Classic FM Chart: Hans Zimmer's score for 'Dunkirk' stays at no. 1 for a second week
6 August 2017, 18:55 | Updated: 7 August 2017, 10:22
For the second week since entering the chart, Hans Zimmer’s eerie score for Dunkirk is no. 1. Einaudi’s Islands also holds on to its no. 2 spot but is accompanied by three new entries the top ten. The first new entry is at no. 3 - Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra playing Cipriani Potter’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and No. 4. - while John Sheppard’s Media Vita enters the chart at no. 4. Peaceful Piano is a non-mover at no. 5 and Game of Thrones: Season Six continues to climb the chart up to no. 6. The third new entry in the top ten this week is Royal Harpist Claire Jones’s new album This Love which enters the chart at no. 7. Meanwhile, the soundtrack for The Little Mermaid is up seven places from no. 16 to just inside the top ten at no. 9 with Einaudi’s Elements at no. 10.
In the middle third of the chart, Karl Jenkin’s The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace re-enters at no. 12, while 2Cellos’s Score is this week’s highest climber, jumping nine places from no. 25 to no. 16. The lower third of the chart sees the fourth new entry this week, Marc-Andre Hamelin’s For Bunita Marcus, entering the chart at no. 21, accompanied by a further three re-entries: Hans Zimmer’s The Classics, Elgar’s Symphony No. 2 conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Anne Dudley’s soundtrack for Poldark. Finally, there are several big fallers this week, including War for the Planet of the Apes, down nineteen places from no. 3 to no. 22; Carly Paoli’s Singing My Dreams, down sixteen places from no. 7 to no. 23; Spiderman: Homecoming, down fourteen places from no. 10 to no. 24; and finally Max Richter’s Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works down eleven places from no. 14 and no. 25.
This Week | Last Week | Title & Artist |
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1 | 1 | DUNKIRK - OST, HANS ZIMMER Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
2 | 2 | ISLANDS - ESSENTIAL EINAUDI, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
3 | NEW | POTTER/PIANO CONCERTOS NOS 2 & 4, TASMANIAN SO/SHELLEY Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
4 | NEW | SHEPPARD/MEDIA VITA, WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL CH/BAKER Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
5 | 5 | PEACEFUL PIANO, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
6 | 8 | GAME OF THRONES - SEASON 6 - OST, RAMIN DJAWADI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
7 | NEW | THIS LOVE, CLAIRE JONES Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
8 | 4 | THE 50 GREATEST PIECES OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, LPO/PARRY Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
9 | 16 | THE LITTLE MERMAID - OST, ALAN MENKEN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
10 | 11 | ELEMENTS, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
11 | 9 | GLADIATOR - OST, HANS ZIMMER & LISA GERRARD Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
12 | RE | THE ARMED MAN - A MASS FOR PEACE, KARL JENKINS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
13 | 19 | THE LORD OF THE RINGS - TRILOGY - OST, HOWARD SHORE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
14 | 15 | WONDER WOMAN - OST, RUPERT GREGSON WILLIAMS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
15 | 21 | BEHIND THE COUNTER WITH MAX RICHTER, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
16 | 25 | SCORE, 2CELLOS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
17 | 13 | GREATEST HITS 1969-1999, JOHN WILLIAMS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
18 | 18 | SUMMERTIME, CRAIG OGDEN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
19 | 22 | IN A TIME LAPSE, LUDOVICO EINAUDI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
20 | 27 | LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS - THE ULTIMATE, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
21 | NEW | FELDMAN/FOR BUNITA MARCUS, MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
22 | 3 | WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES - OST, MICHAEL GIACCHINO Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
23 | 7 | SINGING MY DREAMS, CARLY PAOLI Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
24 | 10 | SPIDER-MAN - HOMECOMING - OST, MICHAEL GIACCHINO Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
25 | 14 | THREE WORLDS - MUSIC FROM WOOLF WORKS, MAX RICHTER Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
26 | RE | ZIMMER/THE CLASSICS, VARIOUS ARTISTS Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
27 | 20 | THE BLUE NOTEBOOKS, MAX RICHTER Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
28 | RE | ELGAR/SYMPHONY NO 2, STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN/BARENBOIM Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
29 | 30 | THE LORD OF THE RINGS - OST, HOWARD SHORE Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |
30 | RE | POLDARK - OST, ANNE DUDLEY Buy from Amazon - Download from iTunes |