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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 19 T


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  THE SATURDAYS 30 Days Polydor


SINGLES  BY ALAN JONES


welve weeks after storming to number one as featured vocalist on DJ


 D’BANJ Oliver Twist Mercury  SCISSOR SISTERS Only The Horses Polydor  RASCAL FLATTS Bless The Broken Road EMI  SKEPTA Make Peace Not War 3 Beat/AATW  MADONNA Girl Gone Wild Interscope  MARK RONSON & KATY B Anywhere In The World Columbia


 WRETCH 32 FEAT. ED SHERRAN Hush Little Baby Levels/Ministry of Sound


 BEN HOWARD Only Love Island  ZIPPARAH TAFARI Where Ma Keys Where Ma Phone VE


 BRUNO MARS Runaway Baby Elektra  DAVID GUETTA FEAT. USHER Without You Positiva/Virgin


 DELILAH Breathe Atlantic


UK ALBUMS CHART  TENACIOUS D Rize Of The Fenix Columbia  REN HARVIEU Through The Night Island  GARBAGE Not Your Kind Of People Garbage


ALBUMS  BY ALAN JONES


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 BEACH HOUSE Bloom Bella Union  GLEE CAST Glee – The Music – The Graduation Album Epic


 MORTEN HARKET Out Of My Hands Blue Wrasse


 SANTANA Shape Shifter Stafaith  ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Release Me – The Best Of Decca


 NIKI & THE DIVE Instinct Mercury  GOSSIP A Joyful Noise Columbia  BEST COAST The Only Place Wichita  WILLIE NELSON Heroes Sony  STARBOY NATAHN 3D Determination Dedication Desire Vibes Corner-Mona Publishing


 SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Unpatterns Wichita  IMAGINED VILLAGE Bending The Dark Emmerson Corncake


The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at musicweek.com.


Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012


wo years to the week after securing their fourth No.1 album, Keanemade it five


in a row on Sunday, with Strangeland, which debuted at the summit while racking up first-week sales of 47,839. In 2004, the Sussex band’s debut album Hopes And Fears entered the chart at one on sales of 155,373; in 2006, Under The Iron Sea debuted in pole position with sales of 222,297 copies; in 2008, Perfect Symmetry accessed the apex with a 79,106 start; and in 2010, Night Train – which has eight tracks and a playing time of less than 32 minutes and is generally regarded as a mini- album or an EP – took the title on sales of 28,063. Strangeland’s success comes despite a fairly lukewarm reception for introductory single, Silenced By The Night. Although the track has been given plenty of exposure, climbing as high as 21 on the radio airplay chart it has struggled in the sales chart. It finally breached the Top 75 last weekend, having moved 78-152- 162-46.


debuting and peaking at six on sales of 17,396. The Cribs’ fifth album, In


Tenacious D: Rize Of The Fenix MIDWEEK NO.1


The only acts to have had


more number one albums than Keane in the 21st century are Eminem, Robbie Williams and Westlife (seven apiece) and Madonna (six). Keane’s chances of remaining


at number one this weekend are difficult to assess. Although the album slipped to three on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, it was only a few hundred sales behind Tenacious D’s Rize Of The Fenix and Ren Harvieu’s Through The Night, which rank one and two on said list but will likely lose strength as the week


progresses. Strangeland is itself losing support fast too, and may be surpassed by Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events or Adele’s 21, both of which are likely to maintain current sales levels more effectively for the rest of the week. Helped by an appearance on


Later...With Jools Holland, Richard Hawley’s seventh studio album, Standing At The Sky’s Edge, delivered his highest chart position yet on Sunday, debuting at three (16,070 sales). Hawley’s fifth album, Lady’s Bridge, was his only previous Top 10 entry,


The Belly Of The Brazen Bull, delivered their third Top 75 entry, debuting at nine (8,952 sales). It thus failed to match first-week sales of 2009 predecessor Ignore The Ignorant, which debuted and peaked at eight (14,824 sales) and breakthrough album Men’s Needs Women’s Needs Whatever, which reached 13 on sales of 11,272 in 2007. Barbadian pop trio Cover


Drive have had three consecutive Top 10 singles, including the No.1 hit Twilight, with cumulative sales of more than 400,000 – but the Top 10 proved to be beyond their debut album Bajan Style, which includes all three, and sold just 8,290 copies last week, to debut at 14. The Proclaimers’ Like


Comedy is their 10th albums since 1987 and debuted at 31 (5,051 sales). The album debuts at No.2 in Scotland, which accounted for 43.10% of its overall sales. Overall album sales were


down 4.05% week-on-week at 1,457,792 - 8.16% below same- week 2011 sales of 1,587,342.


Fresh’s Hot Right Now, 21 year old Rita Ora – originally from Kosovo but now based in London – raced back to the summit on Sunday with R.I.P. Sounding the death knell for Tulisa’s Young, which dipped to two (63,649 sales) after just a week at the top, R.I.P. – which features Tinie Tempah – sold 104,592 copies on its debut. R.I.P. may just have enough strength to secure a second week at No.1 – it continued to lead on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, selling over 1,000 copies more than nearest challenger, 30 Days, by The Saturdays. Despite its initial sales thrust, 30 Days may even struggle to remain at two, though it will undoubtedly provide The Saturdays’ 11th Top 10 hit. Its sales increasing for the


eighth week in a row, Alex Clare’s debut smash Too Close climbed 5-4 on Sunday, shifting 58,284 copies. Originally released


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Rita Ora: R.I.P. MIDWEEK NO.1


(33,287 sales). It is Bieber’s ninth Top 40 hit – and he also registered his 10th, with Turn To You (Mother’s Day Dedication) debuting at 39 (7,857 sales), having only been released on Friday. Also new to the Top 40: All I Know (No.29, 10,955 sales) by Matrix & Futurebound feat. Luke Bingham and Express Yourself by Labrinth (No.34, 9,485 sales). She may have passed on


R.I.P., which co-writer Drake offered to her before Rita Ora, but Rihanna scored her 21st Top 10 hit, as Where Have You Been sprinted 21-8 (30,149 sales). The Voice UK and Britain’s


in March 2011 and belatedly blasted into the chart after featuring in the TV advertising campaign for Microsoft Internet Explorer, it has sold 175,664 copies in total. Train’s latest single Drive By


is their highest charting hit to date, with a 14-10-7-6 trajectory thus far, and sold 37,939 copies last week. Most rock singles are in decline from week one, but Drive By has bucked the trend, and has helped parent album


California 37 to achieve a smart turnaround too. The album debuted at 10 three weeks ago, and immediately slipped to 29 but it recovered to No.25 last week, and jumped to 15 (7,954 sales) on Sunday. American hip-hop group Far


East Movement had their first Top 20 hit in 2010, their second in 2011, and their third at the weekend, with Justin Bieber collaboration Live My Life, which debuted at number seven


Got Talent continued to generate sales, though the latter concluded on Saturday. Among the biggest beneficiaries: The Temper Trap’s Sweet Disposition (53-26, 12,173 sales), Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris (164- 44, 6,618 sales), Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill (115-51, 6,011 sales) and Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ (128-59 to beat its original 1989 peak of No.64, 5,225 sales Overall singles sales were


down 3.49% week-on-week at 3,382,333 – 6.27% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,182,665.


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