UK Charts/ Midweeks 2019 (1 Viewer)

I thought we had a thread but nothing came up when I searched for it. I read about The bloody Lighthouse Family in the Kylie thread and it reminded me I like the midweeks thread.
 
I know that Radio 1 have a chart update on a Wednesday? Does any other info just come from other forums? I seem to remember @Jark offering to post the updates, but if he doesn’t want to do it I would be happy to take over.
 
The OCC website posts the initial midweek chart on Mondays. For updates after that (and info about figures), I tend to look at ukmix or buzzjack where someone (usually Robbie) will post it - I assume someone who subscribes to music week, as I believe the info isn't available from any other source.
 
He's not here that often. I think if we want it weekly, one of us who is here more often should do it.

I'm fairly certain Robbie has said before he doesn't mind if we copy something he has posted elsewhere. I think the general rule is that you credit where it came from if you nick it for yourself.
 
I don’t post on any other forums. I am having a look at buzzjack now and it doesn’t seem like I need to sign up for the info. I will keep an eye on it.
 
Wednesday 10 July

Singles

1 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Señorita (41,319)
2 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care (34,686)
3 Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (30,432)
4 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait
5 Post Malone feat. Young Thug - Goodbyes (23,912)
6 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
8 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well

12 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove
13 MIST feat. Fredo - So High
19 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights

24 Little Mix - Bounce Back
26 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
27 Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter
28 D-Block Europe - Home Pussy

34 Freya Ridings - Castles
35 Dave & AJ Tracey - Thiago Silva
37 Lizzo - Truth Hurts


Albums

1 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (12,101)
2 Kylie Minogue - Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (8,458)
3 Lighthouse Family - Blue Sky In Your Head (8,041)
5 Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (5,461)
4 The Killers - Direct Hits (5,148)
6 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman
8 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST)
9 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's
10 Ed Sheeran - ÷

11 Spice Girls - Greatest Hits
13 Elton John - Diamonds
16 The Cure - Greatest Hits
18 Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive

22 The Beatles - 1
23 Billie Eilish - Don't Smile At Me
24 Motion Picture Cast Recording - A Star Is Born
26 JAY1 - One Wave

34 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
35 Post Malone - Beerbongs & Bentleys
37 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
38 Queen - The Platinum Collection

Kylie looking at around 11-11.5k by Friday at #2 (31.5k last week)
 
Is that the highest the Spice Girls Greatest Hits has been since the tour? I thought it would have dropped like a bomb by now.
 
Is that the highest the Spice Girls Greatest Hits has been since the tour? I thought it would have dropped like a bomb by now.

It did drop - but was released on vinyl last week.
 
A picture disc no less. And with 15 songs on it, absolutely guaranteed to sound like total shit.
 
I actually ordered it when it initially went on sale, because it was supposed to be limited. Then when they decided against that, I cancelled the order.
 
Thursday mids

Singles

1 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Señorita (50.8k)
2 Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber - I Don't Care (42.1k)
3 Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (37.5k)
4 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait (29.9k)
5 Post Malone feat. Young Thug - Goodbyes (29.4k)
6 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
8 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well

11 MIST feat. Fredo - So High
13 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove
19 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights
20 D-Block Europe - Home Pussy

27 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
29 Miley Cyrus - Mother's Daughter

34 Freya Ridings - Castles
35 Dave & AJ Tracey - Thiago Silva
37 Lizzo - Truth Hurts


Albums

1 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (14.3k)
2 Kylie Minogue - Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (9.4k)
3 Lighthouse Family - Blue Sky In Your Head (8.6k)
4 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (6.5k)
5 The Killers - Direct Hits (5.7k)

6 Motion Picture Cast Recording - The Greatest Showman
8 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (OST)
9 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's
10 Ed Sheeran - ÷

11 Elton John - Diamonds
15 Spice Girls - Greatest Hits
17 The Cure - Greatest Hits
18 Tom Walker - What A Time To Be Alive

22 The Beatles - 1
23 Billie Eilish - dont smile at me
25 Motion Picture Cast Recording - A Star Is Born
26 Dave - Psychodrama
27 JAY1 - One Wave
28 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009
30 Ariana Grande - thank u, next

34 Post Malone - beerbongs & bentleys
35 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
37 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
38 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
 
How shit are sales with all those old Greatest Hits albums down the bottom end of the 40?
 
How shit are sales with all those old Greatest Hits albums down the bottom end of the 40?

It's been like that for a while now. In no small part because with stores closing and supermarkets reducing their music offering , what they are offering is more and more of those 'safe' sellers.

I did wonder if it was streaming accounting for more, but ABBA Gold at least does poorly there.
 
It will be a MEGA SALES week this week with Ed Sheeran releasing his collab’s album.
 
I'm waiting for the 'he's outselling the rest of the Top 40 combined' story
 
It's been like that for a while now. In no small part because with stores closing and supermarkets reducing their music offering , what they are offering is more and more of those 'safe' sellers.

I think streaming plays a big part as well because you don't need to stream a whole album just enough tracks for it to qualify - so if "Time Flies" is the only Oasis compilation on streaming (I think their b-sides comp is on there too) then it'll pick up a big chunk of their activity.
 
I've never actually hated Ed Sheeran before this album but it really is an absolute horror show menagerie of utterly meritless bullshit songs about being an outcast (but being very rich) or hating shallow people (but liking sexy girls) - some of the lyrics are absolutely frightful and weirdly misogynistic. It's quite shocking how merrily he's tossed aside any pretence of being an artist in order to conform and draw maximum streams. Gross.
 
Castles IS good, but it sounds SO much like something else I can't put my finger on.
 
While moopy is getting its chart geek on, I found this interesting from James Masterton:

It is worth noting the continuing presence of Lil Nas X's Old Town Road which is Number 7 for the fourth week in a row, all of which have come since it experienced its own relegation onto ACR. As one commenter noted, last week the four-month-old single was actually the most-purchased and most-streamed of the week and was only Number 7 due to the low conversion applied to those streams. It doesn't quite manage the trick this time around (Senorita easily tops both tables as a worthy Number One), but if the ACR rule had not been in place Old Town Roadwould this week be enjoying at the very least an unprecedented 11th week as the Number 2 single. It remains a quite extraordinarily popular hit record.

That the #1 song in terms of both sales and streaming only ended up at #7 does highlight (again) my issue with the chart now.


https://chart-watch.uk/index.php/week-ending-july-18th-2019
 
He also has this to say about Lizzo

Are we ever going to mention fun sized rapper Lizzo as anything more than a footnote? The larger than life American first rated a mention in these pages earlier this year when her enormously appealing track Juice made heavy work of a chart climb and enjoyed a solitary week of Top 40 glory at Number 38. Her latest track Truth Hurts has endured a similar steady wait, charting at Number 67 back in May and only making the Top 50 for the first time last week in its 10th week on the chart when it came to rest at Number 42. A five-place climb means it is now her second Top 40 hit and her highest charting single to date as well. She remains criminally underrated in this country, even if Juice was actually far more fun and a far better single than this rather pedestrian offering.

'Fun sized'? 'Larger than life'? Clearly ACHING to call her FAT.
 
Doesn’t fun-sized mean she is short? Like fun-sized Mars Bars?

But yes the point stands

Well that's what I'd think, but she's quite the opposite of short though, isn't she?

Quite apart from the fact her size is irrelevant anyway.
 
She's taller than Charli XCX but I have no idea what height CXCX is in the first place.

I quite fancy seeing Lizzo on tour actually - she's doing Glasgow, could be a good one.

(EDIT: Oh, it sold out in a flash - fair enough, can see why...)
 
It's because these ample girls often have such a wonderful sense of humour, isn't it?
 
He also has this to say about Lizzo

Are we ever going to mention fun sized rapper Lizzo as anything more than a footnote? The larger than life American first rated a mention in these pages earlier this year when her enormously appealing track Juice made heavy work of a chart climb and enjoyed a solitary week of Top 40 glory at Number 38. Her latest track Truth Hurts has endured a similar steady wait, charting at Number 67 back in May and only making the Top 50 for the first time last week in its 10th week on the chart when it came to rest at Number 42. A five-place climb means it is now her second Top 40 hit and her highest charting single to date as well. She remains criminally underrated in this country, even if Juice was actually far more fun and a far better single than this rather pedestrian offering.

'Fun sized'? 'Larger than life'? Clearly ACHING to call her FAT.

OMG @ all of this
 
Monday mids

Singles


1 Ed Sheeran feat. Khalid - Beautiful People (24.5k)
2 Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita (22.3k)
3 Ed Sheeran feat. Eminem & 50 Cent - Remember The Name (19.6k)
4 Ed Sheeran feat. Stormzy - Take Me Back To London (18.6k)
5 Lewis Capaldi - Hold Me While You Wait (12.7k)
6 Lil Nas X - Old Town Road
7 Sigala & Becky Hill - Wish You Well
9 Mabel - Mad Love

13 Billie Eilish - bad guy
15 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love
16 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights
17 Dave feat. Burna Boy - Location
18 Krept & Konan feat. Headie One & K-Trap - I Spy

26 Freya Ridings - Castles
30 Mark Ronson feat. Camila Cabello - Find U Again
36 Remedee feat. Not3s & Young Adz - Love of My Life
38 Tiësto, Jonas Blue & Rita Ora - Ritual

Albums

1 Ed Sheeran - No.6 Collaborations Project (63.9k)
2 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent (6.8k)
3 Kylie Minogue - Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection (3.2k)
4 Billie Eilish - WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (2.7k)
5 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born (2.6k)
8 Ed Sheeran - ÷
9 George Ezra - Staying At Tamara's
10 New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes..

14 Gerry Cinnamon - Erratic Cinematic
15 Tom Walker - What a Time to Be Alive
17 DMA's - MTV Unplugged: Live

21 Paul McCartney - Amoeba Gig (Live)
24 Ed Sheeran - x
29 Jax Jones - Snacks
30 Motion Picture Cast Recording - Yesterday

31 Palace - Life After
32 Banks - III
34 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
35 Queen - The Platinum Collection
38 Madonna - Madame X
40 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
 
3 songs in the Top 5, and sitting pretty at number 1 on 63.9k sales already in the albums chart. No signs of Ed Sheeran’s popularity waning then.
 
I mean, his last album sold 672k in week one. This one will do around 100k. So I'd sane that's a fairly reasonable fall off.

Either way it kind of feels like this is the era he'll reach saturation point and the tide of popularity will begin to turn, not helped by the fact that none of these hit singles will go down as great pop songs or even be remembered a year from now as they're all fundamentally shit.
 

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