guess it's cos apple exclusive, no physical CD, no Spotify

 

think the Celine Dion album is all songs in French, usually her French-language albums don't do well in the UK

New Releases

 

1. Ward Thomas - Cartwheels

2. A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations [also #65]

5. Jamie T - Trick

7. Wretch 32 - Growing Over Life

14. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Familia

15. The Divine Comedy - Foreverland [also #110]

17. Izzy Bizu - A Moment of Madness [also #94]

18. James Vincent McMorrow - We Move

27. Shaun Escoffery - Evergreen

29. King Creosote - Astronaut Meets Appleman

48. All Sons & Daughters - Poets & Saints

59. Angel Olsen - MY WOMAN

65. A Day To Remember - Bad Vibrations

84. The Wedding Present - Going, Going...

88. Freddie Mercury - Messenger of the Gods: The Singles Collection

94. Izzy Bizu - A Moment of Madness

110. The Divine Comedy - Foreverland

128. Skye & Ross - Skye & Ross

141. Dodgy - What Are We Fighting For

165. Anna Netrebko & co. - Verismo

183. The British Collective - Vol 1: The Renaissance Begins

184. The Frightnrs - Nothing More to Say

 

226. Zomby - Ultra

316. Lucie Silvas - Letters to Ghosts

401. Beach Baby - No Mind No Money

439. Carpenters - The Nation's Favourite Songs

440. La Femme - Mystére

441. The Quireboys - Twisted Love

498. Eluvium - False Readings On

561. Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers

868. Tim Burgess & Peter Gordon - Same Language, Different Worlds

Epic start for Ward Thomas considering their 2014 debut reached #41.

Epic start for Ward Thomas considering their 2014 debut reached #41.

 

Who the hell is Ward Thomas, anyway?

Who the hell is Ward Thomas, anyway?

 

it's a couple of girls from the UK doing country music :D

Amazon:

(#1 Barbra Streisand)

#4 Ward Thomas

#11 The Divine Comedy

#13 Freddie Mercury

#18 Jamie T

#26 A Day To Remember

#31 Izzy Bizu [also #86]

#33 Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#38 King Crimson

#49 Wedding Present

#50 Angel Olsen

#52 King Creosote

#71 Wretch 32

#74 Shaun Escoffery

 

Pre-orders for next week's releases:

#2 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

#7 Bastille - Wild World

#10 The Beatles - Live At the Hollywood Bowl

#36 KT Tunstall - KIN

#46 Trio - The Complete Trio Collection

#56 Meat Loaf - Braver Than We Are

#69 Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016

#77 Wilco - Schmilco

#87 Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence

 

Disappointing start for Sophie Ellis-Bextor, #17 on iTunes (#11 Artist Album) and #33 on Amazon. I really hoped the success of Wanderlust would propel this one to do well :(

I'm holding out for Sophie getting some casual buys in HMV and the supermarkets! She's a recognisable name and the success of Wanderlust will hopefully get people to buy this new one out of impulse.

Wretch 32 #1 :o

Ward Thomas #2

Jamie T #3

A Day To Remember #5

 

11. The Dolan Twins - Tunesdays

19. Travis Scott - Birds In the Trap Sing McKnight

25. Isiah Rashad - The Sun's Tirade

 

New Releases

 

1. Bastille - Wild World [also #11]

2. Twin Atlantic - GLA

3. Meat Loaf - Braver Than We Are

6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Skeleton Tree

10. 67 - Lets Lurk

11. Bastille - Wild World

12. KT Tunstall - KIN

13. Of Mice & Men - Cold World

20. The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl

21. Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016

22. Teenage Fanclub - Here

27. Jason Aldean - They Don't Know

34. ZZ Top - Live - Greatest Hits From Around the World

36. Wilco - Schmilco

37. M.I.A. - AIM

40. Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris - The Complete Trio Collection

46. Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence

47. St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Sea of Noise

49. Gavin DeGraw - Something Worth Saving

53. Local Natives - Sunlit Youth

77. New Order - Singles

87. Dabbla - Year of the Monkey

94. Whiskey Myers - Mud

95. The Verve - A Storm in Heaven (2016 Remastered/Deluxe)

108. Okkervil River - Away

122. Norma Jean - Polar Similar

153. The Verve - A Northern Soul (2016 Remastered/Deluxe)

163. Grouplove - Big Mess

164. Allah-Las - Calico Review

 

304. Karmin - Leo Rising

481. Pain - Coming Home

542. Pictish Trail - Future Echoes

720. clipping. - Splendor & Misery

1238. Petite Meller - Lil Empire

 

15. RAT BOY - GET OVER IT (EP)

 

Bastille's album is amazing - hope it opens with huge sales.

New Releases

 

 

95. The Verve - A Storm in Heaven (2016 Remastered/Deluxe)

 

153. The Verve - A Northern Soul (2016 Remastered/Deluxe)

 

I know the actual sales difference won't be huge, but I'm surprised to see these two so far apart (especially as it's this way round).

Mercury Prize Effect

17. Skepta - Konnichiwa

 

New Releases

3. Usher - Hard II Love

7. Young Guns - Echoes

12. Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji And Da Nice Time Kid

19. MAC MILLER - The Divine Feminine

23. AlunaGeorge - I Remember

24. Deap Vally - Femejism

30. Seth Lakeman - Ballads of the Broken Few

31. Taking Back Sunday - Tidal Wave

34. Keaton Henson - Kindly Now

37. Led Zeppelin - The Complete BBC Sessions (Live)

42. Casting Crowns - The Very Next Thing

44. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Orphee

55. Sam Bailey - Sing My Heart Out [also #169]

59. Shakin' Stevens - Echoes of Our Times

60. KING 810 - La Petite Mort or a Conversation With God

64. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me

77. Debbie Wiseman - The Musical Zodiac

103. Touché Amoré - Stage Four

104. Madeleine Peyroux - Secular Hymns

109. Neil Cowley Trio - Spacebound Apes

118. Preoccupations - Preoccupations

121. Anne Dudley - Poldark

122. Robert Glasper Experiment - ArtScience

133. Cubicolor - Brainsugar

141. Matt Berry - The Small Hours

151. Dawes - We're All Gonna Die

152. Ian Hunter & The Rant Band - Fingers Crossed

163. Aaron Lewis - Sinner

169. Sam Bailey - Sing My Heart Out

187. Trentemøller - Fixion

 

219. Petula Clark - From Now On

305. Ruts DC - Music Must Destroy

391. The Handsome Family - Unseen

739. Kishi Bashi - Sonderlust

854. Still Corners - Dead Blue

 

8. Pet Shop Boys - Say It To Me (EP)

70. TesseracT - Errai (EP)

134. Mystery Jets - The Whole Earth (EP)

 

-x-

 

Usher should manage a pretty high debut (possibly #1 even?) and also the Led Zeppelin album since it's very high on amazon pre-orders, pretty wide open other than that though!

 

I think Bastille will probably just have a second week at #1. Usher could challenge for #2 maybe?

I think Bastille will probably just have a second week at #1. Usher could challenge for #2 maybe?

Yeah I could see their sales holding up well enough to manage it, about 15k-ish would do it!

1. MIST - M I S to the T (EP)

 

2. Usher - Hard II Love

8. MAC MILLER - The Divine Feminine

11. Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid

15. Young Guns - Echoes

26. AlunaGeorge - I Remember

30. Led Zeppelin - The Complete BBC Sessions (Live)

32. Keaton Henson - Kindly Now

38. Deap Vally - Femejism

42. Shakin' Stevens - Echoes of Our Times

43. Sam Bailey - Sing My Heart Out

 

5. Skepta - Konnichiwa

 

 

 

The crap that is NOW Drivetime has dethroned NOW 94 from the top

New Releases

 

1. Shawn Mendes - Illuminate [also #17]

2. Passenger - Young As the Morning Old As the Sea [also #12]

8. Marillion - F E A R

9. Airbourne - Breakin' Outta Hell

10. Idina Menzel - idina.

11. Warpaint - Heads Up

12. Passenger - Young As the Morning Old As the Sea

14. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade / Living With Ghosts (10th Anniversary Edition)

17. Shawn Mendes - Illuminate

18. Bruce Springsteen - Chapter and Verse

20. Every Time I Die - Low Teens

21. Billie Marten - Writing of Blues and Yellows

22. Billy Bragg & Joe Henry - Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad

32. Billie Marten - Writing of Blues and Yellows

38. Vangelis - Rosetta

44. Joe Bonamassa - Live at the Greek Theatre

50. Giraffe Tongue Orchestra - Broken Lines

60. Chris de Burgh - A Better World

75. Akala - 10 Years of Akala

78. Jahmene - Unfathomable Phantasmagoria

82. Mick Jenkins - The Healing Component

84. Boxed In - Melt

85. Kristin Chenoweth - The Art of Elegance

94. RavenEye - Nova

106. Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam - I Had a Dream That You Were Mine

111. Insomnium - Winter's Gate

114. Crobot - Welcome to Fat City

117. Tash Sultana - Notion

131. Hannah Wants - FABRICLIVE 89: Hannah Wants

132. Timothy B. Schmit - Leap of Faith

163. Crowder - American Prodigal

164. Devendra Banhart - Ape in Pink Marble

165. Casey - Love Is Not Enough

181. Dwight Yoakam - Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars...

192. Lenzman - All for You

193. Beach Slang - A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings

 

Idina slaying *.*