44MusicWeek 06.07.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 26 W
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 BLUR Under The Westway Parlophone NEWTON FAULKNER Clouds Ugly Truth KOOKS Naïve Virgin
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
ill..i.amscored his seventh No.1 single but his first as a
primary solo artist, debuting in pole position with This Is Love, the second single from his upcoming (fourth) solo album, #willpower, last Sunday. Amazingly, the only Americans to have more No.1s are Elvis Presley, Madonna and Michael Jackson.
Will.i.am scored five No.1s
with his band, Black Eyed Peas between 2003 and 2010, and another (in 2010) as featured rapper on Usher’s hit O.M.G. Solo, in collaborations and with Black Eyed Peas, he has a total of 34 Top 75 entries since 1998, and has sold 9,477,698 singles. The first single from
HOUSE OF PAIN Jump AroundTommy Boy JOSH OSHO/GHOSTFACE KILLAH Redemption Days Island
DJ FRESH FEAT. RITA ORA Hot Right Now Ministry of Sound
DAVID GUETTA FEAT. NICKI MINAJ Turn Me On Positiva/Virgin
ONE DIRECTION What Makes You Beautiful Syco
UK ALBUMS CHART CHRIS BROWN Fortune RCA MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER Ashes And Roses Rounder
KING BLUES Long Live The Struggle Transmission
ASIA XXX Frontiers ABBA Gold – Greatest Hits Polydor WILL YOUNG Echoes RCA THE WHO Quadrophenia Polydor PROFESSOR GREEN At Your Inconvenience Virgin
#willpower, T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever), debuted and peaked at three in February, achieving first- week sales of 53,977, and featuring guest vocals from Jennifer Lopez and Mick Jagger. The lesser known Eva
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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hris Brown is on schedule to nab his first ever No.1 album in the UK, with his
fifth studio set Fortune establishing a considerable 65.28% advantage over nearest challengers Maroon 5’s Overexposed on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes. Brown and Maroon 5 are also jockeying for singles chart supremacy, with their Payphone rising 2-1 on initial sales flashes, shifting 23,911 copies - 5.63% more than the 22,637 sales that trigger the 3-2 rise of Brown’s Don’t Wake Me Up.
Will.i.am’s This Is Love, which topped the chart last week, is still in close attendance, falling 1-3 on sales of 20,710 copies. The 10th and 14th most
ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island
FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits RCA
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successful American rock bands of the 21st century in the UK with album sales of 3,814,040 and 2,750,337 hitherto, Linkin Park and Maroon 5 went head- to-head in a battle to secure their third No.1 album last Sunday. Linkin Park led all week and took the title, with Living Things debuting in pole position on sales of 41,526 copies. Maroon 5’s fourth album,
Overexposed sold 38,717 copies
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earned its predecessor, Turn Up The Music pole position on its debut 13 weeks ago. After the disappointing
showing of his last single, Hangover - which peaked at 27, despite the added attraction of Flo Rida - Taio Cruz is back on track, debuting at 12 (24,357 sales) with There She Goes. The Official Song Of The
Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa: Payphone MIDWEEK NO.1
Simons – a Dutch singer whose only previous chart appearance was on Afrojack’s 2010 No.24 hit, Take Over Control - is featured on This Is Love, which nevertheless turned in a much better first-week sale of 102,320. This Is Love was Britain’s
1,200th No.1. The first 600 took exactly 35 years – from 14 November 1962, when Here In My Heart by Al Martino was the
first, to 14 November 1987, when T’Pau’s China In Your Hands was the 600th. The last 600 have taken almost 25 years, with the last 100 taking exactly three years. In pursuit of his second
straight No.1 single from Fortune, Chris Brown fell short with Don’t Wake Me Up debuting at three - but its first- week sales of 89,223 were 6.50% above the 83,777 sales that
London 2012 Olympics, Muse’s new single Survival was released on Wednesday, and sold 14,595 copies by the end of the week, to debut at 25. It is Muse’s 25th Top 75 entry since they made their chart debut 13 years ago last week. With
will.i.am’s new single
becoming the seventh No.1 in as many weeks, last week’s topper, Payphone, dipped to two (92,318 sales) for Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa. Cheryl’s Call My Name slipped 2-5 (47,432 sales), and Flo Rida’s Whistle descended 3-4 (61,198 sales). Overall singles sales were up
3.18% week-on-week at 3,529,896 - 14.07% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,094,562.
album opened at eight (11,383 sales). It is his second Top 10 album. The Wildhearts charted
Chris Brown: Fortune MIDWEEK NO.1
to debut at No.2. It certainly represents a recovery from third album, Hands All Over, which debuted at six on sales of 16,496 copies in 2010. It is the first time that
American groups have debuted in the chart’s top two positions simultaneously since November 2008, when The Killers’ Day & Age took precedence over Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy. Linkin Park’s only collaborator
Jay-Z - their Collision Course set has sold 413,533 copies - was also back in the Top 10, as his Watch The Throne album, a joint project with Kanye West, races to
its highest chart placing in 45 weeks. The pair performed a rapturously received televised set at the BBC’s Hackney Weekend which - along with exposure for Watch The Throne’s fourth hit single No Church In The Wild, and a current price tag of £3.99 as Amazon and £4 at Asda - helped Watch The Throne to leap 20-7 (11,902 sales). Flo Rida’s fourth album Wild
Ones debuted in the Top 10 after spinning off three top five singles. Home to the No.1 hit Good Feeling, the No.4 title track (feat. Sia) and Whistle, which spent a fortnight at No.1 last month, the
seven albums between 1993 and 2009, only two of which made the Top 40 – but band leader Ginger makes his solo chart debut on Sunday with 100% (No.27, 4,718 sales). The album is a 12-song distillation of 555%, a 30-song fan-funded triple CD distributed only to those who pledged money for the project. Belgian producer Netsky is
the latest drum & bass act to break through, debuting at 29 (4,316 sales) with his second album, 2. Netsky’s self-titled 2010 album has never made the Top 200, although it has sold nearly 16,000 copies to date. It’s nearly 17 years since
The Levellers scored their one and only No.1 album and seven years since they had a Top 40 single but the Brighton band, which first charted in 1991, still has enough followers to rack up its ninth chart album, debuting at 36 (3,835 sales) with Static On The Airwaves, its 12th studio album. Overall album sales were up
4.93% week-on-week at 1,566,906 – 13.34% below same- week 2011 sales of 1,808,112.
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