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CHARTS ANALYSIS WEEK 47 A


CHARTBOUND


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


SINGLES n BY ALAN JONES


n X Factor performance of These Days - their first single as a three piece -


delivered Take That to the top of Tuesday’s sales flashes but with a tiny majority over Band Aid 30’s Do They Know It’s Christmas, it is unlikely to become their 12th No.1 single this weekend. Matching Unchained Melody


l TAKE THAT These Days Polydor l MCBUSTED Air Guitar Island l LABRINTH Jealous Syco Music l JAMES BAY Hold Back The River Virgin l YEARS & YEARS Desire Polydor l KIESZA No Enemiesz Lokal Legend l DAVID GUETTA FT EMELI SANDE What I Did For Love Parlophone l KID INK FT USHER & TINASHE Body Language RCA l STYLO G Call Mi A Leader 3 Beat/AATW l PAOLO NUTINI Last Request Atlantic


UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART


to become only the second song in chart history to reach No.1 in four different versions, Do They Know It’s Christmas did so emphatically on Sunday, on first week sales of 312,928 (including one streaming sale) for Band Aid 30, while the original 1984 version of the song re-enters the chart at No.61 (5,924 sales). Unchained Melody was No.1


for unrelated acts - Jimmy Young (1955), The Righteous Brothers (1990), Robson & Jerome (1995) and Gareth Gates (2002) - but Do They Know It’s Christmas has been No.1 only by various incarnations of Band Aid - the original (1984), Band Aid II (1989), Band Aid 20 (2004) and now Band Aid 30.


ALBUMS n BY ALAN JONES


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l OLLY MURS Never Been Better Epic l SUSAN BOYLE Hope Syco Music l BOYZONE Dublin To Detroit East West l DAVID GUETTA Listen Parlophone l JOOLS HOLLAND & HIS R&B OR Sirens Of Song East West l BARRY MANILOW My Dream Duets Verve l DAVE ARCH & THE STRICTLY BAND Strictly Come Dancing Sony Music CG l SOL3 MIO Sol3 Mio Decca l MARY J BLIGE The London Sessions Island l BEYONCE Beyonce Columbia l PIXIE LOTT Platinum Pixie - Hits EMI l MURRAY GOLD Doctor Who - The Days Of The Doctor Silva Screen l BEATLES Work In Progress - Outtakes 1963 Rock Melon l JETHRO TULL War Child Chrysalis l FRANK TURNER The Third Three Years Xtra Mile l WILKO JOHNSON/ROGER DALTREY Going Back Home UMC l ALEX JONES The Heart Of It All Island l JONI MITCHELL Love Has Many Faces - A Quartet Rhino


The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Radiomonitor airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at musicweek.com.


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ast Sunday, One Direction became the first act from The X Factor to rack up


a hat trick of No.1s - and this weekend, Olly Murs should become the second, with his fourth album Never Been Better selling twice as many copies as their Four in the first of the week’s sales flashes on Tuesday. There were emphatic debuts


atop both the singles and albums charts last Sunday, with One Direction scoring the No.1 album with a victory margin of 186.73% and Band Aid 30 storming to the top of the singles chart with a majority of 282.38%. More of the latter later - but


for the moment let’s concentrate on One Direction. Four’s first week sales of


141,780 represented the third highest one week sales for a No.1 album artist this year - trailing the 182,427 that Ed Sheeran’s X sold on debut 21 weeks ago, and the 168,048 copies than Coldplay’s Ghost Stories sold on debut 26 weeks ago - but are 40.53% down on the 237,388 copies One Direction’s last album Midnight Memories sold when it opened at No.1 a year ago next week. It is three years to


Olly Murs: Never Been Better MIDWEEK NO.1


the week since their first album, Up All Night, debuted and peaked at No.2 on first week sales of 138,631, and two years and a week since their second album, Take Me Home, debuted and peaked at No.1 on sales of 155,316 copies. Four is the 18th album by


an X Factor act to reach No.1, a sequence that spans more than nine years and includes releases from 14 different acts. One Direction is the first group to score three new No.1s in the 2010s. In fact, the only other artist to have three new No.1 albums in the 2010s is Rihanna.


While Four topped the album


chart, all 16 songs from the deluxe version of the set poured into the Top 200. Although One Direction’s


first three albums had an increasing first week sales trajectory, their overall sales tallies are in the order they were released with debut Up All Night selling 1,086,434 copies to date, followed by Take Me Home (960,255 sales) and Midnight Memories (828,840 sales). Like Midnight Memories,


Four includes a track co-written by Ed Sheeran - 18. Sheeran himself would have returned to


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Take That: These Days MIDWEEK NO.1


Its sales last week are far


behind the 750,000+ that the original 1989 edition sold on its first week on release but exceed the 292,594 copies that the Band Aid 20 version sold on debut ten years ago next week. Do They Know It’s Christmas


outsold the next 10 biggest-selling singles combined last week, securing the highest weekly sale since James Arthur’s Impossible opened on sales of 489,560 in


December 2012 - but there have been 16 higher weekly sales of singles in the 21st century. While nothing came near to


matching Do They Know It’s Christmas, it was a busy week for new entries, with five Top 75 debuts inside the Top 10, including the entire top three for the first time this year. The record which ran Do


They Know It’s Christmas closest - it was a mere 231,091 sales


behind - is the second Top 10 hit in a fortnight called Real Love. The other, Tom Odell’s cover of The Beatles song dipped 7-14 (23,846 sales) on Sunday, while Clean Bandit’s new song of that name, debuted at No.2 (81,837 sales). The sixth charted single from Clean Bandit’s debut album New Eyes, it reunites them with Jess Glynne, who was also featured vocalist on Rather Be, which spent four weeks at No.1 earlier this year and has thus far sold 1,497,466 copies. New Eyes had sold just 75,545 copies since its release 25 weeks ago, and moves 151-139 (932 sales) this week. Olly Murs debuted at No.1


with the first single from each of his first three albums - Please Don’t Let Me Go (2010, from Olly Murs), Heart Skips A Beat (feat. Rizzle Kicks, 2011, from In Case You Didn’t Know) and Troublemaker (feat. Flo Rida) from Right Place Right Time - but Wrapped Up (feat. Travie McCoy), the first single from fourth album Never Been Better, broke that string by debuting at No.3 (75,081 sales). Overall singles sales were up


6.30% week-on-week at 6,139,850.


No.1 on Sunday but for Four’s release, with his X album which climbed 3-2 with sales up 8.73% week-on-week at 49,447. It’s Bette Midler’s birthday


next Monday (December 1) and she got an early birthday present in the form of her first Top 10 studio album since 1990. It’s The Girls! (No.6, 23,118 sales) is Midler’s tribute to the great girl groups of the past, with tracks originally performed by the likes of The Supremes, The Shirelles, The Shangri-Las and The Andrews Sisters. Midler’s solitary Top 10 solo album hitherto from 13 previous releases dating back to 1972 was 1990’s Some People’s Lives, which reached No.5, and included the hit From A Distance. She made the Top 10 more recently with The Best Bette reaching No.6 in 2008. It has sold 667,666 copies to date. Nothing Has Changed,


contains 59 tracks from throughout David Bowie’s 50 year career and provided the 67 year old with his 29th Top 10 album on Sunday, debuting at No.9 (17,638 sales). Overall album sales were up


6.93% week-on-week at 2,048,610 - their second highest level of the year but 11.74% below same week 2013 sales of 2,294,996.


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