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Chart Listings: UK: Gaga #3 with 26.7k, Elvis #1 with 63.5k
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UK: Gaga #3 with 26.7k, Elvis #1 with 63.5k
Little Mix's fourth No.1, Shout Out To My Ex, moves further ahead at the top of the singles chart, with sales of 111,816 (including 50,357 from streams) - the highest for any track since Drake's One Dance sold 123,519 copies 24 weeks ago on its fifth week at No.1 - giving it a significant 49.20% lead over James Arthur's Say You Won't Let Go (2-2, 74,945 sales).
It is, of course, the first full week of sales for Shout Out To My Ex which topped the chart last week less than five days after release. It is the seventh single in a row to spend more than one week at No.1 - a run that extends back to February. It is the longest sequence of No.1 hits to spend more than a week at No.1 since 1994/95 when eight straight No.1 hits turned the trick, starting with Manchester United FC's Come On You Reds in May 1994 and ending with Celine Dion's Think Twice in March 1995.
Completing a static Top 5 are Closer (3-3, 53,562 sales) by The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey, Starboy (4-4, 51,339 sales) by The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk and Starving (5-5, 38,710 sales) by Hailee Steinfeld & Grey feat. Zedd.
Six weeks after debuting quietly at No.71, Swedish producer's Neiked's debut hit Sexual (feat. Dyo) makes the Top 10, jumping 12-6 (38,710 sales).
Meanwhile, Clean Bandit score their sixth Top 10 single, with Rockabye debuting at No.7 (37,948 sales). The track also features Sean Paul and Anne-Marie, although they have no credit on the OCC listing. Anne-Marie's first solo hit, Alarm, peaked eight weeks ago at No.16, and now holds at No.24 (19,549 sales).
Also in the Top 10: The Greatest (6-8, 36,669 sales) by Sia feat. Kendrick Lamar, Side To Side (7-9, 35,962 sales) by Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj and My Way (8-10, 35,101 sales) by Calvin Harris.
Bruno Mars' 24K Magic (10-11, 34,263 sales) and DJ Snake's Let Me Love You (feat. Justin Bieber, 9-12, 34,239 sales) exit the Top 10.
Canadian rapper Drake lands his 38th Top 75 hit in total and his 14th of the year as Fake Love - from his new playlist, More Life - debuts at No.37 (14,927 sales) less than four days after release. The simultaneously released Sneakin' (feat 21 Savage) just misses the Top 75, opening at No.77 (7,339 sales).
A-Yo (No.66, 8,332 sales) is the third track from Lady Gaga's new album Joanne, to make the Top 75. Seven other songs from the album are in the Top 200, including Million Reasons, which peaked at No.48 as an instant grat. track, and now rallies 102-85 (6,565 sales) and first single Perfect Illusion, a No.12 hit in September, that now climbs 106-95 (6,087 sales). The rest: Angel Down (No.152, 3,838 sales), Joanne (No.154, 3,789 sales), Diamond Heart (No.155, 3,753 sales), John Wayne (No.180, 3,481 sales) and Dancin' In Circles (No.186, 3,382 sales). They bring the number of Gaga entries to the Top 200 to 43 in a career that stretches back to 2009.
No.11 in the USA, Juju On That Beat (TZ Anthem) is the debut hit from Detroit rappers Zay Hilfigerrr and Zayion McCall, which jumps 97-68 (8,070 sales).
Also new to the chart: Say It (No.69, 8,056 sales), a recent No.5 hit down under for Australian DJ/producer Flume and Swedish singer Tove Lo. It is Flume's first UK hit, and Tove Lo's fifth.
An appearance on The X Factor results show had a galvanising effect of Shawn Mendes' Mercy, which rockets 40-15 (26,414 sales) to become his fourth Top 20 entry. The second hit from his second album, Illuminate, it helps the album to rally 29-15 (5,129 sales). Fellow guest John Legend performed his new single Love Me Now on the show too, and said track - which previously peaked at No.75 a fortnight ago, re-enters the Top 75, moving 80-49 (11,314 sales).
Also climbing to new peaks are: Love On Me (37-27, 18,599 sales) by Galantis & Hook N Sling, Crank It (50-42, 12,820 sales) by Kideko & George Kwali feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie, Fresh Eyes (69-52, 10,490 sales) by Andy Grammer and Would I Lie To You (59-58, 9,418 sales) by John Gibbons
The death of charismatic Dead Or Alive singer Pete Burns at the age of 57 was big news this week but had surprisingly little effect on their flagship hit You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record), which saw a 149.70% jump in sales to 1,790 - nowhere near this week's Top 200 tidemark of 3,183.
Overall singles sales are down 3.63% week-on-week at 9,918,515. Streams accounted for 8,355,698 sales, 84.24% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 1.25% week-on-week at 1,562,817 20.31% below same week 2015 sales of 1,961,090 and below same-week, previous-year sales for the 168th week in a row.
1 Little Mix 111,816 (61,459 sales, 50,357 streams)
2 James Arthur 74,945
3 The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey 53,562
4 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk 51,339
5 Hailee Steinfeld & Grey feat. Zedd 38,710 ??
6 NEIKED feat. Dyo 38,710 ??
7 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne Marie 37,948
8 Sia feat. Kendrick Lamar 36,669
9 Ariana Grande feat. Nicki Minaj 35,962
10 Calvin Harris 35,101
11 Bruno Mars 34,263
12 DJ Snake feat. Justin Bieber 34,239
14 Zara Larsson
15 Shawn Mendez [Mercy]
24 Anne-Marie 19,549
27 Galantis feat. Hook N Sling
31 Dua Lipa
37 Drake [Fake Love] 14,927
42 Kideko & George Kwali feat. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie
49 John Legend
52 Andy Grammer
53 Olly Murs
58 John Gibbons
66 Lady Gaga [A-YO] 8,332
68 Zay Hilfiger & Zayion McCall
69 Flume feat. Tove Lo
77 Drake feat 21 Savage 7,339
95 Lady Gaga [Perfect Illusion] 6,087
152 Lady Gaga [Angel Down] 3,838
154 Lady Gaga [Joanne] 3,789
155 Lady Gaga [Diamond Heart] 3,753
180 Lady Gaga [John Wayne] 3,481
186 Lady Gaga [dancin' In Circles] 3,382
Albums:
With 18 prior No.1 albums between them, there was little doubt that Elvis Presley, Michael Buble and Lady Gaga's new releases would make up the top three this week, and most likely in that order... and so it proved to be, with Presley securing his 13th No.1 with The Wonder Of You racking up first week sales of 63,505 (including 351 from streams), the highest since Drake's Views opened atop the chart 25 weeks ago on sales of 78,397.
Following the template of his 2015 chart-topper If I Can Dream, the latest Presley offering comprises newly constructed recordings blending archive Presley vocals with the orchestral stylings of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. It extends The King's span of No.1 albums to almost exactly 60 years - the longest of any artist - and put him definitively at the top of the list of solo artists with most No.1's ahead of Madonna who has 12 (including the slightly contentious Evita, which isn't strictly a Madonna album), and Robbie Williams, who has 11. The Beatles are the overall champs, with 15 No.1s.
Presley first topped the chart with the UK's seventh No.1 album, Rock 'n' Roll, in November 1956, and last topped the chart with the aforementioned If I Can Dream, which debuted in pole position 49 weeks ago on sales of 79,053, spent 12 weeks in the Top 10 and has thus far sold 1,062,457 copies, including 1,910 in the latest frame, which see it jump 66-48. His 2002 No.1 album, Elv1s: 30 Number 1 Hits has also rallied in the last couple of weeks, and now moves 62-53 (1,725 sales), raising its career sales to 1,861,800.
Containing lush new versions of old favourites like Suspicious Minds, I Just Can't Help Believin' and the title track, The Wonder Of You is Presley's fifth posthumous number one and his 52nd Top 10 album - both records for any artist. Said tally includes two albums that made the Top 10 in original release and as reissues (Elvis' Christmas Album and Rock 'n' Roll No.2) so some purists may credit him with 'only' 50 Top 10 albums. As he died more than 39 years ago, he is also the most posthumous artist to have a number one album. Were he still alive, he would be 82 in January.
On any other week in 2016, the 55,087 sales that earn Michael Buble's Nobody But Me a No.2 debut would have sufficed for a No.1 - but the 41 year old Canadian whose last three albums all reached No.1 is denied pole position for the moment at least. Housing his versions of standards like My Baby Just Cares For Me and The Very Thought Of You, and Someday - a new Meghan Trainor/Harry Styles composition on which Trainor gets joint artist billing - Nobody But Me is Buble's first album since To Be Loved dropped in April 2013, and debuted atop the chart on sales of 121,415 copies. To Be Loved has sold 784,420 copies to date, making it his sixth biggest seller. His biggest seller, 2009 release Crazy Love, returns to the Top 200 this week at No.91 (1,244 sales), and has sold 3,095,145 copies to date. His 2011 seasonal set Christmas - currently available for £5 at Amazon and for £3 from Sainsbury's if purchased with another CD - re-enters at No.16 (5,108 sales), making the Top 20 for the sixth year in a row, while raising its to-date sales to 2,367,308.
Destined to become her fourth No.1 in America when their next chart shows up on Tuesday, Lady Gaga's latest, Joanne, makes a more conservative No.3 debut here on sales of 26,694 copies. Arriving in the wake of the brief chart career of first single Perfect Illusion, which debuted and peaked at No.12 but dipped out of the Top 40 the following week, Joanne easily surpasses the 2014 No.10 debut and peak on sales of 10,469 copies that Cheek To Cheek - her collaboration with octogenarian crooner Tony Bennett - achieved.. Her first album The Fame sold 25,228 copies when debuting at No.3 in 2009 - it reached number one 11 weeks later - but follow-up Born This Way sold 215,639 copies when reaching No.1 on its debut in 2011, and her most recent solo album, Artpop, debuted at number one on sales of 65,608 copies in 2013. If Joanne has debuted at No.1, Gaga would have become the first female solo artist to top the chart with her first four studio albums. Instead, her run is likely to end at three, alongside Avril Lavigne, Susan Boyle and Adele, who could, of course, still move ahead of the rest as and when she next releases an album.
Already the oldest soloist to have a Top 10 album, Canadian singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen was 82 last month, and his much-acclaimed 14th studio album returns him to the top tier, debuting at No.4 (20,330 sales). It is the fifth Top 10 album of famously depressive Cohen's career - second album Songs From A Room got to No.2 in 1969; third album Songs Of Love And Hate reached No.4 in 1971; 12th album Old Ideas, debuted and peaked at No.2 in 2012; and 13th album Popular Problems debuted and peaked at No.5 on sales of 21,978 copies a little over two years ago.
Status Quo secure their 40th Top 40 album and their 24th Top 10 album with Aquostic II: That's A Fact! debuting at No.7 (10,279 sales). As its title suggests, it is the follow-up toAquostic: Stripped Bare, which debuted and peaked at No.5 (23,688 sales) two years ago this week. Both albums comprise stripped-down and acoustic versions of familiar Quo fare, with some tracks further sweetened by the use of an orchestra.
The Serenity Of Suffering (No.9, 7,555 sales), the 12th album by hard rock band Korn. The follow-up to The Paradigm Shift, which debuted and peaked at No.16 in 2013, The Serenity Of Suffering is only the band's third Top 10 entry, and their first since 2002, when their fifth album, Untouchables, gave them their top placing of their career, No.4.
One of the last things that David Bowie was working on before his death in January was his stage musical Lazarus, from which the original cast album now makes its introductory chart appearance at No.10 (7,525 sales). Apart from cast performances of Bowie standards like Changes, Heroes and Life On Mars, its USP is the inclusion of a trio of new Bowie recordings - No Plan, Killing A Little Time and When I Met You.
Surging 43-8 (8,476 sales) to resume its Top 10 residency after a gap of 25 weeks, Sia's seventh album This Is Acting owes much of its 323.30% week-on-week growth to the release of a new deluxe edition, which adds seven tracks including current Top 10 single The Greatest (feat. Kendrick Lamar).
With seven debuts and a re-entry in the Top 10, the only albums remaining in the top tier from last week are Kings Of Leon's WALLS (1-5, 19,325 sales) and Phil Collins' The Singles (2-6, 17,480 sales). Settling for lower ground are: Purpose (10-12, 5,593 sales) by Justin Bieber, Revolution Radio (6-18, 4,768 sales) by Green Day, In Winter (9-22, 4,165 sales) by Katie Melua, The Wave (3-26, 3,930 sales) by Tom Chaplin, Superwoman (7-36, 2,825 sales) by Rebecca Ferguson, Be Here Now (4-38, 2,672 sales) by Oasis, Gameshow (5-52, 1,733 sales) by Two Door Cinema Club and Like An Arrow (8-103, 1,122 sales) by Blackberry Smoke.
Haçienda Classiçal is the intriguing title of an album put together by Graeme Park and Mike Pickering, both of whom were DJs at the famous Manchester venue, The Haçienda, and now curate a collection of remakes of dance hits that flourished there in new, pseudo-classical versions with former New Order guitarist Peter Hook, Manchester Camerata and various guests, including former Happy Mondays singer Rowetta. The album debuts at No.14 (5,246 sales).
Their ninth album since their eponymous 1994 debut, Arizona rock band Jimmy Eat World's Integrity Blues debuts at No.21 (4,222 sales). It is their highest charting album - none of the band's first three albums charted but the next five all did, with 2004's Futures - their fifth album - providing their previous best chart position of No.22. Their last album, Damage, debuted and peaked at No.38 (4,382 sales) in 2013.
After consecutive Top 10 albums with their 2010 debut Light Me Up and Going To Hell, New York quartet The Pretty Reckless fall well short with third album Who You Selling For? opening at No.23 (4,157 sales).
Easily the most productive of the former Spice Girls, Melanie C's seventh solo album, Version Of Me, does something her last three haven't: make the Top 40. It does so with ease, debuting at No.25 (4,084 sales), marking a significant improvement on her last, the poorly received theatrical covers album Stages, which debuted and peaked at No.50 (2,326 sales) in 2012. Her 1999 debut solo album, Northern Star, has sold 890,150 copies to date - far more than all of her other solo albums together
Also new to the chart are: Citizen Of Glass (No.30, 3,540 sales) the third album but first Top 40 entry for Danish singer/songwriter Agnes Obel; Alone (No.40, 2,546 sales), the 10th studio album for the Pretenders since 1979, and their first since 2008; Lifelines (No.72, 1,499 sales), the first album by US hard rock band I Prevail; and A Pentatonix Christmas (No.73, 1,473 sales), the second chart album for Texan a cappella group Pentatonix.
The Trolls soundtrack debuted at No.57 last week, and now rushes to No.11 (5,828 sales).
Four years to the week since Now That's What I Call Music! 82 was knocked off the top of the compilation chart after a 13 week residency - the best for the series - the same fate befalls Now! 94. It falls victim to a spin-off, Now That's What I Call 20th Century, whichdebuts atop the chart on sales of 12,681 copies, pushing Now! 94 (11,923 sales) down to No.2.
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So this breaks Gaga's #1 albums streak?
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Originally posted by One Nation
So this breaks Gaga's #1 albums streak?
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Since when did you begin caring about #1 albums? Lol the jokes write themselves.
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Not a dead person. Lina Morgana ha revenge.
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Oh wow
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top 3 is great
Jo#1nne keeps winning
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Originally posted by One Nation
So this breaks Gaga's #1 albums streak?
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No, actually. C2C only reached #10.
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Elvis sis. Let new acts be successful
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Next time.
Elvis Leyenda
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Oh wow
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I hope you update the HDD thread today really quick
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How much did Joanne sell?
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Originally posted by Darren-5-08
No, actually. C2C only reached #10.
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That's not a solo studio album.
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I'm sure sales took a hit when she cancelled an entire week of UK promo last minute.
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But Elvis. How did he end up at #1 with no promo?
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Legend
Hope she did close to 30k
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Originally posted by MonsterOfFame
I'm sure sales took a hit when she cancelled an entire week of UK promo last minute.
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Maybe, but she did have the radio interviews at the most listened to station in the UK as well as carpool karaoke with one of the UK's biggest stars.
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Originally posted by One Nation
That's not a solo studio album.
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Where did you say only "solo" albums? It's still one of her studio albums and it peaked at #10, so no this didn't ruin her streak. C2C did.
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Originally posted by One Nation
But Elvis. How did he end up at #1 with no promo?
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Because It's ELVIS. Duh.
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Where did you say only "solo" albums? It's still one of her studio albums and it peaked at #10, so no this didn't ruin her streak. C2C did.
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Billboard considers this her fifth studio album and so do I
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