Singles
New talent rules the roost on the singles chart, with Bruno Mars taking over at the top, while veteran campaigners The Manic Street Preachers and Phil Collins fought a keen battle for album chart honours with The Script.
Nominally R&B but with a soaring, anthemic rock style chorus that wouldn’t be out of place on a U2 single, Just The Way You Are (Amazing) confirms Bruno Mars’ stature as one of the hottest newcomers of 2010, debuting in pole position on sales of 82,855. The track also climbs 3-1 in America but it’s not a perfect week for Mars – he was arrested for possession of cocaine in Las Vegas and is expected to face charges.
Although it is his solo debut, Just The Way You Are (Amazing) gives Mars his third top three hit in just four months – he also provided the vocal sweetening on two major rap hits, B.o.B.’s Nothin’ On You, which topped the chart in May, and Travie McCoy’s Billionaire, number three in August.
Nothin’ On You bounces 100-96 this week, with 2,207 sales lifting its career tally to 343,740, while Billionaire slips 17-19 with 13,935 sales, raising its total to 290,752.
Los Angeles-based Mars was born Peter Hernandez in Hawaii 23 years ago and is only the second Hawaiian to top the chart solo, emulating Glenn Medeiros, who topped with Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You when Mars was a year old in 1988. Other Hawaiians to chart include Bette Midler, Jack Johnson, Yvonne Elliman, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and Nicole Scherzinger, who has reached number one with the Pussycat Dolls but not on her own.
Scherzinger’s latest tilt at the title, Heartbeat, pairs her with Enrique Iglesias, and makes a big leap after the pair sang it on Paul O’Grady’s new ITV show, climbing 50-13 (19,419 sales).
Number one for the past two weeks, Start Without You by Alexandra Burke feat. Laza Morgan slides to number five (32,235 sales) behind three non-movers. Taio Cruz’s former number one, Dynamite (42,272 sales), Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream (39,250 sales) and For The First Time by The Script (34,688 sales) all suffer double digit percentage slips in sales but remain at two, three and four, respectively
Winner of Sky 1’s Must Be The Music, Emma’s Imagination – 27-year-old Emma Gillespie, originally from Edinburgh but now based in Dumfries – debuts at number seven (25,883 sales) with Focus, the song she performed in the competition final before a sell-out crowd and a large TV audience at Wembley Arena eight days ago.
Her previous Must Be The Music release, This Day, rallies 31-25 (10,779 sales), while her independently released Stamp Your Feet debuts at number 65 (3,599 sales). Missing Andy and The Pictures also made it through to the top three in the competition, and the songs they sang are also on the move, with Missing Andy’s The Way We’re made (already independently released) jumping 62-38 (6,576 sales), and The Pictures’ Earthly Treasures debuting at number 43 (5,321 sales).
Although eliminated earlier in the final, Pepper & Piano also have a new entry, with One Of These Days in at number 63 (3,676 sales), while You Took My Heart – the song which put them through to the final – dips 48-60 (3,788 sales). The earlier Missing Andy release Sing For The Deaf drifts 36-52 (4,384 sales), while The Pictures’ semi-final song Tears improves 75-71 (3,059 sales).
Must Be The Music has generated 11 Top 75 hits in the last four weeks, recalling the avalanche of hits – 45 in six months – that spilled from Glee’s first season here. Although Glee has resumed in America, it’s not expected to return to UK screens until January 2011, so there will be a respite from it for now, although the programme’s latest recruit, Charice, coincidentally makes her chart debut here with Pyramid (number 17, 14,096 sales). The 18-year-old from The Philippines plays an exchange student in the second series of Glee, and has been pursuing a career as a singer for some time.
Also new to the Top 40, Italian dance guru Alex Gaudino’s third hit I’m In Love (I Wanna Do It) debuts at number 10 (24,868 Sales) and Mark Ronson’s 10th, The Bike Song (number 21, 12,520 sales), while The Saturdays’ Higher rises 49-22 (12,374 sales).
Overall singles sales, at 2,451,368, are up 0.22% week-on-week and are 7.34%% above same week 2009 sales of 2,283,738.
1 Bruno Mars 82,855
2 Taio Cruz 42,272
3 Katy Perry 39,250
4 Script 34,688
5 Alexandra Burke/Laza Morgan 32,235
7 Emma's Imagination [Focus] 25,883
10 Alex Guardino 24,868
13 Enrique/Nicole 19,419
17 Charice 14,096
19 Travie McCoy 13,935 (290,752)
21 Mark Ronson & The Business Intl 12,520
22 Saturdays [Higher] 12,374
25 Emma's Imagination [TD] 10,779
38 Missing Andy [TWWM ] 6,576
43 Pictures [ET] 5,321
52 Missing Andy [SFTD]4,384
60 Pepper & Piano [YTMH] 3,788
63 Pepper & Piano [OOTD] 3,676
65 Emma's Imagination [SYF] 3,599
71 Pictures [Tears] 3,059
96 BOB 2,207 (343,740)
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Albums
When The Manic Street Preachers topped the album chart in 1998 with This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours its three-week reign was curtailed by Phil Collins’ Hits. Neither act has had a number one since but they were pitted against each other in a battle for supremacy this week.
Collins’ new covers set Going Back, which debuted at number four last week, received a timely boost from the screening of For One Night – on ITV hours before the latest sales week started - and eventually emerged on top, increasing sales 16% to 40,684.
The Manic Street Preachers had the upper hand in early sales flashes with their latest album, Postcards From A Young Man but it faded as the week progressed, eventually debuting at number three (38,314 sales) being overtaken not only by Collins but also by The Script, whose Science & Faith slips 1-2 (39,967 sales).
Going Back is Phil Collins’ 12th number one in total – six solo and six as a member of Genesis. The only artists to have more are The Beatles, with 15 number ones. Adding their solo chart-toppers, Paul McCartney has had 20 number ones followed by John Lennon (18), George Harrison (17). Ringo Starr hasn’t topped the chart solo, and thus remains on 15.
With consecutive number ones from their first two albums, Songs About Jane (2004) and It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007), Maroon 5 debut at number six (16,496 sales) with third set, Hands All Over.
Meanwhile, Anglo-American ‘supergroup’ Black Country Communion debut at number 13 (11,977 sales) with their eponymous first album. The band’s members include former Deep Purple star Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham, son of late Led Zeppelin star John.
Also making a decent showing, Seal 6 – Commitment debuts at number 11 (14,376 sales) for Heidi Klum’s husband; Guitar Heaven by Santana (number 15, 9,788 sales); The Rokstarr Collection by Taio Cruz (number 16, 9,274 sales); and History Of Modern by OMD (number 28, 5,891 sales).
At 63, Santana extends his album chart career to more than 40 years with a stellar collection of covers of songs originally performed by the likes of The Beatles, led Zeppelin and The Doors with help from a diverse selection of guests including Nas, Joe Cocker and Yo Yo Ma.
The classic Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark line-up of Andy McCluskey, Paul Humphreys, Martin Cooper and Malcolm Holmes reconvene after a gap of more than 20 years, with History Of Modern. All four members of the Liverpool synth-pop legends are now in their 50s.
Comprising tracks from his 2008 debut Departure, 2009 follow-up Rokstarr and new material, (including current hit Dynamite), The Rokstarr Collection’s debut position still leaves Cruz – who has five Top 10 hits, two of them number ones – still waiting for his first Top 10 album.
Now! 76 spends its 10th straight week atop the compilation chart (14,981 sales).
Overall album sales are down 2.51% week-on-week to 1,676,240 – 17.28% below same week 2009 sales of 2,023,899.
1 Phil Collins 40684
2 Script 38314
3 Manic Street Preachers 39967
6 Maroon 5 16496
11 Seal 14376
13 Black Country Communion 11977
15 Santana 9788
16 Taio Cruz 9274
28 OMD 5891
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