BRIT Award stars already impacting Official Singles and Albums Charts

Stars of last night’s glittering BRIT Awards ceremony have already begun impacting on today’s Official Chart Update, with singles and album climbs led by Ed Sheeran, Adele, Coldplay, Florence & The Machine and Noel Gallagher. There has also been a raft of re-entries for Outstanding Contribution to Music winners Blur, according to the Official Charts Company.

Despite only two hours between the end of last night’s BRIT Awards 2012 live broadcast and the midnight cut-off point for sales counting toward today’s Official Chart Update, BRITs runners and riders are immediately showing signs of a singles and albums ascent. 

Adele

Star of the night and MasterCard British Album of the Year winner Adele, climbs a collective 96 places across her seven singles in the Top 200, with signature tracks Someone Like You (33) and Rolling In The Deep (35) both going Top 40.  Winning album 21 climbs one place to Number 2 in what is the album’s 57th week on the chart, having never left the Top 10 since its release. 

According to the latest Official Charts Company sales data, Adele is on course to sell over 6 million albums in the UK by the end of this week.  Since her career-changing performance at the BRIT Awards with MasterCard in February 2011, someone has bought one of her albums (either her 2008 debut album, 19, or her 2011 record-breaking follow-up, 21) on average, every seven seconds.  And with 19 and 21 teetering just below the 2 million and 4 million sales marks, respectively, following her UK live return at The BRITs, sales of her albums should rocket past six million copies in the coming days.

Blur

Britpop heroes Blur last night treated The O2 to a set of their greatest hits to close the 2012 ceremony.  The winners of this year’s Outstanding Contribution to Music prize this morning have no less than four re-entries into the Official Singles Chart Update Top 200 – Song 2 (83), Parklife (104), Girls And Boys (127) and Tender (187) were all performed by the band at the show.  Their new album release this week, The Best Of Blur, also enters the Update Top 40 at Number 25, with sales of these records expected to further surge ahead of Sunday’s final tally.

Ed Sheeran

Winner of the gongs for Best British Male Solo and British Breakthrough, Ed Sheeran bounces a collective 97 places north in the singles race.  Lego House, the track performed by the Suffolk singer/songwriter yesterday climbs 22 places, breaking into the Top 20 at Number 15.  Best British Single-nominated The A Team also journeys 29 places to Number 36.

Coldplay

British Group winners Coldplay make it a total five singles and five albums in today’s Top 200, with Mylo Xyloto (the album that broke Official Charts records for becoming the fastest selling digital album in history upon its release back in October 2011, today re-enters the Top 10 at Number 10, with show opener Charlie Brown catapulting 51 places to 64.

Florence & The Machine

Elsewhere, after Florence & The Machine‘s powerful performance of No Light No Light, the influential singer notches up an 11 place ascent for each of her two studio albums, with latest release Ceremonials on course to go Top 20 this weekend, currently resting at 12 today. 

Rihanna

Rihanna’s We Found Love bounces up seven places to 27.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Ex-Oasis man Noel Gallagher and His High Flying Birds leap 126 places to 53 with their performed track AKA What A Life. 

Emeli Sande

BRITS Critics’ Choice winner Emeli Sande is set to hold on to her Number 2 spot for a second week running with single Next To Me, as well as climbing 11 places to Number 24 with her 2011 debut single Heaven. Her album Our Version Of Events also looks set to hold on to the Number 1 spot on the Official Albums Chart.

And finally...

Over on the Official Compilation Albums Chart the Brit Awards 2012 triple CD also races ahead in first place this week. You can win a copy here.