March 7, 201412 yr 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 7, 201412 yr Katy Perry's Prism is up 24-5 as sales rally 192%. :huh: Say what? Discount I presume?
March 7, 201412 yr Nevermind. Amazing climb for Katy! What happened there? Edited March 7, 201412 yr by GrAmii
March 7, 201412 yr Are we being trolled with the Katy Perry position?! I know iTunes isn't hugely indicative of official positions but it's currently #51 however it's absolutely slaying at #2 in Micronesia.
March 7, 201412 yr Are we being trolled with the Katy Perry position?! I know iTunes isn't hugely indicative of official positions but it's currently #51 however it's absolutely slaying at #2 in Micronesia. Umm... physical sales? :unsure:
March 7, 201412 yr Umm... physical sales? :unsure: Yeah I know but generally there wouldn't be that much of a discrepancy between official and iTunes positions unless a big retailer is heavily discounting /prominently featuring it or something. So unless that's happening, I don't get it :huh:.
March 7, 201412 yr Yeah I know but generally there wouldn't be that much of a discrepancy between official and iTunes positions unless a big retailer is heavily discounting /prominently featuring it or something. So unless that's happening, I don't get it :huh:. The download was selling for 99p on both Google play and Amazon on Tuesday but I highly doubt that they would have affected the chart that much.
March 7, 201412 yr Didn't someone say Avicii was temporarily 99p on Amazon as well? I think sales are low enough for that to be an adequate explanation for both albums' climbs. Same for Miley Cyrus as well I'm guessing?
March 7, 201412 yr Didn't someone say Avicii was temporarily 99p on Amazon as well? I think sales are low enough for that to be an adequate explanation for both albums' climbs. Same for Miley Cyrus as well I'm guessing? It's been: Monday - Avicii Tuesday - Katy Perry Wednesday - Miley Cyrus Thursday - Imagine Dragons Friday - P!nk maybe it has had a big impact then :o
March 7, 201412 yr It's been: Monday - Avicii Tuesday - Katy Perry Wednesday - Miley Cyrus Thursday - Imagine Dragons Friday - P!nk maybe it has had a big impact then :o Yeah must be that then. That's an incredible impact chart-run wise. It's going to look so odd if she holds the top 10. Although, if Katy was Tuesday, surely the impact would be reflected in Wednesday's mids? She went #24 last week to #25 on Wednesday. Or are sales often delayed by a day in being counted, maybe?
March 7, 201412 yr I think Amazon sales must be adding slowly this week. Michael!'s favourite artist getting that boost *.*
March 7, 201412 yr It's been: Monday - Avicii Tuesday - Katy Perry Wednesday - Miley Cyrus Thursday - Imagine Dragons Friday - P!nk maybe it has had a big impact then :o Is it time limited too, as I'm not seeing P!nk at 99p.
March 7, 201412 yr :huh: Say what? Discount I presume? Discounted to 99p on Amazon and Google Play - So far this week iv bought Avicii, Miley, Katy and Imagine Dragons. 'Truth About Love' by Pink is 99p until 8am tomorrow on both sites.
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