www.musicweek.com CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 21 incorporating seven-inch, 12-inch, CDs, LPs, digital bundles, download sales and cassettes. © Official Charts Company 2012. THE OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS CHART


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1 3 15 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E)  (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sand?)


2 N 4 N


6 1 3 7 N


8 N 9 N


JOE BONAMASSA Driving Towards The Daylight Provogue PRD73691 (ADA Arv) (Shirley)


3 4 70 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 16 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


JOHN MAYER Born And Raised Columbia 88691976062 (ARV) (Mayer/Was)


5 34 35 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV)  (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


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


FUN. Some Nights Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen FUEL5280482 (ARV) (Bhasker/tbc)


TOM JONES Spirit In The Room Island 3701820 (ARV) (Johns)


THE ENEMY Streets N The Sky Cooking Vinyl COOKCD553 (Essential/GEM) (Ford)


10 6 28 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2771686 (ARV)  (Bond)


11 7 15 GOTYE Making Mirrors Island 2792285 (ARV)  (De Backer)


12 11 27 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)


13 8 37 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 3 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


14 N


PAUL BUCHANAN Mid Air Newsroom ROOM01 (Ess) (Buchanan)


15 12 17 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


16 38 27 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)


17 N


THE TEMPER TRAP The Temper Trap Infectious INFECT135CD (PIAS) (Hoffer)


18 9 25 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88691952562 (ARV)  (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


19 16 65 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


20 N


THE CULT Choice Of Weapon Cooking Vinyl COOKCD548 (Essential/GEM) (Goss/Rock)


21 14 30 RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island 2780337 (ARV)  (Whiting/The Rural/Spencer/Future Cut/Dodds/Barratt/fat boy slim/Chiarelli/Caruana)


22 18 31 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 3 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


23 22 TENACIOUS D Rize Of The Fenix Columbia 88691952322 (ARV) (Kimbrough/King)


24 19 8


26 N 27 N


29 23 7


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


25 13 26 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)


SAINT ETIENNE Words And Music By UMC HVNLP92 (ARV) (Richard X/Catt/Powell)


SLASH FEAT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS Apocalyptic Love Roadrunner 0016861767808 (ADA Arv) (Valentine)


28 24 39 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E)  (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island 2770437 (ARV) (Diplo/Switch/Rechtshaid/Spencer/The Shining/Eg White)


30 26 36 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


31 35 140 ADELE 19 XL XLCD313 (PIAS) 6 (Abbiss/White/Ronson)


32 25 16 MAVERICK SABRE Lonely Are The Brave Mercury 2770559 (ARV) (Utters/Prime/Sabre/Hogarth/FT Smith/Eg White)


33 27 27 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)


34 28 8 35 R


36 20 5 37 21 2


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


BEE GEES The Ultimate Bee Gees Reprise/Rhino 8122798477 (ARV)  (Various)


JACK WHITE Blunderbuss XL XLCD566 (PIAS) (White)


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


38 31 89 THE SCRIPT The Script Phonogenic 88697361942 (ARV) 2 (The Script)


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39 22 6 40 N


41 N 43 N


44 15 2 45 17 2 46 33 7


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


ERIC PRYDZ Pryda Virgin CDVX3100 (E) (Prydz/tbc)


PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY Ram Hearmusic 7233448 (ARV) (McCartney/McCartney)


42 30 4 MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Electra Heart 679/Atlantic 5310521552 (ARV) (Nowels/Reid/Dr Luke/Cirkut/Diplo/Kurstin/Karaoglu/Howe)


HEATHER PEACE Fairytales Kaleidoscope KR363133001 (Absolute Arvato) (Wright)


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


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


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


47 44 69 STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2/Mercury 1780699 (rom arv) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


48 32 71 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 4 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


49 40 11 MICHAEL KIWANUKA Home Again Polydor 2785405 (ARV) (Butler)


50 42 25 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796225 (ARV)  (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


51 45 28 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV)  (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


52 52 REN HARVIEU Through The Night Island/Kid Gloves 2766868 (ARV) (Hogarth)


53 71 32 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


54 N


GAZ COOMBES Here Come The Bombs Hot Fruit HF001 (E) (Coombes/Williams)


55 43 55 THE SCRIPT Science & Faith Phonogenic 88697754492 (ARV)  (Sheehan/O’Donoghue/Frampton/Kipner)


56 36 9 MADONNA MDNA Interscope 2796815 (ARV) (Madonna/Benassi/Benassi/Demolition Crew/Orbit/Solveig/Ahlund/Malih/Indiigo/Free School)


57 41 6 58 29 3


59 N


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


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


ADMIRAL FALLOW Tree Bursts In Snow Nettwerk 5037703095724 (PROP) (Savage)


60 48 8 MOSHI MONSTERS Music Rox Moshi Monsters 88691974062 (ARV) (Sen/Cleverley)


61 64 80 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)


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


63 10 2 64 39 3


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


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


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


66 54 19 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


67 57 91 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


68 50 12 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Wrecking Ball Columbia 88691942541 (ARV) (Aniello/Springsteen)


69 N


SOULSAVERS The Light The Dead See V2/Cooperative Music VVR797362 (rom arv) (Machin/Glover)


70 52 72 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island 2754184 (ARV)  (Kane/Swizz Beatz/Crawford/Money/Rotem/Wansel/Oak/T-Minus/will.i.am/Drew Money)


71 53 31 ABBA 18 Hits Polar 9831452 (ARV)  (Andersson/Ulvaeus)


72 61 133 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


73 N 74 R


ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING The Music Of Smash Columbia (ARV) (Tedder/Kutzle/Zancanella/Zulla/Popp/Shaiman/Riesett)


PALOMA FAITH Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful Epic 88697543552 (ARV)  (Byrne/Mackichan/Robson/Barter/Harcourt/Love/Jorgensen/ Kurstin/Marr/Noriega/Wells/Elofsson/Westerlund/Isaak/Dixon)


75 66 30 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV)  (Epworth)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Abba 71 Adele 3, 31 Admiral Fallow 59 Alabama Shakes 46 Beach House 44 Bee Gees 5, 35 Black Keys, The 50 Bonamassa, Joe 2 Buchanan, Paul 14 Cast Recording, Original 73 Clare, Alex 29 Clarkson, Kelly 66


Coldplay 22 Cover Drive 64 Cult, The 20 Drake 51 Enemy, The 9 Ferguson, Rebecca 18 Florence + The Machine 72, 75 Fun. 7 Garbage 63 Gaz Coombes 54 Glee Cast 45 Gotye 11


Guetta, David 28 Harvieu, Ren 52 Hawley, Richard 58 Howard, Ben 10 Humperdinck, Engelbert 37 Jay-Z & Kanye West 16 Jessie J 19 Jones, Tom 8 Keane 6 Kiwanuka, Michael 49 Labrinth 34 LMFAO 30


Madonna 56 Marina And The Diamonds 42 Marley, Bob & The Wailers 62 Mars, Bruno 48 Maverick Sabre 32 Mayer, John 4 Minaj, Nicki 24, 70 Moshi Monsters 60 Mraz, Jason 57 Murs, Olly 25 Noel Gallagher’s High


Flying Birds 53 One Direction 33 Paloma Faith 74 Paul & Linda Mccartney 41 Peace, Heather 43 Perry, Katy 67 Prydz, Eric 40 Rey, Lana Del 15 Rihanna 12, 61 Rizzle Kicks 21 Saint Etienne 26 Sande, Emeli 1


Script, The 38, 55 Sheeran, Ed 13 Skrillex 65 Slash Feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators 27 Soulsavers 69 Springsteen, Bruce 68 Stereophonics 47 Temper Trap, The 17 Tenacious D 23 Train 39 White, Jack 36


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


BPI Awards Albums


Frank Turner: England Keep My Bones (silver); Adele: 21 (16 x platinum)


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