Well, one good side effect of low album sales means we have two brilliant bands able to get high when I wasn't expecting anywhere close, for Halestorm especially! I doubt they'll stay there throughout the week but it would be lovely to see one of them beat James Bay to the #1 spot.

 

Both charts suddenly becoming very interesting this week actually.

Haha, I didn't even know either Halestorm or Wombats were out. Better go download those then. :D

 

(Halestorm for the top please)

 

I've never even heard of Halestorm!

I've never even heard of Halestorm!

They're a heavy rock band with a female singer. They haven't had any hits over here so I ain't surprised at the questioning.

 

They won't hang on sadly :( looks like James will be back on top quite easily.

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Please can I have 1989 position? :heart:

 

Also completely forgot Shawn Mendes new album is out- looking forward to giving it a spin as loved what I heard so far

Who's out of the top 40, Jay?

Philip George, Meghan Trainor, Stevie McCrorie, Sigma/Labrinth, Sam Smith [Like I Can] - I think that's everything. :D

 

do you know what position Madonna is?

'Rebel Heart' is #37! Nothing else in the Top 100 unfortunately.

 

Since sales are so low, is Marina's album in the top 100 by any chance, Jay?

Sadly not :(

I've never even heard of Halestorm!

 

And this is one time I wouldn't expect you to! I'm quite surprised at this success myself.

 

They're somewhere a bit to the harder side of Paramore basically, I think they're rather awesome. Neither of their previous two albums had anywhere near this success (relative of course, they had stronger sales climates to contend with) although I suppose a couple of their first single releases from this one briefly showing up in the lower top 100 of iTunes should have tipped me off a little.

Please can I have 1989 position? :heart:

#14 for Taylor ^_^

Stevie out already :rofl: :rofl:

Really hope Meghan can get back in and that wish you were mine racket exits

I hope Sia - "Chandelier" drops out by Sunday

Stevie out already :rofl: :rofl:

Really hope Meghan can get back in and that wish you were mine racket exits

It'll squeeze back in replacing Robyn by Sunday unfortunately :(

Really hope Meghan can get back in

I hope "Lips Are Movin" stays out and "Dear Future Husband" climbs higher

Kodaline coming for that first post-album Top 40 hit then. Nice to see Eels currently top 40 in the albums as well. Didn't think it would do as well as it's a live album.

:D :D :D at Like I Can finally leaving this week. All we need now is for Lay Me Down x2 to leave then we're FREE of Sam Smith in the chart :yahoo:

 

Stevie McCrorie already out the top 40 :rofl: what a floppage!

Oh well that's the #1 single sewn up for the next 6 weeks :lol: its the new Uptown Funk :drama: I'm sure its going to sell over 200k for the week.

 

 

Thanks Jay for compiling the update.

I hope Sia - "Chandelier" drops out by Sunday

 

No.

I certainly did not expect to see Shayne Ward as high as number 11 in the album chart. I, without doubt expect the album to continue dropping for the remainder of the week but a top 40 place is looking very positive. I like Shayne, it would be be wonderful to see him do extremely well but i did anticipate the album to make something like a number 73 debut when I heard it was definitely getting released.

No.

It's been there too long. It will end up overtaking "Stay With Me" as the most recent song with the most consecutive weeks in the top 40. I'd rather see "Big Girls Cry" enter the top 40

It's been there too long. It will end up overtaking "Stay With Me" as the most recent song with the most consecutive weeks in the top 40. I'd rather see "Big Girls Cry" enter the top 40

 

It absolutely deserves to outdo dross like 'Stay With Me'.

I wonder if Tori can stay Top 100 in the albums.

I certainly did not expect to see Shayne Ward as high as number 11 in the album chart. I, without doubt expect the album to continue dropping for the remainder of the week but a top 40 place is looking very positive. I like Shayne, it would be be wonderful to see him do extremely well but i did anticipate the album to make something like a number 73 debut when I heard it was definitely getting released.

It doesn't really require much to start out fairly high in the midweeks at the moment! He's only sold 2,400 to get to midweek #11, and with his Pledge scheme I'm a little surprised he hasn't sold more than that actually.

 

To retain his #11 position for Sunday, he'll need to shift 5,000 overall. That might be unachievable but he does have signings this week, so I guess we'll have to see what sort of impact that has on his sales! :D Currently he's less than 500 copies behind #5.