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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 22 D
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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 USHER ScreamRCA DJ FRESH FEAT. DIZZEE RASCAL The PowerMoS NELLY FURTADO Big Hoops Interscope
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rum and base quartet Rudimental debut atop the singles chart with
their first hit, Feel The Love (feat. John Newman). The track sold 93,841 copies
last week, and provides the 41 year old Asylum label with its first ever number one in the process. We should note that the label credits Asylum jointly with Black Butter, a two year old independent urban label to which Rudimental are pacted. Initially home to acts like
DOT ROTTEN/TMSOverload Mercury LADY ANTEBELLUM Need You NowParlophone LEANNE MITCHELLRun To YouIsland AIDEN GRIMSHAW Is This LoveRCA JUSTIN BIEBER All Around The World Mercury ED SHEERAN The A TeamAsylum STEVIE WONDER Superstition Motown THE SCRIPT BreakevenPhonogenic BLACK EYED PEAS Where Is The LoveA&M ED SHEERAN Lego HouseAsylum MADNESS It Must Be Love UnionSquare Music PROFESSOR GREEN Read All About ItVirgin JESSIE J FEAT. B.O.B. Price TagIsland/Lava BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta FeelingInterscope
UK ALBUMS CHART NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE AmericanaReprise PAUL SIMON GracelandSony Music DEXYS One Day I’m Going To SoarBMG Rights BEACH BOYS That’s Why God MadeThe Radio Capitol ALEXANDRA BURKE Heartbreak On HoldRCA KYLIE MINOGUE Best Of EMI KAISER CHIEFS The Singles 2004-2012 B-Unique/Polydor BO BRUCE Search The NightHelamonster
Jackson Browne, The Eagles, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell, Asylum was mothballed for a long time, and most of its output since being reactivated is urban, with acts like Wiley, Ironik and Skrillex - though its first ever number one album, last Autumn, was by an artist whose music more closely resembles that of its early singer/songwriter roster, Ed Sheeran. Asylum is part of the Warner Music group of labels, which holds down all of the top three places this week - the first time it has done so in the 21st
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DAVID BOWIE Ziggy StardustEMI LADYHAWKE AnxietyModular PATTI SMITH BangaColumbia DELAIN We Are The OthersRoadrunner BOB SEGER Ultimate HitsCapitol THE HIVES Les HivesColumbia Deutschland MAROON 5 Hands All OverA&M/Octone ALFIE BOE Bring Him HomeDecca STEVIE WONDER Definitive CollectionMotown MADNESS Total MadnessUnion Square Music LADY GAGABorn This WayInterscope BLACK SABBATHIron Man– The Best Of UMC WALKMENHeavenBella Union THE BEATLES Yellow Submarine EMI
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or only the second time in history, the top five albums are all new entries, with
Take That's Gary Barlow enjoying a jubilee jamboree to top the chart ahead of new releases from Paloma Faith, The Scissor Sisters, Rumer and Russell Watson. While the title track and Here
Comes The Sun enter the singles chart, the seven songs that make up the Sing EP debut on the album chart at number one for Gary Barlow and The Commonwealth Band. A high profile release to commemorate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee, it sold 40,020 copies last week. It is also the shortest number one album in chart history, with a playing time just shy of 24 minutes. A week after securing her first
ever Top 10 single, with Picking Up The Pieces, Paloma Faith debuts at number two with second album Fall To Grace. Opening its account in a busy week with sales of 35,024 copies, it easily eclipses the initial impact
MIDWEEK NO.1 Gary Barlow and the Commonwealth Band: Sing
of Faith's first album, Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?, which debuted at number 14 on sales of 17,326 copies in September 2009. As introductory single Only The Horses eases 22-26 (13,985 sales) on its third frame, The Scissor Sisters' fourth album Magic Hour debuts at number four on sales of 19,297 copies. Rumer's second album, Boys
Don't Cry debuts at number three, matching the entry/peak of her 2010 debut but selling little
more than a third as many copies 23,567, compared to its predecessor's 66,452. Debuting at number five (18,174 sales), Anthems: Music To Inspire A Nation is 'popera' star Russell Watson's 12th Top 20 album from as many releases. Icelandic band Sigur Ros' latest ambient adventure, Valtari debuts at number eight (11,136 sales). Brilliant is the first new album
by Ultravox since 1994, and the first with its classic line-up of Midge Ure, Chris Cross, Billy
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Top 20 singles, most recently with Greyhound in March, but his first Top 20 single outside that trio is Calling (Lose My Mind), on which he is accompanied by fellow Swedish DJ Alesso and OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder. The track debuts at number 19 (17,579 sales). With six Top 10 hits from
Rudimental: Feel The Love MIDWEEK NO.1
century - via acts enjoying their debut hits: Fun's We Are Young (feat. Jonelle Monae) slips 1-2 (70,227 sales) on Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen, while Swedish singer Loreen debuts at number three with her Eurovision winner Euphoria on the Warner Bros. label (62,148 sales).
Also first time hitmakers,
Lawson, signed to Polydor, debuts at number four with their introductory single When She Was Mine (47,511 sales), while former chart-topper Call Me Maybe slips 3-5 (46,627) to complete a top five made up
entirely of acts enjoying their debut hit - an extremely rare event. Take That's Gary Barlow racks
up two new hits, debuting at number 11 with Sing (32,460 sales), and at number 59 with Here Comes The Sun (5,401 sales), both in partnership with The Commonwealth Band. Both tracks are taken from the Sing EP, which debuts atop the album chart, and was released to commemorate The Queen's Diamond Jubilee. As a member of The Swedish House Mafia, Sebastian Ingrosso has racked up five consecutive
seven prior releases, Alexandra Burke debuts meekly at number 33 with Let It Go (11,586 sales). Justin Bieber's Mother's Day
single Turn To You peaked at number 39 last month. Follow-up Die In Your Arms is off to a better start but is still some way short of providing the young Canadian with his fifth Top 10 hit - it debuts at number 34 (11,474 sales). Sales of The Wanted's latest
single, Chasing The Sun, more than halved on its second week on release, declining 51% to 33,992, as it slumps 2-10. After 18 straight weeks in the
Top 10, Somebody That I Used To Know plunges 9-17 (24,839 sales) for Gotye feat. Kimbra. Overall singles sales are up 14.83% week-on-week at 3,550,666 - 11.26% above same week 2011 sales of 3,191,397.
Currie and Warren Cann since Lament in 1984. Debuting at number 21 (6,100 sales), the album is the band's highest charting set since U-Vox reached number eight in 1986. US jazz singer Melody Gardot
follows-up 2009 breakthrough My One And Only Thrill - which debuted at number 40 and peaked at number 12 - with The Absence, which sold 6,835 copies last week to debut at number 18. Public Image Limited's first
new album in 20 years, This Is PiL debuts at number 35 (3,929). Also new to the Top 40 this
week: Leeds band Alt-J's debut album, An Awesome Wave (number 19, 6,720 sales) and New York-based, Russian-born singer/songwriter Regina Spektor's sixth studio album, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, which debuts at number 24 (5,382 sales) beating its 2009 predecessor Far (number 30). Overall album sales are still
extremely poor but do rebound from the 831 week low they plumbed the week before, rising 17.67% to 1,545,021 - 12.54% below same week 2011 sales of 1,766,525.
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