Billboard & Other Weekly Album Charts 2015

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noticed Billboard started putting out the new chart on Tuesdays now, it was Thursday
did somebody here post an article about something changing in the way they do that?

UK charts always came out on a sunday, now theyre coming out on a Friday....
so even if theyre all changing, theyre still not in sync...WTF???

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UK CHARTS 24TH JULY:

singles:

1...(1)...LITTLE MIX "black magic"
2...(3)...LOST FREQUENCIES "are you with me"
3...(2)...YEARS & YEARS "shine"
4...(5)...DAVID ZOWIE "house every weekend"
5...(-)...JOHN NEWMAN "come and get it"
6...(4)...SAM FELD "show me love"
7...(-)...CALVIN HARRIS & DISCIPLES "how deep is your love"
8...(8)...WALKTHE MOON "shut up and dance"
9...(9)...OMI "cheerleader"
10.(6)...AVICCI "waiting for love"

other 'movers this week'

18.(-)...5 SECONDS OF SUMMER "she's kinda hot"
57.(98).ASAP ROCKY & ROD STEWART "everyday"
66.(-)...SILENTO "watch me"
67.(-)...JESS GLYNNE "aint to far to go"

albums:

1...(1)...YEARS & YEARS "communion"
2...(2)...ED SHEERAN "X"
3...(-)...TAME IMPALA "currents"
4...(3)...JAMES BAY "chaos and the calm"
5...(4)...SAM SMITH "in the lonely hour"
6...(5)...TAYLOR SWIFT "1989"
7...(6)...LIONEL RITCHIE & THE COMMODORES "definitive collection"
8...(8)...FLORENCE & THE MACHINE "how big,how blue,how beautiful"
9..(11)..HOZIER "hozier"
10.(10).GEORGE EZRA "wanted on voyage"

other 'movers' this week:

14.(-)...ANDREA FAUSTINI "Kelly"
16.(-)...NICK JONAS "nick Jonas"
17.(-)...JASON ISBELL "something more than free"
19.(27).CATFISH & THE BOTTLEMEN "the balcony"

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AUSTRALIAN CHARTS JULY 25TH

singles:

1...(3)...Lost Frequencies "are you with me"
2...(2)...The Weekend "cant feel my face"
3...(1)...Meghan Trainor/John Legend "like im gonna lose you"
4...(5)...Galantis "peanut butter jelly"
5...(4)...Ron Schultz/Ilsely "headlights"
6...(-)...5 Seconds Of Summer "she's kinda hot"
7...(6)...Rachel Platten "fight song"
8...(-)...Calvin Harris & Disciples "how deep I your love"
9...(7)...Walk The Moon"shut up and dance"
10.(22)..Pia Mia/Chris Brown/Tyga "do it again"

other big movers this week:

28.(50)..Aston Merrigold "get stupid"
31.(48)..Years & Years "shine"
32..(-)...Samantha Jade/Pitbull "shake that"

albums:

1...(-)...Tame Impala "currents"
2...(2)...Meghan Trainor "title"
3...(4)...Taylor Swift "1989"
4...(3)...Ed Sheeran "X"
5...(-)...Chemical Brothers "born in the echoes"
6...(1)...John Farnham/Olivia Nwton John "two strong hearts-live"
7..(42)..Josh Groban "stages"
8...(7)...Florence & The Machine "how big,how blue,how beautiful"
9...(8)...Sam Smith "in the lonely hour"
10..(-)...Various Artists "magic mike-XXL" soundtrack

other movers this week:

12..(-)...Ms Mr "how does it feel"
20.(r/e).The Eagles "the complete greatest hits"
27..(-)...Art Of Sleeping "shake shiver"
29..(-)...Ratatat "magnifique"

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Australian charts Aug 1st

singles: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/singles

albums: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/albums

country: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/country-albums

jazz: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/jazz-albums

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UK chart 31st July

singles: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/

albums: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

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UK Charts 7th August

singles:

One Direction debut at #1 with their latest effort "drag me down"
last week's #1 "black magic" by Little Mix slips back to #3
Weekend's "cant feel my face" leaps from #17 up to #8
Sam Smith & Disclosure move from #29 up to #13 with their latest effort "omen"
#19 up from #63 is Silento with "watch me"
debut tracks for this week include:
Joe Stone/Montell Jordan straight in at #17 with "the party"
Joe Weller/Emil straight in at #28 with "wanna do"
the complete UK singles chart is to be found here: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/

albums:
last week's #1 by the Chemical Brothers slips down to #11...

debut entries:
#1 is Maccabees with marks to prove it:
#2 is Lianne De Havas with "blood"
Led Zepplin have several reissues making the charts this week:
#9 "coda"
#10 "presence"
#12 "in through the outdoor"
the complete UK album charts are located here: http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/albums-chart/

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Australian charts 8th August:

singles:

#1 on debut........One Direction "drag me down"
#2 up from #16...Adam Lambert "ghost town".........fantastic tune IMO!
#14 up from #21.Vance Joy "fire and the flood".......another good tune from Aussie Vance

the entire Australian top50 singles is to be found here: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/singles

albums:

#1 up from #5........Meghan Trainor "title"
#2 on debut............Josh Pike "but for all these shrinking hearts"
#3 on debut............Gurrumul "the gospel album".....................................Aussie Aboriginal
#6 on re-entry........Adam Lambert "the original high"................................"ghost town" single has boosted sales I guess
Led Zepplin makes a few re-entry sales this week:
#21 "presence"
#23 "coda"
#25 "in through the out door"

the rest of the Aussie album chart can be found here: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/albums

so the three Led Zepplin albums made top20 on debut in the UK and top30 here...
cant keep the old guys down,they just keep on selling over and over again.....!

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UK charts 14th August:

singles:
Congratulations to Charlie Puth who scores his second UK Number 1 on today’s Official Singles Chart with Meghan Trainor collaboration Marvin Gaye.The track has been getting it on with the chart all week and finishes with a combined chart sales figure of over 94,000, climbing 89 places since first entering the tally last week.
“UK! Thank you so much for making Marvin Gaye Number 1,” Puth told OfficialCharts.com, “This song was a labour of love and I feel beyond blessed to have everyone’s support overseas. I can’t wait to spend a lot more time making friends in the UK. To many more...”

Marvin Gaye is Puth’s second UK Number 1, following his feature on Wiz Khalifa’s Fast & Furious 7 tribute track See You Again, which topped the chart for two weeks in April/May. The track also marks a second chart-topper for Meghan Trainor, following her debut All About That Bass, which spent four weeks at Number 1 last October.
Calvin Harris & Disciples stand firm at Number 2 today with How Deep Is Your Love. The track has been streamed over 2.21 million times in the last seven days, making it the UK’s most streamed track of the week.

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Congratulations to Charlie Puth who scores his second UK Number 1 on today’s Official Singles Chart with Meghan Trainor collaboration Marvin Gaye.
The track has been getting it on with the chart all week and finishes with a combined chart sales figure of over 94,000, climbing 89 places since first entering the tally last week.
“UK! Thank you so much for making Marvin Gaye Number 1,” Puth told OfficialCharts.com, “This song was a labour of love and I feel beyond blessed to have everyone’s support overseas. I can’t wait to spend a lot more time making friends in the UK. To many more...”
MORE: Charlie Puth interview: “It took years to become an overnight success”


Marvin Gaye is Puth’s second UK Number 1, following his feature on Wiz Khalifa’s Fast & Furious 7 tribute track See You Again, which topped the chart for two weeks in April/May. The track also marks a second chart-topper for Meghan Trainor, following her debut All About That Bass, which spent four weeks at Number 1 last October.
Calvin Harris & Disciples stand firm at Number 2 today with How Deep Is Your Love. The track has been streamed over 2.21 million times in the last seven days, making it the UK’s most streamed track of the week.


The Weeknd’s Can’t Feel My Face continues to ascend the chart, up five places today to a new peak of Number 3.
Former chart-toppers Little Mix’s Black Magic (4) and Lost Frequencies’ Are You With Me (5) round out the Top 5.
[h=4]New entries[/h]Rita Ora scores her 12[SUP]th[/SUP] UK Top 40 this week with new Chris Brown collaboration Body On Me (23), while Selena Gomez’s Good For You ft. ASAP Rocky climbs 17 places to make its Top 40 debut at Number 29.

Albums:

Dr Dre tops this week’s Official Albums Chart with his first record in 16 years, Compton.
The album, which features collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, outperformed its nearest competitor - Frank Turner’s Positive Songs For Negative People (2) - by over 28,000 combined chart sales at the final whistle.
Dre’s last LP release - 1999’s 2001 - reached a peak of Number 4, while his debut The Chronic’s (1992) highest UK chart position was Number 43

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Dr Dre tops this week’s Official Albums Chart with his first record in 16 years, Compton.
The album, which features collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, outperformed its nearest competitor - Frank Turner’s Positive Songs For Negative People (2) - by over 28,000 combined chart sales at the final whistle.
Dre’s last LP release - 1999’s 2001 - reached a peak of Number 4, while his debut The Chronic’s (1992) highest UK chart position was Number 43.


Elsewhere, Ed Sheeran’s x climbs one place to Number 3 this week, followed by Years & Years’ Communion (4) and Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (5).
[h=4]New entries and high climbers[/h]British rock group Don Broco score their highest charting album to date with Automatic (6), while Canadian singer-songwriter Mac Demarco lands his first UK Top 40 with Another One (24).
House producer Julio Bashmore’s debut release Knockin’ Boots (25) and US heavy metal band Fear Factory’s ninth album Genexus (31) both also enter the chart today. Plus Italian-English folk singer Jack Savoretti scores this week’s highest climber with Written In Scars, leaping 53 places to re-enter the Top 40 (14).

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Dr Dre tops this week’s Official Albums Chart with his first record in 16 years, Compton.
The album, which features collaborations with Kendrick Lamar, Xzibit, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg and Eminem, outperformed its nearest competitor - Frank Turner’s Positive Songs For Negative People (2) - by over 28,000 combined chart sales at the final whistle.
Dre’s last LP release - 1999’s 2001 - reached a peak of Number 4, while his debut The Chronic’s (1992) highest UK chart position was Number 43.


Elsewhere, Ed Sheeran’s x climbs one place to Number 3 this week, followed by Years & Years’ Communion (4) and Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour (5).
[h=4]New entries and high climbers[/h]British rock group Don Broco score their highest charting album to date with Automatic (6), while Canadian singer-songwriter Mac Demarco lands his first UK Top 40 with Another One (24).
House producer Julio Bashmore’s debut release Knockin’ Boots (25) and US heavy metal band Fear Factory’s ninth album Genexus (31) both also enter the chart today. Plus Italian-English folk singer Jack Savoretti scores this week’s highest climber with Written In Scars, leaping 53 places to re-enter the Top 40 (14).


Finally, Cilla Black’s The Very Best Of climbs six places to Number 8 this week. The album re-entered the Top 20 for the first time in 32 years last week as fans paid tribute to the star following her sad passing on August 1. The album marks Cilla’s highest charting album in 47 years, trailing 1968’s Sher-oo which peaked at Number 7.

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Australian charts 15th Aug

singles:

After almost eight years of waiting, local songstress Delta Goodrem has now claimed her ninth No.1 on the ARIA Singles chart, as her latest track "Wings" flies to the top this week leaping from No.26 to No.1, helped by her performing the song to close last Sunday’s edition of The Voice, on which she is also a judge.

“Wings” becomes the 475th No.1 single for ARIA (1983 to 2015), plus the 24th for the Sony label, their last was almost a year ago when The Veronicas were at the top with “You Ruin Me” (from 29-Sept-14). This is the third ‘wings’ to land in the No.1 nest, the previous two being ‘Wind Beneath My Wings’ by Bette Midler (June 1989) and Nelly with his double a-side “My Place” / “Flap My Wings” (August 2004).
This new chart-topping single for Delta becomes her ninth No.1 in Australia, placing her equal with Rihanna now, and one behind Kylie (10 #1’s) and two behind Madonna (11 #1’s). And as I mentioned above, Delta has not been at the top of the ARIA Singles chart for almost eight years, her last being “In This Life” (24th Sept, 2007), although she did come close in 2012 when “Sitting on Top of the World” debuted and peaked at No.2, and Delta becomes the third Australian act this year to top the ARIA charts, after Conrad Sewell (June) and his sister Grace (May).
There’s a big change at the top, with last weeks No.1 debut of “Drag Me Down” by One Direction dropping to No.8 this week, although it has now sold enough to be certified Gold in sales, but in-between eight and one, the songs remain in the same position as last week, with “Ghost Town” by Adam Lambert at No.2 for a second week and now Platinum in sales, The Weekend is at No.3 with “Can’t Feel My Face”, former No.1 “Are You With Me” by Lost Frequencies is at No.4, “Peanut Butter Jelly” for Galantis is at No.5 and thanks to it being performed on The Voice last Sunday night, Meghan Trainor’s “Like I’m Gonna Lose You” with John Legend is on hold at No.6 and for a third week, Calvin Harris and Disciples are at No.7 for a third week with “How Deep is Your Love” which has now sold enough to be certified Gold. “Do it Again” for Pia Mia is down one spot to No.9 and the final hold goes to No.10 where Selena Gomez is spending her second week at her peak of ten with “Good for You”, both songs also newly certified Gold in sales.
UP: “Shut Up + Dance” for Walk the Moon was sung on The Voice on Sunday, which helps it to climb back up a couple of spots to No.11 and Aston Merrygold jumps ten places to a new peak of No.12 with “Get Stupid”, whilst last weeks debut for Nico & Vinz with “That’s How You Know” leaps twenty-one spots to a new peak of No.16. “Black Magic” for Little Mix is back into the Top 20, up three places to No.18, Sam Feldt’s version of “Show Me Love” is up ten spots to a new peak of No.23 and after falling last week, Fetty Wap and his “Trap Queen” are back up to No.32, whilst the next Weeknd hit “The Hills” (which first charted before ‘Face’) is up thirteen places to No.33, and with the release of ‘Furious 7’ on DVD and Blu-Ray, the Wiz and Charlie Puth track “See You Again” climbs back up to No.41 this week.
DOWN: After two weeks in the Top 10, “Worth it” (HP-9x2) for Fifth Harmony and Kid Ink drops down five places to No.14, with “Headlights” for Robin Schulz falling three to No.15, and both tracks are newly certified Platinum. “Fire and the Flood” for Vance Joy peaked at No.14 last week is down three to No.17 this week, and Major Lazer with Ellie Goulding and their track “Powerful” leaves the Top 20 by dropping to No.21 and it is now Platinum in sales. “Golden” for Travie McCoy and Sia falls six to No.22, followed by DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge with “You Know You Like it”, Avicii with “Waiting for Love” (newly Platinum) and “Fight Song” for Rachel Platten which all fall down seven places to No.24, No.26 and No.27 respectively. “Not Letting Go” for Tinie Tempah and Jess Glynne is down one spot to No.31 and now Gold in sales and falling eight to No.37 is James Bay with “Let it Go” (newly 2xPlatinum). “Start Again” by Conrad Sewell is down eight to No.40 and down nine to No.45 are Deorro and Chris Brown with “Five More Hours”. Skrillex & Diplo see a second Platinum cert for “Where are U Now” (44 to 46) and Flo Rida and Robin Thiche are down six to No.48 with “I Don’t Like it, I Love it” (now Platinum), whilst Jason DeRulo tumbles twenty-four places to No.49 with “Cheyenne” and Grace is down ten to No.50 with her former No.1 “You Don’t Own Me”.
Thanks to her visit to Australia and her live performance on The Voice last Sunday night, Demi Lovato is new at No.20 with “Cool for the Summer” which becomes her overall third Top 20 hit, but her first solo entry to the twenty, as she has previously peaked at No.14 with both Olly Murs on “Up” and The Vamps with “Somebody to You”. Saint Thomas, US Virgin Island brothers Theron and Timothy Thomas go by the name Rock City or R. City and they team up with Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine for “Locked Away” which is new at No.35. This time last year, Sydney singer/songwriter Meg Mac made her first Top 100 chart entry with “Roll Up Your Sleeves”, which went on to reach No.80 in early September. This week she claims her highest entry by debuting at No.39 with the song “Never Be”, scoring her first Top 50 entry and second overall.
When Taylor Swift released her “1989” album last November, a heap of (at the time) album tracks made the lower half of the ARIA Singles chart, including “Blank Space”, “Style” and “Bad Blood”, which have all gone on to Top 10 success. This week the official fifth single from the album debuts at No.43 entitled “Wildest Dreams”, the song formerly spending a single week at No.92 last November, but now a new Top 50 hit. Right behind at No.44 is Dutch DJ and electro pioneer Hardwell with guest vocalist Jason DeRulo on the track “Follow Me”, which becomes Hardwell’s first ever Top 50 or Top 100 chart entry in Australia.

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Australian charts 15th Aug

albums:

Original member of N.W.A., uber-producer and songwriter Dr. Dre debuts at the top of the ARIA Albums chart with his third album “Compton” which is also the soundtrack to the forthcoming film ‘Straight Outta Compton”, the story of rap pioneers N.W.A.
“Compton: A Soundtrack by Dr. Dre” becomes the 588th No.1 album for ARIA (1983 to 2015), plus the 24th for the Interscope record label and their third this year after Madonna and Kendrick Lamar (both in March), plus it’s the 384th album to debut at the top of the Australian albums chart. This is also the second film soundtrack to make it to No.1 this year, with “50 Shades of Grey” spending four weeks from mid-February, and overall this is the 44th soundtrack/TV soundtrack/cast recording to make it to No.1 in Australia.
This album is also classed as Dr. Dre’s third studio album, as his debut set “The Chronic” (released Dec 1992) failed to chart here and then his second set “2001” originally made it to No.53 in late June of 2000 after first hitting the charts in November 1999, and that album has so far racked up 51 weeks within the Top 100, and thanks to his debut at the top this week, the “2001” album returns to the charts at a new peak of No.30 this week, making it the first week within the Top 50 for this sixteen year old album.
The second album for local artist The Rubens entitled “Hoops” debuts at No.2 this week, surpassing their self-titled debut album which debuted and peaked at No.3 in late September of 2012, with the title track from the album jumping up in the lower fifty this week, and after returning to the top spot last week, Meghan Trainor falls back down two places to No.3 with “Title”. The third and final Top 10 debut this week is the fifth studio album and first Top 10 album for US country singer Luke Bryan entitled “Kill the Lights” which enters at No.4 this week, His previous entry was his fourth album “Crash My Party” which made it to No.19 in late August 2013.
“1989” for Taylor Swift holds at No.5 this week thanks to the albums fifth single “Wildest Dreams” coming in at No.43, and down two places to No.6 is Ed Sheeran with his “x” set. “Stages” for Josh Groban is back up two places to No.7 and newly certified Gold in sales (the only LP cert this week too), and returning to the Top 10, up six to No.8 is James Bay with “Chaos and the Calm”. Falling six places to No.9 is Gurrumul with his third #3 set “The Gospel Album” and down four to No.10 is recent visitor here Adam Lambert with “The Original High”.
UP: With the DVD and Blu-Ray release of “Pitch Perfect 2”, the soundtrack is back up seven places to No.19 and the next climber doesn’t occur until No.36, where Lorde and her “Pure Heroine” are back up ten places this week, whilst Vance Joy are back up into the Top 40 at No.38 with “Dream Your Life Away”. The new Drake single keeps helping his album “If You’re Reading This it’s Too Late” to climb, this weeks its back up to No.42 and returning to the Top 50 to No.48 is Lee Kernaghan with “Spirit to the ANZACS”.
DOWN: Florence + the Machine drop four places to No.12 with their former chart topping album “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful” (HP-1x2, WI10-10) and Alan Jackson is down six to No.13 with “Angels & Alcohol” (HP-4, WI10-2); another former No.1 album in “Currents” for Tame Impala (HP-1x1, WI10-3) is down four to No.14 and last weeks highest new entry “But for All These Shrinking Hearts” by Josh Pyke drops from No.2 to No.21 this week. “Two Strong Hearts” for John and Olivia is down nine places to No.29 and Sam Smith leaves the Top 20 for the first time in his 64 weeks on the charts, as “In the Lonely Hour” is down seven to No.22, and falling fourteen places to No.26 is Northlane with “Node”. After last weeks blast back into the Top 50 from his promo tour, Jason DeRulo falls fourteen also to No.27 with “Everything is 4” and Lamb of Good fall twelve to No.28 with “VII”. Major Lazer see their “Peace is the Mission” album fall thirteen to No.32 and tumbling fifteen to No.37 are Of Monsters and Men. Years & Years drop twelve to No.39 and the self-titled Hozier album drops eighteen places to No.47 as Mark Ronson sees his “Uptown Special” album fall twenty-two to No.50.
The grand-daughter of cricket legend Don Bradman is Greta Bradman, who debuts at No.11 with “My Hero”, her first album and chart entry for the classical/opera singer. The second of four Top 20 entries comes in at No.15, Fear Factory and “Genexus” which is the acts ninth studio album and first to chart here since their seventh set “Mechanize” debuted and peaked at No.24 in late February 2010 (their 2012 album “The Industrialist” failed to chart here), and by coming in at No.15 it becomes the bands third (of seven charted) highest peaking album behind “Digimortal” (HP-10, April 2001) and “Obsolete” (HP-14, Aug 1998).
Local singer and husband of Kasey Chambers, Shane Nicholson debuts at No.16 this week with “Hell Breaks Loose”, becoming his second solo and fourth albums chart entry (he made the charts with two alongside Kasey). One place lower at No.17 is Buried in Verona with “Vultures Above, Lions Below”, the bands fifth studio album and third Top 20 album (and entry) here in Australia, as they have previously charted with their fourth album “Faceless” (HP-15, March 2014) and third set “Notorious” (HP-20, June 2012).
Last April Canadian singer/songwriter Mac DeMarco made it to No.91 here with his third album “Salad Days”, but this week he lands his first Top 50 placing as his fourth studio album “Another One” comes in at No.24, and one place lower at No.25 are The Jungle Giants with their second album and entry “Speakerzoid”, with the Brisbane bands debut set “Learn to Exist” having debuted and peaked at No.12 in September of 2013. The final Top 50 entry is also by a local artist, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel with his twelfth Top 100 and tenth Top 50 chart appearance entitled “It’s Never Too Late”, which is his first entry since “The Very Best of” (HP-22, September 2001).