UK OCC Charts: Midweeks Thread 2022

[Blondini]

New Beyonce single out at midnight.

[Blondini]

OCC article above now complete.

[Blondini]

Bjork's 3 albums are also HMV 100th Anniversary vinyls.
Debut is on putty coloured vinyl! https://www.discogs.com/release/2361...%C3%B6rk-Debut

[SholasBoy]

Social Media "press" (if you want to call it that) were quite quick to jump on Junior Andre "flying up the itunes charts" but I assume there's no sign of him making the chart this week.

[Blondini]

Official Singles / Albums Chart Update
Source: OCC
Missing Data:

Top 100 Singles

1 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (26,307)
2 Harry Styles - As It Was (20,733)
3 LF System - Afraid to Feel (17,002)
4 Drake - Falling Back (13,383) *
5 Cat Burns - Go (12,332)

6-10
7 Drake feat. 21 Savage - Jimmy Cooks (11,552) *
8 Drake - Massive (11,248) *

11-20
19 Joji - Glimpse Of Us

21-30
27 Sigala & Talia Mar - Stay The Night

31-40
32 Tom Grennan - Remind Me

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Top 100 Albums

1 Foals - Life Is Yours (17,642) [15,980 physicals] *
2 Drake - Honestly, Nevermind (11,549) *
3 The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (9,820) ^
4 Harry Styles - Harry's House (9,180)
5 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (4,446)

6-10
7 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars ^
8 Queen - The Platinum Collection ^
9 Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart *

11-20
11 Nova Twins - Supernova *
15 Prince - The Gold Experience ^
18 Kate Bush - The Whole Story

21-30
23 Example - We May Grow Old But We Never Grow Up *
29 Tears for Fears - The Tipping Point ^
30 The Beach Boys - Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of the Beach Boys *

31-40
37 Calum Scott - Bridges *
38 Florence + the Machine - Dance Fever ^
39 Stereophonics - Decade In The Sun: Best Of Stereophonics ^

Click on the above relevant links.

[jszmiles]

Strange to see 2 Queen GH albums in top 20.... I thought it would be like with Whitney's GH, when one was replaced with another because of changing "the source" of streaming points.

[jszmiles]

huge flop for Callum (while he's #1 in Australia)

[Robbie]

Strange to see 2 Queen GH albums in top 20.... I thought it would be like with Whitney's GH, when one was replaced with another because of changing "the source" of streaming points.

It should be like that. Maybe GH will vanish. However The Platinum Collection and Greatest Hits have both been in the charts at the same time. For example https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-chart-update/ with TPC at #7 and GH at #23. In addition the Bohemian Rhapsody soundtrack was at number 3.

[Blondini]

And because the OCC article has missed it. it should be said that the Queen Collection is another vinyl reissue.

[MadNuno]

And because the OCC article has missed it. it should be said that the Queen Collection is another vinyl reissue.

That explains it!

[MadNuno]

Beyoncé new song have a chance to get a TOP 40 entry as despite a late release is #01 on UK iTunes and TOP 10 on Streaming services but will it be enough to get a TOP 20 debut on Friday?

[Blondini]

Wednesday Top 40 Update
Source: Music Week
Missing Data:

Singles

1 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (46,516)
2 Harry Styles - As It Was (37,351)
3 LF System - Afraid to Feel (29,583)
4 George Ezra - Green Green Grass (21,870)
5 Cat Burns - Go (21,508)

6-10
6 Drake - Falling Back (19,663) *
7 Drake feat. 21 Savage - Jimmy Cooks (19,343) *
10 Drake - Massive (18,672) *

11-20
13 Joji - Glimpse Of Us

21-30
24 Lady Gaga - Hold My Hand
29 Sigala & Talia Mar - Stay the Night

31-40
32 Tom Grennan - Remind Me
38 Glass Animals - Heat Waves

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Albums

1 Foals - Life Is Yours (18,962) *
2 Drake - Honestly, Nevermind (17,209) *
3 Harry Styles - Harry's House (16,529)
4 The Smile - A Light For Attracting Attention (10,415) ^
5 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (7,487)

6-10
7 David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ^
9 Queen - Greatest Hits
10 Queen - The Platinum Collection ^

11-20
14 Elton John - Diamonds
15 Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler - For All Our Days That Tear The Heart *
16 Kate Bush - The Whole Story
20 Nova Twins - Supernova *

21-30
26 Prince - The Gold Experience ^
27 Harry Styles - Harry Styles
29 Stereophonics - Decade In The Sun: Best Of Stereophonics ^
30 Foals - Antidotes ^

31-40
32 The Beatles - 1
36 Florence + The Machine - Dance Fever ^
37 The Beach Boys - Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys *
40 Example - We May Grow Old But We Never Grow Up *

[Handsup21]

Is Nerina Pallot's new album "I Don't Know What I'm Doing" seriously nowhere in the top 100? Or is there potential that her store hasn't posted the sales? Either way, I'm sad.

[MadNuno]

Drake is closing in to get the UK #01 Album but he is still 1750 units behind. Will be a close call on Frday!
His 3 songs on the singles charts being now outside the TOP 5 show that he is really having less streaming support on this album than the previous album.

[jszmiles]

Drake is closing in to get the UK #01 Album but he is still 1750 units behind. Will be a close call on Frday!
His 3 songs on the singles charts being now outside the TOP 5 show that he is really having less streaming support on this album than the previous album.

I wouldn't be surprised if Harry is #1 on Friday though.

Foals	+1320
Drake	+5660
Harry	+7349

[Gambo]

Foals have been one of the most underrated acts singles-wise over the last decade. They've done better on albums, but still not as enduring as the quality of their compositions and live performances imply. I am rather hoping they can show sometimes that the charts can reflect musical superiority and beat off the repetitive substandard auto-tuned (and yet somehow still flat!) meanderings of Drake. If Harry does it though, so be it.

[Blondini]

Official First Look Chart: Update
Source: OCC / Radio 1

1 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
2 LF System - Afraid To Feel
3 Harry Styles - As It Was
4 Beyoncé - Break My Soul
5 Cat Burns - Go
6 Drake - Massive
7 George Ezra - Green Green Grass
8 Lizzo - About Damn Time
9 Drake feat. 21 Savage - Jimmy Cooks
10 Tion Wayne & La Roux - IFTK

11 Joji - Glimpse Of Us
12 Harry Styles - Late Night Talking
13 Harry Styles - Music For A Sushi Restaurant
14 Charlie Puth & Jung Kook - Left and Right *
15 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do
16 Future feat. Drake & Tems - Wait For U
17 Taylor Swift - Carolina *
18 Nathan Dawe feat. Ella Henderson - 21 Reasons
19 Ed Sheeran (feat. Lil Baby) - 2step
20 Burna Boy - Last Last

[Wayne]

Is Music For A Sushi Restaurant the official 3rd single for Harry in the UK? Not at all surprised to see it so high this early, even if it isn't - quality song.

[MadNuno]

Beyoncé is higher than I expected on midweeks but it makes sense because of iTunes. She will probably end up outside TOP 5 but will still be a huge win for her in UK if she scores a TOP 10 with this song as it's her first TOP 10 as lead artist since 2013.

[Beautyisbeauty]

Beyoncé is higher than I expected on midweeks but it makes sense because of iTunes. She will probably end up outside TOP 5 but will still be a huge win for her in UK if she scores a TOP 10 with this song as it's her first TOP 10 as lead artist since 2013.

It´s been Top 5 on both Apple and Spotify this whole tracking week so far. It would still be top 5 even with a more mute itunes performance imo

[MadNuno]

It´s been Top 5 on both Apple and Spotify this whole tracking week so far. It would still be top 5 even with a more mute itunes performance imo

If it can keep that way will be TOP 5 but the tendency I've seen is for her numbers to drop in iTunes, Apple Music and Spotify. If she releases the video during this week she can garantee the TOP 5 else it will depend on how her streams do during the rest of the week.

[Gambo]

Is Music For A Sushi Restaurant the official 3rd single for Harry in the UK? Not at all surprised to see it so high this early, even if it isn't - quality song.

I'm not even sure that he's even put out an 'official' second single from 'Harry's House', let alone third. While 'Late Night Talking' is probably regarded by default now as the official follow-up to 'As It Was', as far as I can tell it's still never been made available to stream or buy as a stand-alone single in the UK, or receive any specific promotion as such. It became available with the rest of the album on 20th May and has simply been streamed heavily (and purchased modestly) as an LP track since, as has 'Music For A Sushi Restaurant' and all the other songs on the set. Radio has picked up on these two as alternatives concurrent to 'AIW''s ongoing success, but of course that's probably just down to the fact only those three so far have been official-chart-eligible, as the three most-consumed titles of this artist since the album came out and so giving them a higher profile than the rest.

Just having a very cursory flick through online I couldn't see that a video has been issued yet for 'LNT' either, so even if one takes a single release nowadays as a track that's not necessarily issued separately to audio-stream or download to buy but is given an associated video release to stream, which does sometimes happen (Adele and The Weeknd's notional 'second singles' from their last LPs only seem to actually have received a stand-alone release on video), it doesn't seem to qualify yet even under that measure, and neither does 'MFASR'.

[Blondini]

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart...-album__36709/

27 June 2022
Porcupine Tree leading the way for possible first UK Number 1 album

But can streaming giants Harry Styles and Drake close the gap?
By George Griffiths
Porcupine Tree are currently on course for their first UK Number 1 album of their career this week, with Closure/Continuation.

The eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band, and their first since entering hiatus in 2009, would not only be their first chart-topper, but their first to even reach the Official Albums Chart Top 10. Discover Porcupine Tree’s Official Charts history in full here.

However, while Closure/Continuation has a strong showing on physical sales so far, streaming giants Harry Styles and Drake will offer up a very real challenge for the top spot with Harry’s House (2) and Honestly, Nevermind (3) respectively.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, there could be further new entries on this Friday’s chart from Chris Brown with Breezy (6), American country artist Luke Combs’ Growin’ Up (7), the second studio album from singer Conan Gray, Superache (8), and Eric Clapton’s Nothing But The Blues (10), a collection of 17 previously-unreleased live performances from 1994.
MORE: Glastonbury effect set to boost Billie Eilish, Sam Fender & Wet Leg


Post-hardcore rockers Alexisonfire are also on track for their first UK Top 40 LP with Otherness (13), while Black Stone Cherry eye up a new entry with live album Live From Royal Albert Hall (23). Californian pop trio MUNA could also secure their first-ever entry on the Official Albums Chart with self-titled third record MUNA (26).

Machine Gun Kelly’s Mainstream Sellout could re-enter the Top 40 thanks to the release of a life in pink Deluxe Edition (30), as could Kanye West’s former Number 1 Donda after its own deluxe edition was released on vinyl for the first time (33).

US progressive rock group Coheed & Cambria’s tenth album Vaxis – Act II: A Window Of The Waking Mind is looking to become their highest-charting work yet (32), while indie-rock act Soccer Mommy’s breakout third album Sometimes Forever could be her first to chart in the UK (35).

And finally, former Fleetwood Mac member Christine McVie’s solo album Songbird (A Solo Collection) is on course to enter the chart at Number 37. Her second solo record and first since 1984, it could be her first ever solo Top 40 entry.
See the full Official Albums Chart Update Top 100 here

[Blondini]

Official Singles / Albums Chart Update
Source: OCC
Missing Data:

Top 100 Singles

1 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) (19,737)
2 LF System - Afraid To Feel
3 Harry Styles - As It Was (14,846)
4 Beyoncé - Break My Soul
5 Cat Burns - Go (9,646)

6-10
7 Drake - Massive
9 Tion Wayne & La Roux - IFTK

11-20
12 David Guetta, Becky Hill & Ella Henderson - Crazy What Love Can Do
16 Ed Sheeran (feat. Lil Baby) - 2step
17 Future feat. Drake & Tems - Wait For U

21-30
21 Burna Boy - Last Last
22 Benzz (feat. Tion Wayne & French Montana) - Je M'appelle
23 Charlie Puth & Jung Kook - Left and Right *
24 Sigala & Talia Mar - Stay The Night
26 OneRepublic - I Ain't Worried
27 Drake - Sticky *
30 Taylor Swift - Carolina *

31-40
34 Eminem & Snoop Dogg - From The D 2 The LBC *
36 Doja Cat - Vegas *
38 Bru-C - No Excuses *

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Top 100 Albums

1 Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation (11,727) [10,784 physicals, 844 downloads, 99 streaming] *
2 Harry Styles - Harry's House (6,343)
3 Drake - Honestly, Nevermind (3,426)
4 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid (3,250)
5 Ed Sheeran - = (3,167)

6-10
6 Chris Brown - Breezy *
7 Luke Combs - Growin' Up *
8 Conan Gray - Superache *
9 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever
10 Eric Clapton - Nothing But The Blues (live) *

11-20
13 Alexisonfire - Otherness *
14 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under ^
16 Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? ^

21-30
23 Black Stone Cherry - Live From The Royal Albert Hall... Y'All! *
25 Wet Leg - Wet Leg ^
26 Muna - Muna *
30 Machine Gun Kelly - Mainstream Sellout ^

31-40
32 Coheed and Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window Of The Waking Mind *
33 Kanye West - Donda ^
35 Soccer Mommy - Sometimes Forever *
37 Christine McVie - Songbird (A Solo Collection) *
38 Sam Fender - Hypersonic Missiles ^

Click on the above relevant links.

[braindeadpj]

Well unless they are missing more data than usual Kate has taken a dive this week. She was on 26,000 last Monday.