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dele’s 21 might have finished as the top artist album seller for the fourth time out of five quarters,
but in Q1 the independents were always going to fall way short of what they had achieved 12 months earlier. After claiming 27.8% of the albums
market in the opening three months of 2011 as XL Beggars’ star player sold 2.2 million albums, the indie sector a year later collectively sold 1.6 million fewer full- and mid-price albums. This represented a 24.7% year-on-year drop. However, removing Adele from the
Q1 2012 10 BIGGEST-SELLING ARTIST ALBUMS OF THE QUARTER POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ LABEL/ Q1 SALES/ (POS IN OVERALL QUATERLY CHART)
1 ADELE 21 XL 411,977 (1) 2 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Marsh 123,550 (11) 3 ADELE 19 XL 117,927 (13) 4 KATIE MELUA Secret Symphony Dramatico 42,424 (54) 5 CARLO EMERALD Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor Dramatico/Grand Mono 40,205 (58) 6 EXAMPLE Playing In The Shadows Ministry of Sound 36,526 (67) 7 ENTER SHIKARI A Flash Flood Of Colour Ambush Reality 33,852 (71) 8 JUSTIN FLETCHER Hands Up – The AlbumLittle Demon 32,467 (75) 9 GILBERT O’SULLIVAN The Very Best Of USM Media 30,568 (79) 10 ARCTIC MONKEYS Suck It And See Domino 23,111 (100)
Q1 2012 10 BIGGEST-SELLING SINGLES OF THE QUARTER POS ARTIST/ TITLE/ LABEL/ Q1 SALES/ (POS IN OVERALL QUATERLY CHART)
1 DJ FRESH FEAT. RITA ORA Hot Right NowMinistry of Sound 341,683 (7) 2 CHARLENE SORAIAWherever You Will Go Peacefrog 94,398 (44) 3 ADELE Someone Like YOU XL 87,759 (47) 4 NADIA ALI Rapture Ministry of Sound 76,600 (58) 5 ADELE Set Fire To The Rain XL 75,889 (60) 6 ADELE Rolling In The Deep XL 73,043 (64) 7 M83 Midnight City Naïve 68,992 (67) 8 JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Higher Love Believe Digital 43,621 (90) 9 ARCTIC MONKEYS R U Mine Domino 39,064 (102) 10 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS AKA…What A Life Sour Marsh 35,345 (112)
TOP SELLING SINGLES FROM PREVIOUS QUARTERS POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / Q1 SALES (POSITION ON OVERALL QUARTER-END CHART)
2011 01 ADELE Someone Like You XL 698,020 (1) 02 ADELE Rolling In The Deep XL 489,453 (4) 03 ADELE Make You Feel My Love XL 171,240 (23) 04 WRETCH 32 FEAT. L Traktor Ministry of Sound 154,359 (30) 05 TIESTO TVS DIPLO/BUSTA RHYMES C’mon (Catch ‘Em By Surprise) Wall of 121,878 (40) 2010 01 SIDNEY SAMSON FEAT. WIZARD SLEEVE Riverside (Let’s Go) Data 333,231 (7) 02 FLORENCE/DIZZEE RASCAL You Got The Dirtee Love Dirtee Skank Island 253,293 (13) 03 EXAMPLE Won’t Go Quietly Data 164,491 (26) 04 TEMPER TRAP Sweet Disposition Infectious 53,599 (79) 05 CHUCKIE & LMFAO Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl CR2 47,502 (85) 2009 01 KID CUDI VS CROOKERS Day ‘N’ Nite Data 291,794 (6) 02 PRODIGY Omen Takemetothehospital 135,541(26) 03 GURU JOSH PROJECT Infinity 2008 Maelstrom 91,720 (43) 04 MIA Paper Planes XL 67,360 (52) 05 DIZZEE RASCAL/HARRIS/CHROME Dance Wiv Me Dirtee Skank 52,262 (63) 2008 01 BASSHUNTER FEAT. DJ METAL THEO Now You’re Gone Hard2Beat 347,008 (1) 02 ADELE Chasing Pavements XL 224,761 (4) 03 H TWO O FEAT. PLATINUM What’s It Gonna Be Hard2Beat 187,507 (6) 04 UTAH SAINTS Something Good ’08 Data 81,824 (25) 05 T2 FEAT. JODIE AYSHA 2NV/AATW/MNB 70,224 (31) 2007 01 KAISER CHIEFS Ruby B Unique/Polydor 194,457 (3) 02 MASON Exceeder Boss/Data 112,636 (12) 03 ERIC PRYDZ VS FLOYD Proper Education Data/Positiva 102,192 (16) 04 BOOTY LUV Boogie 2Nite Hed Kandi 79,390 (20) 05 CAMILLE JONES/FEDDE LE GRANDE The Creeps Data 63,516 (24)
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equation independent album sales were largely flat with the remaining highlights including another 123,550 sales of the Sour Mash- issued Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, sets from Dramatico acts Katie Melua (left) and Caro Emerald (inset), Enter Shikari returning to the sector through their label Ambush Reality, Demon performing strongly with children’s TV star Justin Fletcher and Union Square achieving Gilbert
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O’Sullivan’s best albums chart placing since the Seventies. Independent singles
sales were up by 18.7% on the year led by a 52.1% increase for Ministry of Sound,
which returned to the top of the weekly chart with Hot
Right Now by DJ Fresh featuring
Rita Ora. As a consequence the indies’ share of the sector rose from 14.9% in Q1 2011 to 16.8% a year later.
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TOP SELLING ARTIST ALBUMS FROM PREVIOUS QUARTERS POS ARTIST / TITLE / LABEL / Q1 SALES (POSITION ON OVERALL QUARTER-END CHART)
2011 01 ADELE 21 XL 1,754,319 (1) 02 ADELE 19 XL 465,829 (2) 03 EVA CASSIDY Simply Eva Blix Street 138,516 (16) 04 DANIEL O’DONNELL Move Over Ireland DMG TV 60,148 (36) 05 THE STROKES Angeles Rough Trade 49,232 (45) 2010 01 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Contra XL 105,121 (26) 02 LOSTPROPHETS The Betrayed Visible Noise 62,977 (42) 03 TEMPER TRAP Conditions Infectious 54,507 (52) 04 DIZZEE RASCAL Tongue N’ Cheek Dirtee Skank 53,449 (54) 05 SIMPLY RED Songs Of Love
Simplyred.com 46,494 (63) 2009 01 PRODIGY Invaders Must Die Takemetothehospital 210,100 (7) 02 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes Bella Union 166,912 (13) 03 FRANZ FERDINAND Tonight Domino 66,765 (48) 04 ADELE 19XL 57,812 (56) 05 VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend XL 52,224 (61) 2008 01 ADELE 19 XL 256,928 (3) 02 RADIOHEAD In Rainbows XL 143,776 (16) 03 KATIE MELUA Pictures Dramatico 71,705 (42) 04 KAISER CHIEFS Yours Truly Angry Mob B Unique/Polydor 70,862 (44) 05 PIGEON DETECTIVES Wait For Me Dance To The Radio 59,273 (52) 2007 01 KAISER CHIETS Yours Truly Angry Mob B Unique/Polydor 312,890 (4) 02 BLOC PARTY A Weekend In The City Wichita 159,944 (17) 03 SIMPLY RED Stay
Simplyred.com 95,968 (32) 04 GOSSIP Standing In The Way Of Control Back Yard Recordings 68,279 (48) 05 KAISER CHIEFS Employment B Unique/Polydor 43,193 (75)
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