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CHARTS ANALYSIS WEEK 32 CHARTBOUND
SINGLES n 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 O
l KIESZA Giant In My Heart Lokal Legend l RIZZLE KICKS Tell Her Island l SATURDAYS What Are You Waiting For Polydor l TWIN ATLANTIC Brothers and Sisters Red Bull l KINGSLAND ROAD Dirty Dancer Soundcheck l LITTLE NIKKI FT DJ SKT Right Before My Eyes Deconstruction l SATURDAYS What Are You Waitin Polydor l REDLIGHT/LOLO Cure Me Polydor
UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART
wnership of the singles chart remained in foreign hands on Sunday, passing
from Canadian pop/reggae group Magic! to Norwegian duo Nico & Vinz. A major hit over much of the
rest of the world for the past few months, Nico & Vinz’s debut hit Am I Wrong charted on streaming points alone and was previously making slow progress, climbing 72-58-53-52. By jumping 51 places to reach the summit, it is the second biggest climber to pole position in the history of the Top 75, being eclipsed only by the 73-1 jump that Pixie Lott’s Boys & Girls made in 2009. Set to remain No.1 this
weekend, Am I Wrong sold 106,370 copies last week including 9,043 streaming sales, and easily dethroned Magic!’s Rude which dips to No.2 on sales of 73,993 copies. Although Norwegian songwriters regularly pen British No.1 singles - the last was Ina Wroldsen, who wrote James
ALBUMS n BY ALAN JONES
l GASLIGHT ANTHEM Get Hurt EMI l SATURDAYS Finest Selection - The Greatest Hits Polydor l RICHARD & ADAM At The Movies Sony Music l FKA TWIGS LP1 Young Turks Recordings l SINEAD O’CONNOR I’m Not Bossy I’m The Boss Nettwerk l GRANT NICHOLAS Yorktown Heights Popping Candy l LOVEABLE ROGUES This And That Super Duper l G FRSH Alfie Frsh Entertainment l DOWLING POOLE Bleak Strategies 369 Music l ALEX CLARE Three Hearts Island l PORTER ROBINSON Worlds Virgin l CHILDHOOD Lacuna House Anxiety l LAURA MVULA Laura Mvula With Metropole Orkest RCA l LUDOVICO EINAUDI Islands - Essential Einaudi Decca
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lready the biggest selling artist album of 2014, Ed Sheeran’s X extended
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its stay atop the album chart on Sunday while selling a further 29,741 copies - the lowest tally for a No.1 for 17 weeks - to increase its overall sales to 461,503. At seven weeks, X’s opening run at No.1 matches that of Robbie Williams’ November 2001 album Swing When You’re Winning as the longest of the 21st century for an album by a male soloist - and, having a 52.61% lead over its nearest challenger on Tues- day’s midweek sales flashes, looks set to rack up its eighth straight week atop the chart this weekend. The last male solo artist studio album to have an eight week open- ing run at No.1 was Phil Collins’ ...But Seriously in 1989/90. Sheeran’s continued leadership of the chart meant that, for the third straight week, Blue Smoke/ The Best Of Dolly Parton was No.2 on Sunday. Selling a further 16,665 copies last week, Parton’s album has been in the Top 10 (actually, the top seven) throughout its nine week chart career, and has thus far sold 156,316 copies.
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band’s third album, Native, in a deluxe edition which was released on Monday (11th). The original release of Native debuted at No.35 in April 2013, and peaked at No.17 on its 29th week in the shops. It climbed 77-70 (1,343 sales) on Sunday. Elsewhere in the Top 10:
Nico & Vinz: Am I Wrong MIDWEEK NO.1
Arthur’s Impossible with Icelandic partner Arnthor Birgissono - Nico (Sereba) and Vincent (Dery) are the first Norwegian act to have a No.1 single as artists here since A-ha topped with The Sun Always Shines On TV in 1986. We should note that the lead singer of the otherwise Danish group Aqua, who topped the chart three times, most recently in 1998 with Turn Back Time, was Norwegian Lene Nystrom.
More whimsically, the Nico
& Vinz hit is the first ‘wrong’ song to reach No.1, though there have been four ‘right’ songs, most recently Will Young’s Leave Right Now in 2003. The only new release with
enough clout to debut inside the Top 20 on Sunday was Love Runs Out, which dashes to a No.3 debut (51,053 sales) for OneRepublic. The track is one of several new additions to the
Cheryl Cole’s Crazy Stupid Love dipped 2-4 (34,605 sales), George Ezra’s Budapest climbed 6-5 (34,274 sales), Ella Henderson’s Ghost faded 4-6 (34,051 sales), ZHU’s Faded fell 3-7 (31,585 sales), Ariana Grande’s Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) slipped 7-8 (29,667 sales), Charli XCX’s Boom Clap declined 8-9 (27,582 sales) and
Will.I.Am’s It’s My Birthday ebbed 9-10 (25,523 sales). Overall singles sales were
down 1.72% week-on-week, at 5,254,746. Streaming accounted for 2,597,880 sales - 49.44% of the total. Under previously existing criteria where only paid-for purchases were included, overall singles sales were down 4.16% week-on-week at 2,656,866 – 16.13% below same week 2013 sales of 3,167,976, and the 52nd consecutive week in which they have declined versus a year ago.
Ed Sheeran: X MIDWEEK NO.1
Charlie Simpson had three chart albums as a member of highly successful pop quartet Busted and three more as the main man of alternative rock band Fightstar before his first solo album, Young Pilgrim debuted and peaked at No.6 (10,502 sales) three years ago this week. Follow-up Long Road Home showed the 29 year old still has fans, debuting at No.10 (5,521 sales). Elsewhere in the Top 10: Sam Smith’s In The Lonely Hour climbed 4-3 (11,185 sales), Coldplay’s Ghost Stories rallied 6-4 (8,086 sales), George Ezra’s Wanted On Voyage held
at No.5 (7,849 sales), Paloma Faith’s A Perfect Contradiction bounced 11-6 (6,937 sales), Ellie Goulding’s Halcyon advanced 13-7 (5,942 sales), Paolo Nutini’s Caustic Love rose 10-8 (5,927 sales) and The Breeze fell 3-9 (5,697 sales) for Eric Clapton. Climbing for the fifth straight
week, The 1975’s eponymous debut album just missed out on making the Top 10 for the first time in 46 weeks. Although in the chart continuously since it debuted 49 weeks ago at No.3, the album spent only its first three weeks in the Top 10. Never falling lower
than No.54, it has rallied 40-32-30- 23-16-11 without the advantage of a current hit single, increasing its career sales to 264,301 copies. Like the returning Top 10 album by Ellie Goulding, it is one of a large selection of albums made available for download at £2.99 by Google Play and rivals Amazon. A new ddition to both ranges, incidentally, is Neon Jungle’s debut album Welcome To The Jungle, which was already discounted (£4.99) when it made its chart debut last week. Its new, even lower price couldn’t prevent it from sliding 8-34 (2,531 sales), however. As Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers scored their first ever No.1 in America with Hypnotic Eye, the album suffered a 7-21 dip (3,182 sales) here. Pixie Lott’s eponymous third album debuted at No.15 (3,895 sales). That’s higher (but on massively lower sales) than 2011 predecessor Young Foolish Happy, which debuted and peaked at No.18 on sales of 18,503, and lower in both respects than debut Turn It Up which opened and peaked at No.6 in 2009 on sales of 25,652. Overall album sales were down 6.71% week-on-week at 1,323,346 - 4.75% below same week 2013 sales of 1,389,381.
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