21/11/2010 - Take That’s Progress sets new sales record; JLS score Number One with Children In Need
Take That have set a new sales standard with their latest album Progress, which has achieved the biggest opening week sales of any album for 13 years – the Official Charts Company confirms today.
The album sold almost 520,000 copies last week, more than the rest of the Top 10 biggest selling albums put together, to top today’s (Sunday) Official Albums Chart, according to Official Charts Company data.
The achievement represents the highest one-week sale for any album this century and one of the all-time fastest sales - the album sold more than Coldplay’s X&Y in 2005 (465,000 week one) and Take That’s The Circus in 2008 (432,000 week one).
In fact, the last album to sell more than 500,000 copies in a week was Oasis’s Be Here Now, which sold 663,000 in its first chart week in 1997 – after being released on the Thursday.
Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot says, “Since their reunion as a four-piece four years ago, Take That have firmly established themselves as the UK’s favourite band.
“Following the return of Robbie Williams to their ranks, that record has been further cemented – and they are now well on course to rule Christmas 2010, just as they dominated Christmas 2006 and 2008.”
Take That’s reunion album, Beautiful World, sold 2.5m copies in the UK and held the Number One spot for 8 weeks, with its 2008 follow-up The Circus selling 1m copies in just 18 days on its way to 2.2m sales to date, and was Number One for 5 weeks.
Then, earlier this year, they announced plans to reform with their erstwhile fifth member Robbie Williams. Earlier this month, ticket sales for next year’s Progress tour broke all records to secure Progress as the fastest and biggest selling tour in UK history with a total of 1.34m tickets sold, the first million going in just eight hours.
As lead single from the Progress album, The Flood entered the charts two weeks ago at number two to secure the band their 16th Top 5 hit single.??Elsewhere in a busy Official Albums Chart this week, Rihanna’s Loud enters at 2, with Andre Rieu’s Moonlight Serenade in at 4, Pink’s Greatest Hits in at 5 and Bruce Springsteen’s The Promise entering at 7.
JLS dominate the Official Singles Chart this week, their Children In Need single Love You More arriving firmly at Number One, outselling Take That’s second placed The Flood by almost 40%.
The success represents a quickfire fourth Number One single for the four-piece X-Factor 2008 runners-up – and comes as the band prepare to release their second album, Outta This World, tomorrow (Monday, 22).
JLS singer Aston says he is delighted at the success: “We are soooooo proud to be the Official Number One with the Children In Need single. It's actually incredible what's happened these past few weeks and what's really topped it off is that the single has helped to raise loads of money for such a fantastic cause.
“So we have to thank Children in Need for letting us get involved in the first place and everyone who has supported the record! Definitely one of our highlights to date and we hope to do a lot more for the charity in the future!”
Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart, Westlife’s new single Safe enters at 10.
Source: OCC
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Singles
Meanwhile, JLS rack up their fourth number one single from five releases. Love You More is the second single from their second album Outta This World, which drops today (Monday).
Selling 118,551 copies last week, it’s the official 2010 song for the BBC’s Children In Need appeal, becoming the sixth number one from 19 releases in the series.
Ellie Goulding’s version of Elton John’s hit Your Song is used in John Lewis’ current TV campaign, and leaps 39-3 (84.896 sales), while Far East Movement’s recent US number one, Like A G6, is an even bigger mover, rocketing 51-6 (51,519 sales).
While Take That top the album chart and JLS take the singles crown, Westlife - who featured in the X Factor results show eight days ago alongside their boy band colleagues – only debut at number 10 with their latest single, Home (36,481 sales). All of the group’s 24 previous singles charted higher, 14 of the reaching number one.
Following the historic release of The Beatles’ catalogue on iTunes last Tuesday, The X Factor featured songs made famous by the fab four on Saturday, further boosting their sales.
32 Beatles recordings make the Top 200, with four of them in the published Top 75. Hey Jude leads the way at number 40 (7,006 sales), followed by Let It Be (number 46, 5,801 sales), Twist And Shout (number 48, 5,633 sales, and Here Comes The Sun (number 64, 4,195 sales). It is the first chart appearance for the latter two songs, raising the Beatles’ tally of hits to 34.
Overall, some 132,649 Beatles tracks were sold. 12,268 Beatles albums were also downloaded, against 19,256 Beatles CDs and 97 LPs. The only Beatles albums in the Top 75 remain the 1967-1970 and 1962-1966 sets (36-32 and 35-33, with 9,316 and 9,299 sales, respectively).
Looking a little more closely at The Beatles’ sales, it’s interesting to note that even fellow Scouser Rebecca Ferguson’s performance of Yesterday on The X Factor on Saturday evening couldn’t generate enough sales to nudge it into the Top 75.
The Beatles songs in the Top 200 not mentioned above are as follows: In My Life (number 78, 3,153 sales), Come Together (number 83, 2,939 sales), Yesterday (number 86, 2,913 sales), I Saw Her Standing There (number 90, 2,620 sales), Eleanor Rigby (number 94, 2563 sales), Help (number 99, 2,439 sales), A Day In The Life (number 105, 2,252 sales), Strawberry Fields Forever (number 110, 2,190 sales), All You Need Is Love (number 112, 2,175 sales), Penny Lane (number 117, 2,034 sales), Blackbird (number 118, 2,019 sales), I Am The Walrus (number 119, 2,019 sales), Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds) (number 120, 1,976 sales), While My Guitar Gently Weeps (number 125, 1,855 sales), The Long And Winding Road (number 126, 1,851 sales), A Hard Day’s Night (number 129, 1,836 sales), You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (number 132, 1,776 sales), Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (number 135, 1,725 sales), With A Little Help From My Friends (number 136, 1,701 sales), Ticket To Ride (number 137, 1,695 sales), Love Me Do (number 152, 1,557 sales), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (number 161, 1,483 sales), Back In The USSR (number 172, 1,441 sales), Can’t Buy Me Love (number 177, 1,411 sales), And I Love Her (number 185, 1,359 sales), Hello, Goodbye (number 190, 1,324 sales), Revolution (number 192, 1,314 sales), All My Loving (number 197, 1,272 sales). The influx raised the bar for entry to the Top 200 by 24.3% week-on-week to 1,234 sales.
The least popular Beatles track? Surprisingly, not the extremely lengthy, avant garde Revolution Number 9, which sold 48 copies, but the Rubber Soul song What Goes On?. Written by Lennon, McCartney and Starr, it was one of drummer Ringo’s rare lead vocals, and attracted just 14 downloads last week.
Beatles activity helped overall singles sales to increase 9.79% week-on-week to 3,083,652 – a 40 week high, and 12.40% above same week 2009 sales of 2,743,427.
1 JLS 118,551
2 Take That 87,453 (Total: 156,937)
3 Ellie Goulding 84,896
4 Rihanna 74,248
6 Far East Movement/Cataracs & Dev 51,519
10 Westlife 36,481
18 Rihanna/Drake 21,784
20 Saturdays 19,653
22 Tinchy Stryder & Co 16,990
40 Beatles [Hey Jude] 7,006
46 Beatles [Let It Be] 5801
48 Beatles [Twist & Shout] 5633
55 Rihanna [S&M] 4,956
64 Beatles [HCTS] 4,195
115 Nadine 2,119
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Albums
Boy bands old and new rule this week, with Take That’s Progress reunion album with Robbie Williams smashing the 21st century sales record, while JLS romp to the top of the singles chart, and there are multiple entries from the original, organic boy band, the Beatles.
After spectacular first-day sales, partly fuelled by Take That’s high TV profile, Progress sold 518,601 copies. While falling short of the all-time record of 663,389 sales in a week (a figure corrected from an original estimate of 696,000) established by Oasis’ Be Here Now (a Thursday release) in 1997, it easily beats the 21st century record of 464,471 copies that Coldplay’s X&Y sold the week of its release in June 2005.
With downloads available for as little as £3.99, Progress is the first album to sell more than 50,000 copies in a week digitally, with sales of 79,807 far outstripping the previous record of 49,157 set by Kings Of Leon’s Come Around Sundown just five weeks ago. Take That previously sold 443,070 copies of Beautiful World in week 51 of2006, while returning member Robbie Williams’ previous best sales week came in week 43 of 2003, when Intensive Care sold 373,832 copies. Progress is Take That’s sixth number one album. First single The Flood remains at number two, with sales up 25.9% week-on-week to 87,452.
Progress’ debut at number one is sweet revenge for Take That over Rihanna, whose new album Loud follows at number two on sales of 91,916 copies. It reverses last week’s singles chart scenario, where her Only Girl (In The World) enjoyed an easy second week at number one, while their single, The Flood, debuted at number two.
Only Girl... dips 1-4 this week (74,248 sales) but two other songs from Loud debut: What’s My Name (feat. Drake) at number 18 (21,784 sales) and S&M at number 55 (4,956 sales), raising Rihanna’s tally of Top 75 entries to 25 in a little over five years.
In a week of dramatic change on the album chart, there are also Top 10 debuts at number four for Dutch violinist Andre Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra (sic) with Moonlight Serenade (58,156 sales), at number five for Pink’s first career retrospective, Greatest Hits: So Far (54,040 sales), and at number seven for Bruce Springsteen’s The Darkness (43,822 sales), a collection of previously unreleased recordings from sessions for his 1976 album Darkness On The Edge Of Town.
Yielding right of way to the newcomers, last week’s number one – Susan Boyle’s The Gift – falls to number three (68,508 sales), while Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits slides 2-6 (49,191 sales), and Cheryl Cole’s Messy Little Raindrops ebbs 3-8 (41,346 sales).
Classical tenor Russell Watson turns 44 on Wednesday (24th) and gets an early birthday present in the form of his 10th Top 20 album in as many years with The Platinum Collection, which debuts at number 14 (23,273 sales).
It’s nearly five years since Shayne Ward won the second series of The X Factor. His eponymous 2006 debut reached number one and sold 531,659 copies, while 2007 follow-up, Breathless, reached number two and sold 459,545 copies. A week after introductory single Gotta Be Somebody debuted and peaked at number 12, his third album, Obsession brings up his millionth album sale, debuting at number 15 with 22,452 sales.
After five Top 10 albums in a row – excluding a B-sides and rarities set – McFly fall a long way short with Above The Noise, which debuts at number 20 (17,662 sales).
Meanwhile Tinchy Stryder continues to make erratic progress. His 2007 debut, Star In The Hood, failed to chart and sold fewer than 7,000 copies but 2009 follow-up Catch 22 reached number two and sold 200,000 copies. After single Gangsta fizzled out at number 67, In My System got to number 10 and Second Chance reached number 22, the album that houses them all -Third Strike - makes a disappointing number 48 debut (6,438 sales), while spinning off fourth hit, Game Over (feat. Chipmunk), which sold 16,990 copies last week to debut at number 22.
Susan Boyle’s chart-topping debut with The Gift last week made her, at 49, the oldest UK female soloist to have a number one album with new material - replacing fellow Scot Annie Lennox, who was 40 when she last topped the chart with Medusa in 1995 – and the first artist ever to have a number one album with a selection of largely seasonal songs.
55-year-old Lennox had the opportunity to take back the record this week but her introductory Island album – a similarly seasonal set called A Christmas Cornucopia – only debuts at number 27 (11,100 sales).
Other album chart newcomers in a week of intense activity: perennially popular Irish folk duo Foster & Allen rack up their 29th chart entry since 1983 with Magic Moments in at number 40 (7,599 sales); Glee Cast return with Glee: The Music – Best Of Season One at number 41 (7,419 sales) after landing five top five albums already in 2010, with combined sales of 915,000; Jools Holland & His R&B Orchestra’s Rocking Horse debuts at number 43 (7,351 sales); rapper Nelly’s 5.0 debuts at number 59 (5,416 sales); and American hardcore metal band A Day To Remember break their chart duck with fourth album What Separates Me From You in at number 66 (4,586 sales).
Overall albums sales improve for the fifth time in a row, increasing 37.25% week-on-week to 3,192,027 – a 45 week high but 2.60% below same week 2009 sales of 3,276,929.
1 Take That 518,601 [Digital sales: 79,807]
2 Rihanna 91,915
3 Susan Boyle 68,509
4 Andre Rieu 58,156
5 P!nk 54,040
6 Bon Jovi 49,191
7 Bruce Springsteen 43,822
8 Cheryl Cole 41,346
14 Russell Watson 23,273
15 Shayne Ward 22,452
20 McFly 17,662
27 Annie Lennox 11,100
32 Beatles 1967-1970 Blue 9,316
40 Foster & Allen 7,599
41 Glee Cast 7,419
43 Jools Holland 7,351
48 Tinchy Stryder 6,438
51 Saturdays 6,240
59 Nelly 5,416
66 A Day To Remember 4,586
131 Nadine 1,809
, so 92k +190k =280k ww only US and Uk, I think she can debut with 400+ 
