UK Charts/ Midweeks 2023

They are high.

Flowers continues to blossom atop the singles chart for Miley Cyrus, increasing consumption by 32.07% to 121,151 units (12,010 downloads, 109,141 sales-equivalent streams) on its second week at No.1. Her only previous No.1s – 2013’s We Can’t Stop and Wrecking Ball – each spent only one week at the summit.

Bringing to an end a run of seven straight weeks in which leadership of the chart has changed hands, Flowers has the highest consumption of any track since LadBaby’s Sausage Rolls For Everyone sold 163,445 copies on debut 56 weeks ago, and is the first to record a six-figure sale since then. Flowers’ first two weeks' tally of 212,882 is the highest since Adele’s Easy On Me racked up 320,411 sales in its initial fortnight in October 2021. Easy On Me’s second week contributed 103,194 to that total, so Flowers has the highest sale for a single on its second week at No.1 since Ed Sheeran’s Shape Of You (139,595), six years ago this very week.
 
Yeah great sales, and she’s still clearing a million a day on Spotify. Those are high downloads too, 12k is a very solid number in a week these days. This is going to be a huge seller overall, quite possibly #1 of the year (given how hard it is for songs released in the second half of the year to catch up to those that have a full year of streaming).
 
Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100
Source: OCC
Missing Data:

Top 100 Singles

1 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (41,688)
2 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. (18,741)
3 SZA - Kill Bill (14,883)
4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (12,678)
5 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven (10,934)

6-10
7 Miguel - Sure Thing
10 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You

11-20
11 KSI feat. Oliver Tree - Voices (8,095) *
12 Lewis Capaldi - Pointless
13 Tiësto & Tate McRae - 10:35
18 Cian Ducrot - I'll Be Waiting
19 Mimi Webb - Red Flags
20 Coi Leray - Players

21-30
21 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless)
22 The Kid LAROI - Love Again *
28 Sam Smith feat. Calvin Harris & Jessie Reyez - I'm Not Here to Make Friends *

31-40
31 Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze ^
35 P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again *
38 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready to Fly

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Top 100 Albums

1 Sam Smith - Gloria (9,862) [7,764 physicals, 1,254 streaming, 844 downloads] *
2 Bob Dylan - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (3,740) *
3 Taylor Swift - Midnights (3,071)
4 The Weeknd - The Highlights (2,735)
5 Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors (2,512) *

6-10
9 Elton John - Diamonds
10 Harry Styles - Harry's House

11-20
13 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don't Stop
15 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009
16 Queen - Greatest Hits
17 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
18 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
19 Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour *
20 Elvis Presley - ELV1S: 30 Number 1 Hits

21-30
21 Ed Sheeran - ÷
25 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
26 Taylor Swift - 1989

31-40
31 George Ezra - Gold Rush Kid
32 Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here. *
37 Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
39 Eminem - The Eminem Show ^
 
The fact that Lewis Capaldi's Pointless went from 15 to 1, then fell to 12, then 13 and now back up to 12 this week really gives a good indication of where he would have ended up without that week of 99p singles, doesn't it?
 
Wednesday Top 40 ONLY Update
Source: Music Week
Missing Data:

Singles

1 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (69,138)
2 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. (32,314)
3 SZA - Kill Bill (26,584)
4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (21,542)
5 venbee & goddard. - messy in heaven (18,467)

6-10
7 Miguel - Sure Thing
8 KSI feat. Oliver Tree - Voices (16,798) *

11-20
12 Lewis Capaldi - Pointless
18 Cian Ducrot - I'll Be Waiting
19 Mimi Webb - Red Flags
20 The Kid LAROI - Love Again *

21-30
21 Coi Leray - Players
22 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless)
24 Sam Smith feat. Calvin Harris & Jessie Reyez - I'm Not Here to Make Friends *

31-40
31 Taylor Swift - Lavender Haze ^
35 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready to Fly
37 P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again *
40 Tory Lanez - The Color Violet ^

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Albums

1 Sam Smith - Gloria (11,999) [8,814 physicals, 2,163 streaming, 1,022 downloads] *
2 Taylor Swift - Midnights (5,190)
3 The Weeknd - The Highlights (4,980)
4 SZA - SOS (4,980)
5 Bob Dylan - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 (4,134) *

6-10
6 Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors *
9 Elton John - Diamonds
10 Harry Styles - Harry's House

11-20
12 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits
15 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009
16 Queen - Greatest Hits
18 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
19 Olivia Rodrigo - SOUR
20 Ed Sheeran - ÷

21-30
21 Little Mix - Between Us
22 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
23 Elvis Presley - ELV1S: 30 Number 1 Hits
25 Taylor Swift - 1989
26 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
29 Michael Jackson - Number Ones

31-40
31 Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here. *
34 Harry Styles - Fine Line
35 Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
37 Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour *

NO OTHER SALES INFO
 
Albums
01 14,155 Sam Smith - Gloria [7,898 CDs, 1,440 vinyl, 298 cassettes, 1,139 downloads, 3,380 streaming]
02 8,259 The Weeknd - The Highlights
03 8,159 Taylor Swift - Midnights
04 7,375 SZA - SOS
05 5,622 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits
06 5,088 Ed Sheeran - =
07 4,872 Elton John - Diamonds
08 4,838 Harry Styles - Harry's House
09 4,712 Bob Dylan - Fragments - Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17
10 4,690 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent

11 4,599 Ava Max - Diamonds & Dancefloors
32 2,687 Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here. [21 vinyl, 30 downloads]

52 2,050 Måneskin - RUSH!
53 2,050 Sam Smith - In the Lonely Hour [total: 2,852,368]
66 1,823 The Reytons - What's Rock and Roll?
73 1,735 Uriah Heep - Chaos & Colour

xxx 656 Black Star Riders - Wrong Side of Paradise
 
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I obviously embrace streaming on the singles charts but it does feel redundant on the albums chart unless the entire album is being streamed. Is ANYONE consciously listening to a Weeknd greatest hits or are just various people streaming Weeknd singles because they are heavily playlisted and individually popular?
 
Devil said:
Yeah great sales, and she’s still clearing a million a day on Spotify. Those are high downloads too, 12k is a very solid number in a week these days. This is going to be a huge seller overall, quite possibly #1 of the year (given how hard it is for songs released in the second half of the year to catch up to those that have a full year of streaming).
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It's interesting comparing Flowers to As It Was last year. That cleared 1.57m units in 2022 from an April release date. It had sales of 94k, 70k and 65k in its first three weeks. Flowers has had 92k, 121k and 106k and was released three months earlier in the year.

It seems ridiculous to say, but it's hard to see past anything else this year overtaking her, unless numbers drop dramatically, which seems unlikely as they don't tend to any more for streaming hits at least. It's not like the old days when the label would be deleting Flowers in March to allow the album and other singles to breathe, and singles sold very little once they fell out of the upper reaches of the chart.

Anything which overtakes it is almost certainly going to have to be a properly huge song, and it will need to be released fairly soon to get over Miley's headstart on the year. Or I guess be a song from last year which refuses to die, like Sheeran last year.

Other than As It Was, the only other song in the Top 10 of last year to actually be released in 2022 was Afraid To Feel by LF System. Although that includes Running Up That Hill, which despite being the oldest song was arguably the newest hit of the lot.
 
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George Ezra - Green Green Grass

It’s gone viral on TikTok and on First Look is back in the chart at #13

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Official Singles/Albums Chart Update Top 100
Source: OCC
Missing Data:

Top 100 Singles

1 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (31,830)
2 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. (19,249)
3 SZA - Kill Bill (14,244)
4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (11,956)
5 Miguel - Sure Thing (11,230)

6-10
9 Tiësto & Tate McRae - 10:35

11-20
11 Lewis Capaldi - Pointless
12 Coi Leray - Players
13 Mimi Webb - Red Flags
14 George Ezra - Green Green Grass ^
15 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar ^
17 The Kid LAROI - Love Again
20 Libianca - People

21-30
21 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy
23 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless)
24 JVKE - golden hour
26 Beyoncé - CUFF IT ^
27 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue)
29 Dermot Kennedy - Kiss Me

31-40
31 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready to Fly
34 P!nk - TRUSTFALL *
37 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me
38 P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again
39 Harry Styles - As It Was ^
40 d4vd - Here With Me *

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Top 100 Albums

1 Shania Twain - Queen of Me (10,345) [9,280 physicals, 768 downloads, 297 streaming] *
2 RAYE - My 21st Century Blues (6,641) [4,286 physicals, 959 downloads, 1,396 streaming] *
3 Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (4,338) *
4 The Weeknd - The Highlights
5 The WAEVE - The WAEVE *

6-10

11-20
19 Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE ^
20 Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston

21-30
21 Elvis Presley - ELV1S: 30 Number 1 Hits
22 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
26 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
27 Michael Jackson - Number Ones

31-40
33 Harry Styles - Fine Line
37 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
38 Bob Marley & the Wailers - Legend ^
39 Ella Henderson - Everything I Didn't Say ^

Click on the above relevant links.
 
Surely Shania is much more front loaded than RAYE. Would like Shania to get the #1 though.
 
Gap between Shania and RAYE has closed from 3.7k to 2.6k in the latest midweeks. Looks like it will be close.
 
Wednesday Top 40 ONLY Update
Source: Music Week
Missing Data:

Singles

1 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (52,608)
2 RAYE & 070 Shake - Escapism. (32,923)
3 SZA - Kill Bill (25,507)
4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (20,391)
5 Miguel - Sure Thing (20,030)

6-10
9 Tiësto & Tate McRae - 10:35
10 PinkPantheress - Boy's a liar ^

11-20
12 Lewis Capaldi - Pointless
13 Coi Leray - Players
14 Tom Odell - Another Love
15 Mimi Webb - Red Flags
16 The Kid LAROI - Love Again
17 George Ezra - Green Green Grass ^
18 Libianca - People

21-30
21 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy
22 JVKE - golden hour
26 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I'm Good (Blue)
27 Beyoncé - CUFF IT ^
29 P!nk - TRUSTFALL *

31-40
31 Dean Lewis - How Do I Say Goodbye
32 Dermot Kennedy - Kiss Me
33 Sub Focus & Dimension - Ready to Fly
34 Lizzy McAlpine - Ceilings *
38 Harry Styles - As It Was ^

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Albums

1 Shania Twain - Queen of Me (13,642) [12,178 physicals, 480 streams] *
2 RAYE - My 21st Century Blues (10,176) [5,981 physicals, 2,362 streams] *
3 The Weeknd - The Highlights (5,041)
4 Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (4,885) *
5 Taylor Swift - Midnights (4,355)

6-10
7 Harry Styles - Harry's House

11-20
14 The WAEVE - The WAEVE *
18 Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE ^

21-30
23 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
26 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
30 Michael Jackson - Number Ones

31-40
33 Harry Styles - Fine Line

NO OTHER SALES INFO
 
She’s had a #1 single and now at least a #2 album, I’m sure she’s over the moon as it is.
 
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