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It’s likely between Adele and Ed for #1 again, while All Too Well should be among the arrivals from Taylor Swift’s re-recorded Red album. There’s new singles from Juice WRLD, Avril Lavigne, Polo G, Rosalia/The Weeknd and Tate McRae, plus potential big climbs for Silk Sonic and Sam Fender

 

An open battle for this week’s #1 album includes new contenders from Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version), Little Mix’s hits collection Between Us and Rod Stewart’s The Tears of Hercules all taking on ABBA and Ed Sheeran. There’s also big releases from Bruno Mars & Anderson .Paak’s An Evening With Silk Sonic and IDLES’ fourth record Crawler, along with albums from Damon Albarn, Courtney Barnett, Kylie Minogue, The Wanted, Ronan Keating, The Reytons, Holly Humberstone and Dave Gahan

 

Breakdown of the week

- Saturday: Some information may be posted on social media but it is likely to be missing most streaming data and is unrepresentative.

- Sunday: Official First Look Chart on Radio 1 from 6-7pm. Please do not post spoilers on the forum in advance as this ruins the countdown for any listeners.

- Monday: OCC Top 100 from 5:45pm

- Tuesday: Top 40 update as and when we receive them with requests, this is NOT 100% guaranteed however. The OCC may publish sales flashes of their own accord but likewise, this is not guaranteed. Twitter and social media is your friend for today. Please post any information you find with a source. Do not nag for updates, we will post a top 40 update if we receive one.

- Wednesday: Top 40 update from Music Week from 5:45, and potential top 5 sales but this is not guaranteed.

- Thursday: See Tuesday.

 

Other notes (please read)

- You may make requests Tuesday to Thursday but outside the top 40, specific positions will not be revealed (unless deemed necessary by a mod).

- Please do not demand a midweek update, one will be posted as and when we receive the information. Patience is a virtue.

- Sales information will be given out as deemed necessary by a moderator, please bear this in mind when making requests. Most requests for sales will be ignored. Any chart requests between No. 41 to 100 will not be answered after Monday's update.

- To keep everyone in the loop of all chart action, please refer to the iTunes and Spotify threads.

 

Official First Look Chart: Full Update

Source: OCC

 

1 Adele - Easy On Me

2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers

3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits

4 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name)

5 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti

6 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart

7 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) *

8 CKay - love nwantiti (ah ah ah)

9 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) *

10 Becky Hill & Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da)

 

11 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Smokin Out the Window

12 Central Cee - Obsessed With You

13 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good

14 Coldplay & BTS - My Universe

15 SwitchOTR feat. A1 x J1 - Coming for You

16 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

17 THE ANXIETY, WILLOW & Tyler Cole - Meet Me At Our Spot

18 Lil Nas X - THATS WHAT I WANT

19 Little Mix - No *

20 Juice WRLD - Already Dead *

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Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100

Source: OCC

Missing Data: unknown

 

Top 100 Singles

 

1 Adele - Easy On Me (21,919)

2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (21,688)

3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (17,670)

4 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) (11,943)

5 Ed Sheeran - Overpass Graffiti (11,297)

 

6-10

7 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor's Version) (10,285) *

10 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Smokin Out the Window

 

11-20

12 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) *

13 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) *

19 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

 

21-30

22 Juice WRLD - Already Dead *

25 Little Mix - No *

27 Acraze feat. Cherish - Do It To It

 

31-40

34 Justin Bieber - Ghost

36 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - OUT OUT

38 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Fly As Me *

40 Little Mix - Cut You Off *

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Top 100 Albums

 

1 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (24,915) *

2 Little Mix - Between Us (24,906) *

3 ABBA - Voyage (21,853)

4 Ed Sheeran - = (14,606)

5 Rod Stewart - The Tears of Hercules (12,472) *

 

6-10

6 IDLES - CRAWLER *

7 The Wanted - Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits *

8 Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows *

9 Kylie Minogue - DISCO ^

10 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic *

 

11-20

11 The Reytons - Kids off the Estate *

12 Ronan Keating - Songs From Home *

13 Nirvana - Nevermind ^

16 Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time *

18 Red Rum Club - How to Steal the World *

 

21-30

21 Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Imposter *

22 Elvis Presley - Elvis in Nashville *

25 Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin - EP *

 

31-40

37 Eric Clapton - The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions *

38 Luke Hemmings - When Facing the Things We Turn Away From *

 

Click on the above relevant links.

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Tuesday Top 40 Update

Missing Data: unknown

 

Singles

 

1 Adele - Easy On Me (30.0k)

2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (28.6k)

3 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) (25.0k) *

4 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (23.4k)

5 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) (16.2k)

 

6-10

9 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Smokin Out the Window

 

11-20

12 SwitchOTR feat. A1 x J1 - Coming for You

13 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) *

14 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good

18 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

19 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) *

 

21-30

22 Juice WRLD - Already Dead *

25 Acraze feat. Cherish - Do It To It

28 Little Mix - No *

 

31-40

34 Justin Bieber - Ghost

36 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - OUT OUT

39 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Fly As Me *

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Albums

 

1 ABBA - Voyage (28.4k)

2 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (27.2k) *

3 Little Mix - Between Us (26.8k) *

4 Ed Sheeran - = (19.4k)

5 Rod Stewart - The Tears of Hercules (15.6k) *

 

6-10

6 The Wanted - Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits *

7 IDLES - CRAWLER *

8 Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows *

9 Kylie Minogue - DISCO ^

10 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic *

 

11-20

11 The Reytons - Kids off the Estate *

12 Ronan Keating - Songs From Home *

14 Nirvana - Nevermind ^

19 Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time *

 

21-30

22 Red Rum Club - How to Steal the World *

29 Elvis Presley - Elvis in Nashville *

30 Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Imposter *

 

31-40

34 Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin - EP *

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Wednesday Top 40 ONLY Update

Source: Music Week

Missing Data: unknown

 

Singles

 

1 Adele - Easy On Me (39,453)

2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (36,332)

3 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) (35,090) *

4 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (29,896)

5 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) (21,675)

 

6-10

9 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Smokin Out the Window

 

11-20

11 SwitchOTR feat. A1 x J1 - Coming for You

14 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

15 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) *

19 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) *

 

21-30

23 Juice WRLD - Already Dead *

25 Acraze feat. Cherish - Do It To It

 

31-40

31 Little Mix - No *

33 Justin Bieber - Ghost

36 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - OUT OUT

40 Polo G - Bad Man (Smooth Criminal) *

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Albums

 

1 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (58,967) [45,028 physical, 9,989 streaming sales, 3,950 downloads] *

2 ABBA - Voyage (33,679)

3 Little Mix - Between Us (28,868) *

4 Ed Sheeran - = (23,582)

5 Rod Stewart - The Tears of Hercules (17,089) *

 

6-10

6 The Wanted - Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits *

7 IDLES - CRAWLER *

8 Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows *

9 Kylie Minogue - DISCO ^

10 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic *

 

11-20

11 The Reytons - Kids off the Estate *

12 Ronan Keating - Songs From Home *

14 Nirvana - Nevermind ^

 

21-30

22 Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time *

23 Adele - 21

 

31-40

31 Red Rum Club - How to Steal the World *

33 Elvis Presley - Elvis in Nashville *

34 Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Imposter *

37 Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin - EP *

40 Adele - 19 ^

 

NO OTHER SALES INFO

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Thursday Top 40 Update

Missing Data: unknown

 

Singles

 

1 Adele - Easy On Me (48.5k)

2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (43.4k)

3 Taylor Swift - All Too Well (Taylor's Version) (43.0k) *

4 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (36.0k)

5 ArrDee - Flowers (Say My Name) (26.9k)

 

6-10

10 SwitchOTR feat. A1 x J1 - Coming for You

 

11-20

11 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - Smokin Out the Window

12 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under

17 Taylor Swift - State of Grace (Taylor's Version) *

20 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) *

 

21-30

24 Juice WRLD - Already Dead *

25 Acraze feat. Cherish - Do It To It

 

31-40

31 Little Mix - No *

32 Justin Bieber - Ghost

36 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - OUT OUT

 

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

 

Albums

 

1 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version) (67.6k) *

2 ABBA - Voyage (37.5k)

3 Little Mix - Between Us (31.0k) *

4 Ed Sheeran - = (27.7k)

5 Rod Stewart - The Tears of Hercules (18.8k) *

 

6-10

6 Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows *

7 The Wanted - Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits *

8 IDLES - CRAWLER *

9 Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic - An Evening With Silk Sonic *

10 Kylie Minogue - DISCO ^

 

11-20

11 The Reytons - Kids off the Estate *

13 Ronan Keating - Songs From Home *

16 Nirvana - Nevermind ^

 

21-30

22 Adele - 21

28 Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time *

 

31-40

31 Red Rum Club - How to Steal the World *

39 Adele - 19 ^

Excited to see the album chart battle this week. It could be quite the battle between Taylor vs Rod vs ABBA. The top 10 should all have decent sales too with Little Mix/Ed/Kylie/Silk Sonic/Idles etc.

Excited for the album sales in general this week and how acts like The Wanted are going to perform - there is so much activity this week from everyone to get as many sales as possible.

 

Hopefully ‘Seventeen Going Under’ will manage Top 15 too on the singles chart.

Should be a decent week for album sales all round. I'm still pretty sure on my bet that ABBA will remain at #1 for a second week but i'm less confident about betting on Rod been the highest new entry after seeing Taylor's streaming figures.

EASY no.1 for Taylor. The ONLY competition is from Rod (kind of) and Abba/ Ed (if their sales hold up). Red is her best ever album, and whilst the remake is kins of flat and lacking the powerful production of the original Red - see State of Grace, her best ever song - its popularity should easily see it above Cheesy Ed Sheeran's 12 Cheese Slices.

ABBA could lose 80% of their sales from last week and still sell 40k, admittedly they have basically zero streaming support so will be relying on physicals but the indication was that they were continuing to hold up fairly well in that regard at the end of last week.

I wonder if the fact that supermarkets were actually stocking ABBA CDs when they haven't stocked anyone else for a while might have caused a bit of a skew here, if they'd only been available the way everyone else was available would they have done that many orders.

Think Abba’s Album will get a second week at #1, Album is currently best seller on Amazon, back up to 2 on iTunes and there is Abba Night on BBC2 tonight. Oh and Mamma Mia! Film is on ITV at moment (suspect they will advertise Album in breaks).

Also think there may have been some delayed physical copies from pre-orders (only got my CD yesterday).

I wonder if the fact that supermarkets were actually stocking ABBA CDs when they haven't stocked anyone else for a while might have caused a bit of a skew here, if they'd only been available the way everyone else was available would they have done that many orders.

 

I mean they definitely sold more because the album was available in supermarkets, but the supermarkets obviously decided there was a huge demand for the album vs other albums which is why they stocked it in the first place.

Just seems surprising that the supermarkets would apparently stock ABBA so much more prominently than Ed. Maybe that, if true, is a direct sign of 'No.6 Collaborations Project' being a momentum-killing move from him, if its lower physical sales than his previous albums, despite that being inevitable, maybe put off supermarkets from promoting the new album as much. (It no doubt would have sold far worse than his last album regardless but a bigger supermarket push would have helped!)

Just seems surprising that the supermarkets would apparently stock ABBA so much more prominently than Ed. Maybe that, if true, is a direct sign of 'No.6 Collaborations Project' being a momentum-killing move from him, if its lower physical sales than his previous albums, despite that being inevitable, maybe put off supermarkets from promoting the new album as much. (It no doubt would have sold far worse than his last album regardless but a bigger supermarket push would have helped!)

 

I don't think you can really compare Ed and ABBA in that regard tbh. Ed is huge, I know. However, ABBA is a legendary band that actually appeals to people of all ages. People in their 50s or 60s are more likely to pick up an ABBA album than Ed's. And what's more? This is an album coming after nearly 40 years.

what Im really rooting for is All Too Well for #1 in singles :) that be a shocker!

it's 200K ahead of Easy on Me on Spotify, so if it held up well...

also the short movie is out but actually not sure if it would count, guess so

Regarding the supermarkets discussion...

 

 

ABBA's physical split (182,567 overall):

 

Specialists - 147,462 [80.77%]

Supermarkets - 30,648 [16.79%]

Independents - 4,457 [2.44%]

 

 

Ed's physical split in his first week (94,527 overall):

 

Specialists - 71,245 [75.37%]

Supermarkets - 22,423 [23.72%]

Independents - 859 [0.91%]

^What does Specialists mean?

^What does Specialists mean?

HMV, Amazon, the official artist online stores, any other online stores associated with record labels (for example Recordstore / The Sound of Vinyl)!

 

I wonder if the fact that supermarkets were actually stocking ABBA CDs when they haven't stocked anyone else for a while

The list of albums below all managed 100+ sales in supermarkets this week! Ed sold 12,823. 3rd to 7th in the below list all sold from 1,000 to 1,999. Although it's evident that many supermarkets have cut back on stocking albums, there is seemingly still many stores that do have a wide range of recent releases!

 

VOYAGE ABBA

= ED SHEERAN

THE LOCKDOWN SESSIONS ELTON JOHN

GOLD - GREATEST HITS ABBA

MUSIC OF THE SPHERES COLDPLAY

THANK YOU DIANA ROSS

60 DANIEL O'DONNELL

LIFE BY MISADVENTURE RAG'N'BONE MAN

LET IT BE BEATLES

EVERYTHING LOUDER FOREVER - THE VERY MOTORHEAD

KIDZ BOP 2022 KIDZ BOP KIDS

IT'LL ALL MAKE SENSE IN THE END JAMES ARTHUR

FUTURE PAST DURAN DURAN

TOGETHER AT CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BALL & ALFIE BOE

TALES FROM THE SCRIPT - GREATEST HITS SCRIPT

SENJUTSU IRON MAIDEN

STILL RISING - THE COLLECTION GREGORY PORTER

PIANO MAN - THE VERY BEST OF BILLY JOEL

WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS - PT 2 STEPS

GREATEST HITS SIMON & GARFUNKEL

GREATEST HITS QUEEN

I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - THE BEST OF WHITNEY HOUSTON