08-04-2016, 22:31
UK 'singles' chart overview for 8th April 2016:
Mike Posner extends his reign at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart today with I Took A Pill In Ibiza.The Seeb remix of the song logs a fourth stint at the summit with combined sales of 76,000. I Took A Pilll⦠is also the most streamed song this week, racking up 4.1 million plays over the last seven days.
Posner holds off competition from Siaâs Cheap Thrills, which climbs two places to Number 2. Despite the track vying for the top spot on the Official Chart Update earlier this week, the singer-songwriter still claims a personal best as a headline artist on the UK Top 40, beating the Number 6 peak of 2014âs Chandelier. Her David Guetta collaboration Titanium topped the chart in 2012.
Meanwhile, Fifth Harmonyâs Work From Home drops a place to Number 3, Lukas Graham are at 4 with 7 Years, and Zara Larssonâs Lush Life completes this weekâs Top 5.
[h=4]New Entries and High Climbers[/h]Norwegian producer Alan Walker, who topped this weekâs Official Trending Chart for a second time, moves up four spots into the Top 10 with Faded, and Major Lazerâs Light It Up rebounds three spots to Number 10.
Twenty One Pilots edge closer to the Top 10 with Stressed Out, up three places to 12, as does Selena Gomezâs Hands To Myself, leaping from 20 to 14.
This weekâs highest new entry goes to Drakeâs One Dance ft. Wizkid & Kyla at Number 21, earning him a 15[SUP]th[/SUP] Top 40 hit, and The Vampsâ I Found A Girl ft. OMI is new at Number 30.
Finally, Kanye Westâs Famous vaults a massive 161 places to 33 after his latest album The Life Of Pablo was released on more streaming services following its Tidal-only release in February, and Swedish duo Galantis debut at Number 36 with their new single No Money.
the full UK top100 is here: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/
UK 'albums' overview 8th April 2016:
Yhe Last Shadow Puppets are pulling the strings of the Official Albums Chart this week â theyâve scored their second Number 1 album with their latest effort Everything Youâve Come To Expect.
The near-decade long wait for new material from Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and The Rascals' Miles Kane didn't result in a sophomore slump, with the duo outselling the runner-up record by over 6,000 copies.
Everything You've Come to Expect follows their debut collection The Age of Understatement, which debuted at Number 1 just shy of eight years ago. The new album is Miles' second chart topper, and Alex's seventh consecutive Number 1 studio album counting his with work Arctic Monkeys.
Nearly a quarter of the albumâs sales this week were on vinyl (7,300 copies), outselling the first week vinyl sales of Arctic Monkeysâ AM by just over 2,000 â a record that has gone on to become the biggest selling vinyl of the decade.
[h=4]New Entries and High Climbers[/h]Three new entries land in the Top 5 this week. Lukas Graham's self-titled, debut worldwide release enters at Number 2, while Pet Shop Boys' Super begins its Official Albums Chart history at Number 3. The record is Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's twelfth Top 5, and sixteenth Top 10.
Adele's 25 enjoys a nineteenth week in the Top 5, falling two places to Number 4. Rounding out the Top is Kentucky from Black Stone Cherry, the group's second Top 5 release.
Classical star and broadcaster Aled Jones enters just shy of the Top 5, with One Voice debuting at Number 6. The release is Aled's first Top 10 album in 31 years, after his second studio album Walking in the Air got to Number 5 back in 1985.
Japanese rock idol trio Babymetal score their first Top 40 album - Metal Resistance is at 15. Consisting of Moa Kikuchi, Suzuka Nakamoto and Yui Mizuno, Babymetal are the highest charting Japanese band in Official Albums Chart history. They were also the first Japanese act ever to headline Wembley Arena just last week, breaking the record for the highest sales of merchandise for a one-day event in the history of the venue.
Further down the chart, Mogwai's Atomic starts at 20, Weezer's self-titled release enters at 24, Very Rarely Say Die from Sunset Sons settles at 25 and Sasha's Scene Delete is a new addition at 34. Two more albums also enter the Top 40: The Heavy's Hurt & The Merciless is at 36 and Explosions in the Sky's The Wilderness is at 39.
the UK top100 albums chart: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/
Mike Posner extends his reign at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart today with I Took A Pill In Ibiza.The Seeb remix of the song logs a fourth stint at the summit with combined sales of 76,000. I Took A Pilll⦠is also the most streamed song this week, racking up 4.1 million plays over the last seven days.
Posner holds off competition from Siaâs Cheap Thrills, which climbs two places to Number 2. Despite the track vying for the top spot on the Official Chart Update earlier this week, the singer-songwriter still claims a personal best as a headline artist on the UK Top 40, beating the Number 6 peak of 2014âs Chandelier. Her David Guetta collaboration Titanium topped the chart in 2012.
Meanwhile, Fifth Harmonyâs Work From Home drops a place to Number 3, Lukas Graham are at 4 with 7 Years, and Zara Larssonâs Lush Life completes this weekâs Top 5.
[h=4]New Entries and High Climbers[/h]Norwegian producer Alan Walker, who topped this weekâs Official Trending Chart for a second time, moves up four spots into the Top 10 with Faded, and Major Lazerâs Light It Up rebounds three spots to Number 10.
Twenty One Pilots edge closer to the Top 10 with Stressed Out, up three places to 12, as does Selena Gomezâs Hands To Myself, leaping from 20 to 14.
This weekâs highest new entry goes to Drakeâs One Dance ft. Wizkid & Kyla at Number 21, earning him a 15[SUP]th[/SUP] Top 40 hit, and The Vampsâ I Found A Girl ft. OMI is new at Number 30.
Finally, Kanye Westâs Famous vaults a massive 161 places to 33 after his latest album The Life Of Pablo was released on more streaming services following its Tidal-only release in February, and Swedish duo Galantis debut at Number 36 with their new single No Money.
the full UK top100 is here: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/
UK 'albums' overview 8th April 2016:
Yhe Last Shadow Puppets are pulling the strings of the Official Albums Chart this week â theyâve scored their second Number 1 album with their latest effort Everything Youâve Come To Expect.
The near-decade long wait for new material from Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner and The Rascals' Miles Kane didn't result in a sophomore slump, with the duo outselling the runner-up record by over 6,000 copies.
Everything You've Come to Expect follows their debut collection The Age of Understatement, which debuted at Number 1 just shy of eight years ago. The new album is Miles' second chart topper, and Alex's seventh consecutive Number 1 studio album counting his with work Arctic Monkeys.
Nearly a quarter of the albumâs sales this week were on vinyl (7,300 copies), outselling the first week vinyl sales of Arctic Monkeysâ AM by just over 2,000 â a record that has gone on to become the biggest selling vinyl of the decade.
[h=4]New Entries and High Climbers[/h]Three new entries land in the Top 5 this week. Lukas Graham's self-titled, debut worldwide release enters at Number 2, while Pet Shop Boys' Super begins its Official Albums Chart history at Number 3. The record is Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe's twelfth Top 5, and sixteenth Top 10.
Adele's 25 enjoys a nineteenth week in the Top 5, falling two places to Number 4. Rounding out the Top is Kentucky from Black Stone Cherry, the group's second Top 5 release.
Classical star and broadcaster Aled Jones enters just shy of the Top 5, with One Voice debuting at Number 6. The release is Aled's first Top 10 album in 31 years, after his second studio album Walking in the Air got to Number 5 back in 1985.
Japanese rock idol trio Babymetal score their first Top 40 album - Metal Resistance is at 15. Consisting of Moa Kikuchi, Suzuka Nakamoto and Yui Mizuno, Babymetal are the highest charting Japanese band in Official Albums Chart history. They were also the first Japanese act ever to headline Wembley Arena just last week, breaking the record for the highest sales of merchandise for a one-day event in the history of the venue.
Further down the chart, Mogwai's Atomic starts at 20, Weezer's self-titled release enters at 24, Very Rarely Say Die from Sunset Sons settles at 25 and Sasha's Scene Delete is a new addition at 34. Two more albums also enter the Top 40: The Heavy's Hurt & The Merciless is at 36 and Explosions in the Sky's The Wilderness is at 39.
the UK top100 albums chart: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.