www.musicweek.com CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 16 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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1 1 65 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 15 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


2 N 3 2 3


JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word Atlantic 7567876331 (ARV) (tbc)


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


4 6 12 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


5 4 60 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


6 5 10 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E)  (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sandé)


7 7 34 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E)  (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


8 10 32 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


9 3 2 10 N


ALABAMA SHAKES Boys & Girls Rough Trade RTRADCD650 (PIAS) (Alabama Shakes)


TRAIN California 37 Columbia 88691987822 (ARV) (Walker/Sinclair/Espionage/Wattenberg/Parq/Hodges)


11 11 10 GOTYE Making Mirrors Island 2792285 (ARV)  (De Backer)


12 22 21 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)


13 13 4 MADONNA MDNA Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


14 30 7


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


15 8 3 MOSHI MONSTERS Music Rox Moshi Monsters 88691957882 (ARV) (Sen/Cleverley)


16 12 135 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6 (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


17 26 11 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


18 9 3 19 N


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


SPIRITUALIZED Sweet Heart Sweet Light Double Six DS045CD (PIAS) (Pierce/tbc)


20 17 26 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


21 32 84 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic 88697361942 (ARV) 2 (The Script)


22 15 31 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


23 18 22 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)


24 21 25 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV)  (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


25 24 66 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567882721 (ARV) 4 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


26 29 20 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796225 (ARV)  (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


27 19 7 MILITARY WIVES In My Dreams Decca 2796665 (ARV) (Cohen)


28 20 22 RIHANNA Talk That Talk Def Jam 2787842 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Cirkut/Harrell/Harris/StarGate/Crawford/Da Internz/The-Dream/NO-ID/Swire/McGrillen/Hit-Boy/Alex Da Kid/Chase N Status/Dean)


29 28 7 31 R 32 14 7


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


30 25 86 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


JOHN LEGEND Get Lifted Columbia 05185772 (ARV)  (Legend/West/will.i.am/Tozer/Harris/Cho)


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


33 31 23 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2771686 (ARV)  (Bond)


34 39 50 THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 88697754492 (ARV)  (Sheehan/O’Donoghue/Frampton/Kipner)


35 36 25 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV)  (Epworth)


36 66 2 ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island (ARV) (Diplo/Switch/Rechtshaid/tbc)


37 N


CHICANE Thousand Mile Stare Enzo MODENACD5 (Absolute Arvato) (Chicane)


38 34 6 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


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39 38 5 40 N


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


DRAGONFORCE The Power Within Electric Generation EG5353 (Ess) (tbc)


41 43 20 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88697888022 (ARV)  (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


42 42 128 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


43 33 27 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


44 52 30 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV)  (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


45 48 22 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)


46 41 67 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2774971 (ARV)  (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


47 51 23 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV)  (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


48 46 75 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)


49 N 50 N


51 35 3


53 59 8 54 R


56 R 57 37 4


CANCER BATS Dead Set On Living Hassle HOFF144CDA (PIAS) (Ratz/Luong/tbc)


ANATHEMA Weather Systems K Scope KSCOPE206 (PROP) (Cederberg/Cavanagh/Cavanagh/tbc)


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


52 70 16 BIRDY Birdy 14th Floor/Atlantic 5249859582 (ARV)  (Costey/Ford/Abbiss/P-Dub Walton)


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


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


55 54 14 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Legend Tuff Gong (ARV) (Marley/Various)


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


58 47 85 PLAN B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks 679/Atlantic 0825646762002 (ARV) 42 (Ballance-Drew/Epworth/Appapoulay/McEwan)


59 50 64 CHASE & STATUS No More Idols Mercury 2745135 (ARV)  (Kennard/Milton/Nowels/Sub Focus/Plan B)


60 16 2 61 56 7


63 R


RAMIN Ramin Masterworks 88697861512 (ARV) (Nichols)


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


62 61 47 THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 88697841451 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


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


64 60 46 LADY GAGA Born This Way Interscope 2764126 (ARV)  (Lady Gaga/Garibay/Laursen/DJ White Shadow/RedOne/Sparks)


65 53 35 WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA 88697940092 (ARV)  (Richard X/Eliot/Hofmann)


66 40 64 STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2 1780699 (ARV) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


67 68 52 NOAH & THE WHALE Last Night On Earth Mercury/Young & Lost 2760096 (ARV)  (Fink/Lader)


68 58 13 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours Rhino 7599273132 (ARV) 11 (Fleetwood Mac/Dashut/Caillat)


69 23 2


COUNTING CROWS Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation) Cooking Vinyl COOKCD561 (Essential/GEM) (Counting Crows/Dealey)


70 55 6 MARCUS COLLINS Marcus Collins RCA 88691946862 (ARV) (Smith/Furmidge/Rawlings/Taylor/Meehan/Lee Mac)


71 73 29 EXAMPLE Playing In The Shadows MoS MOSART2 (ARV) (Various)


72 57 6 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)


73 R 74 27 2


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


FLORENCE + THE MACHINE MTV Unplugged Island 2798326 (ARV) (tbc)


75 63 31 CHRISTINA PERRI Lovestrong Atlantic 7567889945 (ARV)  (Chiccarelli/Hodges)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Adele 1 Adele 16 Alabama Shakes 9 Anathema 50 Bee Gees 44 Birdy 52 Black Keys, The 26 Bolton, Michael 72 Bon Jovi 73 Cancer Bats 49 Chase & Status 59 Chicane 37 Civil Wars 53


Clare, Alex 36 Clarkson, Kelly 55 Coldplay 20 Collins, Marcus 70 Counting Crows 69 Dragonforce 40 Drake 47 Example 71 Ferguson, Rebecca 41 Fleetwood Mac 68 Florence + The Machine 35, 42, 74 Gotye 11


Guetta, David 7 Howard, Ben 33 Jay-Z & Kanye West 45 Jessie J 5 Justin Fletcher 29 Kiwanuka, Michael 38 Labrinth 18 Lady Gaga 64 Legend, John 31 Lmfao 22 Lostprophets 51 Maccabees, The 54 Madonna 13


Marley, Bob & The Wailers 56 Mars, Bruno 25 Maverick Sabre 17 Melua, Katie 61 Military Wives 27 Minaj, Nicki 3 Minaj, Nicki 46 Moshi Monsters 15 Mraz, Jason 2 Murs, Olly 12 Noah & The Whale 67 Noel Gallagher’s High


Flying Birds 43 One Direction 23 Perri, Christina 75 Perry, Katy 30 Plan B 58 Ramin 60 Rey, Lana Del 4 Richie, Lionel 32 Rihanna 28 Rihanna 48 Rizzle Kicks 24 Sande, Emeli 6 Script, The 21


Script, The 34 Sheeran, Ed 8 Spiritualized 19 Springsteen, Bruce 14 Springsteen, Bruce 63 Stereophonics 66 Stewart, Noah 57 Train 10 Vaccines, The 62 Weller,Paul 39 Young, Will 65


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


BPI Awards Singles Charlene Soraia: Wherever You Will Go (gold)


Albums Justin Fletcher: Hands Up (silver); Led Zeppelin: Mothership (2 x platinum)


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