UK Charts/ Midweeks 2019

[Jark]

Let's rename this thread Midweeks 2019 and have a separate one for the chart and sales?

 

[lolly]

So Emma Bunton might be top 20 in the end of year chart

NO chance! There's bound to be bigger cassette-based albums to come and she won't sell a single copy more.

I'm sure she'll sell hundreds more at £4

https://emmabunton.tmstor.es/cart/product.php?id=41647

 

[VoR]

I think enough time has passed that I can admit this.

I have neither purchased nor streamed Emma Bunton’s album in full.

The new songs were nice enough but the clips I heard of the covers just made me very sad.

 

[octophone]

But it's only £4 now VoR. Think of how much that could mean to her children this Christmas...

 

[lolly]

The #1 album on cassette last week was Mabel, who sold 51 copies. Surely there are enough Spice loons left to take advantage of Bunton's generous offering and get her an official album chart #1.

 

[Jark]

Monday 12 Aug

1 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Señorita (18.0k)
2 Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (15.8k)
3 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love (13.5k)
4 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights (12.8k)
5 Aitch - Taste (Make It Shake) (12.6k)

7 Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep?
8 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
9 MIST feat. Fredo - So High

11 Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy - Take Me Back to London
12 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well
13 Mabel - Mad Love
14 Joel Corry - Sorry
15 Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch - Strike a Pose
16 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
18 Freya Ridings - Castles

26 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual
30 Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha - Harder

33 Katy Perry - Small Talk
35 Taylor Swift - You Need to Calm Down
36 Megan Thee Stallion feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign - Hot Girl Summer

Albums

1 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (23.3k)
2 Ed Sheeran - No.6 Collaborations Project (9.8k)
3 Feeder - Tallulah (5.7k)
4 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (4.5k)
5 Bon Iver - i,i

13 Rick Ross - Port of Miami 2
14 Trippie Redd - !
15 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
18 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

 

[octophone]

Grim.

Is streaming likely to topple Slipknot?

 

[octophone]

Always a good time to have this...

 

[AGinAg (38)]

Could Whitney get a #1?

 

[VoR]

Who knew Feeder were still going?

 

[Jark]

Could Whitney get a #1?

5 years ago this would have been straight in at number one. With streaming I was worried it would stall at #9 or something, so glad to see it really taking off. Not sure #1 is possible though.

 

[lolly]

Those midweeks are missing streaming data for Sunday, and Whitney has been #15 on Spotify the last couple of days, so presumably she'll suffer when all data is included.

 

[Cerro de Casa]

Oh dear, is Mabel doing a Madame X? I mean I was rather tempted with the make-up kit and waterbottle bundle on her website..

 

[Jark]

Wednesday 14 Aug

Singles

1 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Señorita (31.3k)
2 Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (27.7k)
3 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights (23.4k)
4 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love (23.3k)
5 Aitch - Taste (Make It Shake) (23.2k)

6-10
7 Sam Smith - How Do You Sleep?
8 MIST feat. Fredo - So High
9 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait

11-20
11 Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy - Take Me Back to London
12 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well
13 Mabel - Mad Love
14 Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch - Strike a Pose
15 Lil Tecca - Ransom
16 Joel Corry - Sorry
19 Freya Ridings - Castles

21-30
22 Chris Brown feat. Drake - No Guidance
23 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
24 Stormzy - Crown
25 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual
30 Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha - Harder

31-40
34 Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered
36 Lizzo - Truth Hurts
40 Megan Thee Stallion feat. Nicki Minaj & Ty Dolla $ign - Hot Girl Summer

Albums

1 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (26.2k)
2 Ed Sheeran - No.6 Collaborations Project (16.7k)
3 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (7.7k)
4 Feeder - Tallulah (6.5k)
5 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (3.4k)

6-10
7 Bon Iver - i,i

11-20
13 Rick Ross - Port of Miami 2
15 Trippie Redd - !
20 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars

21-30
27 Marika Hackman - Any Human Friend
29 Gerry Cinnamon - Erratic Cinematic

31-40
40 Hank Marvin - Gold

Looks like Kygo might hold on for top 5!

 

[Rita]

Who is this Dominic Fike fella?

 

[Rita]

Where is Mabel?

 

[lolly]

Where is Mabel?

The album? If was #9 in the first midweek.

 

[Rita]

The album? If was #9 in the first midweek.

Thank GOD. I thought she had dropped out of the top 40.

 

[Jark]

Wednesday 21 Aug

Singles

1 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (22.5k)
2 Ed Sheeran feat Khalid - Beautiful People (19.9k)
3 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love (18.4k)
4 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights (17.9k)
5 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove (17.2k)

8 Lil Tecca - Ransom
10 Joel Corry - Sorry

14 Young T & Bugsey feat. Aitch - Strike a Pose
15 Taylor Swift - Lover
16 Freya Ridings - Castles
17 Post Malone feat Young Thug - Goodbyes
18 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
19 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved
20 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care

21 Chris Brown feat Drake - No Guidance
22 Jorja Smith feat Burna Boy - Be Honest
23 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual (new peak)
24 Headie One - Both
25 Jax Jones & Bebe Rexha - Harder
30 Normani - Motivation

31 Dermot Kennedy - Outnumbered
34 Sam Feldt feat RANI - Post Malone
38 Miley Cyrus - Slide Away

Albums

1 Ed Sheeran - No. 6 Collaborations Project (11.3k)
2 Frank Turner - No Man's Land (7.9k)
3 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (6.0k)
4 Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind (4.4k)
5 Ride - This Is Not A Safe Place (4.0k)

6 Friendly Fires - Inflorescent
9 Killswitch Engage - Atonement

11 Young Thug - So Much Fun
12 Murder Capital - When I Have Fears
14 Blade Brown - Bags and Boxes 4
16 Runrig - The Last Dance: Farewell Concert (Live) *
20 Sleater-Kinney - The Center Won't Hold

22 Florence + The Machine - Lungs
25 Bruce Springsteen - Western Stars
26 Ed Sheeran - x
27 Shura - forevher

33 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
34 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
37 Kylie Minogue - Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection

 

[lolly]

There's a more recent update on ukmix from Robbie

 

[northernlad]

Shura likely to miss the top forty, and Ride to 5? What a bizarre world.

 

[Jark]

There really isn't any justice.

 

[HeLikedTurner]

That album chart is really quite grim, isn't it?

 

[Pipo]

There really isn't any justice.

Ritual deserves at least Top 20

what an understated banger!

 

[Rita]

Why is Beverley Craven back in the iTunes Top 40 with Promise Me? I have not heard that song in YEARS, and although it is not exactly setting the charts alight it does seem odd that is cropping up at #34.

 

[octophone]

Shura likely to miss the top forty, and Ride to 5? What a bizarre world.

Ride will be out of the 100 tomorrow - total fanbase purchase with minimal streaming.

I bought it. It's really good. But Ride turned up when I was 16 and blew me away when I was 17. I''m their target market, essentially.

 

[Sheena]

Is Whitney going to be number one anytime soon? That’s all I care about chart wise at the moment...

 

[lolly]

She's been #1 on sales for three weeks now. 19k behind Sheeran this week.

 

[Slave]

The video was only recently released as well. That’s sure to help.

 

[Slave]

I know this is ANOTHER sale vs. streaming discussion but...

There’s always been a bit of discrepancy in the chart with songs that didn’t necessarily reach #1 but sold well/more in the long-term being better remembered.

I wonder if this current era is going to be defined more greatly by songs that were #1 on pure sales but didn’t top the chart overall.

Or maybe it’s just ME and the circles I gravitate to in terms of social media. But this certainly isn’t the first time recently where a song like Kygo and Whitney feels MUCH MORE POPULAR than whatever Ed Sheeran actual-or-similar-sounding-song is at #1 for the UMPTEENTH WEEK IN A ROW.

 

[Sheena]

WHITNEY FOREVER

 

[Sheena]

Fuck Ed Sheeran. I couldn’t hum a single one of his “songs”...

 

[SDF]

It surprises me just how far Whitney is behind him.

He really can quite frankly do one.

 

[lolly]

I wonder if this current era is going to be defined more greatly by songs that were #1 on pure sales but didn’t top the chart overall.

Or maybe it’s just ME and the circles I gravitate to in terms of social media. But this certainly isn’t the first time recently where a song like Kygo and Whitney feels MUCH MORE POPULAR than whatever Ed Sheeran actual-or-similar-sounding-song is at #1 for the UMPTEENTH WEEK IN A ROW.

I don't think so, if only for the fact that the level of pure sales is so low now.

Whitney sold 6,431 (Sheeran 5,354) last week. She'd still be #3 if Mendes/Cabello hadn't been moved to ACR and therefore plunged out of the top ten.

 

[octophone]

She'd still be #3 if Mendes/Cabello hadn't been moved to ACR and therefore plunged out of the top ten.

That ACR thing is a pile of shite as well - if you need enforced clear-outs, there's something wrong with yr whole system.

 

[lolly]

That ACR thing is a pile of shite as well - if you need enforced clear-outs, there's something wrong with yr whole system.

Never mind the fact that it doesn't really work anyway. Or at least it just clogs things up a little lower down.

 

[Slave]

As a sort-of-related sidenote, it’s also worth pointing out that Post Malone has the third biggest streaming album of the year - despite it not actually being released until next week.

I don’t follow his career closely enough to know how that can be the case, but I guess he’s released enough singles/instant-grat tracks to have enough already available to count towards the album chart without detracting from the singles.

Again, that seems like a fundamentally flawed model.

 

[lolly]

I'm sorry, my brain has just exploded.

 

[octophone]

As a sort-of-related sidenote, it’s also worth pointing out that Post Malone has the third biggest streaming album of the year - despite it not actually being released until next week.

I don’t follow his career closely enough to know how that can be the case, but I guess he’s released enough singles/instant-grat tracks to have enough already available to count towards the album chart without detracting from the singles.

Again, that seems like a fundamentally flawed model.

That's just fucking stupid. As I said a long time ago - when I bought a single back in the day by, say for example, Blur, the OCC/Gallup/whoever was doing it at the time didn't add a percentage onto the sales of the parent album at the same time. The lack of separation is what's making the album chart so ridiculous.

 

[Sheena]

It's all a fucking FARCE! This made me laugh today:

https://www.officialcharts.com/char...op-100-motown-songs-of-the-millennium__27106/

Somehow, rather than reverting to any sort of meaningful chart in celebration of Motown's 60th Birthday, the BBC/Chart Company decided to do a top 100 songs based solely on sales since 2000, so basically streams and downloads.

Apparently, Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" is now a fucking million seller, just from "sales" since the year 2000- a period in which it has not once entered the charts, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is third, despite it only being a number 80 hit ever.

The chart contains four Christmas songs- three by the Jackson Five, I bet the latter two of which are fuelled by just following on from people playing "Santa Claus is Coming To Town" and Spotify carrying on with the album.

JUST FUCK OFF.