38MusicWeek 13.04.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 14 C
CHARTBOUND
Based on midweek sales, the following releases are expected to debut in or around the Official Charts Company Top 75 singles and artist albums charts this Sunday.
UK SINGLES CHART JUSTIN BIEBER Boyfriend Def Jam
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
anadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen’s first single Call Me Maybe debuted at
USHER Climax RCA SWAY Level Up UMTV BREATHE CAROLINA Blackout Fearless/Columbia OTIS REDDING (Sittin’ On The) Dock Of The Bay Atlantic
R KELLY The World’s Greatest Jive PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION Purple Rain Warner Bros
PHIL OAKEY & GIORGIO MORODER Together In Electric Dreams Virgin
KANYE WEST/BIG SEAN/PUSHA T Mercy Mercury
ADELE Rolling In The Deep XL THE BEATLES Here Comes The Sun EMI YOU ME AT SIX No One Does It Better Virgin LANA DEL REY Blue Jeans Polydor
UK ALBUMS CHART ALABAMA SHAKES Boys & Girls Rough Trade COUNTING CROWS Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) Cooking Vinyl
RAMIN Ramin Masterworks FLORENCE + THE MACHINE MTV Unplugged Island
HALESTORM The Strange Case Of Roadrunner PLAN B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks 679/Atlantic
ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not Domino
M WARD A Wasteland Companion Bella Union
No.1 on Sunday, selling 106,657 copies. That’s the highest tally for a No.1 single for seven weeks, and the third highest in 14 chart weeks so far in 2012. Originally scheduled for release on 22 April, Call Me Maybe was brought forward after a rash of soundalike covers, four of which were in the Top 200 last week. Jepsen’s early release was tough on Sean Paul, whose She Doesn’t Mind would otherwise have ascended to No.1 but instead spent its third week at two, each behind a different song. She Doesn’t Mind sold 58,700 copies last week. Jepsen retained leadership on
Tuesday’s sales flashes with a further 32,000 sales proving enough to hold off a challenge from her pal, Justin Bieber, whose Boyfriend slams in at two, 4,000 behind. Gotye’s former No.1,
Somebody That I Used To Know
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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icki Minaj debuted at No.1 on Sunday with her second album, Pink
BLUR The Best Of Food CIVIL WARS Barton Hollow Columbia ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid Fiction BIRDY Birdy 14th Floor/Atlantic LADY GAGA The Fame Interscope MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island
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Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012
Friday: Roman Reloaded selling 47,462 copies to take the title. The album – which houses current hit Starships – arrived with considerably more force than Minaj’s debut album Pink Friday, which debuted at 34 (13,304 sales) in November 2010 and peaked 26 weeks later at 16. However, Minaj’s chances of spending a second week at No.1 look slim – Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded dipped to three on the first sales flashes of the week on Tuesday, with a meagre 4,700 sales leaving it trailing Adele’s 21 and American newcomers Alabama Shakes, whose debut album Boys & Girls holds a small lead at the summit but will do well to hold on for the entire week. Leading the chasing pack last
Sunday, Labrinth’s debut album, Electronic Earth, entered at two (32,281 sales), following the top five success of three of its songs: Let The Sun Shine (No.3), Earthquake (two, feat. Tinie Tempah) and Last Time (four). On a more surreal note,
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Carly Rae Jespen MIDWEEK NO.1
an excellent version of the band’s The Man Who Can’t Be Moved, The Script are enjoying increased sales. The aforementioned song – a No.2 hit for the group in 2008 – re-entered the Top 75 at 18 (18,903 sales boosting its career tally to 533,630) on Sunday, while the band’s eponymous debut album, from which it was taken, catapulted 53-31 (5,879 sales). The Script’s second album, Science & Faith, was also resurgent, jumping 82- 52 (3,397 sales). Climbing for the sixth week
sold more than 50,000 copies for the 10th week in a row, and climbed 5-3 on Sunday, with sales up 4.50% at 53,884. Its career sales now stand at 802,544. Number one the week before,
Chris Brown’s Turn Up The Music slid to five (40,941 sales). Alex Day – former Sons Of
Admirals singer, ongoing YouTube sensation and protégé of Jonathan King – debuted at 15
(20,414 sales) with Lady Godiva. A cover of a song that Peter & Gordon took to No.16 in 1966, it is Day’s second solo single, following Forever Yours, which debuted at four (52,881 sales) last Christmas, only to plunge to 112 the following week. With Danny O’Donoghue as
one of The Voice’s resident coaches, and former supermarket worker David Julien performing
in a row, Azealia Banks’ debut hit 212 (feat. Lazy Jay) has moved 116-67-46-24-20-14-12. It sold 25,381 copies last week, raising its career sales to 104,376. Oh My Goodness – the third
single from Olly Murs’ second album In Case You Didn’t Know – continues to grow. On the verge of becoming the album’s third Top 10 single, it jumped 28- 13 (23,772 sales). Overall singles sales were up
8.75% week-on-week at 3,494,591 - 20.83% above same- week 2011 sales of 2,892,083.
rewarded with No.1s. Now, 40 years after Jethro Tull’s iconic prog. rock concept album Thick As A Brick – which contained one track running 44 minutes – band leader Ian Anderson has released Thick As A Brick 2. Although it can’t match the original album’s No.5 chart placing, it is the first solo album by the 64-year-old Scot to chart, and debuts at 35 (5,205 sales). Among 15 Top 75 debuts on
Alabama Shakes MIDWEEK NO.1
and Lady GooGoo are among the characters on the Moshi Monsters’ debut album Music Rox! which debuted strongly at No.4 (24,954 sales). Although charting without radio or TV play, the Moshi Monsters are an exceptional online phenomenon, with their own networking website for kids, and a string of popular music videos to their credit. Welsh rockers Lostprophets
third album Liberation Transmission earned the band its maiden No.1 on first-week sales of 66,425 in 2006. Follow-up
The Betrayed made a lesser impression, entering at three on sales of 31,873 copies in 2010, and the downward spiral continued with fifth album Weapons selling 15,886 copies to debut at nine on Sunday. Recording sequels to classic
albums can be a lucrative business as Mike Oldfield andMeat Loaf can attest. Oldfield waited 19 years after the release of Tubular Bells to issue Tubular Bells II, and Meat Loaf put out Bat Out Of Hell II – Back Into Hell in 1993, some 15 years after Bat Out Of Hell. Both were
Sunday – the second highest tally of the year – were three more by veteran acts: family favourites The Osmonds charted a new studio album for the first time in 37 years with Can’t Get There Without You (No.56, 3,055 sales); New Orleans jazz/blues/ R&B legend Dr. Johnmade only his second visit to the chart, with Locked Down (No.51, 3,409 sales); and blues/rock singer Bonnie Raitt’s seventh chart album – and first since a 2003 Best Of – Slipstream debuted at No.64 (2,672 sales). Overall album sales were up
28.92% week-on-week at 1,998,176 – 18.93% above same- week 2011 sales of 1,680,176 and 20.39% above the comparative and, frankly, dire immediate pre- Easter trading week of 2011, when 1,659,775 albums were sold.
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