UK Charts Discussion

[Bambino 24,122]

 

 

Sorry for having to go off-topic here, but hopefully you'll get this. Can you check your PMs please?

[Klou 2,414]

I can't believe Ellie is #1 AGAIN! So crazy THIS long after it was released. So incredibly happy for her :)

[craig 680]

Ellie is the Princess of Pop for now in UK.

Not Katy, Miley, or Beyonce. An actual British girl whose era a year ago was struggling worse than ARTPOP.

[Mills 446]

This is the first time I've heard Clean Bandit's Rather Be upon seeing it atop iTunes. For some reason, this song reminds me of an odd combination of KP's WOA and Gaga's ARTPOP, the title track. It makes me wonder then if those two could perform similarly once released as singles. 

[miss anthropy 0]

ARTPOP 2686 sales.

 

 

ARTPOP exits the Top 40 for Lady Gaga, falling 37-44 (2,686 sales) to end a 10 week residency, although it is priced as little as £3.99 in-store at Tesco. Gaga's debut album The Fame racked up 44 straight weeks and follow-up Born This Way 23 weeks in the Top 40 before dipping below the line.

 

 

 

 

Albums

After ceding top slot to Bruce Springsteen last week, Ellie Goulding returns to number one with her second album Halcyon topping the list for the third time in total on its 68th chart appearance.

With sales to date of 736,908, Halcyon is on schedule to eclipse her 2010 debut Lights - which has sold 746,026 copies - later this week. That is despite the fact that its sales have dipped for five straight weeks, falling to 20,928 in its latest frame - the lowest for a number one album since Richard & Adam's The Impossible Dream topped the chart for the fourth and final time 22 weeks ago on sales of 17,664 copies.

Sales of Springsteen's High Hopes are off 68.97% week-on-week at 15,086 as it dips to number two.

Although its sales are down for the sixth straight week, Beyonce eponymous album is in the top five for the seventh week in a row, holding at number three (14,042 sales). First single XO continues to grow, jumping 37-24 (10,222 sales), while Jay-Z collaboration Drunk In Love remains at number 12 (16,567 sales).

Back in the public spotlight thanks to her participation in the popular BBC show Strictly Come Dancing - she finished fourth - Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Wanderlust debuts at number four (10,844 sales). The second release on her own EBGB's label after three albums for Polydor, it has been widely lauded and far surpasses the first, Make A Scene, which debuted and peaked at number 33 in 2011, with first week sales of 6,143, and a to-date tally of 13,716. Ellis-Bextor's first and most successful solo album after a spell as vocalist with theaudience, Read My Lips debuted at number four in 2001 (23,023 sales) and peaked 41 weeks later at number two. It has thus far sold 833,968 copies. Young Blood - the first single from Wanderlust - becomes Ellis-Bextor's 12th Top 75 single this week, jumping 100-55 (4,811 sales). Ellis-Bextor is married to The Feeling's bassist Richard Jones, and her new album comes a mere 15 weeks after their latest, Boy Cried Wolf, debuted and peaked at number 33.

More than three years after their debut album The Fool peaked at number 41, Californian indie rockers Warpaint's eponymous follow-up opens at number nine (7,996 sales). Although that is 85.39% more than the 4,313 copies that The Fool sold on its debut, it still has a long way to go before it can match that album's overall sales of 48,889.

Mogwai rack up their ninth and highest charting album with Rave Tapes debuting at number 10 (7,783 sales). Their previous highest charting album, Rock Action, reached number 23 in 2001, and their last, the soundtrack album Les Revenants, reached number 42 last year. Rave Tapes debuts at number two in Scotland for the Glasgow band, behind Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes, with Ellie Goulding at number three.

James Blunt's Moon Landing soars back into higher orbit, advancing 23-8 (8,439 sales) after he performed Heart To Heart on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. That's its highest chart position for 11 weeks. The single jumps 179-66 (3,441 sales). Keane also get a chat show boost, after they performed Everybody's Changing on The Graham Norton Show (BBC) to publicise their Greatest Hits album. The album debuted and peaked 10 weeks ago at number 10, jumped 48-26 last week, and now advances to number 19 (5,529 sales).

Elsewhere in the Top 10 Avicii's True (6-5, 9,561 sales) and Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last (5-6, 8,973 sales) swap places, and Bastille's Bad Blood dips 4-7 (8,907 sales).

Their last two studio albums fell short of the Top 40, but a new Mike & The Mechanics compilation - The Singles 1985-2014 - debuts this week at number 18 (5,550 sales) becoming the fourth and last new entry to the Top 75 in a quiet week. The band's 1996 Hits album reached number three, and has sold 535,823 copies.

Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine jumps 21-16 (5,638 sales) to achieve its highest chart placing for 11 weeks, as new single Team debuts at number 95 (2,239 sales).

ARTPOP exits the Top 40 for Lady Gaga, falling 37-44 (2,686 sales) to end a 10 week residency, although it is priced as little as £3.99 in-store at Tesco. Gaga's debut album The Fame racked up 44 straight weeks and follow-up Born This Way 23 weeks in the Top 40 before dipping below the line.

Priced as little as £4 at the moment, Mumford & Son's Babel reached a 21 week high last week, at number 22, but now descends to number 31. It also passed the million sales mark, with its latest week's tally of 3,508 raising its overall tally to 1,006,694 - still 55.89% below their 2009 debut Sigh No More's 1,569,343 sales. They are only the fifth British band to start their recording career in the 21st century and sell upwards of a million copies of each of their first two albums, emulating Coldplay, Blue, Busted and, most recently, Razorlight.

Babel was the 203rd album to sell more than a million copies in the 21st century - and Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid has just become the 204th, with a to-date tally of 1,000,483 sales. 185 artist albums are among that tally, alongside 15 regular compilations - all of them Now That's What I Call Music! releases - and four multi-artist soundtrack albums.

Returning to Mumford & Son, the biggest hits off each of their albums have sold almost identical amounts. A number 24 hit, Little Lion Man - from Sigh No More - has sold 416,057 copies, just four more than I Will Wait, the number 12 hit from Babel. I Will Wait is the moral victor in their tussle for superiority, as it has reached its tally in three years less, and it will almost certainly leapfrog Little Lion Man next week. It sold 1,229 copies last week, more than twice its rival's 577. The third biggest Mumford & Son track, incidentally, is The Cave, which never charted higher than number 31 but has sold 363,201 copies.

The Trevor Nelson Collection 2 spends its second week atop the compilation chart, selling a further 22,106 copies. It is also the number one album overall, for the first time.

Overall album sales are down 9.91% week-on-week at 1,352,105 - 23.24% below same week 2013 sales of 1,761,495, and their lowest level for 14 weeks

[GagaMyBlood95 9,901]

ARTPOP 2686 sales.

 

 

 

 

 

Albums

After ceding top slot to Bruce Springsteen last week, Ellie Goulding returns to number one with her second album Halcyon topping the list for the third time in total on its 68th chart appearance.

With sales to date of 736,908, Halcyon is on schedule to eclipse her 2010 debut Lights - which has sold 746,026 copies - later this week. That is despite the fact that its sales have dipped for five straight weeks, falling to 20,928 in its latest frame - the lowest for a number one album since Richard & Adam's The Impossible Dream topped the chart for the fourth and final time 22 weeks ago on sales of 17,664 copies.

Sales of Springsteen's High Hopes are off 68.97% week-on-week at 15,086 as it dips to number two.

Although its sales are down for the sixth straight week, Beyonce eponymous album is in the top five for the seventh week in a row, holding at number three (14,042 sales). First single XO continues to grow, jumping 37-24 (10,222 sales), while Jay-Z collaboration Drunk In Love remains at number 12 (16,567 sales).

Back in the public spotlight thanks to her participation in the popular BBC show Strictly Come Dancing - she finished fourth - Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Wanderlust debuts at number four (10,844 sales). The second release on her own EBGB's label after three albums for Polydor, it has been widely lauded and far surpasses the first, Make A Scene, which debuted and peaked at number 33 in 2011, with first week sales of 6,143, and a to-date tally of 13,716. Ellis-Bextor's first and most successful solo album after a spell as vocalist with theaudience, Read My Lips debuted at number four in 2001 (23,023 sales) and peaked 41 weeks later at number two. It has thus far sold 833,968 copies. Young Blood - the first single from Wanderlust - becomes Ellis-Bextor's 12th Top 75 single this week, jumping 100-55 (4,811 sales). Ellis-Bextor is married to The Feeling's bassist Richard Jones, and her new album comes a mere 15 weeks after their latest, Boy Cried Wolf, debuted and peaked at number 33.

More than three years after their debut album The Fool peaked at number 41, Californian indie rockers Warpaint's eponymous follow-up opens at number nine (7,996 sales). Although that is 85.39% more than the 4,313 copies that The Fool sold on its debut, it still has a long way to go before it can match that album's overall sales of 48,889.

Mogwai rack up their ninth and highest charting album with Rave Tapes debuting at number 10 (7,783 sales). Their previous highest charting album, Rock Action, reached number 23 in 2001, and their last, the soundtrack album Les Revenants, reached number 42 last year. Rave Tapes debuts at number two in Scotland for the Glasgow band, behind Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes, with Ellie Goulding at number three.

James Blunt's Moon Landing soars back into higher orbit, advancing 23-8 (8,439 sales) after he performed Heart To Heart on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. That's its highest chart position for 11 weeks. The single jumps 179-66 (3,441 sales). Keane also get a chat show boost, after they performed Everybody's Changing on The Graham Norton Show (BBC) to publicise their Greatest Hits album. The album debuted and peaked 10 weeks ago at number 10, jumped 48-26 last week, and now advances to number 19 (5,529 sales).

Elsewhere in the Top 10 Avicii's True (6-5, 9,561 sales) and Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last (5-6, 8,973 sales) swap places, and Bastille's Bad Blood dips 4-7 (8,907 sales).

Their last two studio albums fell short of the Top 40, but a new Mike & The Mechanics compilation - The Singles 1985-2014 - debuts this week at number 18 (5,550 sales) becoming the fourth and last new entry to the Top 75 in a quiet week. The band's 1996 Hits album reached number three, and has sold 535,823 copies.

Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine jumps 21-16 (5,638 sales) to achieve its highest chart placing for 11 weeks, as new single Team debuts at number 95 (2,239 sales).

ARTPOP exits the Top 40 for Lady Gaga, falling 37-44 (2,686 sales) to end a 10 week residency, although it is priced as little as £3.99 in-store at Tesco. Gaga's debut album The Fame racked up 44 straight weeks and follow-up Born This Way 23 weeks in the Top 40 before dipping below the line.

Priced as little as £4 at the moment, Mumford & Son's Babel reached a 21 week high last week, at number 22, but now descends to number 31. It also passed the million sales mark, with its latest week's tally of 3,508 raising its overall tally to 1,006,694 - still 55.89% below their 2009 debut Sigh No More's 1,569,343 sales. They are only the fifth British band to start their recording career in the 21st century and sell upwards of a million copies of each of their first two albums, emulating Coldplay, Blue, Busted and, most recently, Razorlight.

Babel was the 203rd album to sell more than a million copies in the 21st century - and Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid has just become the 204th, with a to-date tally of 1,000,483 sales. 185 artist albums are among that tally, alongside 15 regular compilations - all of them Now That's What I Call Music! releases - and four multi-artist soundtrack albums.

Returning to Mumford & Son, the biggest hits off each of their albums have sold almost identical amounts. A number 24 hit, Little Lion Man - from Sigh No More - has sold 416,057 copies, just four more than I Will Wait, the number 12 hit from Babel. I Will Wait is the moral victor in their tussle for superiority, as it has reached its tally in three years less, and it will almost certainly leapfrog Little Lion Man next week. It sold 1,229 copies last week, more than twice its rival's 577. The third biggest Mumford & Son track, incidentally, is The Cave, which never charted higher than number 31 but has sold 363,201 copies.

The Trevor Nelson Collection 2 spends its second week atop the compilation chart, selling a further 22,106 copies. It is also the number one album overall, for the first time.

Overall album sales are down 9.91% week-on-week at 1,352,105 - 23.24% below same week 2013 sales of 1,761,495, and their lowest level for 14 weeks

I just hope it reaches platinum status eventually..

[miss anthropy 0]

I just hope it reaches platinum status eventually..

 

 

Maybe it'll be like Ellie's album and start selling amazingly in a year's time.

 

I think the most likely way it would reach platinum is to release Act 2 as an E.P. and bundle it together with ARTPOP, just like TF/TFM.

[Jase 13,101]

iTunes Update

 

 

01. Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) - Clean Bandit

02. Feelin' Myself (feat. Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard) - will.i.am

03. Ready For Your Love (feat. MNEK) - Gorgon City

04. Happy (Gru's Theme from Despicable Me 2) - Pharrell Williams

05. Crying for No Reason - Katy B

06. Timber (feat. Ke$ha) - Pitbull

07. Braveheart - Neon Jungle

08. Hey Brother - Avicii

09. Wild Heart - The Vamps

10. Trumpets - Jason Derulo

 

11. Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) - Fuse ODG

12. Riptide - Vance Joy

13. Drunk in Love (feat. Jay-Z) - Beyoncé

14. How Long Will I Love You (Official BBC Children In Need 2013) - Ellie Goulding

15. Control (feat. Max Marshall) - Matrix & Futurebound

16. If I Lose Myself (Alesso vs. OneRepublic) - OneRepublic & Alesso

17. Thank You (feat. Q-Tip, Kanye West & Lil Wayne) - Busta Rhymes

18. If U Got It (Radio Edit) - Chris Malinchak

19. Turn Back Time - Sub Focus

20. Lover Not a Fighter (feat. Labrinth) - Tinie Tempah

 

21. The Monster (feat. Rihanna) - Eminem

22. It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

23. White Walls (feat. ScHoolboy Q & Hollis) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

24. Let It Go - Idina Menzel

25. XO - Beyoncé

26. Royals - Lorde

27. Little Me - Little Mix

28. Animals - Martin Garrix

29. Of the Night - Bastille

30. Show Me (feat. Chris Brown) - Kid Ink

 

31. Do It All Over Again - Elyar Fox

32. Adore You - Miley Cyrus

33. Sail - AWOLNATION

34. Wake Me Up - Avicii

35. Story Of My Life - One Direction

36. Counting Stars - OneRepublic

37. Hold On, We're Going Home (feat. Majid Jordan) - Drake

38. Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J) - Katy Perry

39. I See Fire - Ed Sheeran

40. Feelin' Myself (feat. Miley Cyrus, French Montana, Wiz Khalifa & DJ Mustard) - will.i.am

 

Bubbling Under

 

49. Demons - Imagine Dragons

74. Team - Lorde

76. Full Circle - Half Moon Run

81. Dibby Dibby Sound (feat. Ms. Dynamite) [Radio Edit] - DJ Fresh & Jay Fay *Pre-order

86. Heart To Heart - James Blunt

[Janet 1,417]

ARTPOP 2686 sales.

 

 

 

 

 

Albums

After ceding top slot to Bruce Springsteen last week, Ellie Goulding returns to number one with her second album Halcyon topping the list for the third time in total on its 68th chart appearance.

With sales to date of 736,908, Halcyon is on schedule to eclipse her 2010 debut Lights - which has sold 746,026 copies - later this week. That is despite the fact that its sales have dipped for five straight weeks, falling to 20,928 in its latest frame - the lowest for a number one album since Richard & Adam's The Impossible Dream topped the chart for the fourth and final time 22 weeks ago on sales of 17,664 copies.

Sales of Springsteen's High Hopes are off 68.97% week-on-week at 15,086 as it dips to number two.

Although its sales are down for the sixth straight week, Beyonce eponymous album is in the top five for the seventh week in a row, holding at number three (14,042 sales). First single XO continues to grow, jumping 37-24 (10,222 sales), while Jay-Z collaboration Drunk In Love remains at number 12 (16,567 sales).

Back in the public spotlight thanks to her participation in the popular BBC show Strictly Come Dancing - she finished fourth - Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Wanderlust debuts at number four (10,844 sales). The second release on her own EBGB's label after three albums for Polydor, it has been widely lauded and far surpasses the first, Make A Scene, which debuted and peaked at number 33 in 2011, with first week sales of 6,143, and a to-date tally of 13,716. Ellis-Bextor's first and most successful solo album after a spell as vocalist with theaudience, Read My Lips debuted at number four in 2001 (23,023 sales) and peaked 41 weeks later at number two. It has thus far sold 833,968 copies. Young Blood - the first single from Wanderlust - becomes Ellis-Bextor's 12th Top 75 single this week, jumping 100-55 (4,811 sales). Ellis-Bextor is married to The Feeling's bassist Richard Jones, and her new album comes a mere 15 weeks after their latest, Boy Cried Wolf, debuted and peaked at number 33.

More than three years after their debut album The Fool peaked at number 41, Californian indie rockers Warpaint's eponymous follow-up opens at number nine (7,996 sales). Although that is 85.39% more than the 4,313 copies that The Fool sold on its debut, it still has a long way to go before it can match that album's overall sales of 48,889.

Mogwai rack up their ninth and highest charting album with Rave Tapes debuting at number 10 (7,783 sales). Their previous highest charting album, Rock Action, reached number 23 in 2001, and their last, the soundtrack album Les Revenants, reached number 42 last year. Rave Tapes debuts at number two in Scotland for the Glasgow band, behind Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes, with Ellie Goulding at number three.

James Blunt's Moon Landing soars back into higher orbit, advancing 23-8 (8,439 sales) after he performed Heart To Heart on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV. That's its highest chart position for 11 weeks. The single jumps 179-66 (3,441 sales). Keane also get a chat show boost, after they performed Everybody's Changing on The Graham Norton Show (BBC) to publicise their Greatest Hits album. The album debuted and peaked 10 weeks ago at number 10, jumped 48-26 last week, and now advances to number 19 (5,529 sales).

Elsewhere in the Top 10 Avicii's True (6-5, 9,561 sales) and Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last (5-6, 8,973 sales) swap places, and Bastille's Bad Blood dips 4-7 (8,907 sales).

Their last two studio albums fell short of the Top 40, but a new Mike & The Mechanics compilation - The Singles 1985-2014 - debuts this week at number 18 (5,550 sales) becoming the fourth and last new entry to the Top 75 in a quiet week. The band's 1996 Hits album reached number three, and has sold 535,823 copies.

Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine jumps 21-16 (5,638 sales) to achieve its highest chart placing for 11 weeks, as new single Team debuts at number 95 (2,239 sales).

ARTPOP exits the Top 40 for Lady Gaga, falling 37-44 (2,686 sales) to end a 10 week residency, although it is priced as little as £3.99 in-store at Tesco. Gaga's debut album The Fame racked up 44 straight weeks and follow-up Born This Way 23 weeks in the Top 40 before dipping below the line.

Priced as little as £4 at the moment, Mumford & Son's Babel reached a 21 week high last week, at number 22, but now descends to number 31. It also passed the million sales mark, with its latest week's tally of 3,508 raising its overall tally to 1,006,694 - still 55.89% below their 2009 debut Sigh No More's 1,569,343 sales. They are only the fifth British band to start their recording career in the 21st century and sell upwards of a million copies of each of their first two albums, emulating Coldplay, Blue, Busted and, most recently, Razorlight.

Babel was the 203rd album to sell more than a million copies in the 21st century - and Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid has just become the 204th, with a to-date tally of 1,000,483 sales. 185 artist albums are among that tally, alongside 15 regular compilations - all of them Now That's What I Call Music! releases - and four multi-artist soundtrack albums.

Returning to Mumford & Son, the biggest hits off each of their albums have sold almost identical amounts. A number 24 hit, Little Lion Man - from Sigh No More - has sold 416,057 copies, just four more than I Will Wait, the number 12 hit from Babel. I Will Wait is the moral victor in their tussle for superiority, as it has reached its tally in three years less, and it will almost certainly leapfrog Little Lion Man next week. It sold 1,229 copies last week, more than twice its rival's 577. The third biggest Mumford & Son track, incidentally, is The Cave, which never charted higher than number 31 but has sold 363,201 copies.

The Trevor Nelson Collection 2 spends its second week atop the compilation chart, selling a further 22,106 copies. It is also the number one album overall, for the first time.

Overall album sales are down 9.91% week-on-week at 1,352,105 - 23.24% below same week 2013 sales of 1,761,495, and their lowest level for 14 weeks

holy mother of god

[craig 680]

Back in the public spotlight thanks to her participation in the popular BBC show Strictly Come Dancing - she finished fourth - Sophie Ellis-Bextor's Wanderlust debuts at number four (10,844 sales). The second release on her own EBGB's label after three albums for Polydor, it has been widely lauded and far surpasses the first, Make A Scene, which debuted and peaked at number 33 in 2011, with first week sales of 6,143, and a to-date tally of 13,716.

 

Really shows why is you're going to debut at 10k it's MUCH better to release in January

[craig 680]

3 weeks ago:
ARTPOP - 9,278 (overall 172,873)

+5k = 177k two weeks ago
+4k = 181k one week ago

+ 2686 past week

 

= 184k total

[Freddy 4,421]

I just hope it reaches platinum status eventually..

 

Well if the sales are staying in this range it will be platinum in 43 weeks 

[Arturo 40,746]

They shouldn't if she moves on to the next single

[Harry 26,836]

The BRITs will be revealing the next group of performers in ten minutes. They replied to a LM on twitter @HausOfPhil who has deleted the tweet he sent them (why), and they replied "you'll have to wait and see" ... trying not to get excited. I'm really trying.

[Janet 1,417]

The BRITs will be revealing the next group of performers in ten minutes. They replied to a LM on twitter @HausOfPhil who has deleted the tweet he sent them (why), and they replied "you'll have to wait and see" ... trying not to get excited. I'm really trying.

lmao bitter disappointment 

 

https://twitter.com/BRITAwards/status/427954370496307200