[Brother Leon]

One Direction to hold on to Number 1 album this weekend

Plus: Find out where Il Divo, Rebecca Ferguson, Leona Lewis and Britney Spears are set to enter the Official Albums Chart on Sunday...
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The British record buying public’s love affair with One Direction shows no sign of letting up as Harry, Louis, Niall, Zayn and Liam’s third full-length, Midnight Memories, looks set to hold onto the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart for a second week running.

On Sunday, Midnight Memories became not only the fastest selling artist album of 2013 so far, but the fastest selling album of 1D’s career to date. It sold more than 237,000 copies during its first week on sale, beating the first week tally of the previous record holder, Random Access Memories by Daft Punk (165,000 copies week one). If it continues to sell at its current rate, by Christmas, Midnight Memories could become one of the biggest selling albums of the year.

Meanwhile, Take That stars Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow switch places on today’s Update with Robbie’s Swings Both Ways climbing one place to Number 2, and Gary’s Since I Saw You Last is down one to 3.

Il Divo are headed for their sixth Top 10 album and this week’s highest new entry with A Musical Affair (4), while Olly Murs is down one to 5 with Right Place, Right Time.
New Entries

In addition to Il Divo’s A Musical Affair (4), there are five other new entries on this week’s Official Albums Chart Update.

Rebecca Ferguson’s long-awaited second album, Freedom, is currently at Number 6 on today’s Update. The X Factor star finished as runner up behind winner Matt Cardle in the reality TV singing contest. Her first album, Heaven, was released in 2011 and peaked at Number 3 on the Official Albums Chart. It has sold nearly 650,000 copies to date.

Leona Lewis is set to enter at Number 17 on Sunday with her new Christmas album, Christmas With Love, while pop princess Britney Spears is a new entry midweek at Number 19 with her eighth album, Britney Jean.

Britain’s Got Talent finalists Richard And Adam’s The Christmas Album (25) and Muse’s Live At Rome Olympic Stadium (30) complete today’s new entries.

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows. The Official Albums Chart Top 100 will be posted in full, here, on Sunday at 7pm.

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...-weekend-2648/

One Direction have blown every other act out the water. Consecutive Number 1 Albums. Impressive Sales(especially considering the standards of this day and age), sold out Stadium tours and you can't go anywhere without seeing them. Pretty crazy to think they were kids on a TV Show not long ago. A great success story.

Few other Reality Show contestants were New Entries this week too.

1D, the Most successful and the only worthy thing to come out the X Factor....Pls Confirm this peeps.

[Jarrod]

And thanks for the article! I'll post it in the 1D thread now.

[Drew.]

[Me. I Am Salman]

They probably are but it's SO undeserved they're only successful because of how they look, and their songs are a special type of terrible

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Salman!

They probably are but it's SO undeserved they're only successful because of how they look, and their songs are a special type of terrible

Agreed, it's the same with Olly Murs as well.

[Roy Mars III]

Originally Posted by Salman!

They probably are but it's SO undeserved they're only successful because of how they look, and their songs are a special type of terrible

thats true of ton of music acts

Rhianna included

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

thats true of ton of music acts

Rhianna included

It really isn't? She has such a diverse fanbase, probably the most out of all the current pop girls

and whilst it might be true for some other artists it's only a tiny factor counting towards their success. With boybands like One Direction however where they are now is purely down to how they look.. their songs are basic, sound the same (One Thing & Live While We're Young for example) etc

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Roy Mars III

thats true of ton of music acts

Rhianna included

That is true tbf.

Although Rihanna does have some good songs imo.

[Smithy]

I think they're just another fad tbh, Jonas Brothers, Justin Bieber now One Direction

Not saying what they've accomplished isn't impressive, but it won't be long before someone else comes along and takes the attention of all the tweens that adore them

[Kazanne]

I have got to really like 1D over the last year,I am so pleased they are doing so well,nice guys

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by TinselBalls

I have got to really like 1D over the last year,I am so pleased they are doing so well,nice guys

So have I, actually think their songs are pretty good overall now,I really love that 'Story of my life' one they recently did.

I know Leona was massive for afew years after her X factor series but these are massive on a global scale so I would as the op did term these the most successful reality TV starts really myself definitely.

[Saph]

no

but they all seem nice

[Jarrod]

Posted that here: http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/foru...d.php?t=238910

[Alf]

Two words, Les Dawson

[MeMyselfAndI]

Lol no.
And Leona's done zero promotion at all bar Daybreak a few weeks ago (lol)
Shes been in the US all week doing radio tours, her albums in the top 30 on itunes there after 2 performances (Despite not releasing any music in 4 years & disappearing ) & shes got more. Her album is only really available online, supermarkets such as Tesco's etc & shops aren't selling it, no one even knows the album is out here. But shes promoting here all next week, the true release date for the UK tbh

[Brother Leon]

Originally Posted by MeMyselfAndLeona

Lol no.
And Leona's done zero promotion at all bar Daybreak a few weeks ago (lol)
Shes been in the US all week doing radio tours, her albums in the top 30 on itunes there after 2 performances & shes got more. Her album is only really available online, supermarkets such as Tesco's etc & shops aren't selling it, no one even knows the album is out here. But shes promoting here all next week, the true release date for the UK tbh

We'll see if she comes even close to their numbers then next week....


Tbf, even Olly is closing in on her overall sales in much less time and as a Male Winner. Won't be long until she doesn't even have that that to her name and let's be real One Direction already overtook her regardless.Won't be long until Olly is 2nd.

[MeMyselfAndI]

Originally Posted by Father Simpmas

We'll see if she comes even close to their numbers then next week....


Tbf, even Olly is closing in on her overall sales in much less time and as a Male Winner. Won't be long until she doesn't even have that that to her name and let's be real One Direction already overtook her regardless.Won't be long until Olly is 2nd.

Leona Lewis record sales = 22M
Oly Murs = 11M
3 albums each

Pls go back too maths xx

[King Gizzard]

great group, happily confirmed

[Me. I Am Salman]

Actually no I take what I said was back, longevity is an important factor too they could be over next year.

Kelly Clarkson imo

[Drew.]

Leona becoming irrelevant whilst 1D carry on strong

[Me. I Am Salman]

Idk why Nathan, Drew, Leon etc pretending to like them I mean what are you trying to achieve..

[King Gizzard]

What if we actually did like them

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Yukon Cornelius

What if we actually did like them

In the real world the typical football loving masculine 'lad' would despise One Direction, it'd be very very very rare for that to be the case. I refuse to believe all the members on this site who fit that personality type are genuine fans

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Salman!

In the real world the typical football loving masculine 'lad' would despise One Direction, it'd be very very very rare for that to be the case. I refuse to believe all the members on this site who fit that personality type are genuine fans

You don't have to be a masculine lad to like football, that's a bit of a generalisation, I'm the furthest from 'masculine lad' you can get

One Direction have some good hits, just like I liked Backstreet Boys back in t'day

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Yukon Cornelius

You don't have to be a masculine lad to like football, that's a bit of a generalisation

I didn't say that? There are other traits too which match the people on here, like saying words like 'brah', being a fan of rap music etc