Into Friday evening with the 44th set of charts for this year. As usual the top dvds, films, tv, albums, the flashback charts, and then I`ll be back later, for the most up to date chart there is.

 

Here are the top Films: (Compiled by Screen International for UK Box Office)

w/k ending 29th Oct 2008

01 NE BURN AFTER READING

02 NE EAGLE EYE

03 RE IGOR

04 01 THE HOUSE BUNNY

05 02 MIRRORS

06 04 TAKEN

07 03 HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE

08 07 MAMMA MIA

09 06 CITY OF EMBER

10 05 TROPIC THUNDER

 

The top three, all new..BURN AFTER READING nets £2,045,565, EAGLE EYE nets £1,096,777, and IGOR nets £1,110,859 as a re-entry.

 

The top dvd films: (Compiled from an average of sales/rentals from retailers and rental stores by DTR)

01 NE WANTED

02 01 INCREDIBLE HULK

03 NE HORTON HEARS A WHO

04 03 SEX AND THE CITY

05 02 ADULTHOOD

06 12 SUPERHERO MOVIE

07 05 PROM NIGHT

08 06 MADE OF HONOUR

09 07 STARSHIP TROOPERS

10 NE THE HAPPENING

 

The top dvds tv related:

01 LOST 4TH SERIES

02 FAMILY GUY

03 MY NAME IS EARL SEASON 3

04 ALAN CARR

05 SMALLVILLE SEASON 7

06 DANCING ON ICE

07 TUDORS SERIES 2

08 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SEASON 4

09 STAR WARS ROBOT CHICKEN

10 SIMPSONS SEASON 11

 

The top tv shows: (Compiled by BARB, only the top episodes of Soaps are noted)

01 01 X FACTOR 11.09M

02 02 CORONATION STREET 10.14M

03 04 EASTENDERS 9.64M

04 NE A TOUCH OF FROST 8.37M

05 03 STRICTLY COME DANCING 7.79M

06 07 EMMERDALE 7.30M

07 06 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 6.94M

08 10 SILENT WITNESS 6.73M

09 RE FAMILY FORTUNES 6.68M

10 09 MERLIN 6.48M

 

David Jason in with A TOUCH OF FROST. Am I the only person that believes Mr Jason is very over-exposed, and over-rated? I thoroughly believe his acting skills, can be summed up by his ITV, 1978 - 81 sitcom "A Sharp Intake Of Breath"...a kind of take on BBC`s "Some Mothers Do `Ave Em.

 

Here are the top albums:

w/k ending Weds 29th Oct 2008

01 NE BLACK ICE - AC/DC

02 NE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 - OST

03 NE OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - KAISER CHIEFS

04 NE RIGHT NOW - LEON JACKSON

05 NE RADIO ONE LIVE LOUNGE 3 - VARIOUS

06 01 PERFECT SYMMETRY - KEANE

07 03 ONLY BY THE LIGHT - KINGS OF LEON

08 NE SACRED ARIAS - KATHERINE JENKINS

09 02 DIG OUT YOUR SOUL - OASIS

10 NE CATFIGHTS AND SPOTLIGHTS - SUGABABES

11 04 BACK AGAIN - BOYZONE

12 RE KING OF POP - MICHAEL JACKSON

13 07 MASSIVE R + B WINTER COLLECTION 08 - VARIOUS

14 05 YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN - NE-YO

15 10 MAMMA MIA - OST

16 NE BEST OF - SASH

17 08 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA

18 13 BEST BETTE - BETTE MIDLER

19 06 LET IT GO - WILL YOUNG

20 12 ROCKFERRY - DUFFY

21 11 CLASSIC BIG TUNES - VARIOUS

22 NE EVOLVER - JOHN LEGEND

23 17 THE SCRIPT - SCRIPT

24 09 SONGS FOR YOU TRUTHS FOR ME - JAMES MORRISON

25 NE BALLADS - MARIAH CAREY

26 21 I STARTED WITH NOTHING... - SEASICK STEVE

27 19 SELDOM SEEN KID - ELBOW

28 16 BEST OF - CHICANE

29 31 MY SONGS - VARIOUS

30 15 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER

 

WILL YOUNG and DUFFY falling, but these two will most certainly go back up...when Will releases the new single "Grace", and Duffy gives us the re-loaded version of "Rockferry".

 

Time to go back..this week it`s the sensational (and best decade)...the seventies, and 1977. (The charts compiled by a subsidery of EMI/MRIB).

The top albums w/k ending 29th Oct 1977

01 01 20 GOLDEN GREATS - DIANA ROSS

02 02 NO MORE HEROES - STRANGLERS

03 13 40 GOLDEN GREATS - CLIFF RICHARD

04 04 RUMOURS - FLEETWOOD MAC

05 09 HOME ON THE RANGE - SLIM WHITMAN

06 03 OXYGENE - JEAN MICHEL JARRE

07 05 MOODY BLUE - ELVIS PRESLEY

08 08 LOVE YOU LIVE - ROLLING STONES

09 07 PASSAGE - CARPENTERS

10 06 GOING FOR THE ONE - YES

11 10 A STAR IS BORN - OST

12 NE HEROES - DAVID BOWIE

13 10 BAD REPUTATION - THIN LIZZY

14 12 PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE - DAVID SOUL

15 19 THUNDER IN MY HEART - LEO SAYER

16 16 I REMEMBER YESTERDAY - DONNA SUMMER

17 21 GREATEST HITS VOL. 2 - ELTON JOHN

18 14 AJA - STEELY DAN

19 NE SOUL CITY - VARIOUS

20 18 TWO DAYS AWAY - ELKIE BROOKS

 

DIANA ROSS ruling the albums in 1977. Diana also had the up and coming single "Gettin`Ready For Love", out. Although this stalled at 23. The Stranglers stalled at the number 2 album spot, because Diana had 7 weeks at the top. CLIFF was in my collection in 77, and covered most of his hits from 1958 - 77. The ROLLING STONES werw "Live" again. SLIM WHITMAN was still on the circuit, with Country and it`s best. ELVIS was up, and down after his death...clever stuff! Was his death, really a fake? Nobody saw the body, so it could be so. JEAN MICHEL JARRE was breathing well in both the albums and singles chart with a million versions of "OXYGENE". The rock came from THIN LIZZY, YES, and DAVID BOWIE had the big album of the week...well publicised at the time. Now ELTON JOHN was on the rise, with his Greatest Hits 2...this was also in the DT collection, but some "bugger" broke into my car, at the time and nicked it, along with the "ROCK FOLLIES" soundtrack, containing the unforgettable song "GLEN MILLER IS MISSING!" These were the cassette versions, of course..no CDs then!

 

The top singles in October 1977:

01 04 YOU`RE IN MY HEART - ROD STEWART

02 01 YES SIR I CAN BOOGIE - BACCARA

03 02 BLACK IS BLACK - LA BELLE EPOQUE

04 03 SILVER LADY - DAVID SOUL

05 18 NAME OF THE GAME - ABBA

06 10 ROCKIN`ALL OVER THE WORLD - STATUS QUO

07 17 HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN - SEX PISTOLS

08 09 BLACK BETTY - RAM JAM

09 06 STAR WARS THEME-CANTINA BAND - MECO

10 05 I REMEMBER ELVIS PRESLEY - DANNY MIRROR

11 08 NO MORE HEROES - STRANGLERS

12 16 CALLING OCCUPANTS OF INTERPLANETRY CRAFT - CARPENTERS

13 07 BEST OF MY LOVE - EMOTIONS

14 32 WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS - QUEEN

15 34 2,4,6,8, MOTORWAY - TOM ROBINSON BAND

16 30 VIRGINIA PLAIN - ROXY MUSIC

17 25 NEEDLES AND PINS - SMOKIE

18 13 I REMEMBER YESTERDAY - DONNA SUMMER

19 11 WAY DOWN - ELVIS PRESLEY

20 14 WONDROUS STORIES - YES

21 15 FROM HERE TO ETERNITY - GEORGIO MORODER

22 22 LOVE HURTS - NAZARETH

23 12 FROM NEW YORK TO L.A. - PATSY GALLANT

24 20 HEROES - DAVID BOWIE

25 24 I CAN`T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND - YVONNE ELLIMAN

26 NE I BELIEVE YOU - DOROTHY MOORE

27 28 ANGEL OF THE MORNING-ANYWAY THAT YOU WANT ME (MEDLEY) - MARY MASON

28 33 NEW LIVE AND RARE E.P. - DEEP PURPLE

29 23 THUNDER IN MY HEART - LEO SAYER

30 26 GREATEST LOVE OF ALL - GEORGE BENSON

31 NE SHE`S NOT THERE - SANTANA

32 19 TELEPHONE MAN - MERI WILSON

33 NE WATER MARGIN THEME - PETER MAC JUNIOR/GODIEGO

34 35 HAPPY DAYS THEME - PRATT AND MCLAIN

35 21 MAGIC FLY - SPACE

36 31 DO YOUR DANCE - ROSE ROYCE

37 NE LOVE BUG - TINA CHARLES

38 NE HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE - BEE GEES

39 27 LOOKING AFTER NUMBER ONE - BOOMTOWN RATS

40 29 DOWN DEEP INSIDE - DONNA SUMMER

 

ROD STEWART having a midweek number one in 1977, not official though. Funny enough BACCARA, was number one..a whole week before Radio One`s top 30! LA BELLE EPOQUE re-cut LOS BRAVOS 1966 number 2, and also got stuck at 2. DAVID SOUL got his 2nd (and best) chart topper. ABBA were going for a 5th. STATUS QUO didn`t get one at this point. SEX PISTOLS were not doing so well, but still managed that "Holiday". RAM JAM had "BLACK BETTY" for the first time. MECO gave us the theme to the top film, that week with the original (and best) STAR WARS. DANNY MIRROR "mirrored" ELVIS, coming from Holland..with the English version helped by MIKE AHERN (the Radio Luxembourg DJ, who announced the "death" of Elvis on the 16th Aug 77, a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning..on the midnight news.."Ladies and Gentleman, the King is dead. Elvis Presley died in his home in Memphis, Tennesee". THE CARPENTERS gave us one of the longest titles ever. QUEEN stormed the chart, but were not quite "the Champions", and fell at number 2 with this song. THE EMOTIONS were all over the radio playlists, but could not manage the top 3. TOM ROBINSON was glad to be gay, and had a top 5 hit. ROXY MUSIC had a re-issue of their 1972 hit "VIRGINIA PLAIN". SMOKIE sung the SEARCHERS number one hit. YES had their biggest single. NAZARETH gave us a rock version of "LOVE HURTS", coming from their E.P. PATSY GALLANT went from "NEW YORK TO LA", but missed the top 5. GEORGIO MORODER was currently producing DONNA SUMMER hits. DAVID BOWIE had the single version of HEROES, just like the album, it was not so big, as people had forecast and peaked at 20. DOROTHY MOORE came back after "MISTY BLUE", but this hit (I BELIEVE YOU) only squeezed the top 20. MARY MASON gave us a medley of the classic "ANGEL OF THE MORNING", and the TROGGS 1966 hit "ANYWAY THAT YOU WANT ME". LEO SAYER dropped with the original of "THUNDER IN MY HEART". SANTANA covered the ZOMBIES 1964 hit. GEORGE BENSON gave us the original of a later WHITNEY HOUSTON top tenner. DEEP PURPLE were on the rebound, and got a few more hits, after Live appearances. PRATT AND MCLAIN gave us the "HAPPY DAYS" theme. THE WATER MARGIN was the rather strange tv show import. The late MERI WILSON gave us one of the shortest top 5 hits ever. BOOMTOWN RATS, and BOB GELDOF had their first hit. DONNA SUMMER had the theme to "THE DEEP"...the film in the chart, and also remembered yesterday..both on different record labels.

My Fav of 1977 was Yvonne Elliman`s "I CAN`T GET YOU OUT OF MY MIND"...Surely this should have been a top 10 hit...have a listen...while you wait for the up to the minute singles chart...

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlqx71m5NQ

 

Or the Nolan Sisters on the Two Ronnies...

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uLsaJgOlQ_k

I can just about remember that retro chart, as I remember listening to David Soul, Heroes is my favourite David Bowie hit and still is should have been a top 10 hit, mind you his old back catalogue was his best, after Ashes To Ashes, my favourite #1 of his and Blue Jeans, his music changed direction and I lost interest completely.

 

Roxy Music - Virgina Plane :wub:

 

And on a different note, looks like Sugababes might have to settle for #8, after the various albums are removed from the top 10.

hopefully the album chart is gonna be different. #16 for Sash would be disappointing

hopefully the album chart is gonna be different. #16 for Sash would be disappointing

 

I always calculate it without compliations, and that puts Sash! at #12 in the album chart there.

hopefully the album chart is gonna be different. #16 for Sash would be disappointing

 

I think it will be between 10-12 on Sunday...much higher than he got with the 2000 Greatest Hits album he had

Here cometh the finish.

 

Starting with the top Physical sellers this week:

w/k ending 31st Oct 2008

01 NE GIRLS ALOUD

02 01 GERALDINE

03 NE ALCIA KEYS/JACK WHITE

04 02 LEON JACKSON

05 03 PINK

06 NE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS

07 NE KEANE - LOVERS ARE LOSING

08 NE BLOC PARTY

09 04 SATURDAYS

10 05 SASH

11 06 BOYZONE

12 07 SNOW PATROL

13 NE FALL OUT BOY

14 08 PLATNUM

15 NE PIGEON DETECTIVES

16 13 KINGS OF LEON

17 NE CELINE DION

18 10 SUGABABES

19 NE THE GAME/LIL`WAYNE

20 09 MIA

21 04 OASIS

22 13 KAISER CHIEFS

23 12 N-DUBZ

24 18 PUSSYCAT DOLLS

25 11 TING TINGS

26 15 BASSHUNTER

27 19 MGMT

28 17 KOOKS

29 21 WILL YOUNG

30 24 MADCON

31 20 WILEY

32 26 IGLU AND HARTLEY

33 RE VERVE - LOVE IS NOISE

34 16 COURTEENERS

35 22 JOHN LEGEND

36 RE IRONIK - I WANNA BE YOUR MAN

37 NE MORNING CALL

38 23 ERIC PRYDZ

39 31 KID ROCK

40 27 JAMES MORRISON

 

Only 10 new entries physically, as the bargain basement opens with 2 re-entries, and 2 Ironik singles in the top 50!

 

Here`s the combined Physical/Download Chart..eyes down for a full house!

50 38 SEE YOU AGAIN - MILEY CYRUS 36) =48

49 50 SHE`S LIKE A STAR - TAIO CRUZ 35) =47

48 NE LOVERS ARE LOSING - KEANE 34) =46

47 NE NOW OR NEVER - HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CAST -

46 46 RIGHT NOW - AKON -

45 41 ALL SUMMER LONG - KID ROCK 33) =45

44 40 CLOSER - NE-YO 32) =44

43 27 BE THE ONE - TING TINGS 31) =40

42 31 YOU MAKE IT REAL - JAMES MORRISON 30) =39

41 39 VIVA LA VIDA - COLDPLAY - =38

 

40 NE SUPERHUMAN - CHRIS BROWN - 41

39 29 OUCH - N-DUBZ 29) =37

38 NE MY LIFE - THE GAME/LIL`WAYNE 28) =43

37 NE TALONS - BLOC PARTY 27) =42

36 37 DANCE WIV ME - DIZZEE RASCAL/CALVIN HARRIS 26) =33

35 30 NO AIR - JORDIN/CHRIS 25) =34

34 48 GREEN LIGHT - JOHN LEGEND 24) =31

33 44 DANGEROUS - KARDINAL OFFISHALL - =35

32 21 ANGEL IN THE NIGHT - BASSHUNTER 23) =30

31 20 PAPER PLANES - MIA 22) =28

 

30 49 I DON`T CARE - FALL OUT BOY 21) =32

29 23 BEGGIN`- MADCON 20) =29

28 24 SPIRALLING - KEANE - =not playlisted

27 25 KIDS - MGMT 19) =26

26 19 LOVE SHY - PLATNUM 18) =25

25 28 TATTOO - JORDIN SPARKS - =27

24 22 MAN WHO CAN`T - SCRIPT 17) =24

23 18 LOVE YOU ANYWAY - BOYZONE 16) =22

22 16 IN THIS CITY - IGLU AND HARTLEY 15) =23

21 17 COOKIE JAR - GYM CLASS HEROES 14) =20

 

20 15 WHEN I GROW UP - PUSSYCAT DOLLS 13) =19

19 12 NEVER MISS A BEAT - KAISER CHIEFS 12) =21

18 11 I KISSED A GIRL - KATY PERRY 11) =18

17 26 ANOTHER WAY TO DIE - KEYS/WHITE 10) =17

16 07 TAKE BACK THE CITY - SNOW PATROL 9) =16

15 09 DISTURBIA - RIHANNA - =14

14 10 GIRLS - SUGABABES 8) =15

13 13 SPOTLIGHT - JENNIFER HUDSON - =13

12 04 DON`T CALL THIS LOVE - LEON JACKSON 7) =10

11 02 WINNERS SONG - GERALDINE 6) =6

 

10 06 MISS INDEPENDANT - NEYO - =12

09 08 RAINDROPS - SASH 5) =8

08 32 HOT N`COLD - KATY PERRY - =11

07 11 LOVE LOCKDOWN - KANYE WEST - =9

06 05 UP - SATURDAYS 4) =5

05 NE WIRE TO WIRE - RAZORLIGHT - =4

04 NE INFINITY 08 - GURU JOSH - =7

03 03 SEX ON FIRE - KINGS OF LEON 3) =3

02 02 SO WHAT - PINK 2) =2

01 NE PROMISES - GIRLS ALOUD 1) =1

 

) Position without downloads alone. Also without downloads alone: WILL YOUNG is 37, SAM SPARRO 38, and FLOBOTS 39, ERIC PRYDZ 40.

 

= Position on Chart Show tv.

 

GIRLS ALOUD do it, and won`t be moved by selling twice as many as PINK. 65K for the girls. Outside the 50: T. PAIN is 51 with FREEZE, KINGS OF LEON use somebody at 52, SCRIPT - BREAK EVEN at 53...WILL YOUNG slips to 54...down goes FLOBOTS, and OASIS. In comes AKON and "I`M SO PAID". 7 THINGS and MILEY CYRUS is also scraping the top 60. CHRIS CORNELL is in there too. ADELE is in. MICHAEL JACKSON re-enters with "MAN IN THE MIRROR". BJORK hits the 75 with "NATTURA".

 

NOTE: This is not the Official chart. It is based on Chart Show tv`s chart, but with added sales, to make it the most up to date chart exclusive to Buzzjack, every Friday Evening. The Chart Show chart can be seen on Saturdays at 9am/Sundays 10am (Sky Channel 365).

 

To end with, here are the top pre-orders:

The Singles

01 RAZORLIGHT 27th

02 TAKE THAT 24th Nov

03 LEONA LEWIS 3rd Nov

04 WILL YOUNG - GRACE 1st Dec

05 SAM TAYLOR WOOD 27th

06 MADONNA 24th Nov

07 JOHN BARROWMAN - WHAT ABOUT US 17th Nov

08 PAUL WELLER - SEASPRAY 3rd Nov

09 ALESHA DIXON - BOY DOES NOTHING 10th Nov

10 SCOOTER/STATUS QUO - JUMP THAT ROCK 3rd Nov

11 BRITNEY SPEARS 24th Nov

12 FIGHTSTAR - ENGLISH WAY 3rd Nov

13 HERO - X FACTOR 27th

14 NIKI EVANS - LOVE YOU NO MORE 27th

15 CHRISTINA AGUILERA - KEEPS GETTIN`BETTER 3rd Nov

 

Do we think 2 weeks, for Girls Aloud? I do. Unless the "dreaded" X Factor get`s in the way! :puke2:

 

The top pre-order albums for 27th Oct 2008:

01 PINK - FUNHOUSE

02 SNOW PATROL - HUNDRED MILLION SUNS

03 SATURDAYS - CHASING LIGHTS

04 MINISTRY OF SOUMD ANNUAL 08 - VARIOUS

05 THE CURE - 4:13 DREAM

06 CELINE DION - MY LOVE

07 BLOC PARTY - INTIMACY

08 ANASTACIA - HEAVY ROTATION

09 DEFECTED IN THE HOUSE - VARIOUS

 

Pink has the number one album, for next week without a doubt.

 

Leave DANIEL TSE - BROKEN WING to flop as a single, next week! Although not bad. I could imagine a big Radio 2 airplay...

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vHQRrh9XMpo

Thanks Dave, that's looking promising for Will's Grace then - he's not started promo yet, and it's yet to be playlisted.

Thanks dave

 

Girls Aloud have comfortably walked away with the #1 spot this week and it's good to see some decent chart movement in the top 10 for the second week in a row.

 

Back to 1977 it seems like a bit of a dull chart in retrospect though I did like it at the time. Giorgio's single "From Here To Eternity" is still great, as is Magic Fly by Space. I'd just got into buying singles at the time, looking at that list I had only 4 singles, within a couple of years it would be more like half the chart at times! I did get many of these songs in the end when I got Disco Fever as a Christmas present - the old K-Tel album contained quite a few of these songs.

 

The big news of this week in 1977 was the release of a certain album by the Sex Pistols, released on Friday October 28, 1977. It reached #1 on the BMRB / BBC / Music Week chart on two days sales but due to the fact that the BMRB album chart wasn't compiled until a Wednesday back then the album chart was published in Music Week almost a week after it had been compiled and so didn't actually enter at #1 until the Music Week chart dated 12/11/77.

 

Back to the present - where is The Bill in the TV charts? After years of being a dreadful soap with ridiculous storylines, it's started being half decent again and I've sort of started watching it again but it never seems to appear in the top 10 listings. Back in its heyday, in the mid 90s when I never missed a single episode, it was getting 16m an episode. Though of course the method of calculating audience was less sophisticated back then - people filling in diaries writing in what they had watched...

Where is The Bill in the TV charts? After years of being a dreadful soap with ridiculous storylines, it's started being half decent again and I've sort of started watching it again but it never seems to appear in the top 10 listings. Back in its heyday, in the mid 90s when I never missed a single episode, it was getting 16m an episode. Though of course the method of calculating audience was less sophisticated back then - people filling in diaries writing in what they had watched...

The Bill got 5.86m last week, and is bottom top 15...if you slip in all the episodes of soaps, it slips further down the top 25. I wonder is it time to call it a day? Remember the original 1984 hour long series? Seen as a replacement for the likes of "The Sweeney" etc? In those days a 9pm slot, that followed an hour of comedy with "Chance In A Million", with the wonderful Simon Callow, and Brenda Blethyn...and "Fresh Fields", with the late Anton Rogers, and the much alive Julia Mckensie. Thames tv`s answer to BBC`s "Terry And June". It make`s you wonder what happened to tv!

I watched the original (1984-87) Bill once or twice but couldn't get into it. It took a relaunch and a change to half hour episodes in 1988 before I started to watch it regularly and from 1988 to 2000 I didn't miss that many episodes. But once Beech and the old CID went I lost interest and stopped watching in 2001 or 2002. It's only in the past 6 months I've started watching it now and again.

 

Hard to believe now, but the guy who played DI Galloway (the Ginger Ferrett as he was called by his DC's!) in the original Bill - John Salthouse - quit in 1987 because he felt it was becoming too much like a soap. What would he think now?!

Edited October 24, 200816 yr by Robbie

I watched the original (1984-87) Bill once or twice but couldn't get into it. It took a relaunch and a change to half hour episodes in 1988 before I started to watch it regularly and from 1988 to 2000 I didn't miss that many episodes. But once Beech and the old CID went I lost interest and stopped watching in 2001 or 2002. It's only in the past 6 months I've started watching it now and again.

 

Hard to believe now, but the guy who played DI Galloway (the Ginger Ferrett as he was called by his DC's!) in the original Bill - John Salthouse - quit in 1987 because he felt it was becoming too much like a soap. What would he think now?!

I suppose when you look at it though, most series like the Bill were kind of soaplike with getting to know the regular characters. I was thinking "Juliet Bravo", both Stephanie Turner and Anna Carteret...possibly better with Stephanie.

Big album releases next week from Pink, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party, and possibility Saturdays and Anastacia all going top 10, should clear a few deadwood. It be a very interesting album chart next week, and another hectic mid thread

album sales have the potential to be high, and getting higher each week, for the next 2 months in the run up to Christmas. Let's hope so anyway...

I think Snow Patrol will beat Pink in the album chart next week.

I think Snow Patrol will beat Pink in the album chart next week.

Have a look at the pre-orders of albums, and likely falls/droppers in sales:

01 Pink NEW

02 Snow Patrol NEW

03 Saturdays NEW

04 AC/DC (1)

05 Kaisers (2)

06 Leon Jackson (3)

07 The Cure NEW

08 Kings Of Leon (4)

09 Celine Dion NEW

10 Bloc Party NEW

 

That`s without compilations...that would include both, HSM3 and the Live Lounge in the top 5. MOS Annual 08, would be above The Cure.

 

If you do it singles wise, I would get the overall picture like this:

01 Hero - X Factor NEW

02 Girls Aloud (1)

03 Guru Josh (4)

04 Razorlight (5)

05 Katy Perry (8)

06 Pink (2)

07 Kings Of Leon (3)

08 Kanye (7)

09 Saturdays (6)

10 Sash (9)

 

Maybe getting ahead of ourselves there! Pretty dead week, for singles on 27th. Guru Josh is out physically on the 3rd Nov, so that could do it, but it`s likely to be Leona Lewis on the 3rd. On reckoning that Christina Aguilera has had her day now, which may upset some.

Thanks, dave.

You know, I look at pre-orders and get :blink: :wacko: . Not having a clue who some of those charters are.

Fightstar?

 

Sounds dodgy :P

Thanks, dave.

You know, I look at pre-orders and get :blink: :wacko: . Not having a clue who some of those charters are.

Fightstar?

 

Sounds dodgy :P

Well I`d better do an advert for Fightstar then!

 

They are a four-piece rock band from London, formed in 2003. They have recorded 2 full albums, since then and an EP. They have gone to a new label now (Search And Destroy Records). Which they did last month. Originally they had 2 top 20 singles in 2005. These were "Paint Your Target", and "Grand Unification". "Palahniuk`s Laughter", should have been a hit in March 2005, as it got lot`s of support on music channels.

 

The Album of "Grand Unification", entered the Tuesday mids at number 11, in March 2006...but by the Sunday chart, it fell to 28.

 

Earlier this year they gave away their own recording of classic Iron Maiden album "Fear Of The Dark". This came free with an issue of KERRANG magazine. They have also sung some Metallica stuff too.

 

They started out on Island Records, had a break from Sept 2006 - Feb 2007...when they went to Institute Records.

 

Check out the new single then...Unfortunately I don`t think it will do that well, in today`s music climate.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8z8VswY66fs

would be quite something if Anastacia's album missed the top ten and The Saturdays went top 3!

Well I`d better do an advert for Fightstar then!

 

They are a four-piece rock band from London, formed in 2003. They have recorded 2 full albums, since then and an EP. They have gone to a new label now (Search And Destroy Records). Which they did last month. Originally they had 2 top 20 singles in 2005. These were "Paint Your Target", and "Grand Unification". "Palahniuk`s Laughter", should have been a hit in March 2005, as it got lot`s of support on music channels.

 

The Album of "Grand Unification", entered the Tuesday mids at number 11, in March 2006...but by the Sunday chart, it fell to 28.

 

Earlier this year they gave away their own recording of classic Iron Maiden album "Fear Of The Dark". This came free with an issue of KERRANG magazine. They have also sung some Metallica stuff too.

 

They started out on Island Records, had a break from Sept 2006 - Feb 2007...when they went to Institute Records.

 

Check out the new single then...Unfortunately I don`t think it will do that well, in today`s music climate.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8z8VswY66fs

The vocalist of Fightstar is Charlie Simpson, formerly of Busted and for a while Simpson was a member of both bands. The initial buzz for Fightstar was down to the Busted connection though this obviously can no longer be the case since Busted split almost 4 years ago and the music is radically different.

would be quite something if Anastacia's album missed the top ten and The Saturdays went top 3!

Should I reveal that Daniel O` Donnell`s "Country Boy" album is neck and neck on pre-orders with Anastacia!...Also, we have Katie Melua`s Collection, and Ryan Adam`s "Cardinology".

 

More in the compilations sector by way of Pop Party 5, Now 25 Years, The Best Of Bond, and Classic FM Smooth Classics...all top 30 on combined pre-orders.

 

Maybe I should say there is only minimal predicted sales seperating Pink, and Snow Patrol...Don`t forget the Next Week`s Chart thread on Monday from 5pm.