April 2, 201412 yr Kylie doesn't seem to be connecting with the public at all this era - Album already out of the Top 10 and not sure the single will stay Top 40 on iTunes :cry: For 'Public' read 'Radio 1' - IMO that's the main reason she's having less success this time. You only have took at the reaction to her on The Voice to see the public still love her! :heart:
April 2, 201412 yr For 'Public' read 'Radio 1' - IMO that's the main reason she's having less success this time. You only have took at the reaction to her on The Voice to see the public still love her! :heart: Maybe as a personality rather than for her music. Hasn't she had support from radio 2? Other artists shift albums without the support of radio 1.
April 2, 201412 yr Maybe as a personality rather than for her music. Hasn't she had support from radio 2? Other artists shift albums without the support of radio 1. Yeah exactly, look at Paloma Faith, her album's doing alright without Radio 1's support. Not really sure why Kylie hasn't connected with the public this time round. Bit of a shame really cos it's her best album for years! Edited April 2, 201412 yr by Mango
April 2, 201412 yr Maybe as a personality rather than for her music. Hasn't she had support from radio 2? Other artists shift albums without the support of radio 1. True, but those tend to be MOR/AOR artists, not pop...
April 2, 201412 yr I was half expecting Kylie to struggle this era, it's obvious she's not in as strong a position as she was for when 'All The Lovers' is released and 4 years is a lifetime in pop. She's in the same boat as the likes of Britney, Madonna, Christina etc now in that they're last generation's pop stars. We have Katy Perry, Rihanna and Gaga (well, sort of regarding the latter) as the top dogs now. It's just the way it goes, in 10 years time it'll be their turn to be flushed out and replaced by new ones.
April 2, 201412 yr It's a shame really though that the public buys records basing on "generation" and not on the quality of music.
April 2, 201412 yr I am not and never have been a fan of Kylie's but I have to admit I prefer this single to any of her recent ones. Still glad she's dropping fast though!
April 2, 201412 yr Lots of flops this week. So many we need a flop gif. 2 Sam Bailey - The Power Of Love (8.6k) Flop 4 George Michael - Symphonica (5.6k) Flop 5 Christina Perri - Head Or Heart (5.4k) * Flop 6 Steel Panther - All You Can Eat * Flop 13 Shakira - Shakira. Flop 14 Band Of Skulls - Himalayan * Followed by another flop And then even more lower down!! :o So many flops in 1 week! Top 5 is hardly a flop... They're the 5 BEST selling albums of the week, for God's sake :lol:
April 2, 201412 yr 2 Sam Bailey - The Power Of Love (8.6k) I'd love to know what proportion of this was bought on Sunday :D. Regardless, she shouldn't slump too much this week - wasn't sure what to expect considering every aspect of the release and its marketing and promotion has been focused on Mother's Day. George Michael has been holding incredibly well. With his show airing this week, I expect he'll get the number one. Looking unlikely that Shakira will stay top 20 in the singles chart :(. Thought it was doubtful that she'd even go top 40 off the back of a performance on The Voice, even with the video release coinciding nicely with it, so she's done very well considering the minimal airplay.
April 2, 201412 yr I'm amazed that Haim have managed to climb to #29 with this post-album track. :D Great for them, I think it's becoming their most well-known song!
April 2, 201412 yr Midweek Singles Charts: Aloe Blacc is The Man at No 1 Aloe Blacc is set for his first UK No 1 single in his own right with The Man comfortably leading the midweeks. Blacc, who topped the chart last year as an uncredited vocalist on Avicii’s Wake Me Up, has opened up a lead of around 30,000 sales with the Interscope/Polydor track having already sold 50,000 copies, according to the Official Charts Company. The Man, which samples Elton John’s breakthrough hit Your Song co-written with Bernie Taupin, will become only Blacc’s second UK Top 10 hit under his own name after the No 2 peaking I Need A Dollar in 2010. Also stepping out on his own is Swede John Martin who has had a series of UK Top 10 hits already as a collaborator or featured artist. These take in hits with Swedish House Mafia, including the chart-topping Don’t You Worry Child, Sebastian Ingrosso and Tommy Trash (Reload) and Tinie Tempah (Children Of The Sun). He should now add to that list the Island-issued individual effort Anywhere For You, which is new at 4 in the midweeks. Meanwhile, the Republic/Island track I’m A Freak by Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull is looking to race back into the Top 10 after Iglesias performed it on BBC One’s The Voice last weekend. Having previously debuted and peaked at No 4, it now rises 11-8 with weekly sales up 55%. RCA act Shakira is also benefitting from a performance on the same programme with Empire rising 61-20 in the midweeks and sales up 867%. Australian band 5 Seconds Of Summer debuted at No 1 on the singles chart last Sunday with the Capitol-issued She Looks So Perfect, but it is suffering heavy losses week two with sales down 82% and a fall to No 10 in the midweeks. Duke Dumont’s former No 1 I Got U, featuring Jax Jones and on his Blasé Boys Club label via Virgin EMI, holds at 2 in the midweeks as Columbia act John Legend moves back up 5-3 with All Of Me. There is a two-place drop to 5 in the week so far for the Relentless/Epic single Changes by Faul & Wad Ad Vs Pnau as two singles featuring Jess Glynne slide. The Rinse/Virgin EMI single My Love by Route 94 is down 4-6 as the Glynne-assisted Rather Be by Atlantic act Clean Bandit drops 8-9. Completing the Top 10, Pharrell Williams’ RCA-handled Happy is down 6-7. Paolo Nutini is heading for his first UK Top 20 single since 2009’s Pencil Full Of Lead with the Atlantic track Scream Funk My Life Up) new at 11 in the midweeks. It is taken from his third album Caustic Love, which comes out on April 14. Issued on the Akashic label via Sony, The Klaxons’ There Is No Other Time is new at 33 in the midweeks as the Demon-issued Your Love by Frankie Knuckles makes an appearance at No 35 following the house music pioneer’s death aged 59 on Monday. Source: MW, by Paul Williams ~~~~~ Midweek Album Charts: Kaiser Chiefs find new voice with sales revival Kaiser Chiefs are heading for a chart revival with their new album Education Education Education & War challenging for the No 1 position. The band, whose frontman Ricky Wilson is enjoying a new profile as a coach on BBC One’s The Voice, presently have a lead of a few hundred sales at the top of the midweek artist albums chart with Sam Bailey placed second, according to Official Charts Company data. The newly-issued album is the group’s fifth and follows 2011’s The Future Is Medieval, which debuted and peaked at No 10, their lowest chart placing yet. Their only No 1 album to date was Yours Truly Angry Mob, which came out in 2007. Education Education Education & War has come out via Universal’s label services division Caroline International and, even if it does not end up at No 1 when the full-week chart is published on Sunday, will become Caroline’s highest charting album yet since launching last year. There are three other brand new albums among the top six sellers in the week so far with arrivals from Johnny Cash, Christina Perri and Steel Panther. Cash, who died in 2003, is set for a posthumous return with the Columbia-issued Out Among The Stars, which comprises previously-unissued recordings he made in 1981 and 1984 with Billy Sherrill producing. It is presently showing up as a new entry at No 3, setting up the possibility that Cash may score a top five album in the UK for the first time since The World Of Johnny Cash in 1970. Atlantic act Christina Perri’s second album Head Or Heart is new at 5, four places higher than where her 2011 debut Lovestrong peaked. A place below, Los Angeles heavy metal band Steel Panther are poised to hit a new chart peak in the UK with their fourth album All You Can Eat, which is released on their Open E Music label via Kobalt. To date they have only once cracked the UK Top 40, claiming a No 37 peak with their last album Balls Out in 2011. The X Factor 2013 winner Sam Bailey debuted at No 1 last Sunday with The Power Of Love, but it now drops to 2 with sales down 54%, while George Michael’s former EMI-issued chart-topper Symphonica slips 2-4 in the week so far but is likely to be boosted by BBC One screening a concert of his from Paris on Tuesday night. The rest of the Top 10 is heading down with Pharrell Williams’ RCA-handled G I R L slipping 4-7, the Chess/Universal-issued Going Back Home by Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey dropping to No 8 after debuting at 3 last weekend, Fiction/Polydor’s Elbow easing 7-9 with The Take Off And Landing Of Everything and Columbia’s John Legend down 5-10 with Love In The Future. Southampton alternative rock band Band Of Skulls’ third studio album Himalayan, released on their Electric Blues label, is new at 14 in the midweeks, while other brand new entries within the Top 40 in the week to date come from Century Media’s Lacuna Coil, the Provogue-signed Robert Cray Band and Runrig on the Ridge label. - Source: MW, by Paul Williams Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Source: Radio 1/OCC Top 40 Singles 1 Aloe Blacc - The Man (49.5k) * 2 Duke Dumont feat. Jax Jones - I Got U (20.5k) 3 John Legend - All Of Me (20.4k) 4 John Martin - Anywhere For You (17.1k) * 5 FAUL and Wad Ad vs. Pnau - Changes (16.3k) 6-10 8 Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull - I'm A Freak 11-20 11 Paolo Nutini - Scream (Funk My Life Up) * 13 Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne and Tyga - Loyal 20 Shakira - Empire * 21-30 22 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 26 will.i.am feat. Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa and DJ Mustard - Feelin' Myself 29 HAIM - If I Could Change Your Mind 31-40 31 Beyoncé feat. Jay-Z - Drunk In Love 33 Klaxons - There Is No Other Time * 35 Frankie Knuckles - Your Love * 36 Kylie Minogue - Into The Blue ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatesingles/print =================================================== Top 40 Albums 1 Kaiser Chiefs - Education, Education, Education & War (12.2k) * 2 Sam Bailey - The Power Of Love (11.5k) 3 Johnny Cash - Out Among The Stars (10.7k) * 4 George Michael - Symphonica (7.9k) 5 Christina Perri - Head Or Heart (7.0k) * 6-10 6 Steel Panther - All You Can Eat * 11-20 11 London Grammar - If You Wait 13 Shakira - Shakira. 14 Band Of Skulls - Himalayan * 20 HAIM - Days Are Gone 21-30 23 Enrique Iglesias - SEX AND LOVE 27 Lacuna Coil - Broken Crown Halo * 29 The Robert Cray Band - In My Soul * 30 Runrig - Party On The Moor * 31-40 32 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 34 Katy Perry - PRISM ^ 35 Lorde - Pure Heroine ^ 37 The 1975 - The 1975 http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/updatealbums/print http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/c...s-weekend-2880/
April 2, 201412 yr 'The Man' might just scrape 100k this Sunday! Can't see that happening, didn't 5SoS did around 70k this time last Weds, and missed out by 6k, plus Aloe Blacc has only done 10k for Tues
April 2, 201412 yr It's a shame really though that the public buys records basing on "generation" and not on the quality of music. Has anyone who's ever used this logic ever stopped to think that *maybe* they aren't doing so well because they don't appeal to the music buying audience enough? Kylie had a #1 album with a fairly long-running top 3 single last time around so it's clearly not just 'oh people aren't buying it cos she's old'.
April 2, 201412 yr Sam Bailey only closed the gap to Kaisers by 100 copies yesterday so not so sure she can catch them by the Sunday
April 2, 201412 yr I was half expecting Kylie to struggle this era, it's obvious she's not in as strong a position as she was for when 'All The Lovers' is released and 4 years is a lifetime in pop. She's in the same boat as the likes of Britney, Madonna, Christina etc now in that they're last generation's pop stars. We have Katy Perry, Rihanna and Gaga (well, sort of regarding the latter) as the top dogs now. It's just the way it goes, in 10 years time it'll be their turn to be flushed out and replaced by new ones. Aphrodite did reach number one but still only sold just over 300k in total. Kiss me once will be lucky to sell 100k though.
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