Done so and gave it the maximum 15 points

 

I thought that was very good of you Pete as I know you'd rather NF was in there (so would I actually).

 

Kath

Yes, there are quite a few take that songs i would have prefered to have been ahead of back for good but at lesat one of their songs went this far so they have my support.

 

Take That’s sixth studio album Progress has become the first album to sell more than 2m copies in the 2010s.

 

After a spectacular first week sale of 518,601 copies, the album took 23 days to reach a million copies, and 139 days to sell two million.

 

It’s the fourth album by the band to sell upwards of 2m copies, joining Beautiful World (2,801,939 sales since its 2006 release), immediate predecessor The Circus (2,150,472, 2008) and 2005 compilation, Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection (2,094,070).

 

It’s the 32nd album to post more than 2m sales since 2000, reaching the target three days after the 31st – Michael Jackson’s 2003 compilation, Number Ones.

 

Take That is the only group to have four million selling albums in the 21st century, though Robbie Williams – who, of course, returned to the group for Progress – has four 2m selling albums to his credit this century, and an unprecedented six in total, in a solo capacity. For all its success, Progress slips to the lowest position of its 21 week chart career, falling 20-26 (5,691 sales) this week.

 

Progress became the first multi-million seller of the 2010s in the decade’s 65th week

Edited April 11, 201114 yr by jay727

Nice write up there and there success looks quite well when written like that.

This weeks uk update week ending april 24th

 

Progress down 6 to number 30 (cruising nicely past the 2 million mark)

 

Happy Now up 4 places to #89

 

The Circus dvd down 3 places to number 16 on its 74th week

Just out of interest....

 

I've just casually popped onto wikipedia and on the Take That discography it says that Take That and Party, Everything Changes and Nobody Else didnt chart in Ireland???

 

Im sure that they charted 2,1,1 respectively? but there appears to be no record of it which is very strange

 

 

To my knowledge in Ireland they charted:

 

Take That and Party #8

Everything changes #1

Nobody Else #1

ohh ok, i thought take that and party went to number 2? but its still very strange how its completely overlooked by wikipedia

 

 

Im not 100% certain but from charts, info etc i have take that and party never peaked above number 8, but i could be wrong.

Week Ending MAY 1ST

 

Progress down 2 places to #32 ( im very happy with this as it wasnt top 40 in the midweeks all week long so it bounced back a bit.

 

The circus live dvd drops 2 places to #18.

 

Rule the world has sold over 810,000 copies now which is great, i seen it in the chart thread, i had wondered if it managed 800,000 yet so was delighted to see it has done.

 

 

Quite week overall.

Edited May 1, 201114 yr by Aphrodite

The 2 nights in Croke Park have had a great result for Take That mainly in the Irish album chart.

 

Progressed up 1 place to #2

Greatest Hits up 19 places to #24

Ultimate Collection up 10 places to #36

The Circus up 21 places to #40

Beautiful World re enters at #68

 

Robbie's in and out of consciousness 1990-2010 re enters at number 74

 

Pet Shop Boys were the support act and the ultimate makes the top 100 for the first time at number 88.

Decent week for take that this week in the UK

 

Love love is still top 50 down 6 places to #50 (total sales roughly 91,000)

 

 

Progress/progress down 1 place to number 5 (total sales 2,220,313) of that progressed accounts for 150,946)

Ultimate Collection up 7 places to #66 (total sales roughly are 2,125,000

 

The Circus up 1 place to #8 (85th week on the chart) i would love to know total sales for this, it has to be well passed 1 million now.

if there any reason why take that music cant be downloaded by americans, as i heard that x factor usa played the flood in the background at one of the auditions but it wasnt available to download?? strange

 

 

Progressed drops 18 places to #92 this week

 

The Circus live drops 2 places on the dvd chart to #36 and its now on its 103rd week in the top 40.

Disapointing drop to say the least, hwoever, as it stands there is nothing to promote it. As it stands i would be happy now if the album could stay top 100 through the christmas period, with a stroke of luck the january sales might add further fuel to its chart life if the album price is reduced.

Progressed climbs 3 places to #89 this week.

 

 

The circus live dvd is a non mover at #36 .

Progressed clinbs 2 places to #87 and this weeks sales should push the album just over the 2.3 million mark now.

 

Progress live dvd makes a #1 debut (really hope to get sales infor on it)

The circus dvd drops 2 places to #38 this week.

Would sales for number 87 be lower or higher than 3,000 units?

i would say last week #87 would have sold in or around 2,000.

2,000 is better than nothing I guess, a climb this week would be nice, whether it will happen though is another thing.