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Sam Smith

Sam Smith tops first streaming integrated UK Albums Chart

ALBUMS
In an historic album chart - which incorporates the influences of both the 34th annual Brit Awards and, for ...

by Alan Jones
on Mar 1st 2015 at 7:36PM
Ella Henderson

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 ...

Tom Pakinkis
by Tom Pakinkis
on Jan 19th 2015 at 4:48PM
International Charts Analysis: Meghan Trainor's Title first hit album of 2015

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 ...

by Alan Jones
on Jan 19th 2015 at 9:35AM
Ben Haenow

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 ...

by Alan Jones
on Dec 22nd 2014 at 8:49AM
Uptown Funk

Official Charts Analysis: Mark Ronson scores first No.1 single as Uptown Funk! sells 118,117 Gated Content

SINGLES
Its release brought forward after Fleur East's X Factor cover topped iTunes' chart, Mark Ronson's Uptown Funk! (feat. Bruno ...

by Alan Jones
on Dec 15th 2014 at 10:39AM
Olly Murs Never Been Better

Official Charts analysis: Olly Murs becomes second X Factor graduate to score three No.1s Gated Content

ALBUMS
A  week after One Direction became the first X Factor graduates to post three number one albums, Olly Murs ...

by Alan Jones
on Dec 1st 2014 at 10:14AM
One Direction Four

Official Charts analysis: 1D land fourth consecutive No.1 LP as Four sells 141,780 Gated Content

ALBUMS
There are emphatic debuts atop both the singles and albums charts this week, with One Direction scoring the number ...

by Alan Jones
on Nov 24th 2014 at 10:14AM
Wake Me Up Children In Need

Official Charts analysis: Wake Me Up returns to singles summit as Children In Need charity track Gated Content

SINGLES
In a singles chart that celebrated its 62nd birthday last week, more than 30 songs have topped the chart ...

by Alan Jones
on Nov 17th 2014 at 10:21AM
Official Charts analysis: Ed Sheeran pips Calvin Harris to No.1 on albums

Official Charts analysis: Ed Sheeran pips Calvin Harris to No.1 on albums Gated Content

ALBUMS

Some you win, some you lose…After completing a 19 week chart gestation to reach the top of the singles ...

by Alan Jones
on Nov 10th 2014 at 9:38AM
Taylor Swift 1989

Official Charts Analysis: Taylor Swift tops albums with 90,336 sales of 1989 Gated Content

ALBUMS
Taylor Swift has gone pop and gone stratospheric with fifth studio album 1989 set to sell upwards of a ...

by Alan Jones
on Nov 3rd 2014 at 11:42AM
Meghan Trainor All About That Bass

Official Charts Analysis: Trainor matches Clean Bandit for longest-running No.1 single of 2014 Gated Content

SINGLES
Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass enjoys an easy fourth week atop the singles chart on sales of 82,163 ...

by Alan Jones
on Oct 27th 2014 at 9:52AM
Ella Henderson Chapter One

Official Charts Analysis: Henderson's debut LP tops charts with 43,824 sales Gated Content

ALBUMS
The X Factor seventh season third placed act One Direction fail to land their much-anticipated fourth number one single ...

by Alan Jones
on Oct 20th 2014 at 10:25AM
Meghan Trainor All About That Bass

Official Charts Analysis: Trainor retains No.1 singles spot with 100,942 sales Gated Content

ALBUMS
For only the second time in 41 chart weeks that have elapsed thus far in 2014, there is no ...

by Alan Jones
on Oct 13th 2014 at 10:08AM
International Charts Analysis: Cohen and Bennett score high-flyers

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 ...

by Alan Jones
on Oct 6th 2014 at 9:34AM
All About That Bass

Meghan Trainor's All About That Bass sells 143,750 copies to take No.1 spot Gated Content

SINGLES
After moving 75-67-53-33 on streaming alone, 20 year old American Meghan Trainor's debut single All About That Bass makes ...

by Alan Jones
on Oct 6th 2014 at 9:18AM
This Is All Yours

Official Charts Analysis: alt-J's This Is All Yours secures No.1 album slot on 30,947 sales Gated Content

ALBUMS
Six months after The Kaiser Chiefs chalked up their second number one album, another band from Leeds, Alt-J, storm ...

by Alan Jones
on Sep 29th 2014 at 9:50AM