38MusicWeek 20.07.12
CHARTSANALYSIS WEEK 28 W
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 MISHA B Home Run Relentless ANGEL Wonderful AATW/Island
SINGLES BY ALAN JONES
ith no new releases capable of taking up the challenge, the
battle for singles chart honours this weekend will be between Florence + The Machine’s Spectrum (Say My Name) and Payphone by Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa. Spectrum jumped 104-1 last weekend but has a small midweek deficit to Payphone, which looks likely to rise to the top for the third time since its release last month. Spectrum topped the chart
KYLIE MINOGUE Timebomb Parlophone DELILAH Inside My Love Atlantic ADELE Someone Like You XL ELTON JOHN VS PNAU Sad Mercury SINEAD O’CONNOR Nothing Compares 2 U Chrysalis
GYM CLASS HEROES/RYAN TEDDER The Fighter Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen
MAVERICK SABRE I Need Mercury HOUSE OF PAIN Jump Around Tommy Boy TRAIN 50 Ways To Say Goodbye Columbia
UK ALBUMS CHART ELTON JOHN VS PNAU Good Morning To The Night Mercury
NAS Life Is Good Def Jam ORIGINAL STUDIO CAST Jesus Christ Superstar Decca Broadway
HANS ZIMMER The Dark Knight Rises Sony Classical
MARK TREMONTI All I Was Fret12 BURY TOMORROW The Union Of Crowns Nuclear Blast
BARONESS Yellow & Green Relapse LADY ANTBELLUM Own The Night Parlophone JIMMY CLIFF Rebirth Trojan PERIPHERY Periphery 2 Century Media
last week on sales of 64,816 copies – 1,467 more than Payphone sold as it drifted 1-2 – and is the fifth single from Florence + The Machine’s second album Ceremonials, far outperforming its predecessors. They all had very similar radio exposure, aside from introductory release, What The Water Gave
ALBUMS BY ALAN JONES
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ore than 21 years after his sixth No.1 album, Elton John is in line to
register his seventh this weekend with Good Morning To The Night – a collection of vintage samples of some of his lesser known tunes tweaked by Australian dance duo Pnau – taking a commanding lead on Tuesday’s midweek sales flashes, shifting more than twice as many copies as anything else in a subdued summer sales climate. Taking full advantage of the
soft market last weekend, singer/songwriter Newton Faulkner landed his second No.1 with third album Write It On Your Skin. Preceded by two modestly performing singles - the title track got to 54 and Clouds to 68 - it was his first album to enter at No.1, although it returned his weakest first-week tally yet, selling 16,647 copies. Fauklner’s 2007 debut Hand
DANIEL POWTER Turn On The Lights UEG MUMFORD & SONS Sigh No More Gentlemen Of The Road/Island
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Built By Robots opened at No.3 on sales of 24,740 copies, and 2009 follow-up Rebuilt By Humans also made its chart initial foray at No.3 on sales of 30,343 copies. Rebuilt By Humans never matched those sales or that position again, and spent only six weeks on the Top 75. Helped by the success of Faulkner’s debut hit Dream
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Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa: Payphone MIDWEEK NO.1
and are instead playing Breaking Down from the album. They aired that track 11 times last week, a total surpassed by only nine songs. Spectrum’s heavy dependency on its Calvin Harris mix for sales is also apparent from the fact that Ceremonials (on which it doesn’t appear) isn’t picking up greatly – it improved only 38-37, with sales up 5.20% at 3,809 last week. Nicki Minaj scored her sixth
Me, which was actually more of an album taster than a bona fide single, and peaked at No.71 on airplay, way below its No.24 sales peak. Since then, What The Water Gave Me, Shake It Out, No Light No Light and
Spectrum have had sales peaks of 12, 50, 84 and one, with airplay peaks of 36, 29,35 and (so far) 25. Spectrum topped Radio 1’s most- played list last week, with 24 spins but it isn’t to Radio 2’s tastes at all - they are ignoring it
Top 10 hit, as Pound The Alarm jumped 16-10 (31,611 sales). David Guetta, with whom she scored two of those hits, closed in on the Top 20 with his new hit, I Can Only Imagine. Also featuring Chris Brown and LilWayne, it climbed 43-21 (13,565 sales), and is on the verge of becoming his 18th Top 20 entry. Overall singles sales were
down 0.25% week-on-week at 3,420,657 - 10.88% above same- week 2011 sales of 3,084,956.
Elton John vs Pnau: Good Morning To The Night MIDWEEK NO.1
Catch Me – which reached seven and remains his only Top 50 single –Hand Built By Robots spent three weeks at No.3 before jumping to one on sales of 29,451 and enjoyed a peak week sale of 44,755 that Christmas, despite ranking only No.31 as it did so. The only album to hold down
the No.1 position on the artist album chart in the 21st century with fewer sales that Write It On Your Skin recorded last week, was Emeli Sandé’s Our Version Of Events, which bounced 3-1 on sales of just 13,430 copies seven weeks ago. Lianne La Havas’
introductory album Is Your Love Big Enough? has been garnering
rave reviews, and the 22-year-old outpaced many more experienced acts to debut at four (11,706 sales) on Sunday. Strangely, the 2m 55s radio edit of the title track is still free on iTunes at the time of writing though the 3m 21s album version is selling enough copies for it to debut at 103 (2,648 sales) on the singles chart. Some 27 years after it was
founded, Cooking Vinyl is becoming something of a refuge for acts ‘let go’ by major labels. Already this year it has provided a new home for and had chart albums with The Cranberries, Counting Crows, Marilyn Manson, The Proclaimers, The
Enemy, The Cult and Reverend & The Makers. Its latest recruits are Dundee band The View, whose Cheeky For A Reason, debuts at nine (9,161 sales). The View’s debut album, Hats Off To The Buskers, reached No.1, with first-week sales of 103,157 in 2007. Cheeky For A Reason is The View’s third No.1 album in its native Scotland, where it is runaway chart champ this week, with sales of 5,009 - 54.68% of its entire UK total - giving it a huge 249.55% lead over nearest challenger and fellow Scot Amy Macdonald’s Life In A Beautiful Light, which rises 3-2 north of the border even as it trips 15-27 (5,534 sales) in the UK. Impressing many with his
vocals on the current Jay-Z and Kanye West hit No Church In The Wild, R&B singer and rapper Frank Ocean is a member of hip-hop group Odd Future, and released his debut solo album Channel Orange last week. The album subsequently
debuted at two (13,173 sales) despite the fact it is currently available only as a download, with physical release set for next Monday (23rd). It is the first album ever to make the Top 20 without any physical sales. Overall album sales were
down 0.13% week-on-week at 1,534,933 - 0.03% above same- week 2011 sales of 1,534,428.
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