The amazing UK album chart for this week

[Soldatti]

TW LW Title Artist Label
1 (13) AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY REPRISE
2 (3) SCISSOR SISTERS SCISSOR SISTERS POLYDOR
3 (5) SONGS ABOUT JANE MAROON 5 J
4 (10) ENCORE EMINEM INTERSCOPE
5 (24) HOT FUSS KILLERS LIZARD KING
6 (36) WHO KILLED THE ZUTONS ZUTONS DELTASONIC
7 (7) ULTIMATE KYLIE KYLIE MINOGUE PARLOPHONE
8 ( ) SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW OUTKAST ARISTA
9 (1) GREATEST HITS ROBBIE WILLIAMS CHRYSALIS
10 (35) FRANZ FERDINAND FRANZ FERDINAND DOMINO RECORDINGS
11 (9) HOPES AND FEARS KEANE ISLAND
12 (20) GREATEST HITS - MY PREROGATIVE BRITNEY SPEARS JIVE
13 (2) IL DIVO IL DIVO SYCO MUSIC
14 (4) HOW TO DISMANTLE AN ATOMIC BOMB U2 ISLAND
15 (12) WHAT WILL THE NEIGHBOURS SAY GIRLS ALOUD POLYDOR
16 (15) UNWRITTEN NATASHA BEDINGFIELD PHONOGENIC
17 (8) 10 YEARS OF HITS RONAN KEATING POLYDOR
18 (17) DESTINY FULFILLED DESTINY'S CHILD COLUMBIA
19 ( ) NEVERMIND NIRVANA GEFFEN
20 (11) TIME TO GROW LEMAR SONY MUSIC
21 (41) COLLISION COURSE JAY-Z & LINKIN PARK WEA
22 (6) ALLOW US TO BE FRANK WESTLIFE S
23 (18) BEST OF BLUE INNOCENT
24 (43) OUT OF NOTHING EMBRACE INDEPENDIENTE
25 (30) FINAL STRAW SNOW PATROL FICTION/POLYDOR
26 ( ) THE SOUL SESSIONS JOSS STONE RELENTLESS/VIRGIN
27 ( ) THE STORY SO FAR - THE VERY BEST OF ROD STEWART WARNER BROS
28 (32) LOVE ANGEL MUSIC BABY GWEN STEFANI INTERSCOPE
29 (26) CALL OFF THE SEARCH KATIE MELUA DRAMATICO
30 (38) THANK YOU JAMELIA PARLOPHONE
31 ( ) UP ALL NIGHT RAZORLIGHT VERTIGO
32 ( ) THE R IN R&B - GREATEST HITS - VOL 1 R KELLY JIVE
33 (16) GREATEST HITS SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY
34 (22) LIVE - A TICKET FOR EVERYONE BUSTED UNIVERSAL
35 ( ) KASABIAN KASABIAN RCA
36 (37) CONFESSIONS USHER ARISTA
37 (19) MIND BODY & SOUL JOSS STONE RELENTLESS/VIRGIN
38 ( ) STRIPPED CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA
39 ( ) THE VERY BEST OF FLEETWOOD MAC WSM
40 (14) LOVE SONGS PHIL COLLINS

 

[KUEFC09U2]

wow shocking

 

[Dima]

what's happened? 4-14 for U2...13-1 for Green Day...1-9 for robin Williams...24-5 for the killers and 36-5 for the zutons

 

[KUEFC09U2]

dosent look right at all

 

[CICOLO]

strange..very strange chart..Nirvana's Nevermind # 19 ?? Are you sure about these numbers? Do you know about the sales???

 

[KUEFC09U2]

it has nivana's as a new entry

 

[Princey]

it has nivana's as a new entry

It might mean the Box-Set that came out at xmas time?

Still...i agree, it doesn't look right

 

[KUEFC09U2]

actually quite sickening...... is this the start of a flop?

 

[Soldatti]

The chart is official:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/albums.shtml

 

[KUEFC09U2]

any need to be worried? am quite a novice and the whole stat game so i dunno if this is something to be concerned about or not?

 

[Soldatti]

actually quite sickening...... is this the start of a flop?

utter balls...

In UK sold +750,000 copies so far, that's a flop?
In US sold +2.000,000 copies in 5 weeks, that's a flop?
Worldwide sold almost 6.000,000 copies in a month, that's a flop?

 

[KUEFC09U2]

as i say am a novice at keeping an eye on sales

 

[Zoovation]

It's strange but it's right. I thought that they would easily get a Top 10 place but no, they lost 10 places...

But still a very good result after 6 weeks!
I think that ATYCLB was not as long in den UK top 10 as the bomb. However it was a hit and was very long between number 20 and 40 in the charts.

 

[Zoovation]

It's strange but it's right. I thought that they would easily get a Top 10 place but no, they lost 10 places...

But still a very good result after 6 weeks!
I think that ATYCLB was not as long in den UK top 10 as the bomb. However it was a hit and was very long between number 20 and 40 in the charts.


ATYCLB in UK:

1-4-10-20-25-26-28(DP)-29-29-23
17-12-12-7-7-8-10-3-6

So I think that we could see the bomb in the Top 10 again soon...

 

[fitz]

Very strange, was there any special-price-activities in the last week, or what was there going on?

 

[Lo-Fi]

The week of New Years is a little strange, I think we'll see u2 back in the top ten soon, especially when tour dates get announced and when SYCMIOYO video comes around. No need to panic, HTDAAB is far from a 'flop' in the uk. It held the top spot for 3 weeks, something u2 hasn't done for a very long time in the uk.

 

[Axver]

Does anything like this normally happen around this time in the UK? Talk about bizarre!

 

[andyuk]

this is natural for the album to drop down the charts at this stage between singles. When Sometimes starts to be played regually on the radio and is released and when they play the brits in early Feb exept the album to rise back up into top 10. Then it will dissappear again until the tour arrives in the UK in July and u will see the album rise again.

 

[Popmartijn]

it has nivana's as a new entry

Actually, Nirvana's Nevermind rose 128 positions apparently. The most likely cause for this bizarre chart is the post-Christmas sales slump and probably some heavy discounting on older titles. Keep in mind that not only U2 are affected by this. Last week's #1 (Robbie Williams) is now at #9 and last week's #2 is now at #13. Of last week's top 10, only the Scissor Sisters (#2) and Kylie Minogue (#7) have not dropped.

C ya!

Marty

 

[Soldatti]

In UK, Bomb sold around 27,000 copies last week...

 

[mikeuk]

This is a starange time in the UK, with many older titles heavily discounted - that said the drop here is bigger than I would have expected. The new single & Brits appearance will help though.


Mike