Singles
Tinie’s stars shine more brightly than Labrinth’s sun at the top of the singles chart this week, while midweek leader Mark Ronson is doomed to his second straight number two on the album chart, according to the script.
16 weeks ago, Tinie Tempah and Labrinth – or Patrick Okogwu and Timothy McKenzie, as their parents named them – were in hot pursuit of a number one hit jointly with Frisky. It ended in valiant failure, with the track’s introductory tally of 87,209 sales proving to be the second highest for a number two in the first nine months of 2010.
It was the follow-up to Tinie’s debut hit, Pass Out, which opened even more brightly in March, with first-week sales of 92,002 earning it a number one debut. Labrinth didn’t get an artist credit on that one, but co-wrote and produced the track, as he did Frisky.
One of the few acts to sign to Simon Cowell’s Syco imprint not to graduate from reality TV, Let The Sunshine is Labrinth’s introductory solo single, and sold 67,868 copies last week to debut at number three, whilst Tinie’s Written In The Stars (with featured vocals by Eric Turner) sold 115,073 copies, the highest tally for a number one for 14 weeks, and the third highest of the year. Sandwiched between the two, last week’s number one Just The Way You Are (Amazing) dips to second place on sales of 76,890 for Bruna Mars.
After freezing last week, Dynamite by Taio Cruz, Teenage Dream by Katy Perry and For The First Time by The Script decline in convoy, falling 2-5 (36,234 sales). 3-6 (34,445 sales) and 4-7 (30,504 sales), respectively. There’s a bigger dip for the year’s biggest selling single, Love The Way You Lie by Eminem feat. Rihanna. After 14 straight weeks in the Top 10, it slides 6-11, with sales of 20,845 raising its career tally to 698,226.
The 17th UK Top 75 entry entitled Heartbeat, Enrique Iglesias’ latest hit, feat. Nicole Scherzinger, pulses 13-8 (26,851 sales). It’s Iglesias’ eighth Top 10 entry, Scherzinger’s 10th and Heartbeat’s sixth.
Meanwhile, Get Outta My Way is Kylie Minogue’s 47th Top 75 entry and her 45th Top 40 hit – but not yet her 34th Top 10 entry. The track vaults 48-12 (19,342 sales), on the overall chart, but debuts at number one on the physical sales chart, after selling 5,408 copies on CD and 1,661 copies on 7-inch picture disc.
With The X Factor back in full swing, there are, once again, many records improving and regaining chart status thanks to exposure – either via covers of use of the original - on the show. The most obvious beneficiary is Do You Feel My Love by Adele. A number 26 hit in 2008, the song has been performed on the X Factor this year by Annastasia Baker, Katie Waissel and Gamu Nhengu and whose performance at Boot Camp reduced Louis Walsh to tears and catapults the Adele version of the track to number four (38,053 sales). It’s the only track on Adele’s debut album, 19 that she didn’t write, being a cover of a song written by Bob Dylan for his 1997 album Time Out Of Mind. It’s the 22nd Top 10 hit penned by Dylan, joining such celebrated antecedents as The Mighty Quinn (Manfred Mann), All Along The Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix) and Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Guns N’ Roses).
After winning Sky 1’s Must Be The Music, Emma’s Imagination debuted at number seven last week with Focus – but the track now crashes to number 53 (4,552 sales). It’s the third biggest retreat from the Top 10 this year behind the 54 position slide of Tina Turner’s The Best (9-63) in April, and the 4-51 collapse of Delrious’ History in March – both songs being charted by Facebook campaigns, as is new entry This Little Light (number 26, 11,120), a charity single by a Christian band from Manchester.
2,653,498 singles were sold last week – 8.25% up week-on-week, and 14.74% above same week 2009 sales of 2,312,560.
1 Tinie Tempah/Eric Turner 115073
2 Bruno Mars 76890
3 Labrinth 67868
4 Adele 38053
5 Taio Cruz 36234
6 Katy Perry 34445
7 Script 30504
8 Enrique/Nicole 26851
11 Eminem/Rihanna 20845 (698,226)
12 Kylie 19342
26 LZ7 11120
39 KT Tunstall 6566
53 Emma's Imagination 4552
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Albums
In another busy week of artist albums chart action, there are 11 debuts in the Top 75 (12 if we count David Bowie’s much expanded Station To Station as ‘new’) but none of the newcomers is strong enough to match The Script, whose second album, Science & Faith returns to number one.
It does so despite its own sales declining 14.15% week-on-week to 34,313. It dethrones Phil Collins’ Going Back, which dips to number three (26,231 sales), and overcomes a challenge from Record Collection, the new offering from Mark Ronson & The Business International, which topped the midweek sales flashes but settles for a number two debut on sales of 29,039 copies.
Ronson’s first album, Here Comes The Fuzz, was uncharted with 762 sales the week of its 2003 debut, and eventually peraked at number 70 while 2007 follow-up Version debuted and peaked at number two, behind Avril Lavigne’s Best Damn Thing, on sales of 45,158.
One of the hits of the summer, the RAF Squadronaires’ album In The Mood reached number five and sold more than 72,000 copies. Now The Central Band Of The RAF take flight, with Reach For The Skies debuting at number four (19,103 sales). Released to mark the 70th anniversary of The Battle Of Britain, it’s the military musicians’ second chart album but it’s a safe bet that none of their members participated in their first, The Dam Busters March, which reached number 18 nearly 55 years ago.
While first single (Still A) Weirdo debuts at number 39 (6,566 sales), singer/songwriter KT Tunstall’s latest album Tiger Suit, debuts at number five (19,082 sales). Both of KT’s previous regular albums – Eye To The Telescope and Drastic Fantastic – peaked at number three.
As a member of Cream, Blind Faith, in partnership with John Mayall and Delaney & Bonnie, as Derek & The Dominoes, and in various other combinations, Eric Clapton has racked up 45 album chart entries. The 65-year-old guitarist’s latest release, Clapton, debuts at number seven (15,081 sales), securing his 25th Top 10 entry.
A year younger, and with an almost equally complex career path, Canadian veteran Neil Young is also flying solo with new album, Le Noise. Comprising entirely of self-penned new material, it debuts at number 18 (10,141 sales), providing Young with his 43rd chart album.
More than 34 years after peaking at number five, a much expanded version of David Bowie’s classic Station To Station album re-enters the chart at number 26 (6,834 sales).
Arizona’s Jimmy Eat World started recording in 1994 but didn’t breach the chart until 2001. Their fourth chart album, Invented, debuts at number 29 (5,875 sales).
4.6m viewers tuned in to watch Simply Red: For The Last Time On ITV1 (25 September), providing a major boost for the band, which is due to split in December at the end of a final tour. Their compilation, 25: The Greatest Hits, jumps 55-9, matching its 2008 debut/peak, while selling 14,021 copies. And the band’s last album, Songs Of Love – originally aimed at the Mother’s Day market, leaps 112-38 (5,437 sales), after its price was reduced to £4.95 by its only physical stockist, Tesco.
Now That’s What I Call Music! 76 tops the compilation chart for the 11th straight week (13,614 Sales).
Overall album sales, at 1,759,767, are up 4.98% week-on-week but down 14.15% on same week 2009 sales of 2,049,878.
1 Script 34313
2 Mark Ronson 29039
3 Phil Collins 26231
4 Central Band Of The RAF 19103
5 KT Tunstall 19082
7 Eric Clapton 15081
9 Simply Red 14021
18 Neil Young 10141
26 David Bowie 6834
29 Jimmy Eats World 5875
38 Simply Red [SOL] 5437
Tinie Tempah is definitely the best thing in mainstream UK rap right now
And i thought it will outpeak T-shirt 
and yes, Miami 2 Ibiza going top 10 