Posted June 17, 200817 yr Coldplay eyeing first ever number one single Source: MW 12:58 | Tuesday June 17, 2008 By Paul Williams Coldplay are strong bets to score their first ever UK number one single with early retail sales suggesting Viva La Vida will debut at number one this Sunday. The Parlophone track had previously been excluded from the chart after being made available as an individual download to anyone pre-ordering the digital version of the band’s new album. However, that situation has now passed, allowing Viva La Vida to qualify for the singles chart for the first time. Coldplay, whose Speed Of Sound was famously prevented from becoming the band’s first number one single in 2005 by Crazy Frog, are presently a few hundred sales ahead of Mint Royale’s Syco-issued Singin’ In The Rain with Def Jam/Mercury’s Close by Ne-Yo third in a tightly-packed race among the leading contenders. In fact, there are little more than 2,000 sales separating the current midweek number one and Jive/RCA act Chris Brown’s Forever at number eight. While the battle for number one on the singles chart is too close to call at present, Coldplay are certainties to spend a second week at the top of the artist albums chart with Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends currently outselling its closest challenger, Rockferry by Duffy, by more than six units to one. Coldplay could also find themselves with two simultaneous Top 10 singles for the first time with Violet Hill presently sitting at 10 on the midweeks, up from 12 where it landed on last Sunday’s chart. Lower down, expect brand new entries in this coming weekend’s singles countdown from acts including the Subways and Billiam, while Cage The Elephant will break into the Top 40 for the first time, with Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked set to make a huge climb from its present chart position of 196. Back on the albums chart and, while Coldplay’s phenomenal sales mean the contest for number one this week is already over, the band will be joined by no less than eight brand new entries in the Top 20. These include Echo’s Feeder with Silent Cry and Dennis Wilson scoring his first-ever solo hit album in the UK, some 25 years after he died in a drowning accident. Sony BMG’s revival of his Pacific Ocean Blue & Bambu – 2 is presently eight in the midweeks, ahead of new entries from Darren Styles, Fleet Foxes, Sara Bareillies, The Music, Judas Priest and Weezer. Top 40 Only Singles 01 Coldplay - VLV 02 Mint Royale 03 Ne Yo 04 Rihanna 05 Sara Bareilles Top 10 8 Chris Brown Coldplay - VH Top 15 Jordin Sparks Top 30 Fall Out Boy Subways 25 Madonna - GI2M Maroon 5 Cage The Elephant Top 40 Flo Rida feat. Timbaland Nickelback Billiam ========================== Albums 01 Coldplay 02 Duffy 03 Neil Diamond 04 Paul Weller 05 Feeder Top 10 Dennis Wilson Darren Styles Top 15 Fleet Foxes Sara Bareilles The Music Rihanna Top 20 Judas Priest Weezer Top 30 Offspring Petula Clark NO SALES INFO ========================================= PLEASE NOTE Please keep this thread on topic at all times, I do not want to repeat myself every week, no text talk is allowed, do not write in block CAPS, and keep all requests in one post if you can, and try to read the thread topic before asking a question and please be patient while you are waiting for your question to be answered. I know some threads get long winded, and its a bummer to read through, but surely it can't be that hard if you bookmark the page... While you wait for your weekly dose of chart info to arrive after 11am sometime take part in our pinned games, not all updates are guaranteed every day but we try our hardest to keep the info coming in every day. Please do not post lists, or sales info unless you are told to by myself or a chart mod, if you do have sales info that you wish to share round them off to the nearest thousand and name your source, do not post precise sales figures. Thank you for your time. IF ANYONE SPAMS THIS TOPIC TO HIGH HEAVEN WILL BE GIVEN A WARNING, NOT REALLY VERY NICE FOR GUESTS TO READ ALL THE CLAPTRAP
June 17, 200817 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Singles 01 Coldplay - VLV 02 Ne Yo 03 Mint Royale 04 Sara Bareilles 05 Rihanna Top 10 6 Chris Brown Coldplay - VH Top 15 12 Jordin Sparks Jonas Brothers Top 20 Fall Out Boy Top 30 24 Madonna - GI2M 26 Maroon 5 The Subways Cage The Elephant Top 40 Billiam Flo Rida feat. Timbaland Nickelback - Photograph ========================== Albums 01 Coldplay 02 Duffy 03 Neil Diamond 04 Paul Weller 05 Feeder Top 10 Fleet Foxes Darren Styles Dennis Wilson Top 15 Sara Bareilles The Music Rihanna Top 20 Weezer Judas Priest Top 30 Scouting For Girls Madonna Petula Clark Offspring Top 40 Pendulum Dolly Parton - The Best Of NO SALES INFO
June 17, 200817 yr Author Thursday Update Top 40 Only Singles 01 Coldplay - VLV 02 Ne Yo 03 Sara Bareilles 04 Mint Royale 05 Rihanna Top 10 6 Chris Brown Coldplay - VH Top 15 12 Jordin Sparks Jonas Brothers Top 20 Fall Out Boy Top 30 Billiam Maroon 5 27 Madonna Cage The Elephant Busta Rhymes/Linkin Park Top 40 Flo Rida feat. Timbaland Subways Nickelback - Photograph ========================== Albums 01 Coldplay 02 Duffy 03 Neil Diamond 04 Paul Weller 05 Feeder Top 10 Darren Styles Fleet Foxes Sara Bareilles Top 15 Dennis Wilson 13 Rihanna The Music Top 20 Weezer Judas Priest Top 30 Petula Clark Madonna Dolly Parton Top 40 Offspring Pendulum NO SALES INFO
June 17, 200817 yr Author Friday Update Singles 1 Coldplay 16.4k 2 Ne-Yo 14.4k 3 Rihanna 12.9k - 60 copies ahead 4 Sara Bareilles 12.8k 5 Chris Brown 12.4k Top 10 Coldplay - VH Top 15 Jordin Sparks Jonas Brothers Top 20 Busta Rhymes Top 30 Billiam Madonna Maroon 5 Flo Rida Cage The Elephant Top 40 Nickelback - Photograph Subways Top 50 Weezer Mariah Carey - BB Urbnri Coldplay - Lost? Top 60 MGMT Freemasons Potbelleez Infadels Jesse McCartney Top 75 Estelle Top 90 Cure Top 100 Panic At The Disco Five O'Clock Heroes ================================= Albums 1 Coldplay 137k 2 Duffy 26.2k 3 Neil Diamond 15.7k 4 Paul Weller 13.4k 5 Darren Styles 12.7k Top 10 Feeder Fleet Foxes Sara Bareilles Top 15 Rihanna Dennis Wilson Top 20 Music Weezer Petula Clark Top 30 Judas Priest Scouting For Girls Madonna Dolly Parton - VBO Pendulum Top 40 Offspring Coldplay - X&Y Top 50 Amy MacDonald Robert Plant Coldplay - Parachutes Top 60 Coldplay - AROBTTH Top 70 UB40 MGMT Estelle Top 75 Mika Mariah Carey - GH Bon Jovi - CR Top 90 Jesse McCartney Top 130 Exit Thanks to 80spopkid at havenforum Top 200 info and sales from The Music Room
June 17, 200817 yr hard to predict this week...if Coldplay are eligible, it will be neck and neck between them and Mint Royale...Ne-Yo and Sara Bareilles should be top five too and probably Rihanna... in the albums I've got everything crossed for a top ten debut for Sara Bareilles...don't be surprised if Darren Styles ends up top 20 too!
June 17, 200817 yr Looks like we're gonna hit the same summer sales slump we got last year......why is this? any clue?
June 17, 200817 yr Looks like we're gonna hit the same summer sales slump we got last year......why is this? any clue? Why release in summer if sales are low? Fewer big releases means lower overall sales. Thats why mcfly have decided to release now, they will get their oh so famous number 1 single and get a high placing with the album and yet hardly sell anything.
June 17, 200817 yr I dont think its fair that coldplay cant chart and not coz i like them but people are buying the song, it should be there.
June 17, 200817 yr Author Its a double celebration for Coldplay its eligible Now give me a mo when I figure everything out
June 17, 200817 yr Coldplay's first No.1 is with an album track with no video :lol: finally heard the song this morning...it's not bad :D
June 17, 200817 yr OMG... single number 1 without videoclip and only from websales... unbeliveable... It's about time for them to have a sunle number 1... someone know about the sales? I'm worried about ne-yo climbing in the weekend and pass them.
June 17, 200817 yr Darren Styles in the top ten, as I expected :P shame Sara's album's not top ten but a 'real' week in the top five singles is good news, seeing as she's currently in there by default... Billiam in the top 40 again :lol: there are about 30 versions of the song available to buy on iTunes
June 17, 200817 yr Author Thank god for that no sign of Jonas Brothers unless its #40, all we have is a top 39
June 17, 200817 yr OMG... single number 1 without videoclip and only from websales... It's now a new dawn for downloads - I bet physicals will be no more later this year!
June 17, 200817 yr Omg @ Styles, I didn't think it would be that big! Has been long-awaited though. I'm getting mine on Saturday :D
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