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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 16 A
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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 CALVIN HARRIS FEAT. NE-YO Let’s Go Columbia STEREOPHONICS Dakota V2 U2 With Or Without You Mercury MADCON Beggin’ RCA MILES KANE First Of My Kind Columbia ALEXA GODDARD Turn My Swag On Idleidol ALANIS MORISSETTE Ironic Maverick ALICIA KEYS No One J JAMES MORRISON/NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings Polydor LADY GAGA The Edge Of Glory Interscope REN HARVIEU Open Up Your Arms Island RIZZLE KICKS Down With The Trumpets Island
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fter topping the singles chart for three weeks with runaway debut hit
Call Me Maybe, Carly Rae Jepsenmay have met her match. Tuesday sales flashes show Call Me Maybe falling roughly 10% behind Calvin Harris’ new hit, Let's Go (feat. Ne-Yo). Call Me Maybe, sold 114,993
last week, having debuted at No.1 a fortnight before on sales of 106,657 copies, and selling a further 110,024 copies the following week. It is the only the third debut hit to secure both the No.1 slot and a six-figure sale three times in a row this century, emulating two X Factor winners, Alexandra Burke, who did it with Hallelujah in 2008, and Matt Cardle, with When We Collide in 2010, and the first to do so with sales increasing. Conor Maynard’s Can't Say
No provided Jepsen with her greatest challenge but after pulling up to within a couple of thousand sales of its quarry on early sales flashes, the 19-year-
JAY-Z 99 Problems Mercury
UK ALBUMS CHART JACK WHITE Blunderbuss XL RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Out Of The Game Polydor FEEDER Generation Freakshow Big Teeth SANTIGOLD Master Of My Make-Believe Atlantic ABBA The Visitors Polydor T-REX Electric Warrior A&M PARADISE LOST Tragic Idol Century Media WALTER TROUT Blues For The Modern Daze Mascot CHIEFTAINS Voices Of Ages Concord JULIAN OVENDEN Of You Stay Decca NINA NESBITT The Apple Tree N2 JOE SATRIANI Satchurated – Live In Montreal Epic TWIN ATLANTIC Free Red Bull
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
row last weekend, Adele’s 21 is seemingly out of the running to make it three in a row. Tuesday sales flashes show Adele’s XL labelmate Jack White on course for number one with his first solo album Blunderbuss racking up sales of more than 15,000, three times as many copies as Rufus Wainwright’s new album Out Of The Game, currently No.2, and nearly four times as many as 21, which falls to No.3. 21 registered its 23rd week at
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number one last week, albeit on sales of just 17,065 copies – the second lowest of its 65-week chart career, and the lowest for a number one album since The Levellers’ Zeitgeist climbed 2-1 on sales of 13,885 in 1995. 21’s triumph was hard luck on
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Jason Mraz, whose Love Is A Four Letter Word debuted at No.2, just 44 sales behind. Mraz’s fourth studio album, it is easily his highest charting. It took five weeks to make the Top 200, 34 weeks to make the Top 75, and 38 weeks to reach its peak
fter coming from behind to top the album chart for the second week in a
second album, Drops Of Jupiter, reached eight in 2001, while the single Drive By debuted at number 14 (21,559 sales). Also new to the Top 40:
Spiritualized racked up their eighth chart album Sweet Heart Sweet Light (No.19, 5,460 sales); dance act Chicane’s Thousand Mile Stare debuted at No.37 (3,304 sales); and London metal band DragonForce scored their third chart album with The Power Within (No.40, 2,900 sales). Alex Clare’s album The
Jack White: Blunderbuss MIDWEEK NO.1
position of No.8, in response to the enormous popularity of the single I’m Yours. I Won’t Give Up – the first single from Love Is A Four Letter Word, and Mraz’s second hit single in total – is buoyed by the success of the album this week and achieves its highest chart placing to date. It has been very consistent since release, moving 16-15-15-17-16 but climbed to 13 on Sunday, with sales of 21,946 taking its cumulative tally to 113,766. Completing a very short list of artist albums to sell more than
10,000 copies last week, Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded slipped 2-3 (13,568 sales); Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die climbed 6-4 (13,295 sales); Jessie J’s Who You Are tripped 4- 5 (11,154 sales); and Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events fell 5-6 (10,966 sales). San Francisco rockers Train
simultaneously entered the charts with their fifth album California 37, and its introductory single, Drive By. The album debuted at 10 (7,809 sales), becoming the group’s highest charting set since
Lateness Of The Hour and single Too Close were released last year and made little impact – but they both reached the chart a fortnight ago, after Too Close was aired repeatedly as the soundtrack to the new Microsoft Internet Explorer TV advert. Both took another big leap on Sunday: The Lateness Of The Hour sprinted 66-36 (3,312 sales), while Too Close improved 37-16 (20,592 sales). Overall album sales continued
to tumble, falling 2.90% week- on-week to 1,404,281 - 15.39% below same week 2011 sales of 1,659,775. It was their lowest level since sales week ending 16 May 1998 (727 weeks ago), when just 1,355,270 albums were sold.
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Calvin Harris feat. Ne-Yo: Let’s Go
old’s debut single drifted, and ended up selling 74,792 copies to earn a No.2 debut. A No.7 debut last week, We
Are Young jumped to number three (67,777 sales) for Fun feat. Janelle Monae. After dramatically re-entering
the chart last week at 27 - equalling its original 2005 chart peak - John Legend’s Ordinary People sprinted to four (49,895 sales). Thrust back into the
limelight after it was performed by two contestants in The Voice UK (7 April), the track has also attracted attention to parent album Get Lifted, a re-entry at No.31 (3,826 sales). The Voice UK coach Jessie J’s
new single LaserLight catapulted 26-5 (38,983 sales). Jessie J’s first chart partner B.o.B. entered at No.7 (36,478 sales) with So Good. It is the second single from his upcoming second
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album, Strange Clouds, far outperforming the album’s title track, which featured Lil Wayne and reached No.72 last October. Marina And The Diamonds
also has a second album (Electra Heart) ready to roll, and similarly fares better with the second single than she did with the first. Her single Radioactive entered the chart the same week as Strange Clouds, and reached No.25. Follow-up Primadonna debuted at 11 (25,337 sales) on Sunday, beating 2010 debut hit Hollywood (12) to become her highest charting single. Saturday was Record Store
Day, and brought its usual bumper crop of limited-edition releases. Much of the activity surrounds vinyl - with the result that ALL of the Top 40 seven- inch and 12-inch singles on Sunday were new entries. Overall vinyl sales jumped 1,489.68% week-on-week from 1,520 to 24,167 but still represented a mere 0.72% of the singles market. Overall singles sales last week
were up 1.32% at 3,349,409 – 13.49% above same-week 2011 sales of 2,951,269.
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