Billboard & Other Weekly Album Charts 2015

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Australian singles chart overview 12th December 2015:

after taking the top spot off Adele three weeks ago, then Adele regaining it last week, Bieber once again
knocks "hello" from #1 with the single "love yourself" written by Ed Sheeran....
Aussie hip-hop group Hilltop Hoods enter the charts at #9 with their latest effort "higher"....
the complete top50 can be located here: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/singles

Australian albums chart overview 12th December 2015:

just like on the UK charts, Adele holds off the latest Coldplay album, which debuts at #2....
elsewhere, Buble's Christmas album from a few years ago still holds firm at #3...
and the Elvis/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra holds its own at #9....
and the newly discovered 'lost album' by Roy Orbison entitled "one of the lonely ones" enters the top50 at #48...
the full top50 can be found by clicking the link provided: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/albums

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UK album chart overview or 18th December 2015....:



Adele’s 25 is today set to become the fastest 2 million-selling album in UK music history, smashing all previous records.By last night (December 17), the singer’s third album had reached 1.970 million sales, having sold between 46,000 and 61,000 copies a day for the past week. Barring a massive (and highly unlikely) collapse in sales, it will hit the 2 million mark sometime this afternoon – just its 29th day on sale.

In comparison, Adele’s 21 (the second biggest selling studio album in history) took 13 weeks to reach the 2 million mark.
At its current rate of sales, 21 is likely to pass the 2.5 million sales by the end of the year – also in record time and putting it into the Top 40 biggest selling studio albums of all time in the UK.
Chart records indicate that the closest rival to Adele is Robson & Jerome’s 1995 debut album. Records from the time indicate that it took 42 days to reach the 2 million landmark.
Unsurprisingly, 25 continues to lead this week’s Official Albums Chart, logging a fourth consecutive week at Number 1.

Elsewhere on this week’s tally, Elvis Presley scores his strongest sales week yet with his If I Can Dream Album, notching up combined sales of 121,000 for its seventh week on the tally, climbing a place to Number 2 this week.
Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips to 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4 and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh completes this week’s Top 5.
With few new releases out this week, there are no new entries in this week’s Top 40, though a number of albums have re-entered: Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 places to 30), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s Wisdom Laughter And Lines (up 19 spots to 35), ELO’s All Over The World (up 5 to 37), and Ben Haenow’s self-titled (up 4 to 40).

Elsewhere on this week’s tally, Elvis Presley scores his strongest sales week yet with his If I Can Dream Album, notching up combined sales of 121,000 for its seventh week on the tally, climbing a place to Number 2 this week.
Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips to 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4 and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh completes this week’s Top 5.
With few new releases out this week, there are no new entries in this week’s Top 40, though a number of albums have re-entered: Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 places to 30), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s Wisdom Laughter And Lines (up 19 spots to 35), ELO’s All Over The World (up 5 to 37), and Ben Haenow’s self-titled (up 4 to 40).


Elsewhere on this week’s tally, Elvis Presley scores his strongest sales week yet with his If I Can Dream Album, notching up combined sales of 121,000 for its seventh week on the tally, climbing a place to Number 2 this week.
Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips to 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4 and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh completes this week’s Top 5.
With few new releases out this week, there are no new entries in this week’s Top 40, though a number of albums have re-entered: Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 places to 30), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s Wisdom Laughter And Lines (up 19 spots to 35), ELO’s All Over The World (up 5 to 37), and Ben Haenow’s self-titled (up 4 to 40).

Elsewhere on this week’s tally, Elvis Presley scores his strongest sales week yet with his If I Can Dream Album, notching up combined sales of 121,000 for its seventh week on the tally, climbing a place to Number 2 this week.
Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips to 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4 and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh completes this week’s Top 5.
With few new releases out this week, there are no new entries in this week’s Top 40, though a number of albums have re-entered: Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 places to 30), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s Wisdom Laughter And Lines (up 19 spots to 35), ELO’s All Over The World (up 5 to 37), and Ben Haenow’s self-titled (up 4 to 40).

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UK singles chart overview for 18th December 2015:

With just one week to go until this year’s Christmas Number 1 is announced, Justin Bieber continues to lead the way on the Official Singles Chart with Love Yourself.The track - co-written by Ed Sheeran - logs a third week at the summit with 102,000 combined sales, while his previous single Sorry holds at Number 2
The feat means Bieber sets a new Official Chart record today as the first artist ever to log four weeks at Numbers 1 and 2 consecutively. The previous record holder was The Beatles, who logged three consecutive weeks at Numbers 1 and 2 in 1967/68 with Hello Goodbye and Magical Mystery Tour (EP).
The remainder of this week’s Top 5 is made up of Adele’s Hello (3), Grace ft G-Eazy’s You Don’t Own Me (4), and Bieber’s What Do You Mean (5).


[h=4]New entries and high climbers[/h]Stormzy vaults from 91 to Number 8 with Shut Up. The British MC has launched a campaign to get the track, which was unveiled back in May this year, to Number 1 this Christmas. Will he continue to climb next week?
Elsewhere in the Top 10, X Factor winner Louisa Johnson enters at Number 9 with her winner’s single Forever Young. The track, a cover of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young, marks the first Dylan song to hit the Top 10 since Adele’s Make You Feel My Love reached Number 7 in January 2011.

Following their emotional performance on last week’s X Factor final, One Direction’s History reaches a new peak at Number 11 today, marking their 15[SUP]th[/SUP] Top 20 single. 99 Souls leap five places to reach a new peak at Number 18 with Girl Is Mine, and US singer Shawn Mendes lands his first UK Top 40 single with Stitches, which jumps from 41 to Number 29.
Finally, five Christmas classics appear in this week’s Top 40: Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (12), The Pogues’ and Kirsty MacColl’s Fairytale Of New York (15), Wham’s Last Christmas (24), Wizzard’s I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (34) and Shakin’ Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone (35).

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Australian charts overview: 19th December 2015:

singles:

The Bieb's holds on to the #1 spot with the ed Sheeran written "love yourself", which incidently now, platinum here in Australia...
Adele's "hello" remains at #2 and is 4x platinum...
Snoop Dogg's latest effort "flip it" jumps from #24 to #12....
The Weekend roar up from #41 to #13 with "in the night"....
the complete Aussie top50 is located here: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/singles

albums:

Adele holds on to the #1 spot for the fourth week and is now 7x platinum here....
Buble's Christmas album holds firm at #2....
after 60wks on the chart, Taylor Swift's "1989" creeps back into the top5 at #5
after 78wks on the chart, Ed Sheeran's "X" moves back up to #6....
Elvis Presley makes a U-turn and moves rom #9 to #7 this week....
Coldplay's new one drops to #8 from its debut at #2 last week....
the complete top50 albums charts can be found here: http://ariacharts.com.au/chart/albums

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New Zealand charts: 19th December 2015:

singles:

the top four singles remain the same as they were last week:
1: Justin Bieber "love yourself"
2: Justin Bieber "sorry"
3: Adele "hello"
4: Justin Bieber "what do you mean?"
Ed Sheeran's "photograph" moves back up to #24 from #38 last week....
Ed Sheeran's "thinking out loud" re-enters the chart at #30....
the NZ singles chart can be located by clicking the link provided: http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/singles

albums:

no prize for guessing who and what is #1 this week....do you really need a hint????
Ed's "X" moves back to #4 rom #6 last week....
Coldplay drops to #7 second week on the chart....
the full NZ album chart can be found right here: http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/albums

[Music Head]

starting to feel bad for liking Bieb's Love Yourself

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no don't feel bad....
sooner or later, most artists release a song I like...
I love that Bieber track(must be the Sheeran act!)....
loved Miley's "wrecking ball" also.

[SteveO]

Miley's Wrecking Ball was and is a great tune!

no don't feel bad....
sooner or later, most artists release a song I like...
I love that Bieber track(must be the Sheeran act!)....
loved Miley's "wrecking ball" also.

[Music Head]

agree with you guys on Wrecking Ball
hate that damn video though

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UK singles chart 25th December 2015:


They’ve only gone and done it! The NHS Choir topple global pop heavyweight Justin Bieber to secure the UK’s Official Christmas Number 1 2015.It’s been the closest festive chart battle witnessed since Rage Against The Machine’s scintillating victory over The X Factor’s Joe McElderry in 2009, but the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir today claim the coveted yuletide chart crown with their charity single A Bridge Over You.
The choir jingle all the way to the Official Chart’s Christmas top spot today with total combined chart sales of 127,000, nearly 31,000 ahead of their rival.

Following a thrilling week-long tussle which saw the choir racing neck and neck with Bieber right down to the final whistle, the NHS Choir tell OfficialCharts.com: "We are absolutely overwhelmed and couldn’t be any happier!
"It’s a brilliant celebration for the NHS across the country so well done and thank you everyone for downloading and streaming. A massive cheer for the NHS, thank you!”
Despite leading the race at the beginning of the chart week by 5,000 copies, the choristers’ early lead narrowed after 48 hrs to just over 2,000 copies, and by day 3 (Monday) the tide had turned in favour of the Canadian pop superstar.
By Tuesday it was looking like Bieber might have the race locked down as his advantage extended to 7,000 chart sales, but then the choir’s appearance on BBC Radio 2’s Chris Evans Breakfast Show that morning helped them claw back ground, the gap once again narrowed overnight, leaving a nail-biting 662 copies between the two contenders on Wednesday morning’s sales flash.
In a dramatic turn of events Bieber then tweeted his support to his NHS rivals, whose campaign supports the hard work done by doctors, nurses, midwives and many others in the NHS, with proceeds set to be donated to a selection of charities including Carers UK and mental health charity Mind.
All is not lost for Bieber though, as he still claims 3 positions in the Official Chart Top 10 with Love Yourself (2), Sorry (3) and What Do You Mean (5) to round off his remarkable year in pop.
Other notable race contenders this year included unsigned act Stormzy, whose #ShutUpForXmasNo1 campaign sees him finish at Number 9 this week, and X Factor winner, Louisa Johnson is at 12 with her winner's single Forever Young.

And finally, five festive classics appear in this week's Top 40: Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (11), Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York(13), Wham's Last Christmas (18), Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (27), Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas (29) and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? (38).