www.musicweek.com CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 17 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)


JACK WHITE Blunderbuss XL XLCD566 (PIAS) (White)


2 1 66 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 15 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


3 4 13 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


4 34 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded Cash Money/Island 2796668 (ARV)  (Various)


5 N 6 9 3


RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Out Of The Game Polydor 2795428 (ARV) (Ronson)


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


7 12 22 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)


8 5 61 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 6 11 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E)  (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sande)


10 7 35 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E)  (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


11 8 33 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


12 2 2 13 N


JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word Atlantic 7567876331 (CIN) (Chiccarelli)


FEEDER Generation Freakshow Big Teeth BTMCD009 (E) (Nicholas/Sime)


14 21 85 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic 88697361942 (ARV) 2 (The Script)


15 11 11 GOTYE Making Mirrors Island 2792285 (ARV)  (De Backer)


16 17 12 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


17 14 8


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


18 20 27 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


19 24 26 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV)  (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


20 16 136 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6 (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


21 34 51 THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 88697754492 (ARV)  (Sheehan/O’Donoghue/Frampton/Kipner)


22 15 4 MOSHI MONSTERS Music Rox Moshi Monsters 88691974062 (ARV) (Sen/Cleverley)


23 23 23 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 26 21 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796225 (ARV)  (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


25 N 26 36 3


CHIEFTAINS Voice Of Ages Concord 7233437 (ARV) (T-Bone Burnett)


ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island 2770437 (ARV) (Diplo/Switch/Rechtshaid/tbc)


27 22 32 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


28 13 5 MADONNA MDNA Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


29 10 2


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


30 41 21 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88697888022 (ARV)  (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


31 25 67 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 4 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


32 66 65 STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2 1780699 (rom arv) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


33 N 35 18 4


SANTIGOLD Master Of My Make Believe Atlantic 5310514240 (CIN) (Santigold/Q Tip/Sitek/Blaze/Switch/Diplo/Hill/Kurstin/Boys Noize/Sistema)


34 28 23 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)


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


36 30 87 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


37 44 31 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV)  (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


38 33 24 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2771686 (ARV)  (Bond)


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


WK CHRT (PRODUCER) 39 29 8


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


40 27 8 MILITARY WIVES In My Dreams Decca 2796665 (ARV) (Cohen)


41 46 68 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2754184 (ARV)  (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


42 47 24 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV)  (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


43 35 26 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV)  (Epworth)


44 42 129 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


45 R


TWIN ATLANTIC Free Red Bull 5099909771055 (E) (Norton)


46 45 23 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 48 76 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)


48 N


JULIAN OVENDEN If You Stay Decca 2795530 (ARV) (Franglen/Christie)


49 38 7 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


50 59 65 CHASE & STATUS No More Idols Mercury 2745135 (ARV)  (Kennard/Milton/Nowels/Sub Focus/Plan B)


51 32 8 52 39 6


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


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


53 56 59 BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Legend Tuff Gong 0073145867142 (ARV) (Marley/Various)


54 43 28 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


55 N


T REX Electric Warrior A&M 04931132 (ARV) (Visconti)


56 54 14 THE MACCABEES Given To The Wild Fiction 2787389 (ARV) (The Maccabees/Goldsworthy/Ellingham)


57 71 30 EXAMPLE Playing In The Shadows MoS MOSART2 (ARV) (Walder/Stephens/Ray/Woods/Loadstar/Faithless/Clarke/Laidback Luke/Parmar/Sheldrake/Havers/The Brookes Brothers/Chase & Status/GoochJonesNeville/Dirty South/Jenkins/Felguk)


58 64 47 LADY GAGA Born This Way Interscope 2764126 (ARV)  (Lady Gaga/Garibay/Laursen/DJ White Shadow/RedOne/Sparks)


59 63 21 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Greatest Hits Columbia 4785552 (ARV) 2 (Springsteen/Cretecos/Landau/Plotkin/Appel/Ludwig/V)


60 55 15 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


61 N 62 N


64 R


65 37 2 66 N


68 R


WALTER TROUT Blues For The Modern Daze Provogue PRD73681 (ADA Arv) (Trout/Corne)


ABBA The Visitors Polydor 2734654 (ARV) (Andersson/Ulvaeus)


63 58 86 PLAN B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks 679/Atlantic 0825646762002 (ARV) 42 (Ballance-Drew/Epworth/Appapoulay/McEwan)


STEPS The Ultimate Collection Sony RCA 88697962512 (ARV) (Topham/Twigg/Waterman/Frampton/Kreuger/Elofssen/Romdhane/Larossi/Stack/Taylor/Kennedy/Jayawardena)


CHICANE Thousand Mile Stare Enzo 5037300775142 (Absolute Arvato) (Chicane)


LESLEY GARRETT A North Country Lass Music Infinity INS500 (Absolute) (Fitzpatrick)


67 62 48 THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 88697841451 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


LADY GAGA The Fame Interscope 1791747 (ARV) 42 (RedOne)


69 73 31 BON JOVI Greatest Hits Mercury 2752339 (ARV) 2 (Fairbairn/Bon Jovi/Ebbin/Sambora/Shanks/Rock/Collins/Benson)


70 75 32 CHRISTINA PERRI Lovestrong Atlantic 7567889945 (CIN)  (Chiccarelli/Hodges)


71 R


72 51 4 73 N


75 R


OLLY MURS Olly Murs Epic/Syco 88697765022 (ARV) 2 (Prime/Isaak/Future Cut/Robson/Argyle/Brammer/Green/Fitzmaurice/Shanks/Abott/Black/Byrne/The Invisible Men/Taylor/Horn)


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


PARADISE LOST Tragic Idol Century Media 9981590 (E) (Bogren)


74 31 36 JOHN LEGEND Get Lifted Columbia 05185772 (ARV)  (Legend/West/will.i.am/Tozer/Harris/Cho)


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


Official Charts Company 2012.


Abba 62 Adele 2 Adele 20 Alabama Shakes 6 Bee Gees 37 Black Keys, The 24 Black Keys, The 75 Bon Jovi 69 Chase & Status 50 Chicane 65 Chieftains 25 Clare, Alex 26 Clarkson, Kelly 60


Coldplay 18 Drake 42 Example 57 Feeder 13 Ferguson, Rebecca 30 Florence + The Machine 43, 44 Garrett, Lesley 66 Gotye 15 Guetta, David 10 Howard, Ben 38 Jay-Z & Kanye West 46 Jessie J 8


Justin Fletcher 39 Kiwanuka, Michael 49 Labrinth 35 Lady Gaga 58 Lady Gaga 68 Legend, John 74 LMFAO 27 Lostprophets 72 Maccabees, The 56 Madonna 28 Marley, Bob & The Wailers 53 Mars, Bruno 31


Maverick Sabre 16 Military Wives 40 Minaj, Nicki 4 Minaj, Nicki 41 Moshi Monsters 22 Mraz, Jason 12 Murs, Olly 7 Murs, Olly 71 Noel Gallagher?S High Flying Birds 54 One Direction 23 Ovenden, Julian 48 Paradise Lost 73


Perri, Christina 70 Perry, Katy 36 Plan B 63 Rey, Lana Del 3 Richie, Lionel 51 Rihanna 34 Rihanna 47 Rizzle Kicks 19 Sande, Emeli 9 Santigold 33 Script, The 14 Script, The 21 Sheeran, Ed 11


Springsteen, Bruce 17 Springsteen, Bruce 59 Steps 64 Stereophonics 32 T Rex 55 Train 29 Trout, Walter 61 Twin Atlantic 45 Vaccines, The 67 Wainwright, Rufus 5 Weller,Paul 52 White, Jack 1


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


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