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Pop goes the market
ANALYSIS ALBUMS - GENRE
P
op continued to rule the top artist album sellers in Q1 with the leading three titles all categorised
under that genre. Headed by XL’s Adele, Polydor’s Lana Del Rey and Virgin’s Emeli Sandé, the genre occupied 38 places in the quarter-end Top 100, almost matching the 39% share from exactly a year earlier. There were also similar shares compared to Q1 2011 for rock and
TOP 20 POP ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 ADELE 21 XL RECORDINGS/XL RECORDINGS/XL BEGGARS (PIAS)
02 LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 03 EMELI SANDE OUR VERSION OF EVENTS VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 04 ED SHEERAN + ASYLUM/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)
05 BRUNO MARS DOO-WOPS & HOOLIGANS ELEKTRA/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 06 JESSIE J WHO YOU ARE ISLAND/LAVA/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 07 OLLY MURS IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW EPIC/EPIC LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 08 ADELE 19 XL RECORDINGS/XL RECORDINGS/XL BEGGARS (PIAS)
09 GOTYE MAKING MIRRORS ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 10 MAVERICK SABRE LONELY ARE THE BRAVE MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 11 ONE DIRECTION UP ALL NIGHT SYCO MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
12 AMY WINEHOUSE LIONESS - HIDDEN TREASURES ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 13 REBECCA FERGUSON HEAVEN RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 14 KATY PERRY TEENAGE DREAM VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 15 LADY GAGA BORN THIS WAY INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 16 WILL YOUNG ECHOES RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
17 LMFAO SORRY FOR PARTY ROCKING INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 18 KELLY CLARKSON STRONGER RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 19 MADONNA MDNA INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
20 CHRISTINA PERRI LOVESTRONG ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)
TOP 20 ROCK ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 COLDPLAY MYLO XYLOTO PARLOPHONE/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) PEAK POS.
1 1
1 1 1 2 1 1 4 2 2 1 3 1 1 1 8 5 1
9 Q1 SALES
411,997 354,874 350,697 299,841 164,114 151,947 128,096 117,927 111,041 106,041 105,067 98,720 95,013 74,539 71,464 70,343 66,087 56,812 56,339 55,383
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contemporary urban with rock’s presence among the quarter-end top sellers dropping from 27 to 26 albums as Parlophone’s Coldplay and Sour Mash’s Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds led the way, while contemporary urban’s contribution rose from 17 to 18 of the Top 100 sellers. The top seller here was Island act Rizzle Kicks’ Stereo Typical. Dance doubled its showing among the
Top 100 sellers in Q1 compared to a year earlier with Positiva/Virgin’s David Guetta the star attraction, while the number of MOR/easy listening albums
The biggest pop albums were largely also the biggest albums overall in Q1 with a dozen of the top 20 artist sellers covered by the genre. Among the quarter’s 20 leading pop
albums half were debuts, including five of the top six led by by Polydor’s Lana Del Rey and Virgin’s Emeli Sande. In contrast, MDNA was Madonna’s
12th studio album, although the first released through Interscope/Poydor, while RCA’s Will Young and Kelly Clarkson are this chart’s next most experienced acts with Echoes and Stronger being respectively their fifth studio albums in all. Both acts are of similar vintage with
Young Pop Idol’s first winner in 2002 and Clarkson winning the first American Idol later that year.
PEAK POS. 1
02 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS SOUR MASH/SOUR MASH/ (EMI) 1 03 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WRECKING BALL COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 04 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE CEREMONIALS ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 05 THE VACCINES WHAT DID YOU EXPECT FROM THE VACCINES COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LGROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 06 THE BLACK KEYS EL CAMINO NONESUCH/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 07 KASABIAN VELOCIRAPTOR COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 08 LEONARD COHEN OLD IDEAS COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 09 THE MACCABEES GIVEN TO THE WILD FICTION/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 10 FOSTER THE PEOPLE TORCHES COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 11 SNOW PATROL FALLEN EMPIRES FICTION/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 12 BEN HOWARD EVERY KINGDOM ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 13 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE LUNGS ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV) 14 PAUL WELLER SONIK KICKS ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 15 NOAH & THE WHALE LAST NIGHT ON EARTH MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 16 FOO FIGHTERS WASTING LIGHT RCA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 17 MUMFORD & SONS SIGH NO MORE GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 18 ENTER SHIKARI A FLASH FLOOD OF COLOUR AMBUSH REALITY/AMBUSH REALITY (PIAS) 19 SNOW PATROL UP TO NOW FICTION/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
20 MEAT LOAF HELL IN A HANDBASKET SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
Rock was the biggest beneficiary of a Columbia discount programme reducing some albums to under £4 in January with
The Vaccines’ debut leading several of the affected titles in the genre’s Q1 chart. The band’s What Did You Expect
From The Vaccines was the fifth favourite 5 1
1 4
16 1 2 4
12 3 7 1 1 8 1
2 4 3
Q1 SALES
200,849 123,550 121,877 112,132 85,944 84,849 74,987 73,081 61,454 60,162 57,674 56,607 43,833 41,802 39,423 37,900 34,917 33,852 29,774 29,546
rock album of the period, joined in this chart by albums from Kasabian, Foster The People and Foo Fighters which the Sony operation also discounted. Columbia’s presence in the chart is
further strengthened by the appearance at number three of Wrecking Ball, Bruce Springsteen’s first studio album in three years and his eighth UK number one.
TOP 20 COUNTRY ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 LIONEL RICHIE TUSKEGEE MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 02 LADY ANTEBELLUM OWN THE NIGHT PARLOPHONE/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 03 LADY ANTEBELLUM NEED YOU NOW CAPITOL/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 04 DOLLY PARTON ULTIMATE RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
05 JIM REEVES THE VERY BEST OF SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 06 GLEN CAMPBELL GHOST ON THE CANVAS SURFDOG/SURFDOG/SURFDOG (CAR) 07 TAYLOR SWIFT FEARLESS MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)
08 GRETCHEN PETERS HELLO CRUEL WORLD PROPER/PROPER/PROPER (PROPER MUSIC) 09 DOLLY PARTON THE VERY BEST OF SONY BMG/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 10 JOHNNY CASH THE COLLECTION CAMDEN DELUXE/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 11 LADY ANTEBELLUM LADY ANTEBELLUMCAPITOL/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
12 POKEY LAFARGE/SOUTH CITY THREE MIDDLE OF EVERYWHERE CONTINENTAL SONG (PROPER MUSIC) 13 BAND PERRY THE BAND PERRY MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 14 SHANIA TWAIN GREATEST HITS MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)
15 JOHNNY CASH THE MAN IN BLACK - DEFINITIVE COLLECTION COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 16 WILLIE NELSON LEGEND - THE BEST OF SONY BMG/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 17 LITTLE WILLIES FOR THE GOOD TIMES PARLOPHONE/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 18 NANCI GRIFFITH INTERSECTION PROPER/PROPER/PROPER (PROPER MUSIC) 19 CHARLIE LANDSBOROUGH DESTINATION EDSEL/DEMON MUSIC/DEMON MUSIC G (SONY) 20 ELVIS PRESLEY ELVIS COUNTRY SONY MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)
Country has always had a place in Lionel Richie’s music, but a first album exclusively in the genre has turned into his biggest commercial success in years. Number two on the Billboard 200 in the quarter and a US country chart-topper, the Mercury- issued Tuskegee reached number seven in the UK in March and was country’s top Q1 seller by some distance.
PEAK POS.
7 4 8
17 7
27 5
70 8
191 134 46 6
15 16
116 107 120 170
Q1 SALES
47,489 25,569 15,103 15,039 10,616 6,328 6,315 6,280 5,939 5,496 4,976 4,476 4,459 4,441 3,724 3,492 3,413 2,780 2,697 2,654
Country’s top sellers of the quarter
typically mix veterans such as Dolly Parton with contemporary country acts, including three appearances alone from Parlophone’s Lady Antebellum. One important breakthrough in Q1 came courtesy of Mercury’s The Band Perry whose self-titled debut was a US top five hit and reached the UK Top 50 in March.
reduced from six to five. The top seller in this category was Military Wives’ Decca debut In My Dreams. Among the more minor genres,
country provided two of Q1’s Top 100 artist albums, one coming from Parlophone’s Grammy-winning Lady Antebellum, the other less obviously from Mercury’s soul legend Lionel Richie. Other genres represented included folk (Columbia-handled Leonard Cohen and The Civil Wars), rock ‘n’roll (Rhino’s Chris Isaak) and children’s (Demon’s Justin Fletcher.
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