Posted December 16, 200817 yr Three times Hallelujah in the singles charts 10:44 | Tuesday December 16, 2008 By Ben Cardew Alexandra Burke looks certain to top the charts with Hallelujah (Syco) this Sunday, although Leonard Cohen may prove the real victor, with three versions of his song set to appear in the Top 40. Burke, who won the X Factor last Sunday, has sold 149,546 copies of her cover of Cohen’s Hallelujah so far this week. That is far ahead of her nearest rivals – Leona Lewis’s cover of Snow Patrol’s Run (Syco) and Jeff Buckley’s own version of Hallelujah (Columbia), which Buckley’s fans have been trying to move up the charts since it was announced that the winner of the X Factor would cover the song. Cohen’s own Hallelujah should enter the Top 40. Completing an unusual top five on the midweek charts are two Beyoncé tracks – If I Were A Boy and Listen (both Columbia) - while Geraldine (aka Peter Kay) with Once Up on A Christmas Song (Polydor) is at 10. There are few surprises on the artist albums chart, however: Take That’s The Circus (Polydor) continues to sell very well, shifting another 85,821 units yesterday to take its cumulative total to more than 837,000. It looks certain to top the charts this Sunday, ahead of Leona Lewis’s Spirit (Syco), The Killers’ Day And Age (Vertigo) and Kings Of Leon’s Only By the Night (Hand Me Down). Fall Out Boy’s Folie A Deux (Mercury) is set to be the highest new entry and should secure a Top 40 placing. ===================================================== Top 40 Only Singles 01 Alexandra Burke 149,546 02 Leona Lewis 28,607 03 Jeff Buckley 18.6k 04 Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 05 Beyonce - Listen Top 10 James Morrison Geraldine Top 20 19 Beyonce - Single Ladies Top 30 Rihanna feat. Justin Timberlake Gabriella Top 40 Leonard Cohen 35 Girls Aloud - TLK Wombats ==================================================== Albums 01 Take That 85,821 02 Leona Lewis 35k 03 Killers 04 Kings Of Leon ================================================================= 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
December 16, 200817 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 200 Singles 01 Alexandra Burke 185.4k 02 Leona Lewis 37.1k 03 Jeff Buckley 30.5k 04 Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy 25k 05 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado 18k Top 10 Beyonce - Listen Geraldine Top 20 19 Beyonce - Single Ladies Top 30 Gabriella Rihanna feat. Justin Timberlake Top 40 Basshunter - I Miss You Leonard Cohen 36 Girls Aloud - TLK Top 50 Snow Patrol Wombats Saturdays - Issues Top 60 Paramore Westlife - I'm Already There Jason Mraz Top 70 Coldplay - Viva La Vida Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Baby Top 80 Macy Gray - Winter Wonderland Geraldine McQueen - The Winners Song East 17 - Stay Another Day Top 90 Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Hot Leg Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby Top 100 Duffy - Mercy Girls Aloud - Call The Shots Sugababes - No Can Do GA - Something Kinda Ooooh Kylie - Santa Baby Top 110 Kaiser Chiefs - Good Days Bad Days Outsiders Pretenders - 2000 Miles Top 120 Gabriella Cilmi - SAM James Morrison - You Make It Real Devotchka Top 130 Beyonce - Irreplaceable Killers/Elton John/Neil Tennant Westlife - Flying Without Wings Top 140 Leon Jackson - Creative A-Ha - Take On Me Pink - Sober Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow Top 150 Killers - Mr Brightside Duffy - Warwick Avenue Bing Crosby & David Bowie Cascada - Last Christmas Top 160 MGMT - Electric Feel The Feeling GA - SOTU Top 170 GA - CSF Bon Jovi - Hallelujah Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care Kate Voegele - Hallelujah Chairlift - Bruises Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This Top 180 Boyzone - Picture Of You JLS - Hallelujah* Asteroids Galaxy Tour Beyonce - Crazy In Love Top 190 Will Young - Changes Top 200 Lonestar - I'm Already There Beyonce - Ave Maria The Script - We Cry Pendulum - Propane Nightmares Journey - Don't Stop Believin' *Almost definitely a database error - this does likely not exist ==================================================== Albums 01 Take That 136.3k 02 Leona Lewis 58k 03 The Killers 52.4k 04 Kings Of Leon 52.3k (130 copies behind) 05 Girls Aloud 43.9k Top 10 06 Beyonce Top 15 N-Dubz Simply Red Top 30 Sash Bette Midler James Morrison Katy Perry Top 40 NeYo Rod Stewart Akon Fall Out Boy AC/DC Boyzone Top 50 Nickelback Keane Top 60 ABBA Gold Kaiser Chiefs Tom Jones Girls Aloud - The Sound Of Top 70 Ting Tings MGMT Pussycat Dolls Chris Brown Top 80 Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells Top 90 Saturdays Seasick Steve Bob The Builder Pink Simon & Garfunkel - The Collection Gabriella Cilmi Top 100 Il Divo - Sempre Snow Patrol - Eyes Open Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak Top 110 The Verve - Forth Jennifer Hudson ABBA - 18 Hits Metallica - Death Magnetic Vampire Weekend Top 120 James Morrison - Undiscovered Jeff Buckley - Grace Bob Marley/Wailers - Legend Leonard Cohen - The Essential Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence... Top 130 Celine Dion - All The Way Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand Lil Wayne Top 140 Eagles - Complete Greatest Hits Jim Hendrix - Experience Hendrix Best Of Ladyhawke Newton Faulkner Top 150 Sharleen Spiteri Amy Winehouse - Back To Black Deluxe Stevie Wonder - Definitive Collection Top 160 Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Mariah Carey - GH Paul Weller - 22 Dreams Billy Joel - Piano Man Best Of Kooks Top 170 Bon Jovi - Cross Road Best Of Pogues - Very Best Of Hoosiers Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly Angry Mob Mariah Carey - #1s Top 180 Alicia Keys - As I Am Paramore Rod Stewart - Still The Same Great Rock Classics Luther Vandross - Ultimate Beyonce - B'Day Top 190 Eurythmics - GH Il Divo - Il Divo Santogold Usher - Confessions Glen Campbell - Meet Top 200 TV On The Radio Blake Westlife - Unbreakable GH Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations Best Of Amadou & Mariam Andrew Johnston Stone Roses - Stone Roses Jamiroquai - Hard Times Singles
December 16, 200817 yr Author Thursday Update Top 200 Singles 01 Alexandra Burke 289.2k 02 Leona Lewis 46.6k 03 Jeff Buckley 45.3k 04 Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy 30.7k 05 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado 22.5k Top 10 06 Beyonce - Listen Geraldine Top 20 19 Beyonce - Single Ladies Top 30 Gabriella 24 Rihanna feat. Justin Timberlake Top 40 Basshunter - I Miss You Leonard Cohen 39 Girls Aloud - TLK Top 50 Snow Patrol Wombats Saturdays - Issues Top 60 Paramore Jason Mraz Westlife - I'm Already There Top 70 Geraldine McQueen - The Winners Song Kevin Rudolf - Let It Rock Rick Astley Top 80 Kaiser Chiefs - Never Miss A Beat Macy Gray - Winter Wonderland East 17 - Stay Another Day Top 90 Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby Duffy - Mercy Bruce Springsteen - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town The Darkness - Christmas Time Top 100 Sugababes - No Can Do Hot Leg Girls Aloud - Call The Shots Killers/Elton John/Neil Tennant Top 110 GA - Something Kinda Ooooh Kaiser Chiefs - Good Days Bad Days Devotchka Top 120 Gabriella Cilmi - SAM James Morrison - You Make It Real Outsiders Top 130 Pink - Sober Leon Jackson - Creative Top 140 Rihanna - Take A Bow Killers - Mr Brightside Beyonce - Irreplaceable Duffy - Warwick Avenue A-Ha - Take On Me Top 150 MGMT - Electric Feel Westlife - Flying Without Wings The Feeling Cascada - Last Christmas Top 160 Bing Crosby & David Bowie Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care Top 170 GA - SOTU Chairlift - Bruises GA - CSF Bon Jovi - Hallelujah Top 180 Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This Asteroids Galaxy Tour Adele - Hometown Glory Top 190 Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born Kate Voegele - Hallelujah Boyzone - Picture Of You Will Young - Changes Basshunter - All I Ever Wanted Beyonce - Crazy In Love Top 200 The Script - We Cry Pendulum - Propane Nightmares Journey - Don't Stop Believin' ======================================= Albums 01 Take That 182k 02 Leona Lewis 79.3k 03 Kings Of Leon 74.6k 04 The Killers 71.1k 05 Girls Aloud 61.3k Top 10 07 Beyonce Top 15 Simply Red Top 30 Sash Bette Midler 26 James Morrison Katy Perry Top 40 Rod Stewart Akon Boyzone AC/DC Fall Out Boy Top 50 Nickelback Keane Top 60 ABBA Gold Kaiser Chiefs Tom Jones Girls Aloud - The Sound Of Top 70 Ting Tings MGMT Chris Brown Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times Top 80 The Smiths - Sound Of GH Saturdays Top 90 Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothing Bob The Builder Kate Rusby - Sweet Bells Pink Gabriella Cilmi Simon & Garfunkel - The Collection Top 100 Il Divo - Siempre Snow Patrol - Eyes Open Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak Jennifer Hudson Pendulum Top 110 The Verve - Forth ABBA - 18 Hits Metallica - Death Magnetic Top 120 Vampire Weekend James Morrison - Undiscovered Jeff Buckley - Grace Leonard Cohen - The Essential John Rutter - Ultimate Collection Top 130 Ladyhawke Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence... Seasick Steve - Dog House Music Eagles - Complete Greatest Hits Top 140 Lil Wayne Celine Dion - All The Way Jim Hendrix - Experience Hendrix Best Of Stevie Wonder - Definitive Collection Top 150 Newton Faulkner Amy Winehouse - Back To Black Deluxe Sharleen Spiteri Top 160 Billy Joel - Piano Man Best Of Paul Weller - 22 Dreams Pogues - Very Best Of Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly Angry Mob Libera - Eternal Best Of Paul Weller - At The BBC Top 170 Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Bon Jovi - Cross Road Best Of Hoosiers Paramore Mariah Carey -GH Top 180 Mariah Carey - #1s Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs The Who - Then And Now Santogold Alicia Keys - As I Am Top 190 Eurythmics - GH Glen Campbell - Meet Luther Vandross - Ultimate Rod Stewart - Still The Same Great Rock Classics Il Divo - Il Divo TV On The Radio Beyonce - B'Day Top 200 Andrew Johnston Amadou & Mariam Blake Last Shadow Puppets Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations Best Of Usher - Confessions Sales Source: Music Room
December 16, 200817 yr Author The Circus passes million barrier 10:47 | Friday December 19, 2008 By Alan Jones Some time this morning (Friday) The Circus by Take That sold its millionth copy in the UK, and became the all-time second fastest album to reach a seven-figure sale. The album was released just 19 days ago. The only album to reach a million more rapidly is fellow Mancunians Oasis’ 1997 album Be Here Now, which reached the target in 11 days. The Circus has sold 991,508 copies up to close of business yesterday (Thursday) and has already been certified quintuple platinum, with Universal shipments exceeding 1.5m copies. Initially available for as little as £5.88 physically (Asda) and £3 as a download (Amazon), The Circus is now hard to find for less than £8 in any format but continues to sell at a very rapid clip. Remarkably for an album to sell so many copies in such a short time, it wasn’t available in the stricken Woolworths chain until this week. The retailer may be winding down but now has plentiful stocks of the album priced at £10.97 – though a blanket 10% reduction on audio products means the till price is £9.87. Four other albums have sold a million copies in less than a month: in third place is Take That’s last album, 2006’s Beautiful World (27 days), Robson & Jerome’s self-titled 1995 debut and The Beatles’ 2000 compilation 1, both took 28 days, and Leona Lewis’ Spirit became a million seller after 29 days last year. Beautiful World is by far Take That’s biggest seller, with to date sales of more than 2.5m. It will overtake former member Robbie Williams’ biggest-selling solo album, I’ve Been Expecting You, within weeks. Take That’s return to prominence after more than a decade apart has been an unqualified success, and in addition to selling more than 3.5m copies of their two new albums since reconvening, they have sold nearly 1.7m copies of their compilation Never Forget – The Ultimate Collection. With catalogue sales of their earlier three studio albums and a compilation, Take That have sold more than 5.5m albums so far this decade. The Circus is the third or fourth album to sell a million copies this year, following Duffy’s Rockferry and Coldplay’s Viva La Vida. It crossed the barrier almost simultaneous with The Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night, which had sold 995,147 copies by close of business last night. Meanwhile, fifth season X Factor champion Alexandra Burke’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah is on target to secure the highest weekly sale by a single for exactly two years. Available since Sunday as a download, it secured its first trickle of physical sales on Tuesday, and has already sold 382,296 copies. The last single to sell more copies in a week was third season X Factor champion Leona Lewis’s debut single Bleeding Love, which dashed to first week sales of 571,253 in 2006. Lewis’ latest single, Run, has been number one for the last two weeks but has now slipped behind Burke’s single and the late Jeff Buckley’s 1994 recording of Hallelujah. Run has sold 54,408 copies so far this week, Buckley’s Hallelujah 59,676. Buckley’s version first surfaced in the Top 75 here in March, following ITV2’s screening of a cover by American Idol contestant Jason Castro, in the style of Buckley. It returned to the chart a few weeks ago, after being performed in The X Factor by Diana Vickers, who finished fourth in the contest. Assuming Run doesn’t wrestle its way back to number two before the end of the week, Hallelujah will become the first song ever to hold down the number one and two slots in the chart simultaneously. ==================================================== Friday Update Top 40 Singles 01 Alexandra Burke 382,296 02 Jeff Buckley 59,676 03 leona Lewis 54,408 04 Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy 05 Geraldine Top 10 06 James Morrison/Nelly Furtado 08 Beyonce - Listen Top 20 19 Beyonce - Single Ladies Top 30 Gabriella 25 Rihanna feat. Justin Timberlake Top 40 Basshunter - I Miss You Leonard Cohen Basshunter - Jingle Bells 37 Girls Aloud - TLK Duffy - Rain On Your Parade ================================================ Albums 01 Take That 239.732 02 Leona Lewis 03 Kings Of Leon 96.247 04 The Killers 05 Girls Aloud Top 10 The Priests 08 Beyonce Top 15 Simply Red Snow Patrol Top 30 Bette Midler Rihanna Sash! 27 Enya 28 James Morrison Rod Stewart Top 40 Katy Perry Akon AC/DC Boyzone
December 16, 200817 yr Thanks Mart!n. I should think Davetaylor will be able to get an update on Friday evening if the Friday update doesn't happen. Hoping for a nice debut for Geraldine anyway, and ideally for The Feeling to be top 75 (probably wishful thinking...)
December 16, 200817 yr is HallelujahXD not hallejulahXD right? Yes that's right, Everyone makes typo's you know :D I am hoping Alex has managed over 200k, that would be amazing! I have noticed the single is taking a fair few pre-order's too, It would be fantastic if she broke Shayne Ward's current record for X-factor, although With the Woolworths and distribution issue of the Physical it could have a huge effect on sales.
December 16, 200817 yr Author is HallelujahXD not hallejulahXD right? Its not the easiest word to spell, I always spell it wrong.
December 16, 200817 yr Its not the easiest word to spell, I always spell it wrong. Same here, it's a tricky word. And I even study English in third level! :lol:
December 16, 200817 yr Ooh good stuff for Listen. :o Only peaked inside the top 20 last time didn't it?
December 16, 200817 yr I think she will beat Shayne's record! I'm thinking she could even do the million this week! Have a feeling!
December 16, 200817 yr Author No Albums at the moment their database has gone up the creek, will post ASAP
December 16, 200817 yr Thats unbelieveable - 2 beyonce songs in top5. Listen didnt even reach top10 when it was originally released even though its an amazing song.
December 16, 200817 yr Thanks for the info so far. No real surprises so far. I expect Geraldine might climb.
December 16, 200817 yr 01 Alexandra Burke 02 Leona Lewis 03 Jeff Buckley 04 Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 05 Beyonce - Listen LOL this is a 100% X Factor top 5 :o :lol: Noone of these songs (bar If I were a boy maybe) would be in the top5 if the X Factor didn't exist ^_^
December 16, 200817 yr Author Just realised GA have entered the chart with the Loving Kind "much excite"
December 16, 200817 yr And woooow just realised Girls Aloud are top40 with The Loving Kind! :dance: :cheer:
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