20Q1 2012 ALL CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DATA IN THIS REPORT ARE COPYRIGHT OF THE OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY
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Q1 2012 ALBUMS BY PRICE BAND
Full Price 60.1% Mid Price 28.5% Budget 11.4%
Q1 2011 ALBUMS BY PRICE BAND
Full Price 60.8% Mid Price 29.7% Budget 9.5%
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ANALYSIS BUDGET ALBUMS
ony found itself caught up in an unfortunate retail controversy in the wake of Whitney Houston’s
death in February when the price of two retrospectives by her was suddenly hiked. Among those albums was The
Ultimate Collection, whose price on iTunes in the UK went up briefly on the Sunday her passing was announced from £4.99 to £7.99. However, after the major confirmed the increase had been a mistake, it was swiftly returned to below a fiver and it thus finishes up as the top budget album of Q1. The Houston album outsold the three
next most popular budget titles of the quarter combined, two of which came from her one-time rivals for the crown of world’s top female artist, Madonna and Celine Dion. In a period in which she was the half-time Super Bowl entertainment and returned with a first studio album for Interscope/ Polydor, Madonna claimed the
quarter’s second- biggest budget seller with Warner Bros’s 1990 best of Immaculate Collection, while
Sony’s 2008 My Love – The Essential Collection by Dion was fourth. Sitting in between Madonna and Dion
is the Go Entertain compilation Have I Told You Lately That I Love You, one of seven various artist releases among the quarter’s 20 biggest budget releases. Also present is The Bodyguard movie soundtrack, which includes six Whitney Houston cuts and seven by other acts. Etta James passed away just three
weeks before Houston and appears at number 11 with Universal label Spectrum’s The Best Of, which sold around 16,500 copies in the quarter. And just creeping in the 20 on the bottom rung via the Spectrum label is Engelbert Humperdinck whose publicity from being selected as the UK’s 2012 Eurovision performer assisted sales of Spanish Eyes – The Best Of.
TOP 20 BUDGET ALBUMS Q1 2011 POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ SALES Q1 / LABEL / RECORD COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 WHITNEY HOUSTON THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION 98,656 ARISTA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 02 MADONNA THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION 30,855 SIRE/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 03 VARIOUS ARTISTSHAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU 29,602 GO ENTERTAIN (GO ENTERTAIN) 04 CELINE DION MY LOVE - THE ESSENTIAL COLLECTION 27,524 SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 05 TAKE THAT NEVER FORGET - THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION 26,342 RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 06 VARIOUS ARTISTS ROCK CLASSICS 21,181 SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 07 EURYTHMICS ULTIMATE COLLECTION 19,743 RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 08 MARVIN GAYE GREATEST HITS 19,262 DELTA/DELTA/DELTA (DELTA/SONY DADC UK) 09 VARIOUS ARTISTS FOR YOU 18,171 SPECTRUM MUSIC/SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 10 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK THE BODYGUARD 16,521 SONY BMG/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 11 ETTA JAMES THE BEST OF 16,512 SPECTRUM MUSIC/SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 12 THE CLASH THE SINGLES 16,322 COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 13 VARIOUS ARTISTS SKA MADNESS 2 15,772 SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 14 DOLLY PARTON ULTIMATE 15,039 RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 15 VARIOUS ARTISTS NUMBER 1 HITS OF THE 1950s 14,636 PERFORMANCE/DELTA/DELTA (DELTA/SONY DADC UK) 16 VARIOUS ARTISTS GET FIT 14,221 SPECTRUM MUSIC/SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 17 VARIOUS ARTISTS HOSPITALITY - DRUM & BASS 2012 14,211 HOSPITAL/HOSPITAL/HOSPITAL(SRD) 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS SWEETHEARTS & STOLEN KISSES 14,155 DELTA/DELTA/DELTA (DELTA/SONY DADC UK) 19 BILLY JOEL PIANO MAN - THE VERY BEST OF 13,190 COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 20 ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK SPANISH EYES - THE BEST OF 12,125 SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
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ANALYSIS VINYL
MI has been reworking Pink Floyd’s illustrious back catalogue in all manner of ways over the past
few months and in Q1 this took in the 1979 classic The Wall. Among its various re-issues, the album
appeared in February in a two-disc vinyl Discovery Edition, helping it become the quarter’s top-selling 12-inch album. It was the only vinyl release to sell more than 1,000 copies in the period and was joined in the Top 20 sellers by two other Floyd releases: The Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here. Two Columbia veterans were
responsible for the two biggest new studio albums on vinyl in the quarter courtesy of Bruce Springsteen’s Wrecking Ball and Leonard Cohen’s Old Ideas. And, as well as being the top-selling album overall, the XL-issued 21 by Adele was the fourth most popular vinyl title with 755 copies sold in the format between January and
TOP 20 VINYL ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ LABEL / RECORD COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 PINK FLOYD THE WALL EMI/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 02 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WRECKING BALL COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 03 LEONARD COHEN OLD IDEAS COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 04 ADELE 21 XL RECORDINGS/XL RECORDINGS/XL BEGGARS (PIAS) 05 LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 06 IRON MAIDEN EN VIVO EMI/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 07 PAUL WELLER SONIK KICKS ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 08 DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS GO-GO BOOTS PLAY IT AGAIN SAM/PIAS RECORDINGS (PIAS) 09 MARK LANEGAN BAND BLUES FUNERAL 4AD/4AD/XL BEGGARS (PIAS) 10 FIELD MUSIC PLUMB MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES/MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES/MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES (PIAS) 11 BLACK KEYS EL CAMINO WARNER BROS/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 12 ENTER SHIKARI A FLASH FLOOD OF COLOUR AMBUSH REALITY/AMBUSH REALITY/AMBUSH REALITY (PIAS) 13 PINK FLOYD THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON EMI/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 14 AMY WINEHOUSE BACK TO BLACK ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 15 FIRST AID KIT THE LION'S ROAR WICHITA RECORDINGS/WICHITA RECORDINGS (PIAS) 16 MICHAEL KIWANUKA HOME AGAIN POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 17 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS SOUR MASH/SOUR MASH (EMI) 18 PINK FLOYD WISH YOU WERE HERE EMI/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 19 DJANGO DJANGO DJANGO DJANGO BECAUSE MUSIC/BECAUSE MUSIC/BECAUSE MUSIC (ARV) 20 AMY WINEHOUSE LIONESS - HIDDEN TREASURES ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
March. Just 10 sales behind was the album that finished in runners-up place to 21 on the quarter’s overall chart, Polydor act Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die. While vinyl made up merely a
fraction of total sales of most of the albums in the quarter’s Top 20 vinyl sellers, for Drive-By Truckers’ Go-Go Boots it accounted for an incredible 77.9% share. The Play It Again Sam album, first released in 2011, was the period’s eighth favourite vinyl release and sold only about 200 units in other formats during the quarter. The vinyl market enjoyed its highest
Q1 sales this year since 2005 with 75,500 units sold, a 6.9% year-on-year increase and 42.0% up on the same period two years ago.
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