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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 30 H
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
ad they made their best start ever, One Direction could have landed their
fourth number one hit with Best Song Ever last Sunday but their ninth hit was only their fifth fastest starter, and thus no match for Avicii's Wake Me Up! which chalked up its second straight week at the summit on sales of 154,525 copies, and is set to remain number one this Sunday. Early sales flashes show it continues to sell more than twice as many copies as any other song. Best Song Ever starts its
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UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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eality is set to strike deep for the second week in a row on the album charts -
reality TV, that is, as Britain’s Got Talent discoveries Richard & Adam are set to dethrone X Factor graduate Jahmene Douglas. The operatically inclined Richard & Adam, from North Wales, finished third in Britain’s Got Talent, but are set to go two places higher on the chart with debut offering The Impossible Dream dashing to a 71.11% lead atop the Tuesday midweek sales flashes. The X Factor’s seventh
season third placed act One Direction fell short of their aim to secure the 34th number one hit by an act (or combination of acts) from the show on the singles chart last Sunday but season nine runner-up Jahmene Douglas’ debut album Love Never Fails succeeded in becoming the 14th number one album by a show alumnus. That’s the end of the good
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news for Douglas - the bad news is that while debuting in pole position, it secured the lowest sales (18,904) for any number one album for 50 weeks, and sold less than 1/16th as many copies as the top compilation. It also secured only the 40th biggest opening week’s sale for an album by an X-Factor singer.
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Hello!, whose eponymous debut album entered at number 37 (2,862 sales). Multi- instrumentalist Wildheart’s foil on the album is American singer Victoria Liedtke. Already the act with most
Richard & Adam: The Impossible Dream MIDWEEK NO.1
The top tally of 375,872 was registered by Leona Lewis’ debut Spirit in 2007. Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines album dipped 1-2 (13,220 sales) on its second week in the chart. It is holding up considerably better than The Pet Shop Boys’ latest Electric which dived 3-28 (4,224 sales). The rest of Sunday’s Top 10:
Jay-Z’s Magna Carta...Holy Grail (2-3, 12,850 sales), Passenger’s All The Little Lights (5-4, 12,286 sales), Rod Stewart’s Time (4-5, 9,608 sales), Michael Buble’s To Be Loved (6-6, 9,193 sales), Mumford & Son’s Babel (7-7, 8,561 sales), David Guetta’s Nothing But The Beat (24-8, 8,141 sales, front page on iTunes at £3.99), Rudimental’s Home (11-9, 7,737 sales) and Jake Bugg
(10-10, 7,482 sales). Selena Gomez’s first solo
album Stars Dance debuted at number 14 (6,333 sales), while introductory single Come & Get It drifted 8-10. Bristol electronic duo F**k
Buttons failed to make the Top 200 with 2008 debut Street Horrrsing, and reached number 79 with 2009 follow-up Tarot Sport, but broke into the Top 40 for the first time with third album Slow Focus which opens at number 36 (3,351 sales). Ginger Wildheart - formerly
of the Quireboys and The Wildhearts - reached number 47 as Mutation with the experimental album Error 500 just seven weeks ago. He returned in a new guise on Sunday, namely as 50% of Hey!
charted live albums to their credit, The Rolling Stones racked up number 10 with Hyde Park Live. Housing 19 songs in a 110 minute programme which includes recordings from both the July 6 and July 13 shows, the album debuted at number 16 (5,668 sales). It's the group’s 48th charted album in all, spanning more than 49 years - and it is their first to be released only as a download, being an £8.99 iTunes exclusive. It is the 20th album to breach the Top 75 of the artist album chart on download sales alone, but only the second to reach the Top 20 without a physical format, following 54 weeks after Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange debuted at number two on sales of 13,442. Now That’s What I Call Music! 85 debuted atop the compilation chart on mighty sales of 317,376. The highest opening week’s sale by any album in the series since Now! 77 launched on sales of 333,772, it is also the highest weekly sale achieved by any album so far this year. Overall album sales were up 26.23% week-on-week at 1,636,244 - 1.98% above same week 2012 sales of 1,604,442.
career with 75,474 sales - less than One Direction's 2011 debut hit What Makes You Beautiful (153,965), last single One Way Or Another (Teenage Kicks) (112,616), Live While We're Young (87,008) and Little Things (85,308).
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Passenger’s Let Her Go recovering 10-7 (38,479 sales),
Will.I.Am’s Bang Bang slipping 5-8 (34,103 sales), Daft Punk’s Get Lucky (feat Pharrell) climbing 11-9 (27,120 sales) and Selena Gomez’s Come & Get It retreating 8-10 (26,594 sales). Thinking About You (feat.
Ayah Marar) remained on track to become the record ninth Top 10 hit from Calvin Harris’s album 18 Months, jumping 28- 14 (21,433 sales). True Love continued to climb
Avicii: Wake Me Up! MIDWEEK NO.1
One Direction’s arrival apart,
last week was a mundane one for the Top 10, with Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines (feat T.I. & Pharrell) dipping 2-3 (64,868 sales), John Newman’s Love Me
Again falling 3-4 (63,533 sales), Icona Pop’s I Love It (feat Charli XCX) declining 4-5 (46,635 sales), Naughty Boy’s La La La (feat. Sam Smith) holding at number six (42,556 sales),
for Pink feat. Lily Allen, moving 22-16 (20,119 sales). Currently available for 59p as
a download, Toploader’s Dancing In The Moonlight - number seven in 2001, peaking in its 14th week in the Top 30 - leapt 63-27 (11,349 sales). Overall singles sales were
down 2.59% week-on-week at 3,342,737 - 6.37% above same week 2012 sales of 3,142,600.
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