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CHARTS BY ALAN JONES
t’s 24 years since industrial rockers Nine Inch Nails rolled out their debut album,
Pretty Hate Machine, to a fairly muted reception. It reached No.67 in the UK,
No.75 in the US... and failed to chart anywhere else. That’s quite a contrast to their eighth album, Hesitation Marks which - after becoming their highest charting album in the UK last week, when it debuted at No.2 - does the same pretty much everywhere else. Except, that is, in their home country, the US, where it debuts at No.3, a position bettered by four of their previous efforts.
The album makes the Top 10 in 10 other countries, becoming their first No.1 in Canada, while debuting at No.2 in Austria, No.3 in Australia, No.4 in The Czech Republic, No.5 in Germany, Ireland and Switzerland, No.7 in New Zealand, and No.9 in Denmark and The Netherlands. That’s far from the end of the story, however, as it also debuts in Portugal (No.13), Japan (No.14), Italy (No.16), Finland (No.17), Poland (No.17), Spain (No.20), France (No.22), Norway (No.23), Sweden (No.37), Flanders (No.51), South Korea (No.58) and Wallonia (No.80). Nine Inch Nails were beaten to the US chart title by Ariana Grande, who wasn't even born when they launched their career. 20-year-old singer/actress Grande's first album, Yours Truly wasn't able to match its
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No.1 US debut elsewhere but it made a big impression nevertheless, with debuts at No.2 in Canada, No.5 in The Netherlands, No.6 in Australia and Ireland, No.10 in Denmark and No.11 in New Zealand, to mention just the biggest. Among British acts,
Babyshambles’ third album, Sequel To The Prequel, was the best received new release. It beat its UK No.10 debut in Switzerland (No.4) and Austria
(No.8), while matching it in Germany. It also charts in France (No.20), Wallonia (No.22), Flanders (No.24), Sweden (No.28), Japan (No.48), Ireland (No.59), The Netherlands (No.59) and Spain (No.77). A No.1 album domestically,
The 1975’s eponymous debut album was well received in Ireland (No.4), Canada (No.17), The USA (No.28) and Japan (No.84). The same week that The 1975 album topped the UK chart, art
rock band Blackfield’s fourth album - IV - debuted at No.95. The album has subsequently fared much better in Poland, where it is No.8, The Netherlands (No.28) and Wallonia (No.47). In more limited penetration,
veteran Liverpudlian grindcore band Carcass’ first album since 1996, Surgical Steel, was apparently appreciated in Japan, where it debuts at No.36, while Yorkshire singer/songwriter Natalia Kills’ second album
Trouble opens at No.70 in The USA, eclipsing the No.134 peak of her 2011 debut Perfectionist. Already a big success in more
than a dozen countries, Olly Murs has just broken Estonia, where his latest album, Right Place Right Time, is No.4. Finally, Arctic Monkeys’ fifth album AM is likely to debut big this week. Its first international placing comes from Japan, where it becomes their fourth Top 10 album, entering at No.10.
Universal claims US Top 10 clean sweep
Universal Music labels were responsible for each of the top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the US last week. No.1 on the list, compiled
across sales, streams and radio play, was Katy Perry’s Roar (Capitol Records). Perry’s catalogue was acquired by UMG as part of the £1.2bn acquisition of EMI last year.
Robin Thicke’s Blurred
Lines (Star Trak/Interscope) dropped one place to No.2, whilst 16-year-old New Zealand singer Lorde (Lava/Universal Republic) jumped to No.3 with Royals. Jay Z and Justin
Timberlake’s Holy Grail (Roc Nation) was at No.4, with Avicii’s global smash Wake
Me Up (PRMD/Island) at No.5.
Lana Del Rey & Cedric
Gervais’ Summertime Sadness (Polydor/Interscope) was at No.6, followed by Lady Gaga’s Applause (Streamline Interscope), Drake’s Hold On, We’re Going Home (Cash Money/Republic), Capital Cities’ Safe and
Sound (Lazy Hooks/Capitol) and Eminem’s Berzerk (Aftermath/Interscope). “This week, we achieved what has never been done before in the Billboard charts,” UMG CEO and chairman Lucian Grainge said in an internal staff memo. “We have successfully integrated and reinvigorated EMI.”
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