Posted February 17, 201412 yr Single & Album Summary He's made a name for himself by featuring on big hits from Disclosure and Naughty Boy, now Critics Choice winner Sam Smith is heading for his first solo number one with 'Money on My Mind'. However it won't be an easy ride as indie pop duo A Great Big World will make their chart debut with 'Say Something', a duet with Christina Aguilera. It's also the BRIT Awards this week so Pharrell may return to #1 with 'Happy' following his scheduled performance. Recent singles from Katy Perry, Lorde and Ellie Goulding are likely to climb as well. In a moderately quiet week for new album releases, it seems an act from the BRIT Awards will take the #1 spot. Ellie Goulding would seem to be the most likely challenger, but big climbs from John Newman, Arctic Monkeys, Bastille and Rudimental should be expected and any could make the top spot. As for new entries, Nina Nesbitt is looking to be the highest, with Blackberry Smoke, Sean Paul, We Are The In Crowd and Zedd all heading for the Top 40 too. ======================================================= Please note new changes to the Sunday Chart Predictions thread topic: Tuesday/Thursday - There will be no mids from MW for Tuesday and Thursday. Use Twitter and other social media to search for midweeks please provide a source and links to back up your post. You can still post your own predictions for the week to generate chat to the topic. 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 Friday - Final Mid update from MW from 11am onwards. To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action please refer to the iTunes thread topic.
February 17, 201412 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles Sam Smith appears poised to give Capitol Records UK its first No 1 with his new single Money On My Mind leading the midweeks. Nick Raphael took charge of the newly-launched British outlet of the historic US label as UK president last spring and it now looks likely to top the singles chart this weekend with Smith’s track having opened an 83% sales lead over its nearest rival, according to the Official Charts Company. Smith, who will receive the Critics’ Choice Awards at the Brit Awards on Wednesday evening (February 19), had shifted 60,000 copies of the single by the end of business on Tuesday to hold off fellow brand new release Say Something by A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera. Having already been a substantial hit in the US, the Columbia-handled track is new at No 2 in the midweeks as Atlantic act Clean Bandit’s Rather Be featuring Jess Glynne slides to No 3 after securing a fourth week at the top last Sunday. Pharrell Williams’ RCA-handled Happy drops 3-4 but could be boosted by him performing at Wednesday evening’s Brit Awards, while the Interscope/Polydor single Stay The Night by Zedd featuring Hayley Williams is down 2-5. After debuting at No 4 last weekend, Parlophone act David Guetta’s Shot Me Down featuring Skylar Grey drops to No 6 in the new chart week, while DJ Fresh’s Ministry of Sound single Dibby Dibby Sound featuring Jay May and Ms Dynamite slips 6-7. Rinse/Columbia’s Katy B falls 5-8 in the week so far with Crying For No Reason as Interscope/Polydor act will.i.am and guests drop 7-9 with Feelin’ Myself and the RCA single Timber by Pitbull featuring Kesha is down 8-10. Highlights outside the Top 10 include UK boy band Mad, who have built up a big following via social media, new at No 12 with Fame & TV on the Geoma label and sales of Tegan & Sara featuring Lonely Island’s Everything Is Awesome nearly tripling to send it up 65-24. The track, released on the Watertower label, is from the new Lego Movie. 1 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (60.3k) * 2 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something (32.9k) * 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (27.9k) 4 Pharrell - Happy (27.3k) 5 Zedd feat. Hayley Williams - Stay The Night (17.8k) 11-20 11 M.A.D - Fame & TV * 15 Imagine Dragons - Demons 16 Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love 18 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 21-30 24 Tegan And Sara feat. The Lonely Island - Everything Is AWESOME!!! * 27 Lorde - Team 31-40 31 Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious 32 Rihanna - What Now 33 John Newman - Love Me Again ^ 40 James Blunt - Heart To Heart * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/b...-1-single-2301/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums Nina Nesbitt has taken an early lead on a UK artist albums market set to be dominated by Brit Awards performers and winners. The Scottish singer-songwriter’s Island debut Peroxide currently has a 40% sales lead over Rinse/Columbia’s Katy B whose Little Red drops 1-2 on the midweeks, but the chart is likely to look very different following the annual awards show taking place on Wednesday (February 19) night. Ellie Goulding leads the Brits performers in the week so far with her Polydor album Halcyon dropping 2-4, while the self-titled RCA set from Beyonce, who show host James Corden has confirmed will perform at the O2 ceremony, drops 4-5. Fellow show performers Bastille’s debut Virgin album Bad Blood climbs 10-8 in the week to date with its sales up 5%, while Arctic Monkeys’ fifth Domino set AM holds at No 11 ahead of them opening the event. Also on the bill, Lorde’s Virgin-issued Pure Heroine is static at No 12. Outside the Brit performers, the Top 10 also includes nominated London Grammar whose Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound-issued If You Wait holds at 3 and Island act John Newman whose Tribute surges 15-6 with sales up 73% ahead of the Brits after he performed Love Me Again on Jonathan Ross’s ITV chat show last Saturday. New York state band We Are The In Crowd are new at No 7 in the week so far with the Hopeless-released Weird Kids as Avicii’s PRMD/Positiva set True falls 5-9 and Atlantic act James Blunt is down 6-10 with Moon Landing. Double-digit sales gains are achieved by Imagine Dragons and Disclosure to send their albums rising. The US band’s Interscope/Polydor effort Night Visions lifts 26-13 with sales up 38% on the week as Disclosure’s PMR/Island debut improves Settle rises 32-14 with sales up 75%. Veteran UK folk act Oysterband are new at 24 in the week to date with Diamonds On The Water on the Navigator label, while a classical combination of Karadaglic, the LPO and Nezet-Seguin sends the Decca album Aranjuez in at No 36. On compilations the UMTV-issued Brit Awards 2014 album rises 6-3 with weekly sales up 56% to put it behind the Walt Disney/Universal soundtrack to the film Frozen and Ministry of Sound’s Eat Sleep Rave Repeat. 1 Nina Nesbitt - Peroxide (6.1k) * 2 Katy B - Little Red (4.3k) 3 London Grammar - If You Wait (4.3k) 4 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (4k) 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (3.3k) 6-10 6 John Newman - Tribute 7 We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids * 8 Bastille - Bad Blood 11-20 13 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 14 Disclosure - Settle 15 Blackberry Smoke - The Whippoorwill * 16 Rudimental - Home 18 The 1975 - The 1975 20 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 21-30 21 OneRepublic - Native 22 One Direction - Midnight Memories 23 Emeli Sandé - Our Version Of Events 24 Oysterband - Diamonds On The Water * 27 Kodaline - In A Perfect World 29 Passenger - All The Little Lights 30 Tinie Tempah - Demonstration ^ 31-40 31 John Legend - Love In The Future 32 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist 33 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz 34 Katy Perry - PRISM 36 Miloš Karadaglić, The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin - Aranjuez * 38 HAIM - Days Are Gone ^ 39 The Cure - Greatest Hits ^ 40 Issues - Issues * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/n...-peroxide-2300/
February 17, 201412 yr Author insert report ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind * 2 Pharrell - Happy 3 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something * 4 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be 5 Zedd feat. Hayley Williams - Stay The Night 6-10 7 Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse 11-20 13 Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love 14 Imagine Dragons - Demons 15 M.A.D - Fame & TV * 19 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 21-30 21 Tegan And Sara feat. The Lonely Island - Everything Is AWESOME!!! * 23 Bastille - Pompeii ^ 25 Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious 29 Beyoncé - XO ^ 31-40 32 John Newman - Love Me Again ^ 36 Ellie Goulding - Burn ^ 37 Lorde - Royals ^ 40 Passenger - Let Her Go ^ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Bastille - Bad Blood 2 Arctic Monkeys - AM 3 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 4 London Grammar - If You Wait 5 Disclosure - Settle 6-10 6 Nina Nesbitt - Peroxide * 7 Rudimental - Home 10 John Newman - Tribute 11-20 11 Lorde - Pure Heroine 14 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 15 Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox 16 We Are The In Crowd - Weird Kids * 17 The 1975 - The 1975 19 One Direction - Midnight Memories 20 Emeli Sandé - Our Version Of Events 21-30 22 Blackberry Smoke - The Whippoorwill * 23 Passenger - All The Little Lights 24 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 25 OneRepublic - Native 27 HAIM - Days Are Gone ^ 28 Kodaline - In A Perfect World 29 Katy Perry - PRISM 30 John Legend - Love In The Future 31-40 32 Tinie Tempah - Demonstration ^ 33 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist 34 Oysterband - Diamonds On The Water * 36 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz 37 The Cure - Greatest Hits ^ 38 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not ^
February 17, 201412 yr I don't think Pharrell will make it, though I hope he does. Yes, he will get a considerable boost from the Brits but just look at how far Sam Smith is ahead and how much he would have to claw back with the Brits not even being transmitted until Wednesday. On a low sales week he could do it but I don't think it's even going to be close.
February 18, 201412 yr Can't wait to see MOMMs first mid sales tally I think it could be big with the EP hitting no1 & being top 100 for nearly 2 months, the high single preorder and a 40% lead on iTunes it could break 100k! Edited February 18, 201412 yr by steve201
February 18, 201412 yr I'm actually thinking 120/30k for Sam smith. High EP, massive lead and he would have had some quite big preorders from longetivity around 100 and then it's climb on the last week.
February 18, 201412 yr Mini Tues Update Sam Smith on sales of 48,7k, A Great Big World/Christina on sales of 26k, Clean Bandit on sales of 20,2k and Pharrell 50 copies behind Clean Bandit, and Zedd makes up the top 5. The only other new entry inside the top 40 come from MAD at #11. Big climbers for Tegan & Sara #24, Rihanna #27 and John Newman #31. Nina is #1 on the albums on sales of 5,4k, Katy B 3,3k, London Grammar 3,2k, Ellie Goulding 2,9k, John Newman 2,5k, other new entries inside the top 10 come from We Are The In Crowd at #6, Blackberry Smoke at #10, the reminder of the new entries come from Osyterland #18, and Issues #38. The most notably climbers come from Disclosure at #14 and Imagine Dragons #15.
February 18, 201412 yr Nina #1 :o Don't think she's gonna keep that #1 spot because of the BRITs but I'm PRAYING that she can. Such a good album. :wub:
February 18, 201412 yr I've definitely missed something with 'Love Me Again', why is it back in the top 40 AGAIN? And Mikey I think you missed out a few decimal points in that album sales rundown (or commas as you seem to use instead for whatever reason) :P Not surprised to see Nina taking the #1 album in the Tuesday mids but she's probably in danger of falling out of the top 5 by the end of the week due to the BRITs :lol:
February 18, 201412 yr And Mikey I think you missed out a few decimal points in that album sales rundown (or commas as you seem to use instead for whatever reason) :P Its all sorted out, its not very easy when I got someone shouting in the background :lol:
February 18, 201412 yr Big sales for Sam. I highly doubt the Brit affect is going to cause any kind of trouble for that #1.
February 18, 201412 yr I think he sang it on Jonathan Ross. Seems like he's not even trying to shake off his (effective) one hit wonder status. I thought he was performing at the BRITs as well but just checked and he isn't, 'Love Me Again' could easily have been headed back for the top 20 if he was!
February 18, 201412 yr Seems like he's not even trying to shake off his (effective) one hit wonder status. I thought he was performing at the BRITs as well but just checked and he isn't, 'Love Me Again' could easily have been headed back for the top 20 if he was! And that would have helped dispel his one-hit-wonder status, how? :rolleyes:
February 18, 201412 yr And that would have helped dispel his one-hit-wonder status, how? :rolleyes: I wasn't suggesting it would...
February 18, 201412 yr Agree with Bré that Nina will be very lucky to remain top 5 by Sunday, considering the front-loaded nature of the release and Brits-related boosts but it's very impressive that her fanbase is strong enough to get a midweek number 1. Still, a top 10 album would be a good result for her. John Newman could be a dark horse but I imagine Ellie will get the #1 in the end.
February 18, 201412 yr Album sales are atrocious. Glad the brits will boost some of them above 20k this week again, thanks goodness!! Sam Smiths opening is decent - should get him 100k sales this week :). Clean Bandit could concievable fall 1-4 this week!!
February 18, 201412 yr 5.4k for the #1 album is appalling. She definitely won't keep the #1 by Sunday, it'll go to either Ellie Goulding or London Grammar depending on if they win any BRIT awards (and Ellie is VERY likely to so I think #1 will be hers) Didn't expect AGBW to be #2 in the midweeks, it'll probably fall behind Clean Bandit and Pharrell soon though. Sam Smith predictably at #1 by a big lead then, could push for 100k I think.
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