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Loved seeing Robbie back with TT! Excellent performance!

Loved seeing the band back together again!! Great performance!

Really enjoyed the performance tonight! TT 3 sung Shine, and then Robbie got up to join them with Everything Changes! Lovely to see them all together again, and for Mark to sing lead for once at the XF

Robbie was fantastic last night, delighted for him

You can make that collection with a Spotify or apple playlist! Hence why they decided to change it up here and there.

Scotland is part of the UK...didn’t realise it charts separately? Great debuts so far!

From Music Week: Take That rack up the eighth No.1 album of their career, and their first for exactly four years, as new compilation Odyssey debuts at No.1. Not just any greatest hits collection, Odyssey features Take That favourites ‘re-imagined with new productions’, interview ‘interludes’ and a trio of new songs. Whatever the mixture, it adds up to a winning formula, as the set dashes to first week sales of 105,721 copies (including 1,765 from sales-equivalent streams and 891 cassettes), the highest for a No.1 artist album since Eminem’s Revival sold 131,622 copies debuting at the summit some 49 weeks ago. It is the highest sale achieved by an artist compilation album (albeit one with some new content) since The Very Best Of Neil Diamond sold 110,214 copies while climbing 8-5 at Christmas 2012. Odyssey pushes Michael Buble’s new album, Love, down to No.2 on sales of 32,080 copies. Take That’s lead atop the chart, therefore, is 229.55% or 73,641 sales – the biggest gap between the top two on either metric since the chart for 16 October 2017, when Liam Gallagher’s first solo set, As You Were, sold 102,660 copies on its first week, a small matter of 731.25% (90,310) more than Giggs’ Wamp 2 Dem, which debuted at No.2, with 12,350 sales.

Fantastic result!!! Means I can change my signature to #10 for GB!!

Yeah, it was a difficult time to generate sales - especially with no second single (did they even promo New Day?)

Platinum is definitely in sight I think, with 4 weeks left before Xmas and then the run up to the tour

XF on Sunday will help maintain TT’s sales along with that BBC feature

We’ve passed the 100k mark!

Woo! 100k passed! Great stuff TT

Absolutely! Thanks, Better Man!

The cassette was only available for a week (I think about 2 weeks ago), I would have liked one too!

Wonderland went in at 112k I think I recall...again very impressive for a March release. Long gone are the days of 400k opening for an album of any artist!

up to 97.6k now! 100k by end of today hopefully.

Looks like Rita could miss top 10...

I’d be surprised if they weren’t, considering vinyl is added these days. Here’s a new article from Music Week for you all to take a read through: Take That have lit the blue touchpaper on Q4, with their “reimagined” Greatest Hits album Odyssey (Polydor) already the fastest-selling artist album of the year after just three days on sale. Yesterday’s Midweek Chart Update from the Official Charts Company showed the superstar manband – Music Week cover stars last week – had moved 89,408 copies by the end of Sunday, with a clear bias to physical sales (84,745) over downloads (3,977) and streaming (686). That’s more sales than the previous fastest-seller of 2018, Arctic Monkeys' Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Domino), which sold 86,359 in a full week. Polydor co-president Tom March had already predicted the album will become the first 100,000+ seller of the year, and Odyssey is on pace to achieve that. So Music Week sat down with March – enjoying a stellar year, in partnership with co-president Ben Mortimer, which has seen the Universal label scoop the A&R Award at the Music Week Awards and top the market shares in Q3 – to talk Greatest Hits albums, streaming and what comes next for Gary Barlow and co… Why was it important to not just put out a standard Greatest Hits album? “The world has moved on, the standard hits album has moved on. For them, it was not just about looking back, they also want to look forward. Hopefully, this is the perfect blend of moving forward whilst one eye is on the past as well. Their fans are going to love them no matter what. So we need to excite their existing fanbase, give them something they haven’t had before, give them something new and hopefully great promo shows the great content the guys have created.” Their sales are traditionally very physical heavy. Will this project help change that? “We’ve got some fantastic plans in place with Apple Music, Spotify and Amazon. All of the partners are very keen to have the guys involved. Our hope is to start to move some of the audience onto those services. Trying to make the soundbed for the TV ad for Odyssey was an embarrasment of riches! It’s a phenomenal catalogue to have the option to play with.” How do you make that catalogue work in the streaming age? “When we were first discussing the best way to celebrate 30 years of the band's incredible career, what was immediately evident was that we all – band, label and management – wanted to be bold and brave and to innovate. A standard Greatest Hits album in the modern era felt tired. Taking inspiration from The Beatles’ Love album where some of the band's best songs were beautifully re-interpreted, Take That collaborated with Stuart Price to create a non-stop musical journey through their greatest hits, bringing the excitement and energy of their spectacular live shows to the album. Our aim is to be future-facing while embracing the band's incredible catalogue. The campaign will be full of moments of nostalgia for their fans but will also give them something brand new to love. We're expecting to sell huge amounts of physical records whilst also reinvigorating their catalogue on streaming services and have fantastic plans in place with all the partners.” Where do Take That go next? “Take That's three decade-spanning career is testament to a band that are capable of constantly evolving, re-inventing themselves and embracing the times, taking their existing audience with them while winning over new generations of fans. Whatever they do next, it will be big and bold and continue to assure their legacy as one of Britain's most-loved bands.”

Do we have any update on the European, and perhaps more global chartings (or potential) at the moment?

Completely agree, and this was without the help of a big single. I still think they should have led with a Everlasting. 94k sales now!

With opening week sales like these, it’ll certainly convince the record label (if they needed convincing), that TT are still a force in the industry.

Fantastic sales and I must admit I’m not particularly surprised! TT still have it!

Doubt it. They always sell strongly at this time of year. Selling 90k in 3 days isn’t too much of a surprise to me, and with a performance on XF with Robbie this weekend, and a BBC documentary coming out soon, I think they’ll continue their strong sales over the Xmas period. Poor from Rita, surprised she’s not #2.

Doesn’t look like iTunes is slowing down to me...