36MusicWeek 01.06.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 21 S
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 RUDIMENTAL FEAT. JOHN NEWMAN Feel The Love Asylum
LOREEN Euphoria Warner Bros LAWSON When She Was Mine Polydor ALEXANDRA BURKE Let It Go RCA SEBASTIAN INGROSSO/ALESSO Calling (Lose My Mind) UMTV
GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND Sing Decca
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wedish singer Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest last Saturday but
after a fast start, it looks like her winning entry, Euphoria, will fall short of the No.1 UK slot. On Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, it had been overhauled by Hackney drum & bass quartet Rudimental’s debut hit Feel The Love (feat. John Newman), with pop quartet Lawson completing an all new top three with first single, When She Was Mine. Some or all of these will
IVI ADAMOU Lala Loe Day1 ROMAN LOB Standing Still UMC JEDWARD Waterline Universal Ireland FLORENCE +THE MACHINE Shake It Out Island
UK ALBUMS CHART PALOMA FAITH Fall To Grace RCA GARY BARLOW/COMMONWEALTH BAND Sing Decca
SCISSOR SISTERS Magic Hour Polydor RUMER Boys Don’t Cry Atlantic SIGUR ROS Valtari Parlophone RUSSELL WATSON Anthems Sony Classical ULTRAVOX Brilliant Chrysalis MELODY GARDOT The Absence Decca REGINA SPEKTOR What We Saw From The Cheap Seats Sire
ALT-J An Awesome Wave Infectious Music
inevitably fall behind We Are Young which – with an unusual chart trajectory of 7-3-3-3-5-2- 1 – finally ascended to pole position for fun. feat. Janelle Monae last weekend. It got there the hard way – it trailed The Wanted’s Chasing The Sun by more than 10,000 sales in last Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes but eventually ran out clear winner on sales of 72,977, 3,647 more than its rival. We Are Young previously topped the chart in the US, Canada, Australia, Austria and Ireland,
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fter returning to No.1 for a third time, Emeli Sandé will have to
ARCHITECTS Daybreaker Century Media LAURA WRIGHT Glorious Decca AMORE Stand Together Warner Music Ent. PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED This Is PIL PIL Official PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here EMI SUGAR Copper Blue Edsel JOAN ARMATRADING Starlight Hypertension
The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at
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Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012
surrender her position this weekend, as a strong contingent of new releases provides 10 debuts in the Top 11 on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, with her debut album Our Version Of Events sliding 1-9 as a result. In an intake that also includes albums by Scissor Sisters, Rumer, Sigus Ros, Russell Watson, Ultravox, Melody Gardot, Regina Spektor, Alt-J and a mini-album (seven tracks) of Gary Barlow’s Jubilee song Sing, Paloma Faith is setting the pace with her second album, Fall To Grace, establishing a 40% lead over its nearest challengers. Last weekend’s album chart
represented a personal triumph for Sandé who jumped 3-1 but an industry disaster, as she does so on sales of just 13,430 – the lowest since Ace Of Base’s Happy Nation sprinted 7-1 on sales of 12,042 in July 1994, some 935 weeks ago. Sandé’s return to No.1 came
despite latest single, My Kind Of Love slipping 19-21 (14,039
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copies last week to debut at 11, the track was one place shy of securing Pitbull his ninth Top 10 hit, Lopez her 18th. On The Floor was by far the biggest hit of Lopez’s career, with sales to date of 822,056 - fractionally more than her next three biggest hits put together. Pitbull has another new single on the chart this week: Back In Time (from Men In Black 3), which debuts at No.23 (13,284 sales). Quick singles facts: Call Me
Rudimental: Feel The Love MIDWEEK NO.1
and is the first single from fun.’s second album Some Nights, which debuts at seven this week (11,023 sales). It is the only track on the album to feature Monae who has a separate career of her own to pursue. The Wanted’s eighth hit in
less than two years, Chasing The Sun couldn’t deliver the band’s third No.1 but it has given them their third No.2. Their biggest selling single to date, Glad You Came has sold 540,126 copies since its release last July out of an
Paloma Faith: Fall To Grace MIDWEEK NO.1
overall Wanted singles sales tally of 2,153,392. Ahead of album Fall To
Grace’s release on Monday, Paloma Faith scored her highest charting single to date, with Picking Up The Pieces debuting at seven (32,607 sales) to beat the No.15 peak of her previous top tune, New York . Fourteen months after they
paired up to top the chart with On The Floor, Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull returned to the chart with Dance Again. Selling 28,371
Maybe was in the top three for the eighth straight week for Carly Rae Jepsen (3-3, 46,642 sales)... After two weeks at No.1, Rita Ora’s R.I.P. (feat. Tinie Tempah) dipped to four (43,116 sales)... Where Have You Been held at six for Rihanna, but with sales up 6.90% at 38,815... Timebomb debuted at 31 for Kylie Minogue (10,044 sales), having been released only on Friday (25th). Overall singles sales were
down 1.84% week-on-week at 3,092,230 – their lowest level for 10 weeks, and their second lowest level thus far in 2012. They are 6.45% below same-week 2011 sales of 3,305,282.
currently enjoying major TV success as a coach on BBC One’s The Voice UK, but Spirit In The Room’s chart placing, and first- week sales of 9,886 both mark a big downturn since his last studio album Praise & Blame debuted at two (31,209 sales) in 2010. The Enemy’s third album, Streets In The Sky, debuts at nine (9,854 sales). Their 2007 debut, We’ll Live And Die In These Towns, opened at No.1 (39,191 sales), while 2009 follow-up, Music For The People, entered at two (35,363 sales). Robin Gibb’s death
sales), and even though it wasn’t No.1 in her native Scotland. It has been No.1 north of the border four times but ranked fifth on Sunday, as another Scot, Paul Buchanan, debuted at the top. Hitherto known for his work
with the esteemed duo Blue Nile, Buchanan topped the Scots list with his debut solo album, Mid Air, which ranked as high as three in the UK as a whole on early sales flashes but eventually debuted at 14 (7,054 sales). The top newcomer in the UK
as a whole is Driving Towards The Daylight, the latest album by
prolific blues/rock guitarist/singer Joe Bonamassa. Selling 13,345 copies – just 85 fewer than Sandé’s album – it debuts at two. Bonamassa’s 13th album, it is the first to make the Top 10. John Mayer also lands his first
Top 10 album, debuting at four with Born And Raised. Its opening week’s sales of 12,651 are the best of his career. The week’s Top 10 debuts are
completed by two acts who have previously topped the chart. Tom Jones – a chart-topper in 1968, 1975 and 1999 – debuts at nine with Spirit In The Room. Jones is
precipitated a big increase in sales of Bee Gees albums, with Number Ones vaulting 34-5, with sales up 206.70% week-on- week at 12,127, and The Ultimate re-entering at 35, with sales rocketing 1521.95% to 3,744. Number one for the last two weeks, Keane’s Strangeland slides to six (11,633 sales). Album sales dipped 2.65%
week-on-week to 1,312,971 last week. It was the lowest seven-day sales tally recorded since sales week-ending 22 June 1996 (chart dated 29 June 1996) – 831 weeks ago – when just 1,277,279 albums were sold.
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