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Fast & Furious 7 knocks Cinderella from top of UK box office

Wednesday, April 8th, 2015

Fast & Furious 7 has debuted at the top of the UK box office.

The latest instalment of the racing series – starring Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Michelle Rodriguez – took £12.8m over its opening weekend.

Disney’s live-action Cinderella drops to number two with £2.9m, while Home sits at three with £2.4m.

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Shailene Woodley’s YA sequel Insurgent lie in fourth and fifth place respectively.

Russell Crowe’s The Water Diviner debuts in seventh place with £521,546, while While We’re Young enters at eight, taking £427,151.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel drops to tenth in its sixth week of release.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Fast & Furious 7 – £12,765,033
2. (1) Cinderella – £2,969,426
3. (2) Home – £2,387,579
4. (3) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – £1,121,097
5. (4) Get Hard – £845,040
6. (5) The Divergent Series: Insurgent – £594,587
7. (-) The Water Diviner – £521,546
8. (-) While We’re Young – £427,151
9. (-) Blade Runner: The Final Cut – £267,452
10. (6) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – £176,769

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Battlefield Hardline tops gaming chart for third week

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

Battlefield Hardline has retained its place at the top of the all-format chart for a third week running.

Despite a 40% drop in sales, EA’s latest Battlefield game remains top above GTA 5, which benefits from a 35% increase in sales.

PS4 exclusive Bloodborne drops down to third, above FIFA 15, Far Cry 4, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Borderlands: The Handsome Collection.

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin is this week’s second highest new entry at eight, and From Software’s second game in the top ten.

Elsewhere, The Sims 4: Get to Work makes its chart debut at 18, above The Order 1886 and a returning Pokemon White Version 2.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS fails to make the top 20. The New 3DS exclusive debuts at 27.

The top 20 in full:
1. (1) Battlefield Hardline (Electronic Arts)
2. (4) Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar)
3. (2) Bloodborne (Sony Computer Entertainment)
4. (5) FIFA 15 (EA Sports)
5. (8) Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft)
6. (7) Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Activision)
7. (3) Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (2K Games)
8. (-) Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin (Bandai Namco)
9. (6) Dying Light (Warner Bros)
10. (20) Destiny (Activision)
11. (9) Minecraft: Xbox Edition (Microsoft)
12. (17) Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Microsoft)
13. (16) Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft)
14. (13) Minecraft: PlayStation Edition (Sony)
15. (19) WWE 2K15 (2K Sports)
16. (15) Evolve (2K Games)
17. (18) Disney Infinity 2.0 (Disney)
18. (-) The Sims 4: Get to Work (Electronic Arts)
19. (10) The Order 1886 (Sony)
20. (-) Pokemon White Version 2 (Nintendo)

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C) 2015 Ukie Ltd.

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Jess Glynne stays top of UK singles chart

Sunday, April 5th, 2015

Jess Glynne’s ‘Hold My Hand’ has remained the UK’s number one single for a second week.

The song earned combined chart sales of just over 80,000 in its second week of sales, as well as 1.6 million streams.

Ed Sheeran and Rudimental’s ‘Bloodstream’ takes the second spot, climbing 24 places from last week, as James Bay’s ‘Hold Back the River’ falls to number three.

Years & Years claim the most streamed song of the week with ‘King’ at number four, and ‘Uptown Funk’ by Mark Ronson rounds out the top five singles.

‘Elastic Heart’ by Sia takes number 10 and earns the singer her sixth UK top 10 single, while ‘Beautiful Me’ by Dappy debuts at number 19.

Sia then makes a second appearance in the chart as ‘Chandelier’ lands at 29 – which marks its 40th consecutive week in the top 40.

Olly Murs’s ‘Seasons’ debuts at 34, while ‘Cheerleader’ by OMI enters the chart at 37 on streaming figures alone ahead of its official release on May 3.

Former X Factor contestant Luke Friend completes the top 40 with his first single ‘Hole in My Heart’.

Source: Official Charts Company

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