BBC Children in Need album Got It Covered heading for Number 1 on the UK's Official Albums Chart
An all-star cast of actors who have come together for BBC’s Children in Need are on course for Number 1 on this Friday’s Official Albums Chart.
The likes of The Crown’s Olivia Colman & Helena Bonham Carter and Doctor Who’s David Tennant & Jodie Whittaker have united to record Children in Need: Got It Covered, a collection of covers ranging from Coldplay’s Yellow and Taylor Swift’s Never Grow Up. The 11-track album features the BBC Concert Orchestra and saw the famous faces guided by award-winning producer Guy Chambers at Abbey Road Studios.
Got It Covered has a lead of nearly 4,000 chart sales as of today’s Official Chart Update, made up of physical copies, digital downloads and streaming equivalent sales from across the weekend.
Jeff Lynne’s ELO are heading for an 13th UK Top 10 album with From Out of Nowhere at Number 2, ahead of KIWANUKA, the third studio album from British soul singer Michael Kiwanuka at Number 3. Bob Dylan is also a new entry in the midweek Top 5 with Travelin’ Thru: The Bootleg Series 15 which could mark his 39th Top 10 album at Number 4.
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Three more albums are aiming for this Friday’s Top 10. Aled Jones & Russell Watson’s second collaborative album Back In Harmony is at 6, Krept & Konan are eyeing a fourth Top 10 album with Revenge is Sweet at 8, and Jeff Goldblum could score his first UK Top 10 album with I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This at 10.
R.E.M.’s 1994 Number 1 album Monster returns to the chart following its 25th anniversary reissue (11), Simple Minds’ 40th anniversary greatest hits Forty could become their second UK Top 40 album of 2019 (16), while fellow retrospective Black Is The Night from The Damned is also a new entry (24).
Other albums also gunning for a Top 40 placement this week are: Black Stone Cherry’s Black to Blues Vol 2 (25); Wildcard by Miranda Lambert (26); Underworld’s Drift Series 1: Sampler Edition (29); and Gold from M People (35). Finally, the 20th anniversary re-release of Super Furry Animals’ 1999 Top 10 album Guerrilla may debut in the Top 40 (39).
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Harry Hayfield
The BBC is reporting that you have removed this album from this chart https://www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/2019/11/bbc-children-in-need-charity-album-pulled-from-no-1-race/ Could you explain the reasoning for this?
julesin09
It’s a compilation album.
Harry Hayfield
Thank you very much. As Wikipedia defines a compilation album as "...comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers", then I would ask "If "Got It Covered" is not able to be included in the album charts, then why is "Number 6" by Ed Sheeran, "The Greatest Show : OST", "A Star is Born : OST" and "Mamma Mia : Here We Go Again" doing in the album charts. Either apply the same rule to all of them or don't apply at all.
julesin09
I agree about cast recordings/OST but I think with albums like Number 6 it’s credited to an artist (ie Ed Sheeran).
Children in need should change the credit to “cast recording” as it would then count on the main album chart.
Alfred Lock
Jodie Whittaker nails it on Coldplay's Yellow..very emotional as it reminded her of her late Nephew who left this world too young.