Singles:
Still running on empty, Justin Bieber's What Do You Mean? tops the chart for the second week in a row, and the fifth time in seven weeks.
Credited with selling 46,533 copies in the week, it derived 27,819 of those sales from streaming, where it was the number one track for the seventh straight week. The remaining 18,714 of its sales were from paid-for downloads The only recording to sell fewer copies while at number one in the 21st century is Orson's No Tomorrow, which sold just 17,694 copies getting there in March 2006.
R City's Locked Away (feat. Adam Levine) remains Bieber's nearest challenger, although it suffered a decline in sales for the second straight week, at 42,521 copies.
The Weeknd scores his third Top 10 hit with The Hills rocketing 23-5 (35,286 sales) on its 21st week in the chart. Although a genuine slow-burner, it picked up steam after he performed it on Later...With Jools Holland, and got an even bigger boost from the release last week of new mixes featuring Eminem and Nicki Minaj. The Eminem version is the main contributor to its sales jump.
Jamie Lawson - Ed Sheeran's first signing to his Gingerbread Man label - sprints 40-6 with his introductory hit Wasn't Expecting That, which secured 29,096 of its 34,861 sales from paid-for downloads, more than any other song.
Drake - who has had hits with all three of the artists currently helping The Hills' chart performance - scores only his third top five entry with his 24th Top 75 single Hotline Bling jumping 8-3 (39,018 sales).
Naughty Boy's Runnin' (Lose It All), with vocals from Beyonce and Arrow Benjamin, also reaches a new peak, climbing 6-4 (36,236 sales).
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall falls 3-7 (32,831 sales), Ellie Goulding's On My Mind descends 5-8 (31,419 sales), Pia Mia's Do It Again (feat. Chris Brown & Tyga) bounces 10-9 (28,827 sales) and Sigala's Easy Love dips 7-10 (28,599 sales).
Calvin Harris + Disciples' How Deep is Your Love completes a 12 week tour of the Top 10, falling 9-11 (27,960 sales), while Philip George & Anton Powers' Alone No More ebbs 4-12 (27,574 sales).
Kiss Me is one of five new tracks scheduled for inclusion on the Special Edition of Olly Murs' current album Never Been Better, and makes its chart debut at number 16 (23,658 sales). It is Murs' 17th hit in total, and the 12th to make the Top 20. It far surpasses last single, Beautiful To Me, which got plenty of exposure - reaching number 17 on the radio airplay chart - but few sales or streams, peaking at number 93 on the OCC list in June.
While Murs commands Kiss Me, The 1975 are equally direct in demanding affection and score their highest charting single to date with Love Me debuting at number 20 (21,262 sales). Only their second Top 20 hit, it can't quite match the number 19 peak of their 2013 debut hit Chocolate. It is their seventh chart entry, all of which have had very succinct one or two word titles - but it is the introductory and surprisingly funky single from their upcoming second album, which makes up for all that brevity by having a huge, sprawling title: I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It. These are actually lyrics from Love Me, and were first shared online on lead singer Matthew (Matty) Healey's Twitter feed in January 2014.
Also new to the Top 75 are Hey Everybody (number 49, 10,148 sales) by 5 Seconds Of Summer, Something In The Way You Move (number 51, 10,052 sales) by Ellie Goulding and Stitches (79-72, 5,885 sales), the first solo hit for 17 year old Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, who made the Top 10 as featured guest on The Vamps' cover of Simon & Garfunkel's Oh Cecilia, which reached number nine last year.
Never Forget You makes the Top 20 for the first time, climbing 32-19 (21,273 sales) for MNEK & Zara Larsson. There are also new highs for Fetty Wap's 679 (feat. Monty, 33-24, 18,326 sales) and Nick Jonas' Levels (52-46, 10,804 sales).
Overall singles sales are down 0.21% week-on-week at 7,262,717. Streams accounted for 5,397,583 sales - 74.32% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 7.35% week-on-week at 1,865,134 - 27.82% below same week 2014 sales of 2,583,897 and the 114th week in a row that they have fallen versus a year earlier.
1 Justin Bieber
2 R. City feat. Adam Levine
3 Drake
4 Naughty Boy feat. Beyonce & Arrow Benjamin
5 Weeknd [The Hills]
6 Jamie Lawson
7 Sam Smith
8 Ellie Goulding
9 Pia Mia feat. Chris Brown & Tyga
10 Sigala
11 Calvin Harris & Disciples
12 Phillip George & Anton Rogers
16 Olly Murs
20 The 1975
19 MNEK & Zara Larsson
24 Fetty Wap feat. Monty
46 Nick Jonas
49 5 Seconds of Summer
51 Ellie Goulding
56 The Vamps
Albums:
One of the most successful dance/electronica bands ever, Faithless celebrated their 20th anniversary with the release of Faithless 2.0, which features original recordings of their most celebrated works alongside remixes by contemporary acts like Avicii, Flux Pavilion, Tiesto, Eric Prydz, Above And Beyond and Claptone.
The trio has further cause for celebration, as the album debuts atop the chart - but maybe they should toast their success with prosecco rather than champagne, as it sold only 12,341 copies (including 203 from streams) on debut. That's the smallest total for a number one thus far in 2015 - in 41 prior weeks this year, the 12,965 copies that Cilla Black's The Very Best Of sold to take the title following her death in August marked the low point. Faithless 2.0 also replaces Black's album in securing the second lowest tally for a number one album in the 824 weeks that have thus far elapsed in the 21st century, beating only the 9,578 copies that Rihanna's Talk That Talk sold when it returned to number one in August 2012, some 166 weeks ago.
Faithless 2.0 is Faithless' third number one album, following fourth studio set No Roots, which sold 47,046 copies to open at the summit in 2004, and their first compilation Forever Faithless: The Greatest Hits, which made a similarly lofty debut less than a year later on sales of 70,282 copies. Forever Faithless remains by far their biggest seller, with a to-date tally of 1,381,407 sales. It is more than five years since Faithless' last studio album, The Dance, debuted and peaked at number two on sales of 29,901 copies.
Nearly 11 years after The Documentary launched rapper The Game's UK album chart career - debuting and peaking at number seven (22,796 sales) - the album's sequel, The Documentary 2, opens at number four, although on significantly lower sales of 10,042 copies. Including collaborations with Kanye West, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Diddy, Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar among others, The Documentary 2 marks a triumphant comeback in a patchy chart career for The Game - his last album Jesus Piece fell just short of the Top 75 when released in December 2012, opening and peaking at number 76 on seasonally spiked sales of 5,088. Fans of The Game won't have to wait nearly so long for his next album - in fact The Documentary 2.5 was released today (Friday 16th), and features a further 18 tracks including collaborations with Nas, Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, ScHoolboy Q and Skrillex. The Documentary remains The Game's biggest selling album, with a to-date tally of 413,519 being more than three times as many sales as any of his other albums.
Previously a member of alternative rock band The Czars, who released half a dozen albums between 1996 and 2006 without making any impression on the Top 200, American singer/songwriter John Grant - now 47 and living in Iceland - has had more success as a solo artist, and reaches the Top 10 for the first time with third album Grey Tickles, Black Pressure debuting at number five (9,409 sales). Doubtless helped by his appearance on Later...With Jools Holland, the album far outstrips debut solo set Queen Of Denmark, which reached number 59 (2,303 sales) in 2010, and 2013 follow-up Pale Green Ghosts, which opened and peaked at number 16 (7,477 sales).
Rudimental's second album, We The Generation, debuted at number one last week but now sags to number 10 (6,366 sales). Rudimental's 2013 debut album Home made a more gentle 1-2 decline on its second frame, and didn't check out of the Top 10 until week seven.
Each of the other six albums in the Top 10 sees sales decline week-on-week: Ed Sheeran's X holds at number two (10,677 sales) and Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh at number three (10,413 sales), while there are falls for Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour (6-7, 7,393 sales), David Gilmour's Rattle That Lock (4-7, 7,333 sales), The Weeknd's Beauty Behind The Madness (6-8, 7,138 sales) and James Bay's Chaos And The Calm (9-10, 6,739 sales).
Number one a fortnight ago, Disclosure's Caracal exits the Top 10, falling 8-15 (4,495 sales). Avicii's Stories (9-26, 3,089 sales) and Editors' In Dreams (5-44, 2,178 sales) are expelled from the top tier after only a week.
Including her earlier releases fronting The Scene, Selena Gomez has issued five regular studio albums, and unless the latest, Revival, makes upward progress all five will have peaked in a narrow band between numbers 11 and 15. Kiss & Tell - her first album with The Scene - debuted and peaked at number 12 (11,239 sales) in 2010, while A Year Without Rain opened and peaked at number 14 (8,749 sales) later that year. Her last with The Scene, When The Sun Goes Down, reached number 15 on sales of 7,188 copies in 2011, and her only previous solo album, Stars Dance, was number 13 on sales of 6,333 copies in 2013. New album Revival - home to the number 23 A$AP Rocky collaboration Good For You - scores the lowest first week sales but the highest position of them all, debuting at number 11 (5,733 sales).
They have never had a Top 20 single but synthpop duo Hurts maintain their record of making the Top 20 with all of their albums, with the third, Surrender, debuting at number 12 (5,636 sales). Their first, Happiness debuted and peaked at number four (25,493 sales) in 2010. It eventually spawned five Top 75 hits, and has so far sold 180,218 copies. Follow-up Exile, from 2013, failed to increase their tally of chart singles but still did well, debuting and peaking at number nine with 12,194 sales on week one climbing to 39,411 to-date.
Reverend & The Makers score their fifth Top 20 album in an eight year chart career, with Mirrors debuting at number 16 (4,455 sales).
Tom Jones and The Enemy have both had number one albums, debuted alongside each other in the Top 10 when they released their last albums more than four years ago, and remain in close proximity further down the chart with new albums this week.
Completing a trilogy of albums exploring his musical roots, Long Lost Suitcase debuts at number 17 (4,258 sales) for Jones, extending the 75 year old's album chart career to more than 48 years. Praise & Blame, the first of the trilogy, sold 31,209 copies when debuting at number two in 2010, while Spirit In The Room opened and peaked at number eight on sales of 9,886 copies in 2012. Jones had had 33 chart albums, 16 of which reached the Top 10,
Coventry band The Enemy's 2007 debut We'll Live And Die In These Towns sold 39,191 copies when it debuted at number one in 2007, follow-up Music For The People sold 35,363 copies debuting at number two in 2009, and Streets In The Sky sold 9,854 copies in making number nine in 2012, so fourth studio album, It's Automatic (number 21, 3,845 sales) in their first to fall short not just of the Top 10 but also of the Top 20.
The only singer to emerge from the BBC's short-lived (two series) reality/singing competition with a substantial career - though he only finished third in the inaugural 2002 contest won by David Sneddon - Lemar racks up his seventh album chart entry with The Letter. Named after The Box Tops' 1967 hit which serves as its title track, the album is a retro selection of pop and soul, including covers of hits by Sam Cooke, Soft Cell, Diana Ross & The Supremes and Steve Winwood. Debuting at number 31 (2,720 sales), it fares better on position and worse on sales than his last album, Invincible, which debuted and peaked at number 49 (2,749 sales) three years ago last week.
The tenth and last Top 75 debut of the week is If I Should Go Before You, which opens at number 47 for Canadian alt-rocker City And Colour (1,914 sales).
Gabrielle Aplin's appearance on the Graham Norton Show provided a tonic for her latest album Light Up The Dark. Number 14 in September, the album bounces 106-40 (2,357 sales).
There's a new entry at number one on the compilation and overall album chart in the form of Rapper's Delight, a triple album of hip-hop flavours from Ministry Of Sound. Although Ministry Of Sound is better known for its contemporary dance repertoire, the album collects together 60 rap favourites from the 1970s to the present day, though notable absentees include Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Kanye West, Afrika Bambaataa and De La Soul, while Eminem is represented only by a D12 track. Despite that, the album sold 16,247 copies last week. It is the first hip-hop album to top the compilation chart since the earlier Ministry Of Sound set Anthems Hip-Hop in March 2011.
1 Faithless 2,000 copies ahead
2 Ed Sheeran
3 Jess Glynne
4 The Game
5 John Grant
6 Sam Smith
7 David Gilmour
8 Weeknd
9 James Bay
10 Rudimental
11 Selena Gomez
12 Hurts
15 Disclosure
16 Reverend & The Makers
17 Tom Jones
21 The Enemy
26 Avicii
31 Lemar
38 Janet Jackson
40 Gabrielle Alpin
44 The Editors
47 City & Colour
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