Posted March 3, 201411 yr Sunday Chart Predictions Pharrell is happy to be on route for a great big #1 album After spending a month at #1 due to featuring on Clean Bandit's 'Rather Be', Jess Glynne is heading for her second number one as a featured artist with Route 94's 'My Love'. Pharrell Williams is also still a contender for the top spot following his performance of 'Happy' at the 86th Academy Awards last night. Elsewhere, Lily Allen is looking to gain her 10th Top 10 hit (7th as lead artist) with 'Air Balloon' and Nick Mulvey's to receive his first Top 40 with 'Cucurucu'. Pharrell Williams looks set to top the album chart with his belated second album G I R L (released just under 8 years after his first). Looking to join him in the Top 10 is rapper Rick Ross; indie pop duo A Great Big World (whose album houses Xtina collaboration 'Say Something); and Mike Oldfield's 25th studio album. Other new entries to be expected include Drive-By Truckers, The Fray, Rufus Wainwright and We Are Scientists. ======================================================= 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.
March 3, 201411 yr Author Midweek Charts: Singles Jess Glynne is heading for her second UK No 1 single of 2014 with Route 94’s My Love on which she features heading the midweeks. Glynne was previously part of Atlantic act Clean Bandit’s Rather Be, which was No 1 for four weeks, and she should return to the top this coming Sunday with the Rinse/Virgin EMI-issued My Love having already sold around 70,000 copies this week. According to the Official Charts Company, the track had up to the end of business on Tuesday sold more than twice as many copies as the RCA-handled Happy by Pharrell Williams slides 1-2 on Sales Flashes. Glynne has two tracks in the top three as it presently stands because Rather Be holds at No 3, while Capitol act Sam Smith’s own former No 1 Money On My Mind drops 2-4 and RCA’s A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera are static at 5 with Say Something. Katy Perry’s Virgin single Dark Horse with Juicy J is now in decline, dropping 4-6, as Lily Allen looks to score her third Top 10 single within a couple of months and sixth in all. Following the chart-topping Somewhere Only We Know and Hard Out Here, which reached No 9 last November, Air Balloons registers as a new entry at No 7 in the week so far. After debuting at No 6 last weekend, Virgin’s Tiesto is down to 8 in the week so far with Red Lights as Columbia’s John Legend holds at 9 with All Of Me and Sign Of The Times/Epic’s Foxes single Let Go For Tonight is down 7-10. Coldplay are presently a couple of hundred sales short of debuting in the Top 10 with Magic, the lead single off their forthcoming sixth Parlophone album Ghost Stories. It is currently at No 11 in the midweeks. Polydor’s Ellie Goulding performed Goodness Gracious on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show last Friday, but it is her previous single How Long Will I Love You that is performing better this week. While Goodnight Gracious slips 16-19, How Long Will I Love You moves back up 28-14 with sales rising 67% after being used in ITV’s Dancing On Ice. Meanwhile, Starship’s Eighties classic We Built This City is moving ever closer to a Top 20 comeback as the RCA track’s use in a 3 TV commercial further lifts it 26-21 in the latest midweeks. Meanwhile, Nick Mulvey, a founding member of the Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet, is new at 25 with the Fiction/Polydor-issued Cucurucu. Midweek Charts: Albums Pharrell Williams’ new album is outselling its next seven rivals combined on its way to the UK No 1 spot this weekend. The RCA-handled G I R L had clocked up around 36,000 sales up to the end of business on Tuesday, according to the Official Charts Company, nearly six times as many copies as Polydor act Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon at No 2 in the midweeks. G I R L follows Williams last week achieving his one-millionth UK sale for the single Happy, the third time in less than a year a track on which he figured reached seven figures. The first was Daft Punk’s Get Lucky on which he featured, while Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, where he also guested alongside TI, followed suit. The album is only the American’s second solo effort with the first, In My Mind, having reached No 7 in 2006. There are three other brand new albums in the Top 10 at this stage of the week made up of efforts by Rick Ross, Mike Oldfield and A Great Big World. Def Jam/Virgin EMI’s Ross is represented by Mastermind at No 6, his sixth album and the follow-up to God Forgives, I Don’t, which reached No 8 in 2012. Mike Oldfield is new at 7 with the Mercury/Virgin-handled Man On The Rocks as he looks to extend his run of Top 10 albums to more than 40 years, a pattern that began in 1973 with Tubular Bells. He could also be on course for his first back-to-back Top 10 studio albums since 1983 as his last effort Music Of The Spheres peaked at No 9 in 2008. A Great Big World will be looking to match the Top 10 achievement of their single Say Something featuring Christina Aguilera with the RCA albums Is There Anybody Out There presently showing up as a new entry at 10 in the midweek artist albums chart. Positions 2 to 4 on the countdown are all made up of Brit Awards performers in varying degrees of decline. Sales of Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon are down just 2.4% on the week to move it up 3-2, a status no doubt helped by her performing Goodness Gracious on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show last Friday. Virgin’s Bastille drop 1-3 with sales of Bad Blood down 30%, Arctic Monkeys’ fifth Domino effort AM drops 2-4 as sales decline 26% and Beyonce’s self-title RCA album holds at 5 as sales slip 12%. Avicii’s Positiva/PRMD debut True is heading back into the Top 10 as its weekly sales rise 58% in the week so far to lift it 12-8, while Metal & Dust/Ministry of Sound’s London Grammar lose a place to sit at No 9 with If You Wait. Outside the Top 10 sales of Polydor act Haim’s Days Are Gone more than double as it lifts 22-12, while brand new entries include Drive By Truckers at No 21 on the ATO label with English Oceans and We Are Scientists on indie 100 Percent Records new at 22 with TV En Francais. There are also arrivals from Jazz Life’s Blood Red Shoes and Polydor’s Rufus Wainwright, the latter with a first best of and following him performing on Jonathan Ross’s ITV show last Saturday. - Source: MW. By, Paul Williams =================================================== Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love (69.6k) * 2 Pharrell - Happy (32.8k) 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (21.6k) 4 Sam Smith - Money On My Mind (19.9k - 37 ahead of #5) 5 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something (19.9k) 6-10 7 Lily Allen - Air Balloon * 11-20 11 Coldplay - Magic * 14 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You 21-30 21 Starship - We Built This City 22 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 25 Nick Mulvey - Cucurucu * 31-40 39 Passenger - Let Her Go ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/r...gles-race-2797/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Pharrell - G I R L (36.1k) * 2 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (6.2k) 3 Bastille - Bad Blood (5.1k) 4 Arctic Monkeys - AM (4.9k) 5 Beyoncé - BEYONCÉ (4.7k) 6-10 6 Rick Ross - Mastermind * 7 Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks * 8 Avicii - True 10 A Great Big World - Is There Anybody Out There? * 11-20 12 HAIM - Days Are Gone 17 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 21-30 21 Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans * 22 We Are Scientists - TV En Français * 27 Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow 29 Kodaline - In A Perfect World 30 Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes * 31-40 31 Rufus Wainwright - Vibrate - The Best Of * 35 Real Estate - Atlas * 37 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/p...with-girl-2796/
March 3, 201411 yr Author Midweek Charts update: Pharrell first 2014 album to hit 50,000 weekly sales Chart-topping bound Pharrell Williams' G I R L has become the first artist album in the UK this year to sell more than 50,000 copies in a week. The RCA-handled release surpassed 50,000 sales by the end of business on Thursday, according to the Official Charts Company, more than five times as many as its closest challenger Halcyon by Polydor's Ellie Goulding. Prior to G I R L the highest weekly sales for an artist album this year were 48,620, achieved by Columbia act Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes in January, while the Williams album has an additional two days of trading to further boost its first-week tally. Two albums make big climbs back into the Top 10 with Avicii's Positiva/PRMD debut True up 12-3 with sales increasing 95% and Virgin act Katy Perry's Prism is up 24-5 as sales rally 192%. Sitting between them is Virgin-signed Bastille with Bad Blood slipping 1-4. There are two brand new entries to the Top 10 at this stage of the week with Def Jam/Virgin EMI's Rick Ross new at 9 and Mercury/Virgin EMI's Mike Oldfield new at 10. It means with Avicii, Bastille, Perry, Ross and Oldfield, Virgin EMI has half of the Top 10 sellers presently. Rinse/Columbia's Route 94 single My Love featuring Jess Glynne is on course to debut at No 1 on the singles chart this Sunday and is poised to surpass 100,000 first-week units, while Glynne's Rather Be collaboration with Atlantic's Clean Bandit holds at No 3 on Sales Flashes. Pharrell Wiliams' RCA-handled Happy drops 1-2 and there are brand new Top 10 entries from Parlophone acts Lily Allen and Coldplay. - Source: MW, by Paul Williams ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love * (93.7k) 2 Pharrell - Happy (48.7k) 3 Clean Bandit feat. Jess Glynne - Rather Be (32.9k) 4 Katy Perry feat. Juicy J - Dark Horse (30k - 73 copies ahead of #5) 5 A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera - Say Something (30k) 6-10 7 Lily Allen - Air Balloon * 9 Coldplay - Magic * 11-20 17 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You 21-30 21 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 24 Starship - We Built This City 25 Nick Mulvey - Cucurucu * 31-40 33 Neon Jungle - Braveheart ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Pharrell - G I R L (50.8k) * 2 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon (9.6k) 3 Avicii - True (8.8k) 4 Bastille - Bad Blood (7.9k) 5 Katy Perry - PRISM (7.7k) 6-10 9 Rick Ross - Mastermind * 10 Mike Oldfield - Man On The Rocks * 11-20 12 A Great Big World - Is There Anybody Out There? * 13 John Legend - Love In The Future 15 HAIM - Days Are Gone 21-30 21 Bombay Bicycle Club - So Long, See You Tomorrow 26 Drive-By Truckers - English Oceans * 27 We Are Scientists - TV En Français * 29 Miley Cyrus - Bangerz ^ 31-40 31 Kodaline - In A Perfect World 36 Rufus Wainwright - Vibrate - The Best Of * 37 Real Estate - Atlas * 39 Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes *
March 3, 201411 yr Author I think he'll at least break 50k. I don't think his album has been available to pre-order more than a week or two but it seemed to do good within that time.
March 4, 201411 yr I think Pharrell could easily go over 70k this week but having heard the album yesterday I don't think it deserves to be a number one album but that's my opinion In better news, Route 94 will easily get to number one and I can see yet another 100k+ week, probably between 105-110k! It's great to see so many dance tracks getting to the top on such great sales! I reckon Coldplay could create an upset and chart higher than Lily but at least there will be a bit of a clear out
March 4, 201411 yr Its great to see many new dance acts, getting their debut #1's, last year we had Storm Queen, Martin Garrix, etc, this year the theme seem to be continuing with Route 94, and most likely DVBBS & Borgeous next week, I bet most of them will struggle to have a follow up single, looking at the release schedule there could be other new dance acts to join the elite. If only Indie music could change the tide a bit.
March 4, 201411 yr Looks like Route 94 are #1 and Clean Bandit are #3 according to this tweet: Number 1 AND Number 3 in the midweeks @JessGlynne *round of applause*
March 4, 201411 yr I really hope Coldplay can make the top 10 but the Monday release really won't help them given it's not really that secure in the top 10 on iTunes. Going to predict around #13, just hope it can at the very least stick around longer than 'Atlas'.
March 4, 201411 yr Its great to see many new dance acts, getting their debut #1's, last year we had Storm Queen, Martin Garrix, etc, this year the theme seem to be continuing with Route 94, and most likely DVBBS & Borgeous next week, I bet most of them will struggle to have a follow up single, looking at the release schedule there could be other new dance acts to join the elite. If only Indie music could change the tide a bit. I don't know now if DVBBS will get to number one as the pre order hasn't really been doing much until this week when its appeared at 95 so I reckon this could end up at 2 with Route 94 getting 2 weeks at the top but we'll have to see next week
March 4, 201411 yr Tuesday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Route 94/ Jess Glynne * (56,7k) 2 Pharrell Williams (24.5k) 3 Clean Bandit/ Jess Glynne (15,8k) 4 Sam Smith (14,6k) 5 A Great Big World/ Christina Aguilera (14,5k) Top 10 6 Lily Allen * Top 20 11 Ellie Goulding [HLWILY] 16 Coldplay * Top 30 21 Nick Mulvey * 22 Starship 26 Idina Menzel Top 40 35 Passenger +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Pharrell * (24,5k) 2 Ellie Goulding (4,3k) 3 Bastille (3,7k) 4 Arctic Monkeys (3,6k) 5 Mike Oldfield * (3,4k) Top 10 7 Rick Ross * 8 A Great Big World * Top 20 11 Haim 14 John Legend 17 Imagine Dragons 19 We Are Scientists * 20 Drive By Truckers * Top 30 25 Blood Red Shoes * 29 Kodaline 30 Passenger Top 40 31 Real Estate * 32 Oasis [Time Flies] 33 Rufus Wainwright *
March 4, 201411 yr Amazing sales for Route 94 :cheer: Nice to see Pharrell doing well in the albums too. lol at How Long Will I Love You going back to #11. That song won't die. Starship climbing *.*
March 4, 201411 yr WOW 25k for pharrell pretty decent & the preorder was only about for 2 weeks!! Could do 50-70k!
March 4, 201411 yr Fantastic start for Route 94! :cheer: 'My Love' should easily clear 120k this week. :heart: Glad to see Pharrell looking to post the first decent No1 album sales of 2014. :)
March 4, 201411 yr What a start for Route 94, I had a feeling it was going to have a big lead I'm hoping for 120k by Sunday hopefully Another great start for Pharrell, I hope my prediction of 70k is correct!!
March 4, 201411 yr Decent start for Pharrell! Finally a decent selling #1 album. Excellent start for Route 94 too, Surprised to see Lily at #6 as she seemed to start off slowly on iTunes. Am hoping the daily 99p album promotions on Google and Amazon will kick a bit of life into album sales too, so far they have had Avicci and Katy P at 99p with 'True' and 'Prism' so hopefully people will be tempted to purchase and give then a few extra thousand sales?!
March 5, 201411 yr Could be close between Pharell and Ellie though. I hope this was sarcasm - Pharrell is outselling Ellie 5.6 to 1 :lol:
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