44MusicWeek 07.09.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 35 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 PINK Blow Me (One Last Kiss) RCA THE SCRIPT FEAT.
WILL.I.AM Hall Of Fame Epic/Phonogenic NE-YO Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love) Def Jam
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n all-new top three is in prospect for the singles chart this weekend, with
the only doubt being about the order in which they will fall. Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes show Pink in the driving seat, with Blow Me (One Last Kiss) in line to become her third solo No.1. It has opened up a 6.01% lead over Hall Of Fame, a collaboration between The Voice judges
Will.I.Am and Danny O’Donoghue’s The Script. It, in turn, is 2.07% ahead of Ne-Yo’s new single Let Me Love You (Until You Learn To Love Yourself ). All will likely clip Little Mix’s
Wings, which flew to No.1 last Sunday, on 106,766 sales. Little Mix was the eighth act
PLAN B Deepest Shame 679/Atlantic FLO RIDA I Cry Atlantic THE VACCINES Teenage Icon Columbia SMILER/PROFESSOR GREEN/TAWIAH Top Of The World Warner Bros PROFESSOR GREEN/KUSTERBECK Avalon Virgin KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody Hand Me Down LABRINTH Treatment Syco SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA Greyhound Virgin MAROON 5 FEAT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Moves Like Jagger A&M/Octone
UK ALBUMS CHART THE VACCINES Come Of Age Columbia TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Beacon Kitsune RONAN KEATING Fires Polydor MARK KNOPFLER Privateering Mercury SCOUTING FOR GIRLS The Light Between Us Epic MATCHBOX TWENTY North Atlantic MILK Tales From The Thames Delta Sony
to win The X Factor last December and their ‘coronation’ single, a cover of Damien Rice’s Cannonball, shot to the top of the charts, as did the introductory release by each of their seven predecessors – Steve Brookstein, Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis, Leon Jackson, Alexandra Burke, Joe McElderry and Matt Cardle.
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CAT POWER Sun Matador ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Centipede HZ Domino JUDAS PRIEST Screaming For Vengeance Columbia IAN HUNTER & THE RANT BAND When I’m President Proper MERCURY & CABALLE Barcelona Island PLAN B The Defamation Of Strickland Bands 679/Atlantic THE UKULELES The Ukuleles Edsel PROFESSOR GREEN At Your Inconvenience Virgin
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either The Vaccines nor Two Door Cinema Club topped the album
chart with their debut releases – but come Sunday one of them will be No.1 with their second album. That’s the obvious conclusion to be drawn from the midweek chart chase, with Tuesday’s sales flashes showing Londoners The Vaccines’ Come Of Age set selling upwards of 20,000 copies, and opening up a 22.29% lead over Northern Ireland band Two Door Cinema Club’s Beacon. Lagging far behind in third place is Rita Ora, who opened at No.1 last Sunday, while new releases from Ronan Keating, Mark Knopfler and Scouting For Girls – all of whom have previously had No.1s – are even further in arrears. Perfectly timed to hit the
market two days after her guest appearance as an X Factor judge was televised and a day after its third single How We Do (Party) reached No.1, Rita Ora’s first album Ora unsurprisingly shot to the top of the chart. With first
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screened nine days ago, and the chart deadline a few hours later. It rapidly sold a further 22,511 copies last week before being deleted, apparently as a result of pressure from X Factor execs - and jumped 70-11 on Sunday as a result. Top Room At The Zoo sold 162 copies in 40 weeks, then 1,056 in a few hours to debut at 127 last week. It sold a further 4,707 copies before the plug was pulled, and climbed to 22 on Sunday. Sam & The Womp’s debut
Pink: Blow Me (One Last Kiss) MIDWEEK NO.1
Getting that first No.1 is the easy part but doing so with the follow-up is tough. Only three acts have managed it - Lewis, Burke... and Little Mix. Cannonball opened last
December with sales of 210,129, and has thus far sold 458,159 copies. Both songs are expected to be on Little Mix’s debut album, which is released in November. The first sensation of the new
series was provided by Lucy Spraggan, a 21-year-old singer/songwriter, whose
performance of self-penned song Last Night captivated viewers and led to a rush to download it, and parent album Top Room At The Zoo, both of which were independently released by Spraggan prior to her involvement in the show. Last Night had sold just 51
copies in 11 weeks before Spraggan appeared on The X Factor, but gained a toehold last week, debuting at 70 with 3,770 sales, the overwhelming majority between her appearance being
hit, Bom Bom, dipped 1-2 (65,460 sales). After debuting last week on
less than three days sales, Owl City’s Good Time collaboration with Carly Rae Jepsen jumped 17-5 (42,618 sales). Veteran rappers Public
Enemy’s 17th hit single in a 25-year chart career, Harder Than You Think became their first to make the Top 10, springing 11-4 (44,913 sales) as it continues to be aired on Channel 4’s coverage of/trailers for the Paralympics. Overall singles sales were up
1.84% week-on-week at 3,442,303 – 8.76% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,165,180.
the latest list. A week after matching the
The Vaccines: The Vaccines Come Of Age MIDWEEK NO.1
week sales of 41,509, it earned Ora – who is from Pristina (formerly Yugoslavia, now Kosova) – the distinction of becoming the second UK- domiciled singer from Eastern Europe to top the chart, following Katie Melua. How We Do (Party) continued to fade on the singles chart, falling 2-3 (52,307 sales) but the other two chart-toppers on Ora rebounded strongly, with R.I.P. (feat Tinie Tempah) jumping 47-23 (14,874 sales) and Hot Right Now (DJ
Fresh feat. Rita Ora) bouncing 82-51 (5,470 sales). A fourth track from the album – Young, Single & Sexy – debuted at No.54 (5,245 sales). Icelandic band Of Monsters
& Men debuted at three (18,651 sales) on Sunday with their first album My Head Is An Animal. The album’s introductory single, Little Talks, looked to be in trouble when it fell 28-35 on its second week in the chart but it has surged strongly since, climbing to 12 (22,374 sales) in
five weeks that Adele’s 21 has spent at No.1 this year, Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events eclipsed its illustrious peer’s 2012 sales total. Although falling 1-2 last Sunday (20,644 sales), it has now sold 667,526 copies this year, whereas 21 – which slipped 15- 16 (5,285 sales) – has sold 658,442 copies, though the latter tally is but a fraction of 21’s overall tally of 4,430,788. A fortnight after Elbow’s
2008 album, The Seldom Seen Kid, enjoyed an Olympic bounce to No.6, their B-sides and rarities set, Dead In The Boot, debuted at four (17,703 sales). Alanis Morissette was
enjoying the 10th of 11 weeks that her smash debut Jagged Little Pill spent atop the UK charts 16 years ago this week. Several songs from that set are included on a live bonus disc that helped her new album, Havoc And Bright Lights, to a No.12 debut (5,777 sales) on Sunday. Overall album sales were up
3.13% week-on-week at 1,486,657 – 15.72% below same- week 2011 sales of 1,763,893.
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