BRIT nominations: New girls get the nod
None of the nominees in this year’s BRITs British Female Solo Artist list make it into the Album of the ...
International Charts Analysis: Meghan Trainor's Title first hit album of 2015 Gated Content
All About That Bass was one of the break-out hits of 2014 globally, and with follow-up Lips Are Movin now ...
Official Charts Analysis: Uptown Funk! maintains No.1 position after 156,335 sales Gated Content
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Official Charts Analysis: X Factor's Ben Haenow lands the Christmas No.1 Gated Content
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, with the year's biggest selling album, X by Ed Sheeran, cementing its ...
Official Charts Analysis: Mark Ronson scores first No.1 single as Uptown Funk! sells 118,117 Gated Content
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Its release brought forward after Fleur East's X Factor cover topped iTunes' chart, Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk! (feat. Bruno ...
Official Charts Analysis: Take That's III sells 145k units Gated Content
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Official Charts analysis: Olly Murs becomes second X Factor graduate to score three No.1s Gated Content
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A week after One Direction became the first X Factor graduates to post three number one albums, Olly Murs ...
Official Charts analysis: 1D land fourth consecutive No.1 LP as Four sells 141,780 Gated Content
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There are emphatic debuts atop both the singles and albums charts this week, with One Direction scoring the number ...
Official Charts analysis: Wake Me Up returns to singles summit as Children In Need charity track Gated Content
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In a singles chart that celebrated its 62nd birthday last week, more than 30 songs have topped the chart ...
Official Charts analysis: Ed Sheeran pips Calvin Harris to No.1 on albums Gated Content
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Some you win, some you lose…After completing a 19 week chart gestation to reach the top of the singles ...
Official Charts Analysis: Taylor Swift tops albums with 90,336 sales of 1989 Gated Content
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Taylor Swift has gone pop and gone stratospheric with fifth studio album 1989 set to sell upwards of a ...
Official Charts Analysis: Trainor matches Clean Bandit for longest-running No.1 single of 2014 Gated Content
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Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass enjoys an easy fourth week atop the singles chart on sales of 82,163 ...
Official Charts Analysis: Henderson's debut LP tops charts with 43,824 sales Gated Content
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The X Factor seventh season third placed act One Direction fail to land their much-anticipated fourth number one single ...
Official Charts Analysis: Trainor retains No.1 singles spot with 100,942 sales Gated Content
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For only the second time in 41 chart weeks that have elapsed thus far in 2014, there is no ...
International Charts Analysis: Cohen and Bennett score high-flyers Gated Content
Octogenarians rule the world, with Canadian folk legend Leonard Cohen and US MOR/jazz crooner Tony Bennett providing the week's two ...
Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass sells 143,750 copies to take No.1 spot Gated Content
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After moving 75-67-53-33 on streaming alone, 20 year old American Meghan Trainor's debut single All About That Bass makes ...
Official Charts Analysis: alt-J's This Is All Yours secures No.1 album slot on 30,947 sales Gated Content
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Six months after The Kaiser Chiefs chalked up their second number one album, another band from Leeds, Alt-J, storm ...
International Charts Analysis: Maroon 5 enjoy promising start Gated Content
With first single Maps a massive global hit, Maroon 5's fifth album V is off to a fast start globally ...
Official Charts Analysis: The Script sell 43k to hit No.1 Gated Content
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