March 20, 20178 yr Mixed reviews, #3 peak, three unsuccessful singles released pre-Rather Be, 100k copies sold as of this year across an original edition, deluxe edition, and special edition with bonus tracks. So, not bad, but not brilliant. They've got more momentum going in behind this one, you'd think. Not sure you can call Real Love unsuccessful given it went to #2 and I'd even argue Stronger was semi-successful.
March 20, 20178 yr Not sure you can call Real Love unsuccessful given it went to #2 and I'd even argue Stronger was semi-successful. They did say 'pre' Rather Be... i.e. Mozart's House etc.
March 20, 20178 yr Vera Lynn will definitely be #2 officially - although it's currently sold out on Amazon. Shame that Ed will prevent her becoming the oldest living singer to achieve a #1. Drake's album is almost ahead of her already with 2 fewer days of sales, and that's downloads only, not even yet including his streaming figures which should beef up his sales considerably. I think Vera will likely be #2 on sales (as her sales will be consistent/increasing through the week) but I doubt she'll beat Drake overall for the week. (also doesn't she already hold that record? :P)
March 20, 20178 yr Vera Lynn will definitely be #2 officially - although it's currently sold out on Amazon. Shame that Ed will prevent her becoming the oldest living singer to achieve a #1. Once Drake's streaming sales are added he's surely bound to be #2 easily. Good to have another decent week for album sales anyway, lots to prove the album format isn't as dead as perceived recently. Streaming is probably even rejuvinating the album concept in fact. I don't agree with the way Ed/Drake are being over-represented in the singles chart at all, but kudos to them both for getting a lot of young listeners to stream albums right the way through, as hopefully these consumers will continue to do so with other releases in the future.
March 20, 20178 yr I think the chart is utter crap. The idea of Drake and Ed Sheeran tracks filling the top end of the chart is worse that all the Jive Bunny singles put together! God help us if Drake and Ed Sheeran team up to do a duet! :w00t:
March 21, 20178 yr Surely if Drake and Sheeran did a duet that would only occupy one chart position? Yeah, number one for six months minimum. Please, don't give them this idea... :wacko:
March 21, 20178 yr http://i759.photobucket.com/albums/xx240/MarthaJonesFan/Friday%20Chart%20Predictions%20Tuesday.png Tuesday Top 40 Update Missing Data: Spotify (Monday) Singles 1 Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (45.0k) 2 Ed Sheeran - Galway Girl (41.7k) 3 Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill (23.0k) 4 The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This (20.5k) 5 Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson - Symphony (18.7k) * 6-10 6 Martin Jensen - Solo Dance 7 Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios 9 Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley - Chained to the Rhythm 10 Zedd & Alessia Cara - Stay 11-20 12 Jax Jones feat. RAYE - You Don't Know Me 13 Rag'n'Bone Man - Human 15 Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean & Migos - Slide 16 Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me 21-30 22 Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared to Be Lonely 23 Drake - Passionfruit * 25 Drake feat. Giggs - KMT * 26 Julia Michaels - Issues 27 Bruno Mars - That's What I Like 30 Drake feat. Giggs - No Long Talk * 31-40 31 Lorde - Green Light 34 Martin Solveig feat. Ina Wroldsen - Places * 37 Maroon 5 feat. Future - Cold ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums 1 Ed Sheeran - ÷ (120.0k) 2 Drake - More Life (30.6k) * 3 Vera Lynn - 100 (21.2k) * 4 Depeche Mode - Spirit (19.2k) * 5 Rag'n'Bone Man - Human (15.4k) 6-10 6 Zara Larsson - So Good * 8 Motion Picture Cast Recording - Beauty and the Beast (OST) 11-20 12 Adele - 25 18 George Michael - Ladies and Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael 20 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Together 21-30 21 The Shires - My Universe ^ 23 Rick Ross - Rather You Than Me * 25 The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club ^ 31-40 31 Frances - Things I’ve Never Said * 35 Vera Lynn - National Treasure: The Ultimate Collection ^
March 21, 20178 yr The Drake album tracks are doing better than I expected today and the Ed album tracks are selling more too, but you'll notice there is no missing Apple Music data today which will explain that :magic: Hard to predict where the Drake tracks will end up as a result of this though.
March 21, 20178 yr Top 5 albums sales are so strong, credit to Rag n Bone Man for having such good sales since he released the album, its holding very strong. I would be delighted if Galway Girl can topple Shape of You,ideally i would like Ed Sheeran to have at least 2 number 1 singles from his divide album.
March 21, 20178 yr Drake is set to have nearly a whole quarter of the top 100 this week - all 22 songs on the album plus 'One Dance' and his feature on Nicki Minaj's 'No Frauds'.
March 21, 20178 yr Ed is not quite going to make 200k this week is he with "Divide" unless there is a late boost due to run-up to Mother's Day? Sales still holding up well and he should make 120k next week which will surely be enough to hold off Take That?
March 21, 20178 yr They did say 'pre' Rather Be... i.e. Mozart's House etc. Yup! :lol: My mistake! Definitely read it as post-Rather Be. Side note - a shame Mozart's House never took off, that was my favourite song from the album.
March 21, 20178 yr Yup! :lol: My mistake! Definitely read it as post-Rather Be. Side note - a shame Mozart's House never took off, that was my favourite song from the album. It seemed so unique at the time, decent track - I had no expectation they'd go from that to "Rather Be" to how huge they are today though!
March 21, 20178 yr Passionfruit could go top 5 by Friday, although should be an easy top 10. Praying that Anne-Marie holds on to top 10, even if it's just for a week!
March 21, 20178 yr Passionfruit could go top 5 by Friday, although should be an easy top 10. Praying that Anne-Marie holds on to top 10, even if it's just for a week! I'd be very surprised if Anne-Marie didn't hold onto the top 10!
March 21, 20178 yr how many Drake songs could go top 40 come Friday if he keeps the momentum on streams? was trying to estimate but I'm really bad at it... If the songs don't fall, many of them could do >15K on streams alone and go top 40 I think?
March 21, 20178 yr Martin Solveig could miss the top 40 thanks to Drake :( but on the plus side, we could lose one of Ed's album tracks from the top 40. With "KMT" entering, Giggs could be looking at his second top 40 hit Edited March 21, 20178 yr by Hadji
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