44 MusicWeek 17.01.14
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 2 T
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 n BY ALAN JONES
ying Rihanna as the artist with most weeks at No.1 in the 2010s, Pharrell
l ELYAR FOX Do It All Over Again (RCA) l SHAKIRA FEAT. RIHANNA Can’t Remember To Forget You (RCA) l RIHANNA FEAT. MIKKY EKKO Stay (Def Jam) l MILEY CYRUS Adore You (RCA) l LONDON GRAMMAR Strong (Metal & Dust Recordings)
UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART
Williams returned to pole position with Happy on Sunday, and looks set to remain there this weekend. No.1 for four weeks with Daft Punk collaboration Get Lucky last April/May and for five weeks with Robin Thicke and T.I. alliance Blurred Lines last June/July, Williams is on his second non-consecutive week atop the chart with Happy, though its sales were off for the first time in eight weeks, falling marginally (0.82%) week-on- week to 107,427. After laying down markers
last week with their third hits debuting in the teens, 3 Beat recording acts Fuse ODG and Matrix & Futurebound soared into the Top 10 on Sunday to secure their biggest hits yet. Fuse ODG’s Million Pound Girl (Badder Than Bad) vaulted 14-5 (29,449 sales) to eclipse the pole position of his debut hit Antenna (follow-up Azonto got
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l BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN High Hopes (Columbia) l JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW Post Tropical (Believe Recordings) l CANTEBURY Dark Days (Hassle) l NECK DEEP Wishful Thinking (Hopeless) l MOTION PICTURE CAST RECORDING Les Miserables (Polydor) l MARK LANEGAN Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011 (Light In The Attic) l RIZZLE KICKS Roaring 20s (Island) l KAISER CHIEFS Souvenir – The Singles 2004-2012 (B-Unique/Polydor) l JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE The 20/20 Experience – 2 Of 2 (RCA) l MIKE OLDFIELD Tubular Bells (Mercury) l EAST INDIA YOUTH Total Strife (Forever Stolen) l GREGORY PORTER Liquid Spirit (Blue Note)
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he Boss is back - now a sprightly 64, Bruce Springsteen has more
than High Hopes that his new album of that name will top the album chart - it is outselling nearest challenger, Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon, by a margin of four to one on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, and is a racing certainty to top the album chart this weekend. With Christmas and New
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Year over, the bleak midwinter sales climate has really kicked in, with Ellie Goulding’s otherwise notable feat of topping the chart last Sunday for the second time with her 66 week old album Halcyon tempered somewhat by the fact it sold just 26,456 copies last week - the lowest tally for a No.1 album for 19 weeks. Goulding’s current hit How Long Will I Love You - from the expanded Halcyon Days version of the album - moved 5- 6 (24,316 sales) in an equally dreary singles chart and has now been in the Top 10 for eight weeks, longer than any of her previous hits. Reaching a new positional
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Monster (feat. Rihanna) dipped 6-8 (22,794 sales) and Martin Garrix’s Animals retreated 8-9 (18,847 sales). Another new version of Do
Pharrell Williams: Happy MIDWEEK NO.1
to No.30). Meanwhile, Matrix & Futurebound’s Control dashed 18-7 (23,136 sales). It was already their highest charting hit beating All I Know, a No.29 hit with vocals from Luke Bingham, and Magnetic Eyes, a No.24 single sung by Baby Blue. Control features vocals from 22 year old London singer/ songwriter Max Marshall. In contrast with Fuse ODG
and Matrix & Futurebound, the only other song to debut inside the Top 40 last week is in decline - Pitbull’s Timber was top of the tree last week but suffered a wooden 35.87% dip in sales to 89,069 as it fell to No.2. Elsewhere in the Top 10,
Avicii’s Hey Brother held at No.3 (44,791 sales), Jason DeRulo’s Trumpets remained at No.4 (39,166 sales), Eminem’s The
What U Want released in America last week adds Rick Ross to the original Lady Gaga & R. Kelly credit. It isn’t available here yet - but Do What U Want jumps 23-12 albeit with sales down 1.60% at 16,878 in a shrinking market. The turnaround is due to the new duet version of the track featuring Gaga and Christina Aguilera. After stumbling 19-20 last
week, Little Mix’s Little Me resumed its upward momentum, climbing to No.14 (16,206 sales). The song credits Little Mix as writers alongside Iain James and TMS, but it is based on the melody of Pavane, written 125 years ago by classical composer Gabriel Faure. It isn’t the biggest hit based on the tune - S Club 7’s Natural was similarly indebted, and reached No.3 in 2000. Overall singles sales were down
20.66% week-on-week at 3,136,253 - 11.00% below same week 2013 sales of 3,523,765.
London Grammar’s debut album If You Wait. Climbing for the seventh week in a row, If You Wait moved 11-10 with sales of 10,946 last week raising its 18 week gross to 247,016. The album debuted and peaked at No.2 last September and has remained in the Top 40 ever since. Elsewhere in the Top 10:
Bruce Springsteen: High Hopes MIDWEEK NO.1
peak for the third straight week while posting its lowest sale for the fourth straight week, Beyonce’s eponymous new album climbed 3-2. It sold 21,771 copies last week. The album’s first hit, Drunk In Love (feat. Jay Z), bounded 27-10 (18,212 sales). It is Beyonce’s 29th Top 10 hit (12 of them with Destiny’s Child), and her first since 2011’s Best Thing I Never Had. It is husband Jay Z’s 11th Top 10 hit. The pair previously made the Top 10 together with ‘03 Bonnie & Clyde (No.2, 2003, Jay Z feat. Beyonce Knowles) and Deja Vu
(No.1, 2006, Beyonce feat. Jay Z). Four more songs from
Beyonce are climbing the Top 200 - XO becomes her 46th Top 75 hit (14 of them with Destiny’s Child) by sprinting 84-45 (6,813 sales), Drake collaboration Mine bounces 97-87 (2,931 sales), Pretty Hurts strides 110-97 (2,653 sales) and Partition enters the Top 200 for the first time at No. 192 (1,301 sales). The only change to the Top 10
came with the 10-12 fall (10,066 sales) of One Direction’s Midnight Memories, which is replaced in the top tier by
Gary Barlow’s Since I Saw You Last dipped 2-3 (17,069 sales), John Newman’s Tribute climbed 5-4 (15,321 sales), Bastille’s Bad Blood recovered 6-5 (14,441 sales), Robbie Williams’ Swings Both Ways fell 4-6 (12,456 sales), Avicii’s True jumped 9-7 (12,300 sales), Rudimental’s Home faded 7-8 (11,897 sales) and Arctic Monkeys’ AM faltered 8-9 (10,991 sales). All - whatever direction they are moving - suffer falls in sales in the range 37.80%-51.70%. Now That’s What I Call
Music! 86 topped the compilation chart for the eighth straight week, selling 21,750 to lead a top five which otherwise comprises entirely of Ministry Of Sound releases. Overall album sales were
down 25.58% week-on-week to 1,552,595 - 7.37% below same week 2013 sales of 1,676,116.
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