www.musicweek.com CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 14 incorporating seven-inch, 12-inch, CDs, LPs, digital bundles, download sales and cassettes. © Official Charts Company 2012.


THE OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS CHART 1 N


THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER)


NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded Cash Money/Island 2796668 (ARV) (Various)


2 N 4 N 5 3 8


LABRINTH Electronic Earth Syco 88691932932 (ARV) (Labrinth/Da Digglar/Ghenea/McKenzie/Williams)


3 4 63 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 15 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


MOSHI MONSTERS Music Rox Moshi Monsters 88691957882 (ARV) (Sen/Cleverley)


EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E)  (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sande)


6 2 32 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E)  (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


7 12 MADONNA Mdna Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


8 5 58 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


9 N


LOSTPROPHETS Weapons Epic 88691944092 (ARV) (Andrews/Richardson/Hopfer/Dodangoda/Lostprophets)


10 8 30 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


11 9 10 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


12 16 8


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


13 7 24 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


14 11 5 MILITARY WIVES In My Dreams Decca 2796665 (ARV) (Cohen)


15 24 133 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6 (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


16 13 29 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


17 12 20 RIHANNA Talk That Talk Def Jam 2787842 (ARV) 2 (Dr. Luke/Cirkut/Harrell/Harris/StarGate/Crawford/Da Internz/The-Dream/NO-ID/Swire/McGrillen/Hit-Boy/Alex Da Kid/Chase N Status/Dean)


18 6 84 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


19 25 20 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 88691930722 (ARV) (Mac /Falk/Yacoub/Rawling/Meehan/Squire/Solomon/Meredith/Stannard/Howes/Gad/Robson/RedOne/BeatGeek/Jimmy Joker/Rawling/Meehan/Gaudino/Rooney)


20 21 4 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


21 17 5 22 N


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


ORBITAL Wonky ACP ACPCD1201 (ADA Arv) (Hartnoll/Hartnoll)


23 23 19 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t Know Epic/Syco 88697940942 (ARV) 2 (The Fearless/Argyle/Brammer/Robson/Future Cut/Frampton/Jordan-Patrikios/Smith/Fitzmaurice/Heelis/Prime/Metrophonic)


24 20 64 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 4 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


25 10 3 26 39 5 27 14 2


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


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


NOAH STEWART Noah Decca 2775385 (ARV) (Seitz/Baker)


28 26 23 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV)  (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


29 28 25 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


30 15 5


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


31 53 82 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic 88697361942 (ARV) 2 (The Script)


32 22 4 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)


33 29 18 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796331 (ARV)  (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


34 N 35 N


SEAN PAUL Tomahawk Technique Atlantic/VP 7567882538 (ARV) (Blanco/Love/StarGate/tbc)


IAN ANDERSON Thick As A Brick 2 EMI TAAB2 (E) (Anderson/tbc)


36 27 23 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV)  (Epworth)


37 46 9 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


38 R


Adele 3 Adele 15 All The Young 41 Anderson, Ian 35 Bee Gees 59 Black Keys, The 33 Black Keys, The 67 Bolton, Michael 32 Chase & Status 57 Clarkson, Kelly 61 Coldplay 13 Collins, Marcus 43 Coxon,Graham 39


STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2 1780699 (ARV) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER) 39 N 41 N


GRAHAM COXON A&E Parlophone P3277312 (E) (Hillier)


40 30 65 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2754184 (ARV)  (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


ALL THE YOUNG Welcome Home 14th Floor 2564660401 (ARV) (GGGarth)


42 36 73 RIHANNA Loud Def Jam 2752365 (ARV) 62 (StarGate/Vee/Harrell/Bozeman/The Runners/Riddick/PolowDaDon/Sham/Mel&Mus/Stewart/Dean/Soundz/Alex Da Kid)


43 38 4 MARCUS COLLINS Marcus Collins RCA 88691946862 (ARV) (Smith/Furmidge/Rawlings/Taylor/Meehan/Lee Mac)


44 N 45 N


KILLING JOKE MMXII Spinefarm 2796310 (ARV) (Killing Joke/tbc)


DEMI LOVATO Unbroken Hollywood/Polydor 0050087149604 (ARV) (Dreamlab/Timbaland/Harmon/Tedder/Zancanella/Rock Mafia/Karaoglu/Beanz/Kiriakou/Alexander/Steinberg/Gad/Bleu/Wizz Dumb/tbc)


46 32 20 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)


47 42 21 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2780336 (ARV)   (Bond)


48 35 5


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


49 47 126 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


50 44 33 WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA 88697940092 (ARV)  (Richard X/Eliot/Hofmann)


51 N 52 R


DR JOHN Locked Down Nonesuch 7559796236 (ARV) (Auerbach)


THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 88697754492 (ARV)  (Sheehan/O’Donoghue/Frampton/Kipner)


53 43 21 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV)  (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


54 60 18 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88697888022 (ARV)  (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


55 48 45 THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 88697841451 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


56 N


THE OSMONDS Can’t Get There Without You Osmonds Ent. OSMONDSCD1 (Absolute Arvato) (tbc)


57 54 62 CHASE & STATUS No More Idols Mercury 2745135 (ARV)  (Kennard/Milton/Nowels/Sub Focus/Plan B)


58 52 19 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Greatest Hits Columbia 4785552 (ARV) 2 (Springsteen/Cretecos/Landau/Plotkin/Appel/Ludwig/V)


59 56 28 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV)  (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


60 37 31 MADONNA Celebration Warner Brothers 7599399819 (ARV)  (Madonna/Ahmadzai/Pettibone/Timberland/Timberlake/Danja/Jellybean/Kamins/Rodgers/Bray/Leonard/Orbit/Price/ Austin/Kravitz/Lucas/Babyface/Oakenfold)


61 45 12 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


62 41 21 SNOW PATROL Fallen Empires Fiction 2780117 (ARV) (Jacknife Lee)


63 N 64 N


SETH LAKEMAN Tales From The Barrel House Honour Oak HNRCD01 (PROP) (Seth Lakeman/tbc)


BONNIE RAITT Slipstream Proper PRPCD097 (PROP) (tbc)


65 40 12 THE MACCABEES Given To The Wild Fiction 2787389 (ARV) (The Maccabees/Goldsworthy/Ellingham)


66 58 21 JLS Jukebox Epic 88697940902 (ARV)  (Various)


67 R


THE BLACK KEYS Brothers Cooperative/V2 VVR737198 (rom arv)  (Black Keys/Neill/Danger Mouse)


68 62 50 NOAH & THE WHALE Last Night On Earth Mercury/Young & Lost 2760096 (ARV)  (Fink/Lader)


69 59 67 DAVID GUETTA One Love Positiva/Virgin 6401220 (E)  (Guetta)


70 68 27 JAMES MORRISON The Awakening Island 2778944 (ARV)  (Butler/Taylor)


71 57 29 CHRISTINA PERRI Lovestrong Atlantic 7567889945 (ARV)  (Chiccarelli/Hodges)


72 50 8 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)


73 71 11 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours Rhino 7599273132 (ARV) 11 (Fleetwood Mac/Dashut/Caillat)


74 33 3 75 R


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


CARO EMERALD Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor Dramatico/Grand Mono DRAMCD0064 (ADA Arv)  (Schreurs/Wieringen)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Dr John 51 Drake 53 Emerald, Caro 75 Ferguson, Rebecca 54 Fleetwood Mac 73 Florence + The Machine 36


Florence + The Machine 49 Gotye 12 Guetta, David 6 Guetta, David 69 Houston, Whitney 72


Howard, Ben 47 Jay-Z & Kanye West 46 Jessie J 8 JLS 66 Justin Fletcher 21 Killing Joke 44 Kiwanuka, Michael 20 Labrinth 2 Lakeman, Seth 63 Lmfao 16 Lostprophets 9 Lovato, Demi 45 Maccabees, The 65


Madonna 7 Madonna 60 Mars, Bruno 24 Maverick Sabre 37 Melua, Katie 48 Military Wives 14 Minaj, Nicki 1 Minaj, Nicki 40 Morrison, James 70 Moshi Monsters 4 Murs, Olly 23 Noah & The Whale 68 Noel Gallagher’s High


Flying Birds 29 One Direction 19 Orbital 22 Osmonds, The 56 Paul, Sean 34 Perri, Christina 71 Perry, Katy 18 Raitt, Bonnie 64 Rey, Lana Del 11 Richie, Lionel 26 Rihanna 17 Rihanna 42 Rizzle Kicks 28


Sande, Emeli 5 Script, The 31 Script, The 52 Sheeran, Ed 10 Shins, The 74 Snow Patrol 62 Springsteen, Bruce 30 Springsteen, Bruce 58 Stereophonics 38 Stewart, Noah 27 Vaccines, The 55 Weller,Paul 25 Young, Will 50


Key Platinum (300,000) Gold (100,000) Silver (60,000) 1m European sales


BPI Awards Singles Jessie J: Nobody’s Perfect (silver); The Wanted” Lightning (silver); Avicii: Levels (silver); Taio Cruz: Higher (silver); Rizzle Kicks: Mama Do The Hump (silver); James Morrison: I won’t Let You Go (silver); Jessie J: Domino (silver); Dev: Bass Down Low (silver); Drake: Take Care (silver); Jessie J:


Who You Are (silver); The Wanted: Glad You Came (gold); Nicki Minaj: Super Bass (gold)


Albums Ben Howard: Every Kingdom (gold); Gotye: Making Mirrors (gold); Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday (platinum); The Wanted: Battleground (platinum); Olly Murs: In Case You Didn’t Know (2 x platinum)


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