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Official Albums Chart on 23/8/2019

23 August 2019 - 29 August 2019

The UK's Top 100 biggest artist albums of the week, compiled by the Official Charts Company based on sales of CDs, downloads, vinyl, audio streams and video streams. View the biggest albums of 2023.

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Andrew Demetrius

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Elvis is still there... most charted artist in history.......

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etin

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there are 42 (best of + older than 2 years) albums in chart.. Very boring

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Oliver Prange

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Folks I just don't get it anymore. I grew up in a time when an album charted then climbed a few weeks to its peak amd slowly left the charts. These days you enter f.e. at 4 and the next week you're not even in the top 100 anymore. What does that mean? Selling 5000 copies the first week and 12 the next? I cannot imagine that.
I think the way charts are compiled these days is simply: useless. The idea of charts for me is d.e.a.d. No point in it.
Am I the only one to say so? I don't think...

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Ryan Frost

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This is the Feeder album you're talking about, right? I'm not saying it's the whole answer, but one of the marketing tactics Feeder use is that they release an album on a whole slew of formats. There was the standard CD, a deluxe 'book' CD, a Japanese import CD (with slightly different tracklisting), two vinyl editions (a standard and a picture disc), three cassettes (red, white and pink), and for a limited time, vinyl test pressings were available from their website. All these formats count as a individual sale. There are quite a few fans out there (such as myself) who bought NINE copies of the album on it's week of release, artificially bumping up the week-one sales numbers. Feeder also did a tour of HMV branches around the UK and did in-store signings. Basically, everything they did was geared up to maximise their sales in that initial week. It'll probably end up being one of their weakest-selling albums, but because they were able to condense most of their sales in that initial, up-front surge, most people who wanted the album bought it within the first seven days. Added to the fact that the album came out in a fairly quiet week for new releases, it seems that their entire focus was on getting as high a chart placing as possible in week 1. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4d3db7bdede65154a28569cec4f131bab99ec34ced0c3c6c35c859050affc0b1.jpg

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Oliver Prange

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Yes that's the one. Many more examples out there though.
I think it is generally sad when artists spend so much effort into an album and one week after release it's like nothing happened. Must be frustrating.
Thanks for your answer!

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Mike Watts

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Such a fantastic album as well.
Ed Sheerhan. I simply do not get it.
Has there been some kind of mind warp from outer space brainwashing people?

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Billy Bloggs

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Music today is so polarized. When a new album is released all the act's fans buy it the first week. No one else is interested.

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thierry henon

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LIZZO was so close to get her first top 40 album but i guess that won't happen!! Shame really,,,it is an amazing album with so many great tunes!!

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thierry henon

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I really wanted Frank to finally get a well deserved number 1!! But no, again we have to get Ed and his overrated new "album"...i really like his first 2 albums but this new album is awful!!