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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 27 A


CHARTBOUND


Based onmidweek 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  FLORENCE+THEMACHINE SpectrumIsland  ADAMLAMBERTNever Close Our Eyes RCA


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fter a lacklustre week in which theTop 10 simply shuffled around,


Florence +TheMachine breathes life into the chart,with new single Spectrum(SayMy Name) racing to the top of Tuesday’smidweek sales flashes, with a 10.84% lead overMaroon 5’s Payphone,which slips to number two, after returning to the summit last weekend. Galvanised by a CalvinHarris remix, the song would be Florence’s first No.1. Selling just 73,998 copies –


 THE VACCINESNoHope Columbia  BENE KING Stand ByMeWEA  KINA GRANNIS Sound Of Silence One Haven  CHRISTINA PERRI Jar OfHearts Atlantic  SEMISONIC Closing Time MCA  EMINEMFEAT. RIHANNA Love TheWay You Lie Interscope


 THE VERVE The Drugs Don’tWork Hut  GNARLS BARKLEY CrazyWarner Bros  DAVID GUETTA FEAT.USHERWithout You Positiva/Virgin


 SWEDISHHOUSEMAFIA Greyhound Virgin


UK ALBUMS CHART  NEWTONFAULKNERWrite It On Your Skin Ugly Truth


 LIANNE LEHAVAS Is Your Love Big Enough Warner Bros


 RUSHClockwork Angels Roadrunner  THE VIEWCheeky For A Reason CookingVinyl  BANANARAMA 30 Years Of Bananarama Rhino


only slightlymore than half the number it sold when debuting at No.1 a fortnight earlier and 19.80% down week-on-week - Payphone won last week’s battle for chart honours over Chris Brown’sDon’tWakeMe Up which climbed 3-2, although its sales were off 20.80% week-on- week at 70,702. With Brown at one on


albums and two on singles and Maroon 5 at one on singles and two on albums, it was the first time that two acts have held the top two places in both charts


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 DIRTY PROJECTORS Swing LoMagellan Domino


 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUBTouristHistory Kitsune


 SERJ TANKIANHarakiri Reprise  EXAMPLE Playing In The Shadows Ministry of Sound


 ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of TheHour Island


 MUMFORD&SONS SighNoMore Gentlemen Of The Road/Island


 MACCABEES Given To TheWild Fiction


The newOfficial Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening atmusicweek.com.


Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012


ive years after his debut album,Hand Built By Robots topped the chart,


NewtonFaulkner looks set to return to the summit with third albumWrite ItOn Your Skin taking a commanding lead on Tuesday’smidweek sales flashes. The first of the week’s chart snapshots show the album 46.04% ahead of nearest challenger LianneLaHavas’ debut release Is Your Love Big Enough, and 66.99% ahead of American Idol graduare Adam Lambert’sTrespassing in an all- new top three - though with sales at woefully low levels, maintaining their current chart placings until the weekendmay be a challenge. Slipping to five on said sales


flash,ChrisBrown debuted atop the albumchart with his fifth studio set Fortune on Sunday. It sealed a remarkable reversal in fortunes for Brown,whosemuch- publicised conviction for domestic violence was followed by amajor slump in his career,which saw his next album,Graffiti peak at a


sinceMarch 2007,when Kaiser Chiefs had the No.1 album (YoursTruly,AngryMob) and No.2 single (Ruby) while Take That had No.1 single (Shine) and No.2 album(Beautiful World). Top 10s in which there are no


new or re-entries are rare - Sunday’s was the first since the chart week ending 30 July 2011 (sales week ending 23 July 2011), 50 weeks earlier,when the entire top five and seven of theTop 10 were in an upper echelon to


which no new admissions were made. StooShe’s debut hit LoveMe


had little staying power, despite also featuring TravieMcCoy. It spent just five weeks in theTop 75 inMarch/April, falling 5-9- 16-21-37, before checking out. Although their follow-up Black Heartmade a similar (4-8) start, it seems to bemade of sterner stuff and rallied on Sunday, climbing back to five,with sales increasing 17.75% week-on-week to 46,431.The only other single


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Florence+ TheMachine: Spectrum(SayMy Name)


in theTop 10 to increase sales week-on-week wasWide Awake by KatyPerry,which advanced 10-9,with sales up 7.07% at 33,982.The biggest loser in the Top 10 wasThis Is Love by will.i.amfeat.Eva Simons, which dipped 1-3,with sales off 37.28% at 64,170. NickiMinaj racked up her


eighthTop 20 hit with Pound The Alarmjumping 34-16 (19,630 sales). In a very quiet week, only six


new entries impacted theTop 75. Leading the way,Blur’s first


full release single since 2003, UnderTheWestway (No.34, 8,547 sales) is the reconvened band’s 27thTop 75 entry in a chart career spanning nearly 22 years. Dappy’s I’mComing (Tarzan


Part 2),wasn’t released until Tuesday but even factoring that in, its No.35 debut (8,521 sales) suggest it won’t come near matching the N-Dubz star’s previous solo singles,No Regrets (No.1) and Rockstar (feat Brian May),which got to No.2. Overall singles sales were


down 2.85% week-on-week at 3,429,164 - 7.05% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,203,372.


with debuts only for country/folk iconMaryChapinCarpenter’s Ashes And Roses (No.26, 5,259 sales), punk revivalists TheKing Blues’ Long LiveThe Struggle (No.43, 3,131 sales) and veteran prog rock supergroup Asia’s XXX (No.69, 1,834 sales). BBCOne ran the Paul


Newton Faulkner:Write It On Your Skin MIDWEEK NO.1


lowly 55,while five singles in a row on which he was lead act fell short of theTop 20. Fortune was Brown’s first


No.1 albumin the UK, and sold more copies last week - 29,980 - than any Brown albumhas in any week hitherto.His previous top tally of 20,011 occurred four years ago last week,when Exclusive leapt 142-6 after being reissued in a Forever edition.That album also provided Brown’s previous highest chart position, reaching number three a week later, on


sales of 18,157 copies.Brown’s last albumF.A.M.E. debuted and peaked at 10, on first-week sales of 18,509 inMarch last year. After debuting at two last


week,Maroon 5 remained runners-up on Sunday,with Overexposed selling a further 18,818 copies,while Linkin Park, who beat themto the title the previous week, suffered a 1-3 dip (14,198 sales) with Living Things. Aside fromChris Brown, it


was a poor week for new entries,


Simon documentary,Under African Skies - about themaking of his classicGraceland album- last week, resulting in amajor resurgence for the album,which rocketed 45-6 (11,172 sales), beating both the No.40 peak it reached when issued in remastered formlast autumn, and the No.10 position it achieved four weeks ago,when it was released again as a double-disc set,with the Under African Skies documentaryDVDappended. Its latest chart placingmark the album’s highest position since March 1987, sixmonths after its initial release.And after 71 straight weeks in theTop 10 followed by four out of it,Adele’s 21 bounced 15-9 (8,006 sales). Overall albumsales were


down 1.91% week-on-week at 1,536,945 - 4.89% below same- week 2011 sales of 1,615,988.


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