March 26, 201412 yr As long as something knocks that repetitive dross from Duke Dumont off the top, I'll be happy.
March 26, 201412 yr I really want Sam Bailey to hold onto that number 1 position. Me too. It's not just full of well-known cover versions.
March 26, 201412 yr I don't think it's really going to make a difference to her career whether she gets #1 or not this week. If I were her I would be furious at how they'd handled this, but then again it was obvious (to me at least) that she didn't exactly have a lengthy career ahead of her anyway.
March 26, 201412 yr I don't think it's really going to make a difference to her career whether she gets #1 or not this week. If I were her I would be furious at how they'd handled this, but then again it was obvious (to me at least) that she didn't exactly have a lengthy career ahead of her anyway. This may not be entirely P.C. but I'd imagine her pregnancy meant any plans of an autumn launch of an original album were scrapped. Even though she had Mother's Day-power-ballad-cover-album written all over her when she won, I'd say her unavailability in a few months time may be the only reason it's actually happening.
March 26, 201412 yr Midweek Single Charts: 5 Seconds of Summer shining at No 1 Australian pop band 5 Seconds Of Summer are set to score an instant UK No 1 single with She Looks So Perfect. The Capitol track has already reached No 3 in their home territory and No 4 in New Zealand, while has this week so far already sold more than 70,000 copies in the UK to give it a lead of around 45,000 sales as the top of the midweek chart, according to the Official Charts Company. The chart could be heading for an Australian-flavoured top two with Sydney dance duo Pnau featured on Changes, a new entry at No 2 by French electronic duo Faul & Wad Ad. The track, already a big hit on the continent where its run of successes includes topping the chart in Germany, is released in the UK by Relentless/Epic. The dance theme of the week’s top sellers continues with the Blasé Boys Club/Virgin EMI-issued I Got U by Duke Dumont featuring Jax Jones dropping 1-3 and Dutch pair Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway new at with Wizard on Positiva/Virgin. Jess Glynne continues to have two simultaneous Top 10 hits in the week so far with Rinse/Virgin EMI act Route 94’s My Love on which she features dropping 2-5 and Atlantic-signed Clean Bandit’s Rather Be also guest starring her dropping 7-8. Columbia act John Legend hit a new UK singles peak of No 3 last weekend with All Of Me, but it now drops 3-6 as the RCA-handled Happy by Pharrell Williams falls 4-7, Virgin act Katy Perry’s Dark Horse featuring Juicy J loses a place to 8 and Ministry of Sound track Tsunami (Jump) by DVBSS & Borgeous featuring Tinie Tempah falls 5-10. Record producer Tujamo is new at 12 in the midweeks with the 3 Beat/AATW-issued Dr Who with fellow Germans Plastik Funk, while Interscope/Polydor’s OneRepublic are back up 22-14 with former No 1 Counting Stars after they performed it on the first live results show of the current series of BBC One’s The Voice. Sales of the single rise 119% on the week, while parent album Native is up 29-15 on the midweek artist albums chart with sales improving 251%. The Parlophone single Shake That by Dansson and Marlon Hoffstadt completes the brand new entries in the Top 40 by arriving at No 27 in the week to date. - Source: MW, by Paul Williams ::~ Midweeek Album Charts: Sam Bailey powering to No 1 Sam Bailey could become the first X Factor UK winner to score a No 1 debut album since 2008 victor Alexandra Burke as she heads the midweek chart. Her introductory Syco set The Power Of Love currently has a sales lead of just under 40% over its nearest challenger, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey with Going Back Home, according to Official Charts Company data. If Bailey’s album does make it to No 1 when the full-week chart is published on Sunday it will be the first debut offering by a winner of the ITV show to do so since Alexandra Burke’s Overcome in 2009. After Burke won the programme the previous year all the following years’ champs have fallen short of topping the chart with their first album. The 2009 victor Joe McElderry peaked at 3 with Wide Awake, 2010 winner Matt Cardle made it to No 2 with Letters, 2011 champs Little Mix reached No 3 with DNA and James Arthur made it to runner-up spot with his self-titled debut after winning in 2012. Newly-released like Bailey’s album this week, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey’s pairing on the legendary Chess label via Universal could give the two veterans their highest-chart placing for several decades. It is currently at No 2 in the midweeks, Daltrey’s highest ranking since The Who album Face Dances made it to the same spot in 1981, while Johnson is set to rise higher than he has since Dr Feelgood’s live album Stupidity reached No 1 in 1976. Also new to the Top 10 at this stage of the week are My Chemical Romance with their first retrospective May Death Never Stop You, released exactly a year after the band announced they were splitting. The Reprise/Warner Bros set is presently new at No 4, a few hundred sales behind George Michael’s EMI set Symphonica, which falls 1-3 with sales down 48% in the week so far. RCA act Paloma Faith’s A Perfect Contradiction slips 4-6 in its third week on sale as Columbia-signed John Legend’s Love In The Future holds at 7 but with sales up 18% and Fiction/Polydor act Elbow drop 5-8 with The Take Off And Landing Of Everything. Parlophone’s Kylie Minogue drops to No 9 with Kiss Me Once after debuting at 2 last weekend and Shakira’s new self-titled RAC set is new at 10. Celebrating 40 years since its original release, Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is heading for a chart return this weekend in a newly expanded version. It originally topped the UK chart following its release in October 1973 and now the Mercury album is new at No 11 in the midweeks after being boosted by an additional disc to its original two-disc package with new versions of some of the songs by acts including Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sande and vintage concert recordings by Elton John from the Hammersmith Odeon. Columbia act Foster The People’s second album Supermodel registers as a new entry at 12, the same place where their debut Torches peaked, while veteran UK rock band Magnum look to be on the verge of scoring their first Top 40 album since 1992’s Sleepwalking. That reached No 27, while the new set Escape From The Shadow Garden via Steamhammer/SPV Recordings is new at 17 in the week to date. In another busy week for new albums, other acts with brand new sets in the Top 40 in the week so far are Heavenly’s Jimi Goodwin, a Provogue pairing of Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa, Hold Steady on Washington Square/Razor & Tie and Toseland on the label 52 Music. - Source: MW, by Paul Williams ::~ Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 5 Seconds Of Summer - She Looks So Perfect (71.6k) * 2 FAUL and Wad Ad vs. Pnau - Changes (26.8k) * 3 Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got U (26.1k) 4 Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway - Wizard (20.1k) * 5 Route 94 feat. Jess Glynne - My Love (19.7k) 11-20 12 Tujamo and Plastik Funk feat. Sneakbo - Dr. Who! * 14 OneRepublic - Counting Stars 20 Coldplay - Magic 21-30 25 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 26 Avicii - Hey Brother 27 Dansson and Marlon Hoffstadt - Shake That * 31-40 33 Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You 37 Jason Derulo - Trumpets 40 Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga/French Montana/Too $hort - Loyal * http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/5...-1-single-2855/ =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Sam Bailey - The Power Of Love (24.9k) * 2 Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey - Going Back Home (17.9k) * 3 George Michael - Symphonica (14.1k) 4 Pharrell - G I R L (6.8k) 5 My Chemical Romance - May Death Never Stop You - The Greatest Hits 2001-2013 (6.2k) * 6-10 10 Shakira - Shakira. * 11-20 11 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ^ 12 Foster The People - Supermodel * 14 Ellie Goulding - Halcyon 15 OneRepublic - Native 17 Magnum - Escape From The Shadow Garden * 20 Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last 21-30 22 Jimi Goodwin - Odludek * 24 Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa - Live In Amsterdam * 29 The Hold Steady - Teeth Dreams * 31-40 31 Tony Bennett - The Classics * 34 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved ^ 35 Toseland - Renegade * 39 Boyzone - BZ20 ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/s...bums-race-2854/
March 26, 201412 yr Official Charts: @officialcharts: #ChartFact: @5SOS's #SheLooksSoPerfect has sold over 71,000 copies in the UK so far this week: http://t.co/QwhGrMiO9P https://twitter.com/officialcharts/status/448850798295134208
March 26, 201412 yr I hope 'Native' can manage a new peak this week. Also, the ongoing battle between the 26/01 single releases is highly amusing. In their ninth week, will.i.am is currently in the lead at #29, with Gorgon City at #30 and Katy B #31.
March 26, 201412 yr Impressive midweek sales for 'She Looks So Perfect'. Though the following week, I fear it's gonna be less than half of its full first week sales... but great achievement for 5SOS whatever may happen later. Edited March 26, 201412 yr by FM11
March 26, 201412 yr #2 - #5 - what an AMAZING four tracks! :wub: Such a shame that those Green Day wannabe's are polluting the top five with a flash in the pan non-number one which is almost certain to bomb straight out of the top ten next week. :angry:
March 26, 201412 yr Impressive midweek sales for 'She Looks So Perfect'. Though the following week, I fear it's gonna be less than half of its full first week sales... but great achievement for 5SOS whatever may happen later. So they sold 65.5k in 2 days, than only 5.5k on the third... can you say 'precipitous drop next week'. :P Maybe they could even set a new record drop from #1? :unsure:
March 26, 201412 yr So they sold 65.5k in 2 days, than only 5.5k on the third... can you say 'precipitous drop next week'. :P Maybe they could even set a new record drop from #1? :unsure: I think just outside the top 10 is likely, no further than that though, the 'official number 1' factor usually helps, and Radio 1 will almost certainly B-list them in half an hour. I reckon the lead will only be about 15k at the end of the week.
March 26, 201412 yr So they sold 65.5k in 2 days, than only 5.5k on the third... can you say 'precipitous drop next week'. :P Maybe they could even set a new record drop from #1? :unsure: I doubt 5SOS will drop any lower than around #6 next week. Its airplay will probably rise a fair bit since it's heading for #1 (plus Radio 1 are likely to playlist it this week) Edited March 26, 201412 yr by ∞ SEVEN ∞
March 26, 201412 yr I'm still shocked at how 5SOS have seemingly just come out of nowhere and already managed to amass 70,000 fans in the UK :o
March 26, 201412 yr I'm still shocked at how 5SOS have seemingly just come out of nowhere and already managed to amass 70,000 fans in the UK :o It's not 71k fans, though, it's the power of multi-buying. Pretty much every fan will have bought the single will have gotten the other version, The EP, and the two CDs too. Edited March 26, 201412 yr by joepassmore
March 26, 201412 yr It's not 71k fans, though, it's the power of multi-buying. Pretty much every fan will have bought the single will have gotten the EP, and the two CDs too. Oh yeah, didn't think of that. Still quite impressive for them to get to Number 1 with a debut single though.
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