It’s the middle of November and all the big gameshow host CDs are out now (apart from Alexander Armstrong’s one which is out on the 24th). So what better time to see how they’re all doing than with that barometer of buyer’s taste – the Amazon charts!
Bradley Walsh – When You’re Smiling
- #11 in CDs and Vinyl
- #11 in digital music > Pop
- #21 in bestsellers
Jason Manford – A Different Stage
- #84 in CDs and Vinyl
- #4 in digital music > Opera and Vocal
- #575 in bestsellers
- #98 in CDs and Vinyl
- #173 in digital music > Pop
- #699 in bestsellers
Nick Knowles – Every Kind of People
- #133 in CDs and Vinyl
- #58 in digital music > Pop
- #196 in bestsellers
- #111 in CDs and vinyl (but #2 in Country)
- #91 in digital music > Pop
- #341 in bestsellers
Alright? Not ‘alf.
Edit: We go live to a live update from our chart correspondent Gwilym James:
Official Charts Midweek has Walsh 15th and 94th, Richie at 29th, Nick Knowles way out at 77th. https://t.co/BnA2rUN0WE
— Gwilym James (@gwilymjjames) 14 November 2017
Mint Royale on Twitter has been following the progress of TV’s Nick Knowles in the actual charts as he gets midweek figures through. On the weekend he said “If I had a penny for every album Nick Knowles has sold, I’d be nearly able to buy him a happy meal”. Yesterday he updated to say “Closing in on a third happy meal”.
As a Happy Meal is £2.69, that’d put sales yesterday at about 750/800ish. No idea if that’s good or not in the album charts these days – I’m suspecting not as great as they expected.
I expect they were hoping for a bit more than that, yes. Poor Nick Knowles.
Still, plenty of telly work.