Posted March 24, 200917 yr Pet Shop Boys eye first chart topper since 1993 10:41 | Tuesday March 24, 2009 By Paul Williams Pet Shop Boys are facing a close battle with Ronan Keating as they look to score their first number one album in the UK in more than 15 years. The duo’s new Parlophone-issued album Yes is presently around 1,200 units ahead of Keating’s Polydor release Songs For My Mother, according to early retail reports, but the story is made more complicated by the PSB album having accidentally ended up on iTunes three days early last week. It is understood around 2,500 sales of the album achieved on the Apple site following its premature release there last Friday will not count towards this coming week’s chart as they will be recognised as sales from last week instead. Pet Shop Boys, who won the outstanding contribution award at this year’s Brits, have only topped the albums chart once before. Very reached number one in October 1993. With her latest single Not Fair set to move into the Top 20 of the singles chart this week, Lily Allen’s album It’s Not Me, It’s You is expected to return to the artist albums Top 10 this coming Sunday. Prodigy’s album Invaders Must Die, released on their Take Me To The Hospital label through Cooking Vinyl, is also vying for a Top 10 return. Outside the 10, Royksopp’s new Wall of Sound album Junior will lead a clutch of new entries that will also include releases from Warner Bros’s Mastodon, Interscope/Polydor’s Papa Roach, Rough Trade’s Decemberists and Interscope/Mosley/Polydor’s Chris Cornell. Seventeen years after it first charted, Pearl Jam’s Ten is set to return to the Top 40 for Columbia in an enhanced version. On the singles chart Interscope/Polydor’s Lady GaGa will again face its main challenge from Atlantic’s Flo Rida track Right Round for the number one position. Vertigo/Mercury’s Noisettes are expected to be the chart’s highest new entry with Don’t Upset The Rhythm (Go Baby Go) targeting a top five debut, while the Interscope/Polydor release Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) by AR Rahman featuring the Pussycat Dolls is likely to leap into the Top 10 from its present chart position of 20. Source: MW ====================================== Top 40 Only Singles 1 Lady GaGa 2 Flo Rida 3 Taylor Swift 4 Beyonce 5 Noisettes Top 10 6 AR Rahman/PCD Top 15 Metro Station Top 20 17 Lily Allen (Not Fair) :o Top 30 K.I.G. Franz Ferdinand Enrique/Ciara Top 40 White Lies ================================================== Albums 1 Pet Shop Boys 11.6k 2 Ronan Keating 10.4k 3 Kings Of Leon 7.8k 4 Lady GaGa 7.3k 5 Annie Lennox 6.5k Top 10 6 Lily Allen 7 Kelly Clarkson Prodigy Top 15 Taylor Swift Akon Top 20 16 Royksopp Beyonce Mastodon Top 30 Alesha Elbow Papa Roach Pearl Jam Killers Enrique Iglesias Top 40 The Decemberists 34 Script Chris Cornell ALBUM SALES ONLY Thanks to Katie from PSB forum
March 24, 200917 yr Author Wednesday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Lady GaGa 2 Flo Rida 3 Noisettes 4 Taylor Swift 5 Beyonce Top 10 6 AR Rahman/PCD 10 La Roux Top 15 Metro Station 15 Steve Angelo & Laidback Luke/Robin S Top 20 17 Lily Allen (Not Fair) K.I.G. Top 30 Franz Ferdinand 26 Enrique/Ciara Top 40 White Lies ================================================== Albums 1 Pet Shop Boys (15.6k) 2 Ronan Keating (14.3k) 3 Kings Of Leon (11.2k) 4 Lady GaGa (10.5k) 5 Annie Lennox (9.5k) ALBUM SALES ONLY from Katie/PSB Forum
March 24, 200917 yr Author Thursday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Lady GaGa 2 Flo Rida 3 Noisettes 4 Beyonce 5 Taylor Swift Top 10 6 AR Rahman/PCD 10 Metro Station Top 15 14 Steve Angelo & Laidback Luke/Robin S Top 20 16 Lily Allen (Not Fair) K.I.G. Top 30 Franz Ferdinand 26 Enrique/Ciara Top 40 White Lies Jennifer Hudson ================================================== Albums 1 Ronan Keating (18.5k - 310 copies ahead) 2 Pet Shop Boys (18.2k) 3 Kings Of Leon (14.6k) 4 Lady GaGa (13.9k) 5 Annie Lennox Top 10 6 Lily Allen (9.9k) Prodigy Akon Top 15 Taylor Swift Beyonce Top 20 16 Royksopp Elbow Top 30 Fleet Foxes Mastodon Pearl Jam Killers Enrique Iglesias Papa Roach Ting Tings Top 40 31 Script 33 Decemberists Chris Cornell Jacko (KOP) U2 (18 Singles) Top 45 Ladyhawke Snow Patrol Kings Of Leon (BOTT) ALBUM SALES ONLY: Courtesy of Dazzer at PSB Forum.
March 24, 200917 yr Author Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles 1 Lady GaGa 2 Noisettes 3 Flo Rida 4 Beyonce 5 Taylor Swift Top 10 6 AR Rahman/PCD 9 Metro Station Top 15 12 Steve Angelo & Laidback Luke/Robin S Top 20 16 Lily Allen (Not Fair) 17 K.I.G. Top 30 21 Enrique Franz Ferdinand Top 40 34 White Lies Jennifer Hudson ================================================== Albums 1 Ronan Keating 23.8k 2 Pet Shop Boys 20.5k 3 Kings Of Leon 18.4k 4 Lady GaGa 17.6k 5 Annie Lennox Top 10 6 Lily Allen Prodigy Akon Top 15 Taylor Swift 14 Beyonce Top 20 16 Royksopp 19 Elbow Top 30 Fleet Foxes Killers Enrique 27 Mastodon 28 Pearl Jam Script Ting Tings Top 40 31 Papa Roach Jackson Abba 38 Decemberists 39 Ladyhawke U2 (18 Singles)
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March 24, 200917 yr Hi Mart!n. I think Gaga will top both singles and albums today. I hope she can hold on singles, but fingers crossed Pet Shop Boys will beat her on albums by the end of the week.
March 24, 200917 yr My predictions: Singles 1 | Lady GaGa - Poker Face 2 | Flo Rida - Right Round 3 | A.R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho 4 | Beyonce - Halo 5 | Taylor Swift - Love Story Albums 1 | Pet Shop Boys - Yes 2 | Lady GaGa - The Fame 3 | Ronan Keating - Songs For My Mother 4 | Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night 5 | Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You Edited March 24, 200917 yr by Aidan
March 24, 200917 yr Hi Mart!n. I think Gaga will top both singles and albums today. I hope she can hold on singles, but fingers crossed Pet Shop Boys will beat her on albums by the end of the week. I agree. Noisettes' new one could be a surprise top 3 single! Watch out for them ;)
March 24, 200917 yr GAGA is such a shame. I hope at least PSB will beat her in the album chart, their album is great.
March 24, 200917 yr 1 Lady GaGa 2 Flo Rida 3 Noisettes 4 PCD 5 Beyonce 6 Taylour Swift 7 T.I 9 Metro Station 19 KIG
March 24, 200917 yr Author Seems the top 10 in the singles chart is having a bit of a clearout this week, Saturdays and the other Comic Relief single are going to drop like a bomb, I wouldn't be surprised if they end up outside the top 10, on the whole, this week's chart has got a bit of suspense to it, it can be Flo or the GaGa. Saturday sales might just winged it the other way.
March 24, 200917 yr Of course things can change in few days, so I will not panic yet or anything. :D GAGA is such a shame. I hope at least PSB will beat her in the album chart, their album is great. I've listened to the Yes album. It was pretty good. :D Not a fan of PSB, but that was a nice album. ^_^
March 24, 200917 yr Wow Noisettes :cheer: Hope PCD can go top 5. Great to see Lily album back top 10 too :D
March 24, 200917 yr Author James Morrison, Single 10+10, album 10+9 Saturdays, Single 5+5, Album 12+12 Alesha, Single 10+9, Album 20+1 Take That, Single 13+13, Album 5+4 Lady GaGa, Just Dance non mover Le Roux non mover
March 24, 200917 yr Wonderful for PSB at #1. :cheer: :cheer: Hopefully the Noisettes can make #1 by Sunday as well. :D
March 24, 200917 yr At least Kelly is still top 10 in the albums then. How is Love Story still doing so well? Noisettes and Beyonce in the top 5 is brilliant but i cant say the same for seeing Lily Allen in the top 20
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