charts discussion UK: 'folklore' spends a 2nd week at #1, Alanis #8

[Starkboy]

 

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Taylor Swift scoops Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart for a second week with Folklore.

Boosted by an earlier than expected release of the album on CD, Folklore holds on to the top spot with a lead of 3,500 chart sales over its closest competitor.

Folklore is now Taylor’s longest-reigning Number 1 album in the UK, her previous chart-topping albums, Red (2012), 1989 (2014), Reputation (2017) and Lover (2019) all held on to the top spot for just one week.

 

It means the new album by Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., A Hero’s Death, settles for second place after a strong start earlier this week. The band do however land at the top of this week’s Official Vinyl Albums Chart and Record Store Albums Chart. Over 60% of the album’s vinyl tally were purchased from independent record shops.

Also enjoying a Top 5 debut this week are Southampton horror punk band Creeper, who earn their highest chart position yet with Sex, Death & The Infinite Void at Number 5. Their 2017 debut album Eternity In Your Arms peaked at Number 17.

 

Alanis Morissette’s ninth record and first in eight years, Such Pretty Forks In The Road, debuts at Number 8, earning the musician her fifth Top 10 album and first in 16 years, since 2004’s So-Called Chaos.

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/taylor-swift-claims-a-second-week-at-number-1-with-folklore-on-the-official-albums-chart__30703/

 

 

 

 

Monday midweek:

 

Spoiler

 

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/fontaines-dc-on-course-for-first-uk-number-1-album-with-a-hero-s-death__30669/

 

Top 100 Singles
1 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart [29,143]
2 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) [20,926]
3 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar [12,857]
4 Billie Eilish - My Future * [11,714]
5 Nathan Dawe feat. KSI - Lighter [11,682]

6-10
6 AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten
7 Regard & Raye - Secrets
8 Jubël feat. Neimy - Dancing in the Moonlight
10 AJ Tracey feat. MoStack - Dinner Guest

11-20
11 DJ Khaled feat. Drake - Greece
12 Chris Brown & Young Thug - Go Crazy
14 Topic feat. A7S - Breaking Me
15 Becky Hill & Sigala - Heaven On My Mind
16 Nathan Dawe feat. Jaykae - Flowers
17 Gareth Malone's Great British Home Chorus - You Are My Sunshine *
19 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights
20 Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

21-30
21 Ava Max - Kings & Queens
23 Sam Fischer - This City
24 StaySolidRocky - Party Girl
27 PS1 feat. Alex Hosking - Fake Friends
29 Pop Smoke feat. Lil Tjay - Mood Swings

31-40
34 Surf Mesa feat. Emilee - ILY (I Love You Baby)
35 Tones & I - Dance Monkey
36 Kygo & Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It ^
38 Paul Woolford & Diplo feat. Kareen Lomax - Looking For Me *
39 Sam Smith feat. Burna Boy - My Oasis *

Top 100 Albums
1 Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death * [14,472]
2 Creeper - Sex Death & The Infinite Void * [5,030]
3 Taylor Swift - Folklore [4,680]
4 Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road * [3,968]
5 Psychedelic Furs - Made of Rain * [2,973]

6-10
7 Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie ^ [2,770]

11-20
14 Max Richter - Voices *

21-30
25 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009
27 Dua Lipa - Dua Lipa
29 Whitney Houston - The Ultimate Collection
 

 

 

 

[Popboi.]

Taylor is still very much capable of #1 if the gap isn’t big and again next week cause of the physical CDs being out.

[Hector]

ALANIS  She and this album deserves the best.

[TheVelvetRope]

Alanis getting her first Top 5 album since 2002 

[Green]

Alanis 

[lovedaddy]

ugh my fave

[modern thing]

Fontaines D.C. deserve that #1 tbh, give it to them and then Taylor can re-peak at #1 

[Popboi.]

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he Dublin band's second album A Hero's Death has raced clear at No.1 with sales of 14,472, almost 10,000 ahead of nearest challenger Creeper, who are at No.2 with Sex, Death & The Infinite Void (5,030 sales). 

Taylor Swift's reigning chart-topper Folklore drops down to No.3, selling 4,680 units, while there are new entries for Alanis Morissette's Such Pretty Forks In The Road (No.4, 3,968 sales), Psychedlic Furs' Made Of Rain (No.5, 2,973 sales) and Paul McCartney's reissued 1997 LP Flaming Pie (No.7, 2,770 sales).

Fontaines seem locked in for #1 and Taylor for #2. Same for Alanis in the top 5!

Edited August 3, 2020 by Popboi.

[reputation1989]

Yep 2 for Taylor this week and hopefully 1 next week with all her physical CD’s from the store brought last week counting then

[littlebodybigheart]

with the stores in the uk having the cd’s out early, taylor might bag the #1!

[Agenor]

 

Thursday Top 40 Update
Missing Data: Spotify and YouTube (both for Wednesday)

Singles

1 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart (62.0k)
2 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) (44.0k)
3 Nathan Dawe feat. KSI - Lighter (27.7k)
4 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (27.2k)
5 AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten (24.7k)

 

Albums

1 Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death (17.5k) *
2 Taylor Swift - folklore (12.9k) - (2.3k physical copies)
3 Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (6.8k)
4 Creeper - Sex, Death & The Infinite Void (6.0k) *
5 Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die (5.3k)

[littlebodybigheart]

taylor

 

hopefully she pulls through and logs a second week at #1!

[Yuanyu]

On 8/3/2020 at 6:02 PM, Popboi. said:

Taylor is still very much capable of #1 if the gap isn’t big and again next week cause of the physical CDs being out.

This week includes physical albums. She has had a early CD release.

[littlebodybigheart]

21 minutes ago, Yuanyu said:

This week includes physical albums. She has had a early CD release.

she JUST released them early yesterday

[Agenor]

7 minutes ago, littlebodybigheart said:

she JUST released them early yesterday

They were released on Tuesday. Variety reports they were made available by mistake, but that will be cleared when the final numbers are revealed (if the pre-ordered copies are counted or not,' at the moment the album sold 2.3k physical copies in the first 2 days of availability in the stores, and fans report they have been charged for the physical copy they pre-ordered).

 

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/taylor-swift-folklore-cd-uk-release-bumped-up-1234727492/

[Michael196]

Whoever made the mistake of the early release is soooooo lucky that Taylor didn’t have the physicals available on the actual release day because it would’ve turned into the 5sos MESS times a thousand! Because the swifties would’ve ended their a**es 

[Léo.]

9 hours ago, Agenor said:

 

Thursday Top 40 Update
Missing Data: Spotify and YouTube (both for Wednesday)

Singles

1 Joel Corry feat. MNEK - Head & Heart (62.0k)
2 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat) (44.0k)
3 Nathan Dawe feat. KSI - Lighter (27.7k)
4 Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar (27.2k)
5 AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten (24.7k)

 

Albums

1 Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death (17.5k) *
2 Taylor Swift - folklore (12.9k) - (2.3k physical copies)
3 Pop Smoke - Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (6.8k)
4 Creeper - Sex, Death & The Infinite Void (6.0k) *
5 Juice WRLD - Legends Never Die (5.3k)

Where's Alanis? wow Joel Corry still #1, smash hit

Mabel top 5, chocked!

[Agenor]

2 hours ago, Léo. said:

Where's Alanis?

7 Alanis Morissette - Such Pretty Forks in the Road *

[Hunter_13]

 

Queen did it 

[katyhudson]

[Headlock]

A global superstar 

[Iamsorare]

Chris brown top 10 with go crazy

[Anthurium]

Taylor can't stop winning 

[Starkboy]

ALBUMS

1 Taylor Swift 22,550 (8,830 physical copies)
2 Fontaines D.C. 19,040 (15,7k physical copies)
3 Pop Smoke
4 Juice WRLD 

5 Creeper 6,620
6 Ronan Keating
7 Lewis Capaldi
8 Alanis Morissette 5,188
9 Harry Styles
10 Dua Lipa

 

SINGLES

1 Joel Corry feat. MNEK 79,313 (72.9k streams)
2 Jawsh 685 x Jason Derulo 55,642
3 Nathan Dawe feat. KSI 35,970
4 Harry Styles 35,052
5 AJ Tracey & Mabel
6 Regard & Raye
7 Billie Eilish 26,543
8 Headie One & Drake
9 DJ Khaled feat. Drake 25,832
10 Chris Brown & Young Thug 25,576

[Hunter_13]

So it's practically silver