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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 25 W
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
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
ith pent-up demand for Icona Pop's I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)
resulting in upwards of 45,000 copies of the track being sold by close of business on Monday, and The Wanted's Walks Like Rihanna selling more than 41,000 copies, the reign of Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. and Pharrell) looks to be over. It sold 36,000 copies in the same timeframe but will struggle to extend its run atop the chart. Blurred Lines racked up its
ICONA POP FEAT. CHARLI XCX I Love It Atlantic THE WANTED Walks Like Rihanna Global Talent ANDREA BEGLEY My Immortal UMTV LEAH MCFALL I Will Always Love You UMTV LEEROY FEAT. NAGLA Can’t Get Enough Transmission DAVID BOWIE Life On Mars EMI BIFFY CLYRO Opposite 14th Floor ANDREA BEGLEY Ho Hey UMTV ANDREA BEGLEY Take On Me UMTV MATT HENRY Babylon UMTV BRIDGIT MENDLER Ready Or Not Hollywood DAVID GUETTA FEAT. SIA Titanium Parlophone EVANESCENCE Bring Me To Life Virgin/Wind Up
UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART
fourth straight week at number one last weekend to give Pharrell Williams his eighth week at number one out of nine, matching the earlier four week run at the summit enjoyed by Daft Punk's Get Lucky, on which he was also guest vocalist. After three straight weeks in which it sold upwards of 190,000 copies, Blurred Lines suffered its first significant drop-off last week with sales dipping 31.30% last week to a still solid 133,052 copies. It jumped 6-2 on the year-to-date chart, with 718,057 sales. After nine straight weeks in the Top 5, Get Lucky dipped 4-6,
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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TOM ODELL Long Way Down Columbia EMPIRE OF THE SUN Ice On The Dune Virgin AMON AMARTH Deceiver Of The Goods Metal Blade FAT FREDDY’S DROP Blackbird The Drop JOSH GROBAN All That Echoes Reprise LLOYD COLE Standards Tapete LANA DEL REY Born To Die Polydor THE ROLLING STONES Grrr! Polydor ALT-J An Awesome Wave Infectious OMAR The Man Freestyle
fter scoring his first Top 10 single last Sunday, singer/songwriter Tom
Odell is set to top the album chart this weekend with debut set Long Way Down outselling its nearest challenger by a margin of nearly four to one to top Tuesday's midweek sales flashes. Odell will replace Kanye
West, whose new album Yeezus dropped unexpectedly on Tuesday, six days before it was originally intended. In the maelstrom whipped up by its release, Yeezus sold 25,400 copies to debut atop the album chart. West's album was one of three
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new hip-hop titles to invade the chart this week: J. Cole's Born Sinner debuted at number seven (12,034 sales), while Mac Miller's Watching Moves With The Sound Off opened at number 56 (2,383 sales).
Although achieving the lowest sale for a number one album for 44 weeks, Yeezus saw off Black Sabbath's 13, which dipped 1-2 (21,056 sales), and Irish rock
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Icona Pop: I Love It MIDWEEK NO.1
with a further 47,592 sales lifting its overall tally to 977,622. Blurred Lines' high sales
denied Jason DeRulo the opportunity of achieving his third number one hit. The Other Side - the introductory single from his still to be named third album - scorched to a number two debut on sales of 91,650 copies. Wild - his collaboration with Jessie J and Big Sean dipped 6-8 (38,849 sales) on its fourth week in the Top 10 but Dizzee Rascal has another major hit with Goin'
Crazy (feat. Robbie Williams), debuting at number five (51,430 sales) on Sunday. It's Dizzee's 11th Top 10 hit. Tom Odell's first smash Another Love, entered at number 10 (33,022 sales). Two other songs from Long Way Down have charted - Can't Pretend reached number 67 in March and Hold Me got to number 44 in April - the album itself will debut at number one this Sunday. Singles in the Top 10 not
mentioned hitherto: La La La
slipped 2-3 (69,792 sales) for Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith, Let Her Go drifted 3-4 (59,505 sales) for Passenger, Dear Darlin' dipped 5-7 (42,133 sales) for Olly Murs and Everything Has Changed fell 7-9 (36,687 sales) for Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran. Andrea Begley was crowned as winner of BBC1's The Voice UK on Saturday, eclipsing ante post favourite Leah McFall. Begley's cover of Evanescence's My Immortal - which she performed in the final - sold 3,810 copies to enter at number 75. Evanescence's own version of the song sold 67 copies more to re-enter the chart at number 74, and lift its career sales to 247,790. Begley's cover of The Lumineers' Ho Hey reached a new peak (120-101, 2,709 sales) and Take On Me debuted at number 103 (2,558 sales). McFall saw a downturn in sales in the week for I Will Survive (8-15, 22,810 sales) but climbed 105-36 (8,284 sales) with Killing Me Softly With His Song and debuted at number 85 (3,431 sales) with I Will Always Love You. Overall singles sales were
down 0.22% week-on-week at 3,480,559 - 1.74% above same week 2012 sales of 3,421,065.
number 20 (6,849 sales) as the film continues to dominate the box office charts. Classical crossover singer
Hayley Westenra has scored five UK Top 40 albums hitherto and the 26-year-old Kiwi racks up her sixth - but lowest charting - with Hushabye (number 35, 3,862 sales).
Albums in the Top 10 not
Tom Odell: Long Way Down MIDWEEK NO.1
band Kodaline's debut album. In A Perfect World which set the early pace but ended up debuting at number three (20,924 sales). All three Kodaline singles from In A Perfect World enjoyed a bounce: latest hit Love Like This improved 35-34 (8,995 sales), High Hopes made a 78-45 climb (6,832 sales) and All I Want re- entered at number 150 (1,630 sales). The singles peaked at 22, 16 and 74, respectively. Icelandic sound sculptors
Sigur Ros' XL Recordings debut Kveikur provided their third Top
10 entry from seven releases, opening at number nine (11,301 sales). Sigur Ros' highest chart position and biggest first week sale came from their fifth album Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, which debuted and peaked at number five, on sales of 20,266 in 2008. German composer Hans
Zimmer reached number 19 last year with his Batman soundtrack The Dark Knight Rises but switches his superhero allegiance to Superman for Man Of Steel, which debuts this week at
mentioned above: Rod Stewart's Time retreated 3-4 (18,796 sales), Passenger's All The Little Lights recovered 8-5 (15,904 sales), Daft Punk's Random Access Memories fell 4-6 (14,138 sales), Olly Murs' Right Place Right Time bounced 12-8 (11,475 sales) to achieve its highest position for 15 weeks, and Disclosure's Settle descended 5- 10 (11,087 sales). Now That's What I Call 30
Years moved 2-1 (19,819 sales) to rack up its third week atop the compilation chart in total. Overall album sales are down
18.72% week-on-week at 1,483,625, as the Father's Day effect evaporates, and were 0.65% below same week 2012 sales of 1,493,265.
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