Singles:
There is no change at the top of the singles chart with Adele's Hello once again winning the race for honours by a large margin, with Justin Bieber remaining at number two, and the rest nowhere.
Hello sold 179,406 copies last week to raise its two week tally to 512,006. That means it moves 68-33 on the year-to-date rankings. The seventh Adele single to sell more than 500,000 copies, it looks very likely to eventually become Adele's fourth million seller. Already into seven figure territory are: Someone Like You (1,662,769), Rolling In The Deep (1,121,809) and Make You Feel My Love (1,010,277) - the latter track having passed the milestone six weeks ago, although without streaming it would be on 955,055 sales. Adele's overall singles/tracks sales, including streams, are 7,708,419.
Still far behind Hello, Bieber's Sorry racked up a further 92,504 copies last week, 44,101 of them from streaming. His other Top 10 hit What Do You Mean? rebounds 7-6 (43.791 sales), and they are joined in the chart by another song from his upcoming album Purpose, namely the promotional track I'll Show You, which debuts at number 41 (12,340 sales).
The first of two new arrivals in the Top 10 is Never Forget You which climbs for the sixth week in a row, advancing 11-7 (41,776 sales) for British singer/producer MNEK and his Swedish foil, Zara Larsson.
Focus is the first single from Ariana Grande's upcoming third album Moonlight. As high as number two on the first sales flashes, it descended throughout the week, eventually debuting at number 10 (32,556 sales). It is her ninth chart single, though only her third to make the Top 10 - Problem (feat. Iggy Azalea) and Bang Bang (with Jessie J & Nicki Minaj), both went all the way to number one.
Elsewhere in the Top 10, there's jockeying for positions but no new peaks and double digit sales declines all round for Sam Smith's Writing's On The Wall (4-3, 46,995 sales), The Weeknd's The Hills (5-4, 46,351 sales), Drake's Hotline Bling (3-5, 45,992 sales), KDA's Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) (feat. Tinie Tempah & Katy B, 6-8, 40,349 sales) and Naughty Boy's Runnin' Lose It All) (feat. Beyonce & Arrow Benjamin, 8-9, 34,432 sales).
One Direction's Perfect ebbs 9-11 (30,988 sales) and Jamie Lawson's Wasn't Expecting That also departs the Top 10, falling 10-12 (28,762 sales).
Belgian DJ Lost Frequencies has his second Top 75 entry, with Reality - featuring Dutch singer Janieck Devy - sprinting 145-29 (15,832 sales). It is the follow-up to his debut smash Are You With Me, which opened at number 70 in June and eventually reached number one. Still on the chart after 22 weeks - it holds at number 38 (13,668 sales) this week - it has thus far sold 777,455 copies.
Take Me Home is the fifth single from Jess Glynne's debut album I Cry When I Laugh - and it is also the official BBC single for Children In Need. It becomes her 10th chart entry in less than two years, debuting at number 46 (11,669 sales).
Five weeks after her introductory hit Do It Again (feat. Chris Brown & Tyga) peaked at number eight US singer/songwriter Pia Mia debuts at number 47 (11,512 sales) with Touch. Do It Again ends an 11 week Top 20 residency, dipping 18-23 (21,404 sales).
There are also Top 75 debuts for Dude (number 49, 10,685 sales) by Lethal Bizzle & Stormzy, In2 (85-60, 8,165 sales) by WSTRN, Bang My Head (number 63, 7,305 sales) by David Guetta feat. Sia, Sugar (81-68, 6,562 sales) by Robin Schulz feat. Yates and Grown (number 72, 6,153 sales), a track from Little Mix's new album, Get Weird.
There are new peaks for Little Mix's Love Me Like You (28-19, 23,725 sales) and Shawn Mendes' Stitches (55-48, 10,956 sales).
Ed Sheeran has had 10 Top 10 hits and Ruddimental have had three - but their collaboration Lay It All On Me is resisting, spending its sixth week in the teens and third at its peak. The track has moved 16-15-15-13-13-13 since debut but saw its sales fall 11.72% to 27,909 in the latest frame.
Three Halloween perennials return to the Top 100, although only Michael Jackson's 1983 number 10 hit Thriller breaches the Top 75, climbing 184-61 (8,091 sales), while Ray Parker Jr. Ghostbusters re-enters at number 89 (5,032 sales) and Bobby Boris Pickett's Monster Mash at number 96 (4,578 sales). It is the eight Halloween out of nine in which Thriller has returned to the Top 75. Ghostbusters (number two, 1984) has made it into the Top 75 five times in that period and Monster Mash (number 10 in 1973, but recorded in 1962) four times.
Overall singles sales are down 3.82% week-on-week at 7,490,391. Streams accounted for 5,448,062 sales - 72.73% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 10.49% week-on-week at 2,042,329 - 16.12% below same week 2014 sales of 2,434,926 and the 117th week in a row that they have fallen versus a year earlier.
Colour Code: OVERALL UNITS SALES STREAMING POINTS
1 Adele 179,406 (512,006)
2 Justin Bieber [Sorry] 92,504 48,403 44,101
3 Sam Smith 46,995
4 The Weeknd 46,351
5 Drake 45,992
6 Justin Bieber 43.791
7 MNEK & Zara Larsson 41,776
8 KDA feat. Tinie Tempah & Katy B 40,349
9 Naughty Boy feat. Beyonce & Arrow Benjamin 34,432
10 Ariana Grande 32,556
11 One Direction 30,988
12 Jamie Lawson 28,762
13 Rudimental Ft Ed Sheeran 27,909
19 Little Mix 23,725
23 Pia Mia Ft Chris Brown & Tyga 21,404
29 Lost Frequencies feat. Janiek Devy 15,832
38 Lost Frequencies [Are You With Me] 13,668 (777,455)
41 Justin Bieber [I'll Show You] 12,340
46 Jess Glynne [Take Me Home] 11,669
47 Pia Mia 11,512
48 Shawn Mendes 10,956
49 Lethal Bizzle & Stormzy 10,685
60 WSTRN 8,165
61 Michael Jackson 8,091
63 David Guetta feat. Sia & Fetty Wap 7,305
68 Robin Schultz Ft Yates 6,562
72 Little Mix [Grown] 6,153
89 Ray Parker Jr 5,032
96 Bobby Morris Pickett 4,578
Total Sales To Date
Adele- Someone Like You 1,662,769
Adele- Rolling In The Deep 1,121,809
Adele- Make You Feel My Love 1,010,277 (955,055 without Streams)
Albums:
In a week that included Halloween, Rod Stewart is denied his ninth number one album by a ghost, that of Elvis Presley who proves to be more undead than expected, sprinting to his 12th number one with If I Can Dream on sales of 79,053 copies (including 412 from streams).
Comprising newly constructed recordings blending archive Presley vocals with the orchestral stylings of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, If I Can Dream's coronation extends The King's span of number one albums to exactly 59 years - the longest of any artist - and return him to the top of the list of male soloists with most number ones ahead of Robbie Williams, who has had 11. Madonna tops the female list, having also had 12 (including the slightly contentious Evita, which isn't strictly a Madonna album) while The Beatles are overall champs with 15 number ones.
Presley first topped the chart with Rock 'n' Roll this week in 1956, and last topped the chart with The King, which debuted in pole position on sales of 45,034 in 2007, when it was issued to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death.
Containing collaborations with Il Volo and Michael Buble, If I Can Dream is Presley's fourth posthumous number one and his 51st Top 10 album - a record 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 49 Top 10 albums. As he died more than 38 years ago, he is also the most posthumous artist to have a number one album. Had he lived, he would now be 80
Meanwhile, denied the opportunity to extend his own span of number ones to more than 44 years, Rod Stewart instead scores his fifth number two album, with latest solo studio set Another Country opening in that position on sales of 56,471 copies. Another Country is his 14th straight Top 10 album. In fact, of 27 studio albums Stewart has released since his 1971 breakthrough Every Picture Tells A Story, 26 have made the Top 10, with the solitary exception - 1988's Out Of Order - reaching number 11. His last studio album, Time, opened at number one on slightly larger sales of 57,628 in 2013.
Rod's former record company, Warner Bros, has taken the opportunity to promote his compilation Storyteller: The Complete Anthology 1964-1990 against Another Country. Despite its title, the album was a 1989 release, which previously peaked at number 31 in 2011 but which eclipses that peak now, re-entering the chart at number 23 (3,795 sales).
Completing an all new top trio - the second in a row - Guy Garvey's debut solo album Courting The Squall debuts at number three (11,748 sales). Garvey has led Elbow to five Top 10 albums, culminating in the number one debut of their most recent album, The Take Off And Landing Of Everything on sales of 46,211 last year.
James Morrison's fourth studio set is called Higher Than Here but debuts lower than the rest, opening at number seven (9,807 sales). His first album Undiscovered (2006) and third, The Awakening (2011) both reached number one, while the second, Songs For You, Truths For Me (2008) reached number three.
Jazz/swing quartet Jack Pack are the latest act to come to fame in the 2014 season of Britain's Got Talent to subsequently secure a hit album. They finished fourth in the series, and their eponymous debut album opens at number eight on sales of 9,649 copies. Previously, winners Collabro topped the chart with Stars (2014) and reached number two with Act Two (2015), runner-up Lucy Kay reached number 18 with Fantasia (2014) and third placed teen pair Bars & Melody reached number four with first album 143 just 10 weeks ago.
Marking the 30th anniversary of their formation, synthpop duo Erasure's latest compilation, Always: The Very Best Of contains new material and new mixes of old material as well as hits. It debuts at number nine (9,362 sales). It is the eighth Top 10 album for Vince Clarke and Andy Bell - who have had five number ones - but the first since 1997.
With six debuts in the Top 10 for the second week in a row, the only albums from that portion of last week's chart to remain there are Ed Sheeran's X (7-4, 11,551 sales), Jess Glynne's I Cry When I Laugh (6-5, 11,503 sales), Andrea Bocelli's Cinema (3-6, 10,695 sales) and Sam Smith's In The Lonely Hour (9-10, 8,944 sales).
Those which have given up their Top 10 berths are Jamie Lawson (8-12, 7,664 sales), Daniel O'Donnell's The Hank Williams Songbook (5-13, 7,081 sales), 5 Seconds Of Summer's Sounds Good, Feels Good 1-17, 5,676 sales), Bryan Adams' Get Up (2-21, 4,169 sales), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott's Wisdom, Laughter And Lines (4-24, 3,794 sales) and Joanna Newsom's Divers (10-44, 2,296 sales). 5 Seconds Of Summer's 16 place dive from the summit is the third biggest in chart history, behind the 1-29 collapse of Christina Aguilera's Bionic in 2010, and the 1-18 slump of All Time Low's Future Hearts in April.
35 years after their debut, Sheffield's melodic hard rock band Def Leppard fall just short of their eight Top 10 album, with an eponymous new set arriving at number 11 (8,464 sales). It is their first album of new material since 2008, when Songs From The Sparkle Lounge debuted and peaked at number 10 (10,580 sales).
The Amy soundtrack debuts at number 19 (4,574 sales), with the late Amy Winehouse credited as artist. Half of the 24 tracks are incidental movie music by Antonio Pinto, and there's also the Strange Cargo/William Orbit tune The Name Of The Wave, with Winehouse heard on just 11 songs - but Pinto's pieces are largely very short, and Winehouse tracks account for more than 75% of the playing time, which is the crucial factor in allocating the album an artist chart position, rather than a compilation chart position.
Welsh rockers Skindred made the Top 40 for the first time when their fifth album, Kill The Power, reached number 28 last year. Follow-up Volume almost matches that, debuting at number 29 (2,927 sales).
There's a much more significant decline in the fortunes of rapper Maverick Sabre whose second album Innerstanding struggles to a number 41 debut (2,434 sales) nearly four years after Lonely Are The Brave debuted and peaked at number two on sales that were more than 20 times higher, at 44,242. That album went on to sell 251,020 copies, which means that fewer than 1% of its buyers invested in Innerstanding last week.
Dashing 180-67 (1,596 sales) to make its Top 75 debut, Mega Halloween Kids Party - All of the Spookiest Children's Halloween Hits - By Kids for Kids is credited to Little Spookz and available only digitally. It is £7.99 at Google Play, £6.99 at Amazon but only £2.99 at iTunes, where most of its sales undoubtedly occurred.
Also new to the album chart: Return To The Moon (number 43, 2,336 sales) by El Vy, Bleeds (number 51, 2,008 sales) by Roots Manuva, Van Morrison's newly expanded 1968 album Astral Weeks (number 55, 1,835 sales), Making Time (number 59, 1,670 sales) by Jamie Woon, <I°_°I> - aka Robot or Robot Face - by French swing band Caravan Palace (200-64, 1,639 sales) and The Mindsweep - Hospitalised (number 68, 1,566 sales) by Enter Shikari. Both Woon and Caravan Palace benefitted from appearances on Later... With Jools Holland.
Number 19 on debut six weeks ago - when it was available only digitally - Ryan Adams' version of Taylor Swift's 1989 album is now available physically, and bounces 191-27 (3,248 sales)
After just one week at number one on the compilation chart, Now That's What I Call A Singer dips to number five (8,904 sales). The new chart champion is BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2015, which debuts at the summit on sales of 23,194 copies. Of 10 previous Live Lounge releases, dating back to 2006 - one of them a 'best of' - two reached number two and the other eight reached number one, recording a combined tally of 4,140,779 sales. Live Lounge 2015's opening week's sale is 44.37% down on the 41,690 copies that Live Lounge 2014 sold on debut last year.
Overall album sales are up 8.96% week-on-week at 1,738,902 - a 14 week high. Streaming accounted for 450,372 sales - 25.90% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are up 12.06% week-on-week at 1,288,530 - 14.95% below same week 2014 sales of 1,515,069.
1 Elvis Presley 79,053 7,8641 412
2 Rod Stewart 56,471
3 Guy Garvey 11,748
4 Ed Sheeran 11,551
5 Jess Glynne 11,503
6 Andrea Bocelli 10,695
7 James Morrison 9,807
8 Jack Pack 9,649
9 Erasure 9,362
10 Sam Smith 8,944
11 Def Leppard 8,464
12 Jamie Lawson 7,664
13 Daniel O' Donnell 7,081
17 5 Seconds of Summer 5,676
19 Amy - OST Soundtrack 4,574
21 Bryan Adams 4,169
23 Rod Stewart [Storyteller - Complete Anthology] 3,795
24 Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott 3,794
27 Ryan Adams 3,248
29 Skindred 2,927
41 Maverick Sabre 2,434
43 El Vy 2,336
44 Jonanna Newsom 2,296
51 Roots Manuva 2,008
55 Van Morrison 1,835
59 Jamie Woon 1,670
64 Caravan Palace 1,639
67 All Of The Little Spookz 1,596
68 Enter Shikari 1,566
Total sales to date
Maverick Sabre- Lonely Are The Brave 251,020
