Nico & Vinz lead UK singles chart for second week…

August 17th, 2014

Nico & Vinz’ ‘Am I Wrong’ is this week’s UK number one single.

It is the second week at the top spot for the duo, who are the first Norwegian act to get a UK number one since A-ha in 1986.

‘Rude’ by Magic! stays at number two, while OneRepublic’s ‘Love Runs Out’ remains in third place.

Kiesza’s ‘Giant in My Heart’ is this week’s highest new entry, debuting at number four, and ‘Ghost’ by Ella Henderson rounds off the top five.

Ed Sheeran climbs 12 places with ‘Don’t’ at Number 11, while Rizzle Kicks enter at 14 with ‘Tell Her’.

‘Black Widow’ by Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora debuts at 32, while ‘What Are You Waiting For?’ by The Saturdays is new in at 38.

Sam Smith’s ‘I’m Not The Only One’ completes the top 40 at number 40.

Source: Official Charts Company

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Inbetweeners 2 scores biggest UK box office debut of 2014

August 12th, 2014

The Inbetweeners 2 has scored the UK’s biggest opening weekend box office of 2014.

The comedy sequel earned more than £12.5 million across the country during its first weekend.

It also enjoyed the biggest ever opening day for comedy in the UK when it debuted last Wednesday (August 6).

Its predecessor took £45m at the UK box office when it launched in 2011, and went on to earn approximately £58 million in total.

The Inbetweeners 2 follows Will, Neil and Simon as they join Jay on his gap year in Australia.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Inbetweeners 2 – £12,538,114
2. (1) Guardians of the Galaxy – £3,332,179
3. (2) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £1,743,778
4. (-) Planes 2: Fire & Rescue – £1,041,322
5. (3) How to Train Your Dragon 2 – £893,792
6. (7) Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future – £522,863
7. (6) The Nut Job – £458,360
8. (4) Hercules – £423,677
9. (5) The Purge: Anarchy – £320,365
10. (8) Transformers: Age of Extinction – £174,300

Source: Rentrak

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The Last of Us Remastered easily tops gaming chart

August 11th, 2014

The Last of Us Remastered has retained its place at the top of the all-format gaming chart.

Despite a 55% drop in weekly sales, Naughty Dog’s upgraded adventure easily holds off Watch Dogs in second and FIFA 14 in third.

Benefitting from a retailer promotion, Grand Theft Auto 5 climbs six places to fourth, above Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and The LEGO Movie Videogame.

Ultra Street Fighter 4 is this week’s only new release at 15, charting between LEGO Marvel Super Heroes and Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare.

Ahead of the company’s annual Summerslam event, WWE 2K14 re-enters the chart at 18, one spot below Terraria.

The top 20 in full:
1. (1) The Last of Us Remastered (Sony)
2. (2) Watch Dogs (Ubisoft)
3. (3) FIFA 14 (EA Sports)
4. (10) Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
5. (5) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
6. (4) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
7. (6) Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition (Sony)
8. (8) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
9. (9) Battlefield 4 (EA Games)
10. (7) Sniper Elite 3 (505 Games)
11. (12) Tomodachi Life (Nintendo)
12. (11) Titanfall (EA Games)
13. (13) Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft)
14. (14) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
15. (-) Ultra Street Fighter 4 (Capcom)
16. (15) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (EA Games)
17. (19) Terraria (505 Games)
18. (-) WWE 2K14 (2K Sports)
19. (17) Wolfenstein: The New Order (Bethesda Softworks)
20. (16) Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo)

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C) 2014 UKIE Ltd.

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Nico & Vinz score UK number one with ‘Am I Wrong’

August 10th, 2014

Nico & Vinz have become the first Norwegian act to reach the UK number one spot since 1986.

‘Am I Wrong’, which is the duo’s debut single, has jumped 51 places to top the charts.

Last week’s number one, ‘Rude’ by Canadian band Magic! slips one place to number two, despite clocking up over a million streams this week.

OneRepublic’s new track, ‘Love Runs Out’ debuts at number three, providing the band with their sixth UK Top 40 hit.

Cheryl Fernandez-Versini falls a further two places with ‘Crazy Stupid Love’, which is now at number four, and the top five is completed by George Ezra’s ‘Budapest’, which climbs one place from last week.

Jessie Ware scores her first ever UK Top 40 hit with new single ‘Tough Love’, taken from her forthcoming album of the same name. Earlier this week Ware told OfficialCharts.com that she was not convinced that her song would reach the Top 40.

“I don’t think the song is radio friendly at all!” she said. “This song was just to give people a taster of what’s to come, so for it to chart is crazy and really reassuring ahead of the new album.”

Elsewhere, Kiesza’s ‘Hideaway’ re-enters the chart at number 37, while Maroon 5 climb 11 places to number 40 with ‘It Was Always You’.

Source: Official Charts Company.

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Guardians of the Galaxy tops UK box-office

August 5th, 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

James Gunn’s blockbuster earned close to £6.4 million to end Dawn of the Planet of the Apes‘ reign at the chart summit.

Guardians‘ four-day opening is one of the biggest ever debuts for a Marvel movie in the UK, beating the first instalments of Iron Man (£5.6 million), Thor (£5.46 million), Captain America (£3.3 million) and X-Men (£4.8 million).

Elsewhere, the chart sees new releases The Nut Job and Step Up 5: All In debut in the top 10 at numbers six and nine respectively.

Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future event is one of the bigger success stories of the week, charting at number seven after banking £538,159.

The East London immersive screening, which takes place in a recreation of the film’s Hill Valley, has now earned £720,479 in ticket sales and still has showings throughout August.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Guardians of the Galaxy – £6,363,110
2. (1) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £2,967,278
3. (4) How to Train Your Dragon 2 – £1,096,888
4. (2) Hercules – £901,151
5. (3) The Purge: Anarchy – £811,44
6. (-) The Nut Job – £666,966
7. (-) Back to the Future – £538,159
8. (5) Transformers: Age of Extinction – £455,725
9. (-) Step Up 5: All In – £391,129
10. (6) Earth to Echo – £378,522

Source: Rentrak

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The Last of Us Remastered beats Watch Dogs

August 4th, 2014

The Last of Us Remastered has stormed to the top of the all-format gaming chart.

Naughty Dog’s survival horror on PlayStation 4 becomes the fifth biggest launch of the year so far, and replaces Watch Dogs at number one.

Watch Dogs drops to second, followed by FIFA 14 and The Lego Movie Videogame. Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition rounds up the top five, edging out the PS3 version.

Tomodachi Life remains Nintendo’s highest-charting game at number 12, just behind Titanfall.

Need for Speed: Rivals re-enters the top 20, while Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark and Pokemon Black Version drop out.

All of the top ten titles, with the exception of Grand Theft Auto 5, experienced an increase in sales.

The top 20 in full:
1. (-) The Last of Us Remastered (Sony)
2. (1) Watch Dogs (Ubisoft)
3. (2) FIFA 14 (EA Sports)
4. (5) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
5. (3) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
6. (6) Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition (Sony)
7. (4) Sniper Elite 3 (505 Games)
8. (9) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
9. (10) Battlefield 4 (EA Games)
10. (7) Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar)
11. (8) Titanfall (EA Games)
12. (11) Tomodachi Life (Nintendo)
13. (13) Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft)
14. (14) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
15. (15) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (EA Games)
16. (16) Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo)
17. (12) Wolfenstein: The New Order (Bethesda Softworks)
18. (18) EA Sports UFC (EA Sports)
19. (19) Terraria (505 Games)
20. (RE) Need for Speed: Rivals (EA Games)

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Magic! score first UK number one single with ‘Rude’

August 3rd, 2014

Magic! have scored their first UK number one single with ‘Rude’.

The Canadian band charted at number two last week behind Cheryl and Tine Tempah’s ‘Crazy Stupid Love’, but strong sales and 1.4 million streams have seen their track claim the top spot on this week’s countdown.

‘Crazy Stupid Love’ drops to number two this week, with dance vocalist and producer ZHU making his UK Top 40 debut at three with ‘Faded’.

Ella Henderson’s ‘Ghost’ drops one place to four, while Britain’s Got Talent duo Bars & Melody are a new entry at number five with ‘Hopeful’. The track is the biggest selling physical single of the week.

George Ezra is down two places to six with ‘Budapest’, while Ariana Grande and Iggy Azalea’s ‘Problem’ is this week’s number seven.

Charli XCX is down from six to eight with ‘Boom Clap’, ahead of will.i.am and Cody Wise’s ‘It’s My Birthday’, which is down to number nine.

British newcomer Melissa Steel has scored a Top 10 hit with her debut solo single ‘Kisses For Breakfast’, which features vocals from Jamaican reggae star Popcaan.

Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking Out Loud’ is the week’s highest climber, rising eight places to number 20.

OneRepublic’s ‘Counting Stars’ has become only the seventh single in history to achieve a full, unbroken year in the Top 75. Ryan Tedder’s band follow in the footsteps of Avicii, who reached the same landmark recently with ‘Wake Me Up’.

Source: Official Charts Company

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Planet of the Apes beats Hercules at UK box office…

July 29th, 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has held off competition from Hercules to top the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The Matt Reeves-directed Apes sequel earned £3.7 million to secure the top spot ahead of Dwayne Johnson’s latest release and horror sequel The Purge: Anarchy.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 sits at number four after five weeks on release, while Transformers: Age of Extinction rounds out the top five.

The only chart climber is Boyhood, now on its third weekend on release, which moves up a place to number seven.

Elsewhere, the chart sees new entries from family adventure Earth to Echo, Bollywood movie Kick and The House of Magic.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £3,752,511
2. (-) Hercules – £1,449,120
3. (-) The Purge: Anarchy – £1,165,143
4. (2) How to Train Your Dragon 2 – £990,959
5. (3) Transformers: Age of Extinction – £803,063
6. (-) Earth to Echo – £618,379
7. (8) Boyhood – £279,701
8. (-) Kick – £239,850
9. (6) Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie – £228,764
10. (-) The House of Magic – £223,047

Source: Rentrak

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Watch Dogs retains all-format top spot

July 28th, 2014

Watch Dogs has retained its place at the top of the all-format gaming chart.

Ubisoft’s open-world hacking release celebrates its third consecutive week as number one and its sixth week in total.

It is once again followed by FIFA 14 in second, while Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition climbs to third and Sniper Elite 3 moves up one place to fourth.

Coinciding with the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Lego Movie, the video game tie-in climbs seven places to take fifth.

Elsewhere, Terraria and Pokemon: Black re-enter the chart at 19 and 20.

A lack of new releases for the second week running sees the overall market drop by 3%. It’s the second lowest week for units sold and the lowest week in terms of overall revenue.

The top 20 in full:
1. (1) Watch Dogs (Ubisoft)
2. (2) FIFA 14 (Electronic Arts)
3. (6) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
4. (5) Sniper Elite 3 (505 Games)
5. (12) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
6. (7) Minecraft: PS3 Edition (Sony)
7. (11) Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar Games)
8. (8) Titanfall (Electronic Arts)
9. (3) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
10. (9) Battlefield 4 (Electronic Arts)
11. (14) Tomodachi Life (Nintendo)
12. (4) Wolfenstein: The New Order (Bethesda)
13. (13) Assassin’s Creed 4 (Ubisoft)
14. (16) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive
15. (17) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (Electronic Arts)
16. (10) Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo)
17. (15) Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark (Activision)
18. (18) EA Sports UFC (Electronic Arts)
19. (-) Terraria (505 Games)
20. (-) Pokemon Black Version (Nintendo)

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Planet of the Apes beats Transformers at UK box office

July 22nd, 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

The action sequel ended Transformers: Age of Extinction‘s run in first place, taking in £8.7m to secure top spot ahead of How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Dawn easily outperformed its predecessor, which debuted to £5.8 million in 2011.

This week’s box office also saw two live releases make it into the top five – a first since cinemas started broadcasting concert, stage or sporting events.

Monty Python Live (Mostly) earned a staggering £1.2 million from its theatrical transmission from London’s O2, while Andre Rieu’s 2014 Maastricht concert followed closely behind with £830,586.

Elsewhere, Pudsey the Dog: The Movie debuted at number seven with £446,450 in ticket sales.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £8,705,995
2. (2) How to Train Your Dragon 2 – £1,877,346
3. (1) Transformers: Age of Extinction – £1,790,491
4. (-) Monty Python Live (Mostly) – £1,260,412
5. (-) Andre Rieu’s 2014 Maastricht Concert – £830,586
6. (3) Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie – £559,173
7. (-) Pudsey the Dog: The Movie – £446,450
8. (7) Boyhood – £312,255
9. (4) The Fault in Our Stars – £278,559
10. (6) 22 Jump Street – £224,783

Source: Rentrak

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