Posted December 13, 200619 yr Take That playing game of Patience on chart Source: Music Week Take That are continuing to dominate the Christmas market as they look poised this weekend to remain at the top of the singles and artist albums charts. Retail reports indicate the Polydor act’s single Patience and parent album Beautiful World will spend respectively a fourth and third week at number one this Sunday, in what will be the penultimate surveys before Christmas. Take That’s ongoing lead on albums comes in a market where the chart is now virtually locked in until Christmas, with little movement among the Top 10 titles and no new releases figuring in the chart. As such, the top five positions, which were filled last week by Take That, Big Brother’s Oasis, S’s Westlife, Syco’s Il Divo and the Mercury-handled U2, are expected to be occupied by the same acts again, while only Polydor’s Snow Patrol are likely to move into the Top 10. The band’s Eyes Open, which is already the biggest seller of the year to date, is set to be one of the strongest sales gainers of the week. Other big week-on-week sales gainers include Fascination/Polydor’s Girls Aloud, J/Sony BMG’s Rod Stewart and a UMTV-handled Neil Diamond best of. In contrast to the albums countdown, the singles chart will enjoy plenty of movement this weekend. Two Polydor releases, Chris Cornell’s You Know My Name and Gwen Stefani’s Wind It Up, are likely to move into the top five as a result of newly-issued physical formats, while the All Around The World track Truly Madly Deeply by Cascada and Bad Boy/Atlantic’s Tell Me by P Diddy featuring Christina Aguilera are on course to leap into the Top 10 for the same reason. Meanwhile, Sir Cliff Richard will add to his unrivalled list of festive hits with 21st Century Christmas and a remake of his first hit Move It almost a certainty for a Top 10 debut on Sunday. =================================================================== Singles 01 Take That - Patience 02 Chris Cornell - You Know My Name *Climber* 03 Gwen Stefani - Wind it Up *Climber* Top 5 Cascada - Truly, Madly Deeply *Climber* Top 10 Cliff Richard - 21st Century Christmas / Move It *New Entry* P. Diddy feat Christina Aguilera - Tell Me *Climber* Top 15 Lil Chris - Gettin' Enough *Climber* Top 20 Katie Price & Peter Andre - A Whole New World *Climber* Matt Willis - Don't let It Go To Waste *Climber* ======================================== Albums 01 Take That 02 Oasis 03 Westlife 04 Il Divo 05 U2 Top 10 Girls Aloud Snow Patrol Top 20 Pink Other Albums 21+ Rod Stewart Neil Diamond Courtesy of Andy @ havenforum
December 14, 200619 yr Author Thursday Update Top 20 Only Singles 01 Take That - Patience 14.7k 02 Cliff Richard - 21st Century Christmas / Move It *New Entry* 9.5k 03 Gwen Stefani - Wind it Up *Climber* 9.4k 04 Chris Cornell - You Know My Name *Climber* 05 Cascada - Truly, Madly Deeply *Climber* Top 10 P. Diddy feat Christina Aguilera - Tell Me *Climber* Top 15 Katie Price & Peter Andre - A Whole New World *Climber* Lil Chris - Gettin' Enough *Climber* Top 20 Crazy Frog - Last Christmas *New Entry* Matt Willis - Don't let It Go To Waste *Climber* Andy Abraham feat Michael Underwood - December Brings Me Back To You *New Entry* :o ======================================== Albums 01 Take That 102k 02 Oasis 71k 03 Westlife 69k 04 Il Divo 05 U2 Top 10 Girls Aloud Snow Patrol Top 20 Pink Courtesy of Andy @ havenforum
December 14, 200619 yr I'm not so sure that she will outsell him- he's always got a huge fanbase behind him.
December 14, 200619 yr Author Cliff is only 400 copies ahead, even Chris Cornell is close to Gwen, Nos 2 to 5 are pretty close, literally less than 400 copies between them
December 14, 200619 yr Sales look rather poor at this stage of the year :( Singles yes. But Albums Okay. I think also X-Factor doesn't encourage other artists to release singles at Christmas.
December 14, 200619 yr Author The positions 2 to 6 can change by Sunday, its literally very close between them, still 3 days to account for. Mariah Carey would have been #9 if she had a physical release of All I Want For Christmas
December 14, 200619 yr I think album sales are a little lower this year The #10 album last year sold 105k, this year that album would be at #5
December 14, 200619 yr Gwen will amke the #2 but I guess no chance 4 #1 :( where's her album Mikey???
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