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Based on midweek sales, the following releases are expected to debut in or around the Official Charts Company Top 75 singles and artist albums charts this Sunday.


UK SINGLES CHART


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and Aid 30’s Do They Know It’s Christmas slid 2-12 last weekend but is


set to return to the No.1 slot this Sunday following its release on CD. The track, which debuted at No.1 last month, has already sold 398,690 copies. Well on the way to becoming


l OLIVER HELDENS FT KSTEWART Last All Night (Koala) Parlophone l BRING ME THE HORIZON Drown RCA l FIFTH HARMONY Boss Epic/Syco Music l CHVRCHES Get Away Virgin l MARK RONSON FT BRUNO MARS Uptown Funk Columbia l SAM BAILEY With You Syco Music l IDINA MENZEL FT MICHAEL BUBLE Baby It’s Cold Outside Warner Bros l MARIO CRAY Uptown Funk Green Crystal l FIFTH HARMONY Sledgehammer Epic/Syco Music l SAM SMITH Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Capitol


UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART


his second million selling single, Thinking Out Loud returned to No.1 for Ed Sheeran last Sunday after a five week break. It jumped 4-1 on sales of 58,503 copies, raising its career tally to 810,016. Only his 2011 No.3 hit The A Team has sold better, with a to-date tally of 1,127,201. Sheeran further scored his


13th Top 75 hit of the year with Make It Rain - a brand new recording made for the penultimate episode of FX TV drama series Sons Of Anarchy - debuting at No.38 (12,006 sales). All of Sheeran’s other hits this year were at least partly written by him, but Make It Rain was penned by his friend and sometime support act Foy Vance, whose own version has


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l UNION J You Got It All Epic l BASTILLE VS Other People’s Heartache - PT 3 Virgin l SMASHING PUMPKINS Monuments To An Elegy BMG Rights l HOWARD SHORE The Hobbit - Battle Of The Five Armies Decca l MANIC STREET PREACHERS The Holy Bible 20 - Sony Music CG l ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR Best Of Christmas Decca


lready far ahead in the battle to be the biggest- selling album of 2014,


Ed Sheeran’s X is in line to return to the top of the chart this week, with midweek sales flashes suggesting it will spend its 10th week at No.1 this weekend. Last week, two chart veterans


joined in battle at the top of the chart. Trading as a trio for the first time, more than 22 years after they made their album chart debut, Take That prevailed with their new album III delivering their seventh No.1 album at the expense of hard rock legends AC/DC, who set off at a terrific pace with new album Rock Or Bust, though it finally settled for a No.3 debut. Arriving at the summit a


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week after introductory single These Days debuted at No.1, III secured the third highest weekly sale of the year, selling 144,538 copies for the new slimline version of Take That comprising only 43 year old Gary Barlow, 46 year old Howard Donald and 42 year old Mark Owen. The band was a quintet for the first time in 15 years - with returning member Robbie Williams, who didn’t participate in the new album, and


Ed Sheeran: X MIDWEEK NO.1


Jason Orange, whose departure from the band was announced earlier this year - when they released their last album Progress in 2010, and it was a whopper. After spectacular first day sales, Progress sold 518,601 copies on its debut, easily beating the 21st century record of 464,471 copies that Coldplay’s X&Y sold the week of its release in June 2005. Although regarded as Australian, AC/DC currently comprises two Scots, two Englishmen and just one Aussie, and racked up its 18th chart entry with Rock Or Bust debuting at No.3 on sales of 92,780 copies.


That’s 62.95% higher than the 56,936 copies that Iron Man 2 took to debut at No.1 but some way below their best ever one week tally - 2008 comeback album Black Ice sold 110,978 copies on its first frame. First single Air Guitar fell


short of the Top 10 last week for McBusted - the boy band supergroup septet comprising all members of both McFly and Busted except the latter group’s former lead singer Charlie Simpson. The single slumped 12-62 (6,819 sales) on Sunday but the eponymous McBusted album fared better, debuting


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as recently as 20 weeks ago but now she has had four. She was guest vocalist on Kove’s Way We Are (No.30 in August), and Krishane’s Drunk And Incapable (No.27 in October), posting a hit with her own first success as main artist, Kisses For Breakfast in between. It reached No.10 in August. She’s back guesting on Bristol duo Blonde’s debut dance smash I Loved You, which provided her highest charting hit to date, as it entered at No.7 (33,461 sales) on Sunday. Blank Space debuted three


Band Aid 30: Do They Know It’s Christmas MIDWEEK NO.1


yet to be released. Initially boosted by their


appearance on The X Factor, Union J’s new single You Got It All topped the first three of last week’s sales flashes - and although it faded, its eventual debut at No.2 (46,000 sales) made it the band’s highest charting single, and extends its opening run of Top 10 singles to four. You Got It All is the first single from Union J’s second album You Got It All: The


Album. Had streaming not been added to the chart mix earlier this year, You Got It All would actually have been No.1 on Sunday - it sold 45,849 copies as a download and CD and earned only 151 streaming ‘sales’, whereas Thinking Out Loud had actual sales of 41,779, but a massive 1,672,492 audio streams, converting into a further 16,724 sales. Singer/songwriter Melissa Steel had had no Top 40 hits


weeks ago at No.11 for Taylor Swift as an album track. It has climbed every week since, and became her seventh Top 5 hit on Sunday, jumping 8-4 (41,914 sales). Overall singles sales were up


down 0.17% week-on-week at 5,937,446. Streaming accounted for 3,436,889 sales – 57.88% of the total. Under previously existing criteria where only paid-for purchases were included, overall singles sales were down 5.13% week-on-week at 2,500,557 – 9.75% below same week 2013 sales of 2,770,781 and the 69th consecutive week in which they have declined versus a year ago.


at No.9 (37,111 sales). All but the last of McFly’s five studio albums made the Top 10 - as did a compilation - and both Busted studio albums reached No.2. With upwards of a million


sales in less than six months, Ed Sheeran’s X held at No.2, with its sales are up 46.11% week-on- week at 106,241 - the second highest weekly sale of its career to date, trailing only its opening week total of 182,427. As mentioned above, it seems likely to go even higher this weekend. After debuting the previous


week at No.1, Olly Murs’ fourth album Never Been Better slid to No.6 (62,728 sales). Two former No.1 albums by fellow X Factor graduates headed fast in the opposite direction - Ella Henderson’s Chapter One jumped 26-12 (27,632 sales), while reigning champion Sam Bailey’s The Power Of Love re-entered the Top 200 at No.45 (6,702 sales). Both have been on The X Factor in recent days, and Bailey’s album is enjoying a first week boost from its new Gift Edition, which adds bonus tracks. Overall album sales were


up 22.20% week-on-week at 3,558,005, reaching a 2014 high for the second week in a row. They were 1.16% above same week 2013 sales of 3,517,129.


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