UK OCC Charts Midweeks Thread: 2021

[MadNuno]

There's nothing as blatantly pop as My Universe or Higher Power on the last album and certainly no pop ballad like Let Somebody Go. You would never think these were Coldplay songs if you didn't know. There's only one track on it that could rightly be called rock.

And there wasn't a big single on the last one like My Universe so Kuba is probably half-right about the BTS reach.

Exactly! Because they aren't really "coldplay" songs. That's why they got Max Martin and other hit makers songwritters (to make sure they would have a hit album) and commercially speaking it worked. On critics not so much as they are having mixed reviews.

[Blondini]

Oh ok. Guess that makes sense somehow. The new album is not more Pop than their previous one though and I didn't expect this to have such an impact - Coldplay are Coldplay after all.

There's nothing as blatantly pop as My Universe or Higher Power on the last album and certainly no pop ballad like Let Somebody Go. You would never think these were Coldplay songs if you didn't know. There's only one track on it that could rightly be called rock.

And there wasn't a big single on the last one like My Universe so Kuba is probably half-right about the BTS reach.

[jszmiles]

It's a pop album - BTS, Selena, Max Martin. They've been promoting it at every big event. People that wouldn't normally listen to them are listening.

and they have 3 top 20 singles from it, previous album had 1 top 40 song. And yes it's far more pop than previous one. Shame there's no gem like Midnight there

[Tansike]

It's a pop album - BTS, Selena, Max Martin. They've been promoting it at every big event. People that wouldn't normally listen to them are listening.

Oh ok. Guess that makes sense somehow. The new album is not more Pop than their previous one though and I didn't expect this to have such an impact - Coldplay are Coldplay after all.

[jszmiles]

Kylie has again released a cassette album. Queen of cassettes

[braindeadpj]

Looks like Adele could surpass 200,000 this week as its done nearly 100,000 in 3 days of sales and 2 days of streams.

[Blondini]

Is there a special reason why Coldplay‘s new album seems to pull way better numbers than their previous album did?

It's a pop album - BTS, Selena, Max Martin. They've been promoting it at every big event. People that wouldn't normally listen to them are listening.

[jszmiles]

Is there a special reason why Coldplay‘s new album seems to pull way better numbers than their previous album did?

BTS

[Tansike]

Is there a special reason why Coldplay‘s new album seems to pull way better numbers than their previous album did?

[Blondini]

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-sales__34247/

18 October 2021
Coldplay's Music of the Spheres set to become the band's ninth Number 1 album with big midweek sales

Plus there could be Top 10 entries from The Beatles, The Charlatans and Kylie Minogue.
By George Griffiths
Coldplay are kicking off a bumper quarter four schedule in impressive fashion this week, with Music of the Spheres on course to enter the Official Albums Chart at Number 1.

Over the coming weeks, brand new albums by Adele, Ed Sheeran and ABBA will turn 2021 into the hottest Christmas release line-up for many years - and Coldplay's ninth album has well and truly kicked the season off, after shifting more than 81,000 chart sales over the weekend to lead an all-new Top 6 in today's Official Chart Update.



As a result, Music of the Spheres has already surpassed the current fastest-selling album of the year, Dave’s We’re All Alone In This Together, which amassed 74,000 chart sales in its opening week in July.

It is also on course to become the first album to surpass 100,000 chart sales in a week since Ed Sheeran’s No. 6 Collaborations project sold 125,000 in July 2019. The last time an album topped 80,000 chart sales in a week was Coldplay’s previous studio album Everyday Life, totalling just under 81,000 chart sales in November 2019.



Music… is set to be Coldplay’s ninth Number 1 album, extending their unbroken run of chart-topping studio albums, in order - Parachutes (2000), A Rush of Blood to the Head (2002), X&Y (2005), Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends (2008), Mylo Xyloto (2011), Ghost Stories (2014), A Head Full of Dreams (2015) and Everyday Life (2019).
View Coldplay’s Official Chart history in full here


Meanwhile, the brand new Super Deluxe Edition reworking of The Beatles’ classic last album Let It Be sends it to Number 2 midweek, putting the project on course for its first Top 10 placing in 50 years – aside from the “alternative mix” Let It Be… Naked which reached Number 7 in November 2003.

In turn, Daniel O’Donnell’s celebratory 60 is currently at Number 3 and will become the singer’s 19^th Top 10 collection if it stays on track. The Charlatans’ brand-new greatest hits collection A Head Full of Ideas is currently at Number 4, while South London singer and songwriter Joy Crookes rounds off the Top 5 with Skin.
MORE: The Official best-selling female albums of all time in the UK revealed




Elsewhere in the midweek Top 10, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes could earn their third Top 10 album with Sticky at Number 6, and Kylie Minogue’s Fever is at Number 9 thanks to a 20th anniversary re-issue for National Album Day.

Adele also continues to climb in today’s Update as the release of her fourth album 30 nears; while 25 remains at 7, 21 jumps up four places to 10 and 19 is up 40 spots to Number 14.

Outside the Top 10, Warsop folk-punk band Ferocious Dog could secure a place at Number 11 with The Hope, and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black flies to Number 19 following a National Album Day picture disc release.
MORE: Official Top 40 biggest albums of 2021 so far


Other new and re-entries set to land in this week’s Top 40 include OMD’s The Architecture and Morality Singles (21), viral sensation PinkPantheress’ debut album To Hell With It (22), US rapper Young Thug’s second album Punk (23), and Garbage’s self-titled 1995 debut album (24) which also enjoys an uplift thanks to National Album Day.

English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore could have two new entries this Friday, with side-project Afterlight (28) [not a side-project, it's just her under a new name] and The Emancipation of Eva Grey (36).

Finally, Primal Scream’s Demodelica is on course to land at Number 30, and Sufjan Stevens and De Augustine’s collaborative album A Beginner’s Mind is heading for Number 33.
See the full Official Albums Chart Update from 5.45pm

See the Official Singles Chart Update from 5.45pm

edits by moi

[Blondini]

Official Singles / Albums Chart Update
Source: OCC
Missing Data: Apple Music and Spotify (for Sunday) and YouTube (for Saturday and Sunday)

Top 100 Singles

1 Adele - Easy On Me (99,793) *
2 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (26.0k)
3 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (24.3k)
4 Coldplay & BTS - My Universe (14.0k)
5 CKay - Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) (11.4k)

6-10
7 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits
8 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - Out Out
10 Becky Hill & Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da)

11-20
13 Doja Cat - Woman
15 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber - Stay
16 Dermot Kennedy - Better Days
19 Coldplay & Selena Gomez - Let Somebody Go *

21-30
22 Ed Sheeran - Visiting Hours
23 The Weeknd - Take My Breath
24 Adele - When We Were Young ^
25 David Guetta, MistaJam & John Newman - If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know?)
27 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good
28 Adele - Someone Like You ^
29 Clean Bandit & Topic feat. Wes Nelson - Drive

31-40
31 Jonasu - Black Magic
32 Mimi Webb - 24/5

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Top 100 Albums

1 Coldplay - Music Of The Spheres (81.2k) *
2 The Beatles - Let It Be (12.8k) ^
3 Daniel O'Donnell - 60 (5.4k) *
4 The Charlatans - A Head Full Of Ideas (4.8k) *
5 Joy Crookes - Skin (4.6k) *

6-10
6 Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Sticky *
7 Adele - 25
9 Kylie Minogue - Fever ^
10 Adele - 21

11-20
11 Ferocious Dog - The Hope *
14 Adele - 19 ^
19 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black ^

21-30
21 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality (The Singles) *
22 PinkPantheress - To Hell With It [mixtape] *
23 Young Thug - Punk *
24 Garbage - Garbage ^
28 Afterlight (Thea Gilmore) - Afterlight *
30 Primal Scream - Demodelica *

31-40
33 Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine - A Beginner's Mind *
36 Thea Gilmore - The Emancipation Of Eva Grey *

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[Blondini]

[jszmiles]

My thoughts after listening First Look Chart since long long time, that music in the charts nowadays is shit as hell.... just look at the titles: (Uh Oh), (La Di Da), (Ah Ah Ah)....really listening full top 20 is a torture (and still they've skipped Visiting Hours thankfully). Thank god for Cold Heart and Easy On Me that at the end I didn't commint a suicide

[Blondini]

Official First Look Chart Update
Source: OCC / Radio 1

1 Adele - Easy On Me *
2 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart
3 Ed Sheeran - Shivers
4 Coldplay & BTS - My Universe
5 CKay - Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah)
6 Glass Animals - Heat Waves
7 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits
8 Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie - Out Out
9 Central Cee - Obsessed With You
10 Becky Hill & Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da)

11 Lil Nas X - That's What I Want
12 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
13 Doja Cat - Woman
14 The Kid Laroi & Justin Bieber - Stay
15 Dermot Kennedy - Better Days
16 Drake feat. Lil Baby - Girls Want Girls
17 Coldplay & Selena Gomez - Let Somebody Go *
18 Anne-Marie & Little Mix - Kiss My (Uh Oh)
19 Jesy Nelson feat. Nicki Minaj - Boyz
20 Ed Sheeran - Visiting Hours

[Robbie]

Does anyone have updated UK midweek data for Lisa’s ‘MONEY’?

It was at number 65 on Tuesday, up from 74 on Monday. I expect the track to be top 60 when the new chart is revealed today.

[hylt]

Does anyone have updated UK midweek data for Lisa’s ‘MONEY’?

[MadNuno]

Can't believe Drake still have streaming enough to be #02 in UK.
In US I get it but in UK...? Who listen to his songs? Some are kind of cool but his new album is garbage... not Garbage (I love Garbage)... is trash...

[Blondini]

Thursday Top 40 Update
Missing Data: Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube (all for Wednesday)

Singles

1 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (49.1k)
2 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (45.5k)
3 Jesy Nelson feat. Nicki Minaj - Boyz (27.7k) *
4 CKay - Love Nwantiti (Ah Ah Ah) (27.1k)
5 Glass Animals - Heat Waves (23.6k)

6-10

11-20
13 Becky Hill & Topic - My Heart Goes (La Di Da)
18 Shouse - Love Tonight
20 The Anxiety (Willow & Tyler Cole) - Meet Me At Our Spot

21-30
23 Dermot Kennedy - Better Days
26 Sleepy Hallow - 2055
27 David Guetta, MistaJam & John Newman - If You Really Love Me (How Will I Know?)

31-40
32 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good *
35 Arz - Alone With You
38 Clinton Kane - I Guess I'm In Love

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Albums

1 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under (38.9k) *
2 Drake - Certified Lover Boy (4.9k)
3 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (4.5k)
4 James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart (4.4k) *
5 Doja Cat - Planet Her (3.7k)

6-10
7 Ed Sheeran - ÷ (Divide)
8 Adele - 25
9 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
10 Elton John - Diamonds

11-20
12 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
13 Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon *
14 Adele - 21 ^
15 Queen - Greatest Hits
16 The Weeknd - The Highlights
18 Justin Bieber - Justice ^
19 Tom Grennan - Evering Road

21-30
21 Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
22 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent
23 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
25 Oasis - Time Flies... 1994-2009
26 Don Toliver - Life Of A Don *
27 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
28 We Are Scientists - Huffy *
29 Michael Jackson - Number Ones
30 Simon and Garfunkel - Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits ^

31-40
32 Harry Styles - Fine Line
33 Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon
34 Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
35 Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane - Lost In The Cedar Wood *
36 The Beatles - 1 ^
37 Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles ^
38 Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour ^
40 Arctic Monkeys - AM ^

[vdoerken]

How can they forget about Cliff? Commom!

Maybe they count CR & The Drifters/Shadows as a different artist - who knows?

[MadNuno]

I have a bad feeling "Shivers" will somehow end up being #1 on Friday.

Shivers is having more streaming... but is quite behind on sales.
Let's not forget that even having less streaming "Cold Heart" have various version on both sales and streams (with insignificant streams but enough).

I streamed "Cold Heart" today 40 times (all different versions in total) with UK VPN on so that it would count for UK Charts... I'm tired of Ed Sheeran dominating the charts - he will return to #01 almost for certain the week his album is out.

Next week Adele is #01 almost for sure and I doubt "Cold Heart" can be #01 on the week Elton John album is out (not impossible but unlikely).

[MadNuno]

Does anyone knows if today Madonna new live album is on TOP 100 Albums?

I know it's not very likely since it was released only on digital sales and streams and she is an artist that started in the 80's (and in UK the live album isn't doing as well on iTunes, Apple Music and Spotify as in other countries European countries) but looking at so low sales numbers on the album charts inside the TOP 10 my hopes got higher that her album would chart even without a physical release.

[SerbianInLA]

I have a bad feeling "Shivers" will somehow end up being #1 on Friday.

[adamf2thedeath]

Jesy could be out top 5 by Friday at this rate!

[MadNuno]

OCC telling lies again to try and boost Elton

Saying he broke a record Cliff Richard still holds

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...l+chart+record

How can they forget about Cliff? Commom!

[Blondini]

OCC telling lies again to try and boost Elton

Saying he broke a record Cliff Richard still holds

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...l+chart+record