April 24, 201412 yr Surprised Iggy Azalea hasn't fallen behind John Legend yet, must only be a few copies separating them both! Paloma overtake Eels as expected, I wouldn't rule out her pushing Iggy down to #5. Hopefully Iggy will still be safe for a Top 5 debut, such a strong first studio album, many highlights and only a couple at the end which I haven't warmed to yet. I know :cry:
April 24, 201412 yr Just occurred to me that this week is the 7th time in 8 weeks that there's been a new #1 for an act who has never previously made the top 40 (Route 94, DVBBS/Borgeous, Jax Jones, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Sigma, Kiesza and now Mr Probz).
April 24, 201412 yr Just occurred to me that this week is the 7th time in 8 weeks that there's been a new #1 for an act who has never previously made the top 40 (Route 94, DVBBS/Borgeous, Jax Jones, 5 Seconds Of Summer, Sigma, Kiesza and now Mr Probz). I suppose people buy into songs more than artists in the download era, particularly with dance music which has admittedly always been the case for the genre. What's ironic is that dance music used to MAJORLY rely on physical sales, even at the beginning of the download era. And then as download sales grew dance music was sort of pushed out of the singles charts for a bit, especially in 2006-8 save for a few acts. But as more and more dance fans have become used to downloading it's taken over again completely in the past two years. I do think a lot of it is testament to the rising quality of both the genre and the songs being pushed by radio. Look at the dance songs that did well in 2006-8 - tons of uninspired 80s looped house crap and the likes of Basshunter, Infernal, Cascada and Scooter, all of which I love but they weren't exactly pushing the boundaries. Now we have Disclosure, Clean Bandit, Rudimental, Route 94, Duke Dumont, Sigma etc...British dance music, particularly mainstream dance is probably better than it ever has been and it's good to see radio supporting so much quality dance. And Dutch dance acts are back on form too in a way they haven't been for about 15 years! TL;DR version is basically that dance is the dominant genre at the moment, most dance acts tend to be anonymous often one hit wonders, hence a lot of No.1's that we get now will be from new and emerging producers and DJ's, as the first few months of this year have shown.
April 24, 201412 yr While I am surprised that Indiana is still top-10 after peaking at 15 on Sunday and being low top-20 since then! Its the EP that's holding it up. Great result!
April 25, 201412 yr Iggy is free falling on iTunes now so top 3 no longer seems to be happening at all, hopefully she's sold enough at this point for top 5 on Sunday :/ what a messy campaign, stayed in the UK for basically most of last year only to not even set foot in the country for the entire album campaign -_- Edited April 25, 201412 yr by jmmc
April 25, 201412 yr With Gods & Monsters now #30 on iTunes, I guess Lana must be very close to another T40 entry?
April 25, 201412 yr Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Mr Probz - Waves (95.4k) * 2 Kiesza - Hideaway (40.6k) 3 Sigma - Nobody To Love (34k) 4 Cash Cash feat. Bebe Rexha - Take Me Home (30k - 500 copies ahead of John Legend) * 5 John Legend - All Of Me (29.5k) 6-10 6 DJ Cassidy feat. Robin Thicke and Jessie J - Calling All Hearts * 7 Neon Jungle - Welcome To The Jungle * 11-20 12 Indiana - Solo Dancing * 14 Idina Menzel - Let It Go 20 Coldplay - Magic 21-30 28 Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn and Katie Lopez - Do You Want To Build A Snowman? 31-40 31 Joel Compass - Forgive Me * 34 The Kooks - Down * 35 DJ Snake and Lil Jon - Turn Down For What 37 Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel - For The First Time In Forever ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Paolo Nutini - Caustic Love (34.4k) 2 The Vamps - Meet The Vamps (7.8k) 3 John Legend - Love In The Future (6.9k) 4 Iggy Azalea - The New Classic * (6.5k) 5 Paloma Faith - A Perfect Contradiction (6.2k - 1.2k ahead of the Eels) 6-10 6 Eels - The Cautionary Tales Of Mark Oliver Everett * 11-20 12 Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection ^ 13 Katy B - Little Red 14 Kelis - Food * 21-30 22 Lana Del Rey - Born To Die ^ 25 Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up 27 The Stone Roses - The Very Best Of ^ 31-40 31 P!nk - Greatest Hits... So Far!!! ^ 35 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses ^ 39 Ed Sheeran - + ^
April 25, 201412 yr Sales to be added at some point if we get any. Unfortunately we don't get MW mid reports no more.
April 25, 201412 yr Indiana :cry: We all knew it was going to happen, but I was so counting on this being a top 10 hit all along. Still fabulous.
April 25, 201412 yr Hooray at DJ Cassidy falling out of the top 5. Should think Justin is just outside today and should climb in on Sunday.
April 25, 201412 yr Hooray at DJ Cassidy falling out of the top 5. Should think Justin is just outside today and should climb in on Sunday. He Must to... almost top 20 and he is top 30 for 2 days.
April 25, 201412 yr Hopefully Meridian Dan and Elyar Fox will make way for Lana Del Rey & Justin over the weekend, currently Meridian Dan is at #36 and Elyar Fox at #40. Currently Christina Perri is at #39, hopefully she does enough over the weekend to sustain another week in the 40. The Kooks are performing on Alan Carr tonight so they should get a bit of a boost, top 30 will be nice for them.
April 25, 201412 yr Whitney Houston, The Ultimate Collection, i thought i read this usually charts on the budget chart. Has that changed? What is Gary Barlow's album position today?? Edited April 25, 201412 yr by pippa
April 25, 201412 yr Author Whitney Houston, The Ultimate Collection, i thought i read this usually charts on the budget chart. Has that changed? It's reduced on iTunes and the budget chart only counts physical sales. Expect Whitney to drop straight out the official chart when the price is reverted!
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