Olly Murs on course for Official Charts Number 1 double!

Olly Murs looks set to be Number 1 on both the Official Singles Chart with Troublemaker AND the Official Albums Chart with Right Place, Right Time this Sunday.
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Olly Murs looks set to be Number 1 on both the Official Singles Chart with Troublemaker AND the Official Albums Chart with Right Place, Right Time this Sunday.

According to today’s Official Chart Update, Olly Murs is not only on course to hold onto Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart for a second week running with Troublemaker FT Flo Rida, but his new album, Right Place, Right Time, is currently leading the race to Number 1 on this week’s Official Albums Chart, too.

At this midway stage Olly’s third album is outselling his closest competitor, One Direction’s Take Me Home (Number 2), by more than two copies to one. 

If the former X Factor star and current Xtra Factor host can maintain his lead, it will be the fourth Official Chart Double this year; Sing by Gary Barlow And The Commonwealth Band topped the Official Singles Chart and Official Albums Chart in June, while Robbie WilliamsCandy and Take The Crown, and One Direction’s Little Things and Take Me Home did the Official Charts Double earlier this month.

Official Singles Chart Update

Following their X Factor performances over the weekend, Bruno MarsLocked Out Of Heaven and Rihanna’s Diamonds both surge up seven places to Number 2 and Number 3, respectively, on the Official Singles Chart. Labrinth and Emeli Sande’s Beneath Your Beautiful is static at Number 4, while Robbie WilliamsCandy climbs three places to Number 5.

There are three new entries on this week’s Official Singles Chart Update Top 40. Ke$ha’s Die Young debuts at Number 11, and Las Vegas rockers Imagine Dragons are set to clock up two new entries on Sunday with tracks from their new Hear Me EP (the title track is at Number 25, while Radioactive is at Number 31).

Ladywell Primary School’s rendition of Adolphe Adam’s classic carol, O Holy Night, climbs 41 places from Number 64 to enter the Top 40 at Number 23. Athlete’s Wires looks set to re-enter the Official Singles Chart on Sunday at Number 26 following Rylan Clark’s performance of the track on Sunday’s X Factor results show. Wires reached Number 4 on the Official Singles Chart in 2005.

Taylor Swift’s latest single, I Knew You Were Trouble, climbs 19 places from Number 47 to Number 28, while The Pogues’ 1987 Christmas classic, Fairytale Of New York FT Kirsty MacColl, is up 15 places from Number 53 to Number 38. This will be the eighth year in a row the track has re-entered the Official Singles Chart Top 40.

The Official Singles Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1 TROUBLEMAKER OLLY MURS FT FLO RIDA
2 LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN BRUNO MARS
3 DIAMONDS RIHANNA
4 BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL LABRINTH FT EMELI SANDE
5 CANDY ROBBIE WILLIAMS
6 GIRL ON FIRE ALICIA KEYS
7 THE POWER OF LOVE GABRIELLE APLIN
8 GANGNAM STYLE PSY
9 LITTLE THINGS ONE DIRECTION
10 HO HEY LUMINEERS
11 DIE YOUNG KESHA
12 A THOUSAND YEARS CHRISTINA PERRI
13 DON'T YOU WORRY CHILD SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA/MARTIN
14 SOMETHING NEW GIRLS ALOUD
15 DNA LITTLE MIX
16 NOT GIVING IN RUDIMENTAL/NEWMAN/CLARE
17 HALL OF FAME SCRIPT FT WILL I AM
18 SKYFALL ADELE
19 CAN YOU HEAR ME (AYAYAYA) WILEY/SKEPTA/JME/MS D
20 SWEET NOTHING CALVIN HARRIS/FLORENCE WELCH
21 ONE MORE NIGHT MAROON 5
22 LATCH DISCLOSURE FT SAM SMITH
23 O HOLY NIGHT LADYWELL PRIMARY SCHOOL
24 GIVE ME LOVE ED SHEERAN
25 HEAR ME IMAGINE DRAGONS
26 WIRES ATHLETE
27 TRY PINK
28 I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE TAYLOR SWIFT
29 BEAUTY AND A BEAT JUSTIN BIEBER FT NICKI MINAJ
30 GOLD DUST DJ FRESH
31 RADIOACTIVE IMAGINE DRAGONS
32 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER TAYLOR SWIFT
33 LOVE IS EASY MCFLY
34 TIDAL WAVE SUB FOCUS FT ALPINES
35 ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN ELLIE GOULDING
36 WONDER NAUGHTY BOY FT EMELI SANDE
37 SHINE YA LIGHT RITA ORA
38 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK POGUES FT KIRSTY MACCOLL
39 RIGHT NOW RIHANNA FT DAVID GUETTA
40 I CRY FLO RIDA

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Official Albums Chart Update

One Direction’s former chart topper Take Me Home, holds firm at Number 2, while Rihanna’s Unapologetic is down two places to Number 3. Girls Aloud’s new Greatest Hits collection, Ten, debuts at Number 4, and Michael Buble completes today’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 5 with the deluxe edition of his 2011 album, Christmas (Number 5).

In addition to Olly MursRight Place, Right Time (Number 1) and Girls Aloud’s Ten (4), there are seven other new entries on today’s Official Albums Chart Update Top 40.

Jeff Wayne’s reboot of his 1978 concept album based on HG WellsThe War Of The Worlds looks set to enter at Number 7 on Sunday’s chart. The 2012 version of the album, dubbed The New Generation, features Kaiser Chiefs frontman Ricky Wilson, Joss Stone, Alex Clare, Maverick Sabre, Gary Barlow, and acclaimed Irish actor Liam Neeson.

The Very Best Of Neil Diamond debuts at Number 11, while Alicia Keys is on course for her sixth UK Top 20 album with Girl On Fire (14).

This week’s Official Albums Chart Update new entries are completed by McFly’s Greatest Hits collection, Memory Lane (15), Katherine Jenkins’ new festive album, This Is Christmas (18), Il Divo’s The Greatest Hits (19) and Kelly Clarkson’s Greatest Hits – Chapter One (25).  

The Official Albums Chart Update Top 40 is as follows:

1 RIGHT PLACE RIGHT TIME OLLY MURS
2 TAKE ME HOME ONE DIRECTION
3 UNAPOLOGETIC RIHANNA
4 TEN GIRLS ALOUD
5 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE
6 OUR VERSION OF EVENTS EMELI SANDE
7 THE WAR OF THE WORLDS - NEW GENERATION JEFF WAYNE
8 MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY ROD STEWART
9 TAKE THE CROWN ROBBIE WILLIAMS
10 GRRR THE ROLLING STONES
11 THE VERY BEST OF NEIL DIAMOND
12 DNA LITTLE MIX
13 MAGIC OF THE MOVIES ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR
14 GIRL ON FIRE ALICIA KEYS
15 MEMORY LANE - THE BEST OF MCFLY
16 STORYTELLER ALFIE BOE
17 18 MONTHS CALVIN HARRIS
18 THIS IS CHRISTMAS KATHERINE JENKINS
19 THE GREATEST HITS IL DIVO
20 CELEBRATION DAY LED ZEPPELIN
21 STANDING OVATION - THE GREATEST SONGS SUSAN BOYLE
22 NUMBER 3 THE SCRIPT
23 BABEL MUMFORD & SONS
24 + ED SHEERAN
25 GREATEST HITS - CHAPTER ONE KELLY CLARKSON
26 STRONGER TOGETHER THE MILITARY WIVES
27 SOME NIGHTS FUN.
28 RED TAYLOR SWIFT
29 THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE P!NK
30 FALL TO GRACE PALOMA FAITH
31 BORN TO DIE LANA DEL REY
32 THE BEST OF EVA CASSIDY
33 ORA RITA ORA
34 LIVE AT RIVER PLATE AC/DC
35 THE ABBEY ROAD SESSIONS KYLIE MINOGUE
36 THE EVOLUTION OF MAN EXAMPLE
37 THE LUMINEERS THE LUMINEERS
38 EVOLUTION JLS
39 UP ALL NIGHT ONE DIRECTION
40 OPERA ANDREA BOCELLI

© 2012 The Official Charts Company. All rights reserved.

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