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Adele out scoring rest of Top 10 combined
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10:44 | Tuesday January 25, 2011
By Paul Williams
Adele’s second studio set has opened up a commanding lead in this week’s UK albums market, outselling the rest of the 10 biggest artist sellers combined.
The XL-issued 21 sold around 69,000 units day one, according to the OCC, three-and-a-half times more than closest rival Doo-Wops & Hooligans by Atlantic’s Bruno Mars who debuted at number one last Sunday. Adele could end up with two albums in the top five this weekend as her first album 19 is currently in fourth place, having been placed eighth in last week’s final chart, while Def Jam/Mercury’s Rihanna and Polydor’s Ellie Goulding complete the new week’s top five sellers.
There is also a chance Adele could have two tracks in the Top 20 of the singles chart for a second successive week as Rolling In The Deep, which entered last Sunday’s countdown at two, is placed third and her first album’s cut Make You Feel My Love is the 19th top seller at this point in the week.
Ahead of Rolling In The Deep, Atlantic’s Bruno Mars is likely to lose his singles crown with Grenade after a fortnight as RCA’s Ke$ha is eyeing her first UK chart-topper. Having already been a US number one last November, We R Who We R has opened its UK account with 37,738 sales, more than 7,000 more than Grenade.
Mercury’s Chase & Status are also likely to debut in the top five with Blind Faith featuring Liam Bailey presently the week’s fourth top seller, while Polydor’s Diddy Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey’s Coming Home rounds off the top five in fifth position with a 62.7% week-on-week increase in sales.
BBC Sound Of 2011shortlisted The Vaccines will open their Top 40 account with their Columbia-issued Post Break-Up Sex currently 17th for the week, while 14th Floor/Warner Bros’s The Wombats will claim their sixth Top 40 hit with Jump Into The Fog. Meanwhile, two Fourth & Broadway releases – Let It Rain by Tinchy Stryder and Melanie Fiona and Higher by Taio Cruz, Travie McCoy and Kylie Minogue – are among the market’s biggest sales gainers.
Back on albums and a crop of new entries to the chart will include new sets from Interscope/Polydor’s Diddy Dirty Money, Atlantic’s Joy Formidable and TI, 4AD’s Iron & Wine, Jive/Columbia’s Funeral Party, Century Media’s The Here And Now and PIAS Recordings’ Joan As Police Woman.
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