Little Mix achieve a personal best with their latest album Get Weird
Eagle-eyed viewers of our Official Top 40 Biggest Albums of 2015 list will have noticed a solid if not surprising entry from Little Mix; their latest album Get Weird finished just outside the Top 10 at Number 11.
The band’s third collection has been a staple of the Official Albums Chart Top 10 since its November 2015 release (check out its week by week chart run here) – and now Official Charts can confirm the record is the group’s best-performing yet.
As well as being their highest peaking album at Number 2, Get Weird’s combined sales as of last week stand at 420,000, overtaking the sales of each of their previous two albums just 10 weeks after its release.
Their last album, 2013’s Salute, peaked at Number 4 and sold just over 315,000, while sales of their 2012 debut DNA are 386,000.
MORE: See where all of Little Mix's singles and albums have charted
To put that in context, last year Get Weird out-performed the likes of Years & Years’ Communion (275,000 combined sales), Meghan Trainor’s Title (303,000) and, perhaps surprisingly, One Direction’s Made In The A.M (362,000).
What’s more, with their latest single Secret Love Song currently scaling the Official Singles Chart, there could well be plenty of life left in Get Weird yet…
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David Martin
They had some serious competition in the UK like One Direction (2012), Lady Gaga (2013) and Elvis Presley (2015). But at least they went number 1 in Ireland, it was nice to see them rule the top spot of the charts for once.
Ricardo Assan
They're amazing! <3
MusicStan_1997
I'm so happy for Little Mix, they are fantastic vocalists and all of their albums so far are absolutely brilliant, they deserve a lot more worldwide success. I'm really surprised that Get Weird has outsold Meghan Trainor and One Direction, Meghan's album was released very early January and had a whole year on sale, the same can't be said for Little Mix. Then One Direction usually have relatively big sales, it seems that since Four their album sales have declined.
lh how?
totally agree. it's always so strange how Lm have achieved so much worldwide without being recognized properly, having a restrictive management in spite of their freedom to write their own songs, and are in this complacent culture of syco.
MusicStan_1997
It's a good job that social media exists because that is how Little Mix have become more known around the world, it seems to be them and their fans promoting them on Twitter because Syco wont wake up and come to the realisation that they have the potential to be huge with the right promotion. They seem to be only focused on One Direction, it's been like that since 2011.
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guilherme
but those are combined sales( with streaming?) ? and the 2012 and 2013 sales are only actual albums?? its not clear!
Official Charts
Hi Guilherme, those are the latest combined sales figures for their albums, including streaming since it was incorporated into the Official Albums Chart last March.
dalby26
so do you back date the streams at the time of the earlier albums? or is it combined since the rule came in?
Official Charts
We don't back date the streams, so the figure is combined since the rule came in.
Mr0011011 .
If I am not mistaken, most of their number for Get Weird have come from physical sales, not even downloads, let alone streams.
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guilherme
tks. those are impressive numbers!
I Am A Stegosaurus
That's not surprising, I guess.
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guilherme
thank you for answering!
I Am A Stegosaurus
The one that they overtook that surprised me most was Communion. Guess that shows how overrated Little Mix are since Black Magic came out.
Mr0011011 .
Little Mix are hardly over rated. They are ridiculously underrated. Get Weird is a great album, and they have released great singles, which is why people are buying them. Plus they are fantastic live.
I Am A Stegosaurus
Well at least it never hit number 1. Then again, neither did Purpose but I find it great they've never had a number 1 album, considering much smaller acts like Tom Odell and John Newman have had one.
Mr0011011 .
They released their albums at earlier and easier times than LM did though. They were stopped by Elvis. Hardly anything to scoff at. Clearly you are here purely down to spite.
I Am A Stegosaurus
Nah, just giving my opinion. While it DID take Elvis to stop them, I'm sure the others had some big competition too.
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Bruno Ferreira
It's all about the timing. Releasing albums in November is up to huge acts like 1D, JB, Adele.. They took a big shot to try to get the big christmas sales. It payed off, tho it didn't give them a #1 album. But I'm sure they're fine. Like you said, smaller acts get #1 albums, but I doubt they get Get Weird sales.