Monday Box-Set: Robbie Williams, Belle & Sebastian Top UK Charts, Little Comets Track Of The Week & UK Gig Guide


Start your week right here as Live4ever’s music collection offers you all the weekend’s main and indie chart news, our pick of the week’s new tracks, and you can also plan your next seven days with our UK Gig Guide where you will find tickets for some of the best shows currently going on across Britain, which this week includes Robert Plant and The Boxer Rebellion.

The Walkmen - Lisbon




Robbie Williams’ new Greatest Hits collection is at number one this week on the UK’s Album Chart, displacing Tinie Tempah’sDisc-Overy’ which drops to no.2. Outside the top ten, Sufjan Stevens’ new record ‘The Age Of Adz’ lands at #30.

Belle and Sebastian’s new record ‘Write About Love’ is on top of this week’s UK Indie Album chart, ahead of other new entries from Antony and The Johnsons and Sufjan Stevens which are at #3 and #4 respectively. The Walkmen’s brilliant new album ‘Lisbon’ debuts at number nine. In the UK Indie Singles chart Katy B swaps places with Adele to claim this week’s number one.

Top 10 Albums:

1/ Robbie Williams – Greatest Hits 1990-2010
2/ Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy
3/ Cliff Richard – Bold As Brass
4/ The Script – Science & Faith
5/ Magnetic Man – Magnetic Man
6/ Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
7/ Plan B – The Defamation Of Strickland Banks
8/ Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
9/ Alter Bridge – AB III
10/ Phil Collins – Going Back

Top 10 Singles:

1/ Cee Lo Green – Forget You
2/ Bruno Mars – Just The Way You Are (Amazing)
3/ Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand
4/ Swedish House Mafia vs. Tinie Tempah – Miami 2 Ibiza
5/ Tinie Tempah – Written In The Stars
6/ Joe McElderry  – Ambitions
7/ Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow – Shame
8/ Labrinth – Let The Sunshine
9/ Mike Posner – Cooler Than Me
10/ Usher – DJ Got Us Falling In Love

UK Indie Album Chart:

1/ Belle and Sebastian – Write About Love
2/ The xx – xx
3/ Antony and The Johnsons – Swanlights
4/ Sufjan Stevens – The Age Of Adz
5/ Adele – 19
6/ Danny Byrd – Rave Digger
7/ Bring Me The Horizon – There Is a Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It
8/ Simply Red – Songs Of Love
9/ The Walkmen – Lisbon
10/ Example – Won’t Go Quietly

UK Indie Singles Chart:

1/ Katy B – Katy On a Mission
2/ Adele – Make You Feel My Love
3/ Alex Gaudino – I’m In Love (I Wanna Do It)
4/ DJ Fresh – Gold Dust
5/ Greg Sweet – Turn My Swag On
6/ Example – Kickstarts
7/ Danny Byrd – Ill Behaviour
8/ Allie Moss – Corner
9/ Israel Kamakawiwo’ole – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
10/ Example – Last Ones Standing

Our pick of the week’s new tracks is North East four-piece Little Comet’s single ‘Isles’.

If you’re wanting to get out to a gig this week find out where tickets are still available for some of the best shows currently going on across Britain with our latest UK Gig Guide. Click on the featured bands to view their full tour details, and if your city or favourite band isn’t featured this week, you can search any event and browse all the featured tours over on our dedicated tickets page.

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BELFAST:

Sunday – The Duke and The King @ Empire Music Hall BUY TICKETS

BIRMINGHAM:

Saturday – The Charlatans @ O2 Academy BUY TICKETS

BRISTOL:

Wednesday – The Boxer Rebellion @ The Fleece BUY TICKETS

CARDIFF:

Tuesday – Yeasayer @ Millennium Music Hall BUY TICKETS

GLASGOW:

Wednesday – Jeff Beck @ Clyde Auditorium, SECC BUY TICKETS

LEEDS:

Wednesday – Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip @ Leeds Uni BUY TICKETS

LIVERPOOL:

Thursday Robert Plant @ Olympia BUY TICKETS

LONDON:

Thursday – The Gaslight Anthem @ Hammersmith Apollo BUY TICKETS

MANCHESTER:

Friday – Badly Drawn Boy @ RNCM BUY TICKETS

NORWICH:

Sunday – Crystal Castles – U.E.A BUY TICKETS

NOTTINGHAM:

Thursday – Hadouken @ Ultra! Gatecrasher BUY TICKETS

OXFORD:

Sunday – Marina and The Diamonds @ The Regal BUY TICKETS

SHEFFIELD:

Saturday – Mystery Jets @ The Leadmill BUY TICKETS

(all gigs listed have tickets still available as of Monday, 18th October 2010)


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