22Q1 2012 ALL CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DATA IN THIS REPORT ARE COPYRIGHT OF THE OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY
First out of the blocks...
ANALYSIS NEW ALBUMS
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ana Del Rey and Emeli Sandé’s first albums were both released in Q1 and there was little to separate them
– just 4,177 sales by quarter end. Del Rey’s Polydor debut Born To Die
was first out of the blocks after being released on January 30 and sold 116,745 during its opening week to begin the first of two weeks at No.1. By the end of the quarter it had sold 354,874 copies to sit between Adele’s 21 and Sandé’s Our Version Of Events on the overall quarterly chart. The Sandé debut from Virgin had two
fewer weeks to generate sales in the quarter compared to Del Rey’s, but finished just behind with 350,697 copies sold by the end of March. This included
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113,319 the first week and, like Born To Die, it also spent two weeks at number one but this run was separated for seven days by Adele’s album. The three biggest-selling artist albums
released in Q1 were all debuts with Del Rey and Sande’s sets joined in third place by the introductory offering from Military Wives. Having become the surprise Christmas 2011 singles chart-toppers with Wherever You Are, the Decca act enjoyed strong early demand for their album In My Dreams, debuting at number two in March behind Bruce Springsteen with 56,154 sales and then climbing to number one the following week as Mother’s Day buying helped its week-on-week sales lift by 5.1%. It had sold 150,738 units by quarter’s end. Having beaten Military Wives to the top week one, Springsteen’s Columbia-
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Q1 CUMULATIVE SALES FOR MAKING MIRRORS BY GOTYE
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issued Sonik Kicks by Paul Weller who, like Madonna, is 53. Like Cohen, three more of the veterans
enjoyed their biggest chart showings with studio album in years in Q1. Chris Isaak peaked at six with his Rhino album Beyond The Sun, his highest position yet, while Mercury’s Lionel Richie debuted at seven in March with Tuskegee, securing him his best position with a studio album since 2004’s Just For You. And Paul McCartney’s Kisses On The Bottom, released by MPL/Hear Music through Mercury, took him to number three in February, his highest peak with a studio offering since Flaming Pie reached number two in 1997. More than half Macca’s age, Gotye had
the quarter’s fifth-biggest new album with what most people assumed was his debut. However, Making Mirrors was actually his second UK release, although the introductory Like Drawing Blood on indie label Lucky Number had sold only around 8,500 copies in the UK prior to the new album’s appearance in February. Naturally helped by containing in Somebody That I Used To Know the quarter’s top-selling single, Making Mirrors debuted and peaked at four on the weekly chart and had sold 111,041 copies by the close of March. Released in early January,
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issued Wrecking Ball finished as the quarter’s fourth top new release overall with 121,877 sales achieved in its first four weeks, just 2.4% down on what his last studio album Working On A Dream sold over the same timeframe in 2009. Sixty-two-year-old Springsteen is
01 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor Polydor Universal (ARV) 02 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin Virgin EMI (E) 03 MILITARY WIVES In My Dreams Decca Decca Universal (ARV) 04 BRUCE SPRINGTEEN Wrecking Ball Columbia Columbia Sony (ARV) 05 GOTYE MakingMirrors Island Island Universal (ARV)
06 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury Mercury Universal (ARV) 07 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas Columbia Columbia Sony (ARV) 08 MACCABEES Given To The Wild Fiction Polydor Universal (ARV) 09 MADONNA MDNA Interscope Polydor Universal (ARV) 10 CHRIS ISAAK Beyond The Sun Rhino Rhino Warner (ARV) 11 LIONEL RICHIE Tuskegee Mercury Mercury Universal (ARV) 12 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor Polydor Universal (ARV) 13 PAUL MCCARTNEY Kisses On The BottomHearmusic Mercury Universal (ARV) 14 KATIE MELUASecret Symphony Dramatico Dramatico Universal (ADA ARV) 15 PAUL WELLER Sonik Kicks Island Island Universal (ARV) 16 SKRILLEX Bangarang Atlantic Atlantic Warner (ARV) 17 MARCUS COLLINS Marcus Collins RCA RCA Sony (ARV)
18 ENTER SHIKARI A Flash Flood Of Colour Ambush Reality Ambush Reality Ambush Reality (PIAS) 19 MICHAEL BOLTON Gems– The Very Best Of Sony RCA Sony (ARV)
20 JUSTIN FLETCHER Hands Up – The AlbumLittle Demon Demon Demon (Sony DADC)
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354,874 350,697 150,738 121,877 111,041 106,041 73,081 61,454 56,339 51,077 47,489 47,217 44,584 42,424 41,802 38,919 34,227 33,852 32,958 32,467
incredibly one of eight acts on our chart of the 20 biggest new albums released in Q1 to be more than 50 – but he is a long way from being the oldest. That accolade belongs to 77-year-old fellow Columbia veteran Leonard Cohen whose Old Ideas became his highest-charting album in the UK since 1969’s Songs From A Room when it peaked at two in January. It sold 73,081 copies in the quarter and was the seventh-biggest newly-issued album of the quarter. Also part of the half-century club was
Madonna who closed the quarter by debuting at number one with MDNA, a record 12th chart- topper for a solo artist and her first album since leaving Warner Bros for Universal’s Interscope. It followed to the number one position the Island-
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Fiction/Polydor act The Maccabees’ third album Given To The Wild by the end of the quarter had almost sold as many copies in total as their previous set Wall Of Arms, even though that album had been on sale since May 2009. The new album entered the chart at four, going on to sell 61,454 copies within the quarter and ranking as the period’s eighth top newly- issued album. In a strong quarter for debuts there
were instant Top 10 appearances for Mercury’s Maverick Sabre, who debuted and peaked at two with Lonely Are The Brave, BBC Sound Of 2012 winner Michael Kiwanuka whose Polydor set Home Again started in fourth place and RCA-signed X Factor runner-up Marcus Collins who entered at seven with his self- titled debut in March. Three of the 20 biggest new releases of
the quarter came from the independent sector, led by Dramatico’s Katie Melua with Secret Symphony, while also making the grade were Enter Shikara who returned to indie life after a spell with Warner and children’s TV presenter Justin Fletcher who scored one of the period’s surprise hit albums with the Demon-issued Hands Up – The Album selling 32,467 copies.
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