Official Albums Chart Top 100 on 28/4/2023

The official dates are 'Week Ending', so although it charted in April, the week of charting is called "Week Ending 3rd May". W/E is now 6 days after the announcement, and has been since at least the 1980s. Before 1980, there were various days of the week and chart collation methods that meant it was sometimes longer, sometimes shorter than 6 days between announcement and published "week ending" date. Today, there is also no requirement for a physical copy to exist. Albums can chart on streaming or downloads alone.

I'll happily concede the first part of your response David, but your final sentence is where the problem lies ... there has been nowhere to stream it or download it from!
Even the "listen" link provided by The OCC does NOT take you a track/tracks from this supposed album - which also gets no mention on the band's website either!

OCC isnt a streaming site. Streaming therefore probably won't work, and would come from dedicated streaming sites. Considering on other (and older) entries, OCC can't even get the right image or chart run, it's no surprise they can't get an audio clip right! It's available physically on Rough Trade and presumably in physical shops.

I've still not downloaded a record in my life, let alone stream (I still only do physical, and even then, very infrequently - less than one a month, sometimes only one a year!), so I'm not the best person to ask about digital services, but I doubt it wouldn't be on any.

In simple terms, those that are popular on streaming services, stay on chart for long times, those that are only popular within fanbases, tend to sell physically. Those that sell physically tend to drop like a stone!

On that basis, I suspect it is sold almost exclusively physically and will struggle to be in the top 75 in or before it's 3rd week. It has happened many times in the last 3 years.

The physical release on Rough Trade (which I finally found this morning) is a limited edition of around 6,000 copies of the CD and 2,000 on "tape", not apparently available anywhere else - and as the album consists only of tracks that were part of the Live Lounge session which has been available in video format for some time, I can see this being another one of the many 'bricks' that have appeared at the top of the chart based on anticipated sales (which IS still happening, despite assurances in the past that it wouldn't) and then vanished forever.

If that's the case of so few copies being sold, it shows why so many albums drop out straight from the top 10: they sell out in week one with no stock left for week 2! You can easily get into the top 10 with well under 10,000 sales. Makes it difficult for me to collect all the hits though.

It goes some way to explain why so many top 10 records drop straight out: they sell out in week one, leaving no stock left to sell in week 2! Even with such small numbers, as you can get into the top 10 with well under 10,000 sales.

her material sounds cheap and generic imho - that's why

Beautiful nicki? Garbaj is one of most ugliest thing in the World?

are you stupid, dumb or slow?

no I am not but you are creepy as garbaj

Absolutely

I don't think they are crybabies they just don't like demonic behaviour from a dark place.

#1 on Amazon's pre-orders and sold out on HMV soon after being announced. and let's not forget this is a £150 vinyl. lol.

you do realise it’s only holding up because it’s another useless greatest hits compilation, which continue to clog up the charts? unless i’m being stupid and thriller is also there.

speaking of which, oh look, post malone dropped another one that we won’t be able to get rid of. that’s why the compilations charts exist. really shouldn’t just be limited to now albums and soundtracks imo

what we really need is ed sheeran to release a greatest hits album, he made occ change the rules on the singles chart so an ed greatest hits album would probably make occ banish them to the compilations chart within a few months of its release lol

oh my god don't even speak that into existence an ed sheeran greatest hits would never let another album go #1 again

exactly why we need it 🥺 then occ would change the rules and we could get rid of greatest hits albums from the main chart

we need teddy dominace though (on both the charts and me 😍😍😍😍)

part of me thinks ed will release a “best of the mathematics era” compilation or sum like that as the saga’s coming to an end, and if that’s the case i hope it goes to number 1 and stays there so occ can consider it

LOLLLL the mathematics lesson

As much as I don't support such a change, a chart of just live, studio and remix albums would be interesting.

Agreed, how tiresome it is to see old acts like Elton John, ABBA and Fleetwood Mac clogging up the top 20 every week and denying new talent coming through and getting into the spotlight.

If that's what sells....it's up to the new acts to make something exciting and the labels to promote so that we know about it. It's been like this for a long time, so I'm doing the research to quantify it. Off the top of my head I can only think of less than 10 new releases in the last 3 years to last at least 30 weeks on chart - even fewer from debut artists. The only one of those I can think of is Olivia Rodrigo. Again, I'm doing the research to add the detail and to see if my anecotal knowledge is true. I also don't know if it's a particularly bad time for new acts or if it's always been this way.

Thanks for the info David. That's very interesting actually.

Makes you wonder how it ever went to number 1 then almost out the charts the following week, the crazy charts🙄

I prefer Ellie, at least she can sing, Metallica, while classic, cannot

That’s just weird. Must be artificially generated for it to fade that quick.

I like both meself on ere n I prefer Ellie to loss of them other autotuners dahn our gaff,

Having studied chart movements over the last 3 years in particular, it's not that rare. 2 or 3 #1 albums in 2021 dropped straight out of the top 75, some even out of the top 100. I studied the physical-era charts too, and that would never happen then. A #1 album was a more or less guarntee of at least one more week in the top 10, let alone full chart. Although a few did drop out before 5 weeks.

But the O.C.C. have changed the rules when it comes to the singles chart with artists now allowed up to only three songs on the singles chart so that rule SHOULD apply to the albums chart too and they're STILL allowing tracks that haven't been released as singles to be on the singles chart

Iss shockin juss shockin but wot you get on ere nahadays.

obviously they are why wouldn't they😭

Finally we agree on something!!!!!!!

Because that would be artificial manipulation giving a false representation of what is genuinely popular in the UK.

Having at least 5 albums in the top 75 is not a drastically rare event, having been achieved on multiple occasions by Dire Straits, Jim Reeves, Bruce Springsteen, Bowie, Elvis, Michael Jackson to name a few. Dire Straits even had an average of 4 over the course of a whole year in 1986. 7 or more albums had been achieved on charts of various sizes on 23 occasions before 1992.