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THE OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS CHART 1 N


THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER)


RITA ORA O.R.A. Columbia/Roc Nation 88725452492 (ARV) (Switch/Diplo/Nash/The Runners/The Monarch/Chase & Status/Stargate/Kurstin/FT Smith/Loco/De Martino/Taylor/will.i.am/M.Linney/B.Linney/DJ Fresh)


2 1 29 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E) 2 (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sand?)


3 N 4 N


OF MONSTERS AND MEN My Head Is An Animal Universal Republic/Island 2798018 (ARV) (Of Monsters and Men/Arnarsson/King)


ELBOW Dead In The Boot Fiction 3711011 (ARV) (Elbow/Hillier/Potter/Mushy the Cat)


5 2 14 PALOMA FAITH Fall To Grace RCA 88691955512 (ARV) (Hooper/Gosling/Al Shux/Arnold)


6 7 39 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796331 (ARV) 1 (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


7 17 6


PLAN B Ill Manors 679/Atlantic 5310522172 (ARV) 1 (Drew/Al Shux/Plan B/16 Bit/Appapoulay/Labrinth/Milton/McEwan/Fox/The Krauts)


8 35 15 FUN. Some Nights Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen FUEL5280482 (ARV) 1 (Bhasker/Haynie/JakeOne)


9 6 51 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 4 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


10 8 41 RIHANNA Talk That Talk Def Jam 2787842 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Cirkut/Harrell/Harris/StarGate/Crawford/Da Internz/The-Dream/NO-ID/Swire/McGrillen/Hit-Boy/Alex Da Kid/Chase N Status/Dean)


11 12 41 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 88697843642 (ARV) (Mac/Falk/Yacoub/Rawling/Meehan/Squire/Solomon/Meredith/Stannard/Howes/Gad/Robson/RedOne/BeatGeek/Jimmy Joker/Rawling/Meehan/Gaudino/Rooney)


12 N


ALANIS MORISSETTE Havoc And Bright Lights Columbia 88725441342 (ARV) (Chiccarelli/Sigsworth)


13 11 12 AMY MACDONALD Life In A Beautiful Light Vertigo 3704138 (ARV) (Wilkinson)


14 9 10 MAROON 5 Overexposed A&M/Octone/Polydor 3704278 (ARV) (Martin/Shellback/Blanco/Robopop/Levine/MdL/Tedder/Zancanella/Passovoy/West/Valentine/Farrar/Rotem/Kang/Spiegel/Supreme Cuts/Maroon 5)


15 23 96 ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid Fiction 1764098 (ARV) 3 (Potter)


16 15 84 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 16 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


17 27 44 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV) 1 (Epworth)


18 47 84 FOO FIGHTERS Greatest Hits RCA 88697369212 (ARV) (Jones/Norton/Kasper/Raskulinecz/Vig)


19 13 79 JESSIE J Who You Are Island/Lava 2758627 (ARV) 3 (Dr. Luke/Brissett/Cornish/Martin K/OakThe Invisible Men/Parker & James/Thomas/Gad/Gordon)


20 14 42 BEN HOWARD Every Kingdom Island 2780336 (ARV) 1 (Bond)


21 3 2 22 N


BLOC PARTY Four French Kiss/Cooperative FKR0601 (rom arv) (Newport)


LUCY SPRAGGAN Top Room At The Zoo Lucy Spraggan 0859706990531 (tbc)


23 21 20 TRAIN California 37 Columbia 88691987822 (ARV) 1 (Walker/Sinclair/Espionage/Wattenberg/Parq/Hodges)


24 16 46 NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Sour Mash JDNCCD10 (E) 2 (Gallagher/Sardy)


25 18 2


JULIO IGLESIAS 1 Sony RCA 88691988452 (ARV) (Hammond/Arcusa/Perez/Perry/Gatica/Foster/Ramone/Toledo/Livi)


26 42 THE DARKNESS Hot Cakes PIAS PIASR305CD (PIAS) (Hawkins/Hawkins/Brine/Ezrin)


27 22 22 NICKI MINAJ Pink Friday... Roman Reloaded Cash Money/Island 2796668 (ARV) 1 (Various)


28 25 30 LADY ANTEBELLUM Need You Now Capitol/Parlophone 6336412 (E) 1 (Worley/Shaw)


29 52 JESSIE WARE Devotion Island/PMR 3700659 (ARV) (Okumu/Kid Harpoon/Bashmore/Archer)


30 N


NOISETTES Contact Mono-Ra-Rama MONORRCD1 (Absolute) (Abbiss/Noisettes/Freeschool/Morris)


31 26 31 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


32 32 40 OLLY MURS In Case You Didn’t Know Epic/Syco 88697940942 (ARV) 2 (The Fearless/Argyle/Brammer/Robson/Future Cut/Frampton/Jordan-Patrikios/Smith/Fitzmaurice/Heelis/Prime/Metrophonic)


33 N 35 R 36 N


SLAUGHTERHOUSE Welcome To: Our House Interscope 3707734 (ARV) (Alex Da Kid/Hit-Boy/Eminem/T-Minus/Araab Muzik/NO I.D./Streetrunner/Diaz/Black Key Beats/Mr. Porter/Boi 1da/Kane Beatz/The Maven Boys/J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League)


34 20 12 MADNESS Total Madness Union Square USMTVCD001 (SDU) (Langer/Winstanley)


TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Tourist History Kitsune/Cooperative CDA025 (rom arv) 1 (James/Zdar)


NICOLA BENEDETTI The Silver Violin Decca 4783529 (ARV) (Walton)


37 40 22 LABRINTH Electronic Earth Syco 88691932932 (ARV) (Labrinth/Da Digglar/Ghenea/McKenzie/Williams)


38 28 11 JUSTIN BIEBER Believe. Def Jam 3706483 (ARV) (Various)


THIS LAST WKS ON ARTIST / TITLE LABEL/CATALOGUE NUMBER (DISTRIBUTOR) WK


WK CHRT (PRODUCER)


39 30 50 LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking Interscope 2774463 (ARV) (Party Rock/Afuni/Harris/RedFoo/LMFAO)


40 24 17 KEANE Strangeland Island 2794838 (ARV) 1 (Grech-Marguerat)


41 R 42 66 8


TWIN ATLANTIC Free Red Bull RBR1078 (E) (Norton)


NEWTON FAULKNER Write It On Your Skin Ugly Truth 88691972072 (ARV) (Faulkner/Farrar/The Nexus/Mills)


43 31 53 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat Positiva/Virgin PV0838942 (E) 1 (Guetta/Vee/Caren/Tuinfort/Riesterer/Black Raw/Afrojack/Luttrell/Avicii)


44 37 45 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 4 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


45 R


46 10 2 47 29 4


49 42 6


THE VACCINES What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? Columbia 88697841451 (ARV) (Grech-Marguerat)


TREY SONGZ Chapter V Atlantic 7567882619 (ARV) (tbc)


KATE BUSH The Whole Story EMI CDP7464142 (E) 4 (Powell/Bush/Kelly)


48 57 12 ALT-J An Awesome Wave Infectious INFECT134CD (PIAS) (Andrew)


THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM Handwritten Mercury 2789417 (ARV) (O’Brien)


50 46 33 KELLY CLARKSON Stronger RCA 88697961802 (ARV) (Kennedy/Dean/Jones/Kurstin/Abraham/Oligee/Gad/Roberts/Miley/Halbert/Jerkins/Lindal/DeStefano/Benson)


51 59 144 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Lungs Island 1797940 (ARV) 5 (Epworth/Ford/Mackie/Hugall/White)


52 44 41 JAY-Z & KANYE WEST Watch The Throne Roc-a-fella/Mercury 2765057 (ARV) (West/Dean/Keith/Q-Tip/Pharrell/Don Jazzy/Hit-Boy/Kilhoffer/The Neptunes/RZA/Lewis/Bhasker/Swizz Beatz/Joseph/S1)


53 43 105 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream Virgin CDV3084 (E) 3 (Dr. Luke/Blanco/Martin/StarGate/Stewart/Harrell/Ammo/Wells)


54 39 77 BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS Legend Tuff Gong 0073145867142 (ARV) (Marley/Various)


55 50 10 LINKIN PARK Living Things Warner Brothers 9362495007 (ARV) 1 (Rubin/Shinoda)


56 38 49 BEE GEES Number Ones Reprise 8122798857 (ARV) 1 (Bee Gees/Stigwood/Mardin/Richardson/Galuten/Tench)


57 R


59 48 9 60 R


61 45 8 62 N


64 R


KASABIAN Velociraptor! Columbia 88697933502 (ARV) (Pizzorno/Dan the Automator)


58 52 85 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 41 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


CHRIS BROWN Fortune RCA 88691960552 (ARV) (Variousn)


PAUL SIMON Graceland Sony RCA 88691914712 (ARV) (Simon/Halee)


FRANK OCEAN Channel Orange Def Jam 3710232 (ARV) (Malay/Ocean/Taylor/Keith/Ikpeazu/Tyler, The Creator/Pharrell)


ROBERT CRAY BAND Nothin But Love Provogue PRD73771 (ADA Arv) (Shirley)


63 60 42 DRAKE Take Care Cash Money/Island 2783262 (ARV) 1 (Shebib/Boi 1da/Montagnese/The Weeknd/xx Smith/T-Minus/Just Blaze/Graham/Cashe/McKinney)


THE BLACK KEYS Brothers Cooperative/V2 VVR737198 (rom arv) 1 (Black Keys/Neill/Danger Mouse)


65 64 83 STEREOPHONICS A Decade In The Sun - Best Of V2/Mercury 1780699 (rom arv) 2 (Jones/Lowe)


66 71 38 ELBOW Build A Rocket Boys! Fiction 2762328 (ARV) 1 (Potter)


67 58 80 PALOMA FAITH Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful Epic 88697543552 (ARV) 1 (Byrne/Mackichan/Robson/Barter/Harcourt/Love/Jorgensen/ Kurstin/Marr/Noriega/Wells/Elofsson/Westerlund/Isaak/Dixon)


68 67 134 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island 2722538 (ARV) 41 (Dravs)


69 33 3


71 R 72 R


74 R 75 R


THE KINKS Waterloo Sunset - The Best Of Sanctuary 3712489 (ARV) (Talmy/Davies)


70 49 11 CHERYL A Million Lights Polydor 3704302 (ARV) (Alex Da Kid/Harris/Pantha/will I am/Agent X/HyGrade/iSHi/Dada Life/Cruz/Wollo/Kid Gloves/Jim Beanz)


ALEX CLARE The Lateness Of The Hour Island 2770437 (ARV) (Diplo/Switch/Rechtshaid/Spencer/The Shining/Eg White)


THE CURE Greatest Hits Fiction 5301153 (ARV) 1 (Smith/The Cure/Allen/Plati/Parry/Saunders/Various)


73 70 76 CHASE & STATUS No More Idols Mercury 2745135 (ARV) 1 (Kennard/Milton/Nowels/Sub Focus/Plan B)


RIHANNA Loud Def Jam 2752365 (ARV) 62 (StarGate/Vee/Harrell/Bozeman/The Runners/Riddick/PolowDaDon/Sham/Mel&Mus/Stewart/Dean/Soundz/Alex Da Kid)


THE XX xx Young Turks 0609008295069 (PIAS) 1 (Smith/Mcdonald)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Adele 16 Alt-J 48 Bee Gees 56 Benedetti, Nicola 36 Bieber, Justin 38 Black Keys, The 6 Black Keys, The 64 Bloc Party 21 Brown, Chris 59 Bush, Kate 47 Chase & Status 73 Clare, Alex 71 Clarkson, Kelly 50


Coldplay 44 Cole, Cheryl 70 Cure, The 72 Darkness, The 26 Drake 63 Elbow 4 Elbow 15 Elbow 66 Faulkner, Newton 42 Florence + The Machine 17, 51 Foo Fighters 18 Fun. 8


Gaslight Anthem, The 49 Guetta, David 43 Howard, Ben 20 Iglesias, Julio 25 Jay-Z & Kanye West 52 Jessie J 19 Kasabian 57 Keane 40 Kinks, The 69 Labrinth 37 Lady Antebellum 28 Linkin Park 55 Lmfao 39


Macdonald, Amy 13 Madness 34 Marley, Bob & The Wailers 54 Maroon 5 14 Mars, Bruno 58 Minaj, Nicki 27 Morissette, Alanis 12 Mumford & Sons 68 Murs, Olly 32 Noel Gallagher?S High Flying Birds 24 Noisettes 30


Ocean, Frank 61 Of Monsters And Men 3 One Direction 11 Ora, Rita 1 Paloma Faith 5 Paloma Faith 67 Paul Simon 60 Perry, Katy 53 Plan B 7 Rey, Lana Del 31 Rihanna 10 Rihanna 74 Robert Cray Band 62


Sande, Emeli 2 Sheeran, Ed 9 Slaughterhouse 33 Songz, Trey 46 Spraggan, Lucy 22 Stereophonics 65 Train 23 Twin Atlantic 41 Two Door Cinema Club 35 Vaccines, The 45 Ware, Jessie 29 xx, The 75


Key Platinum (300,000) Gold (100,000) Silver (60,000) 1m European sales


BPI Awards Albums


The Gaslight Anthem: The ‘59 Sound (gold); Train: California 37 (gold)


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