Chart Watch - CD Vinyl Sales Analysis - New Release News - Christmas Week

<p>With no album managing to top 20,000 chart sales in the past week, Taylor Swift did what I predicted and found herself back in the number one position with 17,109 sales<br> 5,055 CDs<br> 4,147 vinyl albums<br> 14 cassettes<br> 3 digital downloads<br> 7,690 sales-equivalent streams.</p> <p>Cliff Richard made it back to number 2 with 15,837 sales<br> 14,743 CDs, and<br> 305 vinyl albums.<br> 344 downloads<br> 445 from sales-equivalent streams.</p> <p>Michael Buble got to number 3 with 14,300 sales. It has made the top three in five different years, including all of the last three.</p> <p>Together the top three artists sold 46,946 albums.<br> That’s just 4.59% of the biggest ever combined sales for a top three Christmas album chart</p> <p>In 2000 The Beatles compilation was at number 1 with (422,042 sales), followed by Westlife’s second album, Coast To Coast (305,245 sales) and Robbie Williams’ third solo album, Sing When You’re Winning third (295,802 sales) was at number 3.</p> <p>The overall overall top three back then equaled 1,023,089 sales (976,117 CDs, 46,013 cassettes, 566 vinyl albums and 393 minidiscs).</p> <p>The combined sales of this week’s top three would suffice only for a No.37 position now.</p> <p><strong>New Release Highlights – all March 2023 apart from 10CC</strong></p> <p><strong>HAWKWIND</strong> Days Of The Underground – The Studio &amp; Live Recordings 1977-1979(10CD)</p> <p><strong>RANDY CRAWFORD</strong><br> You Might Need Somebody<br> (3CD)</p> <p><strong>ARROWS</strong><br> The Complete Collection<br> (2CD)</p> <p><strong>JADE WARRIOR</strong><br> The Island Albums 1974-78<br> (4CD)</p> <p><strong>FOGHAT</strong><br> Road Fever – The Complete Bearsville Recordings 1972-1975<br> (6CD)</p> <p><strong>10cc</strong><br> How Dare You! / Deceptive Bends<br> Releasing 27 February 2023<br> The Original Soundtrack / Bloody Tourists<br> Releasing 28 April 2023</p> <p><a href="https://www.nowspinning.co.uk"><strong>Phil Aston | Now Spinning Magazine</strong></a></p>