XL artist Adele appears to face a harder task retaining her singles crown compared to her albums one with Someone Like You currently just 6,000 sales ahead of Island/Lava’s Price Tag by Jessie J featuring BoB in second place. The pair were one and two on last Sunday’s final chart and positions three, four and five are also exactly the same in the emerging chart week, respectively occupied by Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna with S&M, Interscope/Polydor’s Lady GaGa with Born This Way and XL’s Adele with Rolling In The Deep.
Atlantic act Wiz Khalifa’s Black And Yellow is the highest new release showing on the chart, currently a place below in 14th spot another former Billboard Hot 100 number one, Till The World Ends by Britney Spears. The Sony release was 55 on last Sunday’s chart.
Polydor’s New York act The Pierces are set to make the Top 40 on Sunday with their newly-issued You’ll Be Mine.
Albums
Adele appears to be holding off a heavyweight challenge this week from Elbow and REM as she looks to spend a seventh week at number one on the UK artist albums chart.
Her second studio set 21 is around 14,000 sales ahead of the newly-issued Elbow album Build A Rocket Boys, with Island/Lava’s Jessie J's Who Are You in third place and the brand new REM album Collapse Into You fourth at this point in the week, according to OCC Data.
If 21 does remain at number one when the new chart is published this Sunday it will become XL’s longest-running number one outright, surpassing the six weeks it currently shares with Prodigy album The Fat Of The Land.
Elbow’s new Fiction album, meanwhile, is likely to give the veteran band their highest chart peak yet in the UK, beating the number five peak of its predecessor and Mercury winner The Seldom Seen Kid. In contrast, unless Collapse Into You’s status improves rapidly it will be the first REM studio album since Up in 1998 not to reach number one and the lowest charting since their introductory Warner Bros set Green reached 27 in 1988.
In a busy week for new albums, Mercury’s Noah & The Whale’s Last Night On Earth and RCA act Avril Lavigne’s Goodbye Lullaby are also likely to start in the Top 10 and at this stage of the week are ranked sixth and seventh respectively.
Other new albums expected to appear in this coming Sunday’s Top 40 include DMGTV’s Daniel O’Donnell with Moon Over Ireland, Lasers by Atlantic’s Lupe Fiasco, Roadrunner’s self-titled Slash set and Domino’s re-issue of Queen Of The Stone Age’s own self-titled first album.
Singles
Chipmunk ft. Chris Brown 5+4
Jessie J [DILAD] 5+5
P!nk [FP] 10+2
Taio Cruz ft. Travie McCoy & Kylie Minogue 10+5
Tiesto V Diplo ft. Busta Rhymes 10+6
Dr Dre ft. Eminem & Skylar Grey 10+8
Ke$ha 20+1
JLS ft. Tinie Tempah 20+5
Adele [MYFML] 20+10
Rihanna ft. Drake 30+1
Rihanna [OG(ITW)] 30+4
Clare Maguire 30+9
Albums
Beady Eye 4+4
Bruno Mars 5+4
Rihanna 5+5
Mumford & Sons 10+1
Plan B 10+4
Glee Cast 10+5
Tinie Tempah 10+7
Take That 10+8
Alexis Jordan 10+9
P!nk 20+1
Clare Maguire 20+2
JLS 20+5
Hurts 20+9
Lady GaGa 30+1
Kings of Leon 30+3
Katy Perry 30+4
Am I the only one who's kinda peeved that Born This Way prolly won't go number one?
I am. They should of just stuck to the normal release. Let it build on airplay for those 36 hours days then release it on Sunday. it would of debuted at #1 with over 120K
If I were a moderator it would of been easier I could of just copied and pasted the links from last thread and it looked more better. I was going to get each individual link from each page but that took too long!
I am. They should of just stuck to the normal release. Let it build on airplay for those 36 hours days then release it on Sunday. it would of debuted at #1 with over 120K