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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 31 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.
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little over six months after his last album Evolve Or Be Extinct failed to
register in the Top 75, Wiley has apparently taken heed of his own warning and has come up with a single of quality to make sure his dinosaur days are at least delayed. Taking on the much-fancied
UK SINGLES CHART LAWSON Taking Over Me (Global Talent) REDLIGHT Lost In Your Love (Polydor) DIZZEE RASCAL FT PEPPER Scream (Dirtee Stank / Island) OF MONSTERS AND MEN Little Talks (Record) MAXSTA I Wanna Rock (RCA) EMELI SANDE River (Virgin) BOM BOM When I Go Bom Bom Bom (1st Imp) RIHANNA Drunk On Love (Def Jam) PET SHOP BOYS Winner (Parlophone) RIZZLE KICKS Dreamers (Island) JAKE BUGG Lightning Bolt (Mercury)
We'll Be Coming Back by Calvin Harris feat. Example in a big selling head-to-head battle, Wiley emerges triumphant, with new single Heatwave - not on the flop album - proving too hot for his rivals, with sales of 114,121 making it the biggest selling song for six weeks. Wiley's first number one - his
previous biggest hit, Wearing My Rolex, peaked at number two behind the Madonna/Justin Timberlake collaboration Four Minutes - it also features a substantial vocal assist from Dayo Olatunji - aka Ms. D. It is her second number one: she arguably made an even bigger vocal contribution to Chipmunk's 2009
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UK ALBUMS CHART ANTONY & THE JOHNSONSCut The World (Rough Trade) FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD Sex Mix (Salvo) NIK KERSHAW Ei8ht (Shorthouse) HONEY RYDER Marley’s Chains (Oceanic Music) SPECIALS More Or Less (Chrysalis) ROXY MUSIC The Complete Studio Recordings (Virgin) EUGENE MCGUINNESS The Invitation To The Voyage (Domino) KARMIN Hello (Epic)
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ix weeks after 18 year old Justin Bieber became the third male teenage solo
artist in chart history to have a number one album, Conor Maynard becomes the fourth. Brighton-born Maynard, who will be 20 in November, debuts in pole position with his first album, Contrast, which sold 17,474 copies last week - the fifth lowest number one sale in 656 weeks that have elapsed thus far this century. Maynard reached number two
with debut hit single Can't Say No in April and number four with follow-up Vegas Girl last week. Both songs are on the album, on which Maynard also performs collaborations with Ne- Yo, Rita Ora and Pharrell. Although Bieber, Maynard,
Craig David and Ray Quinn are the only male teens to top the chart in their own right, they are all trumped by Neil Reid, who was 12 when his self-titled 1972 album reached number one. Born in Paris, raised in
London, Delilah has yet to achieve a major hit single but her introductory album, From The Roots Up, has received almost
universal acclaim. The fact she is linked to Chase & Status (she sang on their 2011 single Time) and Plan B(a co-writer of the track Only You on her album) will also have helped said album to debut at number five (10,460 sales). One of the most enigmatic
performances at the Olympic Games opening ceremony came from Mike Oldfield. The 59 year old multi-instrumentalist - a chart regular for almost 40 years - returns to the Top 200 with 1973 multi-platinum number one debut album Tubular Bells (number 66, 1,903 sales), 1979 set Platinum (number 100, 1,216
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10 (23,004 sales). Three songs in the Top 10 are
static, though all suffer double digit dips in sales. They are: Brokenhearted by Karmin (6-6, 28,044 sales), Feel The Love by Rudimental (7-7, 26,020 sales) and Don't Wake Me Up by Chris Brown (8-8, 25,188 sales). Drumsound & Bassline
Smith's Through The Night debuts at number 34 (7,456 sales). Several artists featured in the
WILEY - Heatwave MIDWEEK NO.1
chart-topper Oopsy Daisy, although she received no credit. Running neck-and-neck with
Wiley and Ms. D on Tuesday's midweek, it looked as though We'll Be Coming Back might provide Calvin Harris with his fourth number one as an artist and cohort Example with his third. Instead - for the moment at least - it becomes Harris' fourth number two, and Example's first,
with sales of 102,320, the second highest for a number two thus far this year. The rest of last week's top five
are also in decline, with Maroon 5's Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa) falling 2-4 (35,666 sales), StooShe's Black Heart declining 3-5 (28,773 sales), Conor Maynard's Vegas Girl retreating 4-9 (25,131 sales) and Flo Rida's Whistle wobbling 5-
Olympic Games opening ceremony gained a toehold on the chart last week, despite having a narrow sales window. With a full week of sales most move onwards and upwards this week, with the top titles being the Underworld- affiliated Caliban's Dream (69- 12, 22,157 sales), The Arctic Monkeys' recording of The Beatles' Come Together (67-21, 12,642 sales), Frank Turner's I Still Believe (97-40, 6,588 sales) and Emeli Sande's Abide With Me (180-44, 6,241 sales). Overall singles sales are up
0.41% week-on-week at 3,155,494 - 5.91% above same week 2011 sales of 2,979,410.
Forgives, I Don't. The 36 year old from Florida's 2010 release Teflon Don provided his only previous appearance in the UK Top 200, reaching number 169. Nine of last week's Top 10
PLAN B - Ill Manors MIDWEEK NO.1
sales) and 1980 album QE2 (number 123, 1,050 sales) - but all are comprehensively overshadowed by new compilation Two Sides: The Very Best Of, a double disc retrospective compiled and sequenced by Oldfield himself. With first week sales of 9,203 copies, the album debuts at number six, becoming his 10th Top 10 album. With assistance from
heavyweights like Jay-Z, Ne-Yo, Drake, Dr. Dre, Usher and Wale, rapper Rick Ross registers by far the best performance of his five album career, debuting at number eight (7,186 sales) with God
albums are in decline, with Plan B's Ill Manors soundtrack falling 1-2 (16,792 sales), Gaslight Anthem's Handwritten dipping 2-13 (5,798 sales), Jennifer Lopez's Dance Again: The Hits slipping 4-14 (5,791 sales) and Joss Stone's The Soul Sessions Volume 2 diving 6-41 (2,915 sales) following their excellent debuts. Only Emeli Sande bucks the
trend with her debut album Our Version Of Events rallying 8-3 (11,437 sales). Although Maroon 5's Overexposed slips 3-4, it actually increases sales 22.67% week-on-week to 11,396, taking its six week sales to 101,999. Now That's What I Call
Music! 82 racks up a second week atop the compilation chart, with sales off 51.29% at 130,639. Isles Of Wonder: Music For The Opening Ceremony Of The London 2012 Olympic Games jumps 5-2 (33,250 sales). Overall album sales are down
6.83% week-on-week at 1,494,834 - 9.03% below same week 2011 sales of 1,643,156.
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