January 7, 201412 yr Surely 'Happy' being the audio equivalent of joy and happiness is a good selling point? Plus the fact that it caters to all audiences? (i.e. R1, R2, Capital and Heart friendly)
January 7, 201412 yr Very close on both charts, I'm rooting for Timber too, everybody buy it if you haven't yet
January 7, 201412 yr One more boring week in albums chart. Thank God the new Springsteen album is coming next week. Edited January 7, 201412 yr by Better Man
January 8, 201412 yr Midweek Charts: Pharrell moves back ahead of Pitbull Source: MW by Paul Williams Pharrell Williams could be returning to the top of the UK singles chart this weekend after opening up a narrow lead over Pitbull. His track Happy was just under 1,000 sales ahead of fellow RCA release Timber by Pitbull featuring Kesha by the end of Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, with Positiva/PRMD act Avicii's Hey Brother holding at No 3. Williams was replaced at No 1 last weekend by Pitbull who opened the chart year by debuting at the top with 138,891 sales, while Happy sold another 108,317 copies last week to take its cumulative UK total above 300,000 sales. In the new week so far Jason Derulo's Warner Bros single Trumpets holds at 4 as Fuse ODG races into the Top 10 with a 14-5 rise for Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad), while fellow 3 Beat/AATW release Control by Matrix and Futurebound featuring Max Marshall progresses 18-8. Also looking to climb into the Top 10 is Interscope/Polydor act Lady Gaga's Do What U Want, which in the week to date is up from 23 to 9, where it previously peaked last autumn. Then sales were down to a version pairing Gaga with R Kelly, but the track has partially been revived in 2014 by a new remix featuring Christina Aguilera. Elsewhere in the Top 10 Polydor act Ellie Goulding's How Long Will I Love You is down 5-6, the Interscope/Polydor-issued The Monster by Eminem featuring Rihanna drops 6-7 and Positiva/Virgin track Animals by Martin Garrix dips 8-10. Williams and Pitbull head what is a very quiet week for the singles market with only one brand new track among the Top 40 sellers - the Relentless-issued Dare You by Hardwell featuring Matthew Koma - while on artist albums the only Top 40 arrival comes from Epic act Kid Ink's My Own Lane at No 30. After reaching No 1 for the first time last Sunday, Polydor act Ellie Goulding's Halycon is bidding to spend a second week in charge of the artist albums chart, although at present is fewer than a thousand sales in front. It faces a new closest rival in Beyonce's RCA-handled self-titled album, which climbs 3-2 as Polydor artist Gary Barlow drops 2-3 with Since I Saw You Last. Island act John Newman's Tribute moves up 5-4 as Virgin's Bastille gain a place to 5 with Bad Blood and Asylum/Atlantic's Rudimental lift a notch to 6 with Home. Island act Robbie Williams' Swing Both Ways drops 4-8, Arctic Monkeys' fifth Domino set AM is down 8-9 and Polydor's Haim look to return to the Top 10 with a midweek cimb of 13-10 for Days Are Gone. Just a few hundred sales behind them are London Grammar's Metal & Dust Recordings debut If You Wait, which holds at 11. Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Pharrell - Happy (<1k ahead) 2 Pitbull feat. Ke$ha - Timber 3 Avicii - Hey Brother 4 Jason Derulo - Trumpets 5 Fuse ODG - Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) 6-10 8 Matrix & Futurebound feat. Max Marshall - Control 9 Lady Gaga feat. R. Kelly - Do What U Want 11-20 11 Bastille - Of The Night 12 Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love 14 Little Mix - Little Me 16 Lorde - Royals 21-30 21 Ed Sheeran - I See Fire 22 AWOLNATION - Sail 23 Hardwell feat. Matthew Koma - Dare You * 25 Calvin Harris and Alesso feat. Hurts - Under Control 28 Chase And Status feat. Jacob Banks - Alive 30 Sub Focus - Turn Back Time ^ 31-40 32 Wilkinson - Afterglow 33 Breach feat. Andreya Triana - Everything You Never Had (We Had It All) ^ 35 Kid Ink feat. Chris Brown - Show Me ^ 37 Idina Menzel - Let It Go * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 2 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (700 copies behind) 3 Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last 4 John Newman - Tribute 5 Bastille - Bad Blood 6-10 6 Rudimental - Home 7 Avicii - True 10 HAIM - Days Are Gone 11-20 14 Calvin Harris - 18 Months 15 Lorde - Pure Heroine 17 The 1975 - The 1975 20 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 21-30 22 Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull 23 The Lumineers - The Lumineers 24 Daft Punk - Random Access Memories 29 James Blunt - Moon Landing 30 Kid Ink - My Own Lane * 31-40 31 Little Mix - Salute 36 Kodaline - In A Perfect World http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...r-1-album-2718/
January 8, 201412 yr One more boring week in albums chart. Thank God the new Springsteen album is coming next week. Very easy #1 for The Boss.
January 8, 201412 yr Itll be interesting to see the sales, he will be a big cd seller - usually does between 60-100k maybe 50k though with the lower sales now!! Edited January 8, 201412 yr by steve201
January 8, 201412 yr I think I prefer the Demi Lovato version of Let It Go. But good to see it finally going top 40 possibly on Sunday!
January 8, 201412 yr Wednesday Update Top 40 Only 1 Ellie Goulding 2 Beyonce 3 Gary Barlow 4 John Newman 5 Bastille Gary Barlow's album still impressively top 3!
January 8, 201412 yr Actually been able to listen to the chart update for once this week. Shame it had to be on a pretty boring week. 'Let It Go' is not exactly to my tastes but it's tolerable I suppose? 'Dare You' has grown on me quite a lot now but still think Hardwell is capable of much better, feels watered down for chart success a la 'This Is What It Feels Like'.
January 8, 201412 yr Talk about annoying waffle. The chart online is not updating, they are still stuck in 2013, charts should be in full on OCC site.
January 8, 201412 yr When you click the print update of the chart it just brings up the xmas chart mids :( thought Wham was at no 40 there still :lol:
January 8, 201412 yr Please re-peak Gaga! :cheer: I really badly want it to, but it's only had a shortlived boost on iTunes. :( If only we could have the video...
January 8, 201412 yr Oh I really hope they don't permanently switch to playing the Christina version of 'Do What U Want' now, so pointlessly inferior to the original. Pharrell back at #1, oh. Fun. Never would have guessed Fuse ODG might outpeak 'Antenna' with 'Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad)' (in its 2nd week all the more :o)
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