Billboard & Other Weekly Album Charts 2015

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UK albums chart 25th December 2015:



There’s a high chance much of the nation will be waking up to an Adele album in their festive stockings today, as her record-breaking album 25 is crowned the UK’s official biggest selling album of Christmas week 2015.Having already made chart history with 25 – now the fastest 2 million-selling album in the UK ever – Adele holds the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart for a fifth week running, with massive sales again in the final shopping week before Christmas of nearly 450,000 copies. See Adele's week by week chart run of all her singles and albums.
Elvis Presley’s If I Can Dream (2) also emerges as a popular stocking filler this year with a further 173,000 copies snapped up this week, while Justin Bieber’s Purpose (3), Coldplay’s A Head Full of Dreams (4) and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh (5) completing the albums Top 5 on Christmas Day.
[h=4]New entries and high climbers
[/h]Outside the Top 10, Chris Brown’s new album Royalty debuts at Number 23 today. The singer’s seventh solo studio collection follows his collaborative Fan Of A Fan record with Tyga, which hit Number 7 back in March this year.
Following its record-breaking opening weekend at the box office, Star Wars’ The Force Awakens OST – helmed by legendary composer John Williams - goes straight in at Number 25.
And finally, two Christmas albums make gains today: Michael Buble’s Christmas jumps from 15 to 12, and Kylie Minogue’s Christmas leaps up two places from 22 to 20.
This year's Official Top 40 Christmas Albums Chart appears below.


click the link to see the full UK top 100 albums: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

click on the link for the UK top 100 singles chart: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/

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Australian singles chart 26th December 2015: overview:

Justin Bieber remains at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart for a third week with “Love Yourself”, but he also moves back up to No.2 with “Sorry” which has already notched up four weeks at that position, after which it spent four more weeks at No.3, and now this week it racks up a fifth week in the second position.

Justin also racks up a seventh week at No.1 for this decade moving him up to equal fourteenth alongside John Legend who has also been at the top for seven weeks from his two appearances on the list of ‘Accumulated Weeks at No.1: Singles, 2010’s’, plus Justin also gets the trophy for ‘Final No.1 Song of 2015’. The last time we had one act occupy the top two spots was back in February of 2013 when Macklemore held the top with “Same Love” and his former No.1 “Thrift Shop” was at No.2, but you could also count Pharrell Williams later on that year in May 2013, but both of those appearances were as guest vocalist on “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk (#2) and “Blurred Lines” for Robin Thicke (#1).
Justin holds three positions within the Top 10 again this week, as his former No.1 “What Do You Mean?” is on hold at No.8 again, notching up a seventeenth week within the Top 10. The last time we had an act with three of more singles in the Top 10 was back in late June of 2012 when The Voice winner Karise Eden occupied the top three places with “Stay With Me Baby” (#1), “Hallelujah” (#2) and “I Was Your Girl” (#3), plus she had a fourth hit at No.5 “You Won’t Let Me”, which even beats Justin’s current three in the Top 10.
Adele drops to her lowest position so far, as “Hello” is down one spot to No.3 and scoring the highest new entry of the week, coming in at No.4 is London based producer Jonas Blue who teams up with English singer Dakota, whom he first heard singing in the basement of an East London pub, the next day they recorded their tropical house version of the song “Fast Car”; the original by Tracy Chapman climbed to the peak of No.4 back in late June of 1988, so both songs have matching peaks (so far), plus a second version of the song debuts lower down too.
With Jonas Blue debuting so high, it pushes down three songs a single place, with “Stitches” by Shawn Mendes, “Middle” for DJ Snake and Bipolar Sunshine and “Ocean Drive” for Duke Dumont down one to No.5, No.6 and No.7 respectively. Zara Larsson and MNEK step back two places to No.9 with “Never Forget You”, breaking the one place a week steps the song has been taking over the past six weeks. Jumping up eight places to land at a new peak of No.10 is West London trio WSTRN with their debut hit “IN2”, and if it goes higher than No.9 next week, it will beat its English peak from a few weeks ago.
UP: With Snakehips in the country this coming week for NYE/NYD shows, their first chart entry “All My Friends” with Tinashe and Chance the Rapper bullets up sixteen places to land at a new peak of No.11, which also gives Tinashe her highest charting single too, as previously she had climbed up high as No.29 back in mid February with her first entry “2 On”. Marcus Marr and Chet Faker climb back up three places to No.12 with “The Trouble With us” which is now Platinum in sales, and this week last year Mariah Carey’s festive season classic “All I Want for Christmas is you” jumped up to No.14, well this year it’s back up seventeen places to land at No.17 and scores itself a 3xPlatinum certification too. And making her Top 20 debut this week is Elle King with “Ex’s & Oh’s” which is up fourteen places to a new peak of No.19 this week. Troye Sivan is up one spot to a new chart height of No.30 with “Youth” and climbing two to reach No.33 are 99 Souls with “The Girl is Mine”, and returning to the top 50 are Lost Frequencies with their recent No.35 single “Reality” (#44) and One Direction with “Drag Me Down” (#47).
DOWN: After returning to the Top 10 last week, “Downtown” (HP-1x4, WI10-15) for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis is back down three places to No.13 and a song which returned to the ten at the start of the month, also drops this week too, as “Lay it All on Me” (HP-7, WI10-5) for Rudimental with Ed Sheeran falls five spots to No.14 this week. “Flip it” for Charlotte Devaney and Snoop Dogg leapt to No.12 last week but is down three this week to No.15, the same also happens for The Weeknd song “In the Night” which drops from thirteen to No.20 this week, and after debuting at No.11 and remaining there last week, “Sweet Lovin” for Sigala drops seven this week to No.18. The Rachel Platten track “Stand by You” was another of those ‘songs-that-leapt’ last week, and this week is descends back down twelve places to No.25, whilst X-Factor winner Cyrus sees his track “Stone” drop down seven to No.32 this week. “Fire & the Flood” for Vance Joy drops six to No.35 and “Adventure of a Lifetime” by Coldplay is down seven to No.39, whilst plummeting seventeen to No.40 is Conrad Sewell and “Who You Lovin”.
Zara Larsson has already had a No.3 hit and is currently at No.9 with her first entry “Never Forget You”, and her previous Scandinavian hit enters this week at No.34 entitled “Lush Life”. The song has so far gone to No.1 in her home country of Sweden and reached No.2 in Denmark, Norway and Belgium plus a No.3 hit in The Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland, whilst No.4 in Germany and Austria. A few places lower at No.37 is the second version of the Tracy Chapman song “Fast Car” by Swedish DJ Tobias Karlsson who goes by the stage name of Tobtok, and his more pop/dance version of the song features vocals by a girl called River. A new Charlie Puth track debut’s this week entitled “One Call Away”, at No.41 this week, featuring guest rapper Tyga, becoming Charlie’s third Top 50 entry for 2015.

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Australian albums chart overview 26th December 2015:

Adele remains at the top of the ARIA Albums chart for a fifth straight week with “25”, but the first week without a new certification, although with it being Christmas week, not everything is back on track and I’m sure we will see a new certification in the new year.
But one album that has gained a new certification this week is “Christmas” by Michael Buble which remains at No.2 this week and is now 13xPlatinum in sales, the same amount of weeks it has racked up at No.1, and with this being the last chart for the year, it looks like Adele holds him off the top spot for what would have been a fifth straight year at No.1 for the set, but alas not this year.
Justin Bieber might have the two highest selling single in the country this week, but his album “Purpose” is on hold at No.3 again this week, whilst the screening this past week of Ed Sheeran’s “Live at Wembley” show helps his repackaged album “x” (containing that live show) to climb back up two places to No.4, pushing back down “1989” by Taylor Swift to No.5 and “The Very Best of Richie” for The Twelfth Man to No.6.
Three of the four lower Top 10 albums are on hold this week, with “If I Can Dream” for Elvis Presley at No.7, Coldplay with “A Head Full of Dreams” at No.8 and for a fourth straight week at No.10 is Human Nature with “The Christmas Album”. Leaping up twenty places to land at No.9 is third placed X-Factor 2015 act Jess & Matt with their self-titled album, the same position that winner Cyrus was last week.
UP: The upcoming ‘Molly’ tele-movie sees its soundtrack climb back up five places to score a new peak of No.17 this week, and second-placed XF act Louise Adams’ self titled set jumps up ten places to land a new chart height of No.22. Florence + the Machine with “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” is back up four to No.33 and INXS with “The Very Best” rises fourteen places to return to the Top 40 at No.38. Roy Orbison again rises this week with his ‘lost’ album “One of the Lonely Ones”, up six to a new peak of No.40 and also back into the fifty is Fleetwood Mac with “The Very Best of” at No.48.
DOWN: After a single week in the Top 10, the self-titled album for X-Factor winner Cyrus is back down six to No.15 this week, whilst “In the Lonely Hour” for Sam Smith drops five to No.19, and “Title” for Meghan Trainor is down five also, to No.23. Troye Sivan takes a tumble for a second week as “Blue Neighbourhood” is down eleven to No.26 and down six to No.36 is the first Adele album “19”. After climbing the past few weeks, the Andrea Bocelli tribute to “Cinema” is back down five to No.39, the “Frozen” soundtrack drops back seven to No.42 (but will most likely rise again next week to celebrate its two year anniversary and re-screening on Channel 7 this week), with two Aussie acts falling hard this week, Courtney Barnett’s ARIA Award winning album “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit” is down eight to No.44 whilst the second 5SOS album “Sounds Good Feels Good” is down seven to No.45.
CHRISTMAS: Most of the festive season albums will drop dramatically next week, but for now Michael Buble and Human Nature remain within the Top 10, whilst “Kylie Christmas” is back up one spot to No.11 and “Merry Christmas to You” by Mariah Carey is down one place to No.20, and The Ten Tenors descend eight to No.28 with their set “Our Christmas Wish” and down four to No.30 are Pentatonix with “That’s Christmas to Me”. Justin Bieber and his seasonal album “Under the Mistletoe” drops seven to No.34, whilst Josh Groban scores a new peak of No.35 with his “Stages”/”Noel” double album set. Rod Stewart is back down three to No.43 with “Merry Christmas, Baby” and sneaking into the chart at No.49 is a new six track EP from Ariana Grande which was issued this past week entitled “Christmas & Chill (EP)”, with all six songs being original festive season tracks, no covers whatsoever.
The seventh studio album for Chris Brown is the highest new entry of the week, coming in at No.14 is “Royalty”, his lowest entry position here since his third album “Graffiti” debuted and peaked at No.40 in mid-December of 2009. The final Top 50 debut of the week is the soundtrack by John Williams for the new Star Wars film, entitled “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” which opened in cinemas on December 18th. This becomes the fifth of the seven movies to see it’s soundtrack enter the charts, with the initial 1977 set making it to No.12 in January 1978, whilst the next one to chart was the prequel sets “The Phantom Menace” (HP-8, May 1999), “Attack of the Clones” (HP-17, late May 2002) and then “Revenge of the Sith” (HP-9, May 2005).