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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 48 CHARTBOUND
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
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 PITBULL/TJR Don’t Stop The Party UMTV ANGEL Time After Time Universal TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story Mercury SLADE Merry Xmas Everybody UMTV BAND AID Do They Know It’s Christmas Mercury
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t was Murs Vs. Mars in the battle for No.1 last weekend, with the incumbent Murs’
Troublemaker fending off Mars’ Locked Out Of Heaven, which has yo-yoed 2-9-2. His appearance on The
X Factor sparked a revival in the song, which would likely otherwise have departed the Top 10.
Rihanna’s rain-soaked
performance of her latest single Diamond on The X Factor also triggered a recovery for the former No.1, which bounced 10-3 (53,131 sales) on its ninth appearance in the Top 10. The 32nd number one single
SHAKIN’ STEVENS Merry Christmas Everyone RCA
TULISA Sight Of You AATW/Island DR DRE/SNOOP DOGG Still Dre Interscope CHRIS REA Driving Home For Christmas Warner Bros
KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody Hand Me Down COLDPLAY Fix You Parlophone CHRISTINA PERRI Jar Of Hearts Atlantic JAMES MORRISON FEAT. NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings Polydor
FLO RIDA Whitsle Atlantic EMELI SANDE Read All About It Pt 3 Virgin
UK ALBUMS CHART JOOLS HOLLAND AND HIS RHYTHM AND BLUES ORCHESTRA The Golden Age Of Song Rhino
TULISA The Female Boss AATW/Island ONLY BOYS ALOUD Only Boys Aloud – The Christmas Edition Relentless
BEE GEES Mythology Reprise ANDRE RIEU December Lights Decca KESHA Warrior Kemosabe/RCA
of the year, Olly Murs’ Troublemaker is only the eighth to spend two straight weeks at No.1 but it did so with sales of 31.90% week-on-week at 82,696 – the lowest No.1 tally for 10 weeks.
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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lly Murs topped the singles and albums charts simultaneously last
SKEPTA Blacklisted3 Beat/AATW THE JAM Classic Album Selection 1977-1982 Polydor
SCOTT WALKER Bish Bosch 4AD ROD STEWART Storyteller – The Complete Anthology Warner Bros
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Sunday but is set to lose leadership of one and possibly both charts this weekend. After two weeks atop the singles chart, Murs’ Troublemaker dipped 12.20% behind Gabrielle Aplin’s cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s 1984 topper The Power Of Love on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes. Aplin’s single’s seasonal suitability and a performance of the song on The X Factor by James Arthur last weekend are both boosting it. Murs remained in control of the album chart on Tuesday, where his third release, Right Time Right Place was 31.46% ahead of nearest challenger, Christmas by Michael Bublé. But Murs’ album – which debuted at the apex last weekend – is down 38.10% week-on-week while Bublé’s album is up 71.13%, and a simple projection would suggest that he is more likely to emerge as chart champ this weekend. Murs replaced Rihanna at the
top of the artist album chart for the second time last weekend – doing so exactly a year after he did it first time. Last December, Murs’ second album, In Case You Didn’t Know,
Gabrielle Aplin: The Power Of Love MIDWEEK NO.1
In a week with few notable
new releases, nine of last week’s Top 10 remained in the top tier: The one exception was Girls Aloud’s Something New, which dived 2-14 (23,440 sales), making way for Kesha’s Die Young, which sprinted to a No.10 debut (36,288 sales).
US band Imagine Dragons
haven’t had a hit before but simultaneously placed Radioactive (No.35, 8,815 sales) and Hear Me (No.37, 8,436 sales) on the Top 40. Two perennial Christmas hits
returned to the Top 40: Fairytale Of New York jumped 53-27
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(11,929 sales) for The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl, while All I Want For Christmas Is You was also up 26 places, leaping 56-30 (9,827 sales) for Mariah Carey. It is 25 years to the week since
Fairytale Of New York made its chart debut, and there is a campaign for it to top the chart, which will undoubtedly be helped by its release on seven-inch last Monday (3rd). One of six songs from Taylor
Swift’s album Red to make the Top 75, reaching No.23 as a ‘preview track’ in October, I Knew You Were Trouble is now the official follow-up to the album’s first single, We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, and rebounds 47-24 (14,937 sales), overtaking the latter track, which fell 25-29 (9,913 sales) on its 15th week in the Top 40. Overall singles sales were
down 3.82% week-on-week at 3,402,319 - 10.09% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,090,499.
Although it never climbed
Olly Murs: Right Place, Right Time MIDWEEK NO.1
became his first No.1, debuting in pole position on sales of 148,532 copies, while Rihanna’s Talk That Talk fell 1-3. On Sunday, Right Place, Right Time opened at the apex on sales of 126,949 copies, while Rihanna’s Unapologetic slid to No.3 (67,162 sales). Murs is only the second X
Factor alumnus to have more than one No.1 album – Leona Lewis has also had two – and did so as the album’s introductory single Troublemaker secured its second straight week at No.1 to complete the first chart double of his career. Murs is the third X Factor contestant to top the singles and albums chart simultaneously emulating Lewis and One Direction.
In Case You Didn’t Know has
sold 880,944 copies to date, 15.82% more than Murs’ eponymous first album, which debuted and peaked at No.2 on sales of 108,212 copies exactly two years ago, and has since gone on to sell 760,598 copies. Of the many X Factor graduates to release at least two albums, Murs is only the second to increase his support from album one to album two, the first being Joe McElderry, who has so far sold 247,046 copies of second album Classic – 138.76% more than debut album Wide Awake. If Murs’ latest effort, Right Time Right Place, can continue that pattern of growth he is in a league of his own.
higher than No.5 on the album chart, Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of War Of The Worlds is one of the 40 biggest albums of all time with UK sales of 2,635,926 copies since its 1978 release. The album has now been re-tooled, with Gary Barlow replacing Justin Hayward (the sung thoughts of the journalist), and there are also appearances by Alex Clare, Maverick Sabre, Joss Stone and Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs. The new version of the album debuts at 13 (34,961 sales), while the 1978 recording vaults 191-121 (1,787 sales). Michael Bublé’s Christmas
re-entered the chart last week at number five, following its re- release in an expanded edition. It is being tracked by Rod Stewart’s Merry Christmas, Baby (6-5, 45,614 sales). Now That’s What I Call
Music! 83 topped the compilation chart handsomely once again, with second-week sales of 222,062 - that’s 5.39% above 2011 equivalent Now! 80’s second-week sales, and raises its two-week sales tally to 517,979. Overall album sales were up
23.59% week-on-week at 3,452,189, setting a new 2012 record for the third week in a row. However, they were 15.12% below same-week 2011 sales of 4,067,134
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