Bad Neighbours topples Amazing Spider-Man 2 at UK box office

May 13th, 2014

Bad Neighbours has ended The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s run at the top of the UK box office.

The comedy, starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, earned £8.4 million over an extended nine-day opening weekend to secure first place.

Bad Neighbours opened on Saturday, May 3, and with box office figures only counted from Friday to Sunday, it had the benefit of a longer stretch to rack up ticket sales.

The Other Woman dropped a place to number three, while animated sequel Rio 2 climbed up a spot to number four after boosting its weekly takings to £505,186.

Paul WS Anderson’s Pompeii completes the top five.

Elsewhere, the chart sees new entries from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Sabotage and the Met Opera’s live broadcast of La Cenerentola.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Bad Neighbours – £8,446,240
2. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £1,286,356
3. (2) The Other Woman – £928,788
4. (5) Rio 2 – £551,655
5. (3) Pompeii – £505,186
6. (4) Tarzan – £440,643
7. (-) Sabotage – £300,521
8. (-) La Cenerentola (Met Opera 2014) – £285,597
9. (6) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £252,908
10. (-) Frank – £202,747

Source: Rentrak

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Titanfall outsells FIFA 14 to top UK gaming chart

May 12th, 2014

Titanfall has edged out FIFA 14 to return to the top of the UK all-format gaming chart.

The Respawn shooter outsold FIFA 14 by less than 400 copies to reclaim top spot from The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Activision’s Amazing Spider-Man movie tie-in drops to third, above Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil in fourth and fifth.

Bound by Flame is this week’s only new entry at 12, clocking up 75% of its sales on PS4.

Trials Fusion drops one spot to prop up the chart at 20, below Batman: Arkham Origins and South Park: The Stick of Truth at 18 and 19.

The top 20 in full:
1. (2) Titanfall (Electronic Arts)
2. (3) FIFA 14 (Electronic Arts)
3. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Activision)
4. (6) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
5. (4) 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (Electronic Arts)
6. (5) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
7. (8) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
8. (10) Battlefield 4 (Electronic Arts)
9. (7) LEGO: The Hobbit (Warner Bros)
10. (11) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
11. (13) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (Electronic Arts)
12. (-) Bound by Flame (Focus Home Interactive)
13. (18) Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar Games)
14. (16) Infamous: Second Son (Sony)
15. (15) Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes (Konami)
16. (21) Thief (Square Enix)
17. (17) Assassin’s Creed 4 (Ubisoft)
18. (20) Batman: Arkham Origins (Warner Bros Interactive)
19. (12) South Park: The Stick of Truth (Ubisoft)
20. (19) Trials Fusion (Ubisoft)

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

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Mr Probz reclaims UK number one single

May 11th, 2014

Mr Probz has reclaimed the UK top spot with his single ‘Waves’.

The Dutch singer-songwriter was knocked off the top spot last week by Calvin Harris and his new single ‘Summer’. It’s the third time the song has topped the chart since March.

Missing out on the top spot by only 25,000 copies, ‘Summer’ drops to second.

Kiesza remains third with ‘Hideaway’, while John Legend’s ‘All Of Me’ climbs to fourth, knocking Sigma’s ‘Nobody To Love’ down to five.

Pitbull featuring G.R.L. debuts at six with new single ‘Wild Wild Love’, above Paloma Faith’s ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’, which rises 13 places to seven.

Tove Lo, Cash Cash and Iggy Azalea drop to eight, nine and ten with respective singles ‘Stay High’, ‘Take Me Home’ and ‘Fancy’.

Gary Barlow’s ‘Let Me Go’ is this week’s biggest climber, rocketing 52 places to 22 after this week’s documentary with James Corden.

Other new releases include ‘Holding onto Heaven’ by Foxes at 14, which is sandwiched between ‘Happy’ by Pharrell Williams and Shift K3y’s ‘Touch’.

Source: Official Charts Company

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Amazing Spider-Man 2 wins UK box office for third week

May 7th, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive weekend.

The superhero sequel, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, earned £1.9 million to secure first place ahead of romantic comedy The Other Woman (£1.4 million).

Amazing Spider-Man 2 has now earned £19.7 million from its three-week cinema run.

Pompeii and Tarzan, both new releases, debuted at numbers three and four respectively. Paul WS Anderson’s 3D disaster epic pulled in £1.1 million, while Tarzan earned £800,000.

Rio 2 rounds out the top five with £460,000, taking its UK total to £12.4 million after five weeks on release. Transcendence is this week’s biggest faller, dropping fives places to number eight.

Elsewhere, Seth Rogen and Zac Efron’s Bad Neighbours – which opened on Saturday, May 3 – earned more than £2 million over the weekend but will officially chart next week.

The comedy is expected to easily secure the number one spot with the benefit of a 9-day ‘opening’.

The UK box office top 10 in full:
1. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £1,984,667
2. (2) The Other Woman – £1,447,983
3. (-) Pompeii – £1,165,551
4. (-) Tarzan – £808,174
5. (4) Rio 2 – £460,886
6. (5) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £357,448
7. (6) Noah – £236,058
8. (3) Transcendence – £229,178
9. (10) Calvary – £203,752
10. (-) Plastic – £154,441

Source: Rentrak

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Amazing Spider-Man topples Titanfall in UK games chart

May 6th, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has ended Titanfall‘s reign at the top of the all-format chart.

Activision’s Spider-Man movie tie-in is the firm’s first number one since Call of Duty: Ghosts. It charts higher than 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man, despite a 5% drop in sales.

Titanfall drops one place to second, above a football double-header of FIFA 14 in third and 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil in fourth.

Ubisoft’s Child of Light is this week’s second highest new entry at nine, charting between The LEGO Movie Video Game and Battlefield 4.

The Deluxe Edition retail release contains bonus items and collectibles, as well as a download code for the game itself.

Dark Souls 2 benefits from the launch of the PC version, climbing four places from 18 to 14. It is followed by Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes and Infamous: Second Son.

Mario Golf: World Tour narrowly fails to break the top-20, charting at 22 in its first week on sale.

The top 20 in full:
1. (-) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Activision)
2. (1) Titanfall (Electronic Arts)
3. (4) FIFA 14 (Electronic Arts)
4. (2) 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (Electronic Arts)
5. (3) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
6. (6) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
7. (5) LEGO: The Hobbit (Warner Bros)
8. (8) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
9. (-) Child of Light (Ubisoft)
10. (10) Battlefield 4 (Electronic Arts)
11. (12) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
12. (7) South Park: The Stick of Truth (Ubisoft)
13. (9) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (Electronic Arts)
14. (18) Dark Souls 2 (Namco Bandai)
15. (16) Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes (Konami)
16. (15) Infamous: Second Son (Sony)
17. (11) Assassin’s Creed 4 (Ubisoft)
18. (13) Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar Games)
19. (14) Trials Fusion (Ubisoft)
20. (20) Batman: Arkham Origins (Warner Bros Interactive)

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Calvin Harris scores sixth UK number one single

May 4th, 2014

Calvin Harris has claimed his sixth UK number one single.

The Scottish DJ tops this week’s countdown with latest single ‘Summer’, which serves as the lead single from his upcoming fourth studio album.

He beats last week’s chart topper, ‘Waves’ by Mr Probz, to the top spot by nearly 7,000 copies.

Kiesza’s ‘Hideaway’ slips from two to three, while Sigma’s ‘Nobody To Love’ is also down one to four. John Legend’s ‘All Of Me’ completes this week’s top five.

Cash Cash (featuring Bebe Rexha) falls one place to six with ‘Take Me Home’, above ‘Stay High’ by Tove Lo at seven and Shift K3Y’s ‘Touch’, which is a non-mover at eight.

Iggy Azalea’s ‘Fancy’ climbs two spots to nine, above ‘Loyal’ by Chris Brown, which is up five spots to ten.

Paloma Faith rises 30 places to number 20 with her Diane Warren-penned single ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’.

Michael Jackson’s posthumous single ‘Love Never Felt So Good’, the lead single from new album Xscape, debuts at number 27 after just 24 hours on sale.

Alicia Keys and Kendrick Lamar’s Amazing Spider-Man 2 track ‘It’s On Again’ makes its Top 40 debut at number 39, while ‘Marilyn Monroe’ Pharrell Williams climbs 54 places to number 40.

Source: Official Charts Company

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Spider-Man beats The Other Woman at UK box-office

April 29th, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has retained its place at the top of the UK box office.

The Andrew Garfield-led superhero sequel earned £3.3 million on its second weekend on release to hold off competition from The Other Woman and Transcendence and secure first place.

Romantic comedy The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton, pulled in £2.6 million to easily outpace Transcendence‘s showing of £1.18 million.

Rio 2 charted at number four, while Captain America: The Winter Soldier completed the top five. Marvel’s sequel has now earned £18 million after five weeks on release in the UK, a total that’s nearly £10 million more than its predecessor The First Avenger.

Elsewhere, the Met Opera’s live cinema broadcast of Cosi Fan Tutte pulled in £362,487 to help it chart at number seven.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £3,366,372
2. (-) The Other Woman – £2,662,870
3. (-) Transcendence – £1,181,347
4. (2) Rio 2 – £882,505
5. (4) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £579,076
6. (3) Noah – £512,358
7. (-) Cosi Fan Tutte – £362,487
8. (5) The Love Punch – £345,981
9. (6) Divergent – £299,068
10. (7) Calvary – £296,216

Source: Rentrak

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Titanfall tops all-format chart

April 28th, 2014

Titanfall is the all-format number one for a third week running, and the fourth since it launched in March.

Respawn’s shooter is once again followed by 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, which charts above Call of Duty: Ghosts, despite a 42% drop in sales for the football title.

With FIFA 14 charting at four, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare in at nine and Battlefield 4 climbing to tenth, 50% of the top ten games are published by Electronic Arts.

At the tail-end of the chart, Disney Infinity and Batman: Arkham Origins climb five places a piece to re-enter at 19 and 20, below Thief and Dark Souls 2.

Elsewhere, Trials Fusion drops seven places to 14, above Infamous: Second Son and Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes.

The top 20 in full:
1. (1) Titanfall (Electronic Arts)
2. (2) 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (Electronic Arts)
3. (5) Call of Duty: Ghosts (Activision)
4. (4) FIFA 14 (Electronic Arts)
5. (3) LEGO: The Hobbit (Warner Bros)
6. (8) Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition (Microsoft)
7. (6) South Park: The Stick of Truth (Ubisoft)
8. (9) The LEGO Movie Videogame (Warner Bros Interactive)
9. (10) Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare (Electronic Arts)
10. (12) Battlefield 4 (Electronic Arts)
11. (11) Assassin’s Creed 4 (Ubisoft)
12. (17) LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Warner Bros Interactive)
13. (14) Grand Theft Auto 5 (Rockstar Games)
14. (7) Trials Fusion (Ubisoft)
15. (15) Infamous: Second Son (Sony)
16. (16) Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes (Konami)
17. (13) Thief (Square Enix)
18. (18) Dark Souls 2 (Namco Bandai)
19. (24) Disney Infinity (Disney Interactive Studios)
20. (25) Batman: Arkham Origins (Warner Bros Interactive)

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Mr Probz scores debut UK number one single with ‘Waves’

April 27th, 2014

Mr Probz has topped the UK Singles Chart with his debut release ‘Waves’.

The track – which has been remixed by German DJ and producer Robin Schulz – has sold 127,000 copies in the last seven days, and has also gone Top 10 in Belgium, France and The Netherlands.

Kiesza’s ‘Hideaway’ slips to two on this week’s countdown, while Sigma’s ‘Nobody To Love’ drops one place to three.

John Legend’s ‘All Of Me’ is a non-mover at four, while Cash Cash complete this week’s top five with ‘Take Me Home’, featuring Bebe Rexha.

DJ Cassidy claims his first UK Top 10 hit at six with ‘Calling All Hearts’, which features Robin Thicke and Jessie J.

Meanwhile, Neon Jungle have landed their second Top 10 single with ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ at number seven.

Shift K3Y’s ‘Touch’ slips five places to number eight, while Tove Lo’s ‘Stay High’ is down three to nine and Pharrell Williams’s ‘Happy’ is at ten after 23 weeks on the chart.

Elsewhere, Indiana makes her Official Singles Chart debut with ‘Solo Dancing’ at 14, while London-based singer-songwriter Joel Compass scores his first Top 40 hit with ‘Forgive Me’ at 34.

Justin Timberlake’s latest 20/20 Experience single ‘Not A Bad Thing’ climbs 59 places to number 35, and Lana Del Rey’s 2012 track ‘Gods & Monsters’ is at 39 after being featured in a new EastEnders advert.

Source: Official Charts Company

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 swings to top of UK box office

April 23rd, 2014

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has topped the UK cinema charts in its first weekend on release.

The superhero sequel, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, earned £9 million to see off competition from Rio 2 and Noah to lead the Bank Holiday box office.

Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s debut falls short of its predecessor, which earned £11 million when it opened in 2012.

Rio 2 climbed up a place from last week to number two, while Darren Aronofsky’s Noah fell down a spot to number three.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, last week’s chart-topper, slips down to number four just ahead of new release The Love Punch at five.

Elsewhere, Tom Hardy’s one-man thriller Locke and Bollywood film 2 States are new entries at numbers nine and ten respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £9,011,114
2. (3) Rio 2 – £1,132,641
3. (2) Noah – £920,803
4. (1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £831,901
5. (-) The Love Punch – £613,424
6. (4) Divergent – £500,206
7. (7) Calvary – £394,095
8. (6) Muppets Most Wanted – £366,312
9. (-) Locke – £251,063
10. (-) 2 States – £208,578

Source: Rentrak

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