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ony UK’s real highlight of Q1 happened on the other side of the Atlantic with One Direction
debuting at one on the Billboard 200, but arguably back home compilations gave it most joy. The success of its Sixties female artists
compilation Be My Baby, the quarter’s most popular various artists title, helped to lift Sony’s share of the market to an 18-month high with 16.0%, good enough for second behind Universal. Sony has just one title each in the
quarter’s Top 10 singles and artist albums
Q1 2012 10 BIGGEST-SELLING ARTIST ALBUMS OF THE QUARTER POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ LABEL/ Q1 SALES/ (POS IN OVERALL QUATERLY CHART)
1 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t KnowEpic 128,096 (10) 2 BRUCE SPRINGSTEENWrecking Ball Columbia 121,877 (12) 3 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 105,067 (18) 4 WHITNEY HOUSTON The Ultimate Collection Arista 99,577 (19) 5 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 95,013 (22) 6 BEYONCE 4 Columbia/Parkwood Ent 89,840 (23) 7 THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 85,944 (24) 8 KASABIAN Velociraptor Columbia 74,987 (26) 9 LEONARD COHEN Old Ideas Columbia 73,081 (28) 10 WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA 70,343 (30)
Q1 2012 10 BIGGEST-SELLING SINGLES OF THE QUARTER POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ LABEL/ Q1 SALES/ (POS IN OVERALL QUATERLY CHART)
1 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) RCA 279,565 (9) 2 OLLY MURS Dance With Me Tonight Epic 214,289 (17) 3 PITBULL FEAT. CHRIS BROWN International Love J 214,105 (18) 4 LABRINTH FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH Earthquake Syco 200,403 (20) 5 BEYONCE Love On Top Columbia/Parkwood Ent. 127,357 (33) 6 ONE DIRECTION One Thing Syco 112,620 (39) 7 ONE DIRECTION What Makes You Beautiful Syco 94,446 (43) 8 CHER LLOYD FEAT. ASTRO Want U Back Syco (45) 9 CHRIS BROWN Turn Up The Music RCA 83,778 (48) 10 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks Columbia 82,848 (50)
TOP SELLING SINGLES FROM PREVIOUS QUARTERS POSS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / Q1 SALES (POSITION ON OVERALL QUARTER-END CHART)
2011 01 CHRIS BROWN Yeah 3XJive 298,457 (9) 02 CHIPMUNK FEAT. CHRIS BROWN Champion Jive 298,457 (9) 03 KESHA We R Who We R RCA 272,923 (11) 04 JLS FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH Eyes Wide Shut Epic 234,849 (14) 05 PINK F**kin’ Perfect LaFace 209,508 (16) 2010 01 HELPING HAITI Everybody Hurts Syco 616,387 (1) 02 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part II) J 377,002 (4) 03 GLEE CAST Don’t Stop Believin’ Epic 323,187 (8) 04 JOURNEY Don’t Stop Believin’ Columbia 275,492 (11) 05 JLS One Shot Epic 248,852 (16) 2009 01 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody Hand Me Down 297,631 (5) 02 BEYONCE Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) Columbia 244,256 (7) 03 ALEXANDRA BURKE Hallelujah Syco 225,076 (10) 04 KELLY CLARKSON My Life Would Suck Without You RCA 194,685 (13) 05 LEONA LEWIS Run Syco 168,803 (19) 2008 01 BRITNEY SPEARS Piece Of Me Jive 156,674 (7) 02 KELLY ROWLAND Work Columbia 148,015 (8) 03 LEONA LEWIS Better In Time/Footprints In The Sand Syco 109,142 (16) 04 MARK RONSON FEAT. AMY WINEHOUSE Valerie Columbia 106,312 (17) 05 SCOUTING FOT GIRLS Elvis Ain’t Dead Epic 103,478 (19) 2007 01 THE FRAY How To Save A Life Epic 164,219 (5) 02 THE VIEW Same Jeans 1965 109,395 (13) 03 LEONA LEWIS A Moment Like This Syco 104,163 (14) 04 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE What Goes Around Comes Around Jive 103,355 (15) 05 AVRIL LAVIGNE Girlfriend RCA 46,324 (36)
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charts with RCA act Kelly Clarkson leading the singles charge with Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) and Epic’s Olly Murs providing the major’s top album with In Case You Didn’t Know. Singles share dropped back year-on-year from a market share of 21.2% to 18.4%, but albums share rose from 15.2% to 16.3%, partly thanks to a release schedule which included new albums from Bruce Springsteen and Leonard Cohen and
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ongoing sales of sets by the likes of Rebecca Ferguson and Beyonce. Very sadly, the
quarter also marked the passing of one of Sony’s greatest stars, Whitney Houston, an event that clearly
had a profound effect on many music fans as they
snapped up significant copies of her singles and albums.
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TOP SELLING ARTIST ALBUMS FROM PREVIOUS QUARTERS POSS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / Q1 SALES (POSITION ON OVERALL QUARTER-END CHART)
2011 01 PINK Greatest Hits – So Far LaFace 118,383 (20) 02 OLLY MURS Olly Murs 108,987 (23) 03 BEADY EYE Different Gear Still SpeedingBeady Eye 107,678 (24) 04 JLS Outta This World Epic 97,455 (26) 05 THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 92,355 (27) 2010 01 ALICIA KEYS The Element Of Freedom J 403,628 (4) 02 GLEE CAST Glee – The Music – Season One – Vol 1 Epic 237,704 (7) 03 JLS JLS Epic 141,530 (13) 04 BEYONCE I Am Sasha Fierce Columbia 131,377 (15) 05 SUSAN BOYLE I Dreamed A Dream Syco 129,416 (16) 2009 01 KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night Hand Me Down 490,485 (1) 02 BEYONCE I Am Sasha Fierce Columbia 193,677 (9) 03 THE SCRIPT THE Script Phonogenic 183,169 (11) 04 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Working On A Dream Columbia 150,467 (14) 2008 01 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS Scouting For Girls Epic 239,958 (5) 02 LEONA LEWIS Spirit Syco 200,971 (8) 03 MARK RONSON Version Columbia 175,847 (13) 04 MICHAEL JACKSON Thriller 25 Epic 149,093 (25) 05 NEWTON FAULKNER Hand Built By Roberts Ugly Truth 143,660 (17) 2007 01 THE VIEW Hats Off To The Buskers 165 246,865 (6) 02 RAY QUINN Doing It My way Syco 181,529 (13) 03 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Futuresex/Lovesounds Jive 163,329 (15) 04 THE FRAY How To Save A Life Epic 124,927 (20) 05 OASIS Stop The Clocks Big Brother 117,433 (24)
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