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CHARTS ANALYSIS WEEK 46 I


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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 l BAND AID 30 Do They Know It’s Christmas EMI l CLEAN BANDIT FT JESS GLYNNE Real Love Atlantic l OLLY MURS FT TRAVIE MCCOY Wrapped Up Epic l DAVID GUETTA FT SAM MARTIN Dangerous Parlophone l WRETCH 32 6 Words Ministry Of Sound l RIXTON Wait On Me Interscope l NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS In The Heat Of The Moment Sour Mash l NICOLE SCHERZINGER Run RCA l PITBULL FT JOHN RYAN Fireball J/MR 305/Polo Grounds l ANDY C & FIORA Heartbeat Loud Atlantic l DAVID BOWIE Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) Rhino l BAND AID Do They Know It’s Christmas Mercury l BAND AID 20 Do They Know It’s Christmas Mercury l STEVE AOKI/CHRIS LAKE/TUJAMO Delirious (Boneless) Ultra Records l 5 Seconds Of Summer Just Saying Capitol


UK ARTIST ALBUMS CHART


l ONE DIRECTION Four Syco Music l NICKELBACK No Fixed Address Republic Records l DAVID BOWIE Nothing Has Changed - The Very Best Of RCA/Rhino l ALFIE BOE Serenata Decca l BRYAN FERRY Avonmore BMG Rights l KATHERINE JENKINS Home Sweet Home Decca l BETTE MIDLER It’s The Girls East West l MICHAEL BALL If Everyone Was Listening Union Square Music l SHIRLEY BASSEY Hello Like Before RCA Victor l DANIEL O’DONNELL Stand Beside Me DMG TV l LUTHER VANDROSS The Greatest Hits RCA l AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black Island l DEPECHE MODE Live In Berlin - Box Set Columbia l NEW BASEMENT TAPES Lost On The River Capitol/Island l IN THIS MOMENT Black Widow Atlantic l TV ON THE RADIO Seeds EMI l PENTATONIX That’s Christmas To Me RCA l THOMPSON Family Concord l JAM Setting Sons Polydor/UMC l CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Sun Zoom Spark - 1970 - 1972 Rhino l TONY WRIGHT Thoughts N All Woodcut l NICOLE SCHERZINGER Big Fat Lie RCA l BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The Collection Sony Music CG


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


Source: Official Charts Company © Official Charts Company 2014


ALBUMS n BY ALAN JONES


I


t is not a question of if One Direction and Band Aid 30 will top the chart this week...it’s


just a question of by how much. In the first of the week’s sales


flashes on Tuesday, Band Aid 30’s Do They Know It’s Christmas had already romped to a bigger sale - 205,580 - than any single in any week thus far in 2014, and One Direction’s Four had sold 75,281 copies, nearly six times as many as any other album. Last weekend, it was very


much a case of the long and the short of it at the top of the charts, with Pink Floyd registering the longest span of No.1 albums by a group, while Wake Me Up staged one of the fastest ever returns to the top of the singles chart for a song, with the new version by Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir debuting in pole position less than a year and a half after Avicii’s original. Pink Floyd’s 15th - and


apparently last - studio album, The Endless River made an impressive debut at No.1 on sales of 139,351 copies, the third highest of the year, trailing only the 182,427 that Ed Sheeran’s X sold on debut 20 weeks ago,


of the biggest selling albums of all-time in the UK, with a to-date tally of 4,240,620 sales. It jumps 98-61 (2,071 sales) this week. Floyd’s fast start denied Foo


One Direction: Four MIDWEEK NO.1


and the 168,048 copies than Coldplay’s Ghost Stories sold on debut 25 weeks ago. The veteran prog rock band’s sixth No.1 - following Atom Heart Mother (1970), Wish You Were Here (1975), The Final Cut (1983), The Division Bell (1994) and Pulse (1995) - The Endless River is Pink Floyd’s first album since the 2008 death of keyboards player Richard Wright. However, as it was assembled


and built upon recordings made during the sessions for their last studio album, The Division Bell, Wright plays a full and vital


part in proceedings, alongside remaining members David Gilmour (guitar) and Nick Mason (drums). It is a little over 44 years since


Atom Heart Mother became Floyd’s first No.1 album, giving them the longest span of new No.1s by any group. Missing from that list of No.1s by the group, incidentally, is their 1973 magnum opus The Dark Side Of The Moon, which peaked at No.2 (behind the K-Tel compilation 20 Flash Back Greats Of The Sixties) and is not just their biggest seller but also one


Fighters their fourth No.1, with their eighth studio album Sonic Highways settling for a No.2 debut, on sales of 88,637 copies - the highest tally for a runner-up this year. Their last album, Wasting Light was the first of seven albums to dethrone Adele’s 21, ending its introductory 11 week reign on sales of 114,557 in 2011. Sonic Highways is Foo Fighters’ ninth Top 10 album, and their 10th chart album in all. Foo Fighters’ Greatest Hits catapults 101-19 (8,710 sales) this week, mostly as a consequence of its digital edition being reduced to 99p at Google Play last week. It is their biggest seller, with to-date sales of 873,890. Their biggest selling regular studio album is 2005 No.2 album In Your Honor (780,896 sales). Overall album sales were


up 26.45% week-on-week at 1,915,832 - their highest level since 2,086,240 albums were sold in the first week of 2014 (45 weeks ago), and 1.54% below same week 2013 sales of 1,945,722.


SINGLES n BY ALAN JONES


n a singles chart that celebrated its 62nd birthday last week, more than 30 songs have topped the chart in versions by two or more different acts, of which the latest is Wake Me Up, which spent three weeks atop the chart for Avicii in July/August 2013, and debuted at No.1 on Sunday in a version credited to Gareth Malone’s All Star Choir, and benefiting the BBC’s Children In Need charity. Although destined to be


replaced atop the list this Sunday by another charity disc - Band Aid 30’s Do They Know It’s Christmas - Wake Me Up is the seventh Children In Need song to reach No.1, the new version sold 120,312 copies last week and features vocal contributions from Mel Giedroyc, Jo Brand, John Craven, Craig Revel Horwood, Linda Robson, various actors, sport personalities and children. Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out


Loud held at No.2 on Sunday, selling a further 66,485 copies. Four weeks after debut,


One Direction’s Steal My Girl rebounded 9-3 (48,833 sales) to


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in 2012 with Frankie Goes To Hollywood cover The Power Of Love. Five other artists have had hits with songs used in John Lewis TV commercials. It’s five years since Australia’s


Band Aid 30: Do They Know It’s Christmas MIDWEEK NO.1


equal its peak. After debuting at No.1 the


previous week, Cheryl’s I Don’t Care dipped to No.4 (47,787 sales). Meghan Trainor’s All About


That Bass was also in the slide, falling 3-5 (42,401 sales) but Outside held steady at No.6 (35,590 sales) for Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding. Tom Odell scored his highest


charting single to date, with his cover of The Beatles’ hit Real Love jumping 21-7 (31,206


sales) on its first full week on sale. It eclipsed his previous highest charting hit, debut chart entry Another Love, which reached No.10 in January 2013. Real Love’s surge comes as John Lewis’ TV advertising campaign - for which it was recorded - moves into top gear. The last two John Lewis


Christmas campaign songs reached No.1 - Lily Allen last year with her cover of Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know, and Gabrielle Aplin


Origliasso twins, Lisa and Jessica - known as The Veronicas - scored back-to-back Top 20 hits with Untouched (No.8) and 4Ever (No.17) from their second album, Hook Me Up. That album was actually released in their homeland in 2007 and, for various reasons, it has taken them until now to come up with their eponymous follow-up which has been tentatively scheduled for February 23, 2015. Ahead of that, dramatic orchestral ballad You Ruin Me debuted at No.8 (26,957 sales) on Sunday. Overall singles sales were up


4.30% week-on-week at 5,776,046. Streaming accounted for 3,220,840 sales last week – 55.76% of the total. Under previously existing criteria where only paid-for purchases were included, overall singles sales were up 4.94% week- on-week at 2,555,206 – 17.66% below same week 2013 sales of 3,103,225 and the 66th consecutive week in which they have declined versus a year ago.


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