Week 12
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Popmartijn
Blue Crack Supplier
I really think it isn't know officially yet. The BBC is doing their charts show on the radio now and the home page is being updated as we speak. So I think that the #1 won't be known until 18:55 GMT.
Here's the page of the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/
Here's the page of the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/
biff
Rock n' Roll Doggie Band-aid
Take that, Elvis!!
Great news, thanks for sharing that, Soldatti.
Great news, thanks for sharing that, Soldatti.
mikeuk
War Child
Soldatti said:
The placings here match the (emerging) radio 1 chart - so I think we can now celebrate !
Also shows Bomb rising to 14- with 2 new entries ahead of it.
Mike
CD:UK is not the official chart. Wait for BBC or check out onelovethecharts which always puts out the advance on it
http://www.onelovethecharts.com/
http://www.onelovethecharts.com/
Vox02
War Child
Soldatti said:
Vox
annatheduck
The Fly
Woohooo! So there IS such a thing as justice!
Vox02
War Child
And this night: Sometimes live from Los Angeles
Great night!! Or.. Late night, I'm from Spain
Vox
Great night!! Or.. Late night, I'm from Spain
Vox
roy
Refugee
Brilliant news. I'm soooooooo happy. 
fitz
Acrobat
Very, very good. Sometimes is a real no.1 song! And now come on over the states!
Third UK #1 single in a row:
Feb. 2004 - Take Me To The Clouds Above (LMC Vs U2)
Nov. 2004 - Vertigo
Feb. 2005 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
7th UK #1 single for U2:
- Desire
- The Fly
- Discotheque
- Beautiful Day
- Take Me To The Clouds Above (LMC Vs U2)
- Vertigo
- Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
Feb. 2004 - Take Me To The Clouds Above (LMC Vs U2)
Nov. 2004 - Vertigo
Feb. 2005 - Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
7th UK #1 single for U2:
- Desire
- The Fly
- Discotheque
- Beautiful Day
- Take Me To The Clouds Above (LMC Vs U2)
- Vertigo
- Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own
mikeuk
War Child
Radio 1 DJ's described it as a NEW entry for U2, but both VINTAGE & CLASSIC U2 - is there love in the house tonight ? I think there is !!!!
A wonderful song at No1 in the UK singles chart - just ahead of Valentines Day. Is there love in the house tonight ?
I expect U2 will have been told this great news- so maybe an even better rendition tonight ?
For those in the UK highlights from the Grammies tomorrow evening on ITV2 at 9pm.
`a house (still) don't make a home, don't leave me here alone.....'
Mike
A wonderful song at No1 in the UK singles chart - just ahead of Valentines Day. Is there love in the house tonight ?
I expect U2 will have been told this great news- so maybe an even better rendition tonight ?
For those in the UK highlights from the Grammies tomorrow evening on ITV2 at 9pm.
`a house (still) don't make a home, don't leave me here alone.....'
Mike
mikeuk
War Child
Soldatti said:
6th number 1 - can't really claim the LMC track (no matter that it relied upon our boys)
Mike
PS this news- first ever time U2 has had two number 1 singles in the Uk from the same studio albumt- s/be on the NEWS page here.
Brits drives UK acts' albums
13 February 2005 - 19:06:24
After a distinctly unimpressive start, album sales took off dramatically in the latter half of last week, helped by the double whammy of the Brits and the approach of Valentine's Day, writes Alan Jones.
Artist albums - down 21% in the first midweek sales flashes - eventually managed to improve by 12% week-on-week, while compilations turned a 9% decline into a 23% increase. Overall album sales last week were 2,848,365 - up 13.6% on the previous week to their second highest level of the year, though remaining well short of the tally they achieved in week 1 (2nd-8th January), when clearance bargains helped generate sales of 3,073,908.
Comparing this year to last is difficult, as the Brits and Valentine's Day fell in different weeks in 2004. Valentine's Day was on a Saturday, helping sales that week to 3,373,874 - 18.4% higher than last week - and concentrating their maximum benefit into a single seven day span. This year, with the 14th falling on a Monday, their effect is effectively split over two weeks.
The Brits effect is actually the most obvious influence on the chart this week, with winners, nominees and performers all enjoying handsome gains. Among the highlights: Joss Stone's Mind, Body & Soul rockets 44-11 - its best placing for 14 weeks - on a 269.7% increase in sales, following her two wins and duet with Robbie Williams; the Scissor Sisters' three wins and performance of Take Your Mama in a Sesame Street style set propelled their self-titled debut album to jump 5-2 with sales up 116.2%; and Green Day's performance of American Idiot pushed sales of the album of the same name up 48.1%, even though it failed to win an award.
Winning Brits for best British album and British breakthrough act, and performing Everybody's Changing helped Keane to reap even more dramatic dividends, with their debut album Hopes And Fears rocketing 8-1, to return to the chart summit after a break of 34 weeks. The album sold 75,039 copies last week - a 191.3% increase, and 3,027 more than the Scissor Sisters' set - to lift its 40 week cume to 1,791,781. It's now spent a grand total of five weeks at number one, reaching the top on four separate occasions.
Scooping Brits for best British group and best British rock act, and performing a well received Take Me Out helped Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut album to celebrate its first birthday by storming back into the Top 10. The album, released on 9 February 2004, jumps 13-4, to earn - surprisingly - its highest placing since its number three debut a year ago, and only its 11th week in the Top 10. It sold 46,476 copies last week, a week-on-week jump of 159.7% - to take its cumulative sales to 925,104.
TV advertising very successfully pitched Phil Collins' Love Songs: A Compilation...Old & New to the Valentine's Day market last week. The album, which was flatlining in 61st place on the chart a fortnight ago, jumped to number 42 last week, and now catapults to number nine, beating the number 10 debut/peak it achieved last October. The album sold 34,106 copies last week - a 376% improvement week-on-week - to take its cumulative sales to 472,381. The campaign also had a spin-off effect on Collins' triple disc Platinum Collection, which jumps 113-70 with sales up 96.8% week-on-week.
Airplay for Wrap My Words Around You - which debuts at number 12 this week on the singles sales chart - has helped give Daniel Bedingfield's Second First Impression a real boost in recent weeks. The album debuted at number eight last October and had fallen more than 100 places before airplay for Wrap My Words Around You started to kick in. Since then, it has climbed 122-107-88-63-32-25.
Bedingfield appeared at The Brits with sister Natasha to perform a duet, which doubtless helped both the siblings' sales a little too, even though the song they performed - Ain't Nobody - is on neither artists' album. Despite Daniel's recent advances, Natasha remains the Bedingfield of choice for record buyers - her Unwritten album sold 15,973 copies last week, 241 more than Daniel's, and is a place above it in the chart. Overall, the 23 week old album has sold more than four times as many as Daniel's 14 week old offering - 763,921 against 183,382.
Meanwhile, singles sales held up pretty well last week, falling just 811 from the year's best tally they achieved a week ago, helped by U2's Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, which sold 30,359 to debut at number one - the highest weekly sale of the year, and the first of more than 30,000.
The second single from U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album - 13 weeks after the first, Vertigo - it helps the Irish veterans to register back-to-back number ones for the first time in their career. Counting the LMC v. U2 single Take Me To The Clouds Above, it's U2's third straight number one and seventh in all., though its first week sales are substantially fewer than Vertigo's opening 51,917 tally. The album - which enjoys a 50% increase in sales week-on-week and jumps 18-14 has sold a massive 947,423 copies. Another track from the album - U2's North American single All Because Of You - also charts here this week, debuting at number 51 on import sales.
Losing a substantial lead for the second week in a row, the late Elvis Presley again has to settle for runners-up spot on the singles chart, this time with Wooden Heart, whose first week sales of 28,377 are marginally below the 28,500 copies Are You Lonesome Tonight achieved a week ago but higher than the other reissues in his ongoing series of 70th birthday celebration number one re-releases. Wooden Heart brings to six the number of Presley singles in the Top 40 - one short of the chart record Presley himself set in 1957.
Racking up their 10th Top 10 hit, Destiny's Child debut at number four with Soldier, the second single from their Destiny Fulfilled album. Introductory single Lose My Breath spent four weeks at number two last November, its tenacity turning first week sales of 61,287 into 226,287 - more than most number ones these days. Soldier's first week tally was 17,314. Sadly, its release hasn't stopped the slow downward drift of Destiny Fulfilled. The album debuted and peaked at number five, and slips 40-44 - a new low - this week. It has sold 469,168 copies since its release three months ago.
Summary:
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own: 30,359 copies
All Because Of You: debuted at #51 with import sales
HTDAAB: UK sales to date - 947,423 copies
13 February 2005 - 19:06:24
After a distinctly unimpressive start, album sales took off dramatically in the latter half of last week, helped by the double whammy of the Brits and the approach of Valentine's Day, writes Alan Jones.
Artist albums - down 21% in the first midweek sales flashes - eventually managed to improve by 12% week-on-week, while compilations turned a 9% decline into a 23% increase. Overall album sales last week were 2,848,365 - up 13.6% on the previous week to their second highest level of the year, though remaining well short of the tally they achieved in week 1 (2nd-8th January), when clearance bargains helped generate sales of 3,073,908.
Comparing this year to last is difficult, as the Brits and Valentine's Day fell in different weeks in 2004. Valentine's Day was on a Saturday, helping sales that week to 3,373,874 - 18.4% higher than last week - and concentrating their maximum benefit into a single seven day span. This year, with the 14th falling on a Monday, their effect is effectively split over two weeks.
The Brits effect is actually the most obvious influence on the chart this week, with winners, nominees and performers all enjoying handsome gains. Among the highlights: Joss Stone's Mind, Body & Soul rockets 44-11 - its best placing for 14 weeks - on a 269.7% increase in sales, following her two wins and duet with Robbie Williams; the Scissor Sisters' three wins and performance of Take Your Mama in a Sesame Street style set propelled their self-titled debut album to jump 5-2 with sales up 116.2%; and Green Day's performance of American Idiot pushed sales of the album of the same name up 48.1%, even though it failed to win an award.
Winning Brits for best British album and British breakthrough act, and performing Everybody's Changing helped Keane to reap even more dramatic dividends, with their debut album Hopes And Fears rocketing 8-1, to return to the chart summit after a break of 34 weeks. The album sold 75,039 copies last week - a 191.3% increase, and 3,027 more than the Scissor Sisters' set - to lift its 40 week cume to 1,791,781. It's now spent a grand total of five weeks at number one, reaching the top on four separate occasions.
Scooping Brits for best British group and best British rock act, and performing a well received Take Me Out helped Franz Ferdinand's self-titled debut album to celebrate its first birthday by storming back into the Top 10. The album, released on 9 February 2004, jumps 13-4, to earn - surprisingly - its highest placing since its number three debut a year ago, and only its 11th week in the Top 10. It sold 46,476 copies last week, a week-on-week jump of 159.7% - to take its cumulative sales to 925,104.
TV advertising very successfully pitched Phil Collins' Love Songs: A Compilation...Old & New to the Valentine's Day market last week. The album, which was flatlining in 61st place on the chart a fortnight ago, jumped to number 42 last week, and now catapults to number nine, beating the number 10 debut/peak it achieved last October. The album sold 34,106 copies last week - a 376% improvement week-on-week - to take its cumulative sales to 472,381. The campaign also had a spin-off effect on Collins' triple disc Platinum Collection, which jumps 113-70 with sales up 96.8% week-on-week.
Airplay for Wrap My Words Around You - which debuts at number 12 this week on the singles sales chart - has helped give Daniel Bedingfield's Second First Impression a real boost in recent weeks. The album debuted at number eight last October and had fallen more than 100 places before airplay for Wrap My Words Around You started to kick in. Since then, it has climbed 122-107-88-63-32-25.
Bedingfield appeared at The Brits with sister Natasha to perform a duet, which doubtless helped both the siblings' sales a little too, even though the song they performed - Ain't Nobody - is on neither artists' album. Despite Daniel's recent advances, Natasha remains the Bedingfield of choice for record buyers - her Unwritten album sold 15,973 copies last week, 241 more than Daniel's, and is a place above it in the chart. Overall, the 23 week old album has sold more than four times as many as Daniel's 14 week old offering - 763,921 against 183,382.
Meanwhile, singles sales held up pretty well last week, falling just 811 from the year's best tally they achieved a week ago, helped by U2's Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own, which sold 30,359 to debut at number one - the highest weekly sale of the year, and the first of more than 30,000.
The second single from U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb album - 13 weeks after the first, Vertigo - it helps the Irish veterans to register back-to-back number ones for the first time in their career. Counting the LMC v. U2 single Take Me To The Clouds Above, it's U2's third straight number one and seventh in all., though its first week sales are substantially fewer than Vertigo's opening 51,917 tally. The album - which enjoys a 50% increase in sales week-on-week and jumps 18-14 has sold a massive 947,423 copies. Another track from the album - U2's North American single All Because Of You - also charts here this week, debuting at number 51 on import sales.
Losing a substantial lead for the second week in a row, the late Elvis Presley again has to settle for runners-up spot on the singles chart, this time with Wooden Heart, whose first week sales of 28,377 are marginally below the 28,500 copies Are You Lonesome Tonight achieved a week ago but higher than the other reissues in his ongoing series of 70th birthday celebration number one re-releases. Wooden Heart brings to six the number of Presley singles in the Top 40 - one short of the chart record Presley himself set in 1957.
Racking up their 10th Top 10 hit, Destiny's Child debut at number four with Soldier, the second single from their Destiny Fulfilled album. Introductory single Lose My Breath spent four weeks at number two last November, its tenacity turning first week sales of 61,287 into 226,287 - more than most number ones these days. Soldier's first week tally was 17,314. Sadly, its release hasn't stopped the slow downward drift of Destiny Fulfilled. The album debuted and peaked at number five, and slips 40-44 - a new low - this week. It has sold 469,168 copies since its release three months ago.
Summary:
Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own: 30,359 copies
All Because Of You: debuted at #51 with import sales
HTDAAB: UK sales to date - 947,423 copies
WOW now that is alos GREAT news.... this album must be one of their biggest here in the UK?Soldatti said:MORE SHOCKING NEWS
All Becasue Of You debuted at #51 this week on UK too!
I guess that are import sales, amazing...
mikeuk
War Child
so, U2 did it by around 2000 copies !! not only that but ABOY charts higher (in the UK) than it probably will in the US - and on import sales alone- `bout time U2 confirmed extra shows in the UK such as Manchester 2.
Bomb- 947k sales to consumers in the UK, way to go.
Mike
Bomb- 947k sales to consumers in the UK, way to go.
Mike
phommel
Refugee
Does anyone have statistics of U2's previous albums? How many copies sold they compared to HTDAAB??
phommel
Refugee
Hmmm this means 3x platinum, isn't it?, and if I recall correctly...I think only Rattle & Hum (4x)and JT (6x) did better!!
HTDAAB is now already at the same level as Achtung Baby and the Unforgettable Fire in the UK (both 3x platinum)
HTDAAB is now already at the same level as Achtung Baby and the Unforgettable Fire in the UK (both 3x platinum)
mikeuk
War Child
phommel said:
Which countries- or worldwide ? STING 2 will give you worldwide estimates, but that's all they are pending record company notification/clarification. Bomb has shipped 8.5 m copies already, but probably sold around (in just 3 months) 6.5 m copies to consumers - the same as POP has to date (and I liked POP)
Mike
Vox02
War Child
phommel said:
AB is 4x Platinum in the UK!
Vox
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