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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 20 T
CHARTBOUND
Based on midweek sales, the following releases are expected to debut in or around the Official Charts Company Top 75 singles and artist albums charts this Sunday.
UK SINGLES CHART THE WANTED Chasing The Sun Global Talent
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
he Wanted’s eighth hit, Chasing The Sun is on schedule to give the band
their third No.1 this weekend, with initial (Tuesday) sales flashes showing it romping to the top, more than 46% ahead of nearest challengers Fun’s We Are Young. It will likely replace two-week
topper R.I.P. by Rita Ora feat. Tinie Tempah, which retained pole position last week on sales of 57,434 copies but slips to fifth on the midweeks. Ora had looked under threat
PALOMA FAITH Picking Up The Pieces RCA JENNIFER LOPEZ FEAT. PITBULL Dance Again Epic
NEWTON FAULKNER Write It On Your Skin Ugly Truth
GAVIN DEGRAW I Don’t Want To BeJ PITBULL Back In Time MR305/Polo Grounds MAROON 5 She Will Be Loved A&M/Octone JACK JOHNSON Better Together Brushsfire/Island
WHITE STRIPES Seven Nation Army XL CHOIR OF YOUNG BELIEVERS Hollow Talk Ghostly International
MASSIVE ATTACK Teardrop Virgin FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Shake It Out Island
UK ALBUMS CHART JOE BONAMASSA Driving Towards The Daylight Provogue
JOHN MAYER Born And Raised Columbia PAUL BUCHANAN Mid Air Newsroom THE ENEMY Streets In The Sky Cooking Vinyl TOM JONES Spirit In the Room Island FUN Some Nights Fueled By Ramen THE CULT Choice Of Weapon Cooking Vinyl TEMPER TRAP The Temper Trap Infectious
from The Saturdays’ new single 30 Days last weekend, but after a fast start, the latter track slowed considerably, and ends up debuting at seven (36,214 sales). The Saturdays’ 13th hit is the 11th to make the Top 10. Her biggest challenge
eventually came from Fun’s We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae), which jumped 5-2 on its sixth week (56,587 sales), receiving a late boost when performed by Jessie J and her charges on The Voice UK on Saturday evening. Carly Rae Jepsen’s former No.1, Call Me Maybe, held at
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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SAINT ETIENNE Words And Music UMC SLASH Apocalyptic Love Roadrunner PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY Ram Hearmusic HEATHER PEACE Fairytales Kaleidoscope ERIC PRYDZ Pryda Virgin GAZ COOMBES Here Comes The Bombs Hot Fruit
OST The Music Of Smash Columbia SPULSAVERS The Light The Dead See V2 ADMIRAL FALLOW Tree Bursts In Snow Nettwerk
PALOMA FAITH Do You Want The Truth Or Something Epic
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n the basis of Tuesday’s midweek album sales flashes, it is unclear who
will be number one this weekend, with a host of contenders in the running - but it won’t be Keane, whose Strangeland spent a second week atop the chart. Dipping to nine by Tuesday,
the Keane album has been overtaken by new releases from Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer, Paul Buchanan, The Enemy, Tom Jones and Fun, plus existing Top 10 titles from Adele and Emei Sandé. Blues singer/guitarist Bonamassa’s 12th studio album, Driving Towards The Daylight, is the early leader but far from certain to give him his first No.1. Strangeland suffered a 58.23%
dip in sales while retaining the crown last week. Selling just 19,982 copies to secure Keane its 11th week at No.1 in total, it marked only the second time the No.1 album has sold fewer than 20,000 copies in the 646 weeks that have elapsed this century - the previous instance happening four weeks earlier, when Adele’s
MIDWEEK NO.1
Joe Bonamassa: Driving Towards The Daylight
21 sold 17,065 copies. Also last week, Teancious D’s
third album, Rize Of The Fenix debuted at two, easily topping the No.38 peak of their eponymous 2001 debut and the No.10 peak of 2006 follow-up The Pick Of Destiny to become their highest charting set. Selling 15,971 copies on its debut it will, however, need long legs to overtake the cumulative sales of its predecessors. Singer/songwriter Ren
Harvieu debuted at five with her first album, Through The Night, on sales of 10,943 copies.
Back in harness after a seven
year hiatus, Garbage’s Not Your Kind Of People debuted at 10, to give the band five Top 10 studio albums from five releases, selling 8,310 copies. Beach House fell short of the Top 75 with their first three albums but broke that sequence with fourth set Bloom blossoming to No.15 (6,556 sales). Glee Cast registered their
16th Top 75 album in a little over two years, debuting at No.17 with Glee: The Music Season Three: The Graduation Album. Selling 5,848 copies last week, it raises
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seven, but now explodes 21-6, with sales of 9,583 raising its overall tally to 160,565. Slipping 9-10 on its 17th
straight week in the Top 10, Somebody That I Used To Know sold 26,707 copies last week for Gotye feat. Kimbra, to become Britain’s latest million seller. The track has sold 1,004,690 copies. Rihanna’s latest solo single
The Wanted: Chasing The Sun MIDWEEK NO.1
three (49,855 sales), while Alex Clare’s Too Close was static at four (45,405 sales). Train’s Drive By eased for the first time, falling 6-8 (33,698 sales). Afrobeat star D’Banjmade
his UK chart debut with Oliver Twist entering at nine (30,171 sales), while Scissor Sisters debuted at 12 (23,973 sales) with Only The Horses, the introductory single from fourth album, Magic Hour. Professor Green returned to the Top 40, with Remedy (feat.
Ruth Anne) debuting at 27 (10,808 sales), while Make Peace Not War debuted at 29 (10,590 sales) for Skepta. After peaking at 70 with The
Wolves, 74 with Keep Your Head Up and 79 with The Fear, folk/rock singer/songwriter Ben Howard seems to have his first bona fide hit, with Only Love vaulting 80-37 (9,029 sales). Its success has given a new lease of life to Howard’s debut album Every Kingdom, which debuted and peaked 32 weeks ago at
Where Have You Been climbed 8-6 (36,319 sales), while EMI is finally applying heat to Princess Of China, her collaboration with Coldplay. Reaching 33 as an album track last November, it is now officially the third single from Coldplay’s Mylo Xyloto album and surged 61-30 (9,859 sales) on Sunday. Donna Summer, sadly lost
her battle with cancer at the age of 63 last Thursday (17th). Five singles by Summer subsequently surged back into the Top 200. 2004 compilation The Journey: The Very Best Of Donna Summer re-enters the album chart at No.67 (1,772 sales). Overall singles sales were
down 6.86% week-on-week at 3,150,138 - 0.72% below same- week 2011 sales of 3,173,010.
overall sales of Glee Cast albums to 1,735,646. They also racked up their 100th Top 75 entry, with a cover of Meat Loaf ’s 2006 hit It’s All Coming Back To Me Now debuting at 69 (3,845 sales). They are only the third act to have 100 Top 75 hits, joining Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard. A week after returning to the
singles chart, Engelbert Humperdinck debuted at 21 (5,420 sales) with latest compilation Release Me: The Best Of. Covering his entire career, it provides ‘Hump’ with his 18th album chart entry. Abba’s Gold: Greatest Hits
has become the third album to sell upwards of five million. Climbing 112-110, the album sold 1,009 copies last week, raising its tally to a staggering 5,002,685. Only Queen’s Greatest Hits and The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band have sold more copies. Overall album sales are down
7.48% at 1,348,711 - 14.66% below same week 2011 sales of 1,580,359. It is the lowest seven- day sale tally recorded since week-ending 22 June 1996 – 830 weeks ago.
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