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THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER)


1 1 2 2 N


KEANE Strangeland Island 2794838 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


TENACIOUS D Rize Of The Fenix Columbia 88691952322 (ARV) (Kimbrough/King)


3 2 14 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E)  (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sande)


4 4 69 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 15 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


5 N


REN HARVIEU Through The Night Island/Kid Gloves 2766868 (ARV) (Hogarth)


6 21 27 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2771686 (ARV)  (Bond)


7 8 14 GOTYE Making Mirrors Island 2792285 (ARV)  (De Backer)


8 11 36 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


9 6 24 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88691952562 (ARV)  (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


10 N


GARBAGE Not Your Kind Of People Stun Volume STNVOL010 (rom arv) (Garbage/tbc)


11 17 26 RIHANNA Talk That Talk Def Jam 2787842 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Cirkut/Harrell/Harris/StarGate/Crawford/Da Internz/The-Dream/NO-ID/Swire/McGrillen/Hit-Boy/Alex Da Kid/Chase N Status/Dean)


12 5 16 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


13 7 25 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t Know Epic/Syco 88697940942 (ARV) 2 (The Fearless/Argyle/Brammer/Robson/Future Cut/Frampton/Jordan-Patrikios/Smith/Fitzmaurice/Heelis/Prime/Metrophonic)


14 16 29 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV)  (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


15 N 17 N


19 18 7 20 10 4


21 N


22 15 5 23 22 6


BEACH HOUSE Bloom Bella Union BELLACD334 (rom arv) (Beach House/Coady)


16 12 64 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


GLEE CAST Glee: The Music - The Graduation Epic 88691966952 (ARV) (Anders/Astrom/Murphy)


18 19 30 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded Cash Money/Island 2796668 (ARV)  (Various)


JACK WHITE Blunderbuss XL XLCD566 (PIAS) (White)


ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Release Me - The Best Of Decca 5338776 (ARV) (Various)


TRAIN California 37 Columbia 88691987822 (ARV) (Walker/Sinclair/Espionage/Wattenberg/Parq/Hodges)


ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island 2770437 (ARV) (Diplo/Switch/Rechtshaid/tbc)


24 27 38 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E)  (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


25 23 15 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


26 24 35 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


27 29 26 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 88697843642 (ARV) (Mac/Falk/Yacoub/Rawling/Meehan/Squire/Solomon/Meredith/Stannard/Howes/Gad/Robson/RedOne/BeatGeek/Jimmy Joker/Rawling/Meehan/Gaudino/Rooney)


28 28 7


LABRINTH Electronic Earth Syco 88691932932 (ARV) (Labrinth/Da Digglar/Ghenea/McKenzie/Williams)


29 32 RICHARD HAWLEY Standing At The Sky’s Edge Parlophone P4636981 (E) (Hawley/Elliot)


30 13 3 MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Electra Heart 679/Atlantic 5310521552 (ARV) (Nowels/Reid/Dr Luke/Cirkut/Diplo/Kurstin/Karaoglu/Howe)


31 20 88 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic 88697361942 (ARV) 2 (The Script)


32 32 70 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567882721 (ARV) 4 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


33 25 6


ALABAMA SHAKES Boys & Girls Rough Trade 0880882178727 (PIAS)  (Alabama Shakes)


34 38 34 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV)  (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


35 34 139 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6 (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


36 39 8 MADONNA Mdna Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


37 N


MORTEN HARKET Out Of My Hands Wrasse 2798711 (ARV) (Ljunggren/Osborne/Quant/Harket/Hustoft/Kvint/tbc)


38 53 26 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST Watch The Throne Roc-a-fella/Mercury 2765057 (ARV) (West/Dean/Keith/Q-Tip/Pharrell/Don Jazzy/Hit-Boy/Kilhoffer/The Neptunes/RZA/Lewis/Bhasker/Swizz Beatz/Joseph/S1)


THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER) 39 14 2 41 40 5


COVER DRIVE Bajan Style Global Talent/Polydor 2783229 (ARV) (Mac/Future Cut/Quiz & Larrosi/Rotem/Aliby/Orange Factory/Rigo/Chin-Quee/Boi-1da)


40 47 10 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word Atlantic 7567876331 (ARV) (Chiccarelli)


42 41 24 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796225 (ARV)  (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


43 35 54 THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 88697754492 (ARV)  (Sheehan/O’Donoghue/Frampton/Kipner)


44 37 68 STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2 1780699 (rom arv) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


45 46 27 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV)  (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


46 26 3 47 N


49 N 51 30 2 53 R 55 N 56 9 2


NORAH JONES Little Broken Hearts Blue Note/Parlophone P7315481 (E) (Danger Mouse)


GOSSIP A Joyful Noise Columbia 88691982651 (ARV) (Higgins/Gossip)


48 44 7 MOSHI MONSTERS Music Rox Moshi Monsters 88691974062 (ARV) (Sen/Cleverley)


SANTANA Shape Shifter Starfaith 76692999662 (ARV) (N/A)


50 43 11 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Wrecking Ball Columbia 88691942541 (ARV) (Aniello/Springsteen)


B.O.B Strange Clouds Atlantic 7567882649 (ARV) (B.o.B/Jones/Dr Luke/Cirkut/Tedder/Zancanella/Khan/Billboard/Frequency/Mynority/Mike Will Made It/P Nasty)


52 51 71 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2754184 (ARV)  (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


ABBA 18 Hits Polar 9831452 (ARV)  (Andersson/Ulvaeus)


54 62 18 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


BEST COAST The Only Place Wichita WEBB340CD (PIAS) (Brion)


THE CRIBS In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull Wichita WEBB335CD (PIAS) (Fridmann/The Cribs)


57 52 90 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


58 59 34 BON JOVI Greatest Hits Mercury 2752339 (ARV) 2 (Fairbairn/Bon Jovi/Ebbin/Sambora/Shanks/Rock/Collins/Benson)


59 48 89 PLAN B The Defamation Of Strickland Banks 679/Atlantic 5186584712 (ARV) 42 (Ballance-Drew/Epworth/Appapoulay/McEwan)


60 N


NIKI & THE DOVE Instinct Mercury 2794843 (ARV) (Niki & The Dove)


61 54 132 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


62 49 16 FLEETWOOD MAC Rumours Rhino 7599273132 (ARV) 11 (Fleetwood Mac/Dashut/Caillat)


63 31 2


THE PROCLAIMERS Like Comedy Cooking Vinyl COOKCD560 (Essential/GEM) (Evans)


64 64 79 RIHANNA Loud Def Jam 2752365 (ARV) 62 (StarGate/Vee/Harrell/Bozeman/The Runners/Riddick/PolowDaDon/Sham/Mel&Mus/Stewart/Dean/Soundz/Alex Da Kid)


65 57 11 JUSTIN FLETCHER Hands Up - The Album Little Demon LTDMG024 (SDU)  (Graham/Lew/Thomson)


66 55 29 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV)  (Epworth)


67 N


DONNA SUMMER The Journey - The Very Best Of Mercury 0602498606476 (ARV)  (tbc)


68 65 11 SKRILLEX Bangarang Asylum 0075679963352 (ARV) (Skrillex/Gartner/12th Planet/Kill The Noise)


69 63 62 BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Legend Tuff Gong 0073145867142 (ARV) (Marley/Various)


70 69 56 SNOW PATROL Up To Now Fiction 2720709 (ARV) 2 (Jacknife Lee/McClelland/Lightbody/Doogan/Brennan/Watson)


71 60 31 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


72 56 38 WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA 88697940092 (ARV)  (Richard X/Eliot/Hofmann)


73 N 74 N


WILLIE NELSON Heroes Sony 88691960482 (ARV) (Cannon/Stanley/Bramhall II)


SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO Unpatterns Wichita WEBB330CD (PIAS) (tbc)


75 58 18 STEPS The Ultimate Collection Sony RCA 88691957842 (ARV) (Topham/Twigg/Waterman/Frampton/Kreuger/Elofssen/Romdhane/Larossi/Stack/Taylor/Kennedy/Jayawardena)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Abba 53 Adele 4, 35 Alabama Shakes 33 B.O.B 51 Beach House 15 Bee Gees 34 Best Coast 55 Black Keys, The 42 Bon Jovi 58 Clare, Alex 23 Clarkson, Kelly 54 Coldplay 18 Cover Drive 39


Cribs, The 56 Drake 45 Ferguson, Rebecca 9 Fleetwood Mac 62 Florence + The Machine 61, 66 Garbage 10 Glee Cast 17 Gossip 47 Gotye 7 Guetta, David 24 Harket, Morten 37 Harvieu, Ren 5


Hawley, Richard 29 Howard, Ben 6 Humperdinck, Engelbert 21 Jay-Z & Kanye West 38 Jessie J 16 Jones, Norah 46 Justin Fletcher 65 Keane 1 Kiwanuka, Michael 40 Labrinth 28 Lmfao 26 Madonna 36


Marina And The Diamonds 30 Marley, Bob & The Wailers 69 Mars, Bruno 32 Maverick Sabre 25 Minaj, Nicki 19 Minaj, Nicki 52 Moshi Monsters 48 Mraz, Jason 41 Murs, Olly 13 Nelson, Willie 73 Niki & The Dove 60


Noel Gallagher?S High Flying Birds 71 One Direction 27 Perry, Katy 57 Plan B 59 Proclaimers, The 63 Rey, Lana Del 12 Rihanna 11 Rihanna 64 Rizzle Kicks 14 Sande, Emeli 3 Santana 49 Script, The 31


Script, The 43 Sheeran, Ed 8 Simian Mobile Disco 74 Skrillex 68 Snow Patrol 70 Springsteen, Bruce 50 Steps 75 Stereophonics 44 Summer, Donna 67 Tenacious D 2 Train 22 White, Jack 20 Young, Will 72


Key Platinum (300,000) Gold (100,000) Silver (60,000) 1m European sales


BPI Awards Singles Katy Perry: Part Of Me (silver)


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