charts analysis week 02 Singles number 1
Justin Bieber Love Yourself
n BY ALAN JONES A
ll the headlines are about David Bowie - and rightly so, with his unexpected death on Sunday (10th) fuelling a massive wave of affection, shock and
sales - but Justin Bieber’s Love Yourself cruises to a third straight week (and sixth week out of seven) as No.1 single.
Love Yourself sold a further 74.565 copies last week but Bieber’s five week grip on the Top 2 is over, with Sorry (58,898 sales) dipping 2-3. In its stead, Shawn Mendes’ Stitches advances 4-2 (61,346 sales). Climbing for the eighth week in a row, Stitches is already No.1 on paid-for sales (36,235) but its streaming sales total of 25,111 is far inferior to Bieber’s 39,481.
As late as last September, Bieber was without a single week at No.1, but he has been top of the chart for 13 of the last 20 weeks - five times with What Do You Mean? and twice with Sorry, as well as Love Yourself’s ongoing reign - and now shares leadership of the list of most weeks at No.1 in the 2010s with Bruno Mars and Pharrell Williams. Elsewhere in a Top 10 that remains Bowie-free, there are new peaks for One Direction’s History (7-6, 34,239 sales) and 99 Souls’ Girl Is Mine (10-9, 31,411 sales) while Sigala’s Sweet Lovin’ - which peaked five weeks ago at No.3 - continues to recover, advancing 8-5 (35,193 sales). Heading south are Bieber’s What Do You Mean? (3-4, 39,721 sales), Grace’s You Don’t Own Me (feat. G-Eazy, 6-7, 33,402 sales), Adele’s Hello (5-8, 32,266 sales) and Coldplay’s Adventure Of A Lifetime (9-10, 28,995 sales).
Shortly after his death in 2009, Michael Jackson had five of the Top 20 singles, 13 of the Top 40, and a record 49 of the Top 200. When she died in 2012, Whitney Houston had three songs in the Top 40, 12 in the Top 75 and 23 in the Top 200. David Bowie’s death has had a similarly massive impact - a week ago, he had no songs in the Top 200, now he has 30, with five of them in the Top 40, and 11 of them in the Top 75.
When Michael Jackson died, traditional wisdom would suggest that his biggest UK seller, Earth Song, or Billie Jean, which attracted more radio and TV airplay than any other following his death, would emerge as posthumous chart leader. But the poignancy and personal nature of its lyrics made Man In The Mirror - hitherto one of his less successful singles, peaking at No.21 in 1988, to rank 42nd in his overall popularity list - the front runner. It had sold just 116,590 copies when he died, a total which has now swollen to 567,280. Similarly, although Let’s Dance is Bowie’s
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biggest seller overall and received more radio and TV exposure than anything else after his death, and Queen collaboration Under Pressure is his biggest seller digitally, it is Heroes - which reached No.24 in 1977 and was his 41st biggest seller physically, attracting 55,000 buyers, but his third biggest seller digitally hitherto - that has emerged as his highest placed song this week, re-entering the chart at a new peak of 12 (25,662 sales). Between his chart debut in 1969 and his last hit in 2013 - when his 66th birthday single Where Are We Now? debuted and peaked at No.6 to become his highest charting single in 27 years - Bowie amassed 68 Top 75 singles, reaching No.1 five times, and making the Top 10 25 times. He charted a further four singles fronting Tin Machine, though none of these made the Top 10. He adds a further three hits this week, with Lazarus (No.45, 12,579 sales) and the title track from Blackstar (No.61, 9,830 sales) plus the 1972 flop Changes which, despite failing to chart on release, is his seventh biggest seller digitally and now enters the chart for the first time at No.49 (11,484 sales). The following Bowie songs also return to the Top 75: Life On Mars (No.16, 22,092 sales), Starman (No.18, 21,046 sales), Let’s Dance (No.23, 19,251 sales), Space Oddity (No.24, 17,940 sales), Under Pressure (with Queen, No.43, 12,685 sales),
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Ashes To Ashes (No.62, 9,788 sales) and Rebel Rebel (No.65, 9,414 sales).
As for songs not by David Bowie, you will also find new entries to the Top 75 this week for Ellie Goulding’s Army (87-55, 10,691 sales), Dawin’s Dessert (93-64, 9,486 sales), Alessia Cara’s Here (89-69, 9,295 sales) and Zara Larsson’s Lush Life (88-72, 8,595 sales).
And, despite the huge influx of Bowie tracks, there are new peaks for All My Friends (27-11, 26,272 sales) by Snakehips feat. Tinashe & Chance, Light It Up (21-13, 23,908 sales) by Major Lazer feat. Nyla, When The Bassline Drops (36-15, 22,495 sales) by Craig David feat. Big Narstie, Bang My Head (30-21, 20,358 sales) by David Guetta feat. Sia, Sugar (33-27, 17,536 sales, previous peak: 28) by Robin Schulz feat. Yates, Secret Love Song (66-34, 14,964 sales) by Little Mix feat. Jason Derulo, Stay (50-40, 12,915 sales) by Kygo feat. Maty Noyes and In The Night (52-48, 12,039 sales) by The Weeknd,
Overall singles sales are up 8.35%
week-on-week at 8,601,129. Streams accounted for 6,433,946 sales - 74.80% of the total. Paid-for sales are up 2.67% week-on-week at 2,167,183 - 18.68% below same week 2015 sales of 2,664,909, and the 127th week in a row that they have fallen versus a year earlier.
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