26Q1 2012 ALL CHARTS, GRAPHS AND DATA IN THIS REPORT ARE COPYRIGHT OF THE OFFICIAL CHARTS COMPANY
Whitney’s legacy dominates Q1
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s her all-time biggest seller, I Will Always Love You suitably led a charge of a dozen Whitney
Houston tracks back into the UK Top 75 in February in the week after her death. Originally a 10-week chart-topper
during 1992 and 1993, the ballad sold an additional 39,104 copies in Q1, while another of her former number ones I Wanna Dance With Somebody attracted 29,590 buyers. The RCA-handled tracks were respectively the second and sixth biggest catalogue singles during the first three months of the year. Although not selling quite enough to
make this Top 20 chart, there were high initial sales for some other Houston tracks following her passing, including for One Moment In Time, I Have Nothing and My Love Is Your Love. However, interest in her catalogue swiftly moved from individual tracks to albums. The tribute-buying theme continues in
fifth place with At Last which, despite its status as one of Etta James’ most celebrated recordings, this 1961 track only first made the UK chart in 2010 after X
TOP 20 CATALOGUE SINGLES Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / Q1 SALES (DISTRIBUTOR) ORIGINAL YEAR OF RELEASE
1 GOO GOO DOLLS IrisWarner Bros Warner Bros Warner 39,212 (ARV) 1998 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON I Will Always Love You Arista RCA Sony 39,104 (ARV) 1992 3 ADELE Make You Feel My Love XL XL XL Beggars 34,055 (PIAS) 2008 4 SNOW PATROL Chasing Cars Fiction Polydor Universal 30,673 (ARV) 2006 5 ETTA JAMES At Last MCA Island Universal 29,592 (ARV) 1960 6 WHITNEY HOUSTON I Wanna Dance With Somebody Arista RCA Sony 29,590 (ARV) 2004 7 KANYE WEST FEAT. JAMIE FOXX Gold Digger Mercury Mercury Universal 27,614 (ARV) 2005 8 TRACY CHAPMAN Fast Car Elektra Atlantic Warner 25,631 (ARV) 1988 9 EMINEMLose Yourself Interscope Polydor Universal 25,628 (ARV) 2004 10 COLDPLAY Fix You Parlophone Parlophone EMI 24,793 (E) 2005 11 SURVIVOR Eye Of The Tiger Sony Columbia Sony 23,657 (ARV) 1982 12 TEMPER TRAP Sweet Disposition Infectious Infectious Infectious 23,122 (PIAS) 2009 13 JOURNEY Don’t Stop Believin’ Columbia Columbia Sony 22,226 (ARV) 1981 14 COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Parlophone Parlophone EMI 22,190 (E) 2008 15 THE KILLERS Mr Brightside Mercury Mercury Universal 21,888 (ARV) 2004 16 WHITE STRIPES 7 Nation Army XL XL XL Beggars 21,676 (PIAS) 2004 17 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling Interscope Polydor Universal 21,268 (ARV) 2009 18 BON JOVI Livin’ On A Prayer Mercury Mercury Universal 20,168 1986 19 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE You’ve Got The Love Island Island Universal 19,961 (ARV) 2009 20 VERVE Bitter Sweet Symphony Hut Virgin EMI 19,448 (E) 1997
TOP 20 POP SINGLES Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP Q1 SALES (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 JESSIE J DOMINO ISLAND/LAVA/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 02 EMELI SANDE NEXT TO ME VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
03 KELLY CLARKSON STRONGER (WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU) RCA/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 04 ALYSSA REID FT JUMP SMOKERS ALONE AGAIN 3 BEAT/AATW/UMTV/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 05 COVER DRIVE TWILIGHT GLOBAL TALENT/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 06 OLLY MURS DANCE WITH ME TONIGHT EPIC/EPIC LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 07 ED SHEERAN DRUNK ASYLUM/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER) 08 LANA DEL REY VIDEO GAMES POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 09 LANA DEL REY BORN TO DIE POLYDOR/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI)
10 MAROON 5 FT CHRISTINA AGUILERA MOVES LIKE JAGGER A&M/OCTONE/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 11 ED SHEERAN LEGO HOUSE ASYLUM/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER) 12 PIXIE LOTT KISS THE STARS MERCURY/MERCURY/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 13 KATY PERRY PART OF ME VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
14 KATY PERRY THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY VIRGIN/VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
15 CHRISTINA PERRI JAR OF HEARTS ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER) 16 ONE DIRECTION ONE THING SYCO MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY)
17 STOOSHE FT TRAVIE MCCOY LOVE ME WARNER BROS/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER) 18 ONE DIRECTION WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL SYCO MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 19 CHARLENE SORAIA WHEREVER YOU WILL GO PEACEFROG/PEACEFROG/PEACEFROG (EMI) 20 CHER LLOYD FT ASTRO WANT U BACK SYCO MUSIC/RCA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY)
Jessie J’s career hit a new US peak in Q1 with a first Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with Domino, but she also scored a second UK number one single with the same track. The Island/Lava
single sold nearly 520,000 singles in the quarter, some 35.1% more than the quarter’s next big pop hit Next To Me by Virgin’s Emeli Sande.
Q1 SALES
519,770 384,823 279,565 255,724 246,670 214,289 196,237 180,075 173,674 168,271 158,124 146,199 131,831 118,552 116,125 112,620 94,710 94,446 94,398 90,903
Just ahead of the Q2 chart- topping success for former Canadian Idol contestant Carly Rae Jepsen, fellow countrywoman Alyssa Reid got her UK chart career off to an excellent start when the 3 Beat/AATW
track Alone Again peaked at two. It was the fourth
biggest pop hit of the quarter.
and a cover of White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army was chosen as the debut RCA single by last season’s runner-up Marcus Collins. His version peaked at nine and had
sold 70,760 copies by quarter-end, while its existence sparked renewed interest in White Stripes’ 2004 XL-handled original, which as a result sold another 21,676 copies in the quarter. Another XL track, Adele’s Make You
Feel My Love, headed towards 800,000 cumulative sales in the UK in Q1 after selling an additional 34,055 copies and was the quarter’s third top catalogue seller.
TOP 20 ROCK SINGLES Q1 2012 POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / COMPANY / CORPORATE GROUP / GROUP Q1 SALES (DISTRIBUTOR)
01 GOTYE FT KIMBRA SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND (UNI) 02 COLDPLAY PARADISE PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC(EMI)
03 FOSTER THE PEOPLE PUMPED UP KICKS COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 04 BIRDY SKINNY LOVE 14TH FLOOR/ATLANTIC/ATLANTIC RECORDS UK/WARNER MUSIC(WARNER) 05 COLDPLAY CHARLIE BROWN PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI) 06 M83 MIDNIGHT CITY NAIVE (NAIVE)
07 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE SHAKE IT OUT ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND (UNI) 08 JAMES MORRISON I WON'T LET YOU GO ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC(UNI) 09 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE NO LIGHT NO LIGHT ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 10 GOO GOO DOLLS IRIS WARNER BROS/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER) 11 ARCTIC MONKEYS R U MINE DOMINO RECORDINGS (DOMINO RECORDINGS) 12 VACCINES IF YOU WANNA COLUMBIA/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 13 NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING AKA WHAT A LIFE SOUR MASH (EMI) 14 BLACK KEYS LONELY BOY NONESUCH/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC(WARNER) 15 SNOW PATROL CHASING CARS FICTION/POLYDOR/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 16 COLDPLAY FIX YOU PARLOPHONE/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
17 BEN HOWARD THE WOLVES ISLAND/UNIVERSAL ISLAND/UNIVERSAL MUSIC (UNI) 18 YOU ME AT SIX THE SWARM VIRGIN/EMI MUSIC (EMI)
19 SURVIVOR EYE OF THE TIGER SONY MUSIC/COLUMBIA LABEL GROUP/SONY MUSIC (SONY) 20 BLACK KEYS GOLD ON THE CEILING NONESUCH/WARNER BROS/WARNER MUSIC (WARNER)
When Coldplay climbed to number one in January with Paradise it was the first UK chart-topping rock single since Sex On Fire by Kings Of Leon back in 2008. However, the gap
for the next rock number one was only a few weeks with Belgian- born Australian Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know
Q1 SALES
742,043 220,637 82,848 79,551 76,626 68,992 62,807 40,712 40,256 39,212 39,064 36,853 35,345 33,887 30,673 24,793 23,925 23,853 23,657 23,583
climbing to the top the following month. The Island track featuring Kimbra sold more than three times as many copies in the quarter as Paradise, its closest rock rival. Columbia act Foster The People’s
Pumped Up Kicks first charted in the middle of last year, but returned to the Top 40 in January,
fuelling interest in their album.
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Factor contestant Katie Waissel covered it. Following James’ death aged 73 on January 20, the Island-handled track finally broke into the Top 40 at number 39 and shifted nearly 30,000 copies in the quarter. It has sold around 140,000 downloads in total. Another X Factor cover – this one by
Frankie Cocozza – was responsible last year for Warner Bros track Iris by Goo Goo Dolls finally becoming a UK Top 10 hit. The 1998 cut has been one of the strongest back catalogue sellers of the download era and sold well enough into this year to finish as Q1’s top catalogue track. Continuing the X Factor theme
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