The Official UK Charts Thread

[franxisco66]

Kylie's X may be flopping, but she has been dominating this thread since she released her album... After about 8 months, and most posts on here are about her... I am quite neutral about her, despite not being in the CHARTS anymore.

I dont know what is being posted in here is true or a joke. Cause if it is true, it is rather pathetic what Kylie fans are asking for... I just cant believe someone can be such a loon. They need to get a life

[Guest Glamorama]

Hasn't X sold almost 500,000 copies in the UK?

Hard Candy has sold about 250,000?

[Guest Johnkm]

Hasn't X sold almost 500,000 copies in the UK?

Yes, its at about 450,000 i think, but it was released in november and had the benefit of christmas sales to boost its figures. It only opened at #4 and had its opening sales were a good bit off Hard Candy's opening numbers.

[Guest Johnkm]

Uk Year To Date Top 40 Singles

TW LW Artist Title Total

1 1 Duffy Mercy 470605

2 2 Nickelback Rockstar 412445

3 3 Basshunter feat DJ Mental Now you're gone 408600

4 4 Estelle feat Kanye West American boy 401080

5 5 Madonna 4 minutes 389270

6 6 Sam Sparro Black and gold 347545

7 7 Flo Rida feat T Pain Low 333790

8 8 Rihanna Don’t stop the music 272505

9 9 Adele Chasing pavements 267745

10 11 Rihanna Take a bow 255000

11 10 H Two O feat Platnum What's it gonna be? 243460

12 15 Ne-Yo Closer 231500

13 12 Ting Tings That's not my name 227300

14 13 Usher feat Young Jeezy Love in this club 218650

15 14 Will I Am Heartbreaker 218180

16 16 One Republic Stop and stare 209000

17 17 Leona Lewis Better in Time/Footprints in the sand 206800

18 18 September Cry for you 204550

19 19 Wiley Wearing my Rolex 201750

20 20 Britney Spears Piece of me 193705

21 24 Gabriella Cilmi Sweet about me 189135

22 21 Alphabeat Fascination 189095

23 22 Chris Brown With you 188875

24 23 Kelly Rowland Work 185220

25 32 Dizzee Rascal Dance wiv me 182650

26 26 Duffy Warwick Avenue 182465

27 25 Soulja Boy Crank that (Soulja Boy) 174865

28 27 Timbaland feat One Republic Apologize 164500

29 29 Utah Saints Something good 159400

30 28 David Jordan Sun goes down 159250

31 33 Coldplay Viva la vida 154100

32 39 Jordin Sparks feat Chris Brown No air 154020

33 30 Kylie Minogue Wow 153875

34 34 Sara Bareilles Love song 150275

35 31 Lupe Fiasco Superstar 146000

36 35 Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse Valerie 142550

37 36 Taio Cruz Come one girl 138265

38 37 Take That Rule the world 134760

39 38 Scouting for Girls Elvis aint dead 131400

40 41 Chris Brown Forever 130025

[Guest Danny86]

Friday Midweeks update

1 Kid Rock

2 Dizzee Rascal

3 Script

4 Jordin & Chris Brown

5 Ne Yo

Top 10

Saturdays

Noah & The Whale

Top 15

Madonna - Give It 2 Me

Top 20

Ida Maria

Top 25

Ultrabeat

Usher

Top 40

Kylie

Honey Ryder

Rihanna

Madonna - 4 Minutes

Albums

1 Abba

2 Coldplay

3 Duffy

4 Basshunter

5 Ting Tings

Top 10

Kid Rock

Rihanna

Top 15

Scooter

Jordin Sparks

Top 20

Madonna

Scouting For Girls

Adele

Top 25

Alice Cooper

Top 30

Ida Maria

Pendulum

Gabriella Cilmi

MGMT

Top 40

Scars on Broadway

Usher

[markm]

Top 40

Kylie

FLOPTASTICA

[Queen Bitch]

FLOPTASTICA

But she's HIGHER than 4 Minutes

[Queen Bitch]

Hasn't X sold almost 500,000 copies in the UK?

Hard Candy has sold about 250,000?

X was in the bargain bins - £3.99 two months after release. HC is still selling steadily and hasn't had any major reductions other than the odd - 'supermarket album of the week' which every album gets to be.

X was hyped for months in advance of it's release and got loads of promotion - TV special etc. If you're going to compare it with anything, it should be COADF.

[fak]

Sadly none of the posts are about her breaking new records. She is nt dominating because she is doing well. All the Diva's have their loons LOL.

Kylie's X may be flopping, but she has been dominating this thread since she released her album... After about 8 months, and most posts on here are about her... I am quite neutral about her, despite not being in the CHARTS anymore.

I dont know what is being posted in here is true or a joke. Cause if it is true, it is rather pathetic what Kylie fans are asking for... I just cant believe someone can be such a loon. They need to get a life

[Guest Danny86]

Today's chart so far:

#35 Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes

#36 Kylie Minogue - The One

From Haven: "So, Kylie's 45th hit becomes her smallest ever solo success (excluding the collaborations with Visionmasters and Towa Tei). It brings a run of 16 consecutive top ten hits to an end. It does give her an impressive 415th week on chart, enough to rank her 16th in the all-time table."

[Guest Danny86]

#13 Madonna - Give It 2 Me

ABBA is #1 in albums! :dramatic:

[paradise]

not a bad drop at all. it's been holding up well on itunes for the past week or so

[franxisco66]

#13 Madonna - Give It 2 Me

ABBA is #1 in albums! :dramatic:

Vow, you serious?

I'm happy for them, a real classic. good music is timeless. It is one of the all-time best selling albums in the UK (the 5th or 6th???)

Go ABBA!

[Guest Danny86]

^Sure I am. I believe it's the 4th best selling album in the UK.

Hard Candy slips only 1 position, goes 15-16.

[promise to try]

Hard Candy slips only 1 position, goes 15-16.

good:despite all the things that people ar saying against GI2M, the song is helping the album

[Guest Danny86]

Thanks to Haven:

Top 40 Albums

1. (2) GOLD – GREATEST HITS (Abba) 365 wks

2. (1) VIVA LA VIDA OR DEATH AND ALL HIS FRIENDS (Coldplay) 8 wks

3. (4) ROCKFERRY (Duffy) 22 wks

4. (NEW)(145) ROCK N ROLL JESUS (Kid Rock) 1 wk

5. (2) NOW YOU'RE GONE - THE ALBUM (Basshunter) 3 wks

6. (5) MELODY (Sharleen Spiteri) 3 wks

7. (6) WE STARTED NOTHING (Ting Tings) 11 wks

8. (7) I BELIEVE – THE VERY BEST OF (Bachelors) 2 wks

9. (8) EXCLUSIVE – FOREVER EDITION (Chris Brown) 20 wks

10. (10) ALL THE RIGHT REASONS (Nickelback) 35 wks

11. (11) GOOD GIRL GONE BAD (Rihanna) 61 wks

12. (12) BACK TO BLACK [DELUXE EDITION] (Amy Winehouse) 39 wks

13. (13) PIANO MAN - THE VERY BEST OF (Billy Joel) 23 wks

14. (16) JUMPING ALL OVER THE WORLD (Scooter) 13 wks

15. (14) SKYDIVIN' (Darren Styles) 7 wks

16. (15) HARD CANDY (Madonna) 14 wks

17. (18) JORDIN SPARKS (Jordin Sparks) 4 wks

18. (19) SCOUTING FOR GIRLS (Scouting For Girls) 46 wks

19. (30) IN SILICO (Pendulum) 12 wks

20. (21) 19 (Adele) 26 wks

21. (23) LESSONS TO BE LEARNED (Gabriella Cilmi) 18 wks

22. (17) THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT (Last Shadow Puppets) 11 wks

23. (24) THE BEST OF (Neil Diamond) 21 wks

24. (20) MAMMA MIA (Original Cast Recording) 7 wks

25. (NEW) THE SLIP (Nine Inch Nails) 1 wk

26. (27) ORACULAR SPECTACULAR (MGMT) 15 wks

27. (33) HERE I STAND (Usher) 10 wks

28. (29) CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE – SPECIAL EDITION (Michael Buble) 42 wks

29. (22) THE ROAD TO REPARATION: THE VERY BEST OF (Eddy Grant) 5 wks

30. (25) HOME BEFORE DARK (Neil Diamond) 11 wks

31. (NEW) ALONG CAME A SPIDER (Alice Cooper) 1 wk

32. (9) BEAUTIFUL FUTURE (Primal Scream) 2 wks

33. (26) THIS IS THE LIFE (Amy MacDonald) 53 wks

34. (28) KONK (Kooks) 16 wks

35. (31) VAMPIRE WEEKEND (Vampire Weekend) 21 wks

36. (36) 22 DREAMS (Paul Weller) 9 wks

37. (35) HOLD YOUR COLOUR (Pendulum) 15 wks

38. (55) EMERGENCY (Pigeon Detectives) 10 wks

39. (NEW) FORTRESS ROUND MY HEART (Ida Maria) 1 wk

40. (34) THE SELDOM SEEN KID (Elbow) 17 wks

Top 40 Singles

1. (2) ALL SUMMER LONG (Kid Rock) 5 wks

2. (1) DANCE WIV ME (Dizzee Rascal feat Calvin Harris & Chrome) 5 wks

3. (30) THE MAN WHO CAN’T BE MOVED (Script) 2 wks

4. (NEW)(139) I KISSED A GIRL (Katy Perry) 1 wk

5. (3) NO AIR (Jordin Sparks feat Chris Brown) 10 wks

6. (4) CLOSER (Ne-Yo) 13 wks

7. (5) ALL I EVER WANTED (Basshunter) 5 wks

8. (NEW) IF THIS IS LOVE (Saturdays) 1 wk

9. (6) SHUT UP AND LET ME GO (Ting Tings) 11 wks

10. (14) 5 YEARS TIME (Noah & The Whale) 3 wks

11. (8) STAY WITH ME (Ironik) 6 wks

12. (7) SWEET ABOUT ME (Gabriella Cilmi) 22 wks

13. (10) GIVE IT 2 ME (Madonna) 10 wks

14. (9) TAKE A BOW (Rihanna) 12 wks

15. (11) BLACK & GOLD (Sam Sparro) 20 wks

16. (18) I LIKE YOU SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOU’RE NAKED (Ida Maria) 2 wks

17. (13) THAT'S NOT MY NAME (Ting Tings) 12 wks

18. (16) VIVA LA VIDA (Coldplay) 7 wks

19. (15) FOREVER (Chris Brown) 10 wks

20. (12) WARWICK AVENUE (Duffy) 15 wks

21. (19) HOMETOWN GLORY (Adele) 12 wks

22. (17) WE MADE IT (Busta Rhymes feat Linkin Park) 7 wks

23. (31) DISCOLIGHTS (Ultrabeat vs Darren Styles) 4 wks

24. (20) LOVE SONG (Sara Bareilles) 14 wks

25. (28) MOVING MOUNTAINS (Usher) 6 wks

26. (25) PHOTOGRAPH (Nickelback) 12 wks

27. (26) WEARING MY ROLEX (Wiley) 15 wks

28. (22) LOW (Flo Rida feat T-Pain) 26 wks

29. (27) CRY FOR YOU (September) 17 wks

30. (23) AMERICAN BOY (Estelle feat Kanye West) 21 wks

31. (24) HEARTBREAKER (Will I Am feat Cheryl Cole) 19 wks

32. (NEW) NUMB (Honey Ryder) 1 wk

33. (32) ALL THE TIMES I CRIED (Sharleen Spiteri) 5 wks

34. (47) DISTURBIA (Rihanna) 4 wks

35. (29) 4 MINUTES (Madonna feat Justin Timberlake & Timbaland) 20 wks

36. (NEW) THE ONE (Kylie Minogue) 1 wk

37. (34) SHINE ON (Kooks) 6 wks

38. (33) WITH YOU (Chris Brown) 26 wks

39. (36) TEN THOUSAND NIGHTS (Alphabeat) 11 wks

40. (35) SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Mint Royale) 14 wks

Airplay Top 50

01 01 Coldplay Viva La Vida

02 02 Kooks Shine On

03 03 Jordin Sparks No Air

04 06 Ne-Yo Closer

05 11 Noah & The Whale 5 Year's Time

06 13 Adele Hometown Glory

07 05 Gabriella Cilmi Sweet About Me

08 10 The Script The Man Who Can't Be Moved

09 08 Dizzee Rascal feat Calvin Harris & Chrome Dance Wiv Me

10 12 Scouting For Girls It's Not About You

11 04 Kid Rock All Summer Long

12 09 Sharleen Spiteri All The Times I Cried

13 07 Sara Bareilles Love Song

14 18 Ting Tings Shut Up And Let Me Go

15 19 Rihanna Take A Bow

16 16 Duffy Warwick Avenue

17 17 Melee Built To Last

18 36 31 Duffy Mercy

19 22 Katy Perry I Kissed A Girl

20 15 Verve Love Is Noise

21 35 Eric Prydz Pjanoo

22 20 Nickelback Photograph

23 45 Ida Maria I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

24 24 Sam Sparro Black & Gold

25 NE Will Young Changes

26 25 Little Jackie The World Should Revolve Around Me

27 14 Madonna Give It 2 Me

28 21 Gabriella Cilmi Save The Lies (Good To Me)

29 32 September Cry For You

30 39 Ironik Stay With Me

31 23 Kylie Minogue The One

32 34 Saturdays If This Is Love

33 28 Leona Lewis Better In Time/Footprints In The Sand

34 33 Timbaland presents One Republic Apologize

35 52 Spoon Harris & Obernik Baditude

36 77 Beth Rowley Sweet Hours

37 43 Pigeon Detectives Everybody Wants Me

38 31 Ava Leigh Mad About The Boy

39 29 McFly One For The Radio

40 30 Chris Brown With You

41 44 Sugababes About You Now

42 53 Mark Ronson feat Amy Winehouse Valerie

43 56 Glen Campbell Good Riddance

44 50 One Republic Stop And Stare

45 37 Will.I.Am feat Cheryl Cole Heartbreaker

46 NE Alphabeat Boyfriend

47 42 Pendulum The Other Side

48 38 Estelle feat Kanye West American Boy

49 54 Madonna feat Justin Timberlake 4 Minutes

50 74 Snow Patrol Chasing Cars

[eroticromance]

Vow, you serious?

I'm happy for them, a real classic. good music is timeless. It is one of the all-time best selling albums in the UK (the 5th or 6th???)

Go ABBA!

1. "Greatest Hits" (1981), Queen 5.4 million

2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967), Beatles 4.8m

3. "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" (1995), Oasis 4.3m

4. "Brothers In Arms" (1985), Dire Straits 3.9m

5. "Gold: Greatest Hits" (1992), Abba 3.9m

[Guest Danny86]

1. "Greatest Hits" (1981), Queen 5.4 million

2. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967), Beatles 4.8m

3. "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?" (1995), Oasis 4.3m

4. "Brothers In Arms" (1985), Dire Straits 3.9m

5. "Gold: Greatest Hits" (1992), Abba 3.9m

That has changed recently. From UKmix:

Here are the UK's Top 10 Best Selling Albums,

to the end of April this Year - The figures are

from The OCC, & end in late April.

1 GREATEST HITS - QUEEN (5,579,309)

2 SGT. PEPPER... - BEATLES (4,899,665)

3 WHAT'S THE STORY...- OASIS (4,364,911)

4 GOLD - GREATEST HITS - ABBA (4,097,417)

5 BROTHERS IN ARMS DIRE STRAITS (4,033,457)

6 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - PINK FLOYD (3,924,946)

7 GREATEST HITS II - QUEEN (3,710,169)

8 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON (3,614,058)

9 BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON (3,572,275)

10 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION - MADONNA (3,558,825)

[HolidayGuy]

That's a record now, for an album returning to the No. 1 position. I gather it's because of Mamma Mia! in the UK (as the movie has boosted Abba's albums in the USA< as well). The movie itself looks to be a big average production (based om its metacritic score of 51).

[promise to try]

That has changed recently. From UKmix:

1 GREATEST HITS - QUEEN (5,579,309)

2 SGT. PEPPER... - BEATLES (4,899,665)

3 WHAT'S THE STORY...- OASIS (4,364,911)

4 GOLD - GREATEST HITS - ABBA (4,097,417)

5 BROTHERS IN ARMS DIRE STRAITS (4,033,457)

6 DARK SIDE OF THE MOON - PINK FLOYD (3,924,946)

7 GREATEST HITS II - QUEEN (3,710,169)

8 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON (3,614,058)

9 BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON (3,572,275)

10 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION - MADONNA (3,558,825)

I hope ABBA gold sells more than Oasis' album. And look at MJ's albums, he was so big! and Bad was huge in the UK!

also, do you know where the first Queen's greatest hits is on this ranking??

[franxisco66]

Abba may sell more than oasis, but will take a long time. Oasis is releasing a new album soon, so sales of its catalog albums will increase too. Madonna should be num 9 at the end of the year

[Ciccone's Cheeks]

has Abba Gold been remastered, or is the one charting this week still the original 1992 version?

[Guest Danny86]

has Abba Gold been remastered, or is the one charting this week still the original 1992 version?

There is a remastered version, I think it had like 3 more editions released since 1992.

[fak]

is nt it at no1?

I hope ABBA gold sells more than Oasis' album. And look at MJ's albums, he was so big! and Bad was huge in the UK!

also, do you know where the first Queen's greatest hits is on this ranking??

[fak]

HC and GITM have both improved from their mid-week position. Even 4 Mins has imporved - Kylie fans were boasting The One was outselling 4Mins this week - until the final results were announced.

PTT is right GITM has improved album sales and position - i hope we dont wait too long for MA

[Guest Danny86]

In comparison, American Life was at #46 in its 14th week on the chart. It only spent 5 more weeks in the Top 75. HC has not left the Top 30 yet, so while it doesn't show in sales at all, if we go by chart positions, HC easily beats AL.

[Queen Bitch]

Today's chart so far:

#35 Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes

#36 Kylie Minogue - The One

And the Kylie loons were claiming she was doing better than Madonna on the basis of it being higher the 4 Minutes.

How many weeks has 4 Minutes spent on the chart?

From Haven: "So, Kylie's 45th hit becomes her smallest ever solo success (excluding the collaborations with Visionmasters and Towa Tei). It brings a run of 16 consecutive top ten hits to an end. It does give her an impressive 415th week on chart, enough to rank her 16th in the all-time table."

And to think her fans were claiming she'd beat Madonna's run of 35 top 10 hits between 1984-1994 She couldn't even manage to exceed Madonna's second run of consecutive top 10s, 17 between 1996 and 2003

[Queen Bitch]

There is a remastered version, I think it had like 3 more editions released since 1992.

Yeah, Gold has been released several times and it's nowhere near as impressive as Queen's GH, which really has appealed across the board albeit boosted by the untimely death of Freddie Mercury.

If Warners do release a definitive Madonna GH then they need to delete TIC and GHV2 otherwise it won't be a big seller with other options available.

[Queen Bitch]

HC and GITM have both improved from their mid-week position. Even 4 Mins has imporved - Kylie fans were boasting The One was outselling 4Mins this week - until the final results were announced.

PTT is right GITM has improved album sales and position - i hope we dont wait too long for MA

GI2M has been a BONAFIDE hit, beyond her core fanbase - top 20 as an album download only, maintaining a good position when the single comes out as well as boosting the ablum. The HC era ain't as bad as some are saying as she's holding up on individual tracks as well as maintaining steady sales of the album. My guess is Miles Away will go to radio in mid-September with a release in late-October.

[Guest Danny86]

No exact Madonna sales from MW but posting this for ABBA:

Abba's Gold becomes oldest album to top chart

10:12 | Monday August 4, 2008

By Alan Jones

Here we go again: Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits returns to the top of the album chart this week, stealing chart honours from Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends by 30,254 sales to 27,135.

Abba’s ninth number one album, Gold: Greatest Hits first topped the chart on October 3 1992. It was dethroned the following week by REM’s Automatic For The People, and did not return to the summit until 1999, when it had three separate spells at number one, adding five weeks to its table-topping tally.

Its latest revival makes it, nearly 16 years after its initial release, the oldest album to reach number one, and marks the culmination of its massive revival in the wake of the success of the Mamma Mia! movie, an adaptation of the successful stage show which is based on the songs of Abba. Gold: Greatest Hits has moved 92-43-12-5-2-1 in the last five weeks, and its latest surge has increased career sales of the album to 4,191,426.

Galvanised by the success of second single All Summer Long, which is number one this week, Kid Rock’s Rock N Roll Jesus album debuts at number four on sales of 19,396. The album, which sold 6,532 copies on ‘soft’ release before its official launch last week, is by far the highest-charting album of the 37-year-old rocker/rapper’s career. His only previous appearance in the Top 75 came in 2000, when The History Of Rock reached number 73. It has sold 69,038 copies but Rock’s biggest selling album, by a whisker, is 1999’s Devil Without A Cause, which has sold 71,415 copies despite reaching only number 172.

It is a year to the week since Amy Macdonald’s debut album, This Is The Life, made its first chart appearance, storming to number two behind Paul Potts’ One Chance. Potts’ album title did not prove to be prophetic, however, as Macdonald seized a second chance to top the chart in January. The album has cooled somewhat since then but has remained comfortably in the Top 75 for the entire year, never falling below number 61. It slips 26-33 this week, with sales of 4,555, taking its career tally to 651,022.

After securing the highest weekly sale yet by a compilation, Now! That’s What I Call Music 70 suffers a considerable dip in this week, with sales down 62% to 145,386, taking its 13-day sales tally to 528,427. To put it in context, that is still more than the next seven compilations put together – despite runner-up Mamma Mia!’s robust sale of 63,645 - and almost five times the sales of the number one artist album.

Now! 70’s second week decline it compares very favourably with immediate predecessor, Now! 69, which followed up its almost equally spectacular first week sale of 382,759 with a 71.5% dip to 109,263 sales the following week. Now! 69 remains the year’s biggest selling compilation – and second biggest seller overall - with 817,946 sales.

Now! 70’s slide contributed to a precipitous 24.2% dip in sales in the compilation sector last week. Although artist album sales rallied 3.3%, overall sales in the album sector were down by 7% to 2,037,792. That’s 5.75% below same week 2007 sales of 2,161,073, when Now! 67 sold 113,778 copies, and Paul Potts’ One Chance sold 45,868 copies; and 24.73% lower than same week 2006 sales of 2,707,007, when Now! 64 sold 143,699 copies, and James Morrison’s Undiscovered sold 84,511 copies.