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Bangerz sells 31k in UK; Wrecking Ball 107k; both #1
Miley Cyrus scores Official Charts Number 1 double!
Miley Cyrus becomes the first artist in 2013 to simultaneously top the two main charts, with Wrecking Ball debuting at number one on the singles chart, while parent Bangerz opens atop the album chart.
Cyrus' third straight full length Top 10 album since ditching her Hannah Montana personna, Bangerz is her first number one, and sold 30,759 copies last week. It also contains We Can't Stop, which topped the chart in August, and collaborations with Nelly, Big Sean, Future, Britney Spears and French Montana who, despite sharing his surname with Cyrus' former identity, is not related.
Cyrus' previous Top 10 albums Breakout (2008) and Can't Be Tamed (2010) opened and peaked at 10 and eight respectively, on first week sales of 13,552 and 17,954. Her 2009 album (a mini album containing seven tracks and only 26 minutes of music), The Time Of Our Life opened and peaked at number 17 but turned in her best first week sale hitherto - 20,674. Although Can't Be Tamed peaked higher, it has sold only 65,546 copies so far, compared to The Time Of Our Lives' 141,774 and Breakout's 313,690.
20 year old Cyrus is the first act to top the singles and albums chart at the same time since Olly Murs last December, the first female solo artist to do it since Rihanna in November 2011.
After landing her first number one with We Can't Stop in August, Miley Cyrus returns to pole position with follow-up, Wrecking Ball. The 20 year old, who racked up eight previous Top 40 hits without even reaching the Top 10, sold 107,362 copies of Wrecking Ball last week, 16.23% fewer than the 128,159 copies that We Can't Stop sold on its debut. It is an understandable decline as We Can't Stop had the field to itself, whereas Wrecking Ball was in competition with Cyrus' new album Bangerz, which contains both tracks and debuts atop the album chart this week.
Just nine weeks elapsed between the coronations of We Can't Stop and Wrecking Ball - the shortest for regular releases by the same artist since 1999, when Westlife's fourth number one I Have A Dream/Seasons In The Sun topped the list just eight weeks after their third number one, Flying Without Wings. We Can't Stop holds at number 20 this week, selling a further 14,270 copies, to increase its overall tally to 389,378. That furthers its lead as Cyrus' biggest selling single. The Climb is second, with 319,690 sales to date. The Climb actually re-enters the Top 75 at number 74 (2,715 sales), while Adore You, a third track from Bangerz, debuts at number 61 (3,579 sales).
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