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The Killers leading Guns N' Roses in epic chart battle
11:17 | Tuesday November 25, 2008
The Killers have taken the lead in the competition to top this week’s albums chart, with their Day And Age (Vertigo) outselling Guns N’ Roses long-awaited new album Chinese Democracy (Polydor) by around 20,000 copies, in what is likely to be one of the biggest chart battles of the year.
In its first day of sale Day And Age sold 70,764 copies to Chinese Democracy’s 50,791, according to midweek sales figures that see five new entries in the top ten.
These are: Rhydian’s eponymous debut album (Syco) at three, with 33,937 sales; The Priests’ eponymous debut (Epic) at four with 19,688 sales and Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreaks (Mercury) at six with 16,530 sales.
Only Men Aloud’s self-titled debut (UCJ) is currently sat at 11, on sales 11,276, while Coldplay’s Prospekt’s March EP (Parlophone) is at 18 on sales of 8,161.
Elsewhere, new albums from the Salvation Army (UCJ), Alesha Dixon (Asylum), Lemar (Epic) and John Barrowman (Epic) look set for top forty entries, while new albums from Lesley Garrett (UCJ) and Paul McCartney’s The Fireman (One Little Indian), Linkin Park’s live album Road To Revolution – Live At Milton Keynes (Warner Bros), Craig David’s Greatest Hits (Warner Bros) and the soundtrack to Britannia High (Fascination) look set to enter the top 70.
On the singles chart Take That’s Greatest day looks certain to top the chart on Sunday, after selling 24,666 units on day of release, ahead of current chart topper, Beyoncé’s If I were A Boy.
The full midweek charts are available from musicweek.com.
Readers' comments
Come on Rhydian you deserver to be number one - amazing voice and superby album - I absolutely love every number. Your next album will be your own and not covers - I can't wait.
fuck the killers. Chinese democracy may be the best album ever
On the position of Rhydian's CD in the chart sales, I wish to point out that in many outlets across the UK, thus sold out in the first day, and was not re-stocked - fans have been complaining from all points of the UK. Perhaps SYCO should look into this ?
I went and bought Day & Age on Monday, and have been listening to it since then, this deserves no1 over an x factor guy that didnt win, a band with an album that isnt revolutionary and has take so long to come out. The Killers deserve this
the killers are one of the greatest bands around while the singer from guns n roses sounds like a whiny bitch. the reason it took 14 years to make one album is cause they couldn't come up with anything new or good.
The killers suck and are nothing more than a second rate Green Day. Perhaps when they've sold as many records as Guns N' Roses I might take notice . . . Until then I'll be listening to one of the best rock albums ever made!