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CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 23 G


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  CHERYL Call My Name Polydor  PRECISION TUNES Payphone PT Records  TYLER JAMES Higher Love Island  JUSTIN BIEBER FEAT. BIG SEAN As Long As You Love Me Mercury  LILYGREEN & MAGUIRE Ain’t Love Crazy Warner Music Entertainment


SINGLES  BY ALAN JONES


ary Barlow and The Commonwealth Band had got something to


sing about on Sunday, as their song of that name catapulted to the top of the singles chart, while their identically-titled album remains at No.1. The single increased sales week-on-week by 338.91% to 142,470 – the highest weekly sale for a No.1 for 25 weeks. His 14th No.1 single (he has


had 11 with Take That and two solo) as an artist, Sing is Barlow’s 11th as a writer, and the fourth for the song’s co-author, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Barlow’s concert performance


 TREY SONGZ Heart Attack Atlantic  AMY MACDONALD Slow It Down Vertigo  MAX MILNER Free Fallin’ UMTV  BO BRUCE Running Up That Hill UMTV  BADDIEL/SKINNER/LIGHTNING SEEDS 3 Lions Epic  VINCE KIDD Like A Virgin Island


UK ALBUMS CHART  USHER Looking 4 Myself RCA  AMY MACDONALD Life Is A Beautiful Light Vertigo  MAXIMO PARK The National Health V2


on Need You Now with Cheryl Cole has no recorded equivalent, but it gave a huge boost to Lady Antebellum’s original, which re- enters the chart at 22. Although that’s a notch below its 2010 chart peak, its sales last week (17,603) are by far its highest weekly tally, and lift overall sales of the track to 214,997.


ALBUMS  BY ALAN JONES


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 HOT CHIP In Our Heads Domino  FLEETWOOD MAC 25 Years – The Chain Warner Bros  BOBBY WOMACK The Bravest Man In The Universe XL  RUSH Clockwork Angels Roadrunner  STONE ROSES The Very Best Of Silvertone  NEIL YOUNG Official Release Series Discs 1 Reprise  JOHNNY CASH The Classics Sony Music  JOE WALSH Analog Man Concord  ALAN JACKSON Thirty Miles West Hump Head  TYLER JAMES The Unlikely Lad Island  SAINT ETIENNE Words And Music UMC


The new Official Charts Company UK sales charts and Nielsen airplay charts are available from every Sunday evening at musicweek.com.


Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2012


s memories of the Diamond Jubilee Concert fade, so do sales


of organiser Gary Barlow’s Sing single and album, which were number one last Sunday. Barlow will definitely lose the singles chart leadership to his concert singing partner Cheryl Cole, who will romp to her third solo No.1 with Call My Name – but predicting the outcome of the battle for album chart honours is more difficult. Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes show Usher’s Looking 4 Myself commanding an 8.40% lead over Sing, and a 13.85% lead over Amy Macdonald’s new album, Life In A Beautiful Light. Place your bets... Barlow completed a notable


Diamond Jubilee double last week, with Sing catapulting 11-1 on the singles chart, while the album of the same name remained at No.1, with greatly increased sales. Both discs also credit the Commonweath Band. Numerous other artists who performed at the Diamond Jubilee Concert on The Mall were rewarded with renewed and improved chart activity, although


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(Feat. Dizzee Rascal) debuting at six (48,406 sales). Nelly Furtado’s Big Hoops


(Bigger The Better) debuted at 14 (22,367 sales). It is the first single from her upcoming album, The Spirit Indestructible. Justin Bieber scored his fifth


Gary Barlow & The Commonwealth Band: Sing MIDWEEK NO.1


Flo Rida’s Whistle blew up


big when finally unleashed on Tuesday (5th). It galloped to first-week sales of 78,205, although its late release meant that Can You Blow’s soundalike version prospered early in the week, and eventually sold a further 9,122 copies to climb 55-38. Whistle is Flo Rida’s 17th Top 75 entry and his ninth Top 10 hit.


Scream is Usher’s 23rd Top 75


entry, and his 15th Top 10 hit. Arriving at No.5 on sales of 48,584 copies, it is the second single from Usher’s new album Looking 4 Myself, which also houses recent No.4 hit, Climax. Looking to secure his third


straight No.1 - he topped with Louder last July and Hot Right Now in February - DJ Fresh falls somewhat short, with The Power


Top 40 hit in nine weeks with All Around The World debuting at 30 (11,790 sales). It reunites him with Ludacris, with whom he paired for the 2010 No.3 hit Baby, which remains his biggest seller, with sales to date of 442,432 copies. Coldplay secured their 13th


Top 10 hit, and Rihanna her 22nd, with their collaboration Princess Of China jumping 13-8 (36,392 sales). Rihanna’s latest solo hit, Where Have You Been, eased 6-9 (32,532 sales). Feel The Love (Rudimental


feat. John Newman) dipped 1-4 (51,974 sales). Overall singles sales were up


1.11% week-on-week at 3,590,104 – that’s their highest level for 15 weeks, and 13.35% above same-week 2011 sales of 3,167,407.


With main man Brian


Usher: Looking 4 Myself MIDWEEK NO.1


Wilson (69) on board for the first time since their eponymous 1985 album, The Beach Boys celebrate their 50th anniversary with That’s Why God Made The Radio. Debuting at No.15 (7,926 sales), it also features Mike Love (71), Al Jardine (69), Bruce Johnston (69) and David Marks (63). It is the highest charting album of new material by the band since 1971 when Surf ’s Up also reached No.15. Neil Young racked up his


overall sales are disappointingly flat.


The Sing album increased


sales 88.75% week-on-week to 75,538 - the third highest weekly sale by any artist album this year - as it spent its second week at No.1. Sing had a huge 260.96% lead


over Ed Sheeran’s +, which rallied 13-2 (20,927 sales), helped by his performance of The A Team at the Diamond Jubilee Concert, Small Bump at The Voice UK final and renewed TV advertising. On the singles chart, Small Bump leapt 58-25 (15,033 sales), while The A Team rebounded 118-46 (7,632 sales).


The Diamond Jubilee Concert


attracted huge audiences for BBC One both live on the night and via an edited highlights show the following afternoon. It also helped participants Jessie J’s Who You Are (20-7, 11,284 sales), Kylie Minogue’s new 25th anniversary hits compilation The Best Of (a No.11 debut, 9,703 sales), Alfie Boe’s Bring Him Home (159-26, 5,188 sales) and Alfie (a re-entry at 43, 3,429 sales), The Military Wives’ In My Dreams (90-56, 2,856 sales), and Madness compilations Total Madness (a re-entry at No.72, 2,231 sales) and Complete Madness (122-74, 2,208 sales).


45th chart entry, debuting at No.16 (7,891 sales) with Americana. It is his first album with American trio Crazy Horse since Greendale in 2003. Paul Simon’s 1986


blockbuster Graceland has its silver jubilee marked a little belatedly by a plethora of special editions, and it too returned to chart duty, at 10 (10,168 sales). Remastered and expanded to mark the 40th anniversary of its original release, David Bowie’s classic 1972 album The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars re-entered the chart at 40 (3,643 sales). Overall album sales were up


1.22% week-on-week at 1,563,945 – 16.51% below same- week 2011 sales of 1,873,198.


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