard earlier this week. And with the CD version of the single now on sale in record shops and supermarkets up and down the country, Sam could enjoy a further boost as the weekend approaches. The cut-off point for sales to be counted towards this year’s Official Christmas Number 1 is midnight this coming Saturday night (December 21). The Official Christmas Singles Chart Top 40 will then be counted down on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show with Jameela Jamil and Scott Mills between 4 and 7pm on Sunday (December 22), with the full Top 100 posted on www.officialcharts.com at 7pm. Meanwhile, Leona Lewis holds firm at Number 3 with her festive single, One More Sleep. The former X Factor winner set a new Official Chart record at the weekend by becoming the first British female solo artist to score eight Top 5 singles. Swedish DJ and producer Avicii falls two places to Number 4 today with Hey Brother, while AC/DC complete today’s Top 5 with Highway To Hell. The British / Australian band are celebrating their 40th anniversary this year, and despite having 11 Top 10 UK albums (including three Number 1s) to their name, if momentum continues, this will be their first ever Top 10 single. New Entries And High Climbers The cast of ITV’s The Big Reunion are at Number 13 midweek with their cover of Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday. The pop supergroup, which is made up of members of 5ive, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Blue, The Honeyz and Liberty X, released the track to raise funds and awareness for the charity Text Santa. Ed Sheeran’s I See Fire climbs 30 places to re-enter the Top 40 today at Number 17. The single is taken from the soundtrack to the second instalment of Peter Jackson’s big screen adaptation of The Hobbit, The Desolation Of Smaug, which began screening in the UK over the weekend. Spurred on by Sam Bailey’s cover, Demi Lovato’s original version of Skyscraper climbs to Number 22 today, while The Killers, who performed at X Factor final on Sunday climb 48 places to Number 27 with their 2004 hit, Mr Brightside. Meanwhile, '90s rave duo Altern 8 look set to return to the Official Singles Chart on Sunday with Activ 8 (Come With Me). The track, which was kept off Number 1 in 1991 by Michael Jackson's Black Or White, and Vic Reeves and The Wonderstuff's Dizzy, has been the subject of a Facebook campaign to get it to Number 1 this Christmas. It's at Number 30 today. This week’s re-entries are completed by Tom Odell’s Another Love (33), John Newman’s Love Me Again (35) and RY X’s Berlin (39). 1 Sam Bailey - Skyscraper * (67.4k) 2 Pharrell - Happy (25.3k) 3 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep (19.3k) 4 Avicii - Hey Brother (17.3k) 5 AC/DC - Highway To Hell ^ (17.1k) 6-10 11-20 13 The Big Reunion Cast 2013 - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday * 16 Katy Perry - Roar 17 Ed Sheeran - I See Fire ^ 21-30 22 Demi Lovato - Skyscraper ^ 26 Katy Perry - Unconditionally 27 The Killers - Mr. Brightside ^ 30 Altern 8 - Activ-8 ^ 31-40 33 Tom Odell - Another Love ^ 35 John Newman - Love Me Again ^ 39 RY X - Berlin ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1D are neck-and-neck with Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow in the race to claim this year’s festive chart topping album. Robbie Williams was celebrating on Sunday night after reclaiming the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart from One Direction. However, if the Take That star wants to hold onto his chart crown through to Christmas Day, he’s got a real fight on his hands! It’s the One Direction boys who are in pole position at the midway stage with Midnight Memories. Despite being released just three-and-a-half weeks ago, Harry, Niall, Louis, Liam and Zayn's latest album is already the fourth biggest selling album of this year. However, with just 6,500 copies separating all of the Top 3 – Robbie’s Swing Both Ways (2) and Gary Barlow’s Since I Saw You Last – it could be all change come Sunday. If Midnight Memories’ sales continue at their current rate, 1D could overtake Emeli Sande’s Our Version Of Events to become 2013’s biggest selling album. But with less than two weeks to go before the year end, it’s going to go down to the wire! This week’s Top 5 is completed by Olly Murs’ Right Place, Right Time (a non-mover at Number 4), and Beyonce’s self-titled fifth album also remains static at Number 5. The week’s highest climber is The Killers’ Direct Hits. The Las Vegas band’s Best Of collection climbs 17 places to re-enter the Top 10 at Number 8 after they performed during The X Factor final on Sunday evening. 1 One Direction - Midnight Memories (50.7k) 2 Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways (48.9k) 3 Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last (43.9k) 4 Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time (36.5k) 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (31.3k) 6-10 6 Celine Dion - Loved Me Back To Life 8 The Killers - Direct Hits 9 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 11-20 17 Rebecca Ferguson - Freedom 19 Arctic Monkeys - AM 21-30 23 Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas, Baby 27 London Grammar - If You Wait 30 John Newman - Tribute 31-40 31 Tom Odell - Long Way Down 32 Keane - The Best Of 34 Avicii - True ^ 35 Boyzone - Back Again... No Matter What ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print
December 16, 201312 yr Author Will Sam Bailey and One Direction top the Christmas charts? 20/12/2013 In the final sales flash before the Official 2013 Christmas Number 1 single and Number 1 album are announced, we reveal who are currently leading the races. This Sunday (December 22) Jameela Jamil and Scott Mills will reveal who’s scored the Official 2013 Christmas Number 1 single and album live on BBC Radio 1’s Official Chart Show. As ever, it’s been a closely fought race, as the nation waits with baited breath to find out who’ll be going down in the history books as this year’s festive chart toppers. According to this morning’s Official Charts Company sales data, X Factor star Sam Bailey could set to celebration another victory this Sunday a mere week after winning the latest series of ITV’s reality TV singing contest. The 36-year-old mum of two is currently in pole position on today’s Official Singles Chart with her cover of Demi Lovato’s Skyscraper. Up to midnight last night (Thursday, December 20) Sam’s debut single has sold more than 107,000 copies so far this week, a cool 68,000 ahead of her closest rival, Pharrell Williams’ Happy (Number 2). Leona Lewis holds firm at Number 3 with her festive single, One More Sleep, while Avicii’s Hey Brother and Lily Allen’s cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know complete the Top 5. Over on the Official Albums Chart, things aren’t as clear cut: Reigning chart champ Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways is currently neck-and-neck with One Direction’s Midnight Memories. The 1D boys are narrowly ahead of Robbie this morning by just 2,700 copies. The rest of the Top 5 remains static with Gary Barlow’s Since I Saw You Last (3), Olly Murs' Right Place, Right Time (4) and Beyoncé’s new self-titled album (5). Source: OCC by, Daniel Lane ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Sam Bailey - Skyscraper * (107,000) 2 Pharrell - Happy (39,000) 3 Leona Lewis - One More Sleep 4 Avicii - Hey Brother 5 Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know 6-10 6 AC/DC - Highway To Hell ^ 11-20 14 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York 15 Ed Sheeran - I See Fire ^ 16 Katy Perry - Roar 17 The Big Reunion Cast 2013 - I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday * 18 AWOLNATION - Sail 21-30 25 Katy Perry - Unconditionally 27 Chase And Status feat. Jacob Banks - Alive 28 The Killers - Mr. Brightside ^ 29 Demi Lovato - Skyscraper ^ 31-40 32 Altern 8 - Activ-8 ^ 35 Sub Focus - Turn Back Time 36 Kelly Clarkson - Underneath The Tree * 38 Wham! - Last Christmas 39 John Newman - Love Me Again ^ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 One Direction - Midnight Memories (2.7k ahead) 2 Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways 3 Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last 4 Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ 6-10 6 Celine Dion - Loved Me Back To Life 8 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 10 The Killers - Direct Hits 11-20 17 Arctic Monkeys - AM 18 Rebecca Ferguson - Freedom 21-30 22 Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas, Baby 26 London Grammar - If You Wait 28 Bastille - Bad Blood 29 John Newman - Tribute 31-40 31 Tom Odell - Long Way Down 32 Keane - The Best Of 34 Avicii - True ^ 35 Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull 38 Boyzone - Back Again... No Matter What ^
December 16, 201312 yr Single & Album Summary Its all about Sam Bailey this week the winner of this year's ITV1 X Factor, other new single releases this week from The Big Reunion Cast 2013, AC/DC, Sigma. Acts with a chance of re-entering the top 40 chart are Ed Sheeran, The Killers (Mr Brightside & Human), Demi Lovato, Ry X and Tom Odell. Demi Lovato also has a chance of re-entering. Plus we should be expecting new entries from One Direction & Kelly Clarkson
December 17, 201312 yr I hope Kelly finally makes the top 40 this week! It hasn't been as much of a hit as I expected, even though it's had moderately good airplay.
December 17, 201312 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/e...er-1-race-2681/ Sam 1 Pherral 2 Leona 3 Sam has sold 45,000? Edited December 17, 201312 yr by joepassmore
December 17, 201312 yr Wow can't believe they've given us all that midweek info so early! Are we allowed to summarise the info on here? Though I don't know how they can say Sam is outselling Pharrell by 2 to 1 and then call it an "incredibly close" race - especially when she still has physicals to be factored in!
December 17, 201312 yr Only 45,000? That's really poor. To put it into perspective, James Arthur sold 187k in the Tuesday midweek flashes when Impossible was first out.
December 17, 201312 yr http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/e...er-1-race-2681/ Sam 1 Pherral 2 Leona 3 Sam has sold 45,000? I edit this a bit if you don't mind :) 1. Sam Bailey 45k 2. Pharrell 18k 3. Leona Lewis 4. AC/DC 13k 5. Lily Allen 11. The Big Reunion 30. Altern 8 45. Kelly Clarkson 54. Olabean & GAZ 86. Susan Boyle & Elvis Presley 89. Lil Chris and Lloyd Wilkinson 176. Lucy Spraggan 188. Robbie Williams / Dream a Little Dream 193. Orbital
December 17, 201312 yr Sam Bailey's Skyscraper has taken an early lead in the race to the 2013 Official Christmas Number 1, but the competition remains incredibly close at this stage. According to this morning’s Official Charts Company sales data, this year’s X Factor winner Sam Bailey is currently leading the race to become this year’s Official Christmas Number 1. The 36-year-old former prison guard’s cover of Demi Lovato’s Skyscraper is currently outselling its closest competitor, Happy by Pharrell Williams (Number 2), by more than two copies to one. Up to midnight last night (Monday, December 16) nearly 45,000 copies of Sam’s track had been downloaded in the UK. The CD version of the single is expected to go on sale in record shops and supermarkets later today / tomorrow. Official Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot says, “Sam Bailey is out of the blocks and into a strong lead in the race to become this year’s Official Christmas Number 1." "But as we’ve seen time and time again, this is certainly not the week of the year to become complacent," he adds. "With a host of acts snapping at Sam’s heels, including Pharrell, Leona, and the growing AC/DC campaign, anything could still happen between now and Sunday’s final whistle.” Pharrell’s Happy, which is taken from the soundtrack to Despicable Me 2, trails by 27,000 copies, while Leona Lewis’ Christmas single, One More Sleep, remains unmoved at Number 3. The former X Factor winner has just set a new Official Singles Chart record by becoming the first British female solo artist to score eight Top 5 singles. Meanwhile, AC/DC’s Highway To Hell looks set to become the second highest new entry of the week, debuting at Number 4 on today’s sales flash. Despite originally being released in 1979, the veteran rockers’ track has been the subject of a Facebook campaign to get it to Number 1 this Christmas, much like the epic chart battle of 2009 which pitted Rage Against The Machine against then X Factor winner Joe McElderry. Should AC/DC’s momentum continue, it will be the band’s first UK Top 10 hit of their 40 year career. While Highway To Hell is currently 32,000 sales behind Sam Bailey’s Skyscraper, the fight is by no means over; James Arthur’s Impossible was ahead of The Justice Collective's He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother at this same stage last year. The Hillsborough tribute song took the Christmas Number 1 spot by the end of the week. Reigning chart queen Lily Allen completes today’s Top 5 with her cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know (5). Other festive contenders The Big Reunion’s cover of Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday is currently sitting just outside the Top 10 today (Number 11). The track features acts from ITV’s The Big Reunion - 5ive, Atomic Kitten, B*Witched, Blue, The Honeyz and Liberty X – and has been released in aid of the charity Text Santa. The only other listed contender to appear in today’s Top 40 is Altern 8. The ‘90s rave duo’s hit, Activ 8, re-enters the Top 40 at Number 30, 22 years after its original release. The Staffordshire ravers were held off the top spot by Michael Jackson's Black Or White, and Vic Reeves And The Wonderstuff's Dizzy back in November 1991. Kelly Clarkson’s Underneath The Tree climbs one place to 45, while Party Like A Rockstar (Up Your Game) by Geordie Shore’s Gaz with Olabean and The Risk is new in at 54. O Come All Ye Faithful, Susan Boyle’s duet with Elvis Presley slides 38 places to Number 86, and Lil Chris and Lloyd Wilkinson’s Christmas Number One (#FeedEmYellowSnow) enter at 89. Today’s festive new entries are completed by Lucy Spraggan’s Tea And Toast / It Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas (176), Robbie Williams’ Dream A Little Dream (188) and Orbital’s Christmas Chime (193). Source: OCC
December 17, 201312 yr Author To compare last year's X Factor's mid topic. http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=148346 James Arthur opened with 187k Ouch 45k is way too low.
December 17, 201312 yr Curious about the album charts and whether Beyonce is leading against 1D and Robbie Williams.
December 17, 201312 yr For comparison, Tuesday mid sales of X-Factor winners singles: <36,600* Leon Jackson 'When You Believe' 45,000 Sam Bailey 'Skyscraper' 68,000 Little Mix 'Cannonball 77,000 Joe McElderry 'The Climb' 88,000 Leona Lewis 'A Moment Like This' 112,000 Matt Cardle 'When We Collide' 149,546 Alexandra Burke 'Hallelujah' 187,000 James Arthur 'Impossible' *no Tuesday sales were given, we do have Wednesday sales. no sales for Steve Brookstein/Shane Ward as they pre-date buzzjack.
December 17, 201312 yr Ouch :x Cannonball was on 69k on the Tuesday midweeks. Nevermind Beaten to it lol Edited December 17, 201312 yr by n4yr
December 17, 201312 yr Sam could still do well depending on her physicals I can see a lot more of them will be sold for her than in recent years.
December 17, 201312 yr Author I get the feeling Sam's track is more for the older market, than the young, that's probably why the single is not really flying so much, without been ageist.
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