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TOP 20 DANCE ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)


01 DAVID GUETTA NOTHING BUT THE BEAT POSITIVA/VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 02 SKRILLEX BANGARANG ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)


03 EXAMPLE PLAYING IN THE SHADOWS MINISTRY OF SOUND/MOS/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV) 04 NERO WELCOME REALITY MTA/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 05 DAVID GUETTA ONE LOVE POSITIVA/VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


06 SKRILLEX SCARY MONSTERS AND NICE SPRITES MAU5TRAP/MAU5TRAP/MAU5TRAP (PRIME DIRECT) 07 2 BEARS BE STRONG SOUTHERN FRIED/SOUTHERN FRIED/SOUTHERN FRIED (ROM/ARV) 08 AIR LE VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC(EMI)


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09 EXAMPLE WON'T GO QUIETLY DATA/MINISTRY OF SOUND/MINISTRY OF SOUND GROUP (ARV) 10 DAFT PUNK TRON LEGACY - OST WALT DISNEY/PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 11 DEADMAU5 4X4=12 MAU5TRAP/VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


12 HIGH CONTRAST THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY HOSPITAL/HOSPITAL/HOSPITAL (SRD) 13 CALVIN HARRIS READY FOR THE WEEKEND COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 14 DEADMAU5 FOR LACK OF A BETTER NAME VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 15 MASSIVE ATTACK COLLECTED - THE BEST OF VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


16 PRODIGY THEIR LAW - THE SINGLES 1990-2005 XL RECORDINGS/XL RECORDINGS/XL BEGGARS(PIAS) 17 FAITHLESS PASSING THE BATON - LIVE FROM BRIXTON NATE'S TUNES/NATE'S TUNES(ESSENTIAL GEM) 18 FAITHLESS FOREVER FAITHLESS - THE GREATEST HITS CHEEKY/COLUMBIA LG/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 19 AIR MOON SAFARI SOURCE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


20 TIESTO MAGIKAL JOURNEY - THE HITS COLLECTION NEBULA/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


David Guetta had one of his best quarters yet in the UK at the start of 2012, culminating in an extra 150,000 sales of his 2011 album Nothing But The Beat. Assisted by the chart-topping single


Titanium, some discounting and an appearance on Graham Norton’s BBC One chat show, the album was easily the top dance title of Q1, outselling its closest six releases combined. In a quarter in which he turned five


Grammy nominations into three wins, Skrillex provided two of the quarter’s 10 favourite dance albums. They were led in


TOP 20 FOLK ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR) 01 LEONARD COHEN OLD IDEAS COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)


02 CIVIL WARS BARTON HOLLOW COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 03 TRACY CHAPMAN TRACY CHAPMAN ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC(ARV) 04 FIRST AID KIT THE LION'S ROAR WICHITA RECORDINGS/WICHITA RECORDINGS (PIAS) 05 LAURA MARLING I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC(EMI) 06 LAURA MARLING A CREATURE I DON'T KNOW VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


07 KING CREOSOTE & JON HOPKINS DIAMOND MINE DOMINO RECORDINGS/DOMINO RECORDINGS(PIAS) 08 GILLIAN WELCH THE HARROW & THE HARVEST WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC(ARV) 09 BOB DYLAN BEYOND HERE LIES NOTHIN' THE COLLECTION RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 10 BOB DYLAN THE COLLECTION COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC(ARV)


11 JUNE TABOR & THE OYSTER BAND RAGGED KINGDOM TOPIC/TOPIC(PROPER MUSIC) 12 LAURA MARLING ALAS I CANNOT SWIM VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 13 BOB DYLAN DYLAN COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 14 UNTHANKS LAST PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


15 GERRY RAFFERTY CITY TO CITY/NIGHT OWL PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 16 JONI MITCHELL BLUE WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)


17 CHRISTY MOORE FOLK TALE COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 18 DUBLINERS THE VERY BEST OF DECCA/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)


19 CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS LEAVING EDEN WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 20 DUBLINERS THE VERY BEST OF PARLOPHONE/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


The last time Leonard Cohen charted as high as he did in the UK in Q1he was just 34-years old. More than four decades later the now


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PEAK POS. Q1 SALES 2


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121 35 35 4


39 48 45 1


19 2 1


43 1 6


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153,958 38,919 36,526 32,522 19,871 9,924 8,741 7,873 7,534 6,953 6,027 5,534 5,338 5,022 4,000 3,897 3,854 3,767 3,570 3,567


TOP 20 URBAN ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)


01 RIZZLE KICKS STEREO TYPICAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 02 WHITNEY HOUSTON THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION ARISTA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 03 RIHANNA TALK THAT TALK DEF JAM/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 04 BEYONCE 4 COLUMBIA/PARKWOOD ENT/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 05 RIHANNA LOUD DEF JAM/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)


06 DRAKE TAKE CARE CASH MONEY/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 07 CHASE & STATUS NO MORE IDOLS MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 08 JLS JUKEBOX EPIC/EPIC LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV)


09 WHITNEY HOUSTON THE ESSENTIAL ARISTA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 10 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST WATCH THE THRONE ROC-A-FELLA/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 11 NICKI MINAJ PINK FRIDAY CASH MONEY/ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 12 PROFESSOR GREEN AT YOUR INCONVENIENCE VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 13 CEE LO GREEN THE LADY KILLER WARNER BROS/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 14 SEAL SOUL 2 REPRISE/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)


15 TINIE TEMPAH DISC-OVERY PARLOPHONE/PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC(EMI)


16 WHITNEY HOUSTON THE GREATEST HITS ARISTA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 17 PLAN B THE DEFAMATION OF STRICKLAND BANKS 679/ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC UK/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 18 BEYONCE I AM SASHA FIERCE COLUMBIA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 19 EMINEM CURTAIN CALL - THE HITS INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 20 RIHANNA GOOD GIRL GONE BAD DEF JAM/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(ARV)


Rizzle Kicks doubled the sales of debut album Stereo Typical in Q1 as Mama Do The Hump became their biggest single with sales of more than half a million. The Island act take


second place by the Atlantic-issued Skrillex, while 2010 effort Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites released by independent Mau5trap finished sixth.


Q1 SALES 73,081


25,297 17,746 15,383 9,776 9,619 8,560 5,434 4,822 4,796 4,618 4,266 3,880 3,627 3,467 2,971 2,928 2,301 2,287 2,242


77-year-old reached number two again in January with the Columbia-issued Old Ideas and was only denied a famous number one by Polydor’s Lana Del Rey whose Born To Die came out the same week. Also handled by Columbia in the UK,


although independent Stateside, duo The Civil Wars (left) came fresh from a Grammy performance and double win by breaking into the UK artist albums chart at number 13 with Barton Hollow. It sold around 25,000 copies in the quarter, about one-third of Old Idea’s total.


their place at the top of the quarter’s urban contemporary albums chart, despite extensive tribute buying in the market for the late


TOP 20 ROCK/METAL ALBUMS Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP (DISTRIBUTOR)


01 FOO FIGHTERS WASTING LIGHT RCA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 02 ENTER SHIKARI A FLASH FLOOD OF COLOUR AMBUSH REALITY/AMBUSH REALITY (PIAS) 03 FOO FIGHTERS GREATEST HITS RCA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (ARV) 04 VAN HALEN A DIFFERENT KIND OF TRUTH INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 05 GUNS N' ROSES GREATEST HITS GEFFEN/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 06 NICKELBACK HERE AND NOW ROADRUNNER/ROADRUNNER/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 07 YOU ME AT SIX SINNERS NEVER SLEEP VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC(EMI) 08 YOUNG GUNS BONES PLAY IT AGAIN SAM/PIAS RECORDINGS/PIAS RECORDINGS (PIAS) 09 NIRVANA NEVERMIND GEFFEN/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV)


10 LAMB OF GOD RESOLUTION ROADRUNNER/ROADRUNNER/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 11 EVANESCENCE EVANESCENCE VIRGIN/WIND UP/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 12 METALLICA BEYOND MAGNETIC VERTIGO/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 13 TWIN ATLANTIC FREE RED BULL/RED BULL/RED BULL (EMI) 14 EVANESCENCE FALLEN VIRGIN/WIND UP/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)


15 BLINK 182 GREATEST HITS GEFFEN/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 16 BLACK SABBATH GREATEST HITS UMTV/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 17 LED ZEPPELIN MOTHERSHIP ATLANTIC/RHINO (WARNERS)/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)


18 THIN LIZZY WAITING FOR AN ALIBI - THE COLLECTION SPECTRUM MUSIC/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (ARV) 19 GREEN DAY AMERICAN IDIOT REPRISE/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (ARV) 20 KORN THE PATH OF TOTALITY ROADRUNNER/ROADRUNNER/WARNER MUSIC (ARV)


Enter Shikari’s third album returned them to the indie sector and Top 10 ways when A Flash Flood Of Colour debuted and peaked at four in January. Having briefly moved in major circles,


with second album Common Dreads being issued through Warner in 2009 and reaching number 16, Enter Shikari took full charge of their releases again with this latest set issued directly by their own label Ambush Reality. The band are sandwiched by two Foo


Fighters (right) albums on the quarter- end rock/metal chart, which also welcomes


PEAK POS.


5 3 1 1 1 5 2 2 7 3


16 3 3


17 1 1 1 2 1 1


Q1 SALES


113,831 99,577 98,086 89,840 65,094 56,130 54,395 50,476 50,028 48,181 45,399 41,497 38,125 29,369 27,568 23,421 23,139 22,356 21,450 19,375


Whitney Houston. Her sales were largely split across three retrospectives, all of which appear in this chart. Rihanna’s Def


Jam/Mercury album Talk That Talk surpassed three- quarters of a million UK sales in the quarter to slot behind Houston at three on the urban contemporary quarterly countdown.


PEAK POS.


1 4 4 6 1


10 3


19 5


19 4


105 37 86 6


19 4


1 68 Q1 SALES


37,900 33,852 29,479 25,838 21,802 20,778 19,413 15,536 14,786 12,943 12,588 11,612 11,139 10,388 10,221 9,498 8,484 8,336 7,938 7,827


in fourth position A Different Kind Of Truth, the first studio album in 14 years from Interscope/Polydor’s Van Halen.


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