Midweek Chart update: Rihanna poised to overtake Murs 10:47 | Friday November 25, 2011
By Paul Williams Source: MW
Singles
Rihanna looks increasingly likely to deny Olly Murs a third UK number one single this weekend after her We Found Love hit with Calvin Harris closed the sales gap on Murs’ Dance With Me Tonight to just 49 units.
Epic signing Murs’ newly-issued single had begun the week some 6,350 sales ahead of Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna single, but at the end of business on Thursday its lead had almost evaporated with We Found Love poised to surpass it, according to Official Charts Company Data.
Meanwhile, the title track of Rihanna’s album, which features Jay-Z, is making rapid sales progress as an individual download and is likely to show up as a new entry somewhere in the singles Top 40 on Sunday as might fellow album cut You Da One.
Albums
If We Found Love, which secured a third week at number one last Sunday, does remain in charge Rihanna is likely to achieve a chart-topping double as her brand new album Talk That Talk continues to have a comfortable lead in the artist albums market. It was around 20,000 sales ahead at the close of trading on Thursday of Syco’s newly-released One Direction album Up All Night, which has now broken through 100,000 sales.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++ Friday Update Top 40 Only Singles
1 Olly Murs {49 units ahead}
2 Rihanna/Calvin Harris
3 Flo Rida
4 Avicii
5 Kelly Rowland
Top 10
8 Rebecca Ferguson
Drake
Top 15
11 Coldplay
15 Lady Gaga [MTN]
Top 20
Top 30
One Direction [WMYB]
22 En Vogue
27 Rihanna ft. Jay Z [TTT]
Christina Perri [ATY]
Olly Murs [HSAB]
Top 40
Slow Moving Millie
33 Katy Perry [TOTGA]
36 Rihanna [YDO]
Bruno Mars [MY]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Albums
1 Rihanna {20k ahead}
2 One Direction {>100k}
3 Michael Buble
4 Westlife
5 Kate Bush
Top 10
Nickelback
Top 20
20 Saturdays
Top 30
Seal
Will Young
James Morrison
Top 40
Hugh Laurie
NO SALES INFO
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles
Maroon 5 5+4
Prof. Green/Emile 10+2
One Direction [GBY] 10+4
JLS 10+10
Kelly Clarkson 20+3
Saturdays 20+5
Cher Lloyd 20+6
Wanted 30+9
GaGa [TEOG] 30+10 Albums
JLS 5+1
Ed Sheeran 5+3
Adele [21] 5+5 [19] 20+10
Snow Patrol 10+1
Susan Boyle 10+2
Wanted 10+5
Noel Gallagher 10+7
Lady Gaga [BTW] 10+8
Cher Lloyd 20+3
Jessie J 20+7
Rihanna [Loud] 20+8
Matt Cardle 30+4
Pixie Lott 30+10
Tbh, if Pixie didn't make the top 15 I didn't think The Saturdays would either.
Who's releasing next week, and what are Olly's chances of getting a #1 album? He is already high on itunes based on pre-orders and he's on XF this weekend. I hope Rihanna doesn't block him.
Tbh, if Pixie didn't make the top 15 I didn't think The Saturdays would either.
Who's releasing next week, and what are Olly's chances of getting a #1 album? He is already high on itunes based on pre-orders and he's on XF this weekend. I hope Rihanna doesn't block him.
Joe McElderry and Kelly Rowland are releasing next week. Olly's got the #1 on lock
So the runner up is going to beat the winner? Interesting.
You're kidding right? Joe is pretty big. His album Classic debuted at number two this year, and went double platinum. And it was opera music. Now Classic & Christmas? During the Christmas season? He is a big contender for Olly.
You're kidding right? Joe is pretty big. His album Classic debuted at number two this year, and went double platinum. And it was opera music. Now Classic & Christmas? During the Christmas season? He is a big contender for Olly.
He has just relaunched his career from another TV show watched by exactly the right kind of audience, it had a lot of promo. I hadn't even heard about this. But we'll see, when did it go double platinum? Last I heard it was at almost 200K not too long ago.