{"id":112776,"date":"2020-05-11T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/uk_charts_animal_crossing_new_horizons_reclaims_number_one_just_ahead_of_gta_v"},"modified":"2020-05-11T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:30:00","slug":"uk-charts-animal-crossing-new-horizons-reclaims-number-one-just-ahead-of-gta-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/uk-charts-animal-crossing-new-horizons-reclaims-number-one-just-ahead-of-gta-v\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Charts: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Reclaims Number One, Just Ahead Of GTA V"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/74c83eaecd928\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/74c83eaecd928\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/74c83eaecd928\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/74c83eaecd928\/animal-crossing-new-horizons.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Animal Crossing New Horizons\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>UK chart data is now in for the week ending 9th May, revealing that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\"><strong>Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/strong><\/a> has managed to jump back into top spot.<\/p>\n<p>The game sold more copies than its regular rival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fifa_20\"><strong>FIFA 20<\/strong><\/a> this week, with EA&#8217;s footie sim actually dropping to third place. Sitting between them in second place is <strong>Grand Theft Auto V<\/strong>, the six-year-old game that somehow manages to find itself in the top ten almost every single week, even now.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few more Nintendo-published games to be found in the top ten, including a nice jump for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/new_super_mario_bros_u_deluxe\">New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe<\/a><\/strong> which has risen from 22nd place to tenth.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at this week&#8217;s top ten all formats chart:<\/p>\n<p>[Compiled by GFK]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/05\/uk_charts_animal_crossing_new_horizons_and_fifa_20_continue_to_fight_for_top_spot\">&lt; Last week&#8217;s charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Did you buy any of these chart-topping games this week? Let us know down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK chart data is now in for the week ending 9th May, revealing that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has managed to jump back into top spot. The game sold more copies than its regular rival FIFA 20 this week, with EA&#8217;s footie sim actually dropping to third place. Sitting between them in second place is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}