Archive for June, 2016

Doom rules the gaming charts for a second week

Monday, June 27th, 2016

Doom made it two weeks in a row on the latest UK video games charts, edging out FIFA 16 for number one.

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End meanwhile remains the number one selling single SKU.

Indie darling Rocket League finally got a retail release and managed a respectable sixth place (retail release include a bunch of DLC).

Other new releases came in further down the charts with Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE from Atlus in 18th spot, Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir in 23, Mario & Sonic at the 2016 Rio Olympics climbed to 30 with the introduction of the Wii U version, Dino Dini’s Kick Off Revival managed 37th spot.

As you expect during the summer month’s promotions had a big effect on the charts, and Nintendo also launched new “Select” titles, which saw The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D climb to 34th.

The all formats chart:

1. Doom / Bethesda
2. FIFA 16 / EA Sports
3. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End / Sony
4. Overwatch / Blizzard
5. Grand Theft Auto V / Rockstar
6. Rocket League / 505 Games (new)
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 / Activision
8. Star Wars Battlefront / EA Games
9. Ratchet & Clank / Sony
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 (UEFA Euro 2016 Edition) / Konami

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Drake sees off Kungs to claim longest running Number 1 of the digital age

Friday, June 24th, 2016

Looks like Drake really is unstoppable – he’s done it again.

The Canadian rapper’s One Dance, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, held off a midweek challenge from French producer Kungs to claim the Number 1 prize for an astonishing 11th week. This makes One Dance the longest running chart-topper of the digital age, since 2004 and the introduction of legal download services.

It was pretty close, with just over 3,000 combined chart separating Drake from Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl, which settles for runner-up position today.

Drake was the most streamed track of the week, too, notching up 4.67 million listens over the last seven days.

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling holds firm at 3, while Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For stays at 4. Drake and Rihanna both make another appearance in the Top 5 – their collab Too Good is a non-mover at 5.

Sigala’s teamup with John Newman and Nile Rodgers, Give Me Your Love, zooms 82 places to Number 9, and Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover) rises 10 spots to 15 to break the Top 20 for the first time.

Britain’s Got Talent star Calum Scott’s cover of Robyn’s Dancing On My Own bounces 12 places to 16, and Bastille return to the Top 40 with a brand new entry – Good Grief is at 25.

Ariana Grande’s Into You hits a new chart peak, advancing eight places to 26, and Twenty One Pilots are new at 33 with Heathens.

Shawn Mendes’ Treat You Better is up 7 to Number 38, and US hiphop star Kent Jones vaults 21 places to 39 with Don’t Mind, his first UK chart hit.

Click here to see this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Doom shoots down Overwatch in the all-formats chart

Monday, June 20th, 2016

Doom has overtaken Overwatch after its three week run at the top of the UK charts.

With retailer promotions for Doom bringing the average sale price down by around £5, sales have shot up 57% since last week.

It’s a great result for Bethesda, as it’s the publisher’s first chart-topper since Fallout 4 last year (and id’s first number one since Doom 3 back in 2004).

One game that made a debut in the charts is MotoGP 16: Valentino Rossi, which squeezed into this week’s top twenty (at 19).

Here’s the multi-platform top ten:

1. Doom – id Software / Bethesda
2. Overwatch – Blizzard / Activision
3. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Naughty Dog / Sony
4. FIFA 16 – EA Canada / EA
5. Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar / Take 2
6. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst – DICE / EA
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Treyarch / Activison
8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – Konami / Konami
9. Star Wars Battlefront – DICE / EA Games
10. Lego Marvel Avengers – Traveller’s Tales / Warner Bros. Interactive

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Drake overcomes the competition to score his tenth week at No.1

Friday, June 17th, 2016

It was a close one, but Drake has managed to hold on to the top spot for an incredible 10th week, with One Dance seeing off a strong challenge from French producer Kungs.

Kungs’ remix of Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl was the midweek leader, but Drake snatched victory – and the Number 1 – by just 1,773 combined chart sales. One Dance, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, is the first song to top the Official Singles Chart for 10 weeks since Rihanna’s Umbrella in 2007.

The Canadian rapper’s first Number 1 as a lead artist was also the most streamed track of the last seven days. One Dance notched up 4.77 million listens this week.

Kungs and Cookin’ On 3 Burners, then, settle for Number 2, while Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling slips a place to 3. Calvin Harris and Rihanna also drop one, with This IS What You Came For at Number 4, and Drake and Rihanna both secure a second spot in the Top 5, with their collaboration Too Good moving up one to 5.

Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam’s Sex has broken into the Top 10 for the first time, rising two to 9, and David Guetta’s official Euro 2016 This One’s For You, featuring Zara Larsson, rockets 30 places to enter the Top 40 at Number 16 as the tournament gets in full swing.

Also making big gains is Dua Lipa’s Hotter Than Hell, zooming 26 slots to Number 18, and the Stone Roses score their 15th Top 40 hit, with Beautiful Thing going straight in at 21.

Britain’s Got Talent stars the Neales go in at 22 with I’ll Be There, while Tom Odell surges 39 places to Number 40, with Magnetised.

Click here to see this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst debuts in second place

Monday, June 13th, 2016

Blizzard’s competitive shooter Overwatch is the all-format number one for a third week running.

That’s despite the launch of new challenger Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst, which has to settle for second.

EA will be hoping Catalyst does as well as the original Mirror’s Edge, which only made 60% of its lifetime sales in its first 12 weeks. Most games sell 60% of all copies by this time, so Mirror’s Edge was considered a sleeper hit.

Elsewhere, Doom holds on to the third spot for another week, while Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End drops to fourth.

Next up is FIFA 16 in fifth, followed by GTA 5, Tom Clancy’s The Division and UEFA Euro 2016 Pro Evolution Soccer.

Dead Island Definitive Edition and Ratchet and Clank round out the top ten, while Nintendo scores a new entry with Kirby: Planet Robobot at 15.

The all-formats top-ten chart in full:

1. Overwatch – Blizzard / Activision
2. Mirror’s Edge Catalyst – DICE / EA
3. Doom – id Software / Bethesda
4. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Naughty Dog / Sony
5. FIFA 16 – EA Canada / EA
6. Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar / Take 2
7. The Division – Massive / Ubisoft
8. Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – Konami / Konami
9. Dead Island Definitive – Techland / Deep Silver
10. Ratchet & Clank – Insomniac / Sony

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Drake, Wizkid and Kyla make it nine weeks at Number 1

Friday, June 10th, 2016

Drake has bopped his way to an impressive ninth week at Number 1 with One Dance.

The track, featuring Wizkid and Kyla, achieved 73,000 combined chart sales to top the Official Singles Chart yet again, extending its reign as the longest reigning Number 1 single in nine years.

If the track can hold on for another seven days, it will equal the 10-week tenure of Rihanna’s Umbrella from 2007. The last time a song was knocked off the top spot after nine weeks at the helm was Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy in 2006.

One Dance is also the most streamed track of the week, notching up 5.6 million listens in the last seven days.

Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling settles for Number 2 for the fourth week in a row, and Calvin Harris and Rihanna’s This Is What You Came For enjoys a sixth week in the Top 3 at 3.

Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners’ This Girl rockets six places to Number 4 – breaking into the Top 5 for the first time – and Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson’s Tears hops one place to 5.

P!nk’s Just Like Fire vaults into the Top 20 for the first time, rising three to Number 19. The track is her 24th Top 20 hit, the latest since 2013’s True Love featuring Lily Allen.

DJ Khaled’s collaboration with Drake For Free is new at 25, and marks Khaled’s first Top 40 entry. The track is Drake’s 19th Top 40 single.

Following closely behind is Adele’s Send My Love (To Your New Lover), advancing eight to 26, while Calum Scott’s Robyn cover, Dancing On My Own, reaches a new peak, up 15 places to 27.

Finally, Shawn Mendes’ new single Treat You Better starts out 31 and Ariana Grande’s Into You makes its Top 40 debut, up five rungs at 40.

Click here to see this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Overwatch is still top, Dead Island shuffles up the charts

Friday, June 10th, 2016

Overwatch sales might have taken a 54% dip since last week, but it still shifted enough copies across PC, PS4 and Xbox One to stay on top of the pile in this week’s chart. FIFA 16 continues to climb the league as Euro 2016 looms (with +65% sales). Dead Island: Definitive Edition made an appearance in fifth, and One Piece: Burning Blood scraped into this week’s top 40, debuting in 37th.

The top ten games in full:

1. Overwatch – Blizzard / Activision
2. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Naughty Dog / Sony
3. Doom – id Software / Bethesda
4. FIFA 16 – EA Canada / EA
5. Dead Island: Definitive Edition – Techland / Deep Silver
6. Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar / Take 2
7. Ratchet & Clank – Insomniac / Sony
8. The Division – Massive / Ubisoft
9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Treyarch / Activision
10. Homefront: The Revolution – Dambuster / Deep Silver

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Drake’s One Dance notches up an eighth week at No.1

Sunday, June 5th, 2016

Drake continues to prove unbeatable on the Official Singles Chart as One Dance logs its eighth week at Number 1.

The track is now the longest-running UK chart-topper since Rihanna’s Umbrella, which racked up an unbroken 10-week run at the summit in 2007.

One Dance comfortably finishes in front on this week’s Top 40 just shy of 85,000 chart sales, made up of 23,000 sales and 6.15 million streams.

Meanwhile, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling remains at Number 2 (75,000 chart sales), and Rihanna and Calvin Harris’ This Is What You Came For is unmoved at 3.

Galantis hit a new peak at 4 with No Money, and Sia’s Cheap Thrills rounds off this week’s Top 5.

This week’s highest new entry goes to Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson’s new single Tears, landing at Number 6. The track gives the X Factor winner a second Top 10 (following her Number 9-peaking winner’s single Forever Young) and a fifth for Clean Bandit.

US singer-songwriter Gnash enters the Top 10 for the first time with I Hate You, I Love You, up four spots to Number 8, and Kungs Vs Cookin’ On Three Burners vault from 29 to 10 with This Girl.

There are two more big climbers on this week’s chart: Cheat Codes and Kris Kross Amsterdam’s Sex – a reworking of Salt-N-Pepa’s Let’s Talk About Sex – lifts six places to Number 14, and Pink’s Just Like Fire zooms 14 places to 22.

Finally, Adele’s new single Send My Love (To Your New Lover) makes its Top 40 debut this week at Number 34, as does OneRepublic’s Wherever I Go at 36.

Click here to see this week’s Top 100 Official Singles Chart in full

Overwatch conquers all at UK retail

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

Overwatch has become Blizzard’s fasting selling console title in the UK, in the process beating the console versions of Diablo III. Nearly half of sales were on PS4 (47%), with the remainder split between Xbox One (36%) and PC (18%). When it came to individual formats Overwatch dominated, with all three versions of the game inside the top five (PS4 in 1st, Xbox One in 3rd, and PC in 5th).

The only other top ten debutant of note is Total War: Warhammer, although the retail edition of Creative Assembly’s fantasy strategy game only made it as far as 9th (or 8th in the individual format chart). However, that won’t worry Sega too much with the title breaking franchise records thanks to very strong digital sales (more on that here).

Elsewhere Ratchet & Clank enjoyed resurgent sales (up 114%) after it was among the games bundled with hardware by retailers across the country. FIFA 16 (up 91%), The Division (up 42%), and Grand Theft Auto V (up 49%) were also included in various promotions.

Finally, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Manhattan didn’t make it out of the sewer last week, and ended up languishing all the way down in 18th place. You can see the GfK Chart-Track top ten below:

1. Overwatch – Blizzard / Activision
2. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Naughty Dog / Sony
3. Doom – id Software / Bethesda
4. Homefront: The Revolution – Dambuster / Deep Silver
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 – Treyarch / Activision
6. Ratchet & Clank – Insomniac / Sony
7. FIFA 16 – EA Canada / EA
8. The Division – Massive / Ubisoft
9. Total War: Warhammer – Creative Assembly / Sega
10. Grand Theft Auto V – Rockstar / Take 2

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