38MusicWeek 20.04.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 15 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 CONOR MAYNARD Can’t Say No Parlophone B.O.B. So Good Atlantic MARINA & THE DIAMONDS Primadonna 679
BIRDY Skinny Love 14th Floor/Atlantic TRAIN Drive By Columbia
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arly Rae Jepsen’s debut single Call Me Maybe remained in pole position
MAXWELL This Woman’s Work Sony JOHN LEGEND Ordinary People Columbia KATE BUSH This Woman’s Work Fish People ED SHEERAN The A Team Asylum SEAL Kiss From A Rose Warner Bros KEANE Silenced By The Night Island 4 NON BLONDES What’s Up Interscope BLACK EYED PEAS Where Is The Love A&M LISSIE Go You Own Way Columbia
UK ALBUMS CHART JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word Atlantic
TRAIN California 37 Columbia SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart Sweet Light Double Six
JOHN LEGEND Get Lifted Columbia DRAGONFACE The Power Within Electric Generation
ANATHEMA Weather Systems K Scope
for a second week, with sales increasing 3.20% to 110,024. And right behind her is Justin Bieber, who took a great interest in his fellow Canadian, making her the first signing to Schoolboy Records, which he runs with Scooter Braun. He even helped promote the song via an unofficial video in which he stars with girlfriend Selena Gomez. Having helped to create the monster, Bieber now finds himself playing second fiddle, with new single Boyfriend beating 2010 smash Baby (which also features Ludacris, and peaked at No.3) to become his highest charting single but having to settle for a No.2 debut (54,817 sales). The Jepsen/Bieber double marked the first time ever that the top two singles in the chart have been by Canadians. Looking forward to this weekend, Jepsen could remain at No.1, with Call Me Maybe topping Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes with a 7.80% lead over Conor
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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n lethargic post-Easter trading, it’s unclear which of three titles will top the artist album chart
this weekend. Jason Mraz’s fourth album, Love Is A Four Letter Word took the lead on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, with a 35% advantage over Adele’s 21 in second place, and a 56% lead over Jessie J’s Who You Are at three. In absolute terms, however, Mraz’s album sold only 1,700 copies more than 21 – with Who You Are a further 700 sales behind – and may be hard- pressed to remain at the summit. It will, however, definitely provide his highest chart placing to date. 21 took advantage of weak
CANCER BATS Dead Set On Living Hassle DR FEELGOOD All Through The City EMI FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM Ceremonies (Ad Mortem Ad Vitam) Sacred Symphony
ERIC WHITACARE Water Night Decca MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island
The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at
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Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012
trading conditions last Sunday to reassert itself. On its 64th straight week in the Top 10 – its entire chart career – the album rebounded 3-1 to secure its 22nd week at the summit. But its return was attended by sales of just 22,235 – the sixth lowest weekly tally of its career. In a chart dominated by
female solo artists, Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
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(5,893 sales). New at No.8 (33,735 sales),
Level Up is the biggest hit to date for Sway, and the only record in the Top 10 by a British artist. The Londoner’s previous biggest hit, Still Speedin’, reached 17 last December. After being sung by two
Conor Maynard: Can’t Say No MIDWEEK NO.2
Maynard’s debut single Can’t Say No, which is on schedule to debut at No.2. Bieber certainly won’t be runner-up – Boyfriend is in sharp decline, and may struggle to remain in the Top 10. Returning to last weekend’s
chart, Usher racked up his 22nd hit in total, and the first from his upcoming album Looking For Myself, with Climax selling 41,617 copies to debut at No.4. After three weeks at No.2,
Sean Paul’s She Doesn’t Mind slipped to six (39,465 sales).
Selling fewer than 50,000
copies for the first time in 11 weeks, Somebody That I Used To Know remained at No.3 for Gotye feat. Kimbra with 45,695 buyers, and was joined in the chart by a Glee Cast version of the song, which debuted at 56 (5,618 sales). Finally given a full release on
Monday, We Are Young debuted at No.7 (38,390 sales) for Fun. feat. Janelle Monae, while one of the many soundalike covers, by Rainbow Mix advances 64-54
contestants on The Voice UK’s fourth and final blind auditions show on BBC One on Saturday night, John Legend’s single Ordinary People sensationally returned to the chart, after selling nearly 12,000 copies in less than four hours. A No.27 hit for Legend in 2005, Ordinary People matched that position by selling 11,857 copies last week. It will inevitably reach a new
chart peak this week – it raced to three on Tuesday’s midweeks, passing The Voice UK coach Jessie J’s own latest hit, the David Guetta collaboration Laserlight, which debuted at No.26 on sales of exactly 12,100 copies, and jumps to five on the midweeks. Overall singles sales last week
were down 5.40% on the previous frame at 3,305,764 – 11.89% above same-week 2011 sales of 2,954,513.
5,070 copies since its release last July but was sparked into life last week by the use of one of its tracks – Too Close – as the soundtrack to the new Microsoft Internet Explorer TV advert. Too Close itself benefited even more from the advert, debuting at No.37 (8,499 sales), and is set to go higher. Madonna’s MDNA is fading
Jason Mraz: Love Is A Four Letter Word MIDWEEK NO.1
fell 1-2 (18,981 sales), Jessie J’s Who You Are rose 8-4 (14,171 sales), Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events held at five (12,719 sales) and Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die rallied 11-6 (12,493 sales). Alabama Shakes’ debut
album, Boys & Girls, entered the chart at three (15,703 sales). It was the highest of seven debuts in the Top 75, besting Counting Crows’ Underwater Sunshine (No.23, 5,585 sales), an
eponymous album by Ramin (16, 6,530 sales), MTV Unplugged by Florence + The Machine (27, 4,647 sales), The Strange Case Of... by Halestorm (49, 2,424 sales), All American byHoodie Allen (64, 1,730 sales) and The Lateness Of The Hour by Alex Clare (66, 1,685 sales). Underwater Sunshine is Counting Crows’ eighth chart album in a career spanning more than 18 years. London songwriter Clare’s debut album had sold
fast, falling 7-13 (7,194 sales) a fortnight after debuting at No.1. It is the first Madonna studio album not to be in the Top 10 on its third week on the chart since 1984. Now That’s What I Call
Music! 81 remained far ahead of the field on the compilation chart, though its second-week sales of 91,831 were 64.40% down week-on-week. Its overall two-week tally of 347,217 sales put it 3.29% ahead of the pace of 2011 equivalent, Now! 78. Overall album sales
were 27.62% down week-on- week at 1,446,218 – that is 23.19% below same-week 2011 sales of 1,882,878, and lower than in any of the 640 previous weeks that have elapsed in the 21st century.
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