SINGLES
Swedish duo Icona Pop topple Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines from the top of the Official Singles Chart with I Love It. Plus: The Voice winner Andrea Begley makes her Top 40 debut.
Robin Thicke has stood undefeated at Number 1 on the Official Singles Charts for the last four weeks with Blurred Lines FT TI and Pharrell Williams. However, the US R&B star has finally been toppled from his perch by Icona Pop with I Love It FT Charli XCX!
The Swedish duo’s track, which features in the TV advertising campaign for Samsung’s new Galaxy S4 smartphone, has shifted nearly 125,000 copies in the last seven days. This is the 11th week in a row that the UK’s Official Number 1 single has sold in excess of 100,000 copies; the last time the Official Singles Chart saw such a run was from January to April 1998, when the Number 1 single sold 100,000 for 13 successive weeks – spanning Oasis’ All Around The World to Run DMC Vs Jason Nevins’ It’s Like That.
While it may have slipped into second place, Blurred Lines has shifted a further 110,000 copies this week. After just five weeks on sale, its combined tally now stands at 829,000 copies. Blurred Lines is now closing in on Daft Punk’s Get Lucky which last week became the first single to be released in 2013 to break though the million copies sales barrier.
Meanwhile, Will.I.Am rockets 39 places to Number 3 with Bang Bang following his performance at last weekend’s final of The Voice. This week’s Top 5 is completed by The Wanted’s Walks Like Rihanna (new in at Number 4 to give the Anglo Irish boyband their eighth Top 5 hit to date) and Naughty Boy FT Sam Smith’s La La La (down two to Number 5).
New Entries
UK duo Saul Milton and Will Kennard, AKA Chase & Status, score this week’s second highest new entry with Lost & Not Found FT Louis M^tters, while Leeroy Reed, star of MTV’s The Valleys, is new in at Number 37 with Can’t Get Enough FT Nagla.
The Voice winner Andrea Begley makes her Top 40 debut today with her cover of Evanescence’s My Immortal, which climbs 45 places to Number 30. The original version re-enters ten places behind it at Number 40.
ALBUMS
Tom Odell's Long Way Down knocks Kanye West's Yeezus Off Number 1.
Tom Odell has gone straight in at Number 1 on the Official Albums Chart today with his debut full-length, Long Way Down.
The 22-year-old singer / songwriter has knocked Kaye West’s Yeezus (Number 6) off the top spot, and has outsold the Number 2 album, Rod Stewart’s Time, by more than two copies to one.
Odell, who is signed to Lily Allen’s In The Name Of imprint with Columbia Records, won the Critics’ Choice Award at this year’s BRITs. Previous winners of the prestigious prize include such household names as Adele (2008), Florence And The Machine (2009), Ellie Goulding (2010), and Jessie J (2011). Last year’s winner, Emeli Sande, went on to have the biggest selling album of 2012 with Our Version Of Events. It spent 66 consecutive weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10, beating the previous record of 62 weeks which was held by The Beatles’ debut album, Please Please Me, for nearly 50 years.
Mike Rosenberg, AKA Passenger, climbs two places to Number 3 today with All The Little Lights, while Michael Buble’s To Be Loved (up 10 to Number 4) and Jake Bugg’s debut self-titled album (up 22 to Number 5) complete this week’s Top 5.
Official Albums Chart New Entries and High Climbers
In addition to Tom Odell’s Long Way Down (Number 1), there is one other new entry on this week’s Official Albums Chart: Australian electro duo Empire Of The Sun score their second UK Top 40 album with Ice On The Dune, which is new in at Number 24.
This week’s highest climber is Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Glastonbury headliners Arctic Monkeys. The Sheffield band’s 2006 debut album soars a massive 148 places from 180 to Number 32
SOURCE: OCC
Congrats to the girls.
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