ANALYSIS The Official UK Singles & Albums Charts are compiled by the Official Charts Company, based on a sample of more than 15,000 physical and digital outlets. They count actual sales and audio streams from last Friday to Thursday, based on sales of downloads, CDs, vinyl and other physical formats and audio streams weighted using SEA2 methodology.
Westworld: Westlife’s first album in nine years hits the top spot
BY ALAN JONES
estlife’s first studio album for nine years, and their 11th in all, Spectrum races to a No.1 debut, opening atop the chart on consumption of 62,621 copies, including 1,867 from sales-equivalent streams. That’s the highest sale achieved by a No.1 for eight weeks and the fifth highest by a No.1 album thus far in 2019. Their eighth No.1 and eleventh Top 10 entry, it arrives at the summit 20 years after their eponymous first album debuted and peaked at No.2 on pure sales of 83,032. Their last studio album, Gravity, sold 94,894 copies to debut and peak at No.3 this week in 2010. Westlife’s best first week came in 2000 when second album, Coast To Coast, sold 234,767 to become their first No.1. It is their biggest-selling studio set, with a to-date tally of 1,725,393 sales, although it trails their chart-topping 2002 compilation Unbreakable: The Greatest Hits Volume 1, which has sold 1,896,765 copies. Spectrum replaces The Script’s Sunset & Full Moons (1-14, 5,504 sales), and provides the third instance of an album by one Irish act toppling another in the 21st century, the others both involving Westlife’s former co-manager Ronan Keating, whose Songs For My Mother usurped U2’s No Line On The Horizon in 2009, and whose debut solo set Ronan toppled The Corrs’ In Blue in 2000. Celine Dion opens at No.2 with Courage (18,946 sales), her 12th Top 10 album and 21st Top 75 entry. Courage is Dion’s highest-charting album since A New Day Has Come became her fifth and last No.1 in 2002.
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Westlife – Spectrum This week’s sales: 62,621 | Physical: 56,694 | Downloads: 4,060| Streams: 1,867 |Total sales to date: 62,621 |
seller (496,815), and Sheeran’s album moves up to No.2 (491,323), with both finally eclipsing The Greatest Showman soundtrack (490,607).
A year to the week after being released on vinyl, The Police’s career anthology Every Move You Make: The Studio Recordings has been released as a 6 CD set, and duly debuts at No.17 (5,174 sales) to become their 11th chart entry.
Odyssey: Greatest Hits Live (No.5, 12,929 sales) is Take
That’s 13th Top 10 album, and 15th Top 75 entry. It is also their third charted live set in a decade, following The Greatest Day: The Circus Live (No.3, 2009) and Progress Live (No.12, 2011). Kidz Bop 2020 (No.7, 7,859 sales) is the fifth chart entry and third Top 10 album by the ever-changing and always anonymous Kidz Bop Kids. Michael Bublé’s Christmas climbs 28-18 (5,165 sales) in its quest to make the Top 10 for the eighth time in nine years but pundit and former footballer Chris Kamara, 61, has the advent advantage with his first album, Here’s To Christmas, debuting at No.8 (7,308 sales). Canadian rapper Tory Lanez has his fourth Top 20 album and second Top 10 entry with Chixtape 5 (No.10, 6,907 sales). Last Christmas debuted atop the UK box office chart, helping the George Michael/Wham! soundtrack set to edge 11-9 (7,075 sales) to posthumously become Michael’s 13th Top 10 album. The rest of the Top 10: Back Together (2-3, 17,758 sales)
by Michael Ball & Alfie Boe, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (8-4, 13,732 sales) by Lewis Capaldi and No.6 Collaborations Project (5-6, 11,361 sales) by Ed Sheeran. In a close three-way fight, Capaldi’s album is now 2019’s biggest
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Westlife’s Spectrum has achieved the high- est sales by a No. 1 for eight weeks
Demon Music’s Crimson label secures its 12th and 13th 2019 chart albums entitled Gold, with the latest of its 3 CD compilations being by Boney M (No.41, 2,954 sales) and Village People (No.66, 2,102 sales). Also new to the chart: Love Like This (No.22, 4,386 sales), the fourth studio album by classical crossover act Collabro, and the first to miss the Top 10; Ocean (No.29, 3,664 sales), the seventh chart album for country trio Lady Antebellum; Mad Lad: A Live Tribute To Chuck Berry (No.44, 2,880 sales), by erstwhile Faces and current Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood & His Wild Five; Our Pathetic Age (No.53, 2,410 sales), the sixth chart album by DJ Shadow; and Everybody’s Everything (No.63, 2,150 sales), the third chart album by late rapper Lil Peep.
Now That’s What I Call Music! 104 is No.1 compilation for the second straight week on sales of 27,696 copies. Overall album sales are up 7.15% week-on-week at 2,078,055, 6.60% below same week 2018 sales of 2,224,869, and their highest level for 46 weeks. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for a record 1,255,029 sales, 60.39% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are up 9.64% week-on-week at 823,026, 30.11% below same week 2018 sales of 1,177,673.
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