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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 30 A
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 WILEYHeatwave CALVIN HARRIS FT EXAMPLE We'll Be Coming Back UNDERWORLD Caliban's Dream ARCTIC MONKEYS Come Together NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Everybody's On The Run
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fter three straight weeks at number one, Florence & The Machine's
Spectrum (Say My Name) will be swept aside this weekend - but it's too close to call between Wiley’s Heatwave and Calvin Harris’We'll Be Coming Back to say with any degree of certainty which will be its successor. Wiley's track (feat. Ms. D) had sold 49,189 copies by close of business on Monday - just 246 more than Harris' track (feat. Example). Harris, of course, is also behind the most popular mix of Spectrum which sold a best yet 65,790 last week to raise its cumulative sales to 202,784, making it the fifth Florence & The Machine single to exceed the 200,000 mark. Maroon 5's Payphone (feat
Wiz Khalifa) was Spectrum's runner-up for the third straight week but lags increasingly far
FRANK TURNER I Still Believe EMELI SANDE Abide With Me ARCTIC MONKEYSI Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor DRUMSOUND Through The Night LSO Chariots Of Fire DIZZEE RASCAL Bonkers
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T
he Olympics are focusing attention on heroic sporting endeavours in
UK ALBUMS CHART CONOR MAYNARD Contrast DELILAH From the Roots Up MIKE OLDFIELD Two Sides, The Best Of RICK ROSS God Forgives, I Don't BLUR 21 (box set) TESTAMENT Dark Roots Of Earth MIKE OLDFIELD Platinum FRANK TURNER England Keep My Bones ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am (That's What I'm Not)
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East London, while Plan B's third album Ill Manors - which debuted at number one this week - concerns itself with the seamier side of life in the area. The album's opening week’s sales of 36,855 copies compare unfavourably with Plan B's last album, The Defamation Of Strickland Banks, which sold 68,173 copies when debuting at number one in 2010. However, where that LP was knocked off the top of the album chart after just one week, Ill Manors is in with a fighting chance of extending its run at the top: Tuesday sales flashes show it at number two, selling a further 5,730 copies so far this week, only a little behind Conor Maynard’s first album, Contrast, which is on schedule to debut at number one, with sales to date of 6,265. New Jersey rock group The Gaslight Anthem's fourth album, Handwritten, was never a threat to Plan B's chart- topping ambitions but distanced itself from everything else on the market to debut at number two on Sunday on sales of
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mentioned above, is currently on schedule to debut at number one. Meanwhile, US duo Karmin
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behind, with sales last week of 50,626 copies. Stooshe's Black Heart rallied
5-3 on Sunday to achieve its highest chart position yet, on its sixth appearance in the chart. It sold 38,608 copies last week, raising its career tally to 258,311. Helped by its 59p price tag last week, Conor Maynard's
Vegas Girl sold 37,771 copies, but fell short of both the debut week sales and peak position of Maynard's introductory hit, Can't Say No, which opened 14 weeks ago at number two on sales of 74,792, and has since gone on to sell 223,790 copies. Both tracks are on Maynard's first album Contrast which, as
scored their first British hit, with Brokenhearted debuting at number six (32,682 sales), instantly beating its US Hot 100 number 16 peak. New to the Top 75 last week but set to go much higher this weekend are two songs featured in the London Olympic Games opening ceremony - these being The Arctic Monkeys’ cover of The Beatles’ Come Together (number 67, 3,598 sales), and Caliban's Dream by Underworld, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Only Men Aloud, Evelyn Roberts & Alex Trimble (number 69, 3,389 sales). On Tuesdays sales flashes, Caliban's Dream has jumped to number five, and Come Together to number 18. Overall singles sales last week
were down 4.59% week-on- week at 3,142,600 - 0.41% above same week 2011 sales of 3,129,866.
shading Mind, Body & Soul's 940,617. Featuring fully half of the
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Conor Maynard: Contrast
18,380 copies. In chart terms, the band has made big leaps forward so far with every album - their 2007 debut Sink Or Swim failed to chart, 2008 follow-up The '59 Sound reached number 55, and their third - 2010's American Slang - reached number 18. With 20 Top 20 hits to her
credit spanning 13 years, a Jennifer Lopez 'best of' compilation was long overdue, hence the high (number four, 9,213 sales) debut of Dance
Again...The Hits. Joss Stone has known the
lows and the highs of chart life, with her second album Mind,
Body & Soul reaching pole position in 2004 but her fourth album Colour Me Free! - released just five years later - never made it beyond the chart's lowest rung, number 75. Her independently released 2011 album LP1 suggested her career was back on the up, reaching number 36, and that theory is borne out by the number six debut (8,414 sales) of The Soul Sessions Volume 2 this week. As its title suggests, the album is a sequel to her 2003 debut The Soul Sessions, which reached number four and is her biggest selling album, with 1,075,492 sales to date -
Top 20 singles, and including 12 number one hits among its 44 tracks, Now! 82 dominated the album market last week, debuting atop the compilation chart on sales of 267,618. Topping the 255,337 copies that the last regular Now! album - Now! 81 - sold when debuting at number one 16 weeks ago to achieve the highest weekly sale of any album (artist or compilation) in any week so far in 2012. Now! 82's first week sales are, however, 8.70% below the 294,219 copies 2011 equivalent Now! 79 sold on its debut exactly a year ago. Now! 82 accounted for slightly more than a sixth of ALL album sales last week, and 41.82% of the compilation sector, in which it sold more than 12 times more than any other album, and more than the rest of the Top 200 combined. It also sold more than the top 42 artist albums combined.Olympic music collection Isles Of Wonder sold 10,498 copies in a little over 24 hours to hit No.5. Overall album sales were up 11.26% week-on-week at 1,604,442 - 11.58% below same week 2011 sales of 1,814,587.
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