Sales
Singles
While impacting in a major way on the album chart, The Brits make a lesser but still worthwhile impact on the singles chart, where Helping Haiti’s cover of Everybody Hurts remains at number one, though with sales off 77.3% week-on-week at 102,769.
The Florence & The Machine/Dizzee Rascal collaboration You Got The Dirtee Love – a mash-up of You Got The Love and Dirtee Cash as performed at the Brits - is the week’s highest new entry, dashing to a number two debut on sales of 62,642 in just four days.
With Helping Haiti aiding the Disasters Emergency Committee and The Sun’s Helping Haiti fund, and You Got The Dirtee Love benefiting The Brits Trust, the top two singles in the chart are charity singles.
It is not the first time the top two singles have both aided charity. It happened first in December 1984, when Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas and Wham!’s Last Christmas were both generating cash for Ethiopia, and most recently a couple of months ago, when Peter Kay’s Animated All Stars were number one with The Official BBC Children In Need Medley, and The X Factor Finalists’ You Are Not Alone (in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital) was number two.
Florence & The Machine’s original You Got The Love is also helped by the new version’s appearance, rebounding 29-12, with sales improving 90.9% to 21,452.
Other singles enjoying increased sales as a side effect of The Brits include Empire State Of Mind by Jay-Z feat, Alicia Keys, which rallies 25-16 with sales up 62.2% at 19,601, Cheryl Cole’s Fight For This Love (43-36, 25.1%, 8,400), Kasabian’s Fire (112-42, 221.3%, 7,305) and Robbie Williams’ You Know Me (68-49, 41%, 6,240).
Alicia Keys’ solo version of Empire State Of Mind also enjoys increased sales but slips 4-5 with 48,153 takers. Like Owl City’s Fireflies (2-3, 50,402 sales) and If We Ever Meet Again by Timbaland feat. Katy Perry (3-4, 48,314) sales it was pushed down a notch by You Got The Dirtee Love’s arrival.
In other singles chart action, Leona Lewis lands her ninth Top 40 hit, as latest single I Got You surges 62-40, with sales up 63.6% at 7,762; and We Are The World 25: For Haiti debuts at number 50 (5.957 sales) for Artists For Haiti, the 100 member US charity aggregation.
Meanwhile, after falling short of the Top 10 with his last five singles, Lemar returns to the top tier, debuting at number eight (25,327 sales) with The Way Love Goes, a new song destined for his upcoming Hits compilation. Lemar has been one of the most successful graduates of reality TV in the UK, securing 13 hit singles and four hit albums, with sales of
782,381 and
1,741,098, respectively, since his 2003 debut.
Despite masses of airplay, Paulo Nutini’s latest single 10/10 has had to struggle hard, and seems to have given up the battle to make the Top 40 after climbing for five weeks in a row.
The track has moved 122-100-64-58-55-51-67. Its slip is accompanied by a much bigger slide on the radio airplay chart. The track has been among the country’s 10 most heard songs on the airwaves for the last six weeks but dramatically collapses 6-64 this week. All four of Nutini’s singles from second album Sunny Side Up have struggled in their own right, with none of them reaching the Top 15, though the album itself is a major success, with the 25,810 copies it sells while falling 3-5 this week lifting its career sales to 1,088,598.
The singles market slips by 12.54% to 2,902,501 sales – its lowest level of 2010 - but is still 10.64% above same week 2009 sales of 2,623,276.
1 Helping Haiti 102769
2 Florence + The Machine/Dizzee Rascal 62642
3 Owl City 50402
4 Timbaland/Katy Perry 48314
5 Alicia Keys 48153
8 Lemar 25327
12 Florence + The Machine 21452
16 Jay-Z/Alicia Keys 19601
36 Cheryl Cole 8400
40 Leona Lewis 7762
42 Kasabian 7305
49 Robbie Williams 6240
50 Artists For Haiti 5957
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Albums
Extended ensembles rule the roost this week, with the 21 vocalist Helping Haiti grouping continuing atop the singles chart, while the similarly mob-handed Glee Cast storm to the top of the album chart.
On both charts, winners and performers from the televised Brit Awards are handsomely rewarded by improved sales.
The first Glee Cast album Glee - The Music: Season One – Volume 1 explodes 68-1 on the artist album chart on sales of 62,451 copies.
Its coronation coincides with the 11th and 12th Top 75 singles from the Glee Cast thus far in 2010 – Keep Holdin’ On debuts at number 47 (6,679 sales) and No Air at number 52 (5,814 sales). Both tracks are among 17 tracks on the CD, of which eight have made the Top 75.
In a week of comparatively few debuts in the Top 50, Owl City capitalises on his number one single Fireflies with introductory album Ocean Eyes arriving at number seven (20,315 sales), while veteran acts Peter Gabriel & The Pet Shop Boys return to active service.
Eight years after his last regular album, Up, debuted and peaked at number 11 on first-week sales of 19,192 copies, Gabriel’s covers album Scratch My Back debuts at number 12 (14,059 sales). It’s Gabriel’s 15th solo chart entry, and comes days after his 60th birthday.
Recorded just two months ago, and released as a CD/DVD set, Pandemonium: Live At The O2 Arena is the second Pet Shop Boys live release, and debuts at number 29 (7,223 sales) to lift the duo’s tally of chart albums to 18 since 1986. It easily outperforms their 2006 live set Concrete, which was recorded with an orchestra and guest vocalists for a BBC radio show, and peaked at number 61, with first week sales of 3,772.
Making way for the Glee Cast at the top, The Element Of Freedom by Alicia Keys dips to number four. It sold 39,010 copies in the wake of Keys’ performance Of Empire State Of Mind with Jay-Z during the awards show.
The fact the album declined 31.9% compared to its prior week sales tally, reflects its popularity as a Valentine’s Day gift in the previous frame and indicates no real diminution in its appeal week-on-week.
Most other award winners made progress in the right direction, with triple winner Lady GaGa the star performers, with her debut album The Fame advancing 5-2, with sales increasing 53.7% to 53,483.
Florence & The Machine’s Lungs – album of the year – halts a three week losing run, rallying 9-3, with sales up 53.3% at 39,303.
Outstanding Contribution To Music winner Robbie Williams advances 21-8 with current album Reality Killed The Video Star (sales up 21.9% to 16,155) and 101-38 with Greatest Hits (144.5%, 6,044 sales), while Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 climbs 22-10 (19.8%, 15,253 sales), JLS’ album of the same name moves 23-17 (2.6%, 12,564 sales), Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You advances 28-19 (12.7%, 11,861 sales), Kasabian’s West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum powers 63-20 (172.1%, 11,677 sales) and Dizzee Rascal’s Tongue‘N’ Cheek recovers 73-33 (75.5%, 6,621 sales).
The only loser was Cheryl Cole whose 3 Words edges 38-32 but sees its sales slip 5.5% to 6,675 following her less than convincing lip-synching.
Meanwhile, with love albums’ domination of the compilation chart collapsing following Valentine’s Day, The Brit Awards 2010 sampler climbs 3-1 (
27,087 sales). It is the fifth Brits album to top the chart in the last seven years – and the two that didn’t (in 2005 and 2008) both reached number two.
The Brits failed to motivate sales as much as Valentine’s Day, however, with the result that overall album sales week-on-week fell by 18.2% to 2,031,919 – that’s still 3.85% above same week 2009 sales of 1,956,549.
1 Glee Cast 62451
2 Lady GaGa 53483
3 Florence + The Machine 39303
4 Alicia Keys 39010
5 Paolo Nutini 25810 (To Date: 1,088,598)
7 Owl City 20315
8 Robbie Williams 16155
10 Jay-Z 15253
12 Peter Gabirel 14059
17 JLS 12564
19 Lily Allen 11861
20 Kasabian 11677
29 Pet Shop Boys 7223
32 Cheryl Cole 6675
33 Dizzee Rascal 6621
38 Robbie Williams GHs 6044
Albums To Date
Johnny Cash - A Hundred Highways 127,187
Courteeners - St Jude 99,274
Joanna Newsom - Ys 45,524
Enter Shikari - Common Dreads 44,135
Rudeboy gets released in UK this week nd its #6
