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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 24 N
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 MAROON 5 FEAT. WIZ KHALIFA Payphone A&M/Octone
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
umber two in 2007 with Makes Me Wonder, and last year with Moves
Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera), Maroon 5 will score their first No.1 single this weekend, with Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa). Topping the first midweek sales flashes with sales in excess of 38,461, compared to runners-up StooShe’s 15,739 sales for Black Heart, Payphone has been on air but not on sale for weeks, a fact which has seen a proliferation of soundalikes prosper, with one of them - by Precision Tunes - rocketing 83-9 on sales of 34,492 copies last Sunday. All are now in rapid decline, and order is restored. Call My Name, the first single
STOOSHE Black Heart Warner Bros JME Murking Boy Better Know WILSON PHILLIPS Hold On Capitol LETHAL BIZSZLE/JME & FIRE CAMP Leave It Yeah 360 WYNTER GORDON Dirty Talk Asylum/Big Beat STARSHIP We Built This City RCA FLO RIDA Good Feeling Atlantic LABRINTH FEAT. TINIE TEMPAH Earthquake Syco
UK ALBUMS CHART JUSTIN BIEBER Believe Mercury CHERYL A Million Lights Polydor SLASH Apocalyptic Love Roadrunner REVEREND & THE MAKERS At Reverend Makers Cooking Vinyl CARRIE UNDERWOOD Blown Away Arista
from Cheryl’s third album A Million Lights, debuted atop the chart last Sunday with first-week sales well in excess of 100,000 – just as the first singles from her two previous solo albums did. Call My Name racked up the best weekly sales tally of 2012 last
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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heryl’s first two solo albums - 3 Words and Messy Little Raindrops -
both debuted at No.1 but the Geordie singer’s third, A Million Lights, is facing an uphill struggle to achieve the same result. Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes show it selling 26% less than Justin Bieber’s Believe, which seems certain to deliver the Canadian teen star’s first No.1. Both albums are way ahead of
Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band’s Sing, which sold 28,159 copies last week, and became the first album to spend its first three weeks at No.1 since Adele’s 21 topped for 11 straight weeks immediately following its January 2011 debut. Barlow’s tenacity was bad
SMASHING PUMPKINS Oceania Martha’s Music CAN The Lost Tapes Spoon BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Greatest Hits Columbia LADY ANTEBELLUM Need You Now Capitol NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday Cash Money/Island
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Source: Official Charts Company
news for Amy Macdonald who was searching for her second No.1 but had to settle for a third consecutive top five album in less than five years, debuting at two (26,981 sales) with Life In A Beautiful Light, as first single Slow It Down debuted at 45 (7,106 sales). Macdonald’s 2007 album This Is The Light debuted at two on sales of 29,390,
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Coldplay’s seventh Top 5 hit, and Rihanna’s 18th. US R&B singer Trey Songz
Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa: Payphone MIDWEEK NO.1
week, shifting 152,001 copies to beat the record set by Gary Barlow’s Sing a week earlier. Conversely, it registered the lowest first-week tally yet for the debut single from a Cheryl album - introductory hit Fight For This Love (from 3 Words) exploded onto the chart with 292,846 sales in 2009, and Promise This (from Messy Little Raindrops) stormed to 157,210 sales on its 2010 release.
Cheryl’s fast start left Flo
Rida stranded at No.2 with Whistle, which increased sales by 11.70% week-on-week to 87,319 – the second highest for a No.2 this year. After jumping 11-1 the
previous week, Sing subsided to three (47,932 sales) for Gary Barlow and The Commonwealth Band. Princess Of China climbed 8- 4 (47,342 sales) to become
made the Top 40 for the very first time on Sunday, debuting at 28 (12,102 sales) with Heart Attack, the introductory single from his fifth album, Chapter V. Songz’s only previous Top 75 placing here came 15 months ago, when he reached number 71 with Bottom’s Up, which also featured Nicki Minaj. Songz’s lack of UK chart action is in sharp contrast to his success in his homeland, where he has had 25 Hot 100 entries since 2005. Justin Bieber scored his sixth
Top 40 hit in 10 weeks with As Long As You Love Me (feat. Big Sean) debuting at 30 (11,598 sales). It is the fourth hit since April from his new album Believe – following Boyfriend, Die In Your Arms and All Around The World - and it’s a strategy that seems to work, given that the album is set to debut at No.1 this weekend. Overall singles sales were
down 7.48% week-on-week at 3,321,484 – 11.04% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,087,957.
Justin Bieber: Believe MIDWEEK NO.1
eventually topping the chart 23 weeks later, and her second album, A Curious Thing, debuted and peaked at four in 2010, with first-week sales of 42,372. Housing his consecutive top
five singles Climax and Scream, Usher’s seventh studio album Looking 4 Myself toppled the midweek sales flashes last week but eventually debuted at three (26,965 sales). It is the second Usher album in a row to set the early pace but fall short of the summit, following Raymond V Raymond, which debuted at two in 2010 on sales of 40,788 after
having a 20% lead whittled away. Chasing their third
consecutive Top 10 album, Maximo Park fell short with The National Health - their first album for V2 after three for Warp - debuting at 13 (9,809 sales). Their highest chart placing came two albums and five years ago, when Our Earthly Pleasures debuted at two. Hot Chip are also with a new label (Domino instead of EMI), and also fell short of the Top 10, with In Our Heads debuting at No.14 (9,699 sales). Twenty years after its original
release, Fleetwood Mac’s 25 Years: The Chain debuted at nine (13,165 sales). Fleetwood Mac’s recording career started in 1967, and 25 Years: The Chain is a four-CD set of hits, album tracks, alternate takes and rare mixes that was first issued to mark those 25 years in 1992 but failed to chart. Its re-promotion comes at a more affordable price point, now widely available for around £12, and was advertised on TV last week as a Father’s Day gift. The Stone Roses’ Very Best Of compilation - a No.19 album in 2002 that last charted in 2005 – was a re-entry at 21 (6,801 sales) as the reconvened Manchester band continues its reunion tour. It has been available for 28
years continuously, so it’s a bit surreal to see the current TV campaign for Bob Marley & The Wailers’ definitive compilation Legend revealing that it is ‘out now’. The album climbed 28-20 on Sunday (7,178 sales), to secure its highest chart position since 2003. Given a modest boost by
Father’s Day gift-buying, overall album sales were up 8.96% week- on-week at 1,704,055 but 21.42% below same-week 2011 sales of 2,168,473.
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