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Chart News: PRISM #1 in UK with 53.8k; Royals #1 with 82.6k
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PRISM #1 in UK with 53.8k; Royals #1 with 82.6k
Katy Perry scores second Number 1 album with Prism
The California superstar’s third album surged ahead of James Blunt’s Moon Landing to give Katy Perry her second chart-topper, while Andrea Begley gets highest ever chart placing by a Voice UK contestant.
29 last Friday (25th), Katy Perry gets a belated birthday present in the form of her second consecutive number one album, with Prism - her third album - debuting in pole position on sales of 53,827 copies. It arrives a little over three years after her second album, Teenage Dream, also opened at number one on slightly higher sales of 54,176 copies, and five years after debut album One Of The Boys opened and peaked at number 11 on sales of 18,796.
With the regular and Complete Confection versions of Teenage Dream spinning-off eight hits - seven of them Top 10 - that album has sold 1,171,340 copies to date, while One Of The Boys has sold 674,588 copies. Teenage Dreams bolts 125-36 (2,836 sales) this week.
Roar - the only single yet lifted from Prism - became Perry's fourth UK number one single seven weeks ago, and has since become her eighth single to sell upwards of 500,000 copies in the UK (seven as a primary artist, plus 3OH!3 collab. Starstrukk). Rallying 6-4 this week, Roar sold a further 50,464 copies to raise its career tally to 595,941. Ahead of it in Perry's personal best-sellers list are only Firework (966,956 sales), California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg, 780,787 sales), Hot N Cold (680,494 sales) and I Kissed A Girl (678,933 sales). Five other songs from Prism are in the Top 200 - Unconditionally (number 60, 3,764 sales), Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J, 100-68, 3,256 sales), Walking On Air (number 80, 2,681 sales), By The Grace Of God (number 179, 1,165 sales) and It Takes Two (number 180, 1,159 sales).
Perry's album wasn't quite the runaway chart champ it might have seemed like being a few weeks ago, and that's primarily because Bonfire Heart - the first single from James Blunt's fourth album, Moon Landing - has turned out to be his highest charting single for more than six years (reaching number four last week but now slipping to number seven with 34,266 sales) and has generated interest in the album itself, which responds by debuting at number two (41,843 sales).
Lorde pips James Arthur to Official Singles Chart throne with Royals
16-year-old Lorde from New Zealand held off competition from X Factor star James Arthur to claim first chart-topper with debut single Royals.
The waiting is over. After its grand tour of the world's charts - which included reaching number one in New Zealand, The USA, Canada and Ireland - Lorde's debut single Royals was finally released in the UK last week, and duly debuts at number one on sales of 82,551 copies.
It does so just in time for Lorde's 17th birthday, which occurs next Thursday (7 November). She thus becomes the fourth youngest female solo artist ever to have a UK number one. The new chart is dated 2 November 2013 for outdated historic reasons - at which date she will be 16 years 11 months and 25 days old. Using the same slightly faulty calculations, the youngest female solo artist to have a number one is Helen Shapiro (14y 10m 15d, at her 12 August 1961 coronation), followed by Billie (15y 9m 19d, 11 July 1998) and Tiffany (16y 3m 28d, 30 January 1988). Three other female solo artists were under 18 at the time of their first number ones: Britney Spears (17y 5m 25d, 27 February 1999), Nicole (17y 6m 20d, 15 May 1982) and Sandie Shaw (17y 7m 27d, 24 October 1964). None of the others played any part in the writing of the number one hit in question - but Lorde did, co-authoring Royals with producer Joel Little under her real name of Ella Yelich O'Connor. The pair also collaborated on every song on Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine, which is released today (28 October).
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Congrats Queen!
The gap with #2 increased too!
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Slay Katy! I wanna see the numbers, too.
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Beautiful Masterpiece pop album
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Second #1 debut, when will others have a #1 album in the UK?
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Yes.
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Katy Perry’s previous album Teenage Dream enjoys a new lease of life, soaring 91 places to Number 36.
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How much did it sell?
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Quote:
Originally posted by LanaDReyOnline
Katy Perry’s previous album Teenage Dream enjoys a new lease of life, soaring 91 places to Number 36.
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Originally posted by Я×R
Second #1 debut, when will others have a #1 album in the UK?
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Plenty of others have had a #1 debut in the UK.
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Let the collecting of #1s begin
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Slay a biT Katheryn
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Originally posted by Ady.
Numbers?
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Tomorrow morning.
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Originally posted by LanaDReyOnline
Katy Perry’s previous album Teenage Dream enjoys a new lease of life, soaring 91 places to Number 36.
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Queen of longevity
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Increased the gap between #2
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