ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and audio streams weighted using SEA2 methodology.
The magnificent seven: The Prodigy rave on as No.1 LP run continues
BY ALAN JONES T
he Prodigy’s seventh studio album, No Tourists, also becomes their seventh No.1 – a record for a dance act – opening atop the chart on sales of 23,952 copies (including 1,828 from sales-equivalent streams). That is the second lowest of the veteran dance trio’s career, beating only their 1992 debut release, Experience, which debuted and peaked at No.12.
All other Prodigy first week sales are overshadowed by the 316,953 copies that their fastest starter, Fat Of The Land, sold on debut in 1997. It remains their biggest seller, with a to-date tally of 1,428,172 out of total UK album sales of 4,707,982 Second only to Madonna among solo women with most UK No.1 albums, Barbra Streisand scored her seventh in 2016 with duets album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway opening atop the list on sales of 19,778 copies. Follow-up Walls, Streisand’s politically charged 36th studio album, debuts at No.6 (15,604 Sales) bringing the 76-year-old her 15th Top 10 entry in a chart career stretching back almost 53 years. A year older than Streisand, Bob Dylan has an even more impressive chart career, and scores his 66th Top 75 album and 38th Top 10 entry since 1964 with The Bootleg Series Volume 14: More Blood, More Tracks (No.9, 10,508 sales). Returning to the Top 10 after a three week absence, Ariana Grande’s Sweetener moves 15-10 (9,210 sales) following the screening of Ariana Grande At The BBC.
With sales of 21,927 in the week, A Star Is Born holds at No.2
for Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper, while fellow soundtrack set Bohemian Rhapsody remains in third place for Queen (21,608 sales), who also stay at No.7 with their reactivated 2000 compilation The Platinum Collection (12,464 sales). Sales of Andrea Bocelli’s Si held up well, slipping just 19.7% week-on-week as it falls 1-4 on consumption of 20,732 units. Completing the Top 10 are The Greatest Showman soundtrack (4-5, 19,058 sales) and Always In Between (6-8, 11,797 sales) by Jess Glynne.
A year to the week after her first album Sheridan debuted and peaked at No.9 (10,839 sales), actress Sheridan Smith’s follow-up, A Northern Soul, opens at No.15 (6,030 sales). The former consisted entirely of covers, the latter of original songs. The chart is laden with hip-hop albums that generate few sales but a lot of streaming. The two latest examples of this are Not All Heroes Wear Capes (No.16, 6,029 sales) by Metro Boomin and The Last Rocket (No.42, 2,214 sales) by Takeoff. Neither the Metro Boomin or the Takeoff album is available physically and paid-for downloads are just 124 (2.06%) for the former’s album, and 116 (5.24%) for the latter’s. The third and final septuagenarian to have a new chart entry this week, alongside Streisand and Dylan, is 71-year-old
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No.1
No Tourists - The Prodigy (Take Me To The Hospital/BMG) This week’s sales: 23,952 | Physical: 17,033 | Downloads: 5,091 | Streams: 1,828 |Total sales to date: 23,954 |
Marianne Faithfull, who has her highest-charting album in 53 years with her 21st studio album and sixth chart entry, Negative Capability (No.44, 2,199 sales). Comedy rock duo Tenacious D’s fourth album – the 21-track, 30-minute Post-Apocalypto – makes an unexpectedly low debut, opening at No.47 (2,095 sales).
Yawn (No.57, 1,824 sales) is the first solo chart album for Bill Ryder-Jones, formerly of The Coral.
On the top decks: The Prodigy’s No
Tourists is their seventh No.1 album
Dionysus (No.59, 1802 sales) is the ninth album and fourth chart entry by veteran Anglo-Australian world music/folk duo Dead Can Dance, whose eponymous debut album was released way back in 1984.
Its sales up for the 18th week in a row, Michael Bublé’s 2011 No.1 album Christmas makes the Top 20 for the seventh consecutive year, jumping 63-17 (5,919 sales). Four weeks after debuting at No.45, Katie Melua’s Ultimate Collection re-enters at a new peak (No.22, 4,220 sales). Newly remastered and released in several expanded editions to mark its 30th birthday, Metallica’s 1988 No.4 album …And Justice For All is a re-entry at No.29 (2,770 sales). Dreamboats & Petticoats: Golden Years debuts atop the compilation chart (17,102 sales), becoming the seventh No.1 and 20th Top 5 entry of the series, which started in 2007. Overall album sales are up 4.62% week-on-week at 1,811,401, 4.27% below same week 2017 sales of 1,892,238. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for a record 1,024,256 sales, 56.54% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are up 7.20% week-on-week at 787,145, 24.95% below same week 2017 sales of 1,048,799.
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