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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 32 T
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 RITA ORA How We Do (Party) Columbia/Roc Nation
ELBOW One Day Like This Fiction KATE BUSH Running Up That Hill Fish People EMELI SANDE Read All About It Pt 3 Virgin GEORGE MICHAEL White Light Island PORTER ROBINSON Language MoS TREY SONGZ Simply Amazing Atlantic JOHN LENNON Imagine Parlophone MUSE Survival Helium 3/Warmer Bros BIG HTS 20012 Bom BomBig Hits 2012 ONE DIRECTION What Makes You Beautiful Syco
TAIO CRUZ Dynamite 4th & Broadway OASIS Wonderwall Big Brother AIDEN GRIMSHAW Curtain Call RCA THE KINKS Waterloo Sunset Sanctuary THE WHO Baba O’Riley Polydor TAKE THAT Rule The World Polydor PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here EMI SANDY DENNY & THEA GILMORE London Island
ELBOW Open Arms Fiction SHEERAN/JONES/MASON/RUTHERFORD Wish You Were Here UMC
FATBOY SLIM Right Here Right Now Skint PALOMA FAITH 30 Minute Love Affair RCA PROFESSOR GREEN FEAT. EMELI SANDE Read All About It Virgin
ELO Mr Blue Sky RCA ANNIE LENNOX Little Bird RCA SPICE GIRLS Spice Up Your Life Virgin JESSIE J FEAT. B.O.B. Price Tag Island/Lava
UK ALBUMS CHART ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid Fiction SPECTOR Enjoy It While It Lasts Fiction RYAN O’SHAUGHNESSY Ryan O’Shaughnessy RCA
WHILE SHE SLEEPS This Is The Six S & Des. SPICE GIRLS Greatest Hits Virgin DON BROCO Priorities Search And Destroy MIDNIGHT BEAST The Midnight Beast Sounds Like Good
KATE BUSH The Whole Story EMI MADNESS Total Madness Union Square Music ELBOW Build A Rocket Boys Fiction DEAD CAN DANCE Anastasis PIAS Recordings KINKS Waterloo Sunset – Best Of Sanctuary YELLOWCARD Southern Air Hopeless KARINE POLWART Traces Hegri Music THE WHO Greatest Hits & More Polydor/UMTV THE KINKS At The BBC Sanctuary BLUR The Best Of Food OASIS (What’s The Story) Morning Glory Big Brother
FATBOY SLIM Why Try Harder – Hits Skint ANNIE LENNOX The Collection RCA TINIE TEMPAH Disc-overy Parlophone PINK FLOYD Foot In The Door – Best Of EMI QUEEN Greatest Hits 1, 2 & 3 Island © Official Charts Company 2012
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
he Olympics may be over but Rita Ora – whose surname is an adjectival
word for gold in the universal language of Esperanto – leads the gold rush at the top of the midweek singles chart, dashing to her third victory of the year with How We Do (Party), which sold three times as many copies on Sunday and Monday as its nearest challenger. Olympic closing ceremony stars Elbow, Emeli Sandé, George Michael and Kate Bush (represented only by audio) are also in the dash for medal positions this weekend. After debuting at one and two
last week, Heatwave by Wiley (Feat Ms. D) and We’ll Be Coming Back by Calvin Harris (feat. Example) retained their positions at the top of the chart last weekend. Wiley’s sales held up better, falling 38.92% week- on-week to 69,713, while Harris’ single suffered 50.32% shrinkage, selling a further 50,829 copies.
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
set to give sales a boost this week, with many of the acts featured in Sunday’s spectacular closing ceremony set for spectacular gains. The effect is most keenly felt on the singles chart (see below) but the album chart is also impacted in a major way, with Emeli Sandé, who performed twice at the closing ceremony, set to return to number one with her debut album, Our Version Of Events. Elbow’s The Seldom Seen Kid and Ed Sheeran’s + have also seen huge increases in sales following their performances, and are on schedule to return to the top five. It’s all a big contrast to last
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week when the savage downturn in the economy and rampant illegal downloading’s already massive negative effect on sales was exacerbated by good weather and the Olympic Games. Album sales took a bigger dive than Tom Daley, slumping 12.77% week- on-week to 1,303,994 – their lowest level since sales week- ending 22 June 1996 (chart dated 29 June ) – 842 weeks ago – when 1,277,279 albums were sold.
fter negatively impacting sales for their duration, the Olympic Games are
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Lawson’s first single with a to date sales tally of 121,961 copies. His second hit, Lost In Your Love, debuted at five (33,271 sales) on Sunday. Nicki Minaj’s Pound The
Alarm climbed 11-8 (23,465 sales) to eclipse the number nine peak it scaled three weeks ago. Suddenly finding progress
easier, Angel’s Wonderful jumped to 12 (19,135 sales), having previously moved 20-20-19. Only one of the first 10 chart
Rita Ora: How We Do (Party) MIDWEEK NO.1
Only 10 weeks after their
introductory single When She Was Mine debuted and peaked at number four, London-based pop/rock band Lawson landed their second Top 10 hit, and the week’s highest debut, with follow- up Taking Over Me selling 39,994 copies to enter at three. When She Was Mine had a higher first-week sale of 47,511,
and its cumulative sales have just topped the 100,000 mark. Rallying 106-91, it sold 2,577 copies last week to increase its overall tally to 101,616. Redlight’s house banger Get
Out My Head also gave him his chart debut earlier this year, and although it charted lower- debuting and peaking at 18 – it has sold more copies than
entries on which Dizzee Rascal featured as the primary or featured artist made the Top 10 – but all of eight subsequent releases have. His 19th chart entry, Scream (feat. Pepper) has some work to do if that sequence is to be extended, as it debuted on Sunday at number 22 (11,947 sales). Dizzee’s Bonkers (65-31, 8,468 sales) is one of several resurgent oldies to re-enter the Top 75 on 59p iTunes pricing. Overall singles sales were
down 4.38% week-on-week at 3,017,343 - 9.47% above same- week 2011 sales of 2,756,346.
swapping places with Maroon 5’s Overexposed (9,269 sales). With latest single 30 Minute
Love Affair beginning to take off, Paloma Faith’s Fall To Grace album ended a five-week absence from the Top 10, vaulting 16-5 (6,974 sales), while Train’s California 37 climbed 11-7 (6,110 sales) to achieve a new peak on its 17th chart appearance. After debuting at one the
Emeli Sandé: Our Version Of Events MIDWEEK NO.1
In this gloomy climate,
Rihanna returned to No.1 with latest album Talk That Talk jumping 7-1, its sales increasing 7.28% week-on-week. It is the first time the album has topped the chart since it debuted in pole position 37 weeks ago. That’s the good news. The bad news is that its gain in sales was largely due to deep discounting (it’s available for as little as £3 from Tesco online, including postage) and even then it sold only 9,578 copies, shattering the record for the lowest weekly sale for a No.1 in the 21st century. The previous low of 13,430 sales was set by Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events 11 weeks ago. In 967
weeks since Millward Brown started compiling data for OCC in February 1994, it is the first time an album has been No.1 on sales of less than 10,000. The previous low: 11,981 set by The Cranberries’ Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? That was 947 weeks ago. Although Talk That Talk
eventually emerged at No.1 last weekend, it left it late – Plan B topped midweek sales flashes on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Sandé leading the way on Thursday and Friday. Plan B’s Ill Manors soundtrack ended up remaining at two, with sales of 9,294, while Our Version Of Events slipped 3-4 (9,119 sales),
previous week, Conor Maynard’s Contrast, fell to six (6,660 sales). In a particularly threadbare
week for new releases with broad appeal, the only new album able to gain admittance to the Top 75 was Antony & The Johnsons’ live set Cut The World (No.41, 2,351 sales). The sale for every one of the
Top 75 positions in the published artist albums chart reached a 21st century nadir - and they are not even close to previous lows. Without exception, they are at least 9% below previous 21st century worsts, with the published chart’s bottom rung, No.75, being occupied by Gotye’s Making Mirrors, which climbs from 87 on sales of 1,349 copies. The previous low for a No.75 was 1,497, set by Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday two weeks ago.
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