18 Music Week 12.07.13 INTERNATIONAL CHARTS ROUND-UP
WEST’S YEEZUS BEGINS TO DESCEND GLOBAL CHARTS
Kanye album moves down from No.1 spot as Tom Odell enjoys good start across Europe
GLOBAL BY ALAN JONES
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apper Wale scores his first number one album in America, with The Gifted last week, dethroning Kanye West's Yeezus - but
there's little love for The Gifted elsewhere. It misses the Top 75 in the UK - debuting at number 104 - and debuts at number 10 in Canada but fails to show up in the chart anywhere else. By contrast, West's Yeezus remains in the Top 10 in eight countries, and in lesser orbit in 11 other countries. It does, however, lose its leadership of the chart not only in the US (1-3) but also in Australia (1-2), Denmark (1-5) and New Zealand (1-5), leaving Canada as the only country in which it is still top. Daft Punk's Random Access Memories stormed
the charts six weeks ago and has been in slow decline ever since. It remains head and shoulders above all comers globally with Top 10 positions in 22 countries last week. It bounces 3-1 in Denmark, and is also heading back up the charts in Canada (5-2), Ireland (3-2), Norway (7-3), Portugal (4-3), The Netherlands (6-4), The USA (6-5), Hungary (7-6), Finland (10-9), Brazil (13-10), Sweden (12- 11) and Croatia (24-16). The leading new arrivals are Swedish death metal band Amon Amarth's ninth studio album, Deceiver Of The God and UK singer/songwriter Tom Odell's debut set, Long Way Down, both of which chart in nine territories. Amon Amarth’s album debuts in Germany (number three), Austrian (number seven), Canada (number nine), Switzerland (number nine), The USA (number 19), Denmark (number 27), The Czech Republic (number 34), Finland (number 34) and France (number 55). Odell, whose album opened at number one domestically, also tops the chart in The
US FOCUS: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE CRUISES AHEAD IN ALBUM SALES
Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience was the US’s biggest-selling album in the first half of 2013 and the only one to shift more than 1 million copies. The album sold 2.0 million units up to the end of
June, according to Nielsen SoundScan, more than double its closest rival Unorthodox Jukebox by Bruno Mars, while Mumford & Sons’ Grammy Album of the Year Babel was placed third. Timberlake’s lone trek to seven figures makes this only
the second year in the SoundScan era dating back to 1991 when only one album has sold 1 million copies during the first half of the year. That occurrence happened firstly just 12 months ago when Adele’s 21 was the sole million seller, having been 2011’s top seller and it
RIGHT Yeezus walks: Kanye West’s album has been a No.1 smash around the world, but has already slipped in the US, Australia, Denmark, the UK and New Zealand
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Netherlands, ending local hero Anouk's five week reign. Long Way Down also charts in Switzerland (number two), Flanders (number five), Ireland (number five), Germany (number 17), Wallonia (number 26), Denmark (number 36), Austria (number 48) and South Korea (number 65). Among existing Brits in the charts, Passenger's
All The Little Lights has a very good week, reaching new peaks in Norway (17-9), South Africa (16-13), Portugal (37-23) and Sweden (60-30), while also climbing in Switzerland (18-17), Denmark (22-19), Germany (27-26), Flanders (56- 42) and Wallonia (119-86). Black Sabbath’s 13 exits the Top 20 in the UK, three weeks after debuting at number one but its decline is less rapid in many
other countries. It remains in the Top 10 in 17 of them. It continues at number one in Switzerland, while falling 1-2 in The Czech Republic. It is also top five in Finland (2-2), Germany (2-2), Hungary (2-2), Canada (3-3), Denmark (2-3), Poland (4-4), Austria (4-5) and Sweden (4-5). Finally, iTunes' HD release of The Beatles movie Help! was tied-in with temporary reductions in the vendor's price for the album soundtrack and for the 1 compilation. Help! didn't make much of an impression, re-charting in just three countries but 1 returns to the chart in a dozen, with top re- entries in Ireland (number 22), The Netherlands (number 27), The USA (number 37), Greece (number 37) and Norway (number 40).
Meanwhile, the figures from the latest Nielsen
Soundscan mid-year report show that digital track sales are declining in the US whilst digital album sales continue to grow, albeit at a slower rate than previously. For the year to date as of June 2013, figures show a
2.3% drop to 682.2 million units compared to 698 million in H1 2012. Track sales declined 1.34% in Q1 to 356.5 million. In Q2 the decline more than doubled to 3.3%, with
track sales totaling 325.7 million units this year compared to 336.7 million in Q2 2012. Big digital track
went on to become 2012’s No 1 across the entire year. Mars’ second album, which was released in 2012, sold
a further 985,000 copies during the first 26 weeks of 2013, while Mumford & Sons’ Babel had 884,000 additional takers having initially debuted at No 1 on the Billboard 200 last October.
sellers for 2013 stacked up as below: 51 songs with over 1 million sales (compared to 47
songs in 2012) 13 songs at over 2 million sales Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ Thrift Shop (featuring Wanz) lead with 5.6 million sales
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