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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 39 I
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 ONE DIRECTION Live While We’re Young Syco
RIHANNA Diamonds Def Jam ELLIE GOULDING Anything Could Happen Polydor
OTHER TRIBE Skirts Relentless RASCAL FLATTS Bless The Broken Road EMI KENDRICK LAMAR Swimming Pools (Drank) Interscope
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n a big week for new releases, which should also see Top 10 debuts for Ellie Goulding’s
Anything Could Happen and Adele’s theme song to Bond film Skyfall, the battle for chart honours this weekend is between One Direction and Rihanna. One Direction got off to a flyer with Live While We’re Young recording sales in excess of 47,000 by midnight on Monday, leaving Rihanna’s Diamonds with arrears of more than 6,000 – but the tide seems to have turned and Diamonds looks more likely to emerge victorious this weekend. Both should be strong enough
MAVERICK SABRE I Need Mercury WALK THE MOON Anna Sun RCA
UK ALBUMS CHART MUSE The 2nd Law Helium 3/Warner Bros OVERTONES Higher Warner Music Entertainment VAN MORRISON Born To Sing – No Plan B Blue Note
DJ FRESH Nextlevelism Ministry of Sound JOHN WILSON ORCHESTRA Rodgers & Hammerstein At The Movies EMI Classics
AXEWOUND Vultures Search And Destroy TORI AMOS Gold Dust Deutsche Grammophon BETH ORTON Sugaring Season Anti PAPA ROACH The Connection Eleven Seven FLYING LOTUS Until The Quiet Comes Warp TIM BURGESS Oh No I Love You OGenesis ELO All Over The World – Very Best Of Epic LUPE FIASCO Food & Liquor II The Great America Rap Atlantic
FIELD MUSIC Field Music Play Memphis Industries
HEART Fanatic Epic/Legacy RIZZLE KICKS Stereo Typical Island
to eclipse South Korean rapper Psy, who made chart history last weekend by becoming the first artist from east Asia to top the UK charts, climbing 3-1 with his debut hit Gangnam Style, on sales of 84,421 copies. Reaching the summit on its 11th week of UK availability, the track has spent six weeks in the Top 200, three weeks in the Top 40 and two weeks in the Top 10. Psy’s leap ended the two-week reign of Hall Of Fame by The
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n the first week of the final quarter of 2012,Muse are certain to score their fourth
No.1 album this weekend. Their sixth studio set The 2nd Law racked up sales in excess of 52,000 copies by close of business on Monday, and has every chance of selling more than 100,000 in its opening week. Only three artist albums have
done that so far this year. In February, debut albums by Lana Del Rey (Born To Die) and Emeli Sandé (Our Version Of Events) opened in pole position on sales of 116,745 and 113,319, respectively, and last Sunday Mumford & Sons’ second album, Babel, opened its campaign with a sale of 158,923 copies.
BOB MOULD Silver Age Edsel JASON MRAZ Love Is A Four Letter Word Atlantic
AMY WINEHOUSE Lioness – Hidden Treasures Island
The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at
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© Official Charts Company 2012 Babel arrived at the summit a
fortnight shy of three years after the release of their first album, Sigh No More which peaked at No.2, and which returned to the Top 10 on Sunday after an absence of 82 weeks, jumping 21- 10 (10,308 sales). Mumford & Sons’ strong
Muse: The 2nd Law MIDWEEK NO.1
debut denied Green Day the chance to register their third straight No.1 album. Ninth album ¡Uno!, sold 42,651 copies last week to debut at two. The sixth act from Britain’s
Got Talent to secure a Top 10 album – joining season one’s Paul Potts, season two’s Andrew Johnson, Escala and Faryl Smith and season three’s Susan Boyle – sixth season runners-up Jonathan & Charlotte debuted at five (25,238 sales) on Sunday with their first album, Together. A
classical crossover act from Essex, the pair are both 17, and almost all of their debut album – which includes bona fide classical material and operatic adaptations of pop fare – is sung in Spanish. Canadian dance musician
deadmau5 scored his first Top 10 album with >album title goes here< debuting at nine (14,325 sales). Meanwhile, singer- songwriter Lucy Rose debuted at 13 (7,735 sales) with first solo album, Like I Used To. No Doubt returned after an
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hit, as Turn Around (feat. Ne-Yo) jumped 18-9 (26,402 sales). I Will Wait, the first single
from Mumford & Sons’ chart- topping new album Babel, continued to climb, improving 16-12 (24,701 sales). The week’s highest new entry
One Direction: Live While We’re Young MIDWEEK NO.1
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will.i.am, which slipped to No.2 on sales of 57,890 copies. After moving 11-6-9, I Cry
finally became the fourth top five single from Flo Rida’s current album, Wild Ones on Sunday. Helped by the first full week on air for its promotional videoclip, I Cry increased sales 19.40% week- on-week to 37,576 and climbed to three, as the album improved 110-103 (1,370 sales). Taylor Swift’s We Are Never
Ever Getting Back Together improved 6-4, to eclipse its original peak of No.5 even though its sales were down 6.80% at 32,550. A second single from Swift’s new album Red - Begin Again - debuted at No.30 (10,118 sales). She Wolf (Falling To Pieces)
jumped 11-8 (27,496 sales) to become the 16th Top 10 hit for David Guetta. And Conor Maynard’s debut album, Contrast, gave up its third Top 10
was The Feeling by DJ Fresh feat. RaVaughn. Debuting at 13 (23,735 sales), it is the fourth single from DJ Fresh’s new album Nextlevelism, which was released on Monday, and also features the No.1s Louder (feat. Sian Evans) and Hot Right Now (feat. Rita Ora) and the No.6 hit The Power (feat. Dizzee Rascal). Paloma Faith debuted at 16
(19,885 sales), with her cover of INXS’ 1988 No.24 hit Never Tear Us Apart, while the Aussie band’s original dips 58-92 (2,740 sales). Faith’s version of the song is used in the latest commercial for the John Lewis department store, and is her eighth Top 75 entry. After debuting last week at
two, Example’s Say Nothing got no second chance, subsiding to six (28,539 sales) Overall singles sales were up
1.66% week-on-week at 3,229,875 - 5.69% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,055,990.
11-year hiatus, with Push And Shove, which sold 6,635 copies last week to debut at 16. First single Settle Down also debuted (at 85, on 3,124 sales). By coincidence,Deacon Blue also ended an 11-year silence, and debuted at 19 (6,163 sales) with comeback set, The Hipsters. Beach Boys compilations have
charted at regular intervals in the UK since the 1960s, and in celebration of The Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary, which saw the newly recorded That’s Why God Made The Radio album reach 15 earlier this year, EMI’s new Greatest Hits set 50 Big Ones - released to coincide with their sell-out UK dates last weekend and boosted by their subsequent appearance on Later With Jools Holland, debuted at No.30 (4,406 sales) even as they descend into another bout of bad vibrations, acrimony and division. Overall album sales were up
10.18% week-on-week at 1,676,843, their highest level for 15 weeks. That’s 0.91% up on the equivalent week last year, and marks only the fourth time in 39 weeks in 2012 that sales have eclipsed comparative 2011 levels.
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