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Chart Listings: UK midweeks: 1D 188K, Gary Barlow 87K (sales so far)
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UK midweeks: 1D 188K, Gary Barlow 87K (sales so far)
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One Direction's Midnight Memories is heading to the top of the UK artist albums chart this weekend with the highest first-week sales of the year.
The boy band's third album by the end of business on Tuesday had already outsold the entire first-week sales of their Syco debut Up All Night and should easily surpass the opening tally of second album Take Me Home, according to Official Charts Company statistics. Midnight Memories is up to 144,887 in the week so far, compared to Up All Night shifting 138,631 copies in its initial week in 2011 and Take Me Home managing 155,316 sales a year ago.
One Direction are also on course to achieve the highest first-week sales for an artist album this year, beating the current best total of 165,091 achieved by Daft Punk's Columbia release Random Access Memories back in May, while tracks from their new album have flooded the singles market. All 14 cuts from the standard edition of the album are somewhere in the midweek Top 10 as are the four tracks on the extended version of the album.
Leading the way for the group on the singles market is Story Of My Life, which they performed on ITV's The X Factor last Sunday and which rises 10-3 in the week so far with sales more than doubling. Also from their new album, Don't Forget Where You Belong and You & I are new at 10 and 11 respectively, Strong, title track Midnight Memories and Diana debut at 25, 29 and 34 and Best Song Ever moves back up 57-36. The rest of the album's tracks and bonus cuts are outside the Top 75.
One Direction's phenomenal performance this week means Gary Barlow will miss out on scoring a second solo album No 1 with his Polydor set Since I Saw Your Last currently around 85,000 sales behind in second place. However, the new album has already more than doubled the entire sales of his last solo venture, Twelve Months Eleven Days, which only got as high as 35 in October 1999 with fewer than 5,000 sales. His single Let Me Go drops 3-4 in the midweeks.
Barlow's one-time Take That colleague Robbie Williams is down 1-3 in the week so far with his Island album Swings Both Ways as Epic act Olly Murs sprints 96-4 with Right Place Right Time following the release of a Special Edition of the album. A similar trick could also see the return of Bastille's Virgin debut Bad Blood into the Top 10 as it lifts 39-10 in the week so far after the arrival of extended version All This Bad Blood featuring their current hit single Of The Night.
Boyzone's first four studio albums, including their last effort Brother in 2010, all reached No 1, but it will not be the case with their fifth effort and first for Warner's Rhino, BZ 20. It is currently new at 5 in the midweeks. Syco's Susan Boyle is also likely to have a lower start for her own fifth album after the first three reached No 1 and last year's Standing Ovation made it to No 5 with Home For Christmas new at 7, but could eventually go higher as the market gets nearer to December 25.
Interscope/Polydor act Emimen's former No 1 The Marshall Mathers LP drops 2-6 and Columbia act Celine Dion's Loved Me back To Life is down 4-8 as RCA/Sony Music CG's Elvis Presley album The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs falls 5-9.
Following an X Factor performance at the weekend with Jessie J, Mary J Blige's Verve album A Mary Christmas is new at 22 in the midweeks and the RCA-issued Greatest Hits by Dido is new at 28. Also set for brand new entries in and around the Top 40 this coming Sunday are ADTR's A Day To Remember, Wet Wet Wet with an EMI-handled new best of and Decca's Poppy Girls.
Top 40 Albums
1. One Direction - Midnight Memories (144,887) *
2. Gary Barlow - Since I Saw You Last (~60,000) *
3. Robbie Williams - Swings Both Ways
4. Olly Murs - Right Place Right Time ^
5. Boyzone - BZ 20 *
6-10
7. Susan Boyle - Home For Christmas *
10. Bastille - Bad Blood
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http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index...st=80&start=80
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One Direction have claimed the fastest-selling UK album of the year so far.
The boyband's latest collection Midnight Memories has sold 187,660 copies so far this week, with a further 48 hours of sales yet to be added to that total.
It means they have already bettered the UK's previous fastest-selling album of 2013, which was Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, reports Music Week.
The French duo's latest album shifted 165,091 copies during its first week on sale back in May.
Midnight Memories has also beaten One Direction's first-week sales for their previous two albums.
Their debut Up All Night sold 138,631 during its first week back in 2011, while follow-up Take Me Home sold 155,316 copies in week one back in 2012.
What's more, One Direction's Midnight Memories is currently over 100,000 copies ahead of its nearest rival, which is Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last.
The Take That star's first solo album in 14 years is currently at number two, with sales of 87k so far this week.
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...m-of-2013.html
Congrats to 1D and Gary
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145k and we're only half way through the week? Holy ****. TMH did 155k first-week so sales for MM are gonna absolutely blow that out of the water.
Slay a bit
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MM slaying worldwide
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ARTPOP ? Let me guess, out of the top20, just like everywhere else in Europe ?
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145k in 3 days?
How on earth did that happen? I'll never understand the 1D hype.
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Huge sales for 1D.
Great for Gary and Olly!
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Originally posted by H-I-M
ARTPOP ? Let me guess, out of the top20, just like everywhere else in Europe ?
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#24.
She really needs to do something about Europe, its getting worrying now.
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1D is deffo at their peak right now, massive sales!!
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Originally posted by Damien M
145k in 3 days?
How on earth did that happen? I'll never understand the 1D hype.
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Good music tbh. When will others
Someday maybe the pop girls will catch on to this trend.
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Oliver. Hopefully the re-release will push the album to 1 million eventually.
And congrats to 1D, as well. Massive numbers.
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Am guessing its pre-orders
But good numbers none the less ......
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Zayn
So it's gonna be around 800k between the US & UK alone. Over 1M ww
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Originally posted by RainDreamer
Am guessing its pre-orders
But good numbers none the less ......
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What do you mean?
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Olly murs still top 5
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Originally posted by Damien M
#24.
She really needs to do something about Europe, its getting worrying now.
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16 unknown Katy Perry Prism
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For the life of me, I'll never be able to understand the 1D hype, but congratulations nonetheless.
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