CHARTSUKALBUMS WEEK 46 www.musicweek.com


incorporating seven-inch, 12-inch, CDs, LPs, digital bundles, download sales and cassettes. © Official Charts Company 2012. THE OFFICIAL UK ALBUMS CHART


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


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ONE DIRECTION Take Me Home Syco 88725439642 (ARV) (Rami/Falk/Gosling/Bunetta/Ryan/Fogelmark/Nedler/Shellback/Dr. Luke/KoOoLkOjAk/Cirkut/Robson)


ROD STEWART Merry Christmas, Baby Verve 3710368 (ARV) (Foster/Stewart/Savigar)


THE ROLLING STONES Grrr! Polydor 3710816 (ARV) (Various)


4 22 ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS ORCHESTRA Magic Of The Movies Decca 3715423 (ARV) (A.Rieu/JP Rieu/Jacobs/Vermeulen)


5 12 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Take The Crown Island 3716804 (ARV) (Jacknife Lee)


6 N


ALFIE BOE Storyteller Decca 3710614 (ARV) (Hedges)


7 6 40 EMELI SANDE Our Version Of Events Virgin CDV3094 (E) 3 (Spencer/Haynie/Naughty Boy/Mojam/Herman/Millard/Harrison/Craze/Hoax/Keys/Sande/Slater/Aikins)


8 38 42 LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor/Stranger 2787091 (ARV) (Haynie/Parker/Berger/Robopop/Bhasker/Daly/Sneddon/Bauer-Mein/Nowels/Braide/Shux/Skarbek/Howe)


9 43 CALVIN HARRIS 18 Months Columbia/Fly Eye 88697859231 (ARV) (Harris/Romero/Reynolds/Knight/Francis)


10 N


GREEN DAY Dos! Reprise 9362494621 (ARV) (Green Day/Cavallo)


11 32 62 ED SHEERAN + Asylum 5249864652 (ARV) 4 (Gosling/Hugall/Sheeran/No I.D)


12 52 MILITARY WIVES Stronger Together Decca 3710695 (ARV) (Cohen)


13 11 26 FUN. Some Nights Atlantic/Fueled By Ramen 7567882628 (ARV) 1 (Bhasker/Haynie/JakeOne)


14 98 MUMFORD & SONS Babel Gentlemen Of The Road/Island 0892038002626 (ARV) (Dravs)


15 8 25 PALOMA FAITH Fall To Grace RCA 88691955512 (ARV) (Hooper/Gosling/Al Shux/Arnold)


16 32 JLS Evolution RCA 88725469482 (ARV) (Crawford/Dem Jointz/Reynolds/MNEK/The Runners/Anderson/Anderson II/Jerkins/Dawson/TMS/Buelna/Guinto/Reyes/Rogers/The MIDI Mafia)


17 12 4 18 7 3 19 10 2 20 21 5


21 N


22 19 9 23 15 8 24 20 9


TAYLOR SWIFT Red Mercury/Big Machine 3717314 (ARV) (Chapman/Swift/Huff/Wilson/Martin/Shellback/Jacknife Lee/Bhasker)


KYLIE MINOGUE The Abbey Road Sessions Parlophone P0150222 (E) (Anderson/Elliot)


ANDREA BOCELLI Opera Decca 4784376 (ARV) (Barry/Cornall/Mottley/McLauchlan/Engel)


THE LUMINEERS The Lumineers Decca 3712589 (ARV) (Hadlock)


SOUNDGARDEN King Animal Vertigo 3718550 (ARV) (Soundgarden/Kasper/Barresi)


PINK The Truth About Love RCA 88725452422 (ARV) (Kurstin/Bhasker/Walker/Hill/Haynie/Martin/Shellback/Mann/Schuler/Dj Khalil/Chin Injeti/Tracklacers/Wilson/tbc)


JONATHAN & CHARLOTTE Together Syco 88725443632 (ARV) 1 (Stack/Furmidge)


THE KILLERS Battle Born Vertigo 3711875 (ARV) (The Killers/Lillywhite/Taylor/O’Brien/Price/Lanois)


25 24 52 ONE DIRECTION Up All Night Syco 88697843642 (ARV) (Various)


26 16 12 RITA ORA Ora Columbia/Roc Nation 88725458362 (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)


27 26 3 28 N


29 23 7 30 N


31 22 5 32 N


EVA CASSIDY The Best Of Eva Cassidy Blix Street G210206 (ADA Arv) (Biondo/Cassidy/Williams)


CHRISTINA AGUILERA Lotus RCA 88765404232 (ARV) (Alex Da Kid/Dem Jointz/New Track City/Hartman/Secon/Del Rio/Dezuzio/Martin/Shellback/Manahan/Braide/Chin-Quee/Gilbert/Robson/Busbee)


MUSE The 2nd LawHelium 3 2564656876 (ARV) 1 (Muse)


DEFTONES Koi No Yokan Reprise 9362494618 (ARV) (Raskulinecz)


JAKE BUGG Jake Bugg Mercury 3707053 (ARV) (Archer/Crossey/Prime/Hart/Hunt)


STEPS Light Up The World Steps STEPSCD001 (ADA Arv) (tbc)


33 30 10 THE SCRIPT 3 Epic/Phonogenic 88725415472 (ARV) (O’Donoghue/Sheehan/Frampton/Barry/Kipner)


34 36 95 ADELE 21 XL XLCD520 (PIAS) 16 (FT Smith/Rubin/Epworth/Abbiss/Wilson/Adkins)


35 25 3


37 N 38 N


MICK HUCKNALL American Soul ATCO 2564655789 (ARV) (tbc)


36 18 23 ALT-J An Awesome Wave Infectious INFECT134CD (PIAS) 1 (Andrew)


THE WEEKND Trilogy Universal Republic/Island 3719793 (ARV) (The Weeknd/Dream Machine/Rose/McKinney/Illangelo/Rainer/Clams Casino)


FOSTER & ALLEN The Ultimate Collection DMG TV DMGTV050 (SDU) (Cullinane/Allen/Foster/Fraser)


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


39 29 21 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)


40 33 6 42 N


44 35 4 45 17 2


47 34 4 48 14 2 49 39 3


ELLIE GOULDING Halcyon Polydor 3714241 (ARV) (Eliot/Goulding/MONSTA/Spencer/Billboard/Fortis/Parker/Starsmith/Harris)


41 41 145 MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island 2722538 (ARV) 41 (Dravs)


THE STAVES Dead And Born And Grown Atlantic 2564654864 (ARV) (Monks/G.Johns/E.Johns)


43 31 28 LABRINTH Electronic Earth Syco 88691932932 (ARV) (Labrinth/Da Digglar/Ghenea/McKenzie/Williams)


DANIEL O’DONNELL Songs From The Movies ..And More DMG TV DMGTV048 (SDU) (Ryan)


NE-YO R.E.D Def Jam 3713426 (ARV) (Taylor/StarGate/Reeva & Black/Phatboiz/H-Money/Laird/Wilson/R.Smith/Kiriakou/Goldstein)


46 37 12 OF MONSTERS AND MEN My Head Is An Animal Universal Republic/Island 2798018 (ARV) (Of Monsters and Men/Arnarsson/King)


LAWSON Chapman Square Global Talent/Polydor 3716402 (ARV) (Shanks/Fitzgerald/Wheatley/Blackwell/Dalton/Falk/Rami)


AEROSMITH Music From Another Dimension Columbia 88725442811 (ARV) (Douglas/Tyler/Perry/Frederiksen)


THE SOLDIERS The Soldiers DMG TV DMGTV049 (SDU) (Patrick)


50 42 33 REBECCA FERGUSON Heaven RCA 88691952562 (ARV) 1 (Eg White/Smith/Taylor/Higgins/Xenomania/Lattimer/Christie/Booker/FT Smith)


51 44 56 COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto Parlophone 0875531 (E) 4 (Dravs/Green/Simpson)


52 28 3


MATT CARDLE The Fire So What SFW001 (Essential/GEM) (Cardle/tbc)


53 45 55 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Ceremonials Island 2782808 (ARV) 1 (Epworth)


54 47 17 PLAN B Ill Manors 679/Atlantic 5310522172 (ARV) 1 (Drew/Al Shux/Plan B/16 Bit/Appapoulay/Labrinth/Milton/McEwan/Fox/The Krauts)


55 43 5


LEONA LEWIS Glassheart Syco 88697963782 (ARV) (FT Smith/Naughty Boy/Loco/Tucker/Abraham/Oligee/Ammo/DeLuxe/Dodds/Jerkins/Tedder/Zancanella/DJ Frank E/Shkreli/Kutzle)


56 577 THE OVERTONES Higher Warner Music Entertainment 2564655048 (ARV) (Horn/Future Cut/Afanasieff/Robson/Archer/Hinton)


57 52 51 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)


58 46 53 BEN HOWARD Every KingdomIsland 2771686 (ARV) 1 (Bond)


59 40 3 61 27 2 63 N


MADNESS Oui, Oui, Si, Si, Ja, Ja, Da, Da Cooking Vinyl COOKCD573X (Essential/GEM) (Langer/Watson/Street/Avila/Andrew/Morris)


60 49 10 DAVID GUETTA Nothing But The Beat 2.0 Parlophone PV9739982 (E) (Guetta/Tuinfort/Riesterer/tbc)


KRISTINA TRAIN Dark Black Mercury 3711587 (ARV) (Craft/Kosten/Harcourt/Parker/Danton)


62 61 10 THE XX Coexist Young Turks YT080CD (PIAS) 1 (Smith)


CRYSTAL CASTLES III Fiction 3720275 (ARV) (Kath/tbc)


64 55 131 MICHAEL BUBLE Crazy Love Reprise 9362496277 (ARV) 83 (Foster/Rock/Gatica/Chang)


65 50 11 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB Beacon Kitsune/Cooperative CDA046 (rom arv) (Jacknife Lee)


66 56 49 THE BLACK KEYS El Camino Nonesuch 7559796225 (ARV) 1 (Danger Mouse/The Black Keys)


67 64 88 BRUNO MARS Doo-Wops & Hooligans Elektra 7567883304 (ARV) 41 (The Smeezingtons/Needlz/The Supa Dups)


68 13 2


CHRIS MOYLES The Difficult Second AlbumMercury 3709240 (ARV) (Moyles/Beech)


69 58 52 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)


70 68 11 THE VACCINES The Vaccines Come Of Age Columbia 88725444242 (ARV) (Johns)


71 51 4


73 65 8 74 N


75 R


DAPPY Bad Intentions AATW/Island 3711533 (ARV) (TMS/FT Smith/Retro/Dawood/S-X/Fuller/Ingolsby)


72 62 29 QUEEN Greatest Hits Island 2761039 (ARV) (Various)


GREEN DAY Uno! Reprise 9362494719 (ARV) 1 (Cavallo/Green Day)


ELVIS PRESLEY Prince From Another Planet RCA/Legacy 88691953882 (ARV) (Guercio)


JUSTIN BIEBER Believe. Def Jam 3701673 (ARV) (Various)


Official Charts Company 2012.


Adele 34 Aerosmith 48 Aguilera, Christina 28 Alt-J 36 Bieber, Justin 75 Black Keys, The 66 Bocelli, Andrea 19 Boe, Alfie 6 Buble, Michael 64 Bugg, Jake 31 Cardle, Matt 52 Cassidy, Eva 27 Coldplay 51


Crystal Castles 63 Daniel O’donnell 44 Dappy 71 Deftones 30 Ferguson, Rebecca 50 Florence + The Machine 53


Foster & Allen 38 Fun. 13 Goulding, Ellie 40 Green Day 10 Green Day 73 Guetta, David 60


Harris, Calvin 9 Howard, Ben 58 Hucknall, Mick 35 JLS 16


Jonathan & Charlotte 23 Killers, The 24 Labrinth 43 Lawson 47 Lewis, Leona 55 Lumineers, The 20 Madness 59 Maroon 5 39 Mars, Bruno 67


Military Wives 12 Minogue, Kylie 18 Moyles, Chris 68 Mumford & Sons 14 Mumford & Sons 41 Murs, Olly 57 Muse 29 Ne-Yo 45 Of Monsters And Men 46 One Direction 1 One Direction 25 Ora, Rita 26 Overtones, The 56


Paloma Faith 15 Pink 22 Plan B 54 Presley, Elvis 74 Queen 72 Rey, Lana Del 8 Rieu, Andre, & Johann Strauss Orchestra 4 Rihanna 69 Rolling Stones, The 3 Sande, Emeli 7 Script, The 33 Sheeran, Ed 11


Soldiers, The 49 Soundgarden 21 Staves, The 42 Steps 32 Stewart, Rod 2 Swift, Taylor 17 Train, Kristina 61 Two Door Cinema Club 65


Vaccines, The 70 Weeknd, The 37 Williams, Robbie 5 The xx 62


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


BPI Awards Albums Conor Maynard: Contrast (silver); Flo Rida: Wild Ones (silver); Mick Hucknall: American Soul (silver); Kylie Minogue: The Abbey Road Sessions (gold); Jonathan & Charlotte: Together (gold); Green Day: Uno! (gold);


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Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day (gold); Ed Sheeran: + (5 x platinum); Michael Bublé: Christmas (6 x platinum)


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