https://twitter.com/officialcharts/s...63878769274880

LittleMix's Glory Days reclaims the UK's Official Albums Chart Number 1 spot.

Glory Days on Official Charts:
#1 - #1 - #3 - #3 - #2 - #1.

Touch at #4, SOTME #6 this week. First time with 2 top tens at the same time afaik!

Also, SOTME is now platinum.

https://twitter.com/bpi_music/status/814867398620749825

The #Mixers have made sure that @LittleMix's year has ended on a high - 'Shout Out To My Ex' is now a Platinum single! #bpiAwards.

Three weeks at number one for Glory Days is insane. I'm shocked that they have a number one album, and two top singles in the same week so long after their initial release.

Now this is how to end 2016.

These girls are smashing it.

SOTME has also jumped to number 6 this week which means they definitely have 2 songs in the Top 10. When will the full singles chart be released?

Closing 2016 by reclaiming Number 1, Touch climbed to 4 after 1 performance slot of promo, Shout Out To My Ex in at #6, still selling after 2-3 months. Wow.

These really are the Glory Days.

I guess the rock band feuds aren't as well-known (at least not to me, anyway ) which is probably because the media loves to stir up drama between mainstream popstars - and if they're girls, forget about it! Can't miss an opportunity to instigate a cat-fight. I'm fairly certain the media contributed to 5H's supposed divide (aka Camila v. Fourth Harmony).

I think you're right - today's world of 24-hour media coverage can doubtlessly exacerbate stress and tension amongst pop group members. Although bands had their fallouts in the pre-internet era, they could keep it private to a degree. Also, back then, negative press was mostly a lot of rubbish printed in rag mags based on malicious rumours and pure speculation that would never be addressed until years later. The Spice Girls, for example, springs to mind. On the face of it, they were proclaiming "Girl Power!" to the world, but were actually at each other's throats Imagine how even more toxic the SG would've been if they'd had phones glued to their hands, with social media buzzing at them, heightening their stress levels to the max.

Today's media (which includes every fan with a camera phone) are constantly chirping away stirring up tensions between celebs and, as that article said, when you're in your teens/20s you do tend to lash out without thinking. I think a lot of the time, celebs unintentional 'feed the beast' by responding to unsubstantiated rumours and, in trying to starve the story, they actually give it more oxygen.

And then there's just the simple fact that people do tend to just do each other's heads in after seeing each other all day, every day

One hour.


This is what makes me nervous about the reality show, although if they keep it on the documentary side it would be better. The thing is in an attempt to create drama that isnt there, the program could give false impressions to the public.

No 1 and No 36 albums. Phenomenal.

Standing ovation

Glory Days is #7 and Get Weird is #15 on the 2016 album chart!

http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-...f-2016__17580/

holy cow

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i thought beyonce would be higher

This hopefully will be 2xPlatinum very very soon!

Very excited about 2017 and what it will bring the girls, they're going to be so busy.

While latest single Touch holding at No.4 (44,348 sales), Little Mix have simultaneous Top 10 hits for the first time in their career with Shout Out To My Ex - which spent three weeks at No.1 in October/November- rebounding 13-6 (41,751 sales).

1 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 78,255 44,265 33,990
2 Zara Larsson 53,471
3 Rag'N'Bone Man 49,258
4 Little Mix [Touch] 44,348
5 Mariah Carey 43,418
6 Little Mix [Shout Out To My Ex] 41,751
7 Wham! [Last Christmas] 41,660
8 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk [Starboy] 41,221
9 James Arthur 41,118
10 Bruno Mars 39,921

44 George Michael [Careless Whisper] 17,166
63 Eartha Kitt 13,212
64 George Michael [Faith] 12,931
68 The Ronnets 12,293
70 LM Oops
71 Bobby Helms 12,137
72 Kylie Minogue 11,979
74 Darlene Love 10,730

With two simultaneous Top 10 singles for the first time in their career - Touch holds at No.4 while Shout Out To My Ex revives 13-6 - Little Mix seize control of the artist album chart with their fourth album Glory Days rising a notch to secure its third week at No.1 on its sixth week of release.

With sales last week of 53,157 copies (including 2,407 from streams), Glory Days is now the quartet's second biggest selling album, trailing only immediate predecessor Get Weird, which has sold 675,838 copies since its November 2015 release and itself remains in the Top 40, shifting 37-36 (6,908 sales).

1 Little Mix 53,157 50,750 2,407
2 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe 45,509
3 Elvis Presley & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 35,915
4 Olly Murs 31,977
5 The Rolling Stones 28,183
6 Bruno Mars 27,797
7 Robbie Williams 26,528
8 George Michael [Ladies & Gentlemen] 24,847 (2,527,137)
9 Michael Buble [Christmas] 21,722
10 Emeli Sande 21,033

13 Rick Astley 17,088
14 Adele 16,818 (Total: 2,495,899, 2016 Sales: 753,194)
15 James Arthur 16,277
26 Shawn Mendes 8,511
27 The 1975 7,979
28 Twentyone Pilots 7,953
31 Drake 7,504
36 Little Mix [Get Weird] 6,908 (675,838)
40 Wham! [The Final] 6,282

Queens of actual album sales. Only 5% were from streaming.

With the latest tallies SOTMX must be on 641,000 sales.


Assimilation completed.

The figures are great. This puts Little Mix high in the public consciousness. They still have the US and the two tours to follow.

I'm not sure about the tv fly on the wall thing either, may be they won't have time for it?

I never thought they would be as big as this.

To be fair about Lemonade, you can't stream her album anywhere good (aka only on Tidal), not even her singles are on spotify like Adele's.

Do you know what, looking at the biggest selling singles just makes me hate streaming. Drake's One Dance "sold" 1.94 million but only actually sol 500 something thousand. almost 75% streams?! Really?! I read somewhere that they re going to change it to be 150 streams for 1 sale.

Yeah, i know ways of consuming music are changing but i can't take seriously calling something a 'sale' when people haven't actually bought anything.

Yep and that change may now be in effect. This should temporarily aid acts that are strong in sales.

BJ Joe updated UK single sales but for some reason its not in the BJ thread.

957,741 Black Magic
646,000 Secret Love Song
640,703 Shout Out To My Ex
577,300 Wings
504,500 Move
496,000 Cannonball
493,484 Hair
460,000 Love Me Like You
310,000 DNA
290,000 Salute
200,000 Little Me
190,000 Change Your Life
150,000 How Ya Doin'?
135,731 Touch
110,000 Word Up!

It's not in the T10 Best Selling British Singles is it?

No BRIT nom

#39. SOTMX
#41 SLS
#63 Hair

On the 2016 Singles chart
http://www.officialcharts.com/charts...singles-chart/

The Brits qualifying period usually ends in Nov. so it would never have made it. Last year they made an exception to extend to Dec. to include Adele. Maybe SLS made it?

This is also why I cant take the Brits as seriously as the Grammys, they arbitrarily create and delete categories and nomination criteria year to year. There''s no firm standards.