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he four-millionth UK sale achieved by Adele’s 21 understandably stole the headlines in Q1, but its
predecessor 19 reached its own milestone in the period. Four years on from release, the XL
album broke through 2 million domestic sales after it shifted another 117,927 copies to finish as the quarter’s top-selling catalogue studio album, according to Official Charts Company figures. A quartet of albums released the
following year after 19 and now more than two years old, so qualifying for catalogue status, sat immediately below it on the quarter-end catalogue studio albums chart. Island act Florence + The Machine’s
debut Lungs took silver medal position after selling another 43,833 copies, taking its cumulative UK sales beyond 1.5 million, while Lady Gaga’s own Interscope/Polydor debut The Fame was third, Gentlemen Of The Road/Island’s Mumford & Sons fourth with Sigh No More and Beyonce’s RCA-handled I Am Sasha Fierce fifth to complete the 2009 contingent. In a period in which their latest album
Mylo Xyloto sold another 200,849 copies in the UK, Coldplay placed three of their previous efforts among the Top 20
catalogue studio albums of the quarter as they generated nearly an additional 40,000 sales combined. There are also multiple appearances for
Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna and Paul Simon who turns up both as a solo artist and with his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel. First released by Warner Bros back in 1986, Graceland was subject to a 25-year overhaul by Sony last autumn and has continued selling well into 2012 with around 14,000 extra sales between January and March to rank 12th on the catalogue
TOP 20 CATALOGUE STUDIO ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / Q1 SALES (DISTRIBUTOR) ORIGINAL YEAR OF RELEASE
studio albums chart. Eight places below, Simon & Garfunkel’s farewell Bridge Over Troubled Water added nearly 11,000 sales to its colossal 3 million plus UK total in a quarter in which Adele’s 21 came the closest any album has to matching the 33 weeks it spent at number one during 1970 and 1971. The duo’s Greatest Hits was the quarter’s third top catalogue greatest hits album. Pink Floyd’s The Wall returned to the
Top 40 in Q1, reaching number 22, as part of EMI’s extensive re-issue
Q1 2012 CATALOGUE / NEW RELEASE ALBUM SALES BREAKDOWN
Catalogue 48.6% New Release 51.4%
Q1 2011 CATALOUGE / NEW RELEASE ALBUM SALES BREAKDOWN
Catalogue 47.2% New Release 52.8%
programme of the band’s recordings and was the 15th biggest catalogue studio album of the quarter. Nearly 30 years its junior, The Script’s self-titled first album was subject to renewed interest following exposure for frontman Danny O’Donoghue on BBC One’s The Voice. Whitney Houston’s sudden death on
February 11 instantly provoked a wave of tribute buying, hence the position of the RCA-handled The Ultimate Collection at the top of the quarter-end catalogue greatest hits chart. Another of her retrospectives Whitney: The Greatest Hits is 11th. Although this chart takes in sales
across the entire quarter, in the period from when her passing was announced to the end of March nearly 180,000 Houston albums were sold in the UK, with 220,000 singles purchased. Madonna’s appearance in fourth place
on the catalogue greatest hits chart with the Warner Bros-issued Immaculate Collection came against the backdrop of exposure around her Super Bowl appearance on February 5 and coverage leading up to the release of new studio album MDNA, including a guest slot on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show. She also made it to 13th position with Celebration, her farewell retrospective for Warner before her Live Nation agreement and a subsequent record deal with Universal’s Interscope kicked in.
TOP 20 CATALOGUE GREATEST HITS ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / Q1 SALES (DISTRIBUTOR) ORIGINAL YEAR OF RELEASE
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01 ADELE 19 XL XL XL Beggars 117,927 (PIAS) 2008 02 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island Island Universal 43,833 (ARV) 2009 03 LADY GAGA The Fame Interscope Polydor Universal 39,427 (ARV) 2009 04 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island Island Universal 34,917 (ARV) 2009 05 BEYONCE I Am Sasha Fierce Columbia RCA Sony 22,356 (ARV) 2009 06 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours Rhino Rhino Warner 19,919 (ARV) 1977 07 RIHANNA Good Girl Gone Bad Def Jam Mercury Universal 19,375 (ARV) 2008 08 AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black Island Island Universal 18,511 (ARV) 2006 09 TRACY CHAPMAN Tracy Chapman Elektra Atlantic Warner 17,746 (ARV) 1988 10 NIRVANA Nevermind Geffen Polydor Universal 14,786 (ARV) 1991 11 KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night Hand Me Down Columbia Sony 13,932 (ARV) 2008 12 PAUL SIMON Graceland Sony RCA Sony 13,753 (ARV) 1986 13 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends Parlophone Parlophone EMI 13,421 (E) 2008 14 RIHANNA A Girl Like Me Def Jam Mercury Universal 13,192 (ARV) 2006 15 PINK FLOYD The Wall EMI Parlophone/Virgin EMI 12,423 (E) 1979 16 COLDPLAY X&Y Parlophone Parlophone EMI 12,378 (E) 2005 17 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic RCA Sony 12,336 (ARV) 2008 18 COLDPLAY Parachutes Parlophone Parlophone EMI 12,025 (E) 2000 19 ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid Fiction Polydor Universal 11,614 (ARV) 2008 20 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Bridge Over Troubled Water Columbia Columbia Sony 10,725 (ARV) 1970
01 WHITNEY HOUSTON The Ultimate Collection Arista RCA Sony 99,577 (ARV) 2007 02 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise Rhino Warner 39,232 (ARV) 2008 03 SIMON & GARFUNKEL Greatest Hits Sony Columbia Sony 32,220 (ARV) 1972 04 MADONNA The Immaculate Collection Sire Warner Bros Warner 30,857 (ARV) 1990 05 CELINE DION My Love – The Essential Collection Sony Columbia Sony 30,777 (ARV) 2008 06 SNOW PATROL Up To Now Fiction Polydor Universal 29,774 (ARV) 2009 07 FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits RCA Columbia Sony 29,479 (ARV) 2009 08 TAKE THAT Never Forget - The Ultomate Collection RCA RCA Sony 27,910 (ARV) 2005 09 EURYTHMICS Ultimate Collection RCA RCA Sony 26,080 (ARV) 2005 10 ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits Polydor Polydor Universal 25,198 (ARV) 1992 11 WHITNEY HOUSTON The Greatest Hits Arista RCA Sony 23,421 (ARV) 2000 12 THE CLASH The Singles Columbia Sony 22,400 (ARV) 2007 13 MADONNA Celebration Warner Bros Rhino/Warner Bros Warner 22,326 (ARV) 2009 14 ABBA 18 Hits Polar Polydor Universal 22,105 (ARV) 2005 15 GUNS N’ ROSES Greatest Hits Geffen Polydor Universal 21,802 (ARV) 2004 16 EMINEM Curtain Call – The Hits Interscope Polydor Universal 21,450 (ARV) 2005 16 MARVIN GAYE Greatest Hits Delta Delta Delta (Delta/Sony DADC) 19,262 2004 17 BLUR The Best Of Food Parlophone EMI 19,005 (E) 2000 18 FLEETWOOD MAC Greatest Hits Warner Bros Rhino (Warner) Warner 18,090 (ARV) 1988 19 THE CARPENTERS Gold – Greatest Hits A&M Polydor/UMTV Universal 17,915 (ARV) 2005 20 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Greatest Hits Columbia Columbia Sony 17,812 (ARV) 1995
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