7 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

President ought to do something too but I guess the problem with being an anonymous act is that signed products are less of a draw.

If only they were fronted by a very popular member of a boyband…

given the fact everyone knows who he is, I guess you could say he's been... Busted

Breath of the wild making the top 40 would be quite something!

7 minutes ago, ___∆___ said:

She’s doing some promo though - her Banquet album show went ahead, she’s been active (or her team have) on socials and she’s just announced personally signed CD and Vinyl via Banquet.

Will see if the deluxe edition and personally signed can stabilize it but guessing it’ll miss the Top 20 atm.

That's correct and let's see whether this might help the album to debut inside the Top 20 or not, although it could go either way.

As a side note, I wanted to double check this first, but Sam was at #7 with almost 2.7k on Monday's update, while Ellie's at #10 with 2.5k. Independently of Ellie's situation with her management and label, this is a huge disappointment and this is on the verge to miss the Top 20 as you said.

4 minutes ago, maggotsforbrains said:

given the fact everyone knows who he is, I guess you could say he's been... Busted

Thinking a t-shirt that says: 'I won The Masked Singer... and now I am one'.

I had wondered if they'd get the No.1 actually, Kasabian are on a much lower sale than I expected at this stage. Then again, everyone is, has everyone suddenly stopped listening to/buying music recently?

I know it was an anniversary edition but i thought Beyoncé would’ve been higher on the Monday update at least?!

I’m not too shocked at Ellie as of yet. She did drop a deluxe today so let’s what this does (she’s at #4 on iTunes currently with the deluxe version).

5 minutes ago, JSG said:

Breath of the wild making the top 40 would be quite something!

Has their ever been computer game music making either chart before?

I can think of some that sampled video game songs, like Hotline Bling by Drake and Freak Like Me by the Sugababes. And Ayo Technology by 50 Cent which has an instrumental that sounds like a GameBoy song lol.

1 hour ago, tasospe said:

Natalia Imbruglia Top-10! wow! it's a great album. Really deserved

Great start but I'm slightly worried it's front loaded and won't sell much for the rest of the week but hopefully she pushes for sales throughout the week.

4 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I had wondered if they'd get the No.1 actually, Kasabian are on a much lower sale than I expected at this stage. Then again, everyone is, has everyone suddenly stopped listening to/buying music recently?

Honestly this! The fact that the #1 song on Spotify has 288k streams (RMI) and nothing of note is challenging it - it feels like everyone has suddenly stopped streaming/listening to music.

Guess some of it is down to streaming maturing and the plays being spread out across multiple artists and songs rather than concentrated on a few top songs.

The album chart is lowkey so exciting to follow even with low-ish sales. It’s so surprising at times that acts you think on paper challenge for #1 are nowhere near there and then other acts fully surprise you.

I guess it goes to show the power signings, active promo on release week and bundles etc can do. I guess as well it shows what artists have dedicated fanbases and who just had a significant general public pull?! But every week or so I tend to have a surprise on the albums front.

19 minutes ago, Henessy Lake said:

How come they don't have Adélas sales numbers.

They just forgot to include it

4 minutes ago, Eric_Blob said:

Has their ever been computer game music making either chart before?

I can think of some that sampled video game songs, like Hotline Bling by Drake and Freak Like Me by the Sugababes. And Ayo Technology by 50 Cent which has an instrumental that sounds like a GameBoy song lol.

Doctor Spin's Tetris reached #6 in 1992, the same year that SuperMarioLand by Ambassadors Of Funk (with a featuring credit for Mario himself under "MC Mario") made #8 on the singles charts.

as for albums, iirc a handful of video game soundtracks have made component or genre album charts but not the main top 100 - toby fox's various DELTARUNE Chapter soundtracks have charted on Soundtrack Albums this decade, for example.

Edited Monday at 17:441 day by maggotsforbrains

On last Tuesday's update (no Monday update as it was a bank holiday), Ella was at least 904 sales ahead of Sienna (who was #6 so no sales figure given), and no more than 2,401 sales ahead (which was how far Ella was from Islands in the Stream, at #7). The gap was 1,139 on Wednesday, and 1,644 by Friday.

Today, Ella's 701 ahead, which is a smaller gap than the best case scenario for last Tuesday. That said, Ella increased her lead by the end of the week so I'd put my money on her right now.

5 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

They just forgot to include it

On the bright side, I guess this gives more excitement, lol! 😅

I mean, the only information known is that ADÉLA is at #3 with chart sales between 3.5k and 7.5k. Her streaming numbers are very good (more than Kasabian and PRESIDENT) and this could give her an edge of a possible outcome in the next update, which is on Wednesday.

1 hour ago, maggotsforbrains said:

curious how close ADÉLA is to Kasabian and PRESIDENT - if her sales are close behind, her stronger streaming could give her the chance to overtake by the end of the week

new Singles Chart entries outside the top 40:

#44: Burn Down The Disco by James Marriott

#51: GASS by Nemzz feat. Travis Scott

#69: Nicole Kidman by ADÉLA

#93: SaWaDiKa by LISA

It is getting ever more difficult for any tracks to break through.

23 minutes ago, JosephStyles said:

On last Tuesday's update (no Monday update as it was a bank holiday), Ella was at least 904 sales ahead of Sienna (who was #6 so no sales figure given), and no more than 2,401 sales ahead (which was how far Ella was from Islands in the Stream, at #7). The gap was 1,139 on Wednesday, and 1,644 by Friday.

Today, Ella's 701 ahead, which is a smaller gap than the best case scenario for last Tuesday. That said, Ella increased her lead by the end of the week so I'd put my money on her right now.

Ella was pushing the 59p official store download though hence the 1.7k sales in downloads so I still think it's going to be nail bitingly close this week.

Ooooh that's really decent for Natalie M Broolia! Hopefully she can notch up another top 10 🤞

Big ouch for Ellie G at #10! Maybe I was a bit hasty declaring Sam Smith flop of the year if that falls lower?

Interesting that artists like Sam and Ellie are struggling on the albums chart but artists who never reached the heights they did like Natalie Imburglia, Bananarama, Louise (and countless others some of whom I didn’t even know existed) are all doing better than they did even in their peaks.

I know it’s not a shock that artists who relied on radio and the general public for hits and didn’t connect with a certain niche (gay men, rock fans etc.) struggle on a fanbase-driven chart, but it still is surprising to see someone like Natalie Imbruglia outselling Ellie Goulding.

Then some of my favourites who are somewhat known names, like Sara Bareilles, can’t even make the midweek chart with their new albums! It feels almost random whose albums chart well and whose doesn’t.

Is this week gonna have a new person at number 1 in every update lol considering Sienna lead over ella now on spotify and amazon

1 hour ago, girl_from_oz said:

Ellie’s album isn’t bad, but I don’t think I’ve heard any of the tracks playlisted on radio 2, which you would have thought there would have been if there was any proper promotion going into the album.

Radio 1 did actually playlist at least one of them!

1 hour ago, maggotsforbrains said:

given the fact everyone knows who he is, I guess you could say he's been... Busted