10 January 2018

Wednesday

2018-01-10

Events

 * OfficialCharts.com reveals that 5 million records by David Bowie have been sold in the UK across physical sales, digital downloads and stream-equivalent sales since his death two years ago. Bowie’s 25th and final studio album Blackstar has become Bowie’s most popular album since his death, shifting 446,000 copies across all formats, while his 2008 hits collection Best Of Bowie is up in second place (335,000)and the more recent retrospective compilation Legacy, released in 2016, is third (247,000). "Heroes" remains Bowie's biggest selling single followed by Under Pressure, recorded with Queen in 1981, with the iconic seventies opus Life On Mars in third place. (source: officialcharts.com)

TV

 * Hansa Studios- By The Wall 1976-90 - Bowie Promo Arts 9.00 pm Hansa Studios: By the Wall 1976-90. (review here)
 * ITV 8.00 pm Britain's Brightest Family. A brand new quiz in which 16 brilliantly bright families take part in a knock out tournament as they attempt to win the holiday of a lifetime and the title of Britain’s Brightest Family.