@vidcapper1: "Just a mini-update (thanks to Martin @ Buzzjack) :
Martin Garrix on 55k, #2 Lily Allen is 25k behind, other new entries in 
the top 10 from Poppy Girls and Lady Gaga/R.Kelly. Robbie Williams just 
missed out, Justin Bieber top 20, Killers and Keane top 30.
7 new albums in the top 10 highest new entry at #1 for Lady Gaga on 38k, 
Celine Dion at #2 is 16k behind, making up the top 5 are Eminem, Little 
Mix, and the Killers. Beatles, Alfie Boe and Keane top 10, other new 
entries inside the top 20 from Cliff Richard, Daniel O'Donnell, Russell 
Watson, Erasure.
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham"
    @vidcapper1: "Singles
Martin Garrix is leading the race to this week's Official Number 1 
single with Animals, while Lily Allen, Ellie Goulding and The Poppy 
Girls are headed for the Top 10.
After scoring a Top 10 smash right across the continent over the summer, 
Dutch DJ Martin Garrix now has his sights firmly set on the UK!
According to the Official Charts Company�s latest sales data, the 
17-year-old�s debut single, Animals, has sold more than 67,000 copies so 
far this week, which puts it in pole position  on today�s Official 
Singles Chart Update. Should Animals maintain its momentum through to 
Sunday�s final whistle, Garrix will become the second youngest star to 
top the Official Singles Chart this year (after New Zealand 
singer/songwriter Lorde whose track Royals reached Number 1 three weeks 
ago while she was just 16).
Lily Allen�s breath-taking cover of Keane�s Somewhere Only We Know is 
new in at Number 2 today. The track features in the new John Lewis 
Christmas TV ad campaign which launched at the weekend. In related news, 
Keane�s 2004 original version of the track climbs 70 places to re-enter 
today�s Top 40 at Number 30.
Eminem�s former chart topper, The Monster FT Rihanna, slides one place 
to Number 3, while Little Mix are also down one to Number 4 with Move. 
Storm Queen completes today�s Update Top 5, sliding four places from 
Number 1 to Number 5 with Look Right Through.
New Entries
Ellie Goulding�s How Long Will I Love You?, which is the official single 
of the BBC�s Children In Need for 2013, is at Number 6 on today�s 
Official Singles Chart Update.
The Poppy Girls are also headed for the Top 10 with their cover of 
Regina Spektor�s The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye) (Number 8). The track 
has been released as part of the Royal British Legion's annual Poppy 
Appeal and the girls � Megan, Florence, Alice, Bethany and Charlotte � 
each have a parent currently serving in the British armed forces.
Lady Gaga debuts one place behind them with, Do What U Want (9), the 
second single to be released from her new album ARTPOP. Robbie Williams 
is new in at Number 11 on today�s Update with Go Gentle, which is taken 
from his tenth album Swings Both Ways (out next week).
And finally, All Bad (Number 17) looks set to give Justin Bieber his 
sixth Top 40 hit in as many weeks, while The Killers� Shot At The Night 
- one of the new tracks recorded for their best of collection, Direct 
Hits � enters at 25 today.
*****
Obviously the LW positions *are* known, but they're omitted from the BBC 
chart, and no way am I typing them all in by hand!
Position. Artist - Title
1. (New) Martin Garrix - Animals
2. (New) Lily Allen - Somewhere Only We Know
3. () Eminem - The Monster (feat. Rihanna)
4. () Little Mix - Move
5. () Storm Queen - Look Right Through
6. (New) Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You
7. () Lorde - Royals
8. (New) Poppy Girls - The Call (No Need To Say Goodbye)
9. (New) Lady Gaga - Do What U Want (feat. R Kelly)
10. () One Direction - Story Of My Life
11. (New) Robbie Williams - Go Gentle
12. (New) C�line Dion - Loved Me Back To Life
13. () OneRepublic - Counting Stars
14. () Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
15. () Ed Sheeran - I See Fire
16. () Katy Perry - Roar
17. (New) Justin Bieber - All Bad
18. () Fatboy Slim & Riva Starr - Eat Sleep Rave Repeat (Calvin Harris 
Remix)
19. () Wilkinson - Afterglow
20. () Rizzle Kicks - Skip To The Good Bit
21. () Tinie Tempah - Children Of The Sun (feat. John Martin)
22. () James Blunt - Bonfire Heart
23. () Showtek - Booyah (feat. We Are Loud & Sonny Wilson)
24. () Drake - Hold On, We're Going Home (feat. Majid Jordan)
25. (New) The Killers - Shot At The Night
26. () Foxes - Youth
27. () James Arthur - You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
28. () The Vamps - Can We Dance
29. () Katy B - 0.208333333333333
30. () Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
31. () Britney Spears - Work B****
32. () Robin Thicke - Give It 2 U (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
33. () Ylvis - The Fox
34. () Conor Maynard - R U Crazy
35. () Avicii - Wake Me Up
36. () AWOLNATION - Sail
37. () Jason Derulo - Talk Dirty (feat. 2 Chainz)
38. () Ellie Goulding - Burn
39. () Eminem - Berzerk
40. () Ben Pearce - What I Might Do
Albums
Lady Gaga is heading for her third UK Number 1 album this weekend with 
ARTPOP, while Celine Dion and Little Mix look set to debut in the Top 5.
Lady Gaga is on course for her third UK Number 1 album this weekend, the 
Official Charts Company can reveal.
The US singer looks set to knock reigning Official Albums Chart king 
Eminem off the top spot with her latest studio full-length, ARTPOP.
Counting sales up to midnight last night, ARTPOP has sold nearly 47,000 
in its first two days of release in the UK. It currently has a lead of 
more than 17,000 copies on its closest competitor - Celine Dion�s Loved 
Me Back To Life (Number 2).
Eminem slides two places to Number 3 with The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 
while 2011 X Factor winners Little Mix are new in at Number 4 with their 
second album, Salute.
This week�s Official Albums Chart Update Top 5 is completed by The 
Killers� Best Of album, Direct Hits (5).
New Entries
In addition to Lady Gaga�s ARTPOP (Number 1), Celine Dion�s Loved Me 
Back To Life (2), Little Mix�s Salute (4) and The Killers� Direct Hits 
(5), there are eight other new entries on today�s Official Albums Chart 
Update.
English tenor Alfie Boe is heading for his fourth consecutive Top 10 
album this weekend with Trust (7), while The Beatles� On Air - Live At 
The BBC Volume 2 is new in at Number 8. The album features 63 previously 
unreleased tracks from The Fab Four�s 1963-64 BBC Radio broadcasts. 
Keane�s new Greatest Hits collection, The Best Of, debuts at Number 10, 
while Sir Cliff Richard�s The Fabulous Rock �N� Roll Songbook - which 
sees the chart legend revisiting his rock �n� roll roots for his 100th 
album - is at Number 11 on today�s Update.
Meanwhile, Daniel O�Donnell is on track for his 30th UK Top 40 album 
this weekend with A Picture Of You (Number 14). The Irish 
singer/songwriter has achieved at least one Top 40 album every year 
since 1991, which is an Official Chart record. This week�s new entries 
are completed by Russell Watson�s Only One Man (Number 19), Erasure�s 
Snow Globe (21) and the re-mastered edition of The Beatles� first Live 
At The BBC album jasonwilliams@example.org.
Position. Artist - Title
1. (New) Lady Gaga - ARTPOP
2. (New) C�line Dion - Loved Me Back To Life
3. () Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
4. (New) Little Mix - Salute
5. (New) The Killers - Direct Hits
6. (New) Elvis Presley - The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs
7. () Alfie Boe - Trust
8. (New) The Beatles - On Air - Live At The BBC - Vol 2
9. () James Arthur - James Arthur
10. (New) Keane - The Best Of
11. (New) Cliff Richard - The Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll Songbook
12. () Andre Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra - Music Of The Night
13. () James Blunt - Moon Landing
14. (New) Daniel O'Donnell - A Picture Of You
15. () The Overtones - Saturday Night At The Movies
16. () Tinie Tempah - Demonstration
17. () Katy Perry - Prism
18. () Arctic Monkeys - AM
19. (New) Russell Watson - Only One Man
20. () Bob Dylan - The Very Best Of Bob Dylan
21. (New) Erasure - Snow Globe
22. () Arcade Fire - Reflektor
23. () Bruno Mars - Unorthodox Jukebox
24. () Michael Bubl� - To Be Loved
25. () Lorde - Pure Heroine
26. () Rod Stewart - Merry Christmas Baby
27. () London Grammar - If You Wait
28. () Shane Filan - You & Me
29. () Jessie J - Alive
30. () Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
31. () Jonathan & Charlotte - Perhaps Love
32. () Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
33. () The Wanted - Word Of Mouth
34. () Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
35. () Emeli Sand� - Our Version Of Events
36. () Nickelback - The Best Of - Vol 1
37. () Rod Stewart - Time
38. () The Beatles - Live At The BBC
39. () John Newman - Tribute
40. () Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham"
    @extreme_rice: "<quote>
Unnecessary exclamation mark, IMO.
Of course it's been held back so long he was probably only 11 when he 
recorded it.
  Should Animals maintain its momentum through to
Of course in most years he'd be the youngest outright.
I guess he's still recovering from the shock of somebody doing a sappy 
cover version from an advert.
Another held-back dance release tumbles!
Looks like it has done well on physicals, then.
Presumably male relatives of service personnel aren't expected to sing.
Doesn't sound like there are any big climbers anyway.
I don't really want to have somebody I don't like covering a song I 
don't like badly as Number One, even if it does teach these dance labels 
a lesson.
Probably a fair representation of its actual popularity then.
Physicals not helping much.
It's a long time since he's missed the T10 with a pre-album single.
Fair description of his week.
Did they hit it?
Wot no Blurred Lines?
Steady.
Just because she writes her title in all caps doesn't mean we have to.
A decent lead, but looks like she'll struggle to reach six figures.
Very reptitive narrative this week.
Hard to keep track of what consecutive new albums are with him.
Note, that's tracks not songs.
Well behind the Killers despite the extra publicity from the ad.
For a moment I thought that said "for the 100th time".
Totally outclassed by Boe now.
Apparently the combined set is at 63 as well.
Not new. It is a new peak, though that's unlikely to last all week.
I suspect he'll make the T10 by Sunday.
...Bought this album?
Ouch!
	Chris"
    @vidcapper1: "<quote>
It wasn't my idea. :)
Grin.
Very droll.
Extremely well, given where is is on iTunes!
What lesson would that be, anyway?
Not really, given all the sales that haven't counted.
That's an understatement!
Of course - it'd be #1 by miles if it really were undiscovered new material!
Grin.
Agreed.
Yes, it'll take his fans most of the week to struggle to record shops...
:p
Grin.
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham"
    @extreme_rice: "<quote>
I just hate the whole idea that there's something really impressive 
about doing a slow cover version. Especially of a song that's already slow.
As would be expected. Of course its iTunes performance will have been 
quite frontloaded as well.
The one I had in mind was that in this day and age, holding back a 
single for ages to try and get it to Number One isn't just annoying to 
fans, it's pretty risky.
In terms of total sales, maybe. But obviously when it was Number One on 
iTunes with a massive lead that wasn't representative at all, so IMO 
this is probably about T10-level popularity.
I guess she's not publicity-shy.
Although of course only one of the Anthology albums got to Number One, I 
take the point. What I was saying was more that not all the tracks on 
this album are songs - only 37, according to the back cover. Only two of 
those are songs that a Beatles version of hadn't been released before 
(and neither is an original).
Some of them might be almost as old as that joke.
I sort of assume he appeals to a mostly female audience.
	Chris"
    @vidcapper1: "<quote>
In terms of piracy?
That's an even bigger understatement!
Problem is, the publicity has taken over from the actual music...
I assumed you meant either the red or blue album missed out - but was 
astonished to see *neither* of those got to #1! :o
The old ones *are* the best. :)
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham"
    @extreme_rice: "<quote>
That risk exists and has for a long time, though I can only assume dance 
labels take it into account. The newer risk I had in mind was that an 
unexpected new release might arrive to usurp them.
I know.
I'm sure that was intentional to start with, but the trouble is we're 
now so used to her that nothing she does really attracts that much 
attention now.
No, I meant Anthology 1 and Anthology 3.
Well, possibly one of them could have had they been released separately 
rather than competing with each other - but the Number One the week they 
came out was Aladdin Sane by David Bowie, which would have been pretty 
tough competition for anything.
In any case, though, they weren't new material so were held back by the 
number of people who already had all the tracks. In fact the only 
Beatles compilation to top the chart was 1.
Fans or jokes?
	Chris"
    @vidcapper1: "<quote>
But OAOS releases tend not to have a full week's sales, so are rarely 
serious #1 challengers.
  The Beatles
Except for new Beatles material, of course.
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham"
    @extreme_rice: "<quote>
Had the Beatles reunited and made a genuinely new album it would have 
been competition for him, to be sure - though of course they'd have been 
a bit out of fashion by then. I suspect that even a set of unreleased 
out-take material would have struggled against him.
	Chris"
    @extreme_rice: "<quote>
I meant to say, here, that the Lily Allen track is an exception to this 
on both counts. I'm not sure whether it technically counts as an OAOS 
release but it's certainly one that Garrix's label won't have 
anticipated when they set the release date.
Rihanna's OAOS releases tend to be big challengers too, of course.
At time of writing of course I don't know whether he's been beaten to 
the top or not. But the possibility is there.
	Chris"
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