www.musicweek.com CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 13 incorporating seven-inch, 12-inch, CDs, LPs, digital bundles, download sales and cassettes. © Official Charts Company 2012. THE OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS CHART


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WK 1 N ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) CHRT (PRODUCER)


MADONNA Mdna Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


2 231 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E) 1H (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


3 47 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E) 1H (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sand?)


4 562 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 15H (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


5 23 57 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3H (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


6 34 83 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3H (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


7 723 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3H (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


8 829 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3H (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


9 69 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


10 12 PAUL WELLER Sonik Kicks Island 2789805 (ARV) (Weller/Dine)


11 34 MILITARY WIVES In My Dreams Decca 2796665 (ARV) (Cohen)


12 29 19 RIHANNA Talk That Talk Def Jam 2787842 (ARV) 2H (Dr. Luke/Cirkut/Harrell/Harris/StarGate/Crawford/Da Internz/The-Dream/NO-ID/Swire/McGrillen/Hit-Boy/Alex Da Kid/Chase N Status/Dean)


13 15 28 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


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NOAH STEWART Noah Decca 2775385 (ARV) (tbc)


15 94 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Wrecking Ball Columbia 88691942541 (ARV) (Aniello/Springsteen)


GOTYE Making Mirrors Island 2792285 (ARV) (De Backer)


JUSTIN FLETCHER Hands Up?The Album Little Demon LTDMG024 (SDU) (Graham/Lew/Thomson)


SHINEDOWN Amaryllis Roadrunner 7567882574 (ADA Arv) (Cavallo)


IRON MAIDEN En Vivo! EMI 3015871 (E) (Shirley/Harris)


20 14 63 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 4H1H (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


MICHAEL BOLTON Gems - The Very Best Of Sony RCA 88691960322 (ARV) (Bolton/Bunetta/Chudacoff/Cain/Omartian/Child/Roche/Hamilton/Afanasieff/Mutt Lange/Sims/Huff/Foster/Rahman/Perez/Milo)


23 22 18 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t Know Epic/Syco 88697940942 (ARV) 1H (The Fearless/Argyle/Brammer/Robson/Future Cut/Frampton/Jordan-Patrikios/Smith/Fitzmaurice/Heelis/Prime/Metrophonic)


24 20 132 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6H (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


25 24 19 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 88697843642 (ARV) (Mac /Falk/Yacoub/Rawling/Meehan/Squire/Solomon/Meredith/Stannard/Howes/Gad/Robson/RedOne/BeatGeek/Jimmy


Joker/Rawling/Meehan/Gaudino/Rooney)


26 28 22 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV) 1l (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


27 26 22 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV) 1H (Epworth)


28 25 24 NOEL GALLAGHER?S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10(E)2H (Gallagher/Sardy)


29 21 17 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796331 (ARV) 1l (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


30 42 64 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2754184 (ARV) 1l (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


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ALTER BRIDGE Live At Wembley: European Tour 2011 DC3 TDF0110 (Catullo III/Pasamonte/tbc)


32 30 19 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST Watch The Throne Roc-a-fella/Mercury 2765057 (ARV) (West/Dean/Keith/Q-Tip/Pharrell/Don Jazzy/Hit-Boy/Kilhoffer/The Neptunes/RZA/Lewis/Bhasker/Swizz Beatz/Joseph/S1)


THE SHINS Port Of Morrow Aural Apothecary/Columbia 88691926701 (ARV) (Kurstin/Mercer)


ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Kids In The Street Interscope 2793103 (ARV) (Wells)


KATIE MELUA Secret Symphony Dramatico DRAMCD0078 (ADA Arv) (Batt)


36 41 72 RIHANNA Loud Def Jam 2752365 (ARV) 6H2H (StarGate/Vee/Harrell/Bozeman/The Runners/Riddick/PolowDaDon/Sham/Mel&Mus/Stewart/Dean/Soundz/Alex Da Kid)


37 35 30 MADONNA Celebration Warner Brothers 7599399819 (ARV) 1H (Madonna/Ahmadzai/Pettibone/Timberland/Timberlake/Danja/Jellybean/Kamins/Rodgers/Bray/Leonard/Orbit/Price/ ustin/Kravitz/Lucas/Babyface/Oakenfold)


38 18 3 MARCUS COLLINS Marcus Collins RCA 88691946862 (ARV)


Abba 75 Adele 4 Adele 24 All American Rejects 34 Alter Bridge 31 Bee Gees 56 Birdy 63 Black Keys, The 29 Blood Red Shoes 61 Blur 69 Bolton, Michael 22 Bon Jovi 72 Chase & Status 54


Civil Wars 64 Clarkson, Kelly 45 Coldplay 7 Collins, Marcus 38 Crowe/Hanslip/Bell/Lso/J enkins 49 Drake 43 Ferguson, Rebecca 60 Fleetwood Mac 71 Florence + Machine 27 Florence + Machine 47 Gotye 16 Guetta, David 2


Guetta, David 59 Guns N’ Roses 74 Houston, Whitney 50 Howard, Ben 42 Iron Maiden 19 Jay-Z & Kanye West 32 Jessie J 5 Jls 58 Justin Fletcher 17 Kiwanuka, Michael 21 Lmfao 13 Maccabees, The 40 Madonna 1


Madonna 37 Madonna 70 Mars Volta, The 51 Mars, Bruno 20 Maverick Sabre 46 Melua, Katie 35 Military Wives 11 Minaj, Nicki 30 Morrison, James 68 Mumford & Sons 66 Murs, Olly 23 Nero 67 Noah & The Whale 62


Noel Gallagher?S High Flying Birds 28 O’sullivan, Gilbert 55 One Direction 25 Perri, Christina 57 Perry, Katy 6 Rey, Lana Del 9 Richie, Lionel 39 Rihanna 12 Rihanna 36 Rizzle Kicks 26 Sande, Emeli 3 Script, The 53


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WK 39 17 4 ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) CHRT (PRODUCER) (Smith/Furmidge/Rawlings/Taylor/Meehan/Lee Mac)


LIONEL RICHIE Tuskegee Mercury 2787790 (ARV) (Brown/Richie/Chesney/Huff/Chapman)


40 45 11 THE MACCABEES Given To The Wild Fiction 2787389 (ARV) (The Maccabees/Goldsworthy/Ellingham)


41 38 20 SNOW PATROL Fallen Empires Fiction 2780117 (ARV) (Jacknife Lee)


42 47 20 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2771686 (ARV) 1l (Bond)


43 62 20 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV) 1l (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


44 33 32 WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA 88697940092 (ARV) 1H (Richard X/Eliot/Hofmann)


45 36 11 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


46 50 8


MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


47 44 125 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5H (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


48 67 44 THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 88697841451 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


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50 32 7 51 N


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CROWE/HANSLIP/BELL/LSO/JENKINS The Peacemakers EMI Classics 0843782 (E) (Jenkins/Barratt/Allen)


WHITNEY HOUSTON The Essential Whitney Houston Arista 88697829802 (ARV) (Masser/Walden/Foster/Kashif/Babyface/Crawford/Rawling/Taylor/Jerkins/Saadiq/Q-Tip/Jean/Duplessis/Soulshock & Karlin/Lipson/LA Reid/Jellybean)


THE MARS VOLTA Noctourniquet Warner Brothers 9362495184 (ARV) (Rodriguez Lopez)


52 75 18 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Greatest Hits Columbia 4785552 (ARV) 2H (Springsteen/Cretecos/Landau/Plotkin/Appel/Ludwig/V)


THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic (ARV) 2H1H (The Script)


54 55 61 CHASE & STATUS No More Idols Mercury 2745135 (ARV) 1H (Kennard/Milton/Nowels/Sub Focus/Plan B)


GILBERT O’SULLIVAN The Very Best Of USM Media USMTVCD002 (SDU) (O’Sullivan/Mills/Dudgeon/Dudgeon/Flannery)


56 48 27 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV) 1l (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


57 54 28 CHRISTINA PERRI Lovestrong Atlantic 7567889945 (ARV) 1l (Chiccarelli/Hodges)


58 51 20 JLS Jukebox Epic 88697940902 (ARV) 1H (Sandell/Thornfeldt/Jannusi/Bunetta/Jimmy Joker/BeatGeek/Teddy Sky/Atweh/Ghantous/Cutfather/Gill/Davidsen/Tennant/H-


Money/Barrett/Sharpe/Ball/Stafford-Clark/Braide/Frampton/Jordan-Patrikios)


59 59 66 DAVID GUETTA One Love Positiva/Virgin 6401220 (E) 1H1H (Guetta)


60 37 17 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88697888022 (ARV) 1H (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


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BLOOD RED SHOES In Time To Voices V2/Cooperative VVR795034 (ARV) (Crossey/Blood Red Shoes)


NOAH & THE WHALE Last Night On Earth Mercury/Young & Lost 2760096 (ARV) 1H (Fink/Lader)


63 72 14 BIRDY Birdy 14th Floor/Atlantic 5249859582 (ARV) 1l (Costey/Ford/Abbiss/P-Dub Walton)


CIVIL WARS Barton Hollow Columbia 88691941852 (ARV) (Peacock)


THE USED Vulnerable Hopeless HR7491 (ADA Arv) (Feldmann/tbc)


66 57 126 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island 2722538 (ARV) 4H1H (Dravs)


67 73 24 NERO Welcome Reality Mercury/MTA 2768195 (ARV) 1l (Stephens/Ray)


68 70 26 JAMES MORRISON The Awakening Island 2778944 (ARV) 1H (Butler/Taylor)


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72 R 73 R 74 R


BLUR The Best Of Food FOODCD33 (E) 2H (Blur/Street/Orbit/Lovell/Power/Hague/Hillier)


MADONNA Complete Studio Albums: 1983-2008 Rhino 8122797404 (ARV) (Madonna/Lucas/Jellybean/Bloodshy & Various)


71 52 10 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours Rhino 7599273132 (ARV) 11H (Fleetwood Mac/Dashut/Caillat)


BON JOVI Greatest Hits Mercury 2752339 (ARV) 2H1H (Fairbairn/Jovi/Ebbin/Sambora/Shanks/Rock/Collins/Benson)


YOU ME AT SIX Sinners Never Sleep Virgin CDV3093 (E) 1l (Garth)


GUNS N’ ROSES Greatest Hits Geffen 9861369 (ARV) 1l 3H (Various)


75 63 29 ABBA 18 Hits Polar 9831452 (ARV) 1H (Andersson/Ulvaeus)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Sheeran, Ed 8 Shinedown 18 Shins, The 33 Snow Patrol 41 Springsteen, Bruce 15 Springsteen, Bruce 52 Stewart, Noah 14 Used, The 65 Vaccines, The 48 Weller,Paul 10 Will Young 44 You Me At Six 73


Key H Platinum (300,000) lGold (100,000) lSilver (60,000) H 1m European sales


BPI Awards Albums


Seasick Steve: Man From Another Time (gold)


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