Posted February 25, 201412 yr Single & Album Summary Will Pharrell go back to #1, or will Sam Smith stay put for a second week. New single releases from Tiesto, Foxes, Paloma Faith and Julio Bashmore. Could Arctic Monkeys take the album #1? New album releases this week from Beck, Reverend & The Makers, St Vincent, Neneh Cherry and Wild Beasts. ======================================================= 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 25, 201412 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles Pharrell Williams’ Happy looks set to return to No 1 as it heads towards a million UK sales. After closing the Brit Awards last week, the RCA-handled track rises 2-1 in the midweeks with sales up 28%, according to the Official Charts Company, putting it on course for a fourth non-consecutive week at No 1. The single initially spent a week in charge at the end of 2013, then returned for a fortnight in January when the chart has since been led for four weeks by Clean Bandit and for a week by Sam Smith. Its likely return to the top comes as its cumulative UK sales came within 10,000 units on Tuesday of surpassing the million mark. Happy’s rise pushes Sam Smith’s Capitol-issued Money On My Mind down to No 2 having debuted at No 1 last Sunday. Clean Bandit’s Atlantic track Rather Be featuring Jess Glynne holds at No 3, while Dutch DJ, musician and producer Tiesto is vying for his highest-charting single yet in the UK with the Virgin track Red Lights showing up as a new entry at No 4 in the week so far. His present best showing is No 13 in 2010, achieved by C’mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise) featuring Diplo and Busta Rhymes. There are two other brand new tracks in the Top 10 in the week so far courtesy of Foxes and Paloma Faith. Foxes’ second Sign Of The Times/Epic single Let’s Go For Tonight is new at 7 in the week so far and follows Youth reaching No 12 last year, while Faith is aiming for a second Top 10 single with Can’t Rely On You currently debuting at No 8. Picking Up The Pieces, her only UK Top 10 hit so far, reached No 7 in 2012. John Legend is nearing his own second Top 10 single with the Columbia-issued All Of Me racing 29-10 with sales up 153%. His Ordinary People, originally a hit in 2005, broke into the Top 10 for the first time in 2012 and reached No 4 after exposure as a cover song on BBC 1’s The Voice. A place above All Of Me, Zedd's Interscope/Polydor single Stay The Night featuring Hayley Williams drops 5-9. Although it dips 5-6 in the midweeks, Katy Perry’s Virgin single Dark Horse with Juicy J has more than doubled in sales compared to a week ago after it featured on last Wednesday’s Brit Awards. Also on the way down are RCA-signed A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera with Say Something, which drops 4-6. The Brits mash-up of Bastille’s Pompeii and Rudimental featuring Ella Eyre’s Waiting All Night, released jointly by Warner’s Asylum and Universal’s Virgin, rises 21-15, while Polydor act Ellie Goulding moves into the midweek Top 20 with Goodness Gracious up 26-16. Also benefitting from its Brits exposure is Beyonce’s RCA-handled XO, moving 23-20 with sales up 185%. Meanwhile, nearly three decades after first becoming a hit, Starship’s Eighties classic We Built This City could be returning to the Top 40. Peaking at No 12 in the UK and No 1 in the US, the RCA single climbs 184-40 in the midweeks following its exposure in a TV ad for Three. - Source: MW by, Paul Williams 1 Pharrell - Happy (36.6k) 2 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (26.8k) 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (24.5k) 4 Tiësto - Red Lights (20.1k) * 5 Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse (19.7k) 6-10 7 Foxes - Let Go For Tonight * 8 Paloma Faith - Can't Rely On You * 10 John Legend - All Of Me 11-20 15 Bastille and Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Pompeii / Waiting All Night 16 Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious 20 Beyoncé - XO 21-30 27 American Authors - Best Day Of My Life 31-40 33 Ellie Goulding - Burn 35 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 36 Kid Ink feat. Chris Brown - Show Me ^ 40 Starship - We Built This City ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums Beck has taken an early lead on the midweek UK artist albums charts, but Brits winners Bastille and Arctic Monkeys are on his case. The US artist’s EMI album Morning Phase is showing up as a new entry at No 1 in the week so far, but is just a few hundred sales behind Virgin act Bastille’s Bad Blood. Not much further below the pair are Arctic Monkeys at No 3 with their fifth Domino effort AM. Although Morning Phase will face a battle to remain at No 1 by the time the week’s full chart is published on Sunday, it looks likely to deliver a new UK chart peak for Beck. His best showing to date is No 9, achieved by his last studio set Modern Guilt in 2008. Sales of Bastille’s album, which returned to No 1 last Sunday, are up 158% on the week as it drops 1-2 in the midweeks, while Arctic Monkeys’ 2-3 chart fall is accompanied by their sales increasing 161%. Immediately below Bastille and Arctic Monkeys are four other Brits performers with Polydor act Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon holding at No 4, Beyonce’s self-titled RCA album up 7-5, Disclosure’s PMR/Island debut Settle dropping 3-6 and Asylum/Atlantic’s Rudimental slipping 5-7 with Home. Besides Arctic Monkeys, Domino also has Wild Beasts in the midweek Top 10 with the act’s fourth album Present Time new at No 8. A place below it is Reverend & The Makers’ newly-issued Thirtytwo, their second for Cooking Vinyl and fourth overall. The group have only once made the Top 10, reaching No 5 in 2007 with Wall of Sound debut The State Of Things. Metal & Dust Recordings/Ministry of Sound’s London Grammar round off the Top 10 with If You Wait dropping 6-10, while US singer-songwriter St Vincent leads the brand new entries outside the 10. Her self-titled album on the Loma Vista album is new at 12 in the week so far as Interscope/Polydor’s US rapper Schoolboy Q is new at 15 with Oxymoron. A Rhino re-issue of Morrissey’s 1992 album Your Arsenal is new at 32 and Neneh Cherry arrives at No 34 in the week to date with Blank Project, her first studio album since 1996. It is released on the Smalltown Supersound label. US country star Eric Church completes the brand new entries to the Top 40 with his Decca effort The Outsiders at No 38. It debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 chart last week, shifting 288,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. - Source: MW by, Paul Williams 1 Beck - Morning Phase (7.7k) * 2 Bastille - Bad Blood (7.2k) 3 Arctic Monkeys - AM (6.5k) 4 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (6.2k) 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (5.3k) 6-10 8 Wild Beasts - Present Tense * 9 Reverend & The Makers - ThirtyTwo * 11-20 12 St. Vincent - St. Vincent * 15 ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron * 21-30 21 John Legend - Love In The Future 25 Katy Perry - PRISM 27 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved ^ 31-40 32 Morrissey - Your Arsenal ^ 34 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project * 37 Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of ^ 38 Eric Church - The Outsiders * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print
February 25, 201412 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Pharrell scores third million seller Pharrell Williams' Happy has become his third UK million-selling single within the space of just eight months. The RCA-issued track, which is expected to return to No 1 this Sunday, reached seven figures this week, according to Official Charts Company data, and follows Daft Punk's Get Lucky and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines (also featuring TI) all reaching the same landmark in 2013. The achievement makes Williams only the second act in history after The Beatles to be part of the main line-up of an act to achieve more than two million-selling singles in the UK, although the likes of George Michael have managed it if multi-artist singles appearances such as Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas on which he featured are counted. Equally remarkable is the speed in which Williams has managed this feat. Get Lucky reached a million at the end of last June and only eight months later two more singles involving Williams have followed suit. Happy is presently around 14,000 sales in front in the midweek chart with Capitol act Sam Smith dropping 1-2 with Money On My Mind, Atlantic-signed Clean Bandit's Rather Be featuring Jess Glynne holding at No 3, Katy Perry's Dark Horse with Juicy J rising 6-4 and fellow Virgin release Redlights by Tiesto new at 5. There are also brand new entries to the Top 10 from Sign Of The Times/Epic's Foxes and RCA's Paloma Faith. Virgin's Bastille are narrowly in front at the top of the artist albums market with Bad Blood, having returned there post-Brits last Sunday. However, the gap is only around 800 sales with Beck's newly-issued EMI album Morning Phase at No 2 and about 1,000 copies with Domino-signed Arctic Monkeys' AM, which drops 2-3. Ellie Goulding's Polydor album Halcyon holds at 4 in the week to date as Beyonce's self-titled RCA-handled set rises 7-5. Brand new to the Top 10 is Domino-signed Wild Beats' Present Tense. - Source: MW by, Paul Williams ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Pharrell - Happy (14k ahead) 2 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be 4 Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse 5 Tiësto - Red Lights * 6-10 7 Foxes - Let Go For Tonight * 8 Paloma Faith - Can't Rely On You * 9 John Legend - All Of Me 11-20 16 Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious 18 American Authors - Best Day Of My Life 20 Bastille and Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Pompeii / Waiting All Night 21-30 21 Beyoncé - XO 31-40 33 Starship - We Built This City ^ 34 Kid Ink feat. Chris Brown - Show Me ^ 38 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Bastille (800 ahead) 2 Beck - Morning Phase (200 ahead) * 3 Arctic Monkeys - AM 4 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ 6-10 9 Wild Beasts - Present Tense * 11-20 11 Reverend & The Makers - ThirtyTwo * 14 St. Vincent - St. Vincent * 15 John Legend - Love In The Future 17 ScHoolboy Q - Oxymoron * 21-30 23 HAIM - Days Are Gone 25 Katy Perry - PRISM 28 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved ^ 31-40 34 Neneh Cherry - Blank Project * 35 Morrissey - Your Arsenal ^ 37 Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of ^ NO SALES INFO
February 25, 201412 yr A bit of news already in from Twitter. @Reverend_Makers: WOW. NO.5 IN THE MIDWEEK CHART 2ND HIGHEST NEW ENTRY #GetTheRevToNumberOne http://t.co/xhKVCnQMqM Only £5 here http://t.co/FjEaQ4QNAA
February 25, 201412 yr Author from twitter chloe melick @chloemelick 57m FOXES IS NUMBER 5 IN THE MIDWEEKS. OMG.
February 25, 201412 yr #5 is where Foxes' last single started out, although I trust this one will hold up a lot better.
February 25, 201412 yr Happy will be #1 on sunday and have crossed a million. By april it should pass 1million this year too and come for BL numbers
February 25, 201412 yr I don't think Pharrell has it quite 'in the bag' yet but it looks increasingly likely he will return to no.1 for the second time. I know Sam Smith has a couple of other versions but it's not enough and unless he gets a boost (or Pharrell tails off unexpectedly) 'Happy' will be no.1.
February 25, 201412 yr Beck and Wild Beasts will probably be above Reverend and the Makers and make the top 10 on Sunday.
February 25, 201412 yr ScHoolboy Q's album could go at least top 20 this week as well (was only released today and it's #1 on iTunes, though I doubt its success will cross over much to physicals if it even has a physical release).
February 25, 201412 yr Author Tuesday Top 40 Update Singles 1 Pharrell 26,8k 2 Sam Smith 19k 3 Clean Bandit 17,1k 4 Tiesto * 15,3k 5 Foxes * 13,8k 8 Paloma Faith * 10 John Legend Top 20 Bastimental Ellie Goulding [GG] Top 30 Beyonce [XO] Ellie Goulding [burn] Top 40 American Authors Arctic Monkeys Julio Bashmore * Albums 1 Beck * 5,4k 2 Bastille 4,7k 3 Arctic Monkeys 4,3k 4 Ellie Goulding 3,8k 5 Reverend & The Makers * 3,6 6 Wild Beasts Top 20 St Vincent * John Legend Top 30 Michael Buble Katy Perry Morrissey * Top 40 Neneh Cherry * Fleetwood Mac Arctic Monkeys [Whatever People Say] Eric Church *
February 25, 201412 yr Tiesto at #4! Wow, this is great to see, although I imagine it'll get overtaken by either A Great Big World or/and Katy Perry by the end of the week. Hoping for a top 5 though.
February 25, 201412 yr What Morrissey album?? A re-release of 'Your Arsenal'. (It feels like Morrissey is re-releasing his entire discography recently :drama:)
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