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Katy Perry could pip Olly Murs to the post this week. She now has two versions of TD charting within the Top 40 on iTunes.
It's going to be a good week for her. CG is climbing and the standard and deluxe versions of her album are at #1 and #3 on iTunes.
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Originally posted by M.R.
Sky flopped. Debuted at No. 64. And about Ke$ha; I thought that TIO was officially released last week?
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It's not been officially released I don't think and last time I checked it didn't have a date
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At least LTWYL has a chance of hitting #1 at the end of the year. Let's just hope some crappy X-Factor single doesn't block it.
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I think LTWYL has sold the bulk of what it will sell overall and the obligatory X Factor winner's cover version will probably outsell it in a week
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Joe only sold 600k last year with his winners song, making him 6th in the EOY chart.
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Originally posted by Dizzy
Joe only sold 600k last year with his winners song, making him 6th in the EOY chart.
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It's more than LTWYL so far. I guess it will count against the winner's song that it's released 2 weeks before the end of the year so I hope it won't be #1 on the EOY chart. But also Cheryl Cole's single will probably be a contender as well as a few other songs out in autumn.
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It's more than LTWYL so far. I guess it will count against the winner's song that it's released 2 weeks before the end of the year so I hope it won't be #1 on the EOY chart. But also Cheryl Cole's single will probably be a contender as well as a few other songs out in autumn.
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We'll just have to wait and see. If LTWYL won't be #1, it'll probably have a nice spot in the Top 10 best selling songs of 2010 in the UK.
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LTWYL is at 540k this week. It looks like it's going to be #4/#5 in next week's chart which means another 40k. Most songs usually sell another 100k in their run until they officially die (like out the Top 75).
"Bad Romance" has sold over 300k this year and it's spent half of this year out of the Top 40.
Either way, it WILL pass 700k.
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Plus, on another note, the winner's single from the X Factor seems to have been declining sales each year. Shayne Ward and Leona Lewis sold nearly 700k in their first weeks, Joe only did 400k.
I know it doesn't account for much considering we have no clue what could happen, but although the the popularity of X Factor keeps climbing, it seems to have lower sales come the finale song.
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Katy coming for #1 on UK iTunes
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Originally posted by Dizzy
LTWYL is at 540k this week. It looks like it's going to be #4/#5 in next week's chart which means another 40k. Most songs usually sell another 100k in their run until they officially die (like out the Top 75).
"Bad Romance" has sold over 300k this year and it's spent half of this year out of the Top 40.
Either way, it WILL pass 700k.
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So Bad Romance might end up being in the top 5 of most sold singles this year? Only Gaga
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So Bad Romance might end up being in the top 5 of most sold singles this year? Only Gaga
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No, it's currently #20, and will fall even more. It's basically nearly out of the Top 75 and will be in the next month or two. I was just stating that it sold a lot in the last 8 months despite selling 500k in 2009, and I think LTWYL will follow the pattern.
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im getting sick of coming into this thread and seeing everyone comment over and over about LYWYL being number 2. Get over it, seriously. Its never going to be number 1, and thats that.
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Stop being so cynical.
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X Factor's Murs heading for one
10:58 | Tuesday August 31, 2010
By Paul Williams
Source: Music Week
Singles
X Factor 2009 runner-up Olly Murs is on course to do what Joe McElderry failed to manage by entering the UK singles chart at number one with his debut single.
The Epic signing’s introductory release Please Don’t Let Me Go is comfortably outselling its two closest rivals combined to lead the market at this stage of the week, according to the OCC, while he also has the eighth best seller with This One's For The Girls.
McElderry, who beat Murs in last season’s X Factor final, famously missed out on a number one debut last December with his first single to Rage Against The Machine, although The Climb did appropriately climb to the top a week later.
The strong sales for Olly Murs’ first single should push down 4th & Broadway/Island act Taio Cruz’s Dynamite to two, having debuted at the top of the chart last Sunday. It is the week’s second biggest seller with the Interscope/Polydor release Love The Way You Lie by Eminem featuring Rihanna in third place.
The first chart impact for Sky 1’s X Factor rival Must Be The Music will be felt this week with duo Pepper & Piano. Contestants on the show, their song You Took My Heart is the week’s fourth best seller at this point in the week.
Meanwhile, XL signing Adele’s cover of Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love should return to the Top 40 on Sunday after it was performed by X Factor contestant Annastasia Baker. It is presently the week’s 17th biggest seller. The track originally reached number 26 for Adele in 2008.
Albums
While Please Don’t Let Me Go looks set to become the 10th different number one single in 10 weeks, on albums Virgin’s Katy Perry will very likely enter at one this coming Sunday with her second album Teenage Dream. Not only should it become her first UK chart-topper but her first Top 10 album, too, as her debut offering One Of The Boys peaked at 11 in October 2008.
Teenage Dream leads five brand new albums among the Top 10 positions at this point in the week with two US rock bands, Warner Bros’s Disturbed and Interscope/Polydor’s Pretty Reckless, also heading for the Top 10 for the first time. Disturbed’s Asylum is just behind Interscope/Polydor’s Eminem with Recovery at number three, while Pretty Reckless’s Light Me Up is at four.
Veteran folk artist Richard Thompson has to date only ever climbed as high as 23 on the UK artist albums chart, a position he managed in 1994 with Mirror Blue, but he seems very likely to better that this week with his latest Proper album Dream Attic. The newly-released album is currently the week’s seventh best seller, three places above Geffen’s debut Everything Everything album Man Alive.
Besides new albums from Disturbed, Pretty Reckless and Everything Everything, the chart’s rock contingent should also be boosted this weekend by new entries from Roadrunner’s Murderdolls and Warner Bros act Goo Goo Dolls, whose new albums are respectively the 14th and 19th biggest sellers of the week so far.
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Top 40 Only
Singles
1 Olly Murs – PDLMG
2 Taio Cruz
3 Eminem ft. Rihanna
4 Pepper & Piano
5 Flo Rida ft. David Guetta
Top 10
8 Olly Murs – This One’s For The Girls
Top 20
17 Adele
20 Usher ft. Pitbull
Top 30
23 Ke$ha
24 Enrique Iglesias
Top 40
31 Stromae
34 Ash
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Albums
1 Katy Perry
2 Eminem
3 Disturbed
4 The Pretty Reckless
5 Mumford & Sons
Top 10
Richard Thompson
Everything Everything
Top 15
12 Biffy Clyro
Murderdolls
Top 20
Goo Goo Dolls
Top 30
Lissie
Pendulum
Top 40
35 Katy Perry [OOTB]
Kano
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ARTIST UPDATES
Singles
Brandon Flowers 6+5
The Saturdays 7+7
Katy Perry [CG] 9+9
Lady GaGa 30+5
Kelly Rowland 30+9
Biffy Clyro 30+7
Albums
Lady GaGa 4+4
Plan B 5+4
The Saturdays 8+8
Rihanna 20+3
Alicia Keys 13+13
Kings Of Leon 20+7
Ellie Goulding 14+14
Kylie Minogue 30+7
B.o.B 30+8
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Pepper and Piano
I wish God and Satan was higher
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The Fame still top 10 in album chart. Now that is amazing! After two years.
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iTunes data is missing from the singles update, hence TD is not charting.
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iTunes data is missing from the singles update, hence TD is not charting.
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Good, I nearly died.
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Good, I nearly died.
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Do you not like Olly either? I do, the song is really good after a while. TD will probably be #1 on iTunes soon, depending on how far ahead Olly is right now it could be a tight race for #1 this week.
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I really hope Katy can beat Olly, she's really gaining on him on itunes and that's not including other versions of the song.
Pretty Reckless in the top 5, oh yeahh!
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"Teenage Dream" is at #2 AND #15 on iTunes.
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7 hours ago.
Combine Katy, and what do you get.
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