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Wake Me Up opens with 266k in the UK
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Source: MW
by Alan Jones
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22 weeks after topping the singles chart for the first time, Swedish dance DJ Avicii - aka Tim Bergling - returns to the summit in spectacular style, with new single Wake Me Up! annihilating its opponents as it dashes to the summit on first week sales of 266,524 copies.
That's the highest weekly sale of any single in 2013, and the 27th highest of the 21st century. The top 14 entries on that 21st century list (see below) are records by TV talent show competitors, charity records and December releases - some of them even combine all three of those aspects. The biggest weekly sale by any other type of release came in March 2009, when It Wasn't Me topped the chart for Shaggy feat. RikRok on sales of 345,498 copies. The last such release to sell more copies in a week that Wake Me Up! was Cheryl Cole's Fight For This Love, which blasted its way to the summit on sales of 292,846 copies in 2009. Wake Me Up! scored the highest weekly sale for s core dance record in the 21st century, beating the 202,591 copies that Spiller's Groovejet sold on its September 2000 debut. Avicii's first number one, I Could Be The One - a collaboration with Nicky Romero - sold 90,999 copies when it debuted at number one in February. Perhaps surprisingly, despite the fact it has sold 419,467 copies it isn't Avicii's biggest seller. That would be Levels, which reached number four in 2011, but has gone on to sell 617,893 copies. It also formed the basis of Flo Rida’s Good Feeling, which was an even bigger hit, reaching number one and selling 752,061 copies and reaching number ne. Avicii received no artist credit on that record – and he, in turn, has denied vocalist Aloe Blacc a credit on Wake Me Up!
Selena Gomez racked up four chart entries with her band The Scene in 2010/11, of which the only one to make the Top 40 was debut hit Naturally, which went as high as number seven. On musical hiatus ever since - although very busy acting, and being Justin Bieber's on/off girlfriend - Gomez has finally released her first solo single, Come & Get It, and it instantly becomes her second Top 10 hit, debuting at number eight (36,834 sales). Parent albums Stars Dance is out today (22nd).
Based in Amsterdam but originally from the UK, Ben Westbeech records as Breach, under which name he has his debut hit Jack (number nine, 32,895 sales), a retro house track, which has a vocal by Westbeech himself, deliberately trying to sound both American and female.
Avril Lavigne has her biggest hit since 2007, with Here's To Never Growing Up, the first single from her upcoming fifth album debuting at number 14 (21,927 sales). It is the 28 year old Canadian's 14th hit, of which seven have made the Top 10. The sessions for the album brought Lavigne not only a hit but also a second husband - Nickelback's Chad Kroeger who was drafted in to assist, and ending up marrying her earlier this month. Kroeger and Lavigne co-wrote Here's To Never Growing Up.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines dips 1-2 (see album analysis for more details), John Newman's Love Me Again drifts 2-3 (61,745 sales), Icona Pop's I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) holds at number four (47,983 sales), Will.I.Am's Bang Bang remains at number five (42,734 sales), Naughty Boy's La La La (feat. Sam Smith) bounces 7-6 (38,437 sales). Sebastian Ingrosso, Tommy Trash and John Martin's Reload slides 3-7 (37,276 sales) and Passenger’s Let Her Go subsides 8-10 (31,827 sales).
While Holy Grail climbs 24-15 to become the first hit from Jay-Z's new album, his collaborator thereon, Justin Timberlake has three more songs in the Top 75. From his current album The 20/20 Experience, there's Mirrors (57-54, 5,374 sales) and Tunnel Vision, which debuted last week at number 64 and now falls to number 66 (3,971 sales) - but they are leapfrogged by Take Back The Night, the introductory single from upcoming album The 20/20 Experience: 2 Of 2, which advances 116-45 (7,225 sales) after being made instantly available to advance buyers of the album on iTunes. Amidst all this action, the original The 20/20 Experience album jumps 28-12 (6,810 sales), achieving its highest chart placing for 11 weeks.
Former X Factor contestant Lucy Spraggan reached number 11 last September with her debut hit, Last Night, from her debut album Top Room At The Zoo. She returns to the chart with Lighthouse (number 26, 14,550 sales), which introduces her second album, Local Talent
Released fairly late in the day on Wednesday, Supersoaker is the initial single from The Kings Of Leon’s upcoming album Mechanical Bull, and debuts at number 32 (10,751 sales).
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